Danya Glabau
@allergyphd.bsky.social
STS and Medical Anthropology, cyborgs, care, feminist theories of tech, faculty NYU Tandon, BISR faculty, she/her
CYBORG: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547550/cyborg/
Food Allergy Advocacy: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517910563/food-allergy-advoca
CYBORG: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547550/cyborg/
Food Allergy Advocacy: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517910563/food-allergy-advoca
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Danya Glabau
@allergyphd.bsky.social
· Feb 21
No we are talking about deskilling and firing people, the AI industry default setting
*taps the sign*
It's so hard not to doomscroll when my eyes feel like they're being expelled from my skull due to sinus pressure, but I felt *great* all day yesterday after starting my day reading a new paper so I'm going to try to end with some reading today
February 16, 2026 at 7:34 PM
It's so hard not to doomscroll when my eyes feel like they're being expelled from my skull due to sinus pressure, but I felt *great* all day yesterday after starting my day reading a new paper so I'm going to try to end with some reading today
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What if instead it rescues consumer electronics?
To use my usual example, the Atari 2600—which has 128 bytes of RAM total—was sold commercially, somewhere in the world, from 1977 to 1992. Its programmers kept discovering new things they could make it do, because they had reason to plumb its depths.
To use my usual example, the Atari 2600—which has 128 bytes of RAM total—was sold commercially, somewhere in the world, from 1977 to 1992. Its programmers kept discovering new things they could make it do, because they had reason to plumb its depths.
this RAM crisis feels like it’s going to ruin consumer electronics over the next decade. Bloomberg reports that Sony is considering pushing the PS6 release to 2028 or even 2029 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
February 16, 2026 at 7:20 PM
What if instead it rescues consumer electronics?
To use my usual example, the Atari 2600—which has 128 bytes of RAM total—was sold commercially, somewhere in the world, from 1977 to 1992. Its programmers kept discovering new things they could make it do, because they had reason to plumb its depths.
To use my usual example, the Atari 2600—which has 128 bytes of RAM total—was sold commercially, somewhere in the world, from 1977 to 1992. Its programmers kept discovering new things they could make it do, because they had reason to plumb its depths.
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I can’t think of any academic book I’ve read in the last decade that has lodged in my brain the way the Addiction by Design has. It’s such an important text for understanding so much about the digital age.
A book I highly recommend on electronic slot machines—which fully convinced me they should be illegal for how they systematically mislead our brains—is Natasha Dow Schüll‘s ADDICTION BY DESIGN
Gamified online gambling seems much worse, & is becoming much more ubiquitous
It will immiserate so many
Gamified online gambling seems much worse, & is becoming much more ubiquitous
It will immiserate so many
I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis.
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
February 16, 2026 at 4:09 PM
I can’t think of any academic book I’ve read in the last decade that has lodged in my brain the way the Addiction by Design has. It’s such an important text for understanding so much about the digital age.
We still haven't *all* been healthy since December 20th, 2025, I've now got a new cold 😩
February 16, 2026 at 4:08 PM
We still haven't *all* been healthy since December 20th, 2025, I've now got a new cold 😩
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Brief self-promotion: This spring I am doing workshops and talks for a humanities collective at nyu, association of women in math, teaching advancement folks at UNT, a school of social work, a bunch of brain scientists, an anonymous neighborhood group in occupied MN, and some folks at UVA.
The Public Scholar Workshop
There’s no such thing as the Ivory Tower. Colleges and universities are not isolated enclaves, and they probably never were. Public engagement is an essential part of the core mission of higher educat...
www.davidmperry.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Brief self-promotion: This spring I am doing workshops and talks for a humanities collective at nyu, association of women in math, teaching advancement folks at UNT, a school of social work, a bunch of brain scientists, an anonymous neighborhood group in occupied MN, and some folks at UVA.
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One week from today! VOD will be available after.
I'm going to be doing some short classes for the Ad Astra Institute! First up, How to Not Do Eugenics with Speculative Biology! It's a brief primer on the history of race science and eugenics with suggestions on how to avoid fantasy or science fiction racism. adastra-sf.com/courses.htm#...
February 14, 2026 at 6:57 PM
One week from today! VOD will be available after.
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A sort of inverse Voigt-Kampff test that you can use to identify people who are fooled by chatbots.
February 15, 2026 at 11:57 PM
A sort of inverse Voigt-Kampff test that you can use to identify people who are fooled by chatbots.
Mama's Valentine is not cooking dinner all weekend 💯
February 15, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Mama's Valentine is not cooking dinner all weekend 💯
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Love a puff piece about giving luxury surveillance devices as articles of devotion.
"The Raschkas also bucked tradition in their selection of wedding rings... they went with Oura rings, the sensor-laden, health-tracking devices that have surged in popularity"
www.theinformation.com/articles/sic...
"The Raschkas also bucked tradition in their selection of wedding rings... they went with Oura rings, the sensor-laden, health-tracking devices that have surged in popularity"
www.theinformation.com/articles/sic...
In Sickness and in Health: Wellness-Obsessed Techies Adopt Oura Rings as Wedding Bands
When AI researcher Sebastian Raschka got married in November 2023, he and his now-wife, Liza, went nontraditional. They wedded in Las Vegas at an Elvis-themed chapel, then celebrated by attending a U2...
www.theinformation.com
February 15, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Love a puff piece about giving luxury surveillance devices as articles of devotion.
"The Raschkas also bucked tradition in their selection of wedding rings... they went with Oura rings, the sensor-laden, health-tracking devices that have surged in popularity"
www.theinformation.com/articles/sic...
"The Raschkas also bucked tradition in their selection of wedding rings... they went with Oura rings, the sensor-laden, health-tracking devices that have surged in popularity"
www.theinformation.com/articles/sic...
