🚨The video recording of the AI and the Politics of Extraction panel is now live! Watch this fascinating 1.5 hour discussion with @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @profwhw.bsky.social, @mysdick.bsky.social, and @profhvdv.bsky.social as they explore the risks of unfettered AI implementation.

loved this conversation. Anyone need a crash course on why the intersection of AI, fascism and climate breakdown? We tried to cover it all!

This whole convo is fantastic - 1.5 hours of very informative chat on climate justice vs the gross economics of tech

Ft @naomiaklein.bsky.social @profwhw.bsky.social @profhvdv.bsky.social, hosted at @ccj-ubc.bsky.social

youtu.be/27BHQhkK52I

Copies of JUST CODE just arrived! Partnering w Con & teaming w 19 brilliant STS authors on the vital topic of code/codes & inequality was so special! Authors (full list ToC below) On bsky: @mysdick.bsky.social @histoftech.bsky.social @dmulvin.bsky.social & blurb from @anitachan.bsky.social #histtech

Got a new essay in @dissentmag.bsky.social on secrecy havens. The culture of impunity that secrecy fosters has profoundly damaging effects on social&political fabrics especially in places that were turned into tax havens in the context of empire/decolonization www.dissentmagazine.org/article/nobl...

Lastly, during the final session on May 14 (2025), 5:30–7 PM (CEST) the brilliant @whkchun.bsky.social @mysdick.bsky.social and Matt Canute will collectively discuss AI and the (re)shaping of intelligence — sign up: www.create.humanities.uva.nl/events/5-cri...

Hi ✨ Together with Anna Schjøtt Hansen and Tobias Blanke, I organize the #CriticalAI Seminar Series @uvahumanities.bsky.social. This is the 24-25 program🙌

⚡The sessions are online and open to everyone, find more info and sign up here: t.co/ScqpC7ZDrT

Really nice series of #STS #histSTM #evhums essays on Dune + author Frank Herbert's multiple connections with 'gritty' (cf shiney) scences, which I somehow missed first time around. Wondering again if anyone has written about Dune (or science fiction in general) and sociobiology/evolution/gender?

Sciences of Dune essays for the LARB that were published when Part 1 was released. Including an essay by the great historian of computing and math, @mysdick.bsky.social

In honor of Dune Part 2, here is a little series on the Sciences of Dune we wrote for the LARB when Part 1 was released. Includes essays on prophecy, eugenics, pharmacology, language, medicine, harvesting, ethnography, and I wrote about computers and Mentats lareviewofbooks.org/feature/scie...

Wow, this looks good

Thrilled to share work on AI + reproductive rights in Argentina with my 💛 collaborators #DiegoJemio & #FlorenciaAranda. 🔥 Intro Syed Mustafa Ali, @mysdick.bsky.social, Sarah Dillon, Matthew L. Jones, Jonnie Penn, Richard Staley + more 🔥 @lukestark.bsky.social, @aaronmendonplasek.bsky.social & more!

So much great work in here, we'll be revisiting this special issue for a long time. Congrats to Steph et al!

Here is the latest issue of BJHS Themes -- Histories of AI: A Genealogy of Power -- which developed out of our Mellon Sawyer Seminar. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...