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Victoria Kim

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  • At the beginning of the project, we had volunteers cooking and delivering meals, but with the amount of labor required we realized that outside of a disaster situation, it made a lot more sense to provide groceries or direct financial support.
    Abolitionist Cybernetics: Groceries from South Bay Mutual Aid · TWC Newsletter
  • those who throw around political language without putting in much work
    Abolitionist Cybernetics: Groceries from South Bay Mutual Aid · TWC Newsletter
  • I'm amazed at how things turned out.
    Takeaways from my job search as a new grad | Kevin Zou
  • First Nations communities
    Traditional Knowledge (TK)
  • constant discovery of the new
    Attention Economy
  • Traps operate through ‘scripted roles’ – the ability of the hunter to construct a mental model of its prey. It is not taking its free will to make decisions, but rather manipulating it to its own demise. Recommender systems, Seaver posits, are thought-traps.
    Search
  • gogogogopleasefocusonme all the time
    Attention Economy
  • Olo Radio chooses to organize information through data residue (unintentional data generated through regular usage). Allows the user to browse music by time of day listened to, how long ago you listened to it, or when in the year you listened to it.
    Attention Economy
  • algorithmic transparency
    Bias
  • observed discrimination is systematic within the system
    Bias
  • tend to reinforce a view of the social world that aligns with the status quo
    Bias
  • social learning theory
    Information Behaviour
  • Knowledge ‘is the sense made at a particular point in time-space by someone’
    Information Behaviour
  • if the stress isn’t high enough
    Information Behaviour
  • There is a large body of intellectual work that criticizes a bubble of concepts that they refer to as "economization", "neoliberalism" and similar terms, arguing that they corrode democratic political values and leave many people's needs unmet as a result.
    On Nathan Schneider on the limits of cryptoeconomics
  • Efficiency (timeliness and cost)
    Resource Interaction
  • Inefficient search leads to
    Search
  • Black boxes Scientific and technical work is made invisible by its own success. When a machine runs efficiently, one need only to focus on its inputs and ouputs and not on its internal complexity. Thus, paradoxically, the more science and technology succeed, the more opaque and obscure they become
    Black boxes
  • Infrastructure should be
    Infrastructure
  • Organizing System: an intentionally arranged collection of resources and the interactions they support. It has authoritative description and standard classification.
    Organizing Systems
  • The process in which ideas and theories are realized or embodied as action.
    Praxis
  • Bates distinguishes between discipline (theory) and profession (practice).
    Praxis
  • In informatics, there exists the concept of an Information Hierarchy, Knowledge Pyramid, or DIKW Hierarchy.
    Information
  • Standardization allows interopability
    Intentional Arrangement
  • The intentional arrangements of resources in an Organizing System are the result of design decisions about what is organized, why it is organized, how much it is organized, when it is organized, and how or by whom it is organized.
    Intentional Arrangement