Huge AI infrastructure deals assume that algorithms will keep improving with scale. They may not.

“Perhaps his most fundamental heresy was the belief that the computer revolution, which Weizenbaum not only lived through but centrally participated in, was actually a counter-revolution. It strengthened repressive power structures instead of upending them.”

My book ms "The Inattention Economy: Seeing the Digital Labor of Women of Color” is in production at the University of Minnesota Press. So grateful to Anne Carter and Leah Pennywark at UMP. It's a book about how the work of digital infrastructure became women of colors' work and thus invisible

Suggestion: stop talking about AI as “hype,” start talking about AI as a (very real) political and ideological instrument.

I don’t think anyone in tech believed that “prompt engineer” was going to be a real job. Better prompts improve results at the margins, sure, but not so much that years out we need classes of people performing that function and not at scale that replaces anything. www.wsj.com/articles/the...

"A new dataset, visualized as maps, reveals the extent to which African workers are indirectly employed in the tech sector, doing content moderation, customer service, and data annotation for AI models, among other jobs." restofworld.org/2025/big-tec...

Returning to #DH spaces - meets - physically this April has reminded me of why I do what I do…. In multiple modes of text-il-ing …and multiple dataspaces and multiple visualizing spaces .

Time to move on to other warp experimented …

#whyreturn and #toolingaround

#DHmakes 🤩

Global DH cookie #msuglobaldh

Between the printing presses, the sheep herding, the spinning, the knitting/crochet/weaving, #DHmakes is ready to survive, rebuild, and spread the word!

Shout out to @roopikarisam.bsky.social at the #msuglobaldh

In person sessions begin #msuglobaldh2025

SCOOP: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in DC next week with the goal of building one “mega API” for accessing all IRS data. Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner. www.wired.com/story/doge-h...

Prepping for a keynote last minute as always….

A Black man just beat the record for the longest filibuster, defeating the record previously held by a man who filibustered the literal Civil Rights Act. As the time ticked over, Cory Booker announced he did it not out of hatred for who he opposed, but out of love for those who supported him.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.

¡Oradora Principal highlight! Estamos encantados de anunciar que la Dra. Radhika Gajjala @cyberdivalive.bsky.social regresa como oradora principal en el Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2025! 🎉 Presentará en persona el 8 de abril—¡no te lo pierdas! #MSUGlobalDH

Nothing to see - just me prepping for tomorrow zoom with Leeds …

Thrilled to have organised this panel on Sexuality,Mobility,Belonging & to be in conversation with such brilliant, critical colleagues! The audience engagement was fantastic, with thoughtful questions on political blackness, queer joy, & activism in these challenging times @cyberdivalive.bsky.social

Was honored to be respondent to a fabulous panel at #aas convention in Columbus - panel put together by @rkdasgupta.bsky.social (with whom I’ve been in conversation for years but only just finally met in person).

Important thread for #DHmakes We've got means of production and project management / organization skills. No better time to put it all to use.

With painful memories, here is to share some resources about a sad anniversary day - five years ago today in Wuhan, its health commission issued the first public notice about an "unknown pneumonia," which later turned out to be COVID-19. guobin-yang.blogspot.com/2022/01/upco...

Data is crunched and prepped into a weavable spreadsheet, warp (representing location, and words / time on the variable dent reed) is tied on, so full speed ahead on the data #weaving of my girlfriend's mother's memoir. #DHmakes

Still not sure if this is space that makes sense to me and what I do.

This Thursday Dec 5th, 6:30pm GMT I'll give a talk @ LSE @lsemedia.bsky.social about my new book 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' out w/ @politybooks.bsky.social www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... In-person and online, all welcome, details ⬇️ @mediacomgold.bsky.social

25 years ago, the global justice movement, inspired by the Zapatista uprising, exploded into mass consciousness. Indymedia was born amidst the smoke and tear gas of the Battle of Seattle, and the media landscape shifted forever. archive.org/details/turn...

STFU! ACAB

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And the idea that "is it public" is all that matters and not what you DO with people's content, is absurd. Like you cannot possibly suggest with a straight face that this example of using transgender YouTubers' videos to train facial recognition is 100% fine. www.theverge.com/2017/8/22/16...

And Shamika Klassen interviewed people who were part of Black Twitter about how they felt about researchers using their tweets. We found that things like positionality really matter here, especially in the context of historical harms. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

But it turns out that actual humans aren't just blanket totally okay with their social media posts being part of a research paper somewhere. Context matters! Like um... who are you? What are you going to do with it? What's the research about? What was the tweet about? Could it be traced back to me?

In 2016 my collaborator @profprof.bsky.social and I surveyed Twitter users about how they felt about researchers using their tweets. And one of the findings was that most of them had no idea this was happening. But when they found out... they cared. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"Hey everyone! 👋 I’ve created a starter pack of South Asian artists, authors, academics, activists, and orgs. I’ll keep it updated—DM me or reply if you or someone you know should be added! ✨" go.bsky.app/GGd6dxU

For all those folks that are happy that they can create a #maga free environment in Bluesky, I ask you on behalf of progressive South Asians, and #casteoppresed and #religous minorities that you consider that this elections was about a uniting of multi-racial right wing actors.

@rutgersupress.bsky.social Nicole Solano you’re the best ! Thankyou !

Incredible use of the medium, you gotta click through and read the bios go.bsky.app/KDY26rh

As lovely as it is to see so many people come here and celebrate finding their communities it’s just as important to remember that with the good comes the bad and the bad will escalate the closer we get to January. Learn how to curate your feeds. No one deserves your time. Protect your peace.

Quoting my millennial son “Real early social media energy” (when FB and twitter started he was finishing college).

Oh a bluesky norm I’m not sure I’ve seen anyone else share yet. There are three primary fake accounts here: 1. fake Keanu Reeves (we all kind of like all the fake hims) 2. fake Elon Musks (opposite energy, worst kind of fake) 3. fake Russell Crowe (no one knows why) (IOW yes we have bots, block!)

Console-ing Passions 2025 will be in Atlanta!

Message me or email if interested.

I am a Digital Humanities web developer and IT professional. My greatest hits include: * That sounds great; who is going to maintain it? * No, really; who is going to maintain it? * Lets try again; who is going to maintain it after you get bored with it / run out of grant money? * **screaming**