> machine learning is effective, has an enormous appetite for data, requires large computational resources, makes decisions that resist analysis, excels at finding latent structure in data, obscures the link between source data and outcomes, defies many human intuitions, and is readily fooled by a knowledgeable adversary. [source](https://idlewords.com/talks/senate_testimony.2019.5.htm)

> What’s at stake right now is not simply about hate speech vs. free speech or the role of state-sponsored bots in political activity. It’s much more basic. It’s about purposefully and intentionally seeding doubt to fragment society. [source](https://points.datasociety.net/agnotology-and-epistemological-fragmentation-56aa3c509c6b)

> The point too often missed in a cooly instrumentalist understanding of technology is that we don’t use these tools in a vacuum; we instead participate in complicated social systems that can careen in unforeseen directions when powerful new technological forces are introduced. Features are important, but they’re not the whole story. [source](http://www.calnewport.com/blog/2019/05/06/on-the-utility-fallacy/)

> a new generation of designers has emerged, concerned with designing strategies to subvert this “natural default-setting” in which each person understands themselves at the center of the world. > > These designers do this by engaging with the complex adaptive systems that surround us, by revealing instead of obscuring, by building friction instead of hiding it, and…

> In one sense, the film argues that the indulgences of the “Me Decade” were a sign that youth culture was no longer focused on struggling for social reform. > > However, the film quickly undermines that framing by challenging preconceptions of the disco era as a time when American popular culture turned its back…

> support for distance (which in most models translates to ‘online’) students is rarely something that garners interest, headlines or investment. Indeed, given how valuable we know it is, the concentration of effort seems to be on finding ways to remove it. [source](http://blog.edtechie.net/higher-ed/the-great-support-mystery/)

> Democratic Erosion is a cross-university collaborative course that aims to help students  critically and systematically evaluate the risks to democracy both here and abroad through the lens of theory, history, and social science. [source](http://democratic-erosion.com/)

> I have a lot of conversations with all sorts of people about teaching. Sometimes they are happy to listen, and sometimes it’s clear they’d rather be somewhere else. The one thing almost everyone gets excited about is the two stage exam. The benefits of having students work together to solve exam problems they’ve just…

> Working on the open web adds our voices, knowledge, and experience to the greatest collection of human creativity ever known. But we understand that folks seek visibility of their work on the web in different ways. While we encourage everyone to share their creations within our Berg Builds Community site, we also understand that…

> Listen wide. > Listen deeply. > Listen openly. > Listen repeatedly. > Listen out. > Listen in. > Listen to silence. > Listen between the lines. > Listen for Hidden Power. > Listen even when you don’t need to. > Listen and take action. [source](https://blog.mahabali.me/pedagogy/critical-pedagogy/a-new-approach-for-listening/)