Janet Vertesi

This month we #ChuckZuck from our devices and our lives! Choose a Zuckerverse product and delete it. Reclaim your data. Reclaim your life. Instructions and more here -- follow along! Let's do this TOGETHER!

Apple Watch sensors are so good, it could provide the first pregnancy indicators Apple's latest research shows that using a combination of Apple Watch sensors and all Apple Health data, results in a remarkably accurate pregnancy detector.

Your Data Will Be Used Against You. appleinsider.com/articles/25/...

Towards a Socioeconomics of Hype: Hype Dynamics and Symbolic Boundary Work Within the Speculative AI Bubble - Jason Bohner, Janet Vertesi, 2025 Drawing on interviews with 37 entrepreneurs, engineers, technologists and investors in the New York City tech scene involved in AI, we investigate the social fo...

#NewPaper alert! How different AI company "scenes" do boundary work to encourage or discourage investment. TL;DR: It's not all one type of #AI #Hype , and that matters for the tech, the money, regional geopolitics, and sociotechnical imaginaries. With student Jason Bohner:
doi.org/10.1177/0894...

The opt-out project is all the work of @cyberlyra.bsky.social - well worth a follow!

Once I understood that I had stopped using the tech products and and *become* the product, it changed everything.

Invigorating the American Space Sector Requires Working With NASA, Not Against It | TechPolicy.Press When programs are cut to the bone, America loses much more than it gains, writes Janet Vertesi.

On news that ~2,145 senior-ranking NASA staff are set to leave under a Trump administration effort, resurfacing this from Janet Vertesi (@cyberlyra.bsky.social). It is possible to lose entire swaths of technical or scientific prowess—if you dismantle the teams and institutions responsible for them.

I found myself referring the other day to some passage in Herodotus I read in Greek as an undergrad too... #noslouch

FYI #Google has enabled #Gemini (AI) on #Android by default to save and process everything you say and do for up to 72 hours. Here's how to disable -- then install GrapheneOS or eOS, cos fiddling with Google "privacy settings" is full-on deck chairs on the Titanic.
support.google.com/gemini?p=pau...

On July fourth declare your independence from Social Media. Reclaim control dot tech, hashtag stop the scroll, hashtag fourth of july

You escaped the Bird Site and found community here. Who else will you help find their freedom?

#stopthescroll #reclaimtech #optout
www.reclaimcontrol.tech/stopthescrol...

On July fourth, declare your independence from echo chambers. Reclaimcontrol dot tech, hashtag stop the scroll, hashtag fourth of july.

You once helped your mom get on Facebook. Maybe now is a good time to help her get off? ;)

#stopthescroll #reclaimtech #july4th

Thanks, Rebekah! I'm so happy to hear this!!

tough crowd, i see...

On July 4th, declare your independence from BIG TECH

It's not about abstinence, it's about INDEPENDENCE!
This #4thofJuly, #stopthescroll to reclaim control over our devices, data, and digital future. Cut out social media. Resist the endless scroll. Invest in alternatives.
Boost and repost so we can #reclaimtech !
reclaimcontrol.tech/stopthescroll

On the Fourth of July, we #stopthescroll! Join us in a movement to resist the endless feed, the mindless habits, and choose alternatives that feed our minds and communities instead of feeding off of them. It's time to #reclaimtech !

Delighted to announce my newest project, a non-profit in community with really terrific people, to help more people disentangle ourselves from Big Tech. We'll work step by step, together, to #reclaimcontrol over our tech stack and help each other make better choices.

www.reclaimcontrol.tech

@astrokatie.com is right, you should just click on this link to Rubin images. But maybe do it on a computer with a large screen because there’s a lot of amazing to take in. 🧪

The MAVEN mission satellite is still working and still doing science--and also acting as a surface relay node. In space, you work with trusted hardware as long as possible. Don't turn off our actual, functioning interplanetary internet because some dude promises to build you a better one eventually.

Submit something, @stephjordan.bsky.social !!!

OPPOSITION TO AI workshop at #cscw2025 with @saysvera.bsky.social @richmondywong.bsky.social and more... ‬ Position papers due by July 1, details and CFP at oppositiontoai.wordpress.com

The resistance is growing --JOIN US!

Yes and reality TV. But really I think a lot of this culturally is visible in JJ Abrams' ham-fisted writing of the Lost series and its miserable conclusion. Reality-esque, heightened drama and stakes, embedded Easter eggs, many McGuffins, plot twists galore -- and nothing comes together at the end.

This is SO GREAT! I'm delighted to hear it!!! Congratulations on your newfound skills :D May they bring you much joy and internet privacy!

#til that every academic (but me) a) uses Google Scholar b) links their publications to their account and c) cares about h-indexes and other metrics on their Google Scholar page. I've resisted Google products since 2012. If I've been sinking my own career, at least I did it on principle. #fuckgoogle

So happy to see this paper on the organization of labor in the Gig Economy with Diana Enriquez published! We argue gig orgs are heterarchies, combining flat org zero management with industrial algorithmic oversight, making sense of the paradoxes of gig work.

sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...

Thanks for letting me know about this. I'll look into it and report back....

AND it includes a robotic wastebin -- amazing.

Oh my goodness I am crying right now, so much love to you BOTH!!!

Also Wendy, CHI Academy??? AWESOME!!

Congratulations to my old high school classmate, Wade Grant, on winning the seat in Vancouver Quadra!! He will be a great MP for our Liberal riding and a strong voice for indigenous representation in parliament. Together with our First Nations #Canada is stronger and can face this threat.

Happy birthday Mr Sulu!

Some academics are on Green Cards or visas. Others study vulnerable populations who are truly at risk. Others have experience in authoritarian regimes. It is not for anyone in a position of privilege to say who should or should not shy away from publishing on a topic when the political winds shift.

It's much easier to use apps that support end-to-end encryption than it used to be, but it's still good to know how it works.

Hey good thing AI is going to make all of this soooo much easier and our code will be bug-free and no one will remember how to debug it anyway so -- yay!