Extra trillion barrels not of just any oil, but barrels of snake oil.

💬 "Il nous faut donc accepter l'idée que les choses qui font la ville sont fragiles et ont besoin d'attention." cc @jrmdns.bsky.social @sylvaingrisot.bsky.social ➡️ www.transitions.city/newsletter235/

STS folks, I'm organizing an open panel on CONTRAPTIONS for 4S this year, following up on a lovely panel at last year's AAA meetings. You should submit something if you got it! www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...

After the two-sided markets, here is the two-sided exploitation: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

I just re-read Leigh Star's paper 'on being allergic to onions' for the 1000th time, before discussing it with my students tomorrow morning. And I cried again during the last section. Not metaphorically. Such a poweful/fragile text.

An incredible contribution by @loicriom.bsky.social and @taschn.bsky.social to our Forum on Tech Oligarchy. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dans le quartier populaire du Mirail, à Toulouse, un vaste plan d’aménagement prévoit la destruction de plus de 1 500 logements sociaux. Un désastre social et écologique dénoncé par les habitants et des collectifs. Lire l'article ➡️ https://l.reporterre.net/2Jn

Towns that question the value of an unsafe, costly, environmentally unsound, poorly governed monorail could be ‘left behind’, says Monorail Salesman

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

Two or Three Confusions About Vibrations Brett Mommersteeg — Science, Technology, & Human Values journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Intéressant de rappeler que l’an dernier, Yaël Braun-Privet avait initialement refusé une minute de silence en la mémoire d’Aboubakar Cissé, poignardé à 57 reprises alors qu’il priait dans une mosquée, au motif que l’hémicycle n’honorait plus « les cas individuels ». www.humanite.fr/politique/br...

Since Cass is again making the rounds for expounding on all the ways we might make fewer trans kids, here’s a piece on how this discourse erases the lives of trans people doing extraordinary specifically because they embraced who they are. Whose rich lives wouldn’t have happened in the closet.

Une pensée pour Frédéric Martin Aramburú, tué il y a 4 ans après une altercation avec des militants d'extrême droite, et pour lequel le ministre de l'Intérieur d'alors, Gérald Darmanin, n'avait pas eu une parole.

sigh

Pour comprendre la discussion budgétaire qui se clôt il faut objectiver, avec lucidité et sérénité, une réalité désormais structurante : l’emprise inédite des milliardaires sur la vie démocratique de la nation. gabrielzucman.substack.com/p/lemprise-d...

This is history (and geography). What a show.

A few hours after Bad Bunny sings among electrical poles maintainers, our conversation with @dominicboyer.bsky.social and @cymene.bsky.social is out. Coincidence? I think not. (Thank you both!) cenhs.libsyn.com/248-maintena...

I will eventually shut up about this but Bad Bunny’s use of the power lines is an outstanding example of how to communicate about climate and energy issues. Not about who is the smartest nerd in the room and spewing numbers but about people’s actual lives. Genius.

Somebody posted the full Bad Bunny super bowl performance on Reddit. I haven't seen it posted anywhere else yet. www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/co...

Fauxtomation the only thing you can actually count on

Does your research look beyond "AI disruption" to examine actual practices? Along with @dipanjan-saha.bsky.social, we invite you to propose an abstract for our panel at the #EASST2026 conference in Kraków, 8–11 September. Submit by 9 March here: nomadit.co.uk/conference/e... #STS #EMCA #AI

It's finally out! 3 years after its release in French, my book on phage therapy, antibiotic infrastructure, and the possibility of pluribiotic medicine is now available! Thank you to @ColumbiaUP and to Vincent Lepinay, who has welcomed me into his collection! #phage #AMR #capitalocene #phagetherapy

New episode of the Cultures of Energy pod! 10th anniversary celebration plus @cymene.bsky.social speaks with Nicole Negowetti about the need to reform the global food system & the role of regenerative agriculture in making that happen. @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4af89w96

Quelle honte, @banquepopulaire.bsky.social. Ces pratiques commerciales sont inadmissibles. Imposer automatiquement un passage au débit différé, qu’il faut expressément refuser, ça ne serait pas un peu de la vente forcée, @dgccrf.bsky.social ?

