Désirée Waibel

„We live in an ordinal society, a society oriented toward, justified by, and governed through measurement“, argumentieren @marionf.bsky.social und @kjhealy.co. Désirée Waibel @amateurgarde.bsky.social und @thorstenpeetz.bsky.social haben das Buch rezensiert:

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Getting off US tech: a guide I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.

For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

CfP Plenarveranstaltung "Die gesellschaftlichen Zukünfte der Künstlichen Intelligenz" auf dem @dgsoziologie.bsky.social Kongress 2026 in Mainz.

Jury: @fanicker.bsky.social und @annekkrueger.bsky.social

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Deadline: 31.03.2026

Die drei neuen Suhrkamp-Theater-Basecaps, die ab morgen lieferbar sind.

Damit die Suche nach dem perfekten Weihnachtsgeschenk nicht zur Tragödie wird, beraten wir morgen alle, die noch das perfekte Buchgeschenk suchen. Wen wollt Ihr beschenken? Je genauer Eure Umschreibung, desto passender sind unsere Tipps für Bücher und Caps.

Eine soziologische Gegenwartsdiagnose, die sich an Gesellschaft erfreut, ohne utopistisch zu sein.

Promotional graphic for Philipp Brandt's Inside Data Science: Hackers and the Making of a New Profession. It includes the books cover, a blurb, and a 20% discount with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu.

Now available! INSIDE DATA SCIENCE shows how the interplay of personal reflection, technical rigor, and collective scrutiny gave the big-data era, for better or for worse, a human face. buff.ly/YZtcxic #DataScience #BigData #Tech #DataForGood #RSTATS #NYC #Sociology #Discovery #Innovation

Für die theoretisch Versierten unter euch: Die Ausschreibung für die Professur für allgemeine Soziologie an unserem Institut ist raus. adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...

1 Assistant Professor in Sociology, LSE:

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do we (sociologists and historians) know - its from the late 18th, early 19th century on that 'home' became the seemingly natural space for a seemingly natural disposition of women
fascinating new study

At the Risk of Disappearing: How the Draft 2026 NECHE Standards Remove Libraries and Librarians from Accreditation - 6 Oct 2025 Executive Summary For decades, the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE) has shaped institutional priorities across governance, academic quality, student success, and resource allocation...

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.

Ingo 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 Können 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

📢📆 CfP für die gemeinsame Tagung der @gender4dgs.bsky.social und @theoriesektiondgs.bsky.social mit dem Titel „Geschlechter des Sozialen: Dialoge zu Verortungen und Perspektiven soziologischer Theorien“

Wir freuen uns auf zahlreiche - multiparadigmatische - Einreichungen 🦚

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 – leaky loos can waste 200-400 litres a day. Use water from the kitchen to water your plants. Avoid watering your lawn – 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 “[d]elete old emails and pictures” in data centres to help with the current drought. www.gov.uk/government/n...

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

Let'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!

I 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.

what'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".

Bureaucrats get a bad rap, but they deserve more credit − a sociologist of work explains why More than a century of evidence suggests that bureaucrats, at their best, stand for expertise, fairness and public service.

What DOGE doesn’t 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

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...

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

Wait, is Role Theory back?