Sarah Sharma has a super interesting, counterintuitive take on feminist technodeterminism. Fabulously enticing interview! Plus an amazing book and cover . . . @dukepress.bsky.social dukeupress.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/q...
there were so many versions iterating on poop appearance and location for the bird one 😭
a dog who is best described as "german shepherd inspired" doing a snoozle, ie, eyes closed and chin rested on a bed, looking enviably cozy
mood
james acaster in the great british bakeoff tent, one arm akimbo facing the judges, subtextually sleep deprived: "started making it. had a breakdown. bon appetit."
me sending out a paper draft for feedback
are dockworkers allowed to go on strike if they do not have a background in supply chain management
a sort of "in this historical moment critique pools around logistics whether self consciously or otherwise" situation i think
the critical reflections on this specific idea in some of the following commentaries are pretty insightful (basically what a cool way to put together a journal issue!)
owing to the specific way my brain is broken right now i have convinced myself that every critical cscw article from the 80s and 90s is actually about logistics
delighted that some of Josiane Boutet’s work has now been translated into English and published last year — impressive work by Katy Highet, Larissa Schedel, Sabine Lehner, Catherine Tebaldi, Mi-Cha Flubacher and Martina Zimmermann! www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...
Poster for a “Just Tech: Take Back Tech Workshop Series” event titled “How to Stop a Data Center.” It describes a panel discussion on the rapid expansion of data centers in the U.S. and resulting community resistance over environmental and energy concerns. Speakers include Livia Garofalo, Cella Sun (Data & Society), Steph Jordan, Nicole Sugarman (Kairos), Shawmar Pitts (Philly Thrive), Jordan Brittingham (People’s Tech Project). The event takes place Friday, April 10, from 2–4 pm at McCabe Library Lab, Swarthmore College. Presented by the Aydelotte Foundation at Swarthmore College in conjunction with the 2025-26 faculty/staff seminar, Just Tech: Accessible Sustainable Futures. The design features bold black text on white boxes over a red-orange abstract background.
Join us Friday, 2-4PM for @aydelottefound.bsky.social's panel - How to Stop a Data Center - online and @swarthmorecollege.bsky.social! Panelists from @datasociety.bsky.social, @kairosfellows.bsky.social, @peoplestechproject.bsky.social, and Philly Thrive.
RSVP for zoom link: bit.ly/stopdatacenters
#CfA I'm organizing an open panel "Resisting the Datafied University" at #4S2026 in Toronto
Please share widely & submit!
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I want to look back on this piece tonight as a hysterical overreaction. Because that will mean the peoples and the cultures of Iran will have survived.
three more weeks to submit abstracts to our 4S open panel, that articulate STS-flavoured responses to the most important question of our times: "how do we win?"
ok so i just listened to the gramsci episode of what's left of philosophy on the walk home and i think basically what i need to do is read the modern prince and reformat my brain
i keep coming back to this episode of the dig podcast where michael denning talks about good sense and elaboration. "working through ideas" as tactile, as laden with counterhegemonic potential.
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what stands out to me about these sorts of articles is how they seem to naturalize some pretty striking disaggregations of the reporting and writing process, a weird mix of newsroom logistics and vibing about the separability of content and "voice"
Audre Lorde's "master's tools" speech was not about tech platforms. So why does tech discourse keep citing it as if it were? I write about that here: tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshi... #enshittification #AudreLorde #techpolicy
"it feels more like having a conversation than configuring software" is the perfect epigraph for a linguistic anthropology paper
The fight against the University of Michigan–Los Alamos data center reveals the “political and planetary stakes” of AI and the threat of “tech-enhanced militarism,” @tisjune.bsky.social , @shreyachowdhary.bsky.social & @nathanckim.bsky.social write in #Academe:
some writing on AI as a war issue and war as a workers issue, and how the middle term does not simply cancel out
so you may potentially be able to acquire this thing i've been thinking about, of how sometimes conversation (with chatbots, with actual cops, etc) produces a fake sense of intimacy with a broader system of organized violence, in sticker form sometime soon
So, who is writing on “chat” and the conversation as interface?
Because I hate it, and I would love to hate read such a piece
not a hate read exactly but i keep feeling like the chapter from hannah zeavin's book, the distance cure, on chatbot therapy and auto-intimacy, is 90% of the way to a broader theory of the pleasures or fetishization of talking to thing to make it do stuff. would also love a hate read though!
we gotta read sophie lewis' enemy feminisms next in reading group (not real science/feminism/etc)
Now unlocked: we speak with Cassius Adair @cassiusa.bsky.social about Kansas’s new law stripping trans people of their driver’s licenses overnight, and the long history of state identification documents being used as tools of administrative violence
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feels bad for the movement if you want to get your socialist data centre talking points via the language technology version of shein
dude that was cool ten years ago prompts sprawling colonial apparatus to perform just-in-time word delivery via Anthropic-branded interface
Reminder that the eugenicists currently dismantling public health think everyone should be outfitted with a wearable.
maybe something worth unpacking here about language as indeterminate social reproductive practice occasionally/often packaged as vessel for economically productive self actualization!