I do love this sort of information & its framing - UK #universities = more revenue than tons of other sectors far higher up in policymakers minds (same as everywhere else around the world). Prob is universities do a bad job explaining what universities contribute to our economics + societies

New paper about institutional investors, maintenance of asset values, social struggles and rental housing in Sweden:

#Cloudflare once again illustrating how dependent we are on digital infrastructure - no journal editing for me today ...

THE ASSET CLASS, my first book, will be published by @wnbooks.bsky.social on 9 April 2026. It’s a narrative investigation of private equity, a secretive and relentlessly destructive wing of finance that penetrates almost every aspect of our lives - and it’s available to pre-order now!

I'll be in Berlin on 11th December giving a talk at the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social called "Do artefacts have political economy?" For anyone interested in the interface of #STS & #politicaleconomy

Why Trump’s team is betting on stablecoins on.ft.com/4p3Irho | opinion

Scam stage of capitalism

Upcoming event: I'll be giving a talk at the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social in Berlin on 11 Dec 2025 @ 5.30pm - come along! Title: "Do artefacts have political economy?" www.weizenbaum-institut.de/veranstaltun...

We've got a logo for the Society for the Social Study of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference to be held in Toronto in October 2026! Theme of "TechnoPower & Technoscientific Futures"

lol what rules Fil!?!?? We are already in the metaverse, where the real and simulated are the same.

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

Tech folk have coopted democratization as a way to avoid paying taxes for actual things we might need and enjoy

I had a new opinion piece out in @hilltimes.com last week: "Move fast and break things the wrong approach to AI policy" (for Canada) #genAI #generativeartificialintelligence #AI #scipol #sciencepolicy #productivity www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Speculationn on my part: what if the needed returns on #genAI are now so huge that investors have sabotaged the success of it

"A market in which behavioural data about users are rare rather than the default will reset prices for all forms of advertising. To achieve this, users must be protected against coercion into RTB via ‘consent or pay’." Make consumer surveillance rare again. www.iccl.ie/digital-data...

Announcing Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ), "Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis", Toronto, 1-5 June 2026 antipodeonline.org/institute-fo... -- submit your application by 20 December 2025

Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026 Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026

Want to know more about #syntheticdata #assetization, #blockchain and #cloudinfrastructures in #finance? In this paper for @financeandspace.bsky.social , I talk about those topics, plus how synthetic data might be reworking financial #subjectivities! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Call for panels now open until 31 Oct 2025. We invite you to join us for EASST’s Biennial Conference, to be held in Krakow, Poland easst.net/conference/e...

"Track the asset out of containment" - Jurassic Park Lego

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military. If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Oh what’s that? They will depreciate at roughly 3 times the rate previously touted and require constant replacement and 2-3x the revenue to match initial expenditure?

This looks cool #aag

Funnily enough, our #Assetization book is in the #AnthropicAI settlement list - go look yourself up too! cc/ @provokedeconomy.bsky.social secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

The Anthropic settlement list is up. Authors, check here to see if your books are included: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

The political economy of #generativeAI just doesn't make

This looks like an interesting new paper on #assetization in #videogames || www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Learn lots from New Labour and also don’t let any of them (with a few exceptions) anywhere near the levers of power remains sound advice.

*new article* We bring the Frankfurt School into the Spotify age — and it was a fun one to write! 😎 'From Adorno to 50 Cent: Financialized platform capitalism, Spotify, and the culture industry in the twenty-first century' in @finandsoc.bsky.social Check it out here: doi.org/10.1017/fas....

Seem to be a lot of #AIbubble stories out right now - another one || www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A longish thread to announce that the Themed Issue "Digital Platform Economies: Value from Data?" is now fully available online "https://journals.sagepub.com/topic/collections-pns/pns-1-digital_platform_economies_value_from_data/pns

The joy of having a decent home printer! I can actually read things again on paper!

💹 As the political underpinnings of value creation become ever more pressing, Science as Culture is making available free access the commentary "On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation," by Fabian Muniesa, released almost ten years ago. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

How can we close the data gaps & ensure digital trade works for everyone? ▶️ Live from Geneva at the #WTOPublicForum! 📅 18 Sept 2025 | 10:45–12:00 CEST 🎙 Fireside chat: UNCTAD’s Pedro Manuel Moreno & WTO’s Johanna Hill 💬 Interactive panel with experts & policymakers 🔴 Watch live: ow.ly/130w50WY0YR

Correct Judge Mehta didn't order Google breakup last week but late Friday night we saw DOJ is full speed ahead in its other remedies trial in 16 days and posted its PFJ (Proposed Final Remedies) now 60+ pages of brilliant detail. Let me walk you through key terms. /1

‘Existential crisis’: how Google’s shift to AI has upended the online news model www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

I'm quoted in Financial Post article abt recent remedies in US antitrust case agn #Google. Remedies = zero impact. I also think judge's claims abt #generativeAI upending online search is wrong; reverse is true b/c keeps more traffic in ecosystem. #BigTech win financialpost.com/technology/g...

David Dayen on the #Google remedy ruling this week: no end to #bigtech #monopoly || prospect.org/justice/2025...

At what point does it make sense for us to start boycotting doing research on #artificialintelligence?

#TechPower at work - no consequences for #Google despite finding of illegal monopolization

Call for Papers! 🧵 The Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy a Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Editors: Alondra Nelson (IAS) and Jenny Reardon (UC, Santa Cruz) Abstract Deadline: Sept 19 www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pub...

Anyone know of any research on the concept of "technology neutrality"? (primarily in reference to policy or governance mechanisms - ie these mechanisms should be neutral wft technologies)

My new article "Do artifacts have political economy" out in @sthv.bsky.social - developing a constructivist #politicaleconomy as a way to understand the embedding of political economy in #technology (incl bridges, #generativeAI + #adtech)

Maybe one good thing about all the #artificialintelligence hype is that the boosters are ever-so-positive that as it all goes belly up (quickly or slowly), their credibility will be shot (fingers crossed!)

Another brilliant piece by @keanbirch.bsky.social

🥳 New book: "Artificial Intelligence in Biobanking. Ethical, Legal and Societal Challenges", edited by Michaela Th. Mayrhofer, Santa Slokenberga and Signe Mežinska, published by #Routgers 👋 Preorder the book here: buff.ly/mRhbikH 🔗 Read it #OpenAccess here: buff.ly/gyxKvgO 🧵 1/4

I have a new article out: "Do artifacts have political economy?" It's a riff on an old argument by Langdon Winner about the embedding of politics in technology #STS #sociology #technoscience #technology #innovation journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

SEC Chair: "innovators & visionaries will be able to immediately enter the market with new technologies & business models but will not be required to comply with incompatible or burdensome prescriptive regulatory requirements that hinder productive economic activity" www.sec.gov/newsroom/spe...

"Demystifying Publishing Landscapes for Early Career Researchers: A Reflection on ECR Panel at EASST/4S Amsterdam" published in EASST Review by Sarah Rose Bieszczad & Pouya Sepehr (w/ contributions from myself & Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner) #STS #EASST easst.net/easst-review...

Hi friends 👋 My new paper argues that datafication reproduces market-solutionist modes of governance. I draw parallels between new data policies in the US healthcare industry - and the governance of climate change through markets + data. Check it out, #datagovernance nerds!