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I once spent months searching for something that would connect two concepts and finally found it laid out very clearly in a book I wrote :-/

This image features a vibrant yellow promotional graphic for a book titled "Platform Extractivism: Data Work and the People Powering Artificial Intelligence" by Julián Posada. The top of the graphic displays the text "PRE-ORDER NOW! COMING OCTOBER 20, 2026" in bold blue capital letters. Centered in the middle is a 3D rendering of the book cover, which includes three vertical photo strips showing people working in office settings and server racks. Below the book image is a quote in large, bold black and red font: "A GROUNDED AND UNCOMPROMISING ACCOUNT OF THE INFRASTRUCTURES AND WORKERS THAT SUSTAIN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE." — Mark Graham, co-author of Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labor Powering A.I. The bottom of the graphic features the logo and name for the University of California Press.

#PlatformExtractivism is available for 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 (out Oct 20)!

Thrilled to share what @geoplace.bsky.social has to say about the book: "A grounded and uncompromising account of the infrastructures and workers that sustain AI."

𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤: www.ucpress.edu/books/platfo...

#BookRecommendation #Books

Mountain home near Aspen, built for monks who labored in silence, sold to Palantir CEO for $120M The $120 million sale of the 3,700-acre St. Benedict’s Monastery in Old Snowmass was one of the largest residential sales in state history

Luckily for him, he recently bought his very own Aspen monastery to hide out in.

coloradosun.com/2025/12/19/m...

You don’t want to know there’s an unfinished article with an analysis of what it says about artificial intelligence that Clippy can’t help you poop.

Some days you wake up, start a book, then it’s six hours later and you’ve binge read a whole novel.

Gender and Technology: An Introduction Gender and Technology: An Introduction, In this comprehensive text, Holly Kruse explores how notions of gender and technology have been socially constructed. Organized historically, the book provides ...

Saturday afternoon may not be the ideal time to post this, but... it's fall book adoption time here in North America, so if you're teaching an undergraduate course about tech, society, culture gender, social history, don't forget about this little book I wrote 😉. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Epic road trip done:

10 days. 2600 miles, mostly on backroads. 16 states. Camped in 7 we hadn’t before (TX, LA, MS, AL, GA, SC, DE). We’ve now camped in 35 states since getting our campervan in 2020.

Main thing I learned on this trip: Alabama and South Carolina are very beautiful.

My son and his partner graduated from Hampshire. Heartbreaking loss of a special place.

Graphic featuring a portrait of Jacki O’Neill against a purple gradient background, with text reading she is a recipient of the ACM SIGCHI Societal Impact Award.

Congratulations to Dr. Jacki O’Neill on receiving the 2026 ACM SIGCHI Societal Impact Award! As founding director of Microsoft Research Africa, Kenya, she advances human-centered, equitable AI designed to serve communities across Africa and beyond. msft.it/6013Q7u0x

SUCH a great song

Arrived at campsite in state 32: Alabama. Impressed at how pretty the drive across the state has been and now here we are at the southern tip of the Appalachian mountains.

How far south did it turn into culture shock for you?

Driving the US on backroads is always eye opening. So much destitution. So many small swanky towns, most with a rural health center anchor. Here and there a horse region. Red state male gas station managers with red nail polish. Strip malls and Dollar Generals. So much beautiful land everywhere.

In an exceedingly quiet dispersed site in a National Forest for state 31, Mississippi. With shock discovered a gas station with my mother’s extremely unusual maiden name nearby.

We got a campervan in 2020. Last night we camped in our 30th state! Greetings from Louisiana.

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I hear people use the word “embarrassed” to describe how Americans must feel these days, but I’m going with “mortified and bone-crushingly ashamed with a dash of existential terror.”

Sun rising just over the horizon into an orange sky. Hills and glowing reservoirs in the foreground.

again and again and again and again and i am grateful every time

Coincidentally second book in a row I’ve read featuring a character called The Reader. (“If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler” was the other.) Getting mighty meta in this reading list.

Just finished Daryl Gregory’s “When We Were Real.” I love his writing, always a perfect blend of fun and quirky, deep and wise.

I know who gets fired is misogynistic as all get out and that whoever comes next will be just as bad or worse but it is still good to see another one sent packing.

never left harbor :) was fun tho in a bucket list check off kind of way

in the foreground a dark mountain. Behind and below it, a sea of clouds. An orange stripe across the top of the clouds and the sky shifts to bright blue above.

Above it all this morning.

One time I was at a yacht party in Cannes with Feargal Sharkey and someone offered to introduce us but I wasn’t willing to risk my love of the Undertones.

If Lisa wrote it, we should probably all read it, and look! It’s free!

If you want to do a little more than acknowledge that you love and appreciate trans people on this day of visibility here’s one suggestion.

translifeline.org/hotline/

Uh, that’s kind of perfect?

One sign you’ve chosen the right neighborhood is when they’ve organized a carpool to the protest.

That’s one of the areas we are headed! 🙏🏼