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*
Omg the phone thing would be such a relief
Actually my phone is already almost 5 years old, I thought it broke for good twice and even ordered replacements, but then it magically revived and I sent them both back
Actually my phone is already almost 5 years old, I thought it broke for good twice and even ordered replacements, but then it magically revived and I sent them both back
AI is revolutionizing the world! A Playstation now costs $5,000 and this is the last phone you will ever own.
“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.”
@pcgamer.com #DRAM
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...
@pcgamer.com #DRAM
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...
February 18, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Omg the phone thing would be such a relief
Actually my phone is already almost 5 years old, I thought it broke for good twice and even ordered replacements, but then it magically revived and I sent them both back
Actually my phone is already almost 5 years old, I thought it broke for good twice and even ordered replacements, but then it magically revived and I sent them both back
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NYC!
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Join @keeanga.bsky.social for a conversation with Michelle Alexander, hosted with @hammerandhope.bsky.social and @strandbooks.com
Wednesday, February 18th at 7:00 pm
Tickets:
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Join @keeanga.bsky.social for a conversation with Michelle Alexander, hosted with @hammerandhope.bsky.social and @strandbooks.com
Wednesday, February 18th at 7:00 pm
Tickets:
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor + Michelle Alexander: How We Get Free 2nd Edition
Join us for an event with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor discussing the Updated, 2nd Edition of her award-winning book, HOW WE GET FREE.
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February 14, 2026 at 8:16 PM
NYC!
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Join @keeanga.bsky.social for a conversation with Michelle Alexander, hosted with @hammerandhope.bsky.social and @strandbooks.com
Wednesday, February 18th at 7:00 pm
Tickets:
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Join @keeanga.bsky.social for a conversation with Michelle Alexander, hosted with @hammerandhope.bsky.social and @strandbooks.com
Wednesday, February 18th at 7:00 pm
Tickets:
As a reader/listener of everyone involved here, I appreciated this review
Justin Joque offers a more radical critique of AI in this review, questioning both the intentional model of language and the liberal politics of Bender and Hanna's the AI Con:
olrsupplement.com/2026/02/17/t...
olrsupplement.com/2026/02/17/t...
The AI Con, by Emily Bender and Alex Hanna - The OLR Supplement
Justin Joque aims for a more radical critique of AI than Bender and Hanna, both by questioning intentionalist language, and with a leftist political orientation
olrsupplement.com
February 17, 2026 at 11:22 PM
As a reader/listener of everyone involved here, I appreciated this review
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“Ambient listening” This is not Muzak!!!!Alexa was really the training tool getting everyone here to the idea of a listening device that is also your friend. @hypervisible.blacksky.app has been on the money
February 17, 2026 at 2:23 PM
“Ambient listening” This is not Muzak!!!!Alexa was really the training tool getting everyone here to the idea of a listening device that is also your friend. @hypervisible.blacksky.app has been on the money
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Not like ICE is going into hospitals to track and remove people
Not like anything sensitive ever gets uttered in a hospital
Not like we have regulations around the sharing and transmission of medical information
Not like anything sensitive ever gets uttered in a hospital
Not like we have regulations around the sharing and transmission of medical information
February 17, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Not like ICE is going into hospitals to track and remove people
Not like anything sensitive ever gets uttered in a hospital
Not like we have regulations around the sharing and transmission of medical information
Not like anything sensitive ever gets uttered in a hospital
Not like we have regulations around the sharing and transmission of medical information
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“Ambient AI listening in the hospital” what could go wrong
We've just rolled out ambient AI listening in our hospital, and my colleagues are really, really excited about it (more time doing things other than note writing). They're so excited that things like patient concerns/autonomy are lost.
We're just making up ethics as we go along with AI right now.
We're just making up ethics as we go along with AI right now.
Hot take: The doctor shouldn't be the one asking if it's ok if she uses AI to take patient notes. The power differential + patient anxiety + short appointment times means the patient feels pressure to say yes. It should be a question asked during check-in. (I wish it wasn't used at all, but...)
February 17, 2026 at 2:18 PM
“Ambient AI listening in the hospital” what could go wrong
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"Are you a visual ethnographer exploring questions in medical anthropology through film? Do you want to join one of the largest anthropology departments in Europe with a vibrant visual and medical anthropology community?"
We're hiring...
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We're hiring...
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Vacancy — Assistant Professor in Visual and Medical Anthropology
<p><span>Are you a visual ethnographer exploring questions in medical anthropology through film? Do you want to join one of the largest anthropology departments in Europe with a vibrant visual and medical anthropology community? </span></p>
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February 17, 2026 at 3:02 PM
"Are you a visual ethnographer exploring questions in medical anthropology through film? Do you want to join one of the largest anthropology departments in Europe with a vibrant visual and medical anthropology community?"
We're hiring...
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
We're hiring...
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
It is fascinating (derogatory) to know how to make clothes just a tiny bit and then see a no-cuff cotton shirt with a poorly sewn neckline being retailed for FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE UNITED STATES DOLLARS
February 17, 2026 at 5:37 PM
It is fascinating (derogatory) to know how to make clothes just a tiny bit and then see a no-cuff cotton shirt with a poorly sewn neckline being retailed for FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE UNITED STATES DOLLARS
Sometimes I just stop and watch Ms Four bop around doing her thing, and it never disappoints
February 17, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Sometimes I just stop and watch Ms Four bop around doing her thing, and it never disappoints
Oh mannn another review where the editor EXACTLY pegged me as the ideal reader and I am so interested in the work, but I also feel a little bad for the writer because I know exactly what they are talking about and therefore I know what they've missed/left out, too
February 16, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Oh mannn another review where the editor EXACTLY pegged me as the ideal reader and I am so interested in the work, but I also feel a little bad for the writer because I know exactly what they are talking about and therefore I know what they've missed/left out, too
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...
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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....