Julien Migozzi

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:
climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/insurers-c...

"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.”
lithub.com/ruled-by-num...

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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It’s come to my attention that this has come to Dan’s attention. Please proceed accordingly.

some workshop materials on spatial interaction models with spatial dependence, if you're into that

knaaptime.com/workshop-ner...

(commuting is a kind of small-scale migration)

Mais nous sommes bien d’accord madame la ministre. Il serait temps d’ailleurs.

Call for papers, 4th UK Workshop on Digital Economics, London 28 November 2025: competitionpolicy.ac.uk/events/4th-w... This is always a great event

Can't wait to not think ever again, and teach students to do the same.

I remember high school classes, where I was fed narratives of France's leading role in promoting enlightenment, freedom, and dignity around the world. What do we do now? A shining ceremony for the Olympic Games? That's it?

France and the EU must send humanitarian boats and planes to Gaza immediately. Stop discussing on rhetorical grounds. Start shipping and dropping supplies now. End the blockade by air and sea.

@aldasky.bsky.social

This is a great paper!