Julien Migozzi

OpenAI Closes Historic $110B Funding Round Led by Tech Giants OpenAI secures record $110B from Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank in largest private tech financing ever

If the climate were a chatbox, it would already be saved.
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🧵on my new paper "Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems" w Roberto Cerina I'm v excited about...

🚨 Do synthetic samples look like human samples?

We compare 28 LLMs to the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) to find out + develop host of diagnostics...

This 2026 India AI summit gives me 2015 Paris COP21 vibes. Lots of declarations, intentions, ethics, principles, joyful fireside chats, and congratulations. Last year, one person died every minute from rising heat.

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

The Golden Age.

In the course "Digital Capitalism" that I am teaching this term, next Monday session is on "AI". I feel completely overwhelmed by the amount of literature. What should I prioritise for a two-hour class? What should be the key messages? Good thing is, ChatGPT will handle it for me. Love it.

The cover of our book entitled PEAK PHARMA: TOWARD A NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HEALTH.

In the 1980s, a monster was assembled in the pharmaceutical world that pitted patients' interests against those of pharmaceutical investors: the neoliberal pharma model. In PEAK PHARMA w/ @susigeiger.bsky.social, out today @academic.oup.com, we show that this monster is entering a crucial phase...

A necessary analysis of polycrisis and its consequences must account for the industries, technologies, and policies that govern risks-and, crucially, how they engage in socio-technical processes of defining, predicting, and valuing risks. By synthesising the following objectives into a cohesive research program, this Future Fellowship aims to create essential empirical knowledge about urgent problems of insurability, which will inform new policy solutions and critical theories, all for the purpose of understanding and tackling the complex polycrisis at the nexus of insurance markets, risk technologies, and climate governance regimes. • Objective 1: Examine the design and construction of climate risk models by insurance industry and risk analytics firms to identify the assumptions, trade-offs, values, and goals built into these systems. • Objective 2: Engage directly with governments and communities at the frontlines of risk vulnerability to understand how abstract computational models and simulations connect to lived experiences and ground truth. • Objective 3: Develop new policies and frameworks for climate risk justice, which are informed by original empirical work and contribute to greater equity and security in risk governance. • Objective 4: Generate critical theoretical contributions that guide analytical and applied work about the techno-politics of risk governance in an age of global polycrisis. This fellowship advances our understanding of climate risk governance across three Workstreams. Workstream 1 will conduct ethnography at insurance industry conferences and with companies building climate risk models. Workstream 2 will engage in research with governments and communities who are managing the risks and realities of uninsurability from natural disasters. Workstream 3 will collaborate with a climate policy think tank to develop innovative policies grounded in original empirical research and conceptual analysis-that advance climate justice.

Call for PhD Student!

I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.

Back in the day people used to have a slide at the end of their presentations saying "and that's how the brain works" as an inside joke about Hinton since he was known to talk confidently out of his ass.

Now, the Nobel committee brought this upon us like they give the peace prize to genociders.

Lecture du samedi.

Extract: Another book on tech, AI, algorithms, and inequalities? Thou shalt be deceived. This is not to say that other works on similar topics neglect theory, but what is at stake for Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy is not merely an analysis of the inner workings of digital capitalism. Rather, their pro-ject is to document and theorize the social form it engenders. To that end, they engage in deep dia-logue with social theory, extending and elevating their previous scholarship to illuminate howcapitalism, social stratification, and political life are being reshaped by the ‘changing relationship between information technology and power’ (2024, 3) (3), through which ‘classes of people, scores,and prices became closely connected’ (271). The argument unfolds as follows: digital technologiesengineered in California entered our daily lives through the binding logic of a gift to never leave usagain (chapter 1), feeding a large-scale, networked system of ongoing data collection, throughwhich anyone and anything can be measured, ranked and classified (chapter 2). This technological transformation is profoundly social and political, updating existing inequalities and justifying new ones (chapter 3), bringing market structures and outcomes into financialized, individualistic andmonopolistic grounds (chapters 4 and 5), and shifting the political arena: reformatting identities,digital capitalism dismantles and re-assembles the meaning and scope of citizenship at the expenseof public institutions (chapters 6 and 7).

From the subprime to the premium, from California to fascism? - @jmigozzi.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Fresh news from the French democracy.

Demon Copperhead de Kingsolver et James de Percival Everett sont deux chefs d'oeuvre, je recommande !

This is true.
And if you are interested in asset inequalities, class formation, and digital technologies, you might like it too.

Après 10h de vol, 1h de taxi, 1h de métro, 1 Eurostar, forcément - forcément - c'était la SNCF (que j'aime tant) le maillon faible pour ce retour en Europe. Train arrêté, aucune solution, aucun ravitaillement, aucune communication, je dis OUI!

Maida Vale is, indeed, a terrifying place.

Le niveau de prélèvements obligatoires agrégé n'est pas un paramètre pertinent de la politique publique.
Vous pouvez penser que c'est trop ou pas assez en f° de vos préférences , mais rien ne permet de dire que c'est intrinsèquement trop haut (ou bas), juste par comparaison avec d'autre pays.

I gave up that idea 25 years ago when my English teacher explained to us that "public schools" were private.

Datashare redesign makes research tool more powerful, more accessible for all - ICIJ Datashare, the document research platform behind the Pandora Papers and other groundbreaking global investigations, has been relaunched with a new streamlined design.

For the past decade, ICIJ’s Datashare has been the gateway for hundreds of reporters exploring the 100M+ leaked files at the heart of investigations like the #PanamaPapers.

Now, after 10 years of improvements, the platform has received a major upgrade:

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Learning between humans is such a beautiful thing. To deprive ourselves from that is immensely sad.

Insurers Charge Low Credit Homeowners Twice As Much for the Same Policy In many cases, a low credit score is more expensive than high disaster risk

New research from @cplusc.bsky.social & @consumerfed.bsky.social shows that average across the US it is MORE EXPENSIVE to have a poor credit score than to live in a zip code with a high disaster risk:
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"The format is flexible".

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Ruled by Numbers: How Data Dominates Every Facet of Our Daily Lives A piercing sound awakens you: the alarm on your phone. Through squinted eyes you peer in its direction and discern a blinking 7:00 AM. This number denotes the beginning of your day—a day in which y…

Chatbots “aren’t just friendly personal assistants; they’re data harvesting machines that give their developers an even more intimate algorithmic window into your thoughts and desires.”
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A few moments of absolute brilliance from Aussie players - also SA looks different when the ref pays more attention to rucks... Trauma speaking here

Biggest loss since 2018??

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Reading list from the talk! I.e., the references slide

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