Today in references

Susan Leigh Star’s The Ethnography of Infrastructure
Bowker and Star’s Sorting Things Out
Present-at-hand and ready-at-hand and both at once

Date

March 28, 2023

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They are calling anyway “I’ve come to believe the apt metaphors lurk in fantasy novels and occult texts. As my colleague Ross Douthat wrote, this is an act of summoning.

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Margaret Mitchell on AI These systems, she said, are terribly suited to being integrated into search engines. “They’re not trained to predict facts,” she told me. “They’re

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