BTW the people who spent the last few years advocating for Palestine were clearly 100% right that normalizing war crimes and genocide there would just increase the likelihood of inhumane actions elsewhere. Just saying.
This is by far the best discussion on the war on Iran I’ve heard or read. All participants are so informative, so eloquent, the scope of the conversation so wide-ranging. Absolutely essential listening.
What does Israeli-American liberation look like in Iran? It looks like a girl's elementary school in Hormozgan getting bombed and killing over 50 little girls.
Venture capital doesn’t just fund tech.
In a new article, @loicriom.bsky.social and I explore venture capitalization: how ideas and technologies are made investable, and how this process fuels tech oligarchy—not just as economic power, but as a force that reshapes culture, values, and truth.
Congrats Rahul!
Oooh shit! Congrats @ceciliarikap.bsky.social, this looks awesome!
HUGE BREAKING NEWS: SCOTUS rules against Trump on tariffs
@platformsnsociety.bsky.social
Congrats @bloggeronpole.bsky.social!
I have a new one on cloud infrastructure and capitalist instability out!
doi.org/10.1080/0197...
Nairobi has become a test-site for China’s techno-capital. Our book of the week maps how the city's new digital ecosystem challenges both the West-centric script of technological “catch-up” and alarmist tales of neocolonialism.
By @andretwp.bsky.social on @ucpress.bsky.social
buff.ly/Jo6qN6X
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Excellent new paper from @js-tan.bsky.social and Kathleen Thelen, on the political economy of the cloud company business model and how it feeds the AI race and techno-nationalism journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
An open letter on the proscription of Palestine Action – defend the right to protest against war and genocide!
protestisnotterrorism.uk/2026/01/12/g...
Statement on the Israeli army’s invasion of Birzeit University
We call on universities and international institutions worldwide to condemn this onslaught against the production and dissemination of knowledge in Palestine.
criticaltheoryconsortium.org/announcement...
Just picked up @nsrnicek.bsky.social’s new book. Congrats Nick, it looks great and I’m
excited to dig in!
The #AoIR2026 Call for Papers is officially up on the www:
aoir.org/aoir2026/
This year marks AoIRs' first time in Mexico and it will be the second bilingual AoIR.
Please share with your networks. 🌮
🌟New book! SAGE Handbook of Digital Labour, edited by Ergin Bulut, Julie Chen, Rafael Grohmann, and Kylie Jarrett.
us.sagepub.com/en-us/sam/th...
One of the best pieces I read in 2025.
David Lynch in the filming set speaking in the megaphone. He says “Okay, let's try that again, but this time good.”
Here’s to 2026
❗ We are urgently looking for a new Lecturer in Cultural Data & AI at the University of Amsterdam: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
The deadline for applying is very soon: Jan 4th.
You’ll work with @tpoell.bsky.social, @riederb.bsky.social, @dluitse.bsky.social, @louravn.bsky.social, me, & more
me to grad students: share your work with each other, talk, exchange ideas!
me to me: no one can ever see this draft it's garbage and they'll think i'm garbage and then i'll have to move into a dumpster where i belong
It’s that time of year: what was the piece of writing about AI that stuck with you the most this year, pop press or academic? A few of mine in the thread. ⬇️
The special issue on Authortarianism in the Digital Age is now live (eds. @kylzjarrett.bsky.social @robkitchin.bsky.social @steelecat717.bsky.social and Jing Hiah). It is comprised of 48 commentaries from around the world exploring how the digital is implicated in creeping authoritarianism.
New post from me, trying to understand the various deals being made to build out AI infrastructure. Plus some news and research I thought was interesting recently.
siliconempires.substack.com/p/financing-...
The reason why platform companies do make it hard to find account location information is not because they believe in privacy, it's so that advertisers do not know how much is lost to low-tier engagement.
Growth, at all costs, means avoiding publishing basic metadata so that advertisers don't sue.
X's location "transparency" feature showing many MAGA accounts are based internationally reveals what we already knew: The world is using American social media and American politics as a slot machine and social media companies are directly incentivizing this:
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
Sovereignty as a service, sovereignty washing. The fact is that Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet are selling "local clouds" to governments and businesses and calling it sovereignty lol. More in the article we published last week in Media, Culture & Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Yes! Very happy to see that this great conversation is now out in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social.
Japanese giant SoftBank said Tuesday it has sold its entire stake in tech giant Nvidia for $5.83 billion.
Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
