Aaron Shapiro
@bricolageyumyum.bsky.social
associate professor of technology studies, UNC Comm
GM reported $800M from subscriptions and digital services, with a 70% margin. @mcforelle.bsky.social and I got the angles covered on the impacts of subscriptionization estsjournal.org/index.php/es... (finance.yahoo.com/news/gm-quie... )
View of Driving into a Paywall: The Subscriptionization of Consumer Vehicles | Engaging Science, Technology, and Society
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“Algorithmic Realism” by @benzevgreen.bsky.social and @salome.bsky.social is on my short list of papers most foundational to my research. Super excited that Ben has turned it into a book, and it's available for pre-order! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205570...
Algorithmic Realism
The field of data science faces a moral crisis. Despite the desires of data scientists to develop algorithms for good, algorithms regularly produce injustice...
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Perseverance - WATSON selfie - Sol 1119 - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2pKmx3e
New article in @jacobinmag.bsky.social
Jacobin@jacobinmag.bsky.social · 4w agoMainstream economics cannot accept the concept of contradiction that is foundational for Karl Marx’s analysis of capitalism. David Harvey explains why we need the Marxist perspective if we want to make sense of capital’s latest mutations in the age of AI.
Bianca [hi!] - This idea is similar to a main thread in my podcast about 'trust measurement' (coming soon). The ways we as humans trust are shifting as people are increasingly subjected to the same computational measures of trustworthiness that AI agents [agentic 'coworkers'] are. AITrustControl.com
Trust Control
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With University of Utah and the New School heterodox economics PhD programs under attack, the task is clear: Mayor Mamdani must create a PhD program at John Jay College, City University of New York
People say the choice is btw social democracy w real welfare and air conditioning. I’ve just come from UK and they have neither so jokes on you
Fans in the UK don’t have swivel tech yet
post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · last mo.I grew up in one of the very few parts of the US where air conditioning isn’t/wasn’t standard (eastern WA) and this isn’t intended as an excuse but culture change really is kinda hard and slow. I hope Europe gets there sooner than later on AC
"...annihilating attention is a political project w/ clear benefits for the 💰 class: if we cannot attend the world, neither can we intercede in it. We become passive recipients of their worldbuilding, disenfranchised from our own responsibility to make sense of—and [to] remake—the 🌏 around us."
Umyazu
Reading is the art of attention.
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We're hiring a post-doctoral research fellow! Apply by July 15.
alice e marwick@alicetiara.bsky.social · last mo.I am hiring a qualitative postdoc to start this fall for the @datasociety.bsky.social project AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge. Fully remote but must be US-based. Interested in youth, scams, hustle/financial/consumer culture? More here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr...
I am hiring a qualitative postdoc to start this fall for the @datasociety.bsky.social project AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge. Fully remote but must be US-based. Interested in youth, scams, hustle/financial/consumer culture? More here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr...
Post-Doctoral Fellow, AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge
Remote
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Alright all, it's that time: if you've ever taught my work, would you be so kind as to DM me with details? I (and my tenure file) appreciate it!
My UNC colleague @toriekstrand.bsky.social has a powerful op-ed today in the N&O on the insidious nature of so-called "institutional neutrality" - and how in practice it means anything but. www.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...
Professor: Here’s an alternative to UNC’s charade of ‘institutional neutrality’ | Opinion
The author is a professor at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media.
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reposting this which enthuses not only about Sarah Sharma's book but also the work of Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social. @dukepress.bsky.social @goodrobotpod.bsky.social @robkitchin.bsky.social @ahjackman.bsky.social @melhogan.bsky.social @alinau27.bsky.social
gillian rose@profgillian.bsky.social · 2mo agoI just wrote a very enthusiastic review of Sarah Sharma's new book. @dukepress.bsky.social @dgrgrgs.bsky.social
Because I also like a record of Engagement, me at Flaming Hydra: on the joys of watching people discover how weird we are in the USA and the necessary mirror it places up to us when they do. Also, weird is a good thing in this instance. flaminghydra.com/welcome-to-t...
Welcome to the U.S.A.
My habitual morning dose of TikTok brainrot is one-third news, and two-thirds memes, short comedy, and bewildering weird stuff. Until roughly three days ago, when it became nearly wall to wall coverag...
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one of those days when your body demands vegetables… lunch was roasted whole head of sprouting cauliflower. dinner is grilled zooks and squash
If I ever go to montana I'm skipping billings and going straight to accounts receivable
There is something in here for everyone: Marxists, logistics obsessives, obsolete-software enthusiasts, and those are all the kinds of people I know about. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Seeing Like a Supply Chain
A history of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, and how the ambiguity built into that technology helps companies and ...
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researching and writing about the HBO signal scrambling controversies of the 1980s and discovering that i'm radically and rabidly anti-IP. LFG copyleft
Congratulations @paullangley.bsky.social & @andrewleyshon.bsky.social on the publication of #FinTechCapital @fintechcapital.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social It’s a huge achievement & a timely intervention
“There is not a single mention of Gaza in the DNC’s 192-page autopsy report (on the 2024 presidential race). As someone who campaigned in MI and WI, let me tell you that one of the reasons we lost was our blank check to Israel and Netanyahu while they committed genocide in Gaza.” — US Rep. Ro Khanna
No Mention of Gaza in the DNC’s 2024 Autopsy? Seriously?
Too many Democrats still refuse to acknowledge how gravely the party was harmed by a failure to actively oppose genocide.
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The real solution to helping historians do research is actually pretty simple: give archives more money. Money for conservation, preservation, storage (physical an digital), climate controlled facilities, and staff (paid at a living wage). You don't need LLMs, you need money.
🧵My paper on "Uneven Datafication" just came out! It draws on literature on coloniality, uneven development and dependency. Uneven datafication operates through three interrelated dynamics: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New post about people I know who grifted and gabbed despite professing decent politics and how we all bear at least a little responsibility for this nightmare. stuckness.ghost.io/down-on-the-...
Down on the Farm
Someone I was friends with 30 years ago has started a farm commune. From the outside, it also looks a little like a cult. The farm in question consists of one (1) shack, one and a half (1.5) gazebos,...
stuckness.ghost.io
Here's the link to the free pdf of my new book The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet. Access is so important and I'm grateful that the press is platforming it as one file that is easy to download. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...
The Inattention Economy
Revealing the unheralded contributions of women of color to the foundation and development of the digital economyThe Inattention Economy challenges the wides...
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lots of trans ppl being kept in the closet rn due to the perception of an increasingly transphobic public and like I cannot overstate the degree to which 90+% of people Simply Do Not Have A Strong Opinion On Trans People And That Hasn't Changed Despite Years Of Transphobic Media Capture
