Because, as I have said, it’s only good universal use case is disciplining labor.

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It says something about my feed that I'm reading more good riddance threads about James Watson today than I did about Dick Cheney on Monday lol

Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.

The Pope out here guest lecturing in the iSchools.

There is nothing better in my professional life right now than working face to face with students. They are amazing!! And I have never been so motivated to help them build a better world. If you see me smiling at work, I probably just taught class or ran a lab meeting

I would put more money on continuing to harvest infinite energy from the sun over assuming that forcing everyone to use The Machine The Lies To You is the steady basis of an entire economy

Realizing a vital piece of FSTEM lab infrastructure is a Bluetooth speaker for co-working sessions

Ivy Leaguers: stop trying to reinvent racism. Challenge level: impossible.

this week in "AI Skeptics Reading Group" we're reading chapter 4 (if it quacks like a doc: ai hype and social services), future former mayor Eric Adams showed up, how nice! how candidates feel about AI in the context of social services should be a litmus test for appropriateness to serve the public

The next read for my STS PhD seminar! The Disordered Cosmos by @chanda.blacksky.app, which I am so happy to finally read, and even happier to read alongside my fabulous students

"Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic than processes which reward, say, educational attainment." what i mean what how can you what

I was thinking about Zohran’s transition team and today’s anti-feminist piece in the New York Times, and my mother’s book on the first generation of women to work in the city government in New York City. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis just took the bench. She's expected to rule on a request for a preliminary injunction governing the use of force by federal agents in Chicago.

Hahahhahaha

the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from

World’s Fairs: Spectacles Of Capital and Empire | Fall Courses | BISR NYC | buff.ly/jHWiKvY

Oh my goodness

I just heard an NPR story about restoring French scallop populations, and a chef said “science knows what to do, we just need to follow science,” and as an STSer I am losing my absolute shit over here

Pretty funny that the most contentious part of my dissertation isn't "Google Maps probably isn't profitable" but "open source is salvage capitalism"

When we founded Contingent, we wanted to be a history magazine that didn't just publish "relevant" history that was responding directly to the news, because that often meant a narrow vision of history . . . but it was okay because in 2019, other outlets were publishing historians more. And now?

since my lead in protein powder investigation went viral, my inbox has been flooded with reader questions i've been astounded by the response, and wanted to take some time to address some of the most common queries and misconceptions. let's dive in 🧵 (1/?) www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

Speaking of contraptions, my whiteboard has been like this the whole last week since I started writing this paper, I'm living my philosophy

I've hit the mic drop at like 1400 words, I am not here to mince words

i will be screaming this until the moment i die.

Ah yes, I'm writing for anthropologists, I can use "think" as a transitive verb *big sigh of relief*

So, all the stories about politics are going to be replaced with pieces about... career development?

Oooh I have the hook/start of the second talk about why the engineering school need feminism... this thing is cooking.

I love this podcast and you probably would too!

The problem with the “don’t the tech people realize they are talking about doing chattel slavery with AI” discourse is some of those same people, or the “philosophers” they like to cite, talk cheerily about returning to chattel slavery for human beings

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

Bonus - The Men’s Suit and the Aesthetics of Power w/ @dieworkwear.bsky.social Derek Guy joins Danny to talk liberalism, men’s fashion, and how style, from the French Revolution to today, became a projection of strength and virtue. Link in the replies!

You're not afraid of "killer AI" and "robot overlords," you're afraid of white supremacy, ableism, patriarchy, hegemony, extractivism, kyriarchy, and capitalism.

Doing the job of three people in four days a week! I love it!!!

I love how the fall school closures schedule makes me terrible at my job due to no fault of my own.

someone pointed me to a paper at AIES this year that introduces the term "street-level AI" and asks whether LLMs can make real-world judgments. surprisingly it doesn't cite my paper ("street-level algorithms") speaking to similar questions this paper tries to address... from 2019

We've had great conversations about this in my department, and particularly with the ethics and tech faculty. And so we offer a class about AI from before the current boom (2018 or so!), but new classes have been about the *problems* AI causes and exacerbates, or possible remedies to those problems

Yeah, academia dot edu is not a place to house your scholarship.

Strangers to Ourselves: An Introduction to Freud (In-Person) | Fall Courses | BISR Chicago | buff.ly/rHM6B0m

Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...

The best thing I've done this semester is asked my grad research assistant to go find the feminist debates from the 1970s about the status and politics of oral history as a research method, and it's going to profoundly change how I teach and mentor student research projects in the future

We now have multiple visualizations of this phenomenon from various news organizations. Which one is the best?

"Many of the deals OpenAI has struck — with chipmakers, cloud computing companies and others — are strangely circular. OpenAI receives billions from tech companies before sending those billions back to the same companies to pay for computing power and other services." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"Feminist technoscience, imagined as a contraption, is constructed out of pieces that are not designed to fit together. This is not the smoothly interfaced interdisciplinary engineering research brought together by a homeostatic cybernetic meta-structure, but something more ramshackle and homey."

I am still vibrating from last night’s Alchemy Lecture. The video is available for 2 weeks. Please join us in this chorus. Sound—at the Interregnum. Glen Coulthard Madeleine Thien Canisia Lubrin Immanuel Wilkins Whew. What they did!!! m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...

“Speaking to Futurism, DAIR director of research Alex Hanna said Amazon’s tech panopticon is ‘central to keeping control” over its workers.’”

Daddy’s out tonight so mommy is introducing Ms. Four to Pulp and Liz Phair Neutral reception so far

Faculty in the Media | "ICE & the Battle of Chicago" featuring BISR's Audrey Nicolaides, Xanat Sobrevilla, Francia Garcia Hernandez, Mark Fleming | organized by @newlinesmag, @nitehawkchicago | buff.ly/tMZi5BP

I can tell you the next book is going to be absolutely WILD