Mitali Thakor

@mitalithakor

Professor of science & society . Professional birth doula and lover of feminist speculative fiction and dreaming of other possible worlds

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  1. Nov 18

    Haha 😉🤖 Had a great time talking about AI and fakery at !

    thanks again to everyone who came out to our Artifice Intelligence panel to listen to our papers and gaze upon our scholarly hmmm faces. special shout-out to our panelists, my co-organizer and our phenomenal discussant
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    Nov 16

    Last paper on a great panel, on various forms of fakery, beginning with deep fakes.

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    Nov 16

    come to the artificial intelligences panel at 10:15, I'm discussing and the papers are off the hook! Convention center LL 20a

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  4. Nov 15

    . presenting at Situated Knowledges: 30 Years Later at Ctr for Sci, Tech, Medicine & Society

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    Nov 1

    "Skin is a boundary zone, an interface demarcating difference and closeness." Mitali Thakor () on her ethnographic work with robotic sex dolls and the people who build them:

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  6. Nov 1

    I wrote a blog post on skin and sex robots! 🤖 Thinking through ideas on a new project.

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    Oct 15

    In my history of consumption class, I teach about , but what most people don't know is just how radical the catalogue was in the era of Crow.

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    Sep 27

    She remembers their laughter the most, two friends having a good time at her expense. Heartbreaking. Remember this moment when Kavanaugh issues his categorical denial. Watch how the sheer authority of male power overtakes the trauma we just saw.

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    Sep 27

    Reminder: crying/adopting a victim stance as a response to being called out on abuse is a textbook gaslighting technique employed by abusers.

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    Jul 27

    Over 400 children are in US custody while their parents have been deported--a problem of America's creation. Yet the administration intends to do nothing about it, or them—leaving dangerous, complex work to a few brave advocates. My latest for

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    Jul 24

    A Reporter went undercover at Facebook, was trained not to delete pictures of child abuse or racist memes:

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  12. Jul 26

    Looking forward to this!! 🤓⚡️

    panel accepted💥 and i will be at with our panelists , , Lily Hu, Rebecca Perry, and discussant !!!
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  13. Jul 19

    I am 100% invested in supporting patients across the country, in particular those who visit . Lurie, will you become the 1st hospital in the US to end unnecessary intersex surgery?

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  14. Jun 19

    Gah.

    when i was four, i was taken away from my father during an intense custody battle and placed in a group home for several years by an idiot judge. we went to parks and zoos, too, and then i’d cry myself to sleep most nights. the trauma left me bent for years. this is child abuse.
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    Jun 19

    Many people are asking for more information about why so many people are fleeing countries like Honduras and Venezuela. Here is a primer, via , on what's happening in Honduras:

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    Jun 19

    On June 19, 1865, Texas slaveholders could no longer economically profit off of separating children from parents. On June 19, 2018, Trump Republicans are politically profiting off of separating children from their parents. Past-Present of . Celebrate-Resist.

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  17. Jun 12

    Today in Meme History: reused woodcuts as 17th century :

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  18. Apr 5

    "Patient, plodding, a green skin growing over whatever winter did to us, a return to the strange idea of continuous living despite the mess of us, the hurt, the empty"--Ada Limón 🌱

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    Mar 20

    CFP with for AAA 2018 ~ "Artifice Intelligence: Fabrication, Fakery, and the Virtually Human"

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