Liz McFall
@allartmarkets.bsky.social
Professor in the Sociology of Markets, University of Edinburgh @uoe-sps.bsky.social | sentimental pragmatist following insurance, markets, architecture, cities | EiC @jcultecon.bsky.social
https://efi.ed.ac.uk/ecosystem/data-civics/
https://efi.ed.ac.uk/ecosystem/data-civics/
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Time to post this banger again
January 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Time to post this banger again
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‘Google’s crawlers kept failing, making it hard or even impossible to update its most crucial data structure, the web index. The solution the company came up with changed computing for ever.’
Donald MacKenzie on how Google changed the web, and the web changed Google.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie on how Google changed the web, and the web changed Google.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie · The Future of Search: Will we still google it?
I’m starting to feel some pre-emptive nostalgia when I do a Google search. Yes, it’s true, search can sometimes take...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:35 AM
‘Google’s crawlers kept failing, making it hard or even impossible to update its most crucial data structure, the web index. The solution the company came up with changed computing for ever.’
Donald MacKenzie on how Google changed the web, and the web changed Google.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie on how Google changed the web, and the web changed Google.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Now available to pre-subscribe in fervent anticipation.
we weren't joking www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Now available to pre-subscribe in fervent anticipation.
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Or, if you prefer, 26 large employers in a range of places - some of them without other large employers - could not be here this time next year leaving their employees and students (numbering 10s of thousands, btw), out of work or with course half complete.
“exiting the market”
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Or, if you prefer, 26 large employers in a range of places - some of them without other large employers - could not be here this time next year leaving their employees and students (numbering 10s of thousands, btw), out of work or with course half complete.
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NEW: Moral frameworks of commercial surrogacy in Georgia - Ketevan Gurchiani www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Moral frameworks of commercial surrogacy in Georgia
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Tbilisi, Georgia, this article explores moral code-switching in the Georgian surrogacy industry, showing how surrogate mothers and intended parents switch betwe...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
NEW: Moral frameworks of commercial surrogacy in Georgia - Ketevan Gurchiani www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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New! (Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry @arturoarriagada.bsky.social & @mvaldeb.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
(Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry
This article examines how influencer marketing companies and their algorithmic tools define and measure ‘influence' in Latin America. Drawing on Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot's ‘orders of wort...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
New! (Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry @arturoarriagada.bsky.social & @mvaldeb.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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NEW: The legal dematerialization of enchantment: prizes, brands and the magical economics of something-for-nothing - Anat Rosenberg www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The legal dematerialization of enchantment: prizes, brands and the magical economics of something-for-nothing
This article brings together cultural studies and legal history to address a particular mode of historical enchantment, namely, the economic magic of something-for-nothing. Considered within the ea...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:21 PM
NEW: The legal dematerialization of enchantment: prizes, brands and the magical economics of something-for-nothing - Anat Rosenberg www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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NEW: Articulating value(s): problematizing financial moralities in impact investments - Claudia Campisano www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Articulating value(s): problematizing financial moralities in impact investments
This article examines economic moralities at play in financial capitalism by investigating the interplay of ‘value’ – in the form of capital earmarked as ‘impact’ investment – and ‘values’, that is...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
NEW: Articulating value(s): problematizing financial moralities in impact investments - Claudia Campisano www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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NEW: Economic myth-making in twentieth-century Belgium - @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Economic myth-making in twentieth-century Belgium
This article takes enchantment as a category of analysis to histories of national economies. Taking the economic history of twentieth-century Belgium as a case study, it argues that attention for e...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
NEW: Economic myth-making in twentieth-century Belgium - @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The BBC is accountable to its viewers & listeners not foreign electoral autocracies. Everyone should a complaint, otherwise nothing will happen. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
November 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The BBC is accountable to its viewers & listeners not foreign electoral autocracies. Everyone should a complaint, otherwise nothing will happen. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
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I've complained. As Bluesky won't show the post Huw is himself quote-posting (unless you click through), it is the editing of @rutgerbregman.com's Reith Lectures to remove his analysis of Donald Trump's corruption.
Please complain. I get the context, but it is so important that we resist this.
Please complain. I get the context, but it is so important that we resist this.
The BBC is accountable to its viewers & listeners not foreign electoral autocracies. Everyone should a complaint, otherwise nothing will happen. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I've complained. As Bluesky won't show the post Huw is himself quote-posting (unless you click through), it is the editing of @rutgerbregman.com's Reith Lectures to remove his analysis of Donald Trump's corruption.
Please complain. I get the context, but it is so important that we resist this.
Please complain. I get the context, but it is so important that we resist this.
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we weren't joking www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...
November 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
we weren't joking www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...
still naming your naval patrol ships WBYeats, James Joyce and George Bernard Shaw is bold [very Mac unfraidhy] on.ft.com/4oUYBKp
November 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
still naming your naval patrol ships WBYeats, James Joyce and George Bernard Shaw is bold [very Mac unfraidhy] on.ft.com/4oUYBKp
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Dean Baker on Larry Summers stepping down from public life following the release of his cringeworthy emails to Jeffrey Epstein:
"It would have been better if his removal from public life had been caused by his more than three decades of wrongheaded policy advice." @deanbaker13.bsky.social
"It would have been better if his removal from public life had been caused by his more than three decades of wrongheaded policy advice." @deanbaker13.bsky.social
Is This Finally and Blessedly the End of the Larry Summers Era?
