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Political cartoon published in Mexican local newspaper "El Informador" in 1992. Titled "mieditis" or "fearitis," it portrays three ghosts running: Canadian unemployment, US unemployment, and Mexican unemployment. Mexican unemployment is the fastest, at the front, looking back at the other two and saying, "don't be scared!" The cartoon is drawn in black ink on a white background.

Political cartoon published in Mexican local newspaper "El Informador" in 1992. It shows a person's head labeled 'insecurity'. The head is cut open at the top to show what's inside: a bottle labeled 'alcohol,' a syringe labeled 'drugs,' a sack labeled 'corruption,' a TV screen labeled 'violence,' a gun labeled 'vagrancy.' There is a speech bubble pointing at the person: "God… what is God?" The cartoon is made in black ink on a white background.

Anyway, a couple of gifts for you, from my halfway-optimized process: a cartoon on fears of unemployment from NAFTA times, and one on the social perils of the 90s.

Researcher high: finding the right keyword a couple of hours in and watching the relevant results finally flow. AI couldn't even.

(That said, there *is* some computation enabling this. I thank the technologists and archivists that lined things up with good scans, OCR, databases, web interfaces.)

The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away.

A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.

Well, thanks to the Czech community farmer, the Chinese shopkeepers, and the Colombian butcher, I was able to serve my American family one of the best Mexican meals there are: cerdo en verdolagas, pork with salsa verde and purslane. The networks that have made this a great country

'cursed'

It’s not unrelated that Spotify’s CEO just raised hundreds of millions for an autonomous military drones company. The digital exploitation—> surveillance as solution to moral panic —> AI war profiteer pipeline is fairly direct.

Con, with Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

I feel very lucky to have gotten a chance to talk about “AI” with @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social — authors of The AI Con.

Enjoy the episode!

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We may have the chance to hire an outstanding researcher 3+ years post PhD to join Tarleton Gillespie, Mary Gray and me in Cambridge MA bringing critical sociotechnical perspectives to bear on new technologies.

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A veces me pregunto si el discurso sobre plantation weddings llegará/se reproducirá/resonará.

I genuinely looked forward to seeing him at the start of term socials and the KSJ fellows' talks, but I am glad that he followed his beloved wife Ruth, who also passed away this year.

Victor McElheny, founding director of MIT’s Knight Science Journalism Program, dies at 89 Victor K. McElheny, the celebrated journalist and author who founded MIT’s Knight Science Journalism Program more than 40 years ago and served for 15 years as its director, died on July 14 in Lexingto...

Victor McElheny, the visionary science journalist who founded MIT's Knight Science Journalism Program, has passed away at 89. In his final years, he was so insightful on COVID reporting through the lens of what he had learned reporting in the HIV/AIDS 90s. news.mit.edu/2025/victor-...

We're all thinking of those dying of hunger as we eat every meal, right? We all think of the life-saving power our snack would have. It's all my friends (from anywhere) talk about on Instagram.

am I crazy or is it just weird that Mexico's chamber of deputies is mourning the death of Ozzy Osbourne? 🤔

#OzzyOsbourne

The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble Hey! Before we go any further — if you want to support my work, please sign up for the premium version of Where’s Your Ed At, it’s a $7-a-month (or $70-a-year) paid product where every week you get a ...

Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs.
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Two kids wave their rainbow and trans flags at a crowd in Mexico City Pride.

Baby’s first CDMX Pride!!! Todos los derechos para todas las personas, all the rights for all the people. And especially this year, all the rights for all trans children.

In four days, nearly a third of Tuvalu applied to live in Australia The Pacific Island nation has rushed to apply to live in Australia under a landmark climate change visa.

Nearly one-third of Tuvalu residents apply for Australian climate change visa program www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

AI Killed My Job: Tech workers Tech workers at TikTok, Google, and across the industry share stories about how AI is changing, ruining, or replacing their jobs.

Omfg these stories. Read them all.

Fantastic reporting by @bcmerchant.bsky.social on how tech workers are right now, as we speak, having their jobs fucked up by management’s love of AI

Graphic for CDT Research report, entitled “Moderating Quechua Content on Social Media.” Illustration of Pachamama in purple, with green hair and golden earrings, with a digital texture in the background and small persons in the foreground.

How do content moderation systems treat Indigenous languages online? CDT’s research report from @thakurdhanaraj.bsky.social dives into how platforms moderate Quechua, a widely spoken but low-resource Indigenous language of South America—& reveals linguistic inequities. cdt.org/insights/mod...

100 years ago this week, the brothers Harry & Sam Warner struck a deal with Bell Labs to use their innovative Vitaphone technology in the production of the first sound films for Warner Brothers. It was a turning point in the history of film & media, & the inspiration for this week's blog series! 🗃️

Things I will miss from my academic stint when it's over: teaching, especially teaching technical students. Savoring every Experiential Ethics, or science and technology ethics for engineers at MIT, this summer 💗

Con Copia Oculta: La guerra que cuenta la SEDENA Abrimos bases de datos y expedientes secretos del Gobierno sobre seguridad, encontrados entre millones de correos filtrados.

🚨 La militarización avanza en México con la reciente aprobación la Ley de la #GuardiaNacional 🪖.

La Guardia Nacional se convierte en la cuarta #FuerzaArmada bajo el mando de la SEDENA, con nuevas facultades de inteligencia y espionaje.

Estos son algunos riesgos.
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This is the most exciting* paper I've read in a long time. Big congrats to Abeba and Ria!!!!!!!!!!

* For people studying #surveillance #computervision, not exciting as in what it tells us about the world 😅

Sigh.

That sound you hear is every columnist at The Atlantic screaming into a pillow

…chale Julie. also not wrong

Yeah when his chances to pass #reformafiscal faded

If Ramirez Cuellar had not lost to Rocio Banquells

A propuesta del gobierno, el Congreso está a punto de aprobar varias reformas que auténticamente construyen una infraestructura digital autoritaria en México.

Un sistema de vigilancia masiva sin precedentes del que nadie escapará.

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