@lisa-schirch
professor of technology and peace studies, tech ethics and deliberative technology, social justice activist, animal lover, biker, hiker, painter, mother, gardener, earthling, national park lover, photographer, book lover,
A proposal with policy recommendations for supporting prosocial platforms - governing tech design goes "upstream" as opposed to the "downstream" regulations that govern content. toda.org/assets/files...
“Platform design is a silent pilot steering human behavior.”
Friend of New_ Public @lisa-schirch.bsky.social warns profit-driven social media design is leading us into an era of "techno-autocracy."
But in the right hands, platform design can foster democratic engagement and civic participation.
Democracy is in crisis globally, and technology is playing a role. Most large platforms optimize their designs for profit, not community or democracy.
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[New OpEd] @lisa-schirch.bsky.social I @notredame.bsky.social argues for a reimagining of governance frameworks for content moderation. How can a prosocial tech design for digital platforms steer human behaviour towards non-harmful or healthy communities?
Read: policyreview.info/articles/new...
At our LLMs and Public Discourse event, University of Notre Dame's Lisa Schirch and Kristina Radivojevic will present Training an LLM Co-Pilot & Building a Social Media Sandbox.
📅 Thursday February 27th | 6:30pm PT / 9:30pm ET
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Our LLMs and Public Discourse event, co-hosted by The Council on Technology and Social Cohesion, will be livestreamed.
Join us Thursday, February 27th @ 6:30pm PT / 9:30pm ET: lu.ma/2aaufseh?tk=...
Trump wants to rehire nuclear safety workers who were fired except he doesn’t have their contact information.
The workers were incompetently fired due to Musk and his DOGE cuts.
#TheShitShiwContinues
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
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"Tech billionaires, who already had enormous power, helped underwrite a winning presidential campaign in ways that would have been illegal just a few elections ago." — @larrynorden.bsky.social & @danw329.bsky.social on the rise of the "broligarchy" and what we can do about it
You have questions. Mostly of the "What Can I Do to Resist This Coup?" variety. Choose Democracy has answers. Here's a really handy guide to the how/what/why of organizing... Share widely. Link here: choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/
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We have to find new ways to shift power and build broader coalitions. wagingnonviolence.org/ipra/2025/02...
Elon Musk is systematically seizing control over our nation’s communications, financial systems and data and military infrastructures.
Musk isn’t a fourth branch of government, just another Silicon Valley who wants to be dictator of the world.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has returned from a trip to El Salvador where he secured an agreement from that country's president to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality — including American citizens — offering to hold them in the country's sprawling maximum-security facility…
It’s not entirely clear what the purpose of these raids is, but from the outside it appears that DOGE is mainly concerned at this point with amassing huge stores of data, from payment information to private personnel records. @mattbaidc.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Lawsuits matter. More of this, please.
Warren, from earlier —
“This is the system that makes sure that your grandpa gets his social security check on time. This is the system that makes sure that your mom's doctor gets paid for her Medicare exam. Elon Musk wants the power to turn that on, to turn that off, as Elon Musk decides.”
The signs.
“Unelected autocrat”
“No oligarchs, no kings”
“Muskrats are an invasive species”
House and Senate Democrats are showing up in droves. Raskin, Pressley, Warren, Van Hollen to name a few.
Schumer too. The crowd erupted into a chant of “Shut down the Senate!” while he made his exit.
The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.
An explanation of the trade war, the ICE raids, and what must be done to stop the oligarchy from dismantling our government.
Democracy with a formidable social conscience is the only way forward. #delibtech #civictech #citizenassembly @lisa-schirch.bsky.social
Every day in the last week feels as devastating as 9/11 as we hear more about the felon's circus and executive orders. But instead of Al Qaeda, it is our own government doing this to our neighbors. And it is our own neighbors who elected this tyrant.
The Trump administration's latest assault on Indigenous rights is a shameful continuation of centuries of betrayal and oppression. They are living in fear - and our past proves they should.
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Beyond protests and BDS, University-based activists could also explore six other tactics to shift power and build coalitions necessary...
US-based activists need a new suite of tactics to press for a shift in US policy toward Palestine and Israel Check out 6 new nonviolent tactics for winning coexistence for Israelis and Palestinians
Check out 6 new nonviolent tactics to change US policy and win coexistence for Israelis and Palestinians toda.org/policy-brief...