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Legendary founder of NPR programming Bill Siemering is enjoying Zoom visiting with students so much that he's asked me to put a second call out. No honorarium necessary. Any takers?
Bill Siemering, founding program director of NPR, author of its mission statement, has asked me to inquire if any profs might be interested in a Zoom class visit? No honorarium necessary. Bill founded All Things Considered, Fresh Air, won a MacArthur, etc.
A Founding Father of NPR Worries About Its Fate
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Legendary founder of NPR programming Bill Siemering is enjoying Zoom visiting with students so much that he's asked me to put a second call out. No honorarium necessary. Any takers?
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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New OA article just out on "assetizing academic content" led by @jkom.bsky.social with me, @keanbirch.bsky.social & Klaus Beiter, exploring how academic materials are turned into value-generating digital assets by HE institutions, edtech platforms, and AI companies link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Assetizing academic content and the emergence of the ‘assetizen’: education platforms, publisher databases, and AI model training - Higher Education
Higher Education - Academic content, such as teaching materials and academic publications, has become an economic resource. This has occurred through assetization as the key economic regime in...
link.springer.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:13 AM
New OA article just out on "assetizing academic content" led by @jkom.bsky.social with me, @keanbirch.bsky.social & Klaus Beiter, exploring how academic materials are turned into value-generating digital assets by HE institutions, edtech platforms, and AI companies link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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A real opportunity was missed in not calling this “Terminal Degree”
Now this is a movie plot!!! Someone understands grad school.
February 15, 2026 at 12:27 AM
A real opportunity was missed in not calling this “Terminal Degree”
And now for the day's real action: The feminine urge to watch the Olympics and sew a pair of pink pants
February 14, 2026 at 1:45 PM
And now for the day's real action: The feminine urge to watch the Olympics and sew a pair of pink pants
This new article in Social Studies of Science caught my eye this morning: "Scientific-intellectual movements in the post-truth age: The case of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis"
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February 14, 2026 at 1:36 PM
This new article in Social Studies of Science caught my eye this morning: "Scientific-intellectual movements in the post-truth age: The case of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Really, obsessively hanging into the good things from this week and trying hard to forget the bad.
February 13, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Really, obsessively hanging into the good things from this week and trying hard to forget the bad.
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Speaker spotlight: Os Keyes researches gender, disability, and power in AI, alongside the history and sociology of scientific work around trans medicine. Panel 2 (Feb 18) uky.zoom.us/j/86848639105
#CriticalAI #STS
#CriticalAI #STS
February 13, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Speaker spotlight: Os Keyes researches gender, disability, and power in AI, alongside the history and sociology of scientific work around trans medicine. Panel 2 (Feb 18) uky.zoom.us/j/86848639105
#CriticalAI #STS
#CriticalAI #STS
A cursèd throuple indeed.
A genuinely alarming piece in the NYT about how the developers, scientists and assorted techbros behind "AI companions"/"synthetic care" do not even know or understand the potential harms of the tech they're developing but they're too greedy to stop themselves from developing it.
February 13, 2026 at 8:04 PM
A cursèd throuple indeed.
The Friday afternoon train commuter parent's decision matrix of "I want to go home early and sit quietly" and "the only reasonable way to pick up my child is to get them on my way home, shattering any hope for quiet time when I get there"
February 13, 2026 at 6:31 PM
The Friday afternoon train commuter parent's decision matrix of "I want to go home early and sit quietly" and "the only reasonable way to pick up my child is to get them on my way home, shattering any hope for quiet time when I get there"
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Disaster capitalism.
“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns…”
“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns…”
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Disaster capitalism.
“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns…”
“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns…”
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I keep bringing up Googleglass because it’s a reminder that widespread opprobrium is still a useful tool. If your friend says he plans on buying them, tell him they are for creeps. If someone shows up to your party with them, ask them to leave. Brand these as a product for losers and pervs.
February 13, 2026 at 2:11 PM
I keep bringing up Googleglass because it’s a reminder that widespread opprobrium is still a useful tool. If your friend says he plans on buying them, tell him they are for creeps. If someone shows up to your party with them, ask them to leave. Brand these as a product for losers and pervs.
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Because they think that mass surveillance isn't intimately involved with everything we're concerned about, I guess?
Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Because they think that mass surveillance isn't intimately involved with everything we're concerned about, I guess?
This has been on my reading list for years, and on my desk for months. Picked it up today also inspired by @shannonmattern.bsky.social ! Little did I know that it is about witches and cyborgs 🧹🪄🤖👾
February 13, 2026 at 1:54 PM
This has been on my reading list for years, and on my desk for months. Picked it up today also inspired by @shannonmattern.bsky.social ! Little did I know that it is about witches and cyborgs 🧹🪄🤖👾
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For decades the tech industry has insulated itself from criticism by leveraging the rhetoric of progressivism & benignity towards the disenfranchised & disabled, w promises of “access” & “democratization” that their products afford. We can’t stop them using this lang but we can stop falling for it.
In an internal memo in May, Meta laid out its plans to release facial recognition in its smart glasses, to the blind first, & then to the general public.
“Civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
“Civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:21 PM
For decades the tech industry has insulated itself from criticism by leveraging the rhetoric of progressivism & benignity towards the disenfranchised & disabled, w promises of “access” & “democratization” that their products afford. We can’t stop them using this lang but we can stop falling for it.
No nasty, chafing ready to wear today, I'm wearing dress I made from a quilted fabric intended for use as a blanket 😅
February 13, 2026 at 1:32 PM
No nasty, chafing ready to wear today, I'm wearing dress I made from a quilted fabric intended for use as a blanket 😅