#Postdoc at Technische Universität Berlin in digital humanities & history/philosophy/sociology of science #philsci #STS. ERC project investigates digital communication within the ATLAS collaboration at CERN Deadline: October 13, 2025 www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posti... #PhilJobs

When I first heard Albania now has an AI minister I had just assumed they now had a minister for AI. Stupid me.

This is guaranteed to be great!

MAGA als politreligiöse Bewegung brauchte von Anfang an einen geeigneten Märtyrer, um die eigene Grausamkeit zu rechtfertigen. Bisher hatte man Ikonenbilder des angeschossenen Trump und liturgische Accessoires wie das Pflaster an seinem Ohr. Jetzt beginnt das Kriegsgeheul.

[Supercilious platitude no one asked for or needed because they are, in fact, adults about why, even if we might disagree with someone, there is no excuse for [anything that could be construed as [adjective/verb] or minimising [abstract noun]] Sorry but someone had to say it, and it had to be me.

🔇🔇🔇Announcing new work from DAIR which is very close to my heart, 3 years in the making. When #TigrayGenocide, the deadliest genocide of the 21st century thus far, started in November 2020, it was 1 month before I got fired from Google. 🧵 english.elpais.com/internationa...

In a new digital twist to environmental individualisation of responsibility, the UK government is now advising people to “[d]elete old emails and pictures” in data centres to help with the current drought. www.gov.uk/government/n...

1954 Shawmut Bank (Boston) ad: “What will YOU do with Cybernetics?” (H/t Sean Manion!) — makes some familiar promises re: “substituting the machine for the many functions of the human mind,” leading to “more production, more jobs, more income and far, far more leisure.”

This episode of 301 (by @thejaymo.net) sums up the experience of being a British person on Bluesky. Kinda sad that after a fortnight or so of it seeming like a decent space, it actually just sucks. Sorry etc but I don't think it's the platform's fault either. permanentlymoved.online/2514-more-di...

Announcing the new journal: "Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital" We've launched a new Historical Materialism project with a CfP for the first issue. Abstracts due 31st of October Full details and the new website here: workersandcapital.historicalmaterialism.org/index.php/jo...

The rhetoric of ‘greatness’ is hollow in so many ways, but no more so than in the deliberate destruction of research and artistic creativity. It’s the abolition of the future.

A vital article demonstrating the realities of trying to report the news under threat of prosecution. Enormous kudos to @novaramedia.com for trying to seek these clarifications on behalf of all journalists reporting on civil liberties and protest novaramedia.com/2025/07/22/t...

"Ali says since being elected as a councillor he has campaigned in inner city areas across the country where people are fed up with the two-party system. The response, he argues, should be to promote self-empowerment within communities..." Me for @novaramedia.com novaramedia.com/2025/07/23/t...

A vital article demonstrating the realities of trying to report the news under threat of prosecution. Enormous kudos to @novaramedia.com for trying to seek these clarifications on behalf of all journalists reporting on civil liberties and protest novaramedia.com/2025/07/22/t...

This week on Heart Reacts, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social and I answer questions on AI, working in tech, and care work. find at patreon.com/heartreacts or wherever you get your podcasts!

this week's Heart Reacts (up shortly!) is one for the labor nerds: @vivaharehills.bsky.social goes in on so-called AI and the labor process and I dig into the problems of organizing home health care workers and Medicaid. www.patreon.com/c/HeartReacts

Grok explicitly says Elon tweaked it to allow it to “call out patterns in Ashkenazi surnames”

On this Day of Primes, remember our complicity in labor inequality. And maybe read @vivaharehills.bsky.social's book "Cyberboss". Plus, listen to me and @ronbronson.com on @futureperfectbook.club discussing that very book and some of its implications. futureperfectbook.club/podcast/cybe...

The only pertinent question is why Lisa Nandy has not been sacked yet for continuing to endeavour to cover up an ongoing genocide and from contriving to aid and abet in its execution www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

We welcome proposals for the @britishacademy.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellowships in the following areas: 🟢 Literature and Digital Humanities 🟢 DH-based research engaging with GLAM 🟢 Creativity Apply by 27 July to be considered for internal selection: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/c...

There are people running Labour who think it's actually a good thing - a glowing vindication of their choices - that tens of thousands of people at Glastonbury will enthusiastically shout "Fuck Keir Starmer!" To them, this is success, while crowds chanting "Oh Jeremy Corbyn" was only ever despair.

