amidst all of the celebration re:Zohran there have been many criticisms of him being wishy-washy on arresting Netanyahu, apologizing to the NYPD, etc Useful; we shouldn't have a naive "he is awesome and he will save us" stance -- but these say more about the left than anything about the candidate

I am extremely blessed to find myself constantly surprised (these days) by the everyday successes of organizing around me Most of the time organizing feels like a set of actions we go through because of a blind faith that change is needed -- trusting the conclusions of movements and moments past

Every time I see a paper advertising like participatory AI for large language models I have to laugh, like “no slop for us, without us!”

Soyjak Michael Scott-esque trump admin attorney: I DECLARE!! It is OFF RECORD!!!! Chad Anna Bower: I took screenshots which are all available at www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

When the state brings violence into our neighborhoods — when it throws elders to the ground, fills bodies with bullets, jails people without cause, and takes children from their homes — we must be able to bear witness, writes Dean Jackson, but Big Tech firms are silencing dissent.

I don’t hate the no kings protests! I think it’s awesome that millions are taking to the streets and seeking an outlet to express their anger, even if that frustration is expressed as rejection of Trump and not much else, plus a gratuitous support of law and order

Are you a UM worker/student and want to hear better takes than the dude below on AI from university of Michigan faculty, students, staff? then join the mass meeting on 10/28 at 7 to stop the UM-Los Alamos data center and its support of nuclear weapons! bit.ly/UMichNoAIMeeting

in @michigandaily.bsky.social -- Op-ed written by students and grad workers organizing against disciplinary charges for students alleged to have protested Accountability in a time of genocide www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

Nathan Kim assigned she/her pronouns in two separate instances by Michigan Daily www.michigandaily.com/news/adminis...

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

✨I’m on the academic job market ✨ I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻‍💻💪🏽💥 I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action More info: cella.io

Did you know that the university of Michigan is building the world’s largest supercomputer for Los Alamos National Labs’ nuclear weapons production programs, and paying for $830 million of it despite not being able to use >90% of it? I wrote about it here: www.michigandaily.com/opinion/umic...

With labor friends like these, who needs enemies? "A ChatGPT-based analysis from Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that AI could wipe out swaths of both white- and blue-collar jobs." www.axios.com/2025/10/06/a...

NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders. I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

No, it's not just passing the same $100 billion back and forth...we generated $200 billion in GDP...

At UMich, CS students have been raiding the school of information offices for coffee/snacks and it has led to huge messes like someone pissing in a trash can and spilling coffee everywhere So now facilities has implemented what SI grads lovingly refer to as martial law in order to reclaim our land

I’m at 4s this week in Seattle! Would love to chat about marxisms in STS, political economy of tech, and techs role in racial capitalism if you’re here as well Signal at @nathanckim18.49

This Google decision appears to be a complete failure to break up its monopoly. It has to share *some* search data? Big deal. Plus it can still legally do search engine payola. And no Chrome sale. A best possible outcome for Google, the same monopolized, enshittified internet for the rest of us.

in the cloud. straight up "deployng it". And by "it", haha , well. let's justr say. my kubernets

Nothing like good ‘ol Michigan football straight to the face

I worked at a USDA dairy lab the summer after high school and one of our primary research goals was finding uses for millions of tons of whey protein that was a byproduct of subsidized cheese production. This was when I first learned about the Missouri Cheese Caves

inviting thoughts: i think criticizing a paper for situating itself within a particular historical moment as limiting its accessibility and longetivity is absurd. We exist in historical moments, people --

another fan of @long-haul-mag.bsky.social

Congrats to @davidthewid.bsky.social and @nathanckim.bsky.social on this must-read report on how #bigcloud is entrenching power off the AI gold rush #AI&MarketPowerFellowship

New study by @nathanckim.bsky.social and @davidthewid.bsky.social on cloud investments of the Big Three.

Police have set up a checkpoint and appear to be stopping every single car on 14th st NW, between W+V, here in northwest DC. Some cars are being pulled over after being stopped. Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)

"Dependence on Big Cloud is not just technical or infrastructural: it is also financial, as a source of investment. This then compounds the need for structural separation: @nathanckim.bsky.social & @davidthewid.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/big-cloud-is...

🔥new report from David and Nathan. Big VC is a small part of the AI gold rush compared with the cloud investments from hyperscalers.

this is a must-read for anyone interested in learning about how cloud infrastructure is captured by big tech

cloud colonialism indeed

@davidthewid.bsky.social, postdoctoral fellow at Cornell Tech, released a new report on how “Big Cloud” companies — Google, Microsoft, and Amazon — are quietly reshaping the tech ecosystem through strategic investments. Read the full report here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Banger

Thanks to @maxvonthun.bsky.social, who we also learned a lot from in the course of writing this report :)

Piece by me and @davidthewid.bsky.social out now in @techpolicypress.bsky.social describing our recent report's analysis and implications for both critics and competition regulators!

73% of Trump’s $15.9 billion fortune comes from crypto schemes he advanced while in office. He gutted health care and SNAP, then pushed laws to boost his own shady crypto empire. Corruption in plain sight. theintercept.com/2025/08/09/t...

Still reeling at how, yesterday, the genocidal Zionist state calling itself "Israel" assassinated ALL @aljazeera.com journalists in Gaza City in a targeted attack outside of al-Shifa hospital no new analysis I can contribute nor new feelings I can express -- just in shock

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Broadcaster Al Jazeera says its correspondent Anas al-Sharif has been killed in Gaza City, and Israel’s military confirms it.

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces. #JournalismIsNotACrime

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

Tina Park, Sophie Song, and I wrote about Trump's AI Action Plan, the narrative of "upskilling" on both the right and left, and how the myth of AI automation is forcing actual workers to do more with less. www.techpolicy.press/dont-be-fool...

New analysis from @davidthewid.bsky.social and me revealing that Big Cloud invests 100x more often and spends hundreds of billions more $$ than other Big Tech on startup investments Why? These investments allow Big Cloud to lock in the entire tech ecosystem -- more in David's thread and our report!

📣🚨NEW: ☁️ Big Cloud—Google, Microsoft & Amazon—control two thirds of the cloud compute market. They’re getting rich off the AI gold rush. In new work with @nathanckim.bsky.social, we show how Big Cloud is expanding their empire by scrutinizing their *investments*… 🧵 📄PDF: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

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Microsoft can no longer deny it’s directly enabling the oppression and genocide of Palestinians by Israel. “According to three Unit 8200 sources, the cloud-based storage platform has facilitated the preparation of deadly airstrikes and has shaped military operations in Gaza and the West Bank.”

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!

I’d rather give all my data to the CCP than see TikTok in the hands of Kevin O’Leary

I've decided to pivot my research to the promises of AI for social justice. I've written a white paper about it here: ai.nathan-kim.org

Marxism has an analysis of class interests, value, and technology under capitalism, and a way to make sense out of the totality of human history. On those points, it is correct and meaningful no matter what your ethical commitments are -- it is useful for capitalists and socialists alike