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A massive, self-inflicted wound on American higher education.

submitted 10 days ago • 18 comments

🚨Call for applications - WES PhD Showcase Writing Workshop, 2-3 June 2025 at the University of Nottingham, led by 4 @wesjnl.bsky.social editors. Excellent opportunity for 16 delegates. Open to international members, with limited contribution. see - www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunitie...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Make Bribery Great Again: "American national security depends on America and its companies gaining strategic commercial advantages around the world & Trump is stopping excessive, unpredictable FCPA enforcement that makes American companies less competitive,” according to a White House factsheet.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I have been saying this in my classes a lot. Time to back it up with some research 🧐

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

We took X to court. And we won! ⚖️ The courts ruled that X must urgently grant us access to their publicly available data via their API. This access is critical for our analysis of online public discourse ahead of the upcoming German elections. Read: bit.ly/4gBWGp4 Here's what's happened 1/3 👇

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments

CORPORATE DEI WEBINAR: If you meet someone from East Asia, you should avoid asking "So which kind are you?" JACUZZI DEALERSHIP OWNER: Well, that's it. Time to start the Fourth Reich.

submitted 26 days ago • 79 comments

As an acolyte of Musk, this is hardly a surpise. For every single one that resigns there will be 10 others in the waiting.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

FEMA workers responding to wildfires ordered to say 'alien' instead of 'immigrant': "This is the most 1984 email I've ever seen," one worker said. 🔗 www.404media.co/for-immediat...

submitted 25 days ago • 35 comments

Anyone who happened to know that the White House would announce and then suspend tariffs within 24 hours just made a boatload of money.

submitted 28 days ago • 454 comments

Delighted to be joining the @wesjnl.bsky.social editorial board this month (for 4 yrs). A go-to journal for me-excited to connect with colleagues, contribute to projects & support fab work on digital work, (in)equality, migration, identity, care, methods etc., esp. of/frm majority world. Submit.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

The news of US administrative employees being led by Musk’s 19 year old lackeys - Bobba et al. to questioning reminds me of that severance scene…

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Working conditions in the tech sector are deteriorating. Leading tech firms like Google, once considered top employers, have laid off thousands of workers despite reporting profits. Can worker cooperatives offer an alternative for tech workers? platform.coop/blog/varieti... @cornellilr.bsky.social

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: In 2024, the share of US workers represented by a union declined slightly from 11.2% to 11.1%. But these statistics don’t capture the millions of workers who want to join unions. www.epi.org/publication/...

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Letter by alleged Twitter whistleblower: to be verified. But all of us with semblance of social media knew something like this was happening. 2024 was election disinfo year for the world. Too late in the US? What are legal avenues? Doesn't Germany go into elections 2025 - can this be taken up?

submitted 41 days ago • 5 comments

So. Vivek Ramaswamy got fired before the 'DOGE' job even started 😂 ? Claims he has other plans. So much for the honchos of government efficiency whose tenure was any way till just 2026. Heads will keep continue to roll in this unhinged cabinet, and we are here for it.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

There is always a semblance of liberation when the state says FU to its own people.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Elon trippin balls with an extra dose of Ketamine (his perscription drug) & american accent today. Ofc it was a belligerent salute that he prolly practiced alone in the bathroom several times while calling himself the MAN. Avg person be criniging - its the behaviour of Adolf himself.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

The so called progressive politicians also had little to contribute here. The ACLU seems right on this one: www.aclu.org/press-releas...

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

The Tiktok ruling raises other questions: what standing does 'foreign adversary'? Wasn't it Trump who put China on & Congress codified it (April 2024)? Can laws brought in on national security grounds be challenged at all (I'm sure there is precedence)? Does this change much (a la' Gorsuch) etc.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Good grief.

submitted 46 days ago • 11 comments

It’s a beautiful day with golden sunshine and #blueskies all the way. RIP David Lynch

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Well, you had 4 years and then decided to drop the cases.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Does anyone here know what this shorthand symbol means? It's like a cross between an X and some little scissors!

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Good thread recounting FB's recent issues. & there are many more within & beyond the US going back a decade. From collecting & sellig user data, builiding disinfo algorithmically to kowtowing authoritarian states etc. The broligarch Zuck is certainly not the one to pin your hopes for anything on.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Proper tragic this, but there is no better campaign that just stop oil or anyone else can muster up than #climatechange doing it’s own thing in Hollywood.

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Musk has incinerated the value of Twitter as a business or user experience. The reason why Zuckerberg is copying his lead is that the true value of these information systems is political.

submitted 56 days ago • 48 comments

Broligarchs seems like the most perfect name for these tech bros anntelnaes.substack.com/p/with-grati...

submitted 56 days ago • 3 comments

🚨Deadline Extended 🚨 to 10th of January for our session on "Technological Transformation in Global Services Value Chains" at the GCEG 2025 in Worcester, MA June 4-8th. Submit your abstracts. Share widely and email for queries/ collabs. Extended call here: gceg.org/index.php/ca...

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

Musk v MAGA: It's been hilarious 😅 seeing both sides butcher each other on X. So many ways to undrstnd the meltdowns but the fact that half-decent, moderate & insightful scholarly voices have either just left/ been muted on the platform has taken right-wing toxicity to new levels #H1B

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Daily background noise. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Trump’s new tech policy team and AI of course involves Elon Musk’s friend from India.

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

Even if #GenAI is more than #remix on steroids (as I have argued in a chapter for the "Routledge Companion to Remix Studies" 2nd ed.). The #GenAI lawsuits are definitely amped up remixes of those we saw two decades ago with sampling in #hiphop. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/ai-cop...

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

The Observer (and Guardian) on sale... Importat piece by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social to read and understand which powers are taking over the progressive bits of the media landscape in the UK/anglophone world.

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

Here’s a list of what I was reading about Generative AI in 2024 that didn’t make it into the Slop Infrastructures pieces. The rest have been sorted into categories with questions — covering AI’s anti-human streak, AI & imagination, environmental impacts, shared myths and more.

submitted 79 days ago • 6 comments

18-year old World Chess Champion! 🤯 2nd only from India after the great Vishy. What a player Gukesh. Absolute mentality monster. Heartbreak for Ding who bravely fought his own battles. Wonderful that this was decided in the very last classical game and not in the tie-break. #gukesh #wcc #chesssky

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments