Bianca [hi!] - This idea is similar to a main thread in my podcast about 'trust measurement' (coming soon). The ways we as humans trust are shifting as people are increasingly subjected to the same computational measures of trustworthiness that AI agents [agentic 'coworkers'] are. AITrustControl.com

With University of Utah and the New School heterodox economics PhD programs under attack, the task is clear: Mayor Mamdani must create a PhD program at John Jay College, City University of New York

People say the choice is btw social democracy w real welfare and air conditioning. I’ve just come from UK and they have neither so jokes on you

Fans in the UK don’t have swivel tech yet

"...annihilating attention is a political project w/ clear benefits for the 💰 class: if we cannot attend the world, neither can we intercede in it. We become passive recipients of their worldbuilding, disenfranchised from our own responsibility to make sense of—and [to] remake—the 🌏 around us."

We're hiring a post-doctoral research fellow! Apply by July 15.

I am hiring a qualitative postdoc to start this fall for the @datasociety.bsky.social project AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge. Fully remote but must be US-based. Interested in youth, scams, hustle/financial/consumer culture? More here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr...

Alright all, it's that time: if you've ever taught my work, would you be so kind as to DM me with details? I (and my tenure file) appreciate it!

My UNC colleague @toriekstrand.bsky.social has a powerful op-ed today in the N&O on the insidious nature of so-called "institutional neutrality" - and how in practice it means anything but. www.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...

reposting this which enthuses not only about Sarah Sharma's book but also the work of Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social. @dukepress.bsky.social @goodrobotpod.bsky.social @robkitchin.bsky.social @ahjackman.bsky.social @melhogan.bsky.social @alinau27.bsky.social

Neighborhood connections, Bristol UK

Because I also like a record of Engagement, me at Flaming Hydra: on the joys of watching people discover how weird we are in the USA and the necessary mirror it places up to us when they do. Also, weird is a good thing in this instance. flaminghydra.com/welcome-to-t...

one of those days when your body demands vegetables… lunch was roasted whole head of sprouting cauliflower. dinner is grilled zooks and squash

If I ever go to montana I'm skipping billings and going straight to accounts receivable

There is something in here for everyone: Marxists, logistics obsessives, obsolete-software enthusiasts, and those are all the kinds of people I know about. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

researching and writing about the HBO signal scrambling controversies of the 1980s and discovering that i'm radically and rabidly anti-IP. LFG copyleft

Congratulations @paullangley.bsky.social & @andrewleyshon.bsky.social on the publication of #FinTechCapital @fintechcapital.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social It’s a huge achievement & a timely intervention

“There is not a single mention of Gaza in the DNC’s 192-page autopsy report (on the 2024 presidential race). As someone who campaigned in MI and WI, let me tell you that one of the reasons we lost was our blank check to Israel and Netanyahu while they committed genocide in Gaza.” — US Rep. Ro Khanna

The real solution to helping historians do research is actually pretty simple: give archives more money. Money for conservation, preservation, storage (physical an digital), climate controlled facilities, and staff (paid at a living wage). You don't need LLMs, you need money.

🧵My paper on "Uneven Datafication" just came out! It draws on literature on coloniality, uneven development and dependency. Uneven datafication operates through three interrelated dynamics: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New post about people I know who grifted and gabbed despite professing decent politics and how we all bear at least a little responsibility for this nightmare. stuckness.ghost.io/down-on-the-...

Here's the link to the free pdf of my new book The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet. Access is so important and I'm grateful that the press is platforming it as one file that is easy to download. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...

lots of trans ppl being kept in the closet rn due to the perception of an increasingly transphobic public and like I cannot overstate the degree to which 90+% of people Simply Do Not Have A Strong Opinion On Trans People And That Hasn't Changed Despite Years Of Transphobic Media Capture

I stand by this joke

We are looking for a 3-year postdoc to work on a self-defined research project in environmental history that places electronic or digital technologies at the center of its historical inquiry. More details in the announcement linked to below. #envhist

new jawn from me out today in economy & society on the "subscription economy," part of my larger project on *the paywall society* www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Wet Bot American Summer?

hey if "the economy" is completely decoupled from the welfare of the people, WHAT IS THE FUCKING POINT OF THE ECONOMY

If you leave the infrastructure of surveillance in place, people in power will inevitably find an excuse to resume using it. You have to take that shit down.

Book launch day! “Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self Surveillance” is out. Bluesky friends, I would be so grateful if you would buy a copy. And if you can’t afford it, could you at least share this announcement. Thank you. #BookSky politics-prose.com/search?q=You...

my (first!) article, “From the virtual community to ‘Trust and Safety’: eBay (1995–2007) and the rise of platform governance” is out on Big Data & Society! it is a history of content moderation at eBay, where they coined the term Trust and Safety 🌐 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I wrote a follow-up to my story about the police attack on the Eris Parade. 8 years later it was a very different story. "The parade takes on a life and logic of it's own, and being within it is to be, for a time, part of a creature much larger than yourself." flaminghydra.com/encore-in-ne...

Now available in Latest Articles @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social interrogates 'subscription', a taken-for-granted economic bedrock of digital capitalism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Lots of people lost their jobs over this. Students lost badly needed resources. And the people who got f’d over were disproportionately already marginalized, underpaid & trying harder than they should’ve had to just to do their jobs in environments that were uncaring at best if not outright hostile

Value by weight, I don’t think one could do better than Aleppo Peppo from med deli, chapel hill USA

🚨 Don’t Miss The Virtual Private Donor Screening – This Sunday Feb 15th! 🚨 We’re excited to invite you to our Virtual Private Donor Screening of Moms Club happening: 🗓 Sunday, February 15th ⏰ 4:00 PM PT gofund.me/7d1cd445f

The John Jay economics program (where I teach) is accepting applications for Fall 2026 for our MA program. We are one of the only programs in the country focused on radical political economy, at a public school in the heart of Manhattan. For more information, see johnjayeconomics.org/how-to-apply/

Going to be reupping this periodically over the next month. Have thoughts about traditional craft work? A project on where traditional and platform economies collide? Analog/digital relationship in craft and creative work? Send me an abstract.

Hang it in the Louvre

this one's a banger (no mash)

Introduction to the special issue on Digital Solidarity Economies policyreview.info/articles/ana... 👏

I logged on today to post this after some hiatus and my gracious that Stancil guy truly is an economically illiterate asshole. Also, bump, look at my article.

new jawn from me out today in economy & society on the "subscription economy," part of my larger project on *the paywall society* www.researchgate.net/publication/...

JOB FAIRY: Reminder that I am hiring a Senior Researcher (2 years postdoctoral experience - 5 year post) for the ERC funded LivePlatforms research project exploring how people make livelihoods in platform work in Ireland. Please apply or share widely! Closing date Jan 5. www.ucd.ie/ics/vacancie...

“Should our media system primarily serve democracy, or profit?” NEW in @thenation.com: the team behind our new report argue the answer must be democracy—and lay out what it’ll take to break up corporate media and rebuild public media: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, we (w/ @dkreiss.bsky.social, @danlane.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social) critique political communication's "Identity Turn" and offer instead a foundation for studying #polcomm from a *group* perspective. 🧵

I do love getting a lil tiny bit high and watching ken burns docs. The american rev has some decent materialist analysis! Needle drop when narrator names the land speculators with investments west of the appalachians pissed at the british for closing the frontier (it's the founding fathers)

Super excited to announce a new piece out in the world: States and platform capitalisms: A conversation. This is a collaboration with some amazing thinkers and friends- led by @sayshatim.bsky.social Joe Khalil @linzhang.bsky.social & @rahmuk.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

a Friday surprise! my beloved book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, is now officially back in print AND ON SALE! #othernetworks if you know folks who have been trying to track down a copy, I'd love it if you'd repost shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...

What’s the difference between “extractive assemblage” and “predatory formation” anyway?