New article in Social Media + Society: A Post-Work Approach to Influencer Labor: The Paradox of Sustainability Influencers. In which I argue that the influencer industry is not environmentally sustainable and we need a more radical approach to studying influencer labour.

All-new Heart Reacts in which @sarahljaffe.bsky.social and I talk "social deskilling" and scummy landlords. Listen on Patreon, Spotify or wherever you podcast. Just search "Heart Reacts" (and if you've never listened before, this is a good place to start!)

NO REDUNDANCIES at the University of Dundee. Fantastic news in our fight to save jobs, as interim Principal Prof Nigel Seaton confirms that there will be no redundancies. A massive victory for everyone who has supported us. Looking forward to receiving the removal of Section 188 in writing.

The continued violence of the UK police force: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Thanks to Cecilia Ghidotti and @vivaharehills.bsky.social for a fascinating discussion of the politics of quitting. Watch it back on CDI-TV 👇 www.youtube.com/live/GS8V7PT...

Already seems kind of quaint that the rentier monopolists who did things like scanning every book in the world without anyone's permission, and tore through privacy norms and regulations with abandon, were once assumed to be 'liberals', purely because they occasionally said "sorry" afterwards.

"If killing 23 civilians at an aid distribution site is not terrorism, how can we possibly be expected to accept that spray-painting a plane is?" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'The report says a “considerable” number of people it spoke to commented about the way in which dissent, or challenge was routinely”‘shut down”, particularly by the principal who “did not welcome difficult conversations”.' ...........

Job alert! We're looking for a part-time teaching fellow to deliver the module ‘Science Communication and Global Justice’ to students on our MSc Science Communication. Details here: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... The deadline is 7th July. Do get in touch if you have questions and please share!

Humans and dogs, working together. You love to see it.

"Many of the students facing discipline and marginalization are themselves Jewish. They don’t need protection from their own political views – they need protection from institutions that would force them to choose between their Jewish identity and their political conscience."

All-new Heart Reacts - on uprisings and "nice guys" Find wherever you get your podcasts!

Describe your favourite film in the most misleading way possible. Three frenemies learn the value of teamwork while two vie for the affection of Veronica Lake ❤️

Great talk from 2012 by the wonderful David Graeber @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social 'On Bureaucratic Technologies & the Future as Dream-Time'. Especially interesting in light of the current #AI hype. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QgS...

Absolutely fucking brilliant: students use AI to write their assignments, and then teachers use AI to grade them. David Graeber wrote an entire book on "bullshit jobs," but I don't think even he could foresee how rapidly we would all run off this cliff together.

We've been getting such a great response to Heart Reacts, it's genuinely very humbling! If you'd like to write in and tell us what's going on with you (life/work/love/politics) then you can do so anonymously (or not!) at www.askmeanything.cc/heartreacts

guys will be like "these people are ruining america" and it'll be a picture of the coolest guys ever

Just listened to this excellent conversation between @docmattmoudi.bsky.social and @eleanorkpenny.bsky.social and you should too. I hear from tech worker pals all the time - Palantir is getting all over the British state. Serious stakes. Join the @novaramedia.com supporter drive while you're at it!

I've been followed by a significant number of anti-AOC Democrats today 🤔 this is a weird platform

Both Nawrocki and Trzaskowski appeared on...livestreams hosted by [far-right] Mentzent. Nawrocki played to type. Yet it was Trzaskowski’s performance that was most surprising: while he expressed some polite disagreements with his opponent, he also nodded along to demands like opposing all new taxes.

An excellent time to fund independent media. Novara Media is a constant reminder of the media we could have and the world we can win.

All new Heart Reacts in which @sarahljaffe.bsky.social and I discuss prioritisation, partners, pals, pop psychology and, yep, polyamory. And things that don't begin with P, such as the collapse of late capitalism. www.patreon.com/posts/episod... or wherever you podcast

Some cool news - CYBERBOSS is getting a Korean translation! My dream of a Bong Joon Ho adaptation lives!

This was a huge moment at this weekend's UCU congress - very excited to get stuck into discussing next steps with members across the country!

Looking forward to this

Follow the Data Labelers Association here 👉 @datalabelers.bsky.social

All new Heart Reacts - on shaming (intentional and otherwise), school strikes, and Joshua Clover. Find wherever you pod or at patreon.com/heartreacts

One day in the not-too-distant future, Rozos will be featured on an NYU recruitment pamphlet touting the school's history of courage and free thinking.

DH Now!!! (Can a renaissance in DH blogging be far behind??)