SBES – social, behavioral, and economic sciences – goes to ZERO in 2027. That’s STS, sociology, anthropology, as well as economics. NSF led by a business guy affiliated with Peter Thiel. just a swathe of fucking napalm across the board. No words.
We had better win this damn election.
"Je ne contracte pas."
Dans "Paranoid Finance", le sociologue Fabian Muniesa plonge dans l'imaginaire conspirationniste pour interroger les catégories financières sur lesquelles repose notre monde :
www.nouvelobs.com/idees/202603...
Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities
"Someone decided that deliberation was latency. Someone decided to build a system that produces a thousand targeting decisions per hour and call them high-quality. Someone decided to start this war. Several hundred people are sitting on Capitol Hill, refusing to stop it."
One point for team lying-is-bad. Now Do Tesla
carte de Paris représentant la prévalence des votes pour Sarah Knafo montrant ses scores les plus élevés dans les 16e et 8e arrondissements
et cette extrême droite proche du peuple, elle est avec nous dans cette pièce ?
une des photo des barricades de la Commune. la photo, dont on ne connait pas l'auteur, a été prise autour du 18 mars, dans le quartier de Charonne et représente les premières barricades érigées ce jour et les suivant. On y voit les gardes nationaux, appelés fédérés, reconnaissable à leur uniforme, devant une grande barricade de gros pavés. le photographe s'est placé face aux combattants, lesquels posent (vu les conditions de prise de vue de l'époque), ce qui montre qu'ils étaient tout à fait d'accord pour cette photo qu'ils co-composent. Au fond, une rue, on lit sur un des immeuble une affiche publicitaire pour un magasin mais qui, ça tombe bien, s'appelle AUX TRAVAILLEURS!
Joyeux 18 mars!
Il y a 155 ans, Parisiens et Parisiennes se soulevaient contre l'assemblée monarchiste planquée à Versailles et déclaraient
LA COMMUNE!!!!!!
🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Extra trillion barrels not of just any oil, but barrels of snake oil.
💬 "Il nous faut donc accepter l'idée que les choses qui font la ville sont fragiles et ont besoin d'attention."
cc @jrmdns.bsky.social @sylvaingrisot.bsky.social
➡️ www.transitions.city/newsletter235/
“Technology” has a long and problematized relationship with progress, efficiency, and efficacy. Sleek trains rushing through the countryside, the blinding reach of the electrical grid, or the instantaneous messages of networked communication are its shiny avatars. Contraptions, by contrast, are technical devices that barely work. They seem too complex, too circuitous, too labor intensive. They are frequently ad hoc—as unrepeatable and unreliable as Rube Goldberg’s fantastical machines. They push the received wisdom about technology’s defining features to the limit. Like the aesthetic “gimmick” theorized by Sianne Ngai, the contraption is a category charged with normative judgment. Contraptions may work, but they don’t work right. While the contraption is commonly associated with vernacular or retrograde alternatives to high technology, many “high tech” devices reveal a contraption-like character on close inspection: AI chatbots, internet protocols, and helicopters come to seem both over- and under-engineered the more attention is paid to them. This session invites STS scholars to think with the figure of the contraption: What alternatives to popular ideas about technology do these complicated and unruly objects offer? What is it about the present moment that pushes the contraption back into public thought? How does the normativity of contraption judgments manifest in everyday life? How do people come to perceive and evaluate technical complexity in social life? Work in this area may draw on theories of gimmicks, hacks, kludges, workarounds, tricks, bricolage, and other complex or informal technical activities.
STS folks, I'm organizing an open panel on CONTRAPTIONS for 4S this year, following up on a lovely panel at last year's AAA meetings. You should submit something if you got it! www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...
I just re-read Leigh Star's paper 'on being allergic to onions' for the 1000th time, before discussing it with my students tomorrow morning.
And I cried again during the last section. Not metaphorically.
Such a poweful/fragile text.
An incredible contribution by @loicriom.bsky.social and @taschn.bsky.social to our Forum on Tech Oligarchy.
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Dans le quartier populaire du Mirail, à Toulouse, un vaste plan d’aménagement prévoit la destruction de plus de 1 500 logements sociaux.
Un désastre social et écologique dénoncé par les habitants et des collectifs.
Lire l'article ➡️ https://l.reporterre.net/2Jn
Towns that question the value of an unsafe, costly, environmentally unsound, poorly governed monorail could be ‘left behind’, says Monorail Salesman
People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.
Two or Three Confusions About Vibrations
Brett Mommersteeg
— Science, Technology, & Human Values
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Intéressant de rappeler que l’an dernier, Yaël Braun-Privet avait initialement refusé une minute de silence en la mémoire d’Aboubakar Cissé, poignardé à 57 reprises alors qu’il priait dans une mosquée, au motif que l’hémicycle n’honorait plus « les cas individuels ».
www.humanite.fr/politique/br...
Since Cass is again making the rounds for expounding on all the ways we might make fewer trans kids, here’s a piece on how this discourse erases the lives of trans people doing extraordinary specifically because they embraced who they are. Whose rich lives wouldn’t have happened in the closet.
Une pensée pour Frédéric Martin Aramburú, tué il y a 4 ans après une altercation avec des militants d'extrême droite, et pour lequel le ministre de l'Intérieur d'alors, Gérald Darmanin, n'avait pas eu une parole.
sigh
Pour comprendre la discussion budgétaire qui se clôt il faut objectiver, avec lucidité et sérénité, une réalité désormais structurante : l’emprise inédite des milliardaires sur la vie démocratique de la nation.
gabrielzucman.substack.com/p/lemprise-d...
This is history (and geography).
What a show.
We get the chance to discuss our book “The care of things” (@politybooks.bsky.social) , but also the collection we edited with the one and only @fdrubio1977.bsky.social: “Fragilities” (@mitpress.bsky.social)
A few hours after Bad Bunny sings among electrical poles maintainers, our conversation with @dominicboyer.bsky.social and @cymene.bsky.social is out.
Coincidence? I think not.
(Thank you both!)
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I will eventually shut up about this but Bad Bunny’s use of the power lines is an outstanding example of how to communicate about climate and energy issues. Not about who is the smartest nerd in the room and spewing numbers but about people’s actual lives. Genius.
