It’s as Sara Ahmed said: solidarity doesn’t mean that our dreams are the same dreams or that we hope for the same future; it is a recognition that we stand on the same ground.

Because people asked, I want to point folks to some archiving resources that were circulated at the start of the admin's takedown of federal data at CDC, AskJAN, NIH, and discuss why keeping our data is so important. A thread 🧵

El colectivo Tu Nube Seca Mi Río, que investiga el impacto ecosocial de los centros de datos (IAGen), ha publicado un libro descargable para explicar cuales son las estrategias de las Big Tech para implantarlos en nuestros territorios, y mucho más. ¡Imperdible! tunubesecamirio.com/2026/02/05/i...

Peter Mandelson fulfilling the 90s comedian bit about politicians wearing sponsors logos so you knew who owned them

Starting to think that we shouldn't allow the worst people in the world to have a hand in shaping technology

Genuinely didn't think this would happen. Good.

"Ooo, it's all connected! Spoooky!" Well I'm sorry, but it fucking is, isn't it?

It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

Truly the thickest man alive, and a glaringly obvious warning that we’ve organised our economic system in the wrong way

Ya se nota en el aula - la similitud con el primer año pospandemia en términos de energía e involucro es inquietante.

Coincidentally I've been spending the week with some MA UX design students basically trying to convince them that what gets counted as an "emerging technology" is entirely politics, and this example is the one that really got through to them (1/2)

Here’s the thing about self checkout. Companies have determined that it is more cost effective to take the loss from theft that automation eases than it is to pay people to work in their stores. When one puts it like that, the quality of the tech or the apparent convenience* are beside the point.+

Pues nada, un augurio genial desde co-star para el dia en què viajo a la ciudad capital, con la cual ya tengo una relación complicada

I heard there is a funny clown Who with the circus came to town What sadness that you have I’m sure he’d cure ya It goes like this, You’ll go You’ll see But doctor, you’re describing me! The clown that you prescribe, is Pagliacci! Pagliacci Pagliacci Pagliacci Pagliacci

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. "Here we see something that was intended as a strategy for the reduction of cognitive overload threatening to become one of its main drivers."

Very keen to play some new places this year. Who’s putting on good stuff in your town? Where should we play?

10 000 euros para que te enseñen a usar herramientas que roban y hacen peor tu trabajo y que te van a quitar el trabajo. Lo del máster de IA del centro universitario de artes y diseño de Barcelona es una putísima vergüenza.

cat's oot the bag then!

Great question! It’s not just about whether or not the gyre is widening – its that the falcon cannot hear the Falconer. In today’s blood-dimmed world, it’s a game-changer that many don’t consider. The kicker? A beast that is rough, slouching, and born.

I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time

I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.

The Guardian doing inexplicable voluntary free public relations work for a corporation profiting from sexual abuse by headlining this as the image gen being "turned off". It isn't off: they've just monetised it. What the fuck are we doing here people, come on. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Some work news - My last nine or so months with the Green Web Foundation have been mostly working on carbon.txt, a proposed standardised approach for websites to publicise their sustainability commitments and data, and we've just released a new version! www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/news/carbont...

You call this a glitch?

Happy New Year from the Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities! 🌿 We’re kicking off 2026 with a busy January. From the "ecosemiotics" of sacred remains to the politics of global climate action, we have some deep dives planned. Check out the thread below for details! 👇 🧵

looking forward to winter book events for public data cultures in coming months ❄️📗💜✨ jonathangray.org/2026/01/05/b... including with @digitalmethods.net @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social @internetarchive.eu @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social @cimethods.bsky.social @mctd.bsky.social #dmi26

For those few of my followers here who are actually interested in following what i post, please follow @stephen-cornford.assemblag.es.ap.brid.gy which will now bridge my posts from Mastodon. If anyone reading knows a way to merge or migrate this account to my bridged account please link me up!

ugh

Tickets for NYEE on Dice if thats how you choose to live yr life. tinyurl.com/3seh349m And we got tickets here wegottickets.com/event/687121 💥

Obscured by Clouds: La computación en la nube desde el arte sonoro de los centros de datos Obscured by Clouds: Cloud Computing from Data Center Sound Art www.raco.cat/index.php/Jo...

But when a direction is chosen freely and followed wholeheartedly, it may seem that all things further the going.

the thing that drives me insane about genAI/chatgpt bullshit is that brother, the process IS the work IS the entire thing. no artist comes to art for the final result. the final result is inextricable from the fucking labor that came into making it

Beca completa de Doctorado en #HumanidadesDigitales en @KingsCollegeLon La beca King’s–Fundación Ramón Areces ofrece matrícula completa, estipendio (£22.780/año) para Investigadores/as de nacionalidad española). 📅Fecha límite: 13 feb 2026 tinyurl.com/mr3dsh3h

Question to help out a PhD student: Has anyone done STS-y work analyzing optimization research (the field of engineering, not "optimization" in general)? Even better, any data scientists/HCI/computer scientists try to bring STS theory (especially ANT) and OR methods into conversation?

Who has made this 🤣

How to Get Into Fights with Data Centres is now available in Portuguese, thanks to my amazing translator Louise Karczeski // How to Get Into Fights with Data Centres já está disponível em português, graças à minha incrível tradutora Louise Karczeski emmlab.info/Resources_pa...

I now have this in my head so it's only fair if you all also have this in your head ant time anyone ever mentions the Sunn O)))

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The chat interface was a marketing bet. Selling #AI as if it is not auto complete. It still is. "#ChatGPT shifted the user’s relationship to text, moving the prompt from a ‘piece of writing for the model to finish’ to a ‘question calling for an answer’." mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-was-…

they're saying there's a spectre haunting europe and it's very nice, we're looking into it strongly, it's beautiful, we love it and we think it means well

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

when the ai bubble bursts it's gonna be a whole Project™ to tease apart neural-nets-the-technology from chatbots-the-product-class in the public consciousness given that these companies have been trying their hardest to confuse everybody about this distinction for the last several years

What this reveals is that for most people in charge right now “AI” is less useful as a technology than as a piece of language to shift a conversation in whatever direction they need it to go. In one minute it will propel a new economy; in another it’s the reason for a recession.

NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst. It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...