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?

blessed freedom

How I feel about my contemporaries turning 40..

… students at a Logan Square school were at recess when they were rushed inside after an ICE agent threw tear gas at a nearby car. And that afternoon one Southwest Side charter school went on lockdown because of a report of an ICE agent in a vehicle outside. chicago.suntimes.com/education/20...

Looks awesome @ppopiel.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Now that I got tenure, lemme start the list of journal publishers I ain’t submitting to or reviewing for

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News. Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

3yo wants to be a “reckoning ball” for Halloween. We support

Our latest issue just out and, we think we can say this, it is a banger. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/c... feat. @philiproscoe.bsky.social @ulissess.bsky.social @cibled.bsky.social @maijutanninen.bsky.social @busedoyu.bsky.social @zephoria.bsky.social @theobourgeron.bsky.social &&

BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

just discovered r/pickles www.reddit.com/r/Pickles/

Watching the pianist, unbiddenly thinking of Gaza, and feeling nothing but shame and rage against the exterminationist policies of Israel.

Why does the movie juror #2 feel like it was made in 2005?

Rich instructions for book reviewers coming from Taylor & Francis: "You have been chosen as an expert in your fields and should not be using generative AI for analysis or summarization of the submitted proposal ... in the creation of your review" www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

🚨 I’m excited to announce that, “The Enshittification of Work: Platform Decay and Labour Conditions in the Gig Economy” is now available online ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

So glad the arbiters of democracy are speaking up

🎶 I don’t practice trans sharia/I ain’t got no crystal ball… 🎶