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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing title slide I have to share before even watching @scriptingjapan.bsky.social

youtu.be/TElWjeFmtl4?...

X the Ancient Japanese Art of Y: The Mobilization of Linguistic Fantasies in Self-Help Books

YouTube video by Scripting Japan

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timko @timko.bsky.social · 4d

ah

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 5d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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Jake Adelstein @tokyovice.bsky.social · 4d

Book tour!📕 Whoever said crime doesn't pay, never had any good cryptocurrency
Crime does pay--as long as it's paid in Bitcoin
In my new book, the devil takes bitcoin—we take a deep dive into how crime propelled an academic exercise into a powerful currency.
tokyopaladin.substack.com/p/us-book-to...

US Book Tour! 📕 The Devil Takes Bitcoin 😈 (**UPDATED**)

The Devil Takes Bitcoin: Cryptocurrency Crimes and the Japan Connection is out October 14 in the US. Get an early look with two pre-release events in Seattle and Philadelphia!

tokyopaladin.substack.com

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 10d

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space venture is teaming up with partners in Luxembourg on Project Oasis, which aims to identify and take advantage of water ice and other resources on the moon. www.geekwire.com/2025/blue-or...

Blue Origin and its partners in Luxembourg unveil Project Oasis to map lunar resources

Blue Origin is working with partners in Luxembourg on a campaign called Project Oasis, which aims to identify valuable resources on the moon.

www.geekwire.com

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Kerry Howley @kerryhowley.bsky.social · 18d

I spent some time wandering around SF with some kids who read minds, raise millions, and subsist on Celsius nymag.com/intelligence...

The AI Kids Take San Francisco

Brilliant, workaholic teenagers are flooding the city — and reshaping our future in their image.

nymag.com

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 23d

"Layered both literally and figuratively on top of the future pathway of the Google internet infrastructure, the sugarcane railway tracks evoke the longevity of colonial infrastructures as well as the ideologies underlying them." – @emmaquilty.bsky.social datasociety.net/points/confr...

Reframing Our Relationship to Technology
Confronting Data Centers, Deep-Sea Cables, and Colonial Legacies in the South Pacific
The Cloud is Dead: A Series on Living with Legacies of Resource Extraction

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Felix Anderl @felixanderl.bsky.social · 24d

This is a super helpful resource if you're trying to figure out public finance, geoeconomics, and international financial institutions. Open access and well assembled by @bsrbarab.bsky.social @c-westermeier.bsky.social and Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure

Cambridge Core - Finance and Accountancy - The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure

www.cambridge.org

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Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social · Sep 11

Very glad to see that someone is doing the important work of aligning AI alignment. alignmentalignment.ai

Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

We align the aligners

alignmentalignment.ai

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timko @timko.bsky.social · Sep 3

how about a whole book: www.routledge.com/Exploring-Et...

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timko @timko.bsky.social · Sep 3

come on, be serious now

Fortune @fortune.com · Sep 3

As entry-level jobs disappear into thin air for Gen Z, the secret to finding an AI-proof job may lie in space. trib.al/zOsD7mD

Don't worry about the job market on Earth, Gen Z: Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk say you’ll be working in space soon

As the number of Gen Z’s entry-level jobs shrinks, billionaires like Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk say the real growth is soon leaving Earth.

trib.al

timko @timko.bsky.social · Jul 23

also, having lived in nijmegen, i can attest it is an okay place!

timko @timko.bsky.social · Jul 23

Radboud University has a new phd opening on Outer Space and Colonialism -- looks cool!

www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

PhD Position: Outer Space and Colonialism | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a PhD candidate Outer Space and Colonialism at the Nijmegen School of Management? Check our vacancy!

www.ru.nl

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timko @timko.bsky.social · Jun 25

pretty bad! this thread also has some stories about the poor labor conditions at SpaceX which sound similar to what I heard in my own research

Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · Jun 24

One of the SpaceX fan cams caught a crane collapse at Starbase in Texas. This kind of thing only happens from a completely unacceptable safety culture failure and I'd be shocked if there wasn't a death here

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timko @timko.bsky.social · Jun 19

this is today!

timko @timko.bsky.social · Jun 16

this week! the social studies of outer space network is back with the June monthly meeting, join us online to talk space, social science, and citational practices!

need the link? just ask

photo of NASA engineer Margaret Hamilton with the stacks of code she wrote for the Apollo program; details of the meeting:

social studies of outer space network
monthly meeting
Thursday, June 19 2 pm utc
theme: citational practices

join us online!

timko @timko.bsky.social · Jun 16

this week! the social studies of outer space network is back with the June monthly meeting, join us online to talk space, social science, and citational practices!

need the link? just ask

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Craig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social · Mar 16

BREAKING: The head of the $42 billion federal BEAD program that aims to bring broadband internet to rural and unserved areas has left the Commerce Dept.

He sent a departing email warning of "deeply negative outcomes" for people if the Trump admin shifts $$ from fiber internet to Musk's Starlink:

“Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world's richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington,” said former BEAD director Evan Feinman

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · Feb 20

Call for papers: "Tech Oligarchy" Forum by @sciasculture.bsky.social

#bigtech #sts #oligarchy #Trump #ElonMusk

think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Science as Culture Forum on “Tech Oligarchy”

think.taylorandfrancis.com

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Haunted Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · Feb 19

making unpleasant music with click farm equipment I bought on the internet

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timko @timko.bsky.social · Feb 20

today! it's the Social Studies of Outer Space Network monthly meeting. meet and talk with researcher around the world, just ask for the link!

foreground: a man walks in the snow; background: a giant looming radio telescope

details: social studies of outer space network, monthly meeting, thursday, february 20 at 2 p.m. UTC

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Heidi B. Hammel @hbhammel.bsky.social · Feb 19

Image by Michael Carroll shows some asteroids to scale. We did NOT see the little one coming & it hit Earth above Chelyabinsk in 2013, injuring >1400 people. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is bigger than the little one, perhaps as large as the football field! JWST 🔭 data next month will help pin down the size.

Image by Michael Carroll illustrating the sizes of some asteroids in 2013. The asteroids are shown in comparison to a US football field. We had seen the big one coming, and it just buzzed Earth. But the littler one we did NOT see coming, and it hit Earth above Chelyabinsk, creating a shockwave the blew out windows and injuring more than 1400 people. The asteroid we are monitoring now - 2024 YR4 - is bigger than the little guy, but maybe as large as the whole football field! Our JWST measurements next month will help pin down the size. Source: https://carrollspaceart.com/gallery/comparisons/

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Dimitrios Stroikos @dstroikos.bsky.social · Feb 19

SpaceX rocket debris crashes into Poland
www.bbc.com/news/article...

SpaceX rocket debris crashes into Poland

Debris from a Space X Falcon 9 rocket lit up skies across Europe before crashing into Poland.

www.bbc.com

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Bruegel @bruegel.org · Feb 20

🎙️ Satellites and Space Races: The role of Europe in the space economy

Listen to the full episode of the Sound of Economics podcast 🛰️
#EconSky

https://buff.ly/4i38qSJ

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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · Feb 18

Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠

sciencehomecoming.com

Science Homecoming

sciencehomecoming.com

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timko @timko.bsky.social · Feb 20

my other ARIES colleagues contributed as well! you can read all the essays here: www.sapiens.org/culture/oute...

How Cosmic Explorations Are Reshaping Life on Earth

Space anthropologists collaborate on a research project investigating the current boom in outer space exploration.

www.sapiens.org

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timko @timko.bsky.social · Feb 20

I wrote a small peice for Sapiens magazine about my fieldwork in Mauritius: www.sapiens.org/culture/sate...

The First Space Launch for Mauritius

An anthropologist recounts how Mauritius launched its first spacecraft—and what the nation's effort says about the growing space economy.

www.sapiens.org

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