Aaron Shapiro
@bricolageyumyum.bsky.social
associate professor of technology studies, UNC Comm
“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.
Tech Hype is Cannibalizing the Future
Every day, we are told that we live in the future—but hype is eating the future and leaving us the bones," writes Sun-ha Hong.
techpolicy.press
Published today! "The Critique of Instrumental Reason Circa 1976: Seymour Papert, Joseph Weizenbaum, Artificial Intelligence, and the Frankfurt School": quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/image... Finally, my first scholarly work on Papert is in the world!
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had >100 texts from dozens of websites sending me log in codes when I wasn’t trying to log in, eg, to Condé Nast or carfax. Then, someone got hold of my credit card info and spent >$1200 on Oura rings. How much of my life will have been spent on hold filing fraud reports or reporting fraud texts?
The yellowjackets are writing opinion pieces for the times now
Ok what about automatic crash notifications
TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 3w agoUS automakers could soon be forced to include AM radio for free
PhD candidates/new grads: Postdoc opportunity with me focused on political economy and tech. See details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32502
Cornell University, Department of Communication
Job #AJO32502, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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Tallarico’s hoagie spread, the superior Italian chili crisp. I need a Philly-to-NC smuggler.
faculty! Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas faculty! please answer this anonymous AAUP survey docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
2026 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey
The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...
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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...
mitpress.mit.edu
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 · 3mo 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
ghost malone ergo propter bones@proptermalone.bsky.social · 4mo agoI 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 · 4mo agoI 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 · 4mo 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
