i remember when the cfp for this came around - this should be an interesting special issue to check out.

loved reading this - felt very prescient

A New Google-Funded Data Center Will Be Powered by a Massive Gas Plant Documents show that one of Google’s new data centers would be powered by a natural gas plant that emits millions of tons of emissions each year—an increasingly common trend in the industry.

NEW: air permit applications for a data center being built with investment from google shows it would rely on a natural gas power plant that emits more than 4.5 million tons of greenhouse gasses each year

google has publicly touted its commitment to renewables but appears to be privately eyeing gas

Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying US lawmakers are pressing Tulsi Gabbard to reveal whether using a VPN that connects to overseas servers can strip Americans of their constitutional protections against warrantless surveillance.

NEW: The government tells Americans to use VPNs to protect their privacy. The government also automatically presumes communications of unknown origin are foreign. Foreign communications don't require a warrant to wiretap.

Lawmakers who've done the math want answers.

My latest @wired.com:

Safety work repertoires and dating platforms: how users of Tinder and Bumble manage their safety Dating apps enjoy some popularity among those looking for relationships, love, casual sexual encounters, and more. While platforms’ infrastructures provide affordances to mitigate safety concerns, ...

#OutNow in #iCS

In this qualitative paper, Riedl examines how dating app users in the United States navigate safety on Tinder and Bumble, arguing that users rely on community-based strategies rather than platform governance alone.

doi.org/10.1080/1369...

National Science Foundation: $9 billion total in FY2026

One would hope!

Thank you very much to all the study participants! 🙏 This work builds on my dissertation at @utaustin.bsky.social (so it dates a while back) - thanks to committee members (listed alphabetically): Mary A. Bock, @dkreiss.bsky.social, Gina M. Masullo, @sdreese.bsky.social, and @taliastroud.bsky.social

If you read until here (tysm!), please take away the following: "Safety work (...) must be understood as an individualized rather than collective activity. This framing primarily serves the furtherance of platforms’ capitalist goals, rather than the provision of actual safety to app users." (p. 12)

The study builds on work by Liz Kelly, Fiona Vera-Gray, and Rosalie Gillett, among other important voices in this space.

'Safety work repertoires' allows us to consider "the profound inadequacy of existing trust and safety regimes of dating platforms, but also illustrates how platforms put the onus of staying safe on those individuals who already experience exacerbated harms, including based on their identity" (p. 12)

The point of departure here, as I write in the paper, is how "platforms contribute to a neoliberal push toward individual users having to master their own safety online, or what Wood et al. (2022) refer to as self-responsibilization." (p. 11)

The paper centers the experiences of 42 U.S.-based dating app users on Bumble & Tinder, and how they manage their own safety - and articulate safety work repertoires, a "set of principles, behaviors, and mechanisms platform users develop to protect themselves" (p. 5)

Safety work repertoires and dating platforms: how users of Tinder and Bumble manage their safety Dating apps enjoy some popularity among those looking for relationships, love, casual sexual encounters, and more. While platforms’ infrastructures provide affordances to mitigate safety concerns, ...

New 📄 out in @icsjournal.bsky.social

"Safety work repertoires and dating platforms: how users of Tinder and Bumble manage their safety"

Link: doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Thread for more details 🔽

New chapter 📕 out in this multidisciplinary volume on disinformation, edited by @goripaula.bsky.social and Lisa Ginsborg

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It was a treat to present ongoing work on political influencers & FEC regulation in the U.S. earlier today at PlatGovNet 2025

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Thanks to the organizing team @rasmuskleis.bsky.social @deeliu97.bsky.social Emilie de Keulenaar @claraigk.bsky.social @jcmagalhaes.bsky.social & Ivar Hartmann 🙏

What Everyone Can Learn About A.I. From the Asian American Experience Four takeaways from four Asian American academics who study race, tech, and society

Here's a (scholarly) rant about A.I. and the seeming paradox Asian Americans as complicit with it that me, Michelle Huang, and Tara Fickle wrote as part of a DISCOnetwork writing jam. Is A.I. the next Iron Chink? medium.com/@hatlabnorth...

New conspiracy theory just dropped:

What if peer review, committee meetings, strategic plans, promotion & tenure processes, and letter-writing requests are all part of a secret plot to keep smart, creative, active minds from thinking and writing the big ideas that would *really* change the world?

Very excited to read the final report - congrats, @isabelalinzer.bsky.social & @beccabranum.bsky.social. Love the title 📐

Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...

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Moira Weigel — Palantir Goes to the Frankfurt School Moira Weigel This essay has been peer-reviewed by "The New Extremism" special issue editors (Adrienne Massanari and David Golumbia), and the b2o: An Online Journal editorial board. Since the election ...

fascinating how the myth that habermas was karp's diss advisor sticks to him like honey, as @moiraweigel.bsky.social has pointed out elsewhere

www.boundary2.org/2020/07/moir...

Congrats, Nicole - looks fab!

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Law Profs teaching First Amendment: I have put together a FREE, recently updated, and easy to use casebook for use in free speech classes. If you are interested in using such a casebook, send me an email or DM and I would be happy to share!

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🚨Special Issue Alert: Platforms, Publics, and Anti-Publics
(1/9) Introduction from our guest editors Zoetanya Sujon, Harry Dyer and Felipe Bonow Soares. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#academicsky #socialmediasky

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note so self: include this case in chapter on ai influencers that i still need to write

after the #aoir fomo comes the #ade fomo 🪩