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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Lincoln Mitchell
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco native Lincoln Mitchell will discuss his new book with Penelope Houston\, the singer for the seminal San Francisco punk band The Avengers and accomplished solo artist.\nIn San Francisco Year Zero: Political Upheaval\, Punk Rock and a Third Place Baseball Team\, Mitchell deftly weaves together the personal and the political\, tracing the city’s current state back to three key events that all occurred in 1978: the assassination of George Moscone and Harvey Milk (occurring fewer than two weeks after the massacre of Peoples Temple members in Jonestown\, Guyana); the explosion of the city’s punk rock scene; and a breakthrough season for the San Francisco Giants.\nSponsored by the San Francisco History Center\nA book sale follows the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-talk-lincoln-mitchell/
LOCATION:Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room\, SF Main Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Samuel C. Woolley / The Reality Game
DESCRIPTION:discussing his new book \nThe Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth \npublished by Public Affairs \n\nFake news posts and Twitter trolls were just the beginning. What will happen when misinformation moves from our social media feeds into our everyday lives? \nDespite Samuel Woolley’s warnings as early as 2013\, the problem of online disinformation stormed our political process in 2016 and has only worsened since. Yet as Woolley shows in this urgent book\, it may pale in comparison to what’s to come: human-like automated voice systems\, machine learning\, “deepfake” AI-edited videos and images\, interactive memes\, virtual reality\, and more. In stories both deeply researched and compellingly written\, Woolley describes this future and imagines its profound impact on our politics. \nInformation literacy is an essential ingredient in a healthy democracy\, and The Reality Game shows how the breakneck rate of technological change is making it nearly impossible. Woolley argues for a new culture of invention\, one built around accountability and especially transparency. We cannot afford to continue re-litigating the past. Instead\, we must follow signals to prevent manipulation in the future–and use our new tools not to control people but to empower them. \nDr. Samuel Woolley is a writer and researcher specializing in the study of automation/AI\, emergent technology\, politics\, persuasion\, and social media. He is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and program director for computational propaganda research at the Center for Media Engagement\, both at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining UT\, Woolley founded and directed the Digital Intelligence Lab at the Institute for the Future\, a 50-year-old think tank based in the heart of Silicon Valley. He also cofounded and directed the research team at the Computational Propaganda Project at the Oxford Internet Institute\, University of Oxford. He has written on political manipulation of technology for a variety of publications including Wired\, the Atlantic Monthly\, Motherboard/VICE\, TechCrunch\, theGuardian\, Quartz and Slate. His research has been featured in publications such as the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, and the Wall Street Journal and on The Today Show\, 60 Minutes\, and Frontline. His work has been presented to members of NATO\, the US Congress\, the UK Parliament\, and to numerous private entities and civil society organizations. His PhD is from the University of Washington. He tweets from @samuelwoolley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/samuel-c-woolley-the-reality-game/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poet Danez Smith: Homie
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets\nCo-presented with JCCSF \nAward-winning poet Danez Smith (Don’t Call Us Dead) is a groundbreaking force\, celebrated for deft lyrics\, urgent subjects and performative power. A poet\, performer and multidisciplinary artist\, Smith has galvanized diverse communities nationwide with their profound contemplations on race and gender\, desire and mortality. Join Smith as they read from and share their new collection\, Homie\, a magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship at a time when our country is overrun by violence\, xenophobia and disparity\, speaking from within a body defined by race\, queerness and diagnosis. Part friendship diary\, part bright elegy\, part war cry\, Homie is the exuberant new book written for Danez and Danez’s friends\, and for you and for yours.  $20 \n“These poems can’t make history vanish\, but they can contend against it with the force of a restorative imagination. Smith’s work is about that imagination – its role in repairing and sustaining communities\, and in making the world more bearable.”\n–New Yorker\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nDanez Smith\nDanez Smith is a black\, queer\, poz writer and performer from St. Paul\, Minnesota. Danez is the author of Don’t Call Us Dead\, winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the Midwest Booksellers Choice Award\, and a finalist for the National Book Award\, and [insert] boy… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poet-danez-smith-homie/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lizzie O'Shea: Future Histories
DESCRIPTION:Lizzie O’Shea discusses her new book Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace\, Tom Paine\, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology. \nPraise for Future Histories \n“Before we became big data bundles for the lackeys of Dorsey\, Jobs\, Zuckerberg\, and Bezos\, to exploit\, the digital revolution seemed to promise a democratic utopia\, a commons in cyberspace not governed by neoliberal norms. Can we realize that revolutionary dream and stop desiring our own domination? Incredibly\, yet thrillingly and plausibly\, Lizzie O’Shea argues that\, if only we can mobilize history to serve rather than enervate us\, the answer is yes.”—Stuart Jeffries \n“There has never been a better time to pull the politics of platform capitalism into the foreground where it belongs. Lizzie O’Shea brings a hacker’s curiosity\, a historian’s reach and a lawyer’s precision to bear on our digitally saturated present\, emerging with a compelling argument that a better world is there for the taking.”—Scott Ludlam \n“A potent\, timely\, and unrepentantly radical reminder of history’s creative potential. Lizzie O’Shea’s Future Histories should be required reading for anyone planning on surviving—and even repairing—our grim technological moment.”—Claire L. Evans \nAbout Future Histories \nWhen we talk about technology we always talk about tomorrow and the future — which makes it hard to figure out how to even get there. In Future Histories\, public interest lawyer and digital specialist Lizzie O’Shea argues that we need to stop looking forward and start looking backwards. Weaving together histories of computing and progressive social movements with modern theories of the mind\, society\, and self\, O’Shea constructs a “usable past” that can help us determine our digital future. \nWhat\, she asks\, can the Paris Commune tell us about earlier experiments in sharing resources–like the Internet–in common? How can Frantz Fanon’s theories of anti colonial self-determination help us build digital world in which everyone can participate equally? Can debates over equal digital access be helped by American revolutionary Tom Paine’s theories of democratic\, economic redistribution? What can indigenous land struggles teach us about stewarding our digital climate? And\, how is Elon Musk not a future visionary but a steampunk throwback to Victorian-era technological utopians? \nIn engaging\, sparkling prose\, O’Shea shows us how very human our understanding of technology is\, and how when we draw on the resources of the past\, we can see the potential for struggle\, for liberation\, for art and poetry in our technological present. Future Histories is for all of us–makers\, coders\, hacktivists\, Facebook-users\, self-styled Luddites–who find ourselves in a brave new world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lizzie-oshea-future-histories/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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