I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

“If a mostly white community can push back on this project and get it stopped, it’s unacceptable that the next move is to fly under the radar in a rural Black community with even less transparency,” Black added. www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat...

Un bien bel écho au livre 'Fragilities' que j'ai eu le plaisir de coordonner avec the one and only @fdrubio1977.bsky.social et David Pontille 👏

Impossible d'exagérer la gravité de ce qui se passe aux US. Les médias français, même les plus avertis, n'arrivent pas à communiquer la situation réelle. C'est VRAIMENT le fascisme, avec sa propre Gestapo. Ne pensez pas que ça ne pourrait pas arriver en France. Pensez plutôt à Vichy.

Pourquoi reconstruisons-nous les monuments « à l’identique » ? theconversation.com/pourquoi-rec...

Like most of the people here, I frown each time I wish a happy new year for my friends and colleagues. I am increasingly frightened and depressed. BUT, I received a long and pretty moving email from Mierle Laderman Ukeles yesterday. And I've kept smiling like an idiot since then.

La France se rêve en Eldorado de l’intelligence artificielle, mais les centres de données qu’elle attire ont un impact important. Un collectif marseillais publie la carte inédite de ces projets XXL et des oppositions locales. Lire l'article ➡️ https://l.reporterre.net/iX1

"La chasse aux #fonctionnaires, éternel cheval de bataille de la droite" www.alternatives-economiques.fr/chasse-aux-f... si vous n'avez pas encore eu l'occasion de me lire, vous trouverez une bonne synthèse de mes travaux par Gérard Vindt dans la dernière livraison d' @alternatives-economiques.fr

Si la justice administrative a décidé que le chantier de l’A69 pourrait se poursuivre en 2026, ses opposants ne baissent pas les bras. Reporterre rappelle leurs cinq principales raisons de lutter contre cette autoroute. ➡️ Lire l'article : https://l.reporterre.net/Tng

📕🚢Travailler, travailler encore, Dockers en lutte à Dunkerque est un cadeau idéal pour quelqu'un qui s'intéresse aux luttes ouvrières du 20e siècle à leurs relations avec celles d'aujourd'hui. On y parle de savoir-faire ouvrier, de désindustrialisation, de néo-libéralisme et aussi d'utopies !

I'm grateful for my brilliant students. One wrote about impacts of last weekend's debacle: "if we only talk about #Waymo, we will miss a critical, broader conversation around how San Francisco’s innovation policy still treats the city as a laboratory first and a community second." archive.ph/x6Iyq

Years after years, from cassettes to mp3 blogs to posts on Mixcloud, decades of mixes by Starsky. Today: Rewind 2025 part 1. Experimental-ish songs and sounds to stay in bed. www.mixcloud.com/strsk/rewind...

OMG OMG OMG OH. MY. GODDESS. vimeo.com/1127648743?f... (Poke @fdrubio1977.bsky.social, @tscriado.bsky.social)

Le ministre de l'intérieur a confirmé ce matin que les mégas fichiers du « Traitement d'antécédents judiciaires » (TAJ) et du « Fichier des personnes recherchées » (FPR) ont bien été compromis et que des données ont été volées. La Quadrature du Net s'alarme d'une catastrophe annoncée. ⬇️

Workers powering the AI industry face terrible conditions, but they shouldn’t have to. Interview with me in Yahoo News: www.yahoo.com/news/article...

YES! So many structures and words that have been classed as AI giveaways are what speakers of English as a second language have been taught and encouraged to do.

Do typefaces have politics? Do politics have typefaces? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

New ep of Cultures of Energy! We talk to Jean-Baptiste Fressoz about whether the history of energy is about transitions or accumulations. tinyurl.com/yc2bz6cy @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social PS next month is our 10th anniversary. Send a note!

I'm not even mad, that's amazing.

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Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.

A distressing story about how #car battery #recycling (not of the electric car ones!) poisons workers and people across the planet, and companies have known this for 3 decades. Lead, the ignored matter. www.nytimes.com/interacti…