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Reasoning planetary computation | Senior Producer @datasociety.bsky.social
findingeliza.org is the accompanying website to "Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI" (MIT Press, 2026)
The first chatbot · ELIZA (1966)
A Critical Code Studies reading of ELIZA, Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1966 chatbot, built on the original source recovered from the MIT archive.
findingeliza.org
Congrats to Data Workers’ Inquiry for winning The Prix Ars Electronica Award! archive.aec.at/prix/319125/
Ars Electronica Archive
archive.aec.at
"Football increasingly relies on advanced data analytics and AI tools to power team tactics, broadcasting, and the sports betting industry.” restofworld.org/2026/fifa-wo...
The AI-powered World Cup runs on thousands of data workers
Human annotators in Brazil, Cambodia, and the Philippines are tracking every movement in the football tournament for teams, broadcasters, and the betting industry.
restofworld.org
Today’s feature metal: Yttrium (39Y) – used in aerospace and semiconductors. Made in China.
Bossware apps are downstream of consumer surveillance except the targets are workers. This report really helped me understand the consequences. scholarship.law.columbia.edu/law_economy/5/
Workplace Monitoring Platforms Are Sharing Your Data: An Investigation & Roadmap to Address Data Abuses
This report investigates the data collection practices of nine widely used workplace monitoring platforms to determine the extent to which they track and analyze employee activity, behavior, or perfor...
scholarship.law.columbia.edu
Here is Sen. Warren in Time Mag correlating mass layoffs to the current US tax code. “Right now, companies pay payroll taxes for their workers but get tax breaks for investing in technology—effectively, a tax penalty for hiring human beings and a tax break for buying equipment.”
The ‘‘Great American Artificial Intelligence Act of 2026’’, a bill by Reps. Lori Trahan (D-Mass.) and Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.) does decent definitional work – let’s take a look:
the machine is human engineered human-directed human engineered human-directed human engineered human-directed
Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 2mo agothe "help, we can’t control our model" framing is a classic anthropic trope used to evade accountability. remember, claude didn’t emerge out of a financial, political, and engineering vacuum and extractive business model ofc… bottom line: it is human engineered and human- directed
“The economy will adjust in the long-run, but the adjustment period can still suck.” The scarring effects of labor displacement on individuals can be brutal. open.substack.com/pub/kyla/p/i...
@phenomenalworld.bsky.social gets a shiny, new site design by Partner & Partners. Plus a new issue of 13 essays on American Power.
Kyla Scanlon’s "Extraction Gap” is a helpful visual for explaining post-pension US immigration. High belief, low returns.
Qualifiers for the current US economy – - doctrinal - speculative - preditive - irrational - exuberant - scammaxxing - bubble - austerity - spectacle - oligarchic - war-driven - hyperscaled - nostalgic - inflationary - declining - china adjacent
“Empire talk is a rhetoric of shock” www.theideasletter.org/essay/digita...
Digital Bandung - The Ideas Letter
The recent turn to the language of “digital empire” and “data colonialism” captures aspects of the concentration of technological power, but often mistakes polemic for analysis. Slobodian revisits the...
theideasletter.org
Viola Zhou’s EQ outsmarting all the whiz kids.
Viola Zhou@violazhou.bsky.social · 3mo agoFor my latest feature, I wrote about the Chinese math kids turned AI superstars: their (and my) STEM education, their allegedly boring life, aspirations for an AI-powered world, and anxieties over money and politics. restofworld.org/2026/chinese... via @restofworld.org
On being alone with the machines: "The word companion comes from the late Latin “cum panis” — someone with whom we break bread. These days, many of us have fewer and fewer “bread fellows,” but are [instead] turning to digital “companions.” – datasociety.net/points/all-t...
Could This Be the Last Generation of Graduate Students? datasociety.net/points/could...
Una familia tamalera en Los Angeles lands a feature in OpenAI’s 2026 Super Bowl small business ad campaign. 🫔
Open AI wants to do welfare policy and rewrite the social contract. Sure it has nothing to do with waning popular opinion.
K Wata and rrao doing the DJ transition from set 1 to 2 with infinite grace and respect. A subtle reverence to harmonious etiquette in time.
Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta 10 de abril de 1930 (95 años) Dawson, Nuevo México 🇲🇽 🇺🇸
Facilitated a vitual workshop on Science x AI across 2 days, 15 papers, 60 participants, multiple disciplines, and several timezones with Ranjit Singh and @alicetiara.bsky.social 🪩
In NYC and into data centers, go see my colleague @mwoluchem.bsky.social moderate this discussion with the Architectural League today. archleague.org/event/archit...
Architecture, Planning, and International Law: On Data Centers - The Architectural League of New York
Legal and built environment experts discuss the proliferation of data centers and how to steer us toward more humane infrastructure for a hybrid world.
archleague.org
LAC (Latin America & the Caribbean) are, once again, the main theater of 21st century great power, hemispheric competition. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mer...
Introducing Meridional | Fernando Rugitsky
A new monthly newsletter column by Fernando Rugitsky on the political economy of Latin America.
phenomenalworld.org
If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.
