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Clay Shirky Profile picture
Clay Shirky
@cshirky
Vice Provost for Artificial Intelligence and Educational Technology, NYU
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Feb 10, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Many of the faculty who publicly supported Comaroff, the Harvard prof accused of sexual harassment, are now saying "they regretted signing the letter without knowing more about the situation."

This excuse says a lot about academia and power. 1/
bostonglobe.com/2022/02/09/met… The signatories are professors, socialized into academia's core tenet: it is better to be late than wrong. These people will study one more book or paper if they think it will reduce their risk of being publicly incorrect.
Mar 22, 2021 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
A friend of mine was phished. While helping reverse the damage, I found a simple but dreadful mail-forwarding technique I don't know the name of. I hope someone can point me towards the name of the attack, risks, and any counter-measures. 1/ The phishing email was "I'm from Amazon, and I need to talk with you, please call me." ('Call me' evades the phone's spam detection.) My friend gave up their Gmail login, at which point the attacker set up an auto-mail forward to 'spprt.amz1022@gmail.com' 2/
Sep 12, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This. Whole. Thread. @xeni is right about patient work, and about facts.

The awful thing is, Epstein's reputation-laundering was not part of some unusually effective conspiracy. It was just how things worked, relying on people who should have known better. @xeni Conspiracy theorists are optimists. They think there's some bottom or back or core to identify, like a control room where, once you figure out what the switches do, you can shut things down.

Almost no human networks work like that.
Jan 5, 2018 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
I'm going to try explaining the Spectre attack with an analogy: Imagine a bank with safe deposit boxes. Every client has an ID card, and can request the contents of various boxes, which they can then take out of the vault. The bank is concerned about security. People have to show ID, and can't walk out of the vault with stuff that isn't theirs. However, the vault is enormous, and the clients impatient. There are also many clerks. To speed things up, sometimes the clerks *guess* which boxes you want
Sep 3, 2016 • 15 tweets • 2 min read
There are two cases against Dr. Stein. The first, of course, is that she can't win.
medium.com/@cshirky/there… The second case against Dr. Stein, however, is that the Green Party is a sham. Visit their site, see for yourself. gp.org