Sorry for being recursive, but Dan's important work on how to study the AI hype rather than reproduce it definitely deserves a hype

Demonstrating in Tel-Aviv against the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza. Using starvation as a political tool to serve ethnic cleansing is dreadful. Most people who live here, Israelis and Palestinians alike, want this nightmare to end NOW

Very troubling. Not as troubling as the mass starvation in Gaza, but still: our academic freedom that we've taken for granted is threatened, more threatened than at anytime I can recall. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Cool paper with an great title. Across the world, boys are much more likely to overestimate their math ability than girls. People from high SES backgrounds do the same www.iza.org/publications...

Customers in the global north don't like the accent of low-wage workers from the global south? AI “accent translation” offers itself as a quasi-solution, grotesque yet socially consequential www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Re: AI & creative writing: Least-skilled students using AI after seeing a guidance video wrote better than those who didn't use it at all *and* those who used AI w/o guidance. More skilled students didn't benefit at all & their writing got worse w/ unguided AI use www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...

New video abstract: Ori Schwarz introduces the Theory, Culture & Society article 'The Post-Choice Society: Algorithmic Prediction and the Decentring of Choice'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ting...

tinyurl.com/TCS25OS What does the decentring of choice through algorithmic prediction mean for subjectification? My new paper suggests AI interpelates a 'system-1 cognition' self, assuming our quick automatic responses are who we really are, while consciousness/reflection is mere self-deception 1/

710 Palestinians killed in two days, 70% of which are women and children, to buy 7 votes of extreme right Israeli MPs on the budget bills. 101 fatalities per vote (and counting). I cannot breath with these levels of cynicism

tinyurl.com/TCS25OS Choice has been the key social technology & ideology organizing late-modern economy, culture & society. In my new paper @theoryculturesociety.org I explore how algorithmic prediction decenters choice and what cultural & political implications this transformation could have (1/4)

Granting & revoking civil rights based on AI evaluation of one's social media activity doesnt sound very promising for democracy. Unless of course you spell it 民主 or דמוקרטיה. Yet, as Cheney-Lippold's Jus Algoritmi paper on revoking protections shows, it's not quite new www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...

Some thoughts on Weber and the AI-coup: We all have intuition, a gut feeling based on past experiences that often hits the mark. Bureaucracy prohibited relying on intuition in governance, insisting instead on using standing promulgated rules to achieve fairness, transparency & accountability 1/5

Must read: Anatomy of an AI Coup by @eryk.bsky.social 👇 "This coup is not taking place in the streets. (...) It's taking place cubicle by cubicle in federal agencies and in the mundane automation of bureaucracy." www.techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a... @techpolicypress.bsky.social

Wow. The fact that trained academics collaborate and take part in this purge is a disgrace

So apparently, the Turkish translation of my book, Sociological Theory for Digital Society, is out now! Which is great news: I happened to read & enjoy quite a lot of Turkish sociology, and it seems like a thriving community. Here's the link: www.ayrintiyayingrubu.com/kitap/dijita...

This is the Silencing Bill that will be discussed today in the Knesset Education Committee. If the committee brings it to the next reading, faculty organizations intend to strike. www.timesofisrael.com/arab-mks-aca...

Yes, it could be worse (in Gaza Netanyahu's govt exercised scholasticide, physically destroying all 19 colleges/unis) but new bill to silence Israeli academia, forcing unis to dismiss dissident faculty for alleged 'support of terrorism' w/o criteria/legal process is frightening. We won't b silenced!

Thanks for sharing! It's always so nice and reassuring to find out people (esp. those we appreciate) actually use our printed thoughts... Also, it's making me feel slightly less guilty for this modest contribution of mine to deforestation

20 years ago, we witnessed mass immigration from Myspace to Facebook, resulting in classed and racialized platform differentiation. Now we witness another mass immigration wave, from X to bsky, this time resulting in *political* differentiation. Politics is now shaping network structure. But: (1/2)