Dan Kotliar
@danmk.bsky.social
🎓 Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, U of Haifa.
Previously: Stanford, Hebrew U.
Studying algorithms & culture, AI ethics, AI Hype, data infrastructures, microbiomic futures & more.
🏡 https://www.dankotliar.com/
Previously: Stanford, Hebrew U.
Studying algorithms & culture, AI ethics, AI Hype, data infrastructures, microbiomic futures & more.
🏡 https://www.dankotliar.com/
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Dan Kotliar
@danmk.bsky.social
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🚨New article out!
𝗖𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗲: 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜’𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀
What happens in the so-called AI revolutions? And what role does hype play in them?
This article proposes a methodological framework for studying AI and its hype.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/studyhype
🧵👇
🚨New article out!
𝗖𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗲: 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜’𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀
What happens in the so-called AI revolutions? And what role does hype play in them?
This article proposes a methodological framework for studying AI and its hype.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/studyhype
🧵👇
Reposted by Dan Kotliar
עיריית חיפה מנסה להפקיע את המבנה של "אשה לאשה" אחרי קמפיין של שי גליק והארגון "בצלמו". אומרים שהן ארגון פוליטי ולכן לא זכאיות למבנה. זה אומר לקחת את המבנה של מרכז הסיוע לנפגעות.י תקיפה מינית בחיפה והצפון, הארכיון והספריה הפמיניסטים, הפעילות של הארגון הפמיניסטי הערבי "כיאן", הפעילות בצפון של מרכז […]
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tooot.im
November 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
עיריית חיפה מנסה להפקיע את המבנה של "אשה לאשה" אחרי קמפיין של שי גליק והארגון "בצלמו". אומרים שהן ארגון פוליטי ולכן לא זכאיות למבנה. זה אומר לקחת את המבנה של מרכז הסיוע לנפגעות.י תקיפה מינית בחיפה והצפון, הארכיון והספריה הפמיניסטים, הפעילות של הארגון הפמיניסטי הערבי "כיאן", הפעילות בצפון של מרכז […]
דבלול של אחרי הגשם.
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM
דבלול של אחרי הגשם.
Reposted by Dan Kotliar
💔Blue whales are going eerily silent
Blue whale vocalizations dropped nearly 40% alongside a collapse in krill and anchovy populations
"it’s like trying to sing while you're starving,” Ryan adds
“They were spending all their time just trying to find food"
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Blue whale vocalizations dropped nearly 40% alongside a collapse in krill and anchovy populations
"it’s like trying to sing while you're starving,” Ryan adds
“They were spending all their time just trying to find food"
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Blue whales are going eerily silent—and scientists say it’s a warning sign
A six-year study off California’s coast shows how marine heat waves and noise pollution are silencing the ocean’s largest singers. Does saving the ocean start with hearing it?
www.nationalgeographic.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
💔Blue whales are going eerily silent
Blue whale vocalizations dropped nearly 40% alongside a collapse in krill and anchovy populations
"it’s like trying to sing while you're starving,” Ryan adds
“They were spending all their time just trying to find food"
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Blue whale vocalizations dropped nearly 40% alongside a collapse in krill and anchovy populations
"it’s like trying to sing while you're starving,” Ryan adds
“They were spending all their time just trying to find food"
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Ethnographing in the cloud.
November 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Ethnographing in the cloud.
Reposted by Dan Kotliar
Our postdoc search is open! socialmediacollective.org/2025/11/20/s...
Apply for our sociotechnical systems postdoc position, for July 2026
Microsoft Research New England is looking for a postdoctoral researcher interested in bringing sociotechnical perspectives to analyze critical issues of our time. They will join a team of social sc…
socialmediacollective.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Our postdoc search is open! socialmediacollective.org/2025/11/20/s...
Reposted by Dan Kotliar
one of the main things I did at FB in the time I worked there was research trying to expand rules against hate orgs.
there’s the hard worked results of three of the worst years of my life straight down the fucking toilet.
there’s the hard worked results of three of the worst years of my life straight down the fucking toilet.
Not a “gamble,” but rather instagram working as intended.
Mark Zuckerberg’s hate-speech gamble fuels Gen Z radicalization on Instagram as millions watch Hitler speeches and Holocaust denial clips | Fortune
The hottest far-right influencer right now isn’t Nick Fuentes—it’s Hitler. And his videos are appearing next to JPMorgan and U.S. Army ads
fortune.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:52 PM
one of the main things I did at FB in the time I worked there was research trying to expand rules against hate orgs.
there’s the hard worked results of three of the worst years of my life straight down the fucking toilet.
there’s the hard worked results of three of the worst years of my life straight down the fucking toilet.
