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In the last few years my dad revealed to a few of us that he thought he was an introvert. [this is a laugh line] I wasn't sure how to take it. How could this be real? Was I dreaming? Was I not supposed to believe my eyes (or ears)?

As a kid, it felt like our family was always the last to leave any event. Growing up we got used to it. Dad would talk to everyone—at the swimming pool, the baseball field, church and school, any place where there were people. Often he seemed to find some unexpected shared interest or shared history. Many times these conversations turned into friendships.

I had always thought that he just really liked talking itself. So how could he be an introvert? I couldn’t fully grasp what to make of it, but I’ve come to realize that perhaps it wasn’t that he loved talking itself, he just loved people and saw them differently.

This isn’t the only strange contradiction I’ve had to make sense of during this time. In the past week, I've often been suddenly thrown to tears in response to rea

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induced, provoked https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/italian-english/indotto

re Google's 2011 defamation case in Italy (AB and "truffa"/"truffatore")

Note: I am not here commenting on the court finding Google at fault for the defamation, only noting the empirical claims the court makes about the functions of the search suggestions.

Here is a relevant portion of the court's 2011 ruling — the part to focus on re the role of autocomplete suggestions/predictions in results-of-search. The court finds that search suggestions immediately prompt (induce/provoke) beliefs.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110409184429/http://www.piana.eu/files/Ordinanza.pdf

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Anne Jonas & Jenna Burrell's "Friction, snake oil, and weird countries: Cybersecurity systems could deepen global inequality through regional blocking" (2019) (link)

Excerpts (screenshots from tweet):

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We draw insight from critiques of globalization and postcoloniality that decenter this normative ‘‘user’’ pointing to the way marginality is easily cast as aberrant and illegitimate (Burrell, 2012; Dourish and Mainwaring, 2012; Irani et al., 2010). We have worked with research collaborators exploring the question of regional blocking in parallel, but from within methodological traditions in computer science (see Afroz et al., 2018). In their work, they set about validating the existence and prevalence of ‘‘server-side’’ regional blocking utilizing automated techniques. Our approach pursued another set of questions. Defined by Irani et al.’s (2010) framework

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I'm currently enjoying reading through Lindsay Poirier (@lindsaypoirier)'s dissertation and just love the lead to Chapter 5:

I'm currently reading Lindsay Poirier (@lindsaypoirier)'s dissertation—"Knowledge Representation in Scruffy Worlds: An Ethnography of Semiotic Infrastructure Design Work" (2018)—and just love the lead to Chapter 5—which I skipped to & had to share after reading the intro to it in the Intro:

Ch. 5. Catachrestically Designing Semiotic Infrastructures for the Human Services On June 9, 2016, Greg Bloom was the third speaker on a panel entitled "Solutions at Hand" at the Personal Democr

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"Law, though, “has life only to the degree that those in power are willing to enliven it” (Danner 2017, p. 4)."

• Donald MacKenzie's "Material Signals: A Historical Sociology of High-Frequency Trading" (2018) [Berkeley proxy].

Citation to Mark Danner's "What He Could Do" (2017), excerpted here:

The norms are gone, perhaps never to be fully restored, and we have advanced now to the laws. The dividing line is surprisingly murky. That the president would not use his office to promote his personal business, for example, depends not only on the so-called emoluments clause of the Constitution but a good many subsidiary norms that Trump began shattering some time ago, when he refused to release his tax returns

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Fetish, Metonymy, and the Conduit Metaphor: Exploratory Emendations

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Building on Thomas et al.'s "Algorithms as fetish: Faith and possibility in algorithmic work" (2018)

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Emendation re Metonymy & Algorithms: Fetish Work of Algorithms

Four Attributes of [Algorithms]: The Distribution of Power as Capability, Promise, Faith and Possibility

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beyond boundaries: algorithm/apparatus excerpts de-excerpt 'algorithms'

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Karen Barad's "Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter" (2003)

HT: Richmond Wong

Apparatuses are not inscription devices, scientific instruments set in place before the action happens, or machines that mediate the dialectic of resistance and accommodation. They are neither neutral probes of the natural world nor structures that deterministically impose some particular outcome. In my further elaboration of Bohr’s insights, apparatuses are not mere static arrangements in the world, but rather apparatuses are dynamic (re)configurings of the world, specific agential practices/intra-actions/performances through which specific exclusionary boundaries ar

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