Hello Internet. The Taste of Things (2023) is a very good movie in which the majority of the screen time is given over to silently (occasionally, huffingly) preparing amazing french food in a beautiful kitchen. Two thumbs up. 👍👍

The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book

Guess who just got access to a primary care physician for the first time in 8 years and so will be doing preventative medicine again! :)

When I say that the concept of the "digital commons" was always a facade made up by politically illiterate toddlers this is what I mean

Fun times with Canadian AI Policy. The federal government wants to do consultation in a 30 'sprint.' That's probably very unwise, plus the survey itself is full of leading questions. A bunch of folks (including me!) are calling for a different strategy: bccla.org/policy-submi...

Sneaky bastards

Looking at spending some time this spring either in New Bedford (Moby Dick fantasy) or the Maritimes. Send recommendations if you've got them! I want to divide my time between writing, eating, biking, and looking at tide pools.

Time for me to start baking multiple batches of cookies to assemble into giant variety packs to give away for the holidays (I am intense about this). Anyone baked any banger recipes lately?

AI development should consider its deeper environmental, technical, and sociopolitica infrastructures for the sake of sovreignty, sustainability, and fairness (not endless imaginary scalability!) - we argue for this (and many more) in this piece. So glad it's now out!

Strategic nationalism continues! policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/10/ai-m....

Anyone have a screenshot of the (I hope real?) joke-y post that said something to the effect of "let's make a mastodon instance to discuss the challenges of configuring mastodon instances"? I need it for a slide deck!

Yesterday my students did 'dead media autopsies' in class. It was pretty neat to look at electronics across a range of decades, and parsing when things stopped being soldered, and then largely assembled, by hand

So excited to see it out and honored to be part of this group!! Rare opportunity to learn about the real-world entanglements between policy and AI's pasts and futures. My special gratitute to @apasek.bsky.social and Kelly Bronson for their guidance.

This summer I got a bunch of smart academics together to think about anti-extractive Canadian AI futures. Our white paper, which parses good and bad AI policy directions for the federal government, is out now! www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...

Peak butch moment: friend asks to borrow my tools

I love his writing and all, but sometimes I wonder if David Graeber would have offered a slightly different account of bureaucracy and organizational relations if he hadn't noped out of all his service work at his university...

I am going to talk to a bunch of lawyers at Yale about AI Trash. Yes, I will be showing them the bad AI slop picture of a scientific illustration of rat testicles (?).

U.S. regions more exposed to AI saw faster emissions growth, more reliance on fossil fuels, and dirtier electricity generation. cepr.org/publications...

I'm going to be in NYC in a week for a hot second! What should I do (besides catch the Tega Brain & Sam Levine show at Pioneer Works obvs)?

I'm making my environmental media class vote in Fat Bear week today with me. Also: Look at this unit. Justice for 901! explore.org/fat-bear-week

Wrestling is good

i hope hangman is down at the bata shoe museum looking at the rough & ready exhibit

This is good satire: alignmentalignment.ai

Mind-blowing post detailing how xAI is not only building a massive new fossil fuelled power station for the second data centre to power X's Grok, it is doing it across state lines to avoid regulation Remind me again how it's all fine bc a single query is small... semianalysis.com/2025/09/16/x...

Happening in about 30 min!

Finally got my shortwave collective radio receiver to work!!!

an article asking whether it's feminist to use AI? i will get right around to reading that, but first, would you join me in the cellar for a moment? i have a lovely new cask of sherry of dubious origin i'd like your opinion on

Interested in environmental justice & how gender inequalities are embedded in technology infrastructure? Join us for the 4th Gender & Tech webinar, Sept. 29 11am EDT, with Paz Peña Ochoa & @tamigraph.bsky.social. Free & open. Registration: virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Co-org w/ @yasmincurzi.com

I’m sorry but let me unbury this lede: *the genAI industry is literally the financial engine that is powering the fascist regime in the United States* I hadn’t even made this connection and now I’m even more horrified by this tech than I have ever been. Boosterism == fascism, literally

My noise band is playing with some very talented folks next week. Come for good times! Come for loud times!

I'm giving a hybrid talk in MTL/on Zoom on Dec 11 on different approaches to the AI 'waste problem'. Tune in for a survey of the different kinds of environmental politics floating around in this space + what some of their strengths/limitations are proving to be... ulaval.zoom.us/j/6157367060...

It's up! Rachel Webb Jekanowski @alexnathanson.bsky.social and I muse on what the public humanities might look like if we focused less on bringing high culture to the people & more on helping publics make culture we can study--in this instance, solar-powered art! academic.oup.com/isle/advance...

In some personal news I can now lift exactly 300 lbs up a few feet and then drop it

cowards

Our book is now available for pre-order :) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/814355... (But also it'll be a free open access thing so you don't have to pre-order anything!)

Yessss!! Zine librarians unite! Last year was awesome 👌

📣 Environmental Politics Article of the Year Award 2024! The award for Volume 33 goes to @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social and @apasek.bsky.social for their article ‘Spiral-scaling climate action: lessons from and for the academic flying less movement‘. environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/editorial-an...

gentle reminder that editors impose word count limits for a reason (the reason is that words are sinful, and we're all involved in a slow but ruthless process of returning the world to a state of grace)

Oh hey our article on reparative just transitions is out! Some very cool colleagues in Canada + Brazil + I got together to think about what just transitions research might be missing when it comes to Indigenous communities, food systems, and world making projects iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

The Nexus Centre Presents: A Roundtable with Dr. Josh Lepawsky on "Mapping the Geographical Imaginations of the 'Tech Right'” Sep 17, 2025 08:30 AM (in Edmonton) Angela Carter, Keif Godbout-Kinney, Mél Hogan, and Anne Pasek respond. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Come read our ~award winning~ analysis of the academic flying less movement!

Looking forward to thinking about the geographical imaginaries of tech billionaires (+ their networks) with some very good company in September! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Sam Altman: yeah so data centers, well you know they take a lot of power to run. And I figure, what is more powerful than Goku? Interviewer: Goku is pretty powerful. Altman: Goku will power our data centers. Interviewer: yeah

Sam Altman is just blurting out words now www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

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I wonder to what extent all these platforms' reversals on trans rights in their moderation policies is because they really like the taste of boot leather vs. they are very nervous about moderating the Trump admin's anti-trans speech. Not sure the distinction matters, but still--which came 1st?

Joyful sights greet me walking home at 2 am

Nothing but respect for this never ending story and this one ONLY