Ivy, being the plush toy (of a fierce sheepdog) that she is.
November 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Ivy, being the plush toy (of a fierce sheepdog) that she is.
שמעתי שפאב הסליק בחיפה (שלא ידעתי שעדיין קיים ושבינינו, תמיד היה סאחי) ביטל הרצאה של גיא פלג כי "זה לא מתאים".
אז אני מציע שתגיעו לחיפה, *אל* תשבו בסליק, ותלכו במקום לפסטיבל הקולנוע העממי.
www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/medi...
לפסטיבל -
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
אז אני מציע שתגיעו לחיפה, *אל* תשבו בסליק, ותלכו במקום לפסטיבל הקולנוע העממי.
www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/medi...
לפסטיבל -
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
November 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
שמעתי שפאב הסליק בחיפה (שלא ידעתי שעדיין קיים ושבינינו, תמיד היה סאחי) ביטל הרצאה של גיא פלג כי "זה לא מתאים".
אז אני מציע שתגיעו לחיפה, *אל* תשבו בסליק, ותלכו במקום לפסטיבל הקולנוע העממי.
www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/medi...
לפסטיבל -
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
אז אני מציע שתגיעו לחיפה, *אל* תשבו בסליק, ותלכו במקום לפסטיבל הקולנוע העממי.
www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/medi...
לפסטיבל -
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Reposted by Dan Kotliar
"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people"
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
The Ecological Cost of AI Is Much Higher Than You Think - Truthdig
As the demands of AI grow, each generation of microchips requires more energy, minerals and water to produce, driving a ruinous cycle.
www.truthdig.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people"
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
Reposted by Dan Kotliar
9-10 November 1938 | The November Pogrom – a pogrom against the Jews throughout Nazi Germany. Hundreds were killed (or died by suicide), 30,000 men arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps, over 1,000 synagogues burnt, over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
9-10 November 1938 | The November Pogrom – a pogrom against the Jews throughout Nazi Germany. Hundreds were killed (or died by suicide), 30,000 men arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps, over 1,000 synagogues burnt, over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.
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“Did you stop to ask yourselves what change your decision has truly achieved?”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...
Israeli Academics Find Themselves Isolated Despite Gaza Cease-Fire
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
“Did you stop to ask yourselves what change your decision has truly achieved?”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...
Reposted by Dan Kotliar
The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book
Reposted by Dan Kotliar
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
Yet another proof that Haifa is the future 💜.
If you can, donate to @standing-together.bsky.social, and if you're in NYC, go meet them. They offer true hope in a sea of violence and hate.
If you can, donate to @standing-together.bsky.social, and if you're in NYC, go meet them. They offer true hope in a sea of violence and hate.
Listen to Sally Abed, who’s not only a member of Standing Together’s national leadership but also a Haifa City Council member and the first Palestinian woman to lead a joint Jewish-Arab slate in Israel, describe what it takes to build grassroots and fight for all of our lives on this land. (1/2)
November 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Yet another proof that Haifa is the future 💜.
If you can, donate to @standing-together.bsky.social, and if you're in NYC, go meet them. They offer true hope in a sea of violence and hate.
If you can, donate to @standing-together.bsky.social, and if you're in NYC, go meet them. They offer true hope in a sea of violence and hate.
Reposted by Dan Kotliar
While Israelis have been pouring into the streets for three long years, demanding change and even pushing for a national strike, this corrupt parasite sat on the sidelines, pretending to care while spewing every excuse except the truth. Well…now we know!
Bypass paywall 🔗
archive.fo/2025.11.04-1...
Bypass paywall 🔗
archive.fo/2025.11.04-1...
November 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
While Israelis have been pouring into the streets for three long years, demanding change and even pushing for a national strike, this corrupt parasite sat on the sidelines, pretending to care while spewing every excuse except the truth. Well…now we know!
Bypass paywall 🔗
archive.fo/2025.11.04-1...
Bypass paywall 🔗
archive.fo/2025.11.04-1...
