Le Cap, laboratoire de l’opposition à l’ANC ? Présentée par l'Alliance démocratique comme un contre-modèle aux villes gérées par l'ANC, Le Cap, sous sa façade de carte postale, voit néanmoins les inégalités progresser. 🎧 @franceculture.fr urls.fr/44KtXT

If the climate were a chatbox, it would already be saved. share.google/MnAZ2oZOf83N...

🧵on my new paper "Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems" w Roberto Cerina I'm v excited about... 🚨 Do synthetic samples look like human samples? We compare 28 LLMs to the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) to find out + develop host of diagnostics...

This 2026 India AI summit gives me 2015 Paris COP21 vibes. Lots of declarations, intentions, ethics, principles, joyful fireside chats, and congratulations. Last year, one person died every minute from rising heat.

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

The Golden Age.

In the course "Digital Capitalism" that I am teaching this term, next Monday session is on "AI". I feel completely overwhelmed by the amount of literature. What should I prioritise for a two-hour class? What should be the key messages? Good thing is, ChatGPT will handle it for me. Love it.

In the 1980s, a monster was assembled in the pharmaceutical world that pitted patients' interests against those of pharmaceutical investors: the neoliberal pharma model. In PEAK PHARMA w/ @susigeiger.bsky.social, out today @academic.oup.com, we show that this monster is entering a crucial phase...

Call for PhD Student! I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.

Back in the day people used to have a slide at the end of their presentations saying "and that's how the brain works" as an inside joke about Hinton since he was known to talk confidently out of his ass. Now, the Nobel committee brought this upon us like they give the peace prize to genociders.

Lecture du samedi.

From the subprime to the premium, from California to fascism? - @jmigozzi.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Fresh news from the French democracy.

This is true. And if you are interested in asset inequalities, class formation, and digital technologies, you might like it too.

Après 10h de vol, 1h de taxi, 1h de métro, 1 Eurostar, forcément - forcément - c'était la SNCF (que j'aime tant) le maillon faible pour ce retour en Europe. Train arrêté, aucune solution, aucun ravitaillement, aucune communication, je dis OUI!

Maida Vale is, indeed, a terrifying place.

Le niveau de prélèvements obligatoires agrégé n'est pas un paramètre pertinent de la politique publique. Vous pouvez penser que c'est trop ou pas assez en f° de vos préférences , mais rien ne permet de dire que c'est intrinsèquement trop haut (ou bas), juste par comparaison avec d'autre pays.

For the past decade, ICIJ’s Datashare has been the gateway for hundreds of reporters exploring the 100M+ leaked files at the heart of investigations like the #PanamaPapers. Now, after 10 years of improvements, the platform has received a major upgrade:

Learning between humans is such a beautiful thing. To deprive ourselves from that is immensely sad.

New research from @cplusc.bsky.social & @consumerfed.bsky.social shows that average across the US it is MORE EXPENSIVE to have a poor credit score than to live in a zip code with a high disaster risk: climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/insurers-c...

"The format is flexible".

Chatbots “aren’t just friendly personal assistants; they’re data harvesting machines that give their developers an even more intimate algorithmic window into your thoughts and desires.” lithub.com/ruled-by-num...

Reading list from the talk! I.e., the references slide

It’s come to my attention that this has come to Dan’s attention. Please proceed accordingly.

some workshop materials on spatial interaction models with spatial dependence, if you're into that knaaptime.com/workshop-ner... (commuting is a kind of small-scale migration)

Mais nous sommes bien d’accord madame la ministre. Il serait temps d’ailleurs.

Call for papers, 4th UK Workshop on Digital Economics, London 28 November 2025: competitionpolicy.ac.uk/events/4th-w... This is always a great event

Can't wait to not think ever again, and teach students to do the same.

France and the EU must send humanitarian boats and planes to Gaza immediately. Stop discussing on rhetorical grounds. Start shipping and dropping supplies now. End the blockade by air and sea.

This is a great paper!

Want to access the slides and the notebook for this session on LLM for Content Analysis in the Social Sciences? Here they are! www.css.cnrs.fr/llm-power-to.... Information about Text classification; Information Extraction, Text Clustering with encoders and decoder models.

Allez, elle est juste à 6500 signatures...

📣 Call for Papers: Debt Urbanism and the Housing Question ℹ️ I'm putting together a symposium proposal to The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) with co-editors @sklosterkamp.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki 🗓️ Deadline for abstracts 22 August 2025 🏹 Please spread the word!

Postdoc opportunity in the University of Cape Town. Please share to anyone who might be interested

With two French ministers accused of rape (and comforted in their function by the government) and the current prime minister that silenced (and still lies about) sexual violence perpetrated over children, the shameless irony is not lost.

How does digital capitalism affect wealth inequalities and class formation? This is a question I answer in this new paper, focusing on South Africa. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In the grandest tradition of US foreign politics.

Le grand ruissellement.

Grand oublié du texte de cadrage : le rôle entre État, finance et espace, pourtant fondamental et de plus en plus déterminant, et l'un des champs de recherche les plus actifs en géographie humaine depuis plus de 15 ans, a fortiori en géo urbaine, économique, écologie politique et géopolitique.

There is no ethical AI. The tech is based on stolen intellectual property, anti-solidarity between workers, labor exploitation, environmental injustice, climate destabilization, structural racism, and gender inequalities.

An international call for action just got louder: Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally 🧵 www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

La misère, cet asset si durable.

Key takeaway from tonight is that France is not scared anymore by the ABs. Players knew they could win and believed so. Jeff Wilson's questions at the end ("how scared were you? How fast was it?") seem out of touch with how the game has changed since 2015 for both teams in terms of skills & status.

A little personal news: I will join the University of Cambridge as an Assistant Professor in January 2026, where I will focus on research and teaching on digital capitalism. I feel fortunate and extremely grateful for the support and guidance I received from my colleagues and friends.

Very happy to share that our article, with Jérôme Pélisse, is out in Socio-Economic Review academic.oup.com/ser/advance-... @cnrsshs.bsky.social @cnrs-hautsdefrance.bsky.social @clerseumr8019.bsky.social @cso-sciencespo.bsky.social @univlille.bsky.social @sciencespo.bsky.social ⬇️

"US government allows the use of gingerbread for building foundations".

Just going to leave this here 👿

Beautiful work

Zucman and co were proven exactly right—extreme wealth inequality makes democracy and the rule of law untenable. A global wealth tax is probably the most pro-democracy policy out there. www.ft.com/content/859e...