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Edinburgh/bangalore! Here’s my book on startup capitalism and feminist future making: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/experimental-times/paper
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This June, Edinburgh is hosting a QUEER DATA SHOWCASE! 📊 We’re inviting artists, academics, activists and anyone who works with – or is interested in – queer data to share their ideas. 📢 The Call for Presenters is live! www.ai-ethics.org/queer-data-s... #data #AI #tech #LGBTQ #queer #edinburgh

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This is bleak but scholars have been screaming for YEARS that data has environmental consequences @melhogan.bsky.social, @lifewinning.com, myself, @tamigraph.bsky.social; that data is mostly about LAND @dmgreene.bsky.social; and energy & computing are 🤞@apasek.bsky.social apnews.com/article/bide...

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The tech bro fascination with eugenics is so on brand. The idea that you could make accurate, actionable predictions from individual genotypes (with all their complex, non-linear interactions) from averaged, linearly modeled population-level genomic statistics is just another big data fantasy

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Our book (out in May) now has a cover! tinyurl.com/technocreep

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Carrie Lane edits a lovely column on @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social called Jobs We Had on all the unexpected jobs anthropologists had before they were full time anthropologists. Here’s the latest, Sebastian Jackson on being a white water river guide: saw.americananthro.org/pub/7zrro0at...

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Two year postdoc in critical caste studies at the university of Chicago! apply.interfolio.com/157701

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My book is here ❤️: Experimental Times is an in-depth ethnography of the transformation of Bengaluru/Bangalore from a site of "backend" IT work to an aspirational global city of enterprise and innovation, tracking techno-futures of automation & impending precarity: www.ucpress.edu/books/experi...

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@goodwilllibrarian.bsky.social

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Joining Bluesky fresh from this NWSA conference treat— a witch in and Trumpkin smashin’

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