🚨The video recording of the AI and the Politics of Extraction panel is now live! Watch this fascinating 1.5 hour discussion with @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @profwhw.bsky.social, @mysdick.bsky.social, and @profhvdv.bsky.social as they explore the risks of unfettered AI implementation.
loved this conversation. Anyone need a crash course on why the intersection of AI, fascism and climate breakdown? We tried to cover it all!
This whole convo is fantastic - 1.5 hours of very informative chat on climate justice vs the gross economics of tech
Ft @naomiaklein.bsky.social @profwhw.bsky.social @profhvdv.bsky.social, hosted at @ccj-ubc.bsky.social
youtu.be/27BHQhkK52I
Open box of books with two out showing front and back covers propped up on the balcony railing of my Minneapolis condo. Trees and sunshine are in the background. The book's full title is JUST CODE: Power, Inequality, & the Global Political Economy of IT, and it is in bold black lettering with pastel fading trails of the letters.
Copies of JUST CODE just arrived! Partnering w Con & teaming w 19 brilliant STS authors on the vital topic of code/codes & inequality was so special! Authors (full list ToC below) On bsky: @mysdick.bsky.social @histoftech.bsky.social @dmulvin.bsky.social & blurb from @anitachan.bsky.social #histtech
Got a new essay in @dissentmag.bsky.social on secrecy havens. The culture of impunity that secrecy fosters has profoundly damaging effects on social&political fabrics especially in places that were turned into tax havens in the context of empire/decolonization www.dissentmagazine.org/article/nobl...
Lastly, during the final session on May 14 (2025), 5:30–7 PM (CEST) the brilliant @whkchun.bsky.social @mysdick.bsky.social and Matt Canute will collectively discuss AI and the (re)shaping of intelligence — sign up: www.create.humanities.uva.nl/events/5-cri...
Hi ✨ Together with Anna Schjøtt Hansen and Tobias Blanke, I organize the #CriticalAI Seminar Series @uvahumanities.bsky.social. This is the 24-25 program🙌
⚡The sessions are online and open to everyone, find more info and sign up here: t.co/ScqpC7ZDrT
Really nice series of #STS #histSTM #evhums essays on Dune + author Frank Herbert's multiple connections with 'gritty' (cf shiney) scences, which I somehow missed first time around. Wondering again if anyone has written about Dune (or science fiction in general) and sociobiology/evolution/gender?
Thanks so much and for sharing @clancyny.bsky.social !!
Sciences of Dune essays for the LARB that were published when Part 1 was released. Including an essay by the great historian of computing and math, @mysdick.bsky.social
In honor of Dune Part 2, here is a little series on the Sciences of Dune we wrote for the LARB when Part 1 was released. Includes essays on prophecy, eugenics, pharmacology, language, medicine, harvesting, ethnography, and I wrote about computers and Mentats lareviewofbooks.org/feature/scie...
Wow, this looks good
Thrilled to share work on AI + reproductive rights in Argentina with my 💛 collaborators #DiegoJemio & #FlorenciaAranda. 🔥 Intro Syed Mustafa Ali, @mysdick.bsky.social, Sarah Dillon, Matthew L. Jones, Jonnie Penn, Richard Staley + more 🔥 @lukestark.bsky.social, @aaronmendonplasek.bsky.social & more!
So much great work in here, we'll be revisiting this special issue for a long time. Congrats to Steph et al!