The guy has dispensed bad economic advice for 35 years and had more lives than a cat. Are the Epstein revelations finally the end of the line?
newrepublic.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Dean Baker on Larry Summers stepping down from public life following the release of his cringeworthy emails to Jeffrey Epstein:
"It would have been better if his removal from public life had been caused by his more than three decades of wrongheaded policy advice." @deanbaker13.bsky.social
"It would have been better if his removal from public life had been caused by his more than three decades of wrongheaded policy advice." @deanbaker13.bsky.social
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Hi Alex, thanks for raising this; it’s difficult to say that the uni is ‘facing financial trouble’ because the details and provenance of alleged trouble are being withheld by management. We need much more transparent accounting, given the public implications of 1800 job losses.
November 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Hi Alex, thanks for raising this; it’s difficult to say that the uni is ‘facing financial trouble’ because the details and provenance of alleged trouble are being withheld by management. We need much more transparent accounting, given the public implications of 1800 job losses.
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Edinburgh University is facing financial trouble, and the UCU said as many as 1,800 jobs could be at risk.
Our universities are built on the hard work of their staff, and we lose them at our peril.
That's why I raised this issue with the Minister for Higher Education today.
Our universities are built on the hard work of their staff, and we lose them at our peril.
That's why I raised this issue with the Minister for Higher Education today.
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Edinburgh University is facing financial trouble, and the UCU said as many as 1,800 jobs could be at risk.
Our universities are built on the hard work of their staff, and we lose them at our peril.
That's why I raised this issue with the Minister for Higher Education today.
Our universities are built on the hard work of their staff, and we lose them at our peril.
That's why I raised this issue with the Minister for Higher Education today.
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Staff is currently striking here at the University of Edinburgh. Senior management is planning widespread compulsory redundancies (without a real need for the same). You can read more here @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/rd72kte...
A message to our students about the upcoming strike, 17-19 November 2025 — UCU Edinburgh
Dear students, UCU Edinburgh will again be going on strike Monday 17th, Tuesday 18th and Wednesday 19th November as a result of University management’s refusal to commit to no compulsory redundancie...
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Staff is currently striking here at the University of Edinburgh. Senior management is planning widespread compulsory redundancies (without a real need for the same). You can read more here @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/rd72kte...
black dog for black dog
November 18, 2025 at 9:17 AM
black dog for black dog
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dawg not the steakhouse wedding font
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
dawg not the steakhouse wedding font
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wow it's the first time since don't remember when to feel a sliver of hope
November 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM
wow it's the first time since don't remember when to feel a sliver of hope
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🏛️ The Land Reform Bill is being debated in Parliament right now.
Scotland’s land is hoarded - 50% of it owned by less than 1% of people. One of the worst statistics in Europe.
My amendment sets a 500-hectare ceiling, giving ministers power to stop land sales to those who already own vast estates.
Scotland’s land is hoarded - 50% of it owned by less than 1% of people. One of the worst statistics in Europe.
My amendment sets a 500-hectare ceiling, giving ministers power to stop land sales to those who already own vast estates.
November 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
🏛️ The Land Reform Bill is being debated in Parliament right now.
Scotland’s land is hoarded - 50% of it owned by less than 1% of people. One of the worst statistics in Europe.
My amendment sets a 500-hectare ceiling, giving ministers power to stop land sales to those who already own vast estates.
Scotland’s land is hoarded - 50% of it owned by less than 1% of people. One of the worst statistics in Europe.
My amendment sets a 500-hectare ceiling, giving ministers power to stop land sales to those who already own vast estates.
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perfect, no notes
Kwasi Kwarteng, the former UK chancellor whose infamous “mini” Budget under then-Prime Minister Liz Truss triggered a crisis in the gilts market, is backing the launch of a bitcoin investment company.
www.ft.com/content/c5a6...
www.ft.com/content/c5a6...
Former UK chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng backs bitcoin investment company
Ex-politician infamous for 2022 mini-Budget will become non-executive director of Stack Bitcoin Treasury
www.ft.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
perfect, no notes
A queue of huge things in western harbour
November 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A queue of huge things in western harbour
Kind of intriguing that’s it’s PE linked insurers that seem heaviest holders of private letter ratings. If you were worried about the ratings arbitrage that might be funding AI data centre boom bubble this is a place to start.
November 4, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Kind of intriguing that’s it’s PE linked insurers that seem heaviest holders of private letter ratings. If you were worried about the ratings arbitrage that might be funding AI data centre boom bubble this is a place to start.
This is fascinating for so many reasons not least how calamitous the slum clearance process was. but you're like 9 miles south of Edinburgh, and the accents are all their own, there's Scots words with inflections that sound somewhere btw 1930s Durham or Wales. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEvf...
The Newcraighall Evictions 1972
YouTube video by Craigmillar Gold
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November 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
This is fascinating for so many reasons not least how calamitous the slum clearance process was. but you're like 9 miles south of Edinburgh, and the accents are all their own, there's Scots words with inflections that sound somewhere btw 1930s Durham or Wales. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEvf...