Please check out my new article published in Oxford Intersections on AI credit scoring practices and predatory solar home energy systems in Kenya. Appreciate your views, shares, and opinions 💚 (Happy to share copies if paywall restricted) academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Some good news to lighten things up a bit. The Netherlands is returning over 100 of their Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. This can only be a win all around, and hopefully encourages other collectors/museums to repatriate as well 🏺 www.euronews.com/culture/2025...

she's just a little guy 👽👍

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I’m learning to knit 😸

For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard. #MosaicMonday

As we come up on an especially bad couple of Blue Mondays, a reminder that January is also the hardest month in the year. Remember to take time out and give yourself compassion, breaks, and nice things wherever you can find them 🤍

SCHEDULE TIME AWW YEAH STARES FOR CARES STARTS ON FRIDAY AT 6PM EST AT @jaymoji.bsky.social TWITCH TELEVISION WE END AT 12AM EST SUNDAY NIGHT GET READY and remember, every dollar counts - even $1 towards these organizations goes a long way! come through and hang with us!

US millionaires and billionaires are bidding for TikTok (without the algorithm) because it’s all about the value of the data and governing BIG SPEECH. Technofascism has a few players, who buy up platforms like real estate, and call it the public good. These guys… www.tiktok.com/t/ZT21wUoQL/

Cococcino is taking a break from her “work” to interrupt your feed to say hi, and she hopes you’re having a good Tuesday. This came with a miao but I didn’t catch it on time #cats #academiccats

Given that the @nytimes.com is suing @Openai, it's critical that we continue to lift up the voice of Suchir Balaji, a whistleblower who was found dead after going public alleging OpenAI's theft of copyright. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/t...

Double attacks on all vulnerable populations as we move in to an administration that is likely planning on simultaneously reducing social security and attacking exploited undocumented workers. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/b...

Honoring lives lost in Altadena 🙏🏽

raffle prize for @leye.bsky.social 🍌 this was so fun to do!!

“The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, in which a prosperous Black neighborhood in Oklahoma was destroyed and up to 300 people were killed, was not committed by an uncontrolled mob but was the result of “a coordinated, military-style attack” by white citizens.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/u...

This is messing with my brain. I mean I can kind of see a bunny, but a cat?

ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change. Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk: www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?

Folks: please be diligent about not disseminating Ann Telnaes' cartoon in a way that she's not getting the clicks on it (until she says differently). Her IP matters now more than ever. Make it go viral but make sure she benefits. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

The look I get after 2 nights away from her 💔

Perfect baby

Literally invisible labor www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/u...

If you have the time, please send a quick email! Keep the Observer free.

When I get older I’m going to tell kids this was crypto:

She’s working omg #academiccats #academicsky

My cat has become a full-time secret agent, using her new cat tree as a covert ops headquarters where she can spy on me and hide from me.

Amazing gallery of leaf art from Japanese artist Lito (website lito-leafart.com/index.html) www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

We should acknowledge that MAGA and Trump’s victory were enabled by internet platforms whose business models reward fear and outrage. Dems had 8 yrs after FB enabled Trump and never had a floor vote in either chamber on a single bill that could possibly have addressed the harms. 🧵1/x

Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about 1) Predatory gambling apps & sports betting culture Kenya 2) Growing govt biometric databases but less tech regulations for 4y

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No one is walking away unscathed from another Trump presidency. Not even most of his supporters. They just don't know it yet. We can choose this moment to regroup, unite and fight back or we can choose to become ghosts, cower in fear, mourn our broken hopes and dreams for America. Choose.

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"CEOs have ossified their political beliefs in the design of algorithms and by extension dictated political discourse for the rest of us." Please read this piece by @bostonjoan.bsky.social on the Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Boycott X. Not that I was really on it much, but you'll find me here instead.

Excited to do a presentation tomorrow on a topic I’m developing as a book chapter! x.com/cahcolby/sta...