@amateurgarde.bsky.social
Sociologist at Lucerne University. Researching libraries/librarians, valuation, amateurization, and resisting organizations (not necessarily connected, but π€·ββοΈ)
NECHE is proposing eliminating libraries from accreditation standards, making them optional in higher ed. Public commentary is open until 10/15. Learn more from EveryLibrary: docs.google.com/document/d/1..., make public comment to standardsreview@neche.org, & share this widely.
07.10.2025 04:30 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer setzt generative KI in das Konzept des verteilten Handelns und postuliert "Im Kern stellen Systeme generativer KI eine Art agentifiziertes menschliches Wissen und KΓΆnnen dar.
Zum Sessiontitel sagt er " #KI ist nicht Akteur ohne Mensch, sondern eher Mensch ohne Mensch."
#DGS2025
Heute um 14.15 alle so: "Model car, model wife, model village -
Model farm, model right, model village" #dgs2025
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17.09.2025 19:09 β π 2148 π 1304 π¬ 83 π 205
π’π CfP fΓΌr die gemeinsame Tagung der @gender4dgs.bsky.social und @theoriesektiondgs.bsky.social mit dem Titel βGeschlechter des Sozialen: Dialoge zu Verortungen und Perspektiven soziologischer Theorienβ
Wir freuen uns auf zahlreiche - multiparadigmatische - Einreichungen π¦
Still thinking on how media and politicians response evinces an absolute lack of ability to think through culture (with a superb example of precisely such analysis from @profc.bsky.social below) but also motivated reasoning to quickly accept one interpretation
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HOW TO SAVE WATER AT HOME Install a rain butt to collect rainwater to use in the garden. Fix a leaking toilet β leaky loos can waste 200-400 litres a day. Use water from the kitchen to water your plants. Avoid watering your lawn β brown grass will grow back healthy. Turn off the taps when brushing teeth or shaving. Take shorter showers. Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems.
In a new digital twist to environmental individualisation of responsibility, the UK government is now advising people to β[d]elete old emails and picturesβ in data centres to help with the current drought. www.gov.uk/government/n...
12.08.2025 15:34 β π 472 π 209 π¬ 78 π 172
An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed
24.07.2025 17:46 β π 7006 π 1922 π¬ 73 π 110Let's talk about the real climate killer: libraries! Good thing is, they'll all be gone soon to make space for more data centers. Problem solved!
15.06.2025 07:04 β π 151 π 34 π¬ 16 π 2I spent ten years attacking universities as illiberal and overly woke. Now that the Trump administration is using my rhetoric to destroy American science and higher education, I am horrified but not horrified enough to apologize.
27.05.2025 02:39 β π 3949 π 639 π¬ 38 π 21what's more: the effortless bullshitting of caringly engaged colleagues for 30 minutes straight
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This is the academic "when they go low, we go high" moment. You can do this the ethical way, but it is comparatively resource intensive. Let's not mimic the techbro spiel of "what's a little disenfranchisement for your improved user experience".
29.04.2025 06:35 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
What DOGE doesnβt understand about bureaucrats: they are the government employees that stand between the public and amateurish errors, favoritism and selfishness buff.ly/OdUThWT Michel Anteby @bostonu.bsky.social
29.04.2025 03:05 β π 91 π 27 π¬ 5 π 1
AI & SOCIETY Why machine learning in the wild is a rare species Curmudgeon Corner Published: 10 April 2025
"However, telling managers that they are dealing with a predictive technology that outputs probabilities, leading to many invisible failures, will not yield any consulting gigs. Watching the AI magic vanish tends to kill the mood in boardrooms." link.springer.com/article/10.1...
29.04.2025 03:11 β π 26 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0
Caption from NYT reading "Ron Hubbard, the chief executive of Atlas Survival Shelters, runs one of many companies that designs and builds bunkers for wealthy clients. His business is booming"
Or, history of Men is just sequences of Ron Hubbards pushing creepy gear until the end of time
26.04.2025 19:47 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Wait, is Role Theory back?
24.04.2025 03:39 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Forthcoming in European Societies and already at OSF Preprints: @beckerbastian.bsky.social and @norawaitkus.bsky.social's "Undeserving Heirs: How the Origins of Wealth Shape Attitudes Towards Redistribution"
Link: osf.io/preprints/os...
slightly embarrassing that non-academic longform podcasts can do without, innit
17.04.2025 04:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Very pleased to announce that The Bailout State is now available everywhere. Get a copy and find out why governments rescue banks, not people!
11.01.2025 12:11 β π 120 π 43 π¬ 7 π 4
As we write, DOGE is reportedly inside the gates of the IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services), where Keith Sonderling, Deputy Secretary of Labor and βsomehow now Acting Directorβ of IMLS is dismantling the agency that helps libraries be libraries. /1
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I am very excited to see "Market Design as Organizational Problem" out at AJS: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1.... How do we explain systemic levels of destructive behavior in platform markets (system failures)? I suggest that we should focus on the organization that
19.03.2025 09:38 β π 13 π 5 π¬ 2 π 1SUCH a great idea - bsky posts about academic papers from accounts you follow. LOVE THIS π§ͺβοΈ
11.03.2025 21:32 β π 47 π 18 π¬ 2 π 1
π‘ Generative KI in der Wissenschaft: Chance oder Risiko? Wo sollte KI eingesetzt werden β und wo nicht? Welche Auswirkungen hat das auf das Wissenschaftssystem insgesamt? Diese Fragen diskutieren wir im #weizenbaumforum
π Jetzt anmelden und mitdiskutieren: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/veranstaltun...
Google map screenshot indicating "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)"
In Europe, a dash of contingency still allowed
11.02.2025 16:00 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The historicality of individuals
05.02.2025 16:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Call for Papers: Call for Papers: Plenarveranstaltungen auf dem DGS-Kongress 2025 in Duisburg https://kongress2025.soziologie.de/calls-for-papers/plenen
24.01.2025 15:26 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Application deadline: April 15, 2025
The MPIfG is seeking a research group leader (tenure track) with a focus on the socioeconomic and political impacts of technological change to set up a new research group at the intersection of #economy, #society, and #technology.
π’Please share widely!
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βWhen amateur radio enthusiasts die, their media collections are often disposed of by survivors who donβt have any connection to amateur radio. File cabinets and bookcases full of (sometimes irreplaceable) materials are emptied into recycle bins.β Kay Savetz Radio & communications curator
π» Amateur radio shaped modern tech, from satellites to the internet. Yet, much of its history is at risk of being lost forever. π³οΈ #VanishingCulture
Why does this matter? β‘οΈ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/14/vanishing-culture-digital-library-of-amateur-radio-and-communications/
