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Dr Clea Bourne

@cleabourne.bsky.social

Reader, Dept of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies. Goldsmiths, University of London. Researcher at the intersection of markets, media and cultural studies. Editorial board, Economy and Society journal.

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The Maybe@themaybe.org · 3d ago

Big Tech used to make glib promises about sustainability and moving towards a greener future. But today, Google is using more energy than ever—they added one New Zealand's worth of energy consumption between this year and last.

jess m. ☕🍂@jametc.bsky.social · last wk.

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

Edd Coates | Game UI Database@eddcoates.bsky.social · last wk.

Yet again, the Game UI Database is being scraped to the point that it's getting knocked offline. Even Cloudflare's "I'm under attack" mode isn't working. I just wanted to create a resource for real designers. I'm getting so fucking sick of this.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2w ago

'The Westminster government’s contribution to funding domestic undergraduates studying in England fell in real terms from £8.9 billion in 2012-13 to just £3.3bn in 2024-25, a drop of more than 60 per cent, an analysis has found.'

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 2w ago

Government funds just 16p in every £1 spent on teaching. Balance of higher education funding now “badly out of whack”, says Universities UK chief. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Paul Langley@paullangley.bsky.social · 3w ago

Pleased to contribute a co-authored essay with @andrewleyshon.bsky.social to this project. Also looking forward to reading the rest of the contributions, and participating in debates over FinTech which they spark

Amin Samman@aminsamman.bsky.social · 3w ago

Out now: the new issue of @finandsoc.bsky.social. It's the first of two themed special issues. Part 1 opens with an agenda-setting article on technofinance by the editors and a key essay by Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon on the disappearance of fintech. Check it! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2w ago

'In his [Ivison's] view, the government is avoiding the bigger issues of what universities are for and who should pay for them.' It would help if universities would ask (and answer) that 1st big question in public rather than just parroting government. That's what institutional autonomy is for.

To save UK higher education, start talking about knowledge - Research Professional News

Until debate on universities foregrounds their core purposes, their woes will deepen, says Margot Finn

researchprofessionalnews.com

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2w ago

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

theintercept.com

Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social · 2w ago

I think the "debate" about bringing iced coffee to job interviews is effective at distracting people from the really bad job market, the high unemployment rate for Black women, ongoing mass layoffs in tech and media, and how Gen Z workers are refusing to adopt many toxic aspects of corp work culture

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Since the federal takeover, he spends four nights a week pedaling his bike up and down the same streets, recording agents as they arrest his neighbors. On the scene, he lists rights for people getting arrested and asks if they’d like him to contact anyone..." www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

He worked at NASA. Now he tails federal law enforcement on D.C. streets.

A group that has tracked the activity of federal officers since the president’s crackdown has previously been private about the effort.

washingtonpost.com

Quinn Daedal@quinnanya.me · 3w ago

Of all the ways I imagined Google Scholar going up in flames, being made inaccessible from university IP addresses due to AI-driven scraping wasn't at the top of my list.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 3w ago

When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.

Google Sorry... We're sorry... ... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now. See Google Help for more information.
ℳatt@matttomic.bsky.social · 4w ago

Worth noting, as Macklemore was banned by NFL owners in what will be dubbed "fighting antisemitism", that Kanye, who - sold merch with swastikas - said on Alex Jones that he idolizes Hitler - tweeted he was "going Defcon 3 on Jewish people" is currently on a multi-city tour of NFL stadiums

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 4w ago

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour. But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families. The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that. Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened. Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues. Ed was in …
Naomi Klein@naomiaklein.bsky.social · last mo.

Open AI has hired Chuck Schumer's daughter to help them with government relations. I don’t like it one bit, and this kind of thing is a big part of the reason top Democrats have done such a poor job of turning the Trump family’s far more extreme corruption into an election issue.

Dan McQuillan@danmcquillan.bsky.social · last mo.

Fisher/Jameson said "It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism". And yet, that act of imagining alternatives is urgent; if AI tells us nothing else, it tells us that capitalism is actively imagining the end of us.

dan sinker@dansinker.com · 2mo ago

I drove thousands of miles across the country this summer and the number of data center cooling systems I saw being trucked across interstates was astounding. A few years ago, you’d see windmill blades pretty regularly. But this was orders of magnitude more. Every state. Everywhere.

Data & Society@datasociety.bsky.social · 2mo ago

With AI companies increasingly hungry for workplace data to train their models, "there’s just a massive expansion of what counts as commodifiable data,” says D&S’s @cariatida.bsky.social. www.fastcompany.com/91593881/why...

Why Spirit Airlines' internal data has become a hot commodity for AI companies

Google, Micro1, and Mercor have all bid millions for the carrier’s internal data, as AI companies race to buy the records of how businesses actually work.

fastcompany.com

Antulio Rosales@antuliorosales.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I have a new piece out that synthesizes the past few years of research in Latin America on cryptocurrency adoption. The political economy of cryptocurrency in Latin America www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... in @econsocjournal.bsky.social. Thanks to @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca for their support. 🧵

The political economy of cryptocurrency in Latin America

This paper explains the political economy of cryptocurrency expansion in Latin America. Based on qualitative research and in-depth interviews, the paper explains the motivations that promote crypto...

tandfonline.com