@sebastiankoth.bsky.social
science & technoology & political economy researcher @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
"Civil society, as Gramsci understood, and as today’s liberals do not, is a terrain of struggle. It is not, and cannot be, an agent."
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Symbolgrafik mit Computerbildschirm und den Sprechblasen "Yes" und "No".
"5 Jahre nach dem DeFi Summer: Eine kritische Reflexion zu den Demokratieversprechen der Decentralized-Finance-Industrie"
Die Politikwissenschaftlerin Tara Merk setzt sich im Beitrag für unseren Blog vor allem mit DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations) auseinander.
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Check out our latest bulletin, which marks the official launch of our redesigned website (ecsa.io)
19.08.2025 15:42 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Finally managed to turn this into a real blog post: Whatever happened to the Bielefeld School of STS?
Where did Karin Knorr Cetina come from? Why did she go to Bielefeld of all places? And where did Bielefeld disappear to?
wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/whatever-h...
He was not as old as that image from the Wikipedia, but he was a young man either, and matters seemed to weigh on him. Not a frivilous person
This piece by him in 1982 from @bostonreview.bsky.social remains relevant
I’ve spent the last several weeks learning everything I can about what President Trump and his allies want from the new Fed chair. I put all that together in a cover story for Barron’s. It's not just rate cuts.
Tldr; Expect major disruption at the Fed. Staff cuts, model changes, polarization & more
Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
“The months since April 2 have clarified the multiple contradictory desires of the Trump administration vis-a-vis its position in the global economic hierarchy.”
@rajakorman.bsky.social on Trumponomics, dollar diplomacy, and multipolarity
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mon...
For the European Parliament, Eric Monnet, @edomartino.bsky.social and I wrote on USD stablecoins:
Will Donald Trump get rich selling his private $$$ coins to EU residents? Probably not, but stablecoins may still uproot the global monetary order.
www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/2964...
Machine-generated visuals are “mean” in every sense: malevolent, meager, mediated, miserly, minor. And this garbage isn’t just poisoning your brain. It’s priming you for a future of ever more extraction and surveillance.
11.06.2025 16:23 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
“Don’t be fooled. This is not really a crypto bill. The GENIUS Act has little to do with Bitcoin or Ethereum or memecoins. Instead, this is a very significant, and bad, banking reform law.”
openbanker.beehiiv.com/p/ittakesage...
Capital's factions clashes in the Trump2 era. "The ambitions of the new Silicon Valley elite is not only to incapacitate the federal bureaucracy, but also to dethrone Wall Street." with @benbraun.bsky.social
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...
Screen shot from STAT News: “Perhaps the greatest challenge to cosmopolitan bioethics today is the deliberate fracturing of our knowledge ecosystems along ideological lines,” said Alondra Nelson, who served as acting director of the Office of Science And Technology Policy under President Biden. “We face not just passive disinvestment from science, but active campaigns to discredit research that challenges particular economic interests or social hierarchies.” This is something of a fundamentally new challenge for those who study and advocate for bioethics, she continued, which for most of its history has mostly dealt in laws and regulations and norms and failed to adequately grapple with issues of power. In the U.S., the past 50 years have been characterized by a compact between universities and the government, which have driven economic and social development, described in the 1990s as “the triple helix model of innovation.” The problem, Nelson said, is that most people assumed that the actors in those ecosystems all shared equal power. That was never really the case, and the Trump administration’s wielding of the government’s power to cancel research grants, lay off thousands of federal health agency workers, and scrub mentions of diversity, equity, and inclusion from the scientific landscape now is making the case clear."
We face active campaigns to discredit research that challenges economic interests or social hierarchies.
For 50 years, the field of bioethics has focused on laws, regulations & norms but failed to adequately grapple with issues of power.
1. It's Fustilarian Friday and today's drop is the "Restoring Gold Standard Science" executive order.
My read is that this is designed to (1) protect far-fringe figures such as the antvaxxers now heading our health agencies, and (2) kneecap efforts to use scientific evidence in regulatory policy.
Eunice Mercado-Lara, Shannon Dosemagen, and Alison Parker argue, “Without a vision to broaden who can participate in federal procurement, the federal government will keep overpaying for outdated systems, stifle competition, and surrender leadership in critical fields like AI and healthcare.”
23.05.2025 13:09 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
[New paper] Infrastructural power: State strategies for internet control, By @juanof9.bsky.social
policyreview.info/articles/ana... #undersea #telecom
The new crypto is criming and state coercion, wrapped up into one.
www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-new-cr...
"Every day, more and more of the national income produced by legitimate work and businesses disappears into the maw of innumerable scams and grifts, from phishing emails to scam texts and calls to phone hacks to crypto rug pulls to MLMs." prospect.org/culture/book...
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“Our customers say the dishes we used to cook tasted much better than what the robots serve now,” said one worker at a South Korean roadside restaurant. “Even though the robots have lightened my workload, I’ve lost my sense of pride in our food.”
restofworld.org/2025/robot-c...
Fact 1 "The spectacular acceleration in global renewable investment is, in fact, a story about 1 country: China"
Fact 2 "The renewable share of new capacity additions in electricity generation worldwide is 90%" -Tooze
Why are these 2 facts not known broadly?
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
When DeepSeek released its latest AI model earlier this year, Silicon Valley panicked. Some claimed it was a product of the Chinese state—or the result of industrial espionage. But as @js-tan.bsky.social argues, the reality is far more complex.
21.05.2025 14:52 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Porträtfotos von Petra Gehring, Zentrum verantwortungsbewusste Digitalisierung / TU Darmstadt und Sebastian Gießmann, SFB "Meiden der Kooperation / Universität Siegen. Session auf der re:publica 2025, Montag, 26. Mai, 13.45 Uhr, Stage 3: Das neue Geld der europäischen Öffentlichkeit: Wie gestalten wir den digitalen Euro?
Wer gerade seine Anreise zur #rp25 plant:
Petra Gehring und @sebgiessmann.bsky.social sprechen dort am Montag um 13.45 Uhr über den digitalen Euro. Ihre Anliegen u.a.: mehr interessierter Austausch und zivilisierter Streit, mehr Vorstellungsvermögen und politischer Wille.
👉 zevedi.de/aktivitaeten...
Tiago C. Peixoto argues that “Generative AI won’t transform governments overnight. But with targeted use, adaptive governance, and practical realism, it can help deliver public services that are not only faster and more efficient but also fairer and more inclusive.”
21.05.2025 13:08 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 1
Für die Berlin Review habe ich mich mal ein bisschen mit der ökonomischen Theorie hinter dem Mar-a-Lago Accord beschäftigt. (EN)
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New paper out with International Studies Quarterly 🎉
Outsourcing Empire: International Monetary Power in the Age of Offshore Finance.
#openaccess #polsky #politicsofmoney
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Blitzscaling for tyrants www.programmablemutter.com/p/blitzscali...
12.05.2025 15:09 — 👍 25 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 2
I spoke with Science about scholars—myself included—self-censoring.
In my case, my team and I feared losing our NSF funding for Expert Voices Together (expertvoicestogether.org), a program, ironically, built to support researchers and journalists under attack.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Unsere Wissenschaftler:innen sind auch dieses Jahr auf der @re-publica.com #rp25 🤩 Ihre Themen reichen von #KI über #Contentmoderation, Kommunale Rechenzentren, #Desinformation, Big Tech bis hin zu Europas digitaler Zukunft.
Eine Übersicht gibt es hier: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/deta...
