New paper out! 🔋 I read batteries as informational devices to show how the energy transition changes not just where energy comes from, but what energy is. Now in Science & Technology Studies.
Martin Tremčinský
@m-tremcinsky.bsky.social
Economic anthropologist focusing on digital economies. He/Him
I know it’s a big ask, but everyone needs to watch more interviews and panels with CEOs. They are so disturbing and repellent but to really face the reality of not only the fact we’re in a class war but the nature of who it is we’re battling, and the future they are authoring, is essential.
It's time to end Rip off Britain. For too long we've had people in charge of the decisions that affect our lives in the pockets of the super rich. The Green Party have two vested interests - protecting communities and our planet. It's time to tax the super rich.
The Green Party of England & Wales@greenparty.org.uk · 4mo agoMeet Sarah Wakefield. Manchester City councillor, mum of two, sustainable food campaigner - and your Green MP candidate for Makerfield.
Note that there's been no threat to sue over this statement. I know I would be suing for tens of millions if I was innocent.
lol travelling with some Randian in a public train :D I wonder how they cope
That future: Lower bills. Tax billionaires. End Rip off Britain. Who's in?
I like the awareness that value is social but my own anthropological view is values are usually products of histories and valued substances index those histories in complex ways. A thread I should not attempt while suffering a major cold but what the heck let’s try… 1/
Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social · 6mo ago“Gold has no inherent value. It's a shiny rock... people buy gold because they think other people value gold, and that's a self sustaining equilibrium.”
A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.
‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility
A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.
thewesternedge.media
Using your debt, your search history, and your private data to decide how much you’re worth? Hell no. This is what happens when technology is built to serve profit instead of people. This is why every worker needs a union.
Unlike, lets say, Hawaii or Cyprus which are famously demilitarized
The Economist@economist.com · 6mo agoThe coves and caves of Hormuz, Qeshm and Kish that have long enticed tourists in Iran are also rumoured to hide missiles, mines and drones
Nothing new from the president tonight besides more questions. The market tells the tale.
Hey did everyone see Clavicular get his ass beat after he challenged a cancer survivor leftist to a jujitsu match, who said as he was choking him out ‘this is for all the bullshit I gotta watch on my fucking feed’… we need more of this not more podcasts
If you refuse to hire me, this is whom you deny treats
ICE chief Todd Lyons has been hospitalized twice for the stress that comes with ethnic cleansing. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
‘Visibly upset and struggling’: Acting ICE head hospitalized twice over stress, officials say
Several current and former officials blame intense pressure from the White House.
politico.com
Landmark decision with potentially huge impact on social media companies (and - ideally - their users’ (mental) health and wellbeing): “Tech giants Meta and YouTube were found to be liable for designing their platforms to be addictive, which harmed a 20-year-old's mental health.”
Silicon Valley reeling from social media addiction trial verdict
The landmark decision in an LA court may go beyond immediate impacts on defendants Meta and YouTube.
bbc.com
Některý z vás na to nejsou připravený, ale Policie Modrava jsou český Twin Peaks
Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...
Canvas Unrolls AI Teaching Agent
The new AI agent aims to save faculty time on “low-value tasks,” but stops short of fully automating grading. But some experts worry that the rise of agentic AI could lead to a dead classroom, where c...
insidehighered.com
Using Canvas agentic AI to do your work for you signals that your work is worth less than it was prior to that act. The idea that this will, long term, free faculty time is belied by every single thing we know about the history of labor automation. It either puts you out of work, or you work more.
every single financial institution would benefit from hiring exactly one (1) progressive to walk around the office all day long going “are you fucking stupid?” to anyone within ear shot
Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 7mo agolmao
Faaame 🥳
@necsusjournal.bsky.social · last yr.Congratulations! The BAFTSS award for videographic criticism was given to @veronikahanakova.bsky.social, @m-tremcinsky.bsky.social and @jirianger.bsky.social for their piece "Cycles of Labour: In the Metaverse, We Will Be Housewives", first published in the Autumn 2023_#Cycles issue of NECSUS.
Congratulations! The BAFTSS award for videographic criticism was given to @veronikahanakova.bsky.social, @m-tremcinsky.bsky.social and @jirianger.bsky.social for their piece "Cycles of Labour: In the Metaverse, We Will Be Housewives", first published in the Autumn 2023_#Cycles issue of NECSUS.
Cycles of Labour: In the Metaverse, We Will Be Housewives - NECSUS
by Veronika Hanáková, Martin Tremčinský, Jiří Anger
necsus-ejms.org
Křetínský má přislíbené přes čtyři miliardy Euro z veřejných peněz 💥 Nový žebříček “fosilních vyžírek” od @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social srovnává, které evropské fosilní firmy pobírají pobírají státní peníze prostřednictvím tzv. kapacitních plateb.
V Gaze dnes 31 stupňů, jasné nebe, léto začíná. K tomu je 40 procent vodní infrastruktury rozbombardované Izraelem, Unicef varuje, že děti můžou začít umírat žízní a obecně je to totální peklo. Shrnutí situace tady, možná lepší ani nevědět. voxpot.cz/chteli-jidlo...
Chtěli jídlo, dostali kulku. Zločiny v Gaze pokračují, i když se nedíváme - VOXPOT: reportáže, které spojují Česko se světem
Masakry u výdeje potravinové pomoci v Gaze přibývají. Izraelem delegovaná humanitární organizace nezvládá situaci a velení izraelské armády se podle svědectví vůbec nezajímá o chování svých vojáků.
voxpot.cz
Já bych v rámci uctění památky Milady Horákové začal prosazovat i některé její politiky. Místo Schwarzenbergů si tam můžeme dosadit třeba Kellnerojc, nebo Denemarkova zaměstnavatele Bakalu
Martin Denemark@martindenemark.bsky.social · last yr.Od justiční vraždy na nevinné ženě uplynulo 75 let. 27. června 1950 byla popravena Milada Horáková. Statečná žena, která je vzorem dodnes. Zavražděna komunisty - heslo, které vystihuje jejich režim po únoru 1948. Připomínáme si to na plakátech s jejím portrétem. Ale komunisté ji dál beztrestně haní.
Guattari & Negri: Communists like us (1985) Thematic reading for the current geopolitical predicament
Bezos wants to occupy Venice with his feudal wedding.. I wonder if the Venetians manage to oppose this display of power and status and stop the broligarchy 🔥✊
zase jsem sázel nějaký rozumy... pro skalní fanoušky je tam i krátký antropologický okénko, tak si to dejte denikalarm.cz/2025/06/takt...
„Takto by se v kryptosvětě pohyboval Radovan Krejčíř,“ říká Martin Tremčinský ke kauze ministra Blažka
O kauze Pavla Blažka, Tomáše Jiřikovského a miliardách v bitcoinech, které směřovaly na ministerstvo spravedlnosti, hovoříme s ekonomickým antropologem Martinem Tremčínským.
denikalarm.cz
Nedávno jsme díky jedný výměně na twitteru začal pátrat, jak dlouho maj vojáci volební právo a zjistil jsem, že v historii ČSR ozbrojeným složkám volební právo odebráno jednou bylo 🤯 a to v roce 1927 a trvalo to do roku 1946 (přičemž 39-45 nevolil nikdo) 1/n
