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Cyberlyra

@cyberlyra.bsky.social

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Princeton Sociology Prof; ethnographer of NASA; tech policy; digitalSTS; ethics and critical technical practice; mobile Linux. Conscientious objector to personal data economy. https://janet.vertesi.com https://www.optoutproject.net @[email protected]

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Cyberlyra @cyberlyra.bsky.social · 2d

If you're not familiar with @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy's work here is a great primer. Who broke the internet and why. From capitalism to surveillance to AI and the broligarchy... it's a #TrueStory Time to fight back.
Join the resistance #optout #reclaimtech
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

www.theguardian.com

Cyberlyra @cyberlyra.bsky.social · 4d

14K likes tho

Cyberlyra @cyberlyra.bsky.social · 4d

Just you know, if you want to actually try a poster's strike or something, because i dunno who needs to hear this but WELL ORCHESTRATED BOYCOTTS IN GROUPS ACTUALLY WORK.

Cyberlyra @cyberlyra.bsky.social · 4d

@geomblog.bsky.social YESS! "Intimacy Machines" is officially my new fave oxymoron.

(tough competition what with "gender-neutral masculine standard" floating around out there)

Cyberlyra @cyberlyra.bsky.social · 4d

gahhhhhh

Cyberlyra @cyberlyra.bsky.social · 4d

Sounds like it's a good time to remind BlueSky users that you can leave ,even migrate. We can help.

www.reclaimcontrol.tech -- Discord and Signal chats to help you break free
www.optoutproject.net -- Cybercleanse and reviews of alternatives

#optout #posterstrike

Reclaim Control | over your technology, your devices, your data, your digital life.

www.reclaimcontrol.tech

Cyberlyra @cyberlyra.bsky.social · 6d

(also wtf even is an h index and why oh why am i supposed to care about this? please catch me up on the past ten years of producing these bizarre, corporation-dependent valuation frameworks for quantifying "impact.")

@pardoguerra.bsky.social maybe you can help me with this

Cyberlyra @cyberlyra.bsky.social · 6d

how about LINUX!!!!!

Cyberlyra @cyberlyra.bsky.social · 6d

Please have a look -- I've been busy, there's a lot there you probably didn't know about. Citing even one of these papers may help me balance out the personal cost of breaking my code of ethics, even if that really isn't how ethics works ...

Anyway i have some catching up to do. :(

Cyberlyra @cyberlyra.bsky.social · 6d

Apparently not having a Google scholar page is the kiss of death for academic careers, so tonight was my first login to a Gsuite address in 8+ years to "claim" one.
I deeply resent that we have moved to this model for discoverability and relevance.
scholar.google.com/citations?hl...

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Cyberlyra @cyberlyra.bsky.social · 8d

"The data showed that left-wing extremists have carried out 41 attacks since 2016, compared with 152 from the far right over the same period.
Left-wing violence has killed 13 people over the past decade — far fewer than the 112 deaths from right-wing attacks and 82 from jihadists."

Cyberlyra @cyberlyra.bsky.social · 8d

This is an amazing graph. Isn't it showing that it's basically ALL not-left-wing terrorism? Except for this year when there's ~2 attacks? Yet the headline....?

Cyberlyra @cyberlyra.bsky.social · 8d

#stopthescroll is coming up on Wednesday, the first of the month. What will you to interrupt your Big Tech habits? Find inspiration here:

www.optoutproject.net/stop-the-scr...

#reclaimtech #optout

What to do on your (social media) vacation?

Stop the Scroll I teach a class at Princeton called the Sociology of the Internet. Famously, one of the first…

www.optoutproject.net

Cyberlyra @cyberlyra.bsky.social · 8d

naomi wolf included...

Cyberlyra @cyberlyra.bsky.social · 24d

seriously, yes.

Cyberlyra @cyberlyra.bsky.social · 24d

Please open to iPad?

Cyberlyra @cyberlyra.bsky.social · 24d

YAY YAY YAYYYYY!!!

Cyberlyra @cyberlyra.bsky.social · 27d

YESSS! Congratulations and welcome, @princeton.edu !!! :D

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · Sep 4

Look here, @cyberlyra.bsky.social is at it again!

Sheet of paper titled How To Get Off about getting off big tech.

Cyberlyra @cyberlyra.bsky.social · Sep 3

Oh we will miss you, Michael!!

Cyberlyra @cyberlyra.bsky.social · Sep 3

Agh I had to teach today and am flying in right now, so I missed the panel this AM. But I want to hear all about it.

We should meet up in NJ sometime, Emma!

Maybe I'll see you at my "How to Get Off" Making and Doing session Thursday?

Cyberlyra @cyberlyra.bsky.social · Sep 3

Since 2011 -- when in the wake of the financial crisis, the large technology companies became platforms and began using our data to feed us preferential content.
And that when I realized we were on the road to fascism and started to get off those toxic systems.
I have watched the world pitch since.

Cyberlyra @cyberlyra.bsky.social · Sep 1

So excited for this panel! As a longtime refusenik ...

Cyberlyra @cyberlyra.bsky.social · Sep 1

Heads up, #4S2025 !
So excited for my Making and Doing workshop on "How to Get Off," teaching y'all how to evade Big Tech, on Thursday 1:30-3PM!
Then reflections on long-term fieldwork on Friday at 1:30PM
And my TECH/MONEY talk Friday at 3:40 on why NASA goes over budget ...
See you in Seattle!

Cyberlyra @cyberlyra.bsky.social · Sep 1

Wow, thank you Chase, that is truly the greatest of all possible academic complements! :D