Important intervention as an act of solidarity by Sinophone artists against the Chinese state’s efforts to conduct political censorship of artists in one of Thailand’s leading artistic institutions

hot take that i feel like as scholars in the digital tech x china space we're struggling rn with is 1) how to square away techno-orientalism if you aren't writing from position within the US/europe (aka majority of world)

Americans desperate to copy WeChat without understanding anything about the context of its success

There seems to be a concerted effort by AI boosters lately to deny this & act like critics are ignorant (or insist it's fine because AI will be smart enough to solve climate change and energy shortages). But energy usage data and projections remain astronomical.

deep in a character study of scorpio men, god, scorp men are crazzzy

🥰 gotta love the aunties. me: "i'm in chicago now for a job at northwestern" auntie: "chicago is colder than san francisco. drink hot things and dress warmly!"

Tomorrow in San Francisco: @jacobsilverman.com and @alexhanna.bsky.social at Litquake. 7 p.m. See you there? litquake2025.sched.com/event/28YrM/...

📦🔋🌱Global Circuits, a new series on environmental justice and the AI supply chain, co-sponsored by (m)otherboard, Green Screen Coalition, & @datasociety.bsky.social Climate, Technology, and Justice program

everytime i read a post about digital humanities and arcgis storymaps i cry a little on the inside background, esri is a baddie in the bad way & there's plenty of open source alternatives: www.societyandspace.org/articles/bey...

This is why I like Dewey's engagement with community in "The Public and its Problems." For Dewey, community isn't just sharing an attribute: it is the ways that we come together in collective association towards a common goal. Insofar as this is the case, we can do so across difference.

caught up with my gen-z cousin in beijing and damn THE INTERNET WORKED y'all, we have reached THE END OF HISTORY she schooled me for 2 hours (while also side eyeing my life choices) and told me that: 1) there's no use busting your ass at work bc promotions are arbitrary/based on sucking up

tfw doctors are like "you need a surgery where we put a tiny camera in you" and you're like, no thanks dude, i don't want cameras on me or in me, ever.

wow finally got an mri appointment after 7 months of insurance insanity, can't wait to get pumped full of rare earth and lie in a tube for 40 minutes

oh no they put me and my frands into a computer and i can't get out

eeeee a friend just read a draft of a short speculative fiction story i wrote and texted: omg. my jaw is on the floor. now just have to find a place to publish it 🙏 putting this wish out into the universe.

STARTING IN TWO HOURS! See you there.

Americans under 25 have no idea how anomalous and deranged it is for the news to report obsessively on the persona and psychology of the executive with respect to matters of policy and governance. This is not even remotely normal.

executive order shutting down twitter in 3, 2,

my poor friends and lovers who i force to suddenly drop everything and read something i wrote while i hover over them, blinking and rubbing my hands like an over eager squirrel

"We could call it spreadsheet culture in hyperdrive, a world in which all data can be translated into summary language and all language into optimized data with nothing more than a prompt. " www.theideasletter.org/essay/our-sp...

Amazing account of ChatGPT's sycophancy and confabulation on steroids. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

I talked with @arthurkaufman.bsky.social about China work and responsibilities as practitioners on Gaza thelasttrain.substack.com/p/doing-what...

Please stop calling my life crisis “mid”

"in summary, as assistant professor at fancy university i would be thrilled to teach a class on archival research titled 'how to do archival research and not make the same mistakes i did and months after your archive visit end up drinking before noon staring at a pile of unordered pdfs'..."

ugh writing is so hard ugh

I see this fallacy almost every day, in tech and politics: 1. There is a problem 2. We believe that our solution will fix the problem 3. We built the solution 4. Therefore the problem is now fixed Bitch, no. You have to check. Let's talk about leading and trailing indicators.

mostly just annoyed that 'vibe-coding' is now a real term that refers to computers coding and not the act of diligently pursuing some new age woo-woo stuff so that you can get aspirational vibes for the person you want to be

🫠 the longer i spend in academia having to write papers the more i'm like "ok i am not meant for this life" but props to those who can do it just gotta think about this sunk cost fallacy thing

listen, i have to say one of the most joyous, life affirming, nourishing things i've done recently is to stop reading as much news about generative AI and instead i took a poetry class. highly recommend the sheer beauty of certain words is.... indescribable.

desperately wishing and hoping to get Nathan Fielder tackling the tech industry in the next season of The Rehearsal

just looked up from grading to hear my partner yell "AGGGGGH my job is so boring now because of AI!!!!!"

my nine-year-old kid is on a 700+ day streak on Duolingo and he knows how to order both beer and wine in German, so I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that perhaps we still actually need schools.

Happy book release day to @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social! If you’re in the Bay Area, I’m moderating a little convo with the esteemed authors of the AI Con at Clio’s this Sunday afternoon

lololol bruh gen ai you had one job! which was to tell me the playoffs schedule!

Anita's talk at UCSD will be open to the public and is right next to the UCSD blue line stop. Registration required and livestream available! www.eventbrite.com/e/predatory-...

there's a cute femme owned & run cafe near my studio where i sometimes grab work lunch and it's hilarious/sad reading reviews where all the men are like "one star off for attitude, they need to all be friendlier"

another *chefs kiss* piece from rui

feeling lots of gratitude for my great eye doctor, who is a counter balance to my general plight of having the eyes of an 80 year old with glaucoma induced progressive vision loss. after every eye doc appt i'm wracked with anxiety and existential dread

Sports stadium boondoggle but make it tech.

It's called internet sculpture, by @spencer.place here: internetsculptures.com they wrote more here: spencer.place/creation/com...

A spreadsheet containing all publicly available information about CBP and ICE databases, from the American Immigration Council www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/content/unde...

Join us on May 13 at 6:30pm in Zurich for a talk by Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social on «Embodied Generativity: Critical AI, Art & the Body». More infos 👇

me in 2017: almost 30, starting a phd, i would never move away from my home in the bay for an academic job me in 2025: big moving book sale everyone!! just gotta start saying 'i would never win the lottery' everyday

So many quotable lines in @xrw.bsky.social’s essay: "The contaminated RCA site and the death of workers from chemical exposure underscore the false binary between 'the environment' versus 'the digital.' The screen you are reading on can only materially exist because of nature and the environment”

just a quick reminder that citations do help me out; in the past many people have taken my ideas and used my terms without crediting me, and i really don't want to see that happen with this paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.12148

the gross feeling of opening up a 25k word chapter you haven't touched in awhile but need to rewrite

The Cloud is Dead! Spread the word! Through the lens of an experimental farm in South Greenland, I advocate for a shift from what I call the "topological fetishism" of tech industry imaginaries, toward a more local, situated idea of technological futures. datasociety.net/points/the-n...

At the top of Earth Week, we are launching this series of essays for @datasociety.bsky.social Points, The Cloud is Dead: Living with Legacies of Resource Extraction with contributions from @xrw.bsky.social, @zgtcooper.bsky.social, Jen Liu, and Ana Carolina de Assis Nunes, with an intro by me

It’s Earth Week! In this new series, members of our research network explore how communities have addressed the unequal power dynamics between tech production and deployment, and how tech impacts people’s everyday lives and the environment around them. datasociety.net/points/the-c...

currently sitting in berkeley watching one of these food delivery bots spin its wheels endlessly as it just drove into a glass wall and can't understand architecture lol...so satisfying