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Erica Robles Anderson
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Erica Robles Anderson
@fstflofscholars
Cultural historian. Professor @mccNYU, Editor @PubCultJournal, @CASBS alum; Organizer @ipkOikos. ericara@bsky
New York
Joined October 2015
- Nothing lays ideology bare like looking at a map and trying to convince a 4-year old that Europe is a continent.
- Today I am 40. A third of my life has passed.
- Gender equity gap.
- The history of technology is rife with inventors and early adopters with explicitly religious orientations and affiliations. That we are surprised by this fact has to do with an idea of modernity, secularity, and technology as inseparably joined forces. They are not.The first woman to earn a computer science PhD in the US is a Catholic nun Mary Keller
- Cashless is the new redlining. It’s going to zone neighborhoods, transit, services. It already does.
- Replying to @Heidi__Matthews and @calebscovilleThe real question is, why is “send this during working hours” not a default button on every basic email app? Computers can handle this so people don’t have to waste time worrying about such complex social terrain.
- Can I “like” an email instead of reply?
- I’m starting to think this is less the age of AI more the land of Oz because every time we pull back the curtain it turns out humans, not algorithms, are powering machines.
- Replying to @WeDemandJusticeWhat a masterful move to signal legacy as an unmarked matter of social difference in admissions.
- Assignments where students input the question to ChatGPT3 and then write an essay explaining why the answer is incorrect.
- Replying to @storysaveslives and @ThatRyanMolinaSends your daughter out thanks. We honor her work in the world.
- How do you even know if you’re humanities or social sciences?
- Replying to @visakanv“I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library is open, unending, free.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates
