Sensible and innovative industrial policy. All posts made in my personal capacity.
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What's up with Twitter's new and somewhat manic punctuation, and why haven't they gone full-on interrobang‽
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The energy was wild today at the picket - 100s of grad workers over 9 hours. Thanks to everyone who came out. It is clear that MIT grad workers will fight for what we need. We make this institute run and deserve higher wages, better benefits, real recourse, and union shop!!!
@MIT claims @MITGradUnion shop would "eliminate student choice"-- but we don't a choice to opt-out of mandatory student life fees! Also, UE is fabulous and they deserve funding so they can better support us.
Also, the only way unionization will "potentially impact MIT’s competitiveness in attracting new students" is for the better-- we've had three recent talks with prospective MIT grads, and they all wanna know that our union is strong and resilient. But open shop --> weak union.
The sneakiest way to weaken an institution is to cut its resources-- see, for example, how President Reagan systematically eroded the IRS's funding and personnel to convince Americans that taxes are useless nytimes.com/1982/04/04/busin…
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After a long road to publication, today is finally HEX ALLEN AND THE CLANKSMITHS' book birthday!
Thank you so much to everyone who helped me on this book's journey—@InnovationPress for taking a chance on me; @Jemiscoe for supporting me; Ebony Glenn for the gorgeous illustrations.
Dr Armstrong lays out a path to flexible automation relying on bottom-up worker expertise @workofthefuture for @mit_ilp conference
Paper time! How did the virtual #opensourcehardware community OSMS create and legitimize distributed PPE production during COVID?onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Read our open letter and SIGN THE SOLIDARITY PETITION NOW! @MIT is trying to push what amounts to a pay cut and a discriminatory drug testing policy on our facilities workers. We demand a fair union contract now for our @32BJSEIU facilities workers! tinyurl.com/MIT-Supports-32B…
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CCAI is delighted to invite submissions to our virtual #NeurIPS2022 workshop on "Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning". Mentorship deadline Aug 18 submission deadline Sep 18.
Find out more in webinars on Aug 15 (10AM ET) and 16 (2PM ET) and at
climatechange.ai/events/neur…
Anna Waldman-Brown retweeted
👀 Sneak a peek at the deepest & sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally, capturing it took less than a day!) This is Webb’s first image released as we begin to #UnfoldTheUniverse: nasa.gov/webbfirstimages/
ALT The background of space is black. Thousands of galaxies appear all across the view. Their shapes and colors vary. Some are various shades of orange, others are white. Most stars appear blue, and are sometimes as large as more distant galaxies that appear next to them. A very bright star is just above and left of center. It has eight bright blue, long diffraction spikes. Between 4 o’clock and 6 o’clock in its spikes are several very bright galaxies. A group of three are in the middle, and two are closer to 4 o’clock. These galaxies are part of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, and they are warping the appearances of galaxies seen around them. Long orange arcs appear at left and right toward the center.
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Deutscher Artikel aus der #automationspraxis zur Studie von @Fraunhofer_IPA und @workofthefuture
➡️ automationspraxis.industrie.…
My first @WIRED article! On our @workofthefuture research featuring @schusimo @LindsaySanneman @LReynoldsMITIPC @joonastuhkuri @davidautor wired.com/story/robots-autom…
Even weirder is the idea that all the resources under the ground - which arose through billions of years of geology, geography, etc. - also now belong to those who "own" the above property. 3/
Basically NFTs may be #nonfungible, but property itself is among the most fungible concepts of the industrial age. 4/4