So it's out! Our edited book, "Platforms and the Planet: Big Tech, Digital Platforms and Environmental Responsibility" is now published as an eBook by Emerald, co-edited with my amazing colleagues Mervi Pantti and Olga Dovbysh.
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CNN headline: Trump's Bible reading streams tonight at a complicated moment for his relationship with American Christians
Sorry, wut?
I can’t vote, but I’m headed down 29S and will be laying
my head tonight in what I very much hope is a newly and justly represented Virginia! 💙
The cyberattack on The British Library in October 2023 knocked out ebooks and almost ever other computer thing there for years.
Ebooks just came back. They were knocked out everywhere using the BL’s license (legal deposit libraries I think? More libraries?)
Distributed physical copies matter.
They found JKeats01’s Tinder
Yes, but don’t forget what they titled the sequel.
To the original question, crickets from the two different institutions I might hear from.
We need one of those old style novelty websites which, with <h1> blinking HTML, exists only to answer whether the Strait of Hormuz is currently open or not
www.isthestraitopen.com
These are stark numbers, but also the inverse: statistically speaking, at least one out of three people you’ll meet walking down the street is just fine with <waves hands> all this, and of those who disapprove, one in two don’t think it’s necessarily all *that* bad.
This thing looks like it’s taking a shit.
We have an apparent cure for most people with pancreatic cancer—a profoundly swift, deadly cancer—and the position of the U.S. government is that it should be banned. This is real fall-of-empire stuff.
The left would have us believe that all cultures are equal. But in reality, some produce marvels while others turn out AI slop and descend into cocaine-fueled fascism.
by Alex Karp
Everything else aside, this level of discourse from a world public figure is without equal nowadays.
Sigh. *grant and *omitted
Thanks for the thoughtful comments.
I think we’re in a place nowadays where we can acknowledge our affect, even if only on the moment, without granting a detachment from material conditions. (how else to live, otherwise?)
Perhaps the sticking point here is simply the word astonishing. 🤷♂️ that’s a little bit of self honesty. There’s a lot that’s happening on my screen nowadays that I didn’t think I would see in my lifetime.+
That’s because I am *pessimistic* those will open sufficient space for the kind of the liberatory politics you describe. Put another way, I don’t think there’s any unraveling of the US of AI.
Hmm. I’m not sure I’m willing to grout this cleavage between the technology and its social circumstances that you ascribe to me. On the contrary: you’ll notice one move I am admitted was to gesture towards open source and smaller models. +
😞 It goes one way because you’re in my mentions instead of the other way around. And now, please: enough.
Thank you for engaging.
It’s 2026 and there are still people who are coming to terms with this arrangement.
Yes, but one of the virtues of having an account on a social media platform is I get to write what I want without having to clear it with you or anyone else first. Of course it’s also your choice whether or not you want to spend your time reading what I write. That’s more or less the way this works.
I’m sure it’s just because it’s late but I’m not following what you’re actually objecting to. Land acknowledgments? Sorry, I’m lost. (And not sure I need to hear more tbh.)
My thread was a direct response to a torrent of stuff hereabouts from people who think GenAI is a complete and total fabrication.
I’m sorry, I don’t know what that means. I’m not familiar with the idea.
Collation formulas next
Glad I shared this one. What makes the photo—apart from the beautiful light—is the way in which the curve of the river and the empty roadway balance the curving path of the clouds in the sky. All of that was totally unplanned/unnoticed in the moment I snapped it.
