Sarah T Roberts, PhD
Professor, researcher, author.
Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), synth lover, fan of many things, gay lady.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
- Faculty women work so hard to be paid, on a good day, the same as male counterparts. They strive to get appointments that mediocre male colleagues receive as if by natural born right. Undergirding the system of inequity is crap like this.
- Yale prof David Gelernter defends his letter urging Epstein to hire "v small goodlooking blonde" student by saying that he was "keep[ing] the potential boss's habits in mind." This creep shouldn't be allowed anywhere near students. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
- We can start by asserting that these so-called great men are not, that we need to stop listening to them, that they are morally bankrupt and corrupt and that their impoverished visions driven by their most base and vile indulgences have gotten us here. Fuck those guys. All of ‘em.
- I read thousands of pages of Epstein files this weekend trying to understand what he wanted out of his meeting with 4chan's Christopher Poole. Here's everything we know about Epstein's plans to dismantle the internet and, eventually, democracy. www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...