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A Subway banner ad that reads “I’ll ride the subway with you.” Friend.com You’re paying for company to surveil you!!!

Another banner ad on the subway that reads “I’ll never leave dirty dishes in the sink.” Friend.com. Of course you won’t! You’re not a person nor are you my friend.

I’m on the subway and these ads are as creepy and off putting as the product itself.

Of course, so many works have already offered this argument

Mediation dies and revives and is seemingly trapped in such impasse, precisely because we all long for the immediacy of that gratification

At Least 15 Million YouTube Videos Have Been Snatched by AI Companies Creators have unknowingly fueled tools that may eventually make their work obsolete.

Tech companies have snatched millions of YouTube videos to train their AI models. Search The Atlantic’s new AI Watchdog tool to see if yours have been used:

Post-Zoom self care: reading Barad

Author Meets Critics: Dr. Susan Erikson's Book Launch Dr. Susan Erikson, SFU Distinguished Professor, launches her book 'Investable! When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance'

📆 Event Alert: Join in for an electric conversation with Dr. Susan Erikson, an SFU Distinguished Professor, who studies highly complex political economies that shape human health.
Link - investable.eventbrite.ca

#BookLaunch #Investable #SFUVancouver
@sfucmns.bsky.social

Open box of books with two out showing front and back covers propped up on the balcony railing of my Minneapolis condo. Trees and sunshine are in the background. The book's full title is JUST CODE: Power, Inequality, & the Global Political Economy of IT, and it is in bold black lettering with pastel fading trails of the letters.

Copies of JUST CODE just arrived! Partnering w Con & teaming w 19 brilliant STS authors on the vital topic of code/codes & inequality was so special! Authors (full list ToC below) On bsky: @mysdick.bsky.social @histoftech.bsky.social @dmulvin.bsky.social & blurb from @anitachan.bsky.social #histtech

Making Plagues Investable The World Bank’s pandemic bonds tried to turn public health crises into speculative opportunities.

"A compelling case for treating this misguided financial product as a cultural artifact — one that reflects the values, assumptions, and contradictions of a particular global order."

@jacobinmag.bsky.social reviews Susan Erikson's "Investable!: When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance":

Let history note: what's happening on the streets of LA is an extension of DOGE. Musk's guys illegally consolidated data from across government and cut a corrupt contract with Palantir to build an immigrant-hunting computer system. Presumably in use now.

Fatal

This is sending me

Been looking for this for soooo long 😭🥹

Making your paper logical is like riding a roller coaster and doing slow flow yoga at the same time... I died 🥲

I was there too. Finally in nature

Our uni is crazy…

So we returned everything and ordered new ones. Somehow they were sent from the states and stuck there seemingly forever

columbia, brown, georgetown, cornell and now tufts — they’re taking our students, our colleagues, our kin
https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/international-student-tufts-university-reportedly-taken-into-federal-custody/2VK55QMAOZFIDBR2A6XNKC5XOU/?outputType=amp

Sometimes it reads like a RPS fanfic even though it's technically not

Suddenly I need to learn this, or, maybe I should cancel the whole trip at all

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realized all our online purchases for the badminton team were just 12 shuttlecocks and 4 racket covers. WHAT. life is too short to double check the shopping cart

We’re hiring!

Calling for applications for one full-time continuing teaching faculty appointment at the rank of Lecturer. Apply by April 30th to start in July 2025.

More details: www.sfu.ca/content/dam/...

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Have to admit that my handwriting recognition skills in English are really bad (not that in Chinese any better), which doubles the pain of diving into a sea of handwritten notebook entries

fatal that Weidel likes to stress a lot that she’s an economist or economic and all the calculations are not hard to conduct etc etc

the white house deportation asmr is probably the most bizzare and cruel media piece I've seen recently. you can't make this up can't you

Left on the whiteboard by the previous group in our booked writing room - a world where education is being frantically fed with dreams of AI expansion

Fire. All. Headline. Editors.

We don't exist, and yet it is still necessary to denounce us. What a world.