I think AI having mostly (not entirely) very bad critics is a real problem because it means we’ll get political action focused on things that probably don’t matter that much in deferring it’s very real harms.

His goal is not to exclude certain people from voting, it is to question the legitimacy of voting itself in order to deny the results of the election.

Is tech oligarchy a proper term to describe the conditions of current-day political economies? In our latest forum contribution, @ulyssespascal.bsky.social, Cheng Fang, and David Bassens see merit in deploying the concept, but also consider its empirical limits. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

I created a remote zotero MCP server that lets you talk to your library from anywhere through claude

Our new article on AI and “Uncritical Fabulation” just got published in digital memory dialogues digitalmemorydialogues.com/editions/dia...

Can someone explain why ice agents are playing riot police? They aren’t even pretending to do their job anymore

How can we make social media without bots?

"A US regulator ruled on Thursday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company had acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power massive data centers in Tennessee" Not only is Xai designing software that causes massive harm in form of generated abuse, it's hurting communities

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...

I thought Bari Weiss was supposed to be a prominent critic of "cancel culture”

It's worth watching for yourself.

These photos

The real ai bubble is the billions of lines of technical debt tech firms accrued since the advent of vibe coding

Epstein was such a creep

Who is in Lisbon for Digital Geographies 2025?

In 2008, Google created an ad-powered wiki encyclopedia called Knol, seen as a "Wikipedia killer" amid its highly-publicized launch. And the Wikimedia Foundation gave an unbothered response that I quite like: "the more good free content, the better for the world." Anyway Knol instantly flopped

G**kipedia v0.1 is an automated rewriting of history and it is just v0.1. With AI, oligarchs and authoritarians can create massive corpora that reframe any event or fact inline with their own political ideologies. One day this will be done in real time.

This isnt just ethnic cleansing it’s ethnic liquidation

Merit based hiring is the first step to merit based firing archive.is/3FbPX

"If you’re pasting in contracts, asking legal questions, or asking [the chatbot] for strategy, you're not getting legal advice…You’re generating discoverable evidence. No attorney-client privilege. No confidentiality. No ethical duty. No one to protect you."

The groypers running the White House's social media accounts have posted yet another piece of fascist Trump AI slopaganda which I won't reproduce here in full. However, the Gladiator-esque backdrop of US soldiers in desert camouflage holding back the pseudo-Roman crowd is quite fascinating 1/

Much funding in the justice & human rights sectors pivoted to "AI for good" and working with tech companies, weakening the work on important critical education and preventing harm. AI companies promised many fantasies they will NOT deliver. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I knew the US had a cruel obsession with torturing muslims but the level of inhumane disregard for life in Gaza is horrendous even for US standards

When does it stop being oligarchy and it is just authoritarianism though?

I wish real life mag still existed. I have been writing a piece about ai, politics and chess that is too weird for academia. Are there other homes for tech/cultural criticism?

Auto-regressive state apparatus

A free chat interface is not open ai’s product! You are criticizing the hype. Not the product. Am i the only one who finds these takes naive and dangerous?? We are being categorized and surveilled by ai. It’s built into everything on the backend. The chat interface is just the 1% you see

Is it unethical to get your Al to work better by telling it that it needs to do o good job or else its mom will die of cancer?

If you submitted an article to a journal and they didn’t get back to you for 2+ years what do you do?

In Rome they offered bread and circuses, in the US they offer chatbot arenas

I work with AI in social science and it takes months of iterative improvement to engineer and evaluate prompts to ensure they don’t cause numerous bugs and unexpected behavior. Feeding government data into AI is dangerous www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

How did they ship this?

Quantum gravity is my Roman Empire

Under DOGE, Musk may be violating the Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA), NIST Cybersecurity Framework, Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), OCC Guidelines on Third-Party Relationships

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Did elon buy the pee tape from putin? I need a better explanation of what is actually going on

Is anyone doing a 4s panel on political economy of AI?

If you don’t code or haven’t done math in 10+ years, AI feels like just a bad writer. It’s a very different visceral experience to watch it spit out code that works than text that falls flat.

Tell your students if they use AI to do their HW you will use AI to write their recommendation letters.

I’m am making a google sheet add-on that integrates with LLM providers (like open ai and Deepseek). It is currently bare bones but works great! Now I’m trying to turn it into a Google workspace add-on and it is a NIGHTMARE! Help! How do mortals do this???

We are so monopoly pilled that we can’t conceive of competition between two companies as anything other than “loss”

Sometimes I wish surveillance capitalism was just a little bit better.

You can circumvent Deepseek censorship with pig latin! Unfortunately, Deepseek is not very good at pig Latin so I had to use ChatGPT to translate it back into English

Proof of human-ness is about it get more relevant: www.youtube.com/live/CSE77wA...

$500 Billion to build AI without safety regulations or oversight in Abilene, Texas where it recorded its hottest day ever last year at 113°F (45°C)

“Trump will save TikTok” is crazy. It was Trump’s Executive Order in 2020 that began the ban on TikTok

An under reported reason for why people turn to AI output instead of finding information online is there are no ads (yet)

OpenAI preemptively asking for exemptions from state regulations on AI

I have work on AI and platform capitalism that Id love to share at a conference. I also have developed several hands on AI digital methods and LLM forensics workshops (please invite me to your classrooms). Manifesting more scholarly community 2025

This one simple trick will maximize unregretted user-seconds on twitter/x… delete your account!