Reposted by Dan Kotliar
Fred Turner revient, deux ouvrages en approche : 1 nouveauté, Politique des machines, sur le glissement de la tech de l’idéologie californienne vers celle du Texas. Et la 2e édition (avec un nouveau titre) de Design d’une démocratie, histoire du #design en politique. Préparez-vous ! cfeditions.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Fred Turner revient, deux ouvrages en approche : 1 nouveauté, Politique des machines, sur le glissement de la tech de l’idéologie californienne vers celle du Texas. Et la 2e édition (avec un nouveau titre) de Design d’une démocratie, histoire du #design en politique. Préparez-vous ! cfeditions.com
Relatedly, Fred Turner has a great new piece on The Texan Ideology.
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...
November 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Relatedly, Fred Turner has a great new piece on The Texan Ideology.
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...
ראיון אופסימיסטי ומעורר מחשבה. מצד אחד, סורפרייז סורפרייז - אנחנו לא דמוקרטיה. מצד שני, לויצקי מדגיש שהמצב הפיך. לא הלכה המדינה, לא נגמרה, לא התאדתה. המצב רע אבל הוא יכול להשתפר. גם ההשוואה למצב בארה"ב (שלפיו, גרוע יותר) מאוד מעניינת.
www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/202...
www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/202...
"ישראל היא כבר לא ממש דמוקרטיה. חציתם את הקו לעבר משטר סמכותני"
פרופ' סטיבן לויצקי, מחשובי החוקרים שעוסקים בנסיגת הדמוקרטיה בעולם, מביט על מה שמתחולל כאן בחשש עמוק. ולמרות זאת, הוא סבור שהמצב בישראל הפיך — ומעודד יותר מאשר זה שבארה"ב
www.haaretz.co.il
October 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
ראיון אופסימיסטי ומעורר מחשבה. מצד אחד, סורפרייז סורפרייז - אנחנו לא דמוקרטיה. מצד שני, לויצקי מדגיש שהמצב הפיך. לא הלכה המדינה, לא נגמרה, לא התאדתה. המצב רע אבל הוא יכול להשתפר. גם ההשוואה למצב בארה"ב (שלפיו, גרוע יותר) מאוד מעניינת.
www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/202...
www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/202...
Reposted by Dan Kotliar
Sociology Professor Blues, by Ethan B. Emerson.
"They say I'm a radical, but I really just need a sabbatical."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r12...
"They say I'm a radical, but I really just need a sabbatical."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r12...
Sociology Professor Blues
YouTube video by Ethan B Emerson - Topic
www.youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Sociology Professor Blues, by Ethan B. Emerson.
"They say I'm a radical, but I really just need a sabbatical."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r12...
"They say I'm a radical, but I really just need a sabbatical."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r12...
כך כך הרבה אלימות, טיפשות, שנאה, שקרים ואנטישמיות שם בחוץ. אז קחו תמונה של אייבי.
October 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
כך כך הרבה אלימות, טיפשות, שנאה, שקרים ואנטישמיות שם בחוץ. אז קחו תמונה של אייבי.
Reposted by Dan Kotliar
There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
@klingebeil.bsky.social's beautiful pocket zine on HYPE has finally arrived!
As he writes:
🫧 Never trust the hype.
🫧 Always poke holes.
🫧 Let a thousand futures bloom.
As he writes:
🫧 Never trust the hype.
🫧 Always poke holes.
🫧 Let a thousand futures bloom.
October 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
@klingebeil.bsky.social's beautiful pocket zine on HYPE has finally arrived!
As he writes:
🫧 Never trust the hype.
🫧 Always poke holes.
🫧 Let a thousand futures bloom.
As he writes:
🫧 Never trust the hype.
🫧 Always poke holes.
🫧 Let a thousand futures bloom.
Reposted by Dan Kotliar
Sam Stabler and I have a new article in the @bjsociology.bsky.social ! “Normative Cumulation: Justifying the Production of Knowledge in American Family Demography”
DM if you can’t access the full version.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
DM if you can’t access the full version.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Sam Stabler and I have a new article in the @bjsociology.bsky.social ! “Normative Cumulation: Justifying the Production of Knowledge in American Family Demography”
DM if you can’t access the full version.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
DM if you can’t access the full version.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Dan Kotliar
We're hiring an outstanding Assistant Professor whose core research is in the field of cultural sociology with demonstrable expertise in the sociology of #culture and #technology.
📅 Applications close Sunday 30 November 2025.
➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
📅 Applications close Sunday 30 November 2025.
➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
October 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
We're hiring an outstanding Assistant Professor whose core research is in the field of cultural sociology with demonstrable expertise in the sociology of #culture and #technology.
📅 Applications close Sunday 30 November 2025.
➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
📅 Applications close Sunday 30 November 2025.
➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...