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susannah glickman

@susglickman.bsky.social

assistant professor at stony brook university writing about material and ideological infrastructures. semiconductors, the us state, quantum, political economy, sts/history of science

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Democracy Now!@democracynow.org · 3d ago

Ecuadorian prosecutor Alexandra Bravo was fatally shot on June 14 by a hitman. Bravo had been investigating U.S. strikes on three Ecuadorian boats in which 36 passengers survived, many of them recounting alleged torture by American gunmen in U.S. military uniforms aboard a U.S.-flagged patrol ship.

“Zero Accountability”: Ecuadorian Prosecutor Assassinated While Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes

U.S. boat strikes across the Caribbean and eastern Pacific have killed at least 221 people since September, while the Trump administration has provided no evidence linking the vessels or their passeng...

democracynow.org

Guy Berger@econberger.bsky.social · 5d ago

3/ I didn't include it in the prior chart, but health insurance costs are growing at their fastest rate in almost two decades - that's probably at least a partial explanation for acceleration non-wage benefit costs.

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susannah glickman@susglickman.bsky.social · 6d ago

“situational awareness” is one of the funniest things this hedge fund could be called. (also lolling at pic caption combo)

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d ago

Seven-byline alert: 🚨 “.. the $20bn hedge fund founded by former OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner, has sought to raise fresh capital from investors after suffering heavy losses during the recent rout in AI stocks.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/2803...

C.M. Lewis 🦬⚔️@thehousered.bsky.social · 3w ago

it is stunning to me that there isn't more uniform anger at the situation with UAW across the labor movement, because it doesn't matter whose damn side you're on, the notion that a government appointed bureaucrat can run your labor union is an existential threat to free and democratic unions

Sarah Lazare@sarahlazare.bsky.social · 3w ago

Detroit News obtained a recording of a call between Shawn Fain and Neil Barofsky, the federal monitor, in which Barofsky criticizes UAW's statement calling for a ceasefire and, among other things, tells Fain to read an NYT column by Bret Stephens.

Phone call audio sheds new light on tension between UAW's Fain, monitor | Exclusive

UAW President Shawn Fain has pointed to the 2023 phone call as evidence that Barofsky has a "political grudge" against him and is abusing his power.

detroitnews.com

Jim Kane@kanejim.bsky.social · 3w ago

Corp governance incentives under asset manager capitalism are straightforward 😬 BlackRock’s private credit and infrastructure arms financing the AI/infra buildout for a hyperscaler that it may be a shareholder in, then feeding the debt to an insurance client (that it may also be a shareholder in).

Jim Kane@kanejim.bsky.social · 3w ago

You can see an example of this in Larry Fink's comments during BlackRock's earnings call yesterday: HPS/GIP do infrastructure deals and the debt is then fed to insurance clients.

Probably the most important thing that I kind of said also is I am really pleased in how well integrated both HPS and GIP are on these opportunities. We're working right now simultaneously in some very large financings together related to infrastructure that obviously, equity plays a large part of it, but the debt side of the component is even much larger. So we expect this to continue to accelerate, not just for obviously, insurance companies, but throughout the world. So the J-curve for infrastructure investing is really only just starting to accelerate. And accordingly, to complete these types of large-scale deals, it just is requiring large-scale amount of debt. And we're at the very beginning of that. We are being asked by more and more companies in technology that how can we help them across their entire stack of needs to investing. As you think about these hyperscalers, they went from a balance sheet-light companies to a major balance sheet needs in building out data centers, building out the infrastructure. And they're looking for strategic partners that can provide them the totality of that relationship. And there's only a few firms that can be doing that. And so the marriage of BlackRock, HPS and GIP across the board on the origination side is only accelerating. As we originate more and more, then we can go to our clients like insurance companies and see much more conversion. But when we first announced the HPS and GIP transaction, we talked about the $800 billion of insurance assets that we have. And if we can convert 5% or 10% of those assets, it has a tremendous lift to our average debt fees, and it helps us complete that type of relationship that we have with the insurance industry. It is materially happening right now, and it's only accelerating.
The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · 3w ago

"The chemical, called 6PPD-Q, is formed when fine tire particles meet ozone. That happens anytime new chunks of tire are exposed to the air, meaning the particle may be nearly ubiquitous in car-heavy environments."

Learning What Substance Is Suspected of Causing Alzheimer's May Throw You Into an Existential Crisis

A surprisingly common substance was found to have a causal relationship with the kind of brain damage associated with Alzheimer's disease.

futurism.com

Adam Becker@adambecker.bsky.social · last mo.

This, right here, is one of my favorite moments from @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. AI isn't inevitable, and it's not going to take over any industry unless we let other people foist it on us. We can fight them, and win. @susglickman.bsky.social

DreamingAgainstTheMachine@dreamingagainstthemachine.com · 2mo ago

@susglickman.bsky.social tells @adambecker.bsky.social that it's up to students to decide their future not AI...but they have to fight #ai #datmpodcast #politics #students

Internet Archive@archive.org · last mo.

🌿📚 More than 64 million pages of biodiversity knowledge are freely available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library. As funding challenges put its future at risk, the Internet Archive is proud to help preserve this invaluable resource. 🌎 Learn more 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt

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Reece@thiccreese.bsky.social · last mo.

A little piece of my soul shrivels up every time I get a message laying out how another company plans to use personal data in ever encroaching ways for AI training. I got one of those emails recently from Google and blogged about it for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Here’s How to Opt Out of Google Search’s New AI Data Training Feature

Google’s Search history update stores media uploads from your interactions, like images used in reverse image searches, for training its AI models.

wired.com

Grady Booch@booch.com · last mo.

The world of computing is and will remain far larger, more impactful, and far more vibrant than the narrow subdomain of genAI.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Trump on an executive order he's about to sign that he clearly has no clue about: "Quantum ... cryptography. Does anybody know what that is?"

susannah glickman@susglickman.bsky.social · last mo.

fun archival material: 1978 conference, “the reevaluation of existing values and the search for absolute values” 7th international conference on the unity of the sciences run by international cultural foundation… which was chaired by… sun myung moon ???

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Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It’s not really surprising that people are becoming more distrustful and cynical about tech (and everything else) when there’s a constant drumbeat of stories, like this, about a seemingly innocuous game/tool/website harvesting data that is then used for murderous purposes:

Pokémon Go Scans Quietly Trained The Navigation Tech Now Headed Into Military Drones

Pokémon Go players' 30 billion scans trained navigation tech now bound for military drones, via Niantic Spatial's defense partnership with Vantor.

dronexl.co

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead

In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold to a data center developer for $10 million.

404media.co

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

a glaring omission from much of the convo about the Delaney Hall labor and hunger strike imo is the fact that *these people shouldn't be laboring in the first place* this is slavery, & even the 13th Amendment's 'punishment for a crime' exception doesn't apply! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

The Delaney Hall Strike Is Exposing a Massive Thirteenth Amendment Crisis

The Delaney Hall Strike participants haven’t been convicted of anything—and are still being forced to work for nothing.

ballsandstrikes.org