I was annoyed that I couldn't find a database of David Attenborough documentaries where I could search for a specific episode by topic. So I made it. attenborough-100.vercel.app

I'm co-author on a new article about #edtech & #assetization: "EdTech futures: time, value and the promise of digital disruption in higher education" w/ Claire Murray, Sam Sellar + @jkom.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Online event later this week with @nsrnicek.bsky.social: "The PERN Salon | Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI with Nick Srnicek" events.humanitix.com/the-pern-sal...

Lol....

New addition to the Forum on Tech Oligarchy (ed. @keanbirch.bsky.social) "The rise of the tech oligarchy and its military entanglements: a platform approach," by Marijn Hoijtink, @jaspervdkist.bsky.social, and Laszlo Steinwärder #platform #techoligarchy #militaryindustry 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Funny but pretty sad too - elites being driven insane by AI

Companies are going to tell us the NEED a bunch of extra information about us in order to selectively offer special discounts. We shouldn't buy it. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Looks like an interesting new article "Capitalization of social mobility in India: Venture capital in edtech-fintech combines" by Akshaya Kumar #assetization || www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

good tweet

Once academics were told to upload teaching materials to digital learning platforms, universities and tech firms alike were always going to monetize it. Now AI is being used to amplify the assetization of those digital archives of academic content. codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/a...

48 hours left to submit your abstracts to— 1. Submissions to Open Panels 2. Closed Panels 3. Making & Doing 4. Meet-Ups 5. Roundtables Submit here: xcdsystem.com/4sonline/mem...

Perfect case of what we termed academic content assetization in a recent paper, where HE institutions use their learning platforms to gather teaching materials from staff to then repurpose as future revenue-generating derivative products

As the April 30 deadline for the 4S 2026 Toronto Making & Doing CfP approaches, your M&D committee co-chairs would love to field your questions about the call and the conference itself. Apr 26 @ 8pm EST: yorku.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Apr 27 @ 11am EST: yorku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Scam stage of capitalism

Let's come up with a definition of a Canadian company that doesn't include wholly owned subsidiaries of foreign multinationals. From Shield's @vassb.bsky.social and David Corbett. thewalrus.ca/why-does-ott...

#FIFA #WorldCup as scam stage of capitalism || www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Over ten years ago I coined ‘𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻’ (2015) to examine how platforms expand beyond their boundaries in 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 + 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺. Invited by editor Papacharissi, I reflect on a decade of platformization 🎉 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 doi.org/10.1177/2056...

Check out this cool new paper by Greti-Iulia Ivana called "This is a Popularity Contest: Exploring the Cultural Significance of Financialized Digital Footprints" - about #attentioneconomy + #assetization || www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A further 58 per cent indicated it was a proposal worth exploring further, while the remainder felt it was a bad idea. globalnews.ca/news/1176594...

This is brilliant - LinkedIn Lunatics www.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLu...

More & more coming around to the view that a major potential solution to the current state of play across digital, platform, and AI tech is a shift towards opt-in only model of data collection 1/

Laughed out loud at this

📄 The Forum on Tech Oligarchy receives another addition! In this piece, Shuo (Shawn) Yang examines how tech oligarchy produces innovation without representation by looking at their capacity to consolidate epistemic, infrastructural, and symbolic power. doi.org/10.1080/0950...

I have another new piece just out, considering the intersection of #surveillance and #ScienceFiction, this time in the context of the the ideologies of tech oligarchs, in Science as Culture, edited by @keanbirch.bsky.social and Les Levidow... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"A New Mexico jury found Tuesday that social media conglomerate Meta is harmful to children’s mental health and in violation of state consumer protection law."

Job Deadline - 31st March! Postdoctoral Visitor in Metadata & Research Evaluation: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-... #metrics #universities #researchevaluation #highereducation #metadata

Job Deadline - 31st March! Postdoctoral Visitor in Metadata & Research Evaluation: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-... #metrics #universities #researchevaluation #highereducation #metadata

Scam stage of capitalism

Ugh...

Scam stage of capitalism

📄 New Forum on Tech Oligarchy piece! (Open access) @susigeiger.bsky.social examines one ideological space that has recently received a great deal of emphasis from tech oligarchs as well as from conservative religious quarters: pronatalism. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Scam stage of capitalism

Two quick updates on the People's Consultation on AI #PCAI: 1) We've extended the submission deadline to Monday, March 23, 2026, at 8pm PT / 11pm ET. 2) We submitted the Open Letter with all signatories up to March 9, 2026, to ETHI's study on AI Challenges & Regulation. Details for both here:

Scam stage of capitalism

📅📆‼️📣Join us for the #ViennaSTSxFutureSpaceTalk on February 5 #online about 'From #Starman to #Starlink: Satellitization and Oligarchic Power on Earth' @univie.ac.at ‼️📣 🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽

Postdoc job! I'm looking to recruit a postdoc to work on a project about research evaluation & metadata. More info here: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-... Salary: CDN$70,000 (+ benefits) Location: Toronto, ON (can be remote in ON) Length: 18 months Deadline: 31 March 2026 Start date: 1 July 2026

Scam stage of capitalism

New pub alert! My article is out in Science as Culture sciasculture.bsky.social! 'Tech oligarchy meets developmental state: translating developmentalist and regulatory imaginaries to platform capitalism in South Korea' Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Postdoc job! I'm looking to recruit a postdoc to work on a project about research evaluation & metadata. More info here: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-... Salary: CDN$70,000 (+ benefits) Location: Toronto, ON (can be remote in ON) Length: 18 months Deadline: 31 March 2026 Start date: 1 July 2026

Heading to 4S in Toronto this October? Join our open panel "The Global Politics of Digital Health" with Luca Marelli (University of Milan), Jay Shaw (University of Toronto), and Abril Saldaña-Tejeda (Universidad de Guanajuato). Call for abstracts closes April 30: www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...

Make it shitty!

I'm seeing more articles about how #genAI will transform academic research cos it becomes easier & easier to write articles. I think @chrs00.bsky.social point re essays applies here as well: .... 1/

Asking Claude to align Book of Revelation with JD Vance's life story ... let's see how this goes! 1/

"AI-resistant ‘halo’ [heavy asset, low obsolescence] stocks drive UK and EU markets to record highs" www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Does making people rich get us the innovation we want?

Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir If you run a company whose entire value proposition is the ability to see patterns, predict outcomes, and connect dots that others miss, you'd think someone in the building might have flagged that…

This is quite something: "The pivot in investor concern from AI-might-disappoint to AI-might-win has seen trillions wiped off the market capitalisation of capital-light firms over the past few weeks. So far, index-level public market credit spreads remain super-tight" #AIcrash

Go check out this new article on #techoligarchy!

Scam stage of capitalism

Spot on