3M once manufactured hard disk drives for 2 years, which is kinda suprising

AI development should consider its deeper environmental, technical, and sociopolitica infrastructures for the sake of sovreignty, sustainability, and fairness (not endless imaginary scalability!) - we argue for this (and many more) in this piece. So glad it's now out!

Research in Germany shows what most intelligent people who aren't strategists for major political parties already knew: mainstream politicians are both allowing #far-right parties to set the agenda and normalizing far-right policies. #authoritarianism #fascism www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

So excited to see it out and honored to be part of this group!! Rare opportunity to learn about the real-world entanglements between policy and AI's pasts and futures. My special gratitute to @apasek.bsky.social and Kelly Bronson for their guidance.

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I’m on the subway and these ads are as creepy and off putting as the product itself.

Mediation dies and revives and is seemingly trapped in such impasse, precisely because we all long for the immediacy of that gratification

Tech companies have snatched millions of YouTube videos to train their AI models. Search The Atlantic’s new AI Watchdog tool to see if yours have been used:

Post-Zoom self care: reading Barad

📆 Event Alert: Join in for an electric conversation with Dr. Susan Erikson, an SFU Distinguished Professor, who studies highly complex political economies that shape human health. Link - investable.eventbrite.ca #BookLaunch #Investable #SFUVancouver @sfucmns.bsky.social

Copies of JUST CODE just arrived! Partnering w Con & teaming w 19 brilliant STS authors on the vital topic of code/codes & inequality was so special! Authors (full list ToC below) On bsky: @mysdick.bsky.social @histoftech.bsky.social @dmulvin.bsky.social & blurb from @anitachan.bsky.social #histtech

"A compelling case for treating this misguided financial product as a cultural artifact — one that reflects the values, assumptions, and contradictions of a particular global order." @jacobinmag.bsky.social reviews Susan Erikson's "Investable!: When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance":

Let history note: what's happening on the streets of LA is an extension of DOGE. Musk's guys illegally consolidated data from across government and cut a corrupt contract with Palantir to build an immigrant-hunting computer system. Presumably in use now.

Fatal

This is sending me

Been looking for this for soooo long 😭🥹

Making your paper logical is like riding a roller coaster and doing slow flow yoga at the same time... I died 🥲

I was there too. Finally in nature

Our uni is crazy…

So we returned everything and ordered new ones. Somehow they were sent from the states and stuck there seemingly forever

columbia, brown, georgetown, cornell and now tufts — they’re taking our students, our colleagues, our kin https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/international-student-tufts-university-reportedly-taken-into-federal-custody/2VK55QMAOZFIDBR2A6XNKC5XOU/?outputType=amp

Sometimes it reads like a RPS fanfic even though it's technically not

Suddenly I need to learn this, or, maybe I should cancel the whole trip at all

realized all our online purchases for the badminton team were just 12 shuttlecocks and 4 racket covers. WHAT. life is too short to double check the shopping cart

We’re hiring! Calling for applications for one full-time continuing teaching faculty appointment at the rank of Lecturer. Apply by April 30th to start in July 2025. More details: www.sfu.ca/content/dam/...

Have to admit that my handwriting recognition skills in English are really bad (not that in Chinese any better), which doubles the pain of diving into a sea of handwritten notebook entries

fatal that Weidel likes to stress a lot that she’s an economist or economic and all the calculations are not hard to conduct etc etc

the white house deportation asmr is probably the most bizzare and cruel media piece I've seen recently. you can't make this up can't you

Left on the whiteboard by the previous group in our booked writing room - a world where education is being frantically fed with dreams of AI expansion

Fire. All. Headline. Editors.

We don't exist, and yet it is still necessary to denounce us. What a world.

This is circulating in my queer political circles but I've otherwise seen no mainstream coverage. This, combined w/ the trans man in upstate New York who was brutalized for months b4 being murdered -- well these are the material impacts of transphobia zerodoesntsleep.substack.com/p/vet-found-...

过去几年，台积电一直被台湾人誉为“护国神山”，张忠谋则是台积电成为全球第一芯片代工厂的核心人物。为什么是台积电？张忠谋在其中扮演了怎样的角色？出生在大陆，成长在美国，他的身份认同是什么？中国大陆有可能复制一个台积电吗？点击收听本期播客： youtu.be/BN0zCRur48I @liyuan6.bsky.social

Deciphering day

Guidance from UC about ICE on campus www.universityofcalifornia.edu/frequently-a...

This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.

Panama Canal, where the global and imperialist undersea telecommunication cable systems used to locate

“Immutable traits/characteristics” is a key phrase in the white supremacist lexicon

Oh lord

“The sunsetting of DEI programs and the pausing of certain volunteer support groups — like employee resource groups — could deter women and minorities from applying or being chosen for STEM positions altogether” That’s their intention! To push everyone but white men out of science and tech

In the face of 1000+ dreadful political events I kept the last year promise to hold the dim sum brunch for a few folks and danced quietly at home by myself

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The wrecking ball to academia + social services; the unconstitutional executive orders designed to result in a crony-filled Supreme Court nullifying the power of Congress; the rise of AI sold as an automating god to be operated by oligarchs. These things are not unrelated.

Save 30% on #NewBook "No God but Man" by Atiya Husain, which analyzes the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list to reveal the ways that race—as a social construction—is both galvanizing and confounding. #Sociology https://buff.ly/4ayEnQl

Yea… uh

Now everyday I wake up it’s #jinglehalal Previously I didn’t understand why the fellow PhD candidate I met at a conference told me all they wanted was TikToking non stop