Alex Monea
@alex_monea
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Assoc Prof @GeorgeMasonU | Book: Digital Closet https://t.co/0UN3tdqjEp | LGBTQ+ Content moderation, platform studies, critical AI, data ethics | he/him
Washington, DC
Joined June 2019
Excited to announce my book #TheDigitalCloset won @SocHistTech's 2023 Sally Hacker Prize. My favorite scholars have won this award in the past and I'm honored to be in their company. Very grateful to the prize committee @akbarjenkins, @tsmullaney, and @merbroussard #SHOT2023.
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RT @xriskology: Let me get this straight: The explicit aim of OpenAI from day #1 has been to create AGI. Hence, the explicit aim of OpenAI….
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I just wrote a @theactionnet letter: No more political operatives on George Mason University's Board of Visitors!. Write one here:
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Dear Senator, Thank you for your continued leadership in protecting Virginia’s public universities from political interference. Your actions have been critical in safeguarding the integrity and...
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RT @timnitGebru: You thought the dot com bubble where people raised millions on PPT slides was ridiculous? Welcome to unbridled AI Hype wh….
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Thinking Machines Lab, the secretive AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief technology officer Mira Murati, has closed a $2 billion seed round at a $10 billion valuation.
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This is a really depressing development. I marveled the first time I visited the downtown DC branch and was handed hand-written essential government records within 10 minutes of entering the building. It really meant something to me and it's sad to lose that.
The National Archives at College Park is about to go dark; effective July 7, it’s becoming a restricted-access federal facility, meaning everyday Americans will no longer have public access to the very records that hold our government accountable. This is where the receipts
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RT @jacobin: More than 1.5 million doors knocked. 42,000 volunteers recruited. $8 million raised from grassroots donors. @zohrankmamdani's….
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The kind of mass volunteer door-knocking operation that New York City mayoral campaign for Zohran Mamdani has built is the way to fight rising authoritarianism and the erosion of democracy.
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RT @AOC: Congratulations, @ZohranKMamdani!. Your dedication to an affordable, welcoming, and safe New York City where working families can….
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RT @AOC: You just kidnapped this man off the street because you didn’t like his speech, threw him in a cell for 104 days, ignored court ord….
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RT @ZohranKMamdani: Hope is not naive when you have a vision and a movement behind it. Hope is in fact righteous. This is the dawn of a n….
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RT @sahouraxo: Israel has ‘disappeared’ nearly 400,000 Palestinians in Gaza since 2023. Half of them are children. Buried beneath rubble.….
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RT @domesticetch: In case you weren't sure if Zohran had the youth vote, I just got this text
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RT @msrachelforlitt: Dear leaders, #BeSoAshamed of your silence, #BeSoAshamed that you have seen the images and videos that we have all see….
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RT @hasanthehun: my goal w the ucla student encampments was to show you how different the reality on the ground was from the way the media….
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RT @rebeccaeparson: The tent is always big enough for fascists, but too small for socialists. This has been true of liberal parties for 100….
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