Full house to discuss critical AI literacy & it's discontents #4S

Rosemary Setup presenting the conclusions of her study into college instructorambivalence towards AI in the classroom arguing that "tempered literacy" is a more accurate & more empowering view than thinking of faculty as lagging adopters or self-defeating resisters. #4S

Kicking off a full day of panels @ #4S in Toronto with Shauna-Kaye Brown on (Re)presenting Black Music

First time at #4S! Looking forward to presenting on applying the disconnection continuum to AI refusal 📵 (with Alicia Patterson) + individual addressability in mobile AI 🤳 (with Scott Campbell + Rich Ling)

More importantly, broken hot tub 😭 but not too shabby view!

Das #4S Annual Meeting in #Toronto bzw. Hannover-Linden. Da muss man schon zweimal hinsehen, um Unterschiede zu entdecken.

Attending #4S #4SToronto #4S2026 ?

I am giving away* 2 print copies of my new book, #TransformingNight, to grad students, postdocs, and/or contingent faculty who are attending in-person and repost this tweek/skeet/post/thingy between now and Friday.

* randomly selected, obvi 1 copy per person

#4S #4SToronto #4S2026

Wow! There are 31 parallel panels at tomorrow's start of #4S in Toronto. That guarantees quite a bit of FOMO! See you out there somewhere ... #4S2026 #4SToronto #parallelprocessing

Also, do you happen to know the right hashtag? @4sweb.bsky.social

I'll be at #4S this week on a great panel at the intersection of linguistic anthropology and AI to talk about Text-to-Image models and the linguistic concentration of the means of production of images.

Come say hi!

If you're going to #4s (or will otherwise just ?be in toronto?) come to this wonderful launch event I'm facilitating with @sohpei.bsky.social & Justin Lin on Thursday, October 8th! There will be snacks, Wikipedia-themed activities, readings, and more!!

luma.com/k6-toronto

Anyone else attending #4S next week?

Then for @ntnsndr.in's panel at #4S on Wednesday, I'll be hosting a short session to critique a co-op protocol/living bylaws demo I 'built'. If you're attending this behemoth of a gathering/confrence, please come!

Writing my #4S talk:
"Night as Frontier”: Technological frontierism in #night, sky, and #space since the late nineteenth century
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Is anyone here attending #4S next week

At sea in the #4S conference program, but if you have hot picks (including for your open panels/papers) then LMK. I know two places I'll be...