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Penn professor arrested blocking delivery robots

A retired Penn professor has been blocking Uber Eats robots for months. This week, she got arrested for it

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“@tressiemcphd.bsky.social some local news relevant to your interests. See also her professional/professorial credentials www.phillyvoice.com/philly-woman...”

“Marvin “plans to contest the charge on the grounds of her First Amendment right to protest” www.phillyvoice.com/philly-woman...”

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2 experts · 6 posts · 4d ago
Shannon Mattern Matthew L. Jones
Shared emphasis Concern & critique · 2
Shannon Mattern: I’ve been reading lots of academics’ AI critiques that focus on the insufficiency of mass digitization and the provision of access, and on the dangers of stripping away context — and I’m hoping fol…
Shannon Mattern: There’s a whole pre-genAI discourse that prefigures the critiques since 2022, and ignoring it (ironically) reifies Silicon Valley’s ahistorical claims of progress
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