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Daniel Cockayne

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Assoc. Professor, GEM, University of Waterloo. Economic and cultural geography of work through Marxist, feminist, queer, and affect theory. Mostly I'll post about books and stuff. (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=6HzsgfsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=

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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · Dec 6

Hello everyone! Many of us are new to this platform, so I thought I would post some things that I wrote this year, alone and with others, as a way to introduce myself. I'm proud of this research and excited to share. This thread is a short summary of these contributions with links.

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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · Aug 22

AI is useless.

Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · Aug 18

Super exciting - congratulations on the quote Jessa!

Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · Aug 18

Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) payment technologies are targeting young women and reconfiguring the spaces, practices & relations of digital money and finance. Very happy to have been interviewed for this story based on my research on BNPL and the geographies of consumer fintech w/ @dcockayne.bsky.social

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Aug 16

“Buy now, pay later” services have become “the gateway drug to consumer debt for more and more women,” Annie Joy Williams argues—and these payment programs are thriving in our influencer-driven world:

Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · Aug 6

Really wonderful to work on this project with @tylerb.bsky.social - this includes a little two-page work of speculative fiction about work refusal in an AI-saturated future, as well as a bit of academic commentary. We're quite happy with it - check it out!

Tyler Blackman @tylerb.bsky.social · Aug 6

New commentary with @dcockayne.bsky.social now out! As part of a special issue on AI refusal, we offer brief speculative narrative imagining working life in an AI-dominated future, navigating between dystopian and utopian visions of AI and its refusal.

Open Access Here:

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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · Jul 29

The Booker is an English language prize, not a British one.

Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · Jul 13

Are we doing only 19th Century, or are To The Lighthouse and Beloved allowable?

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Jul 11

Echo chamber? ECHO CHAMBER?!? This site has BOTH people who think Moby Dick is the greatest novel ever written AND people who know the real GOAT is Middlemarch!!

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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · Jul 8

This looks fascinating - excited to check out more of Smith's work! Her recent paper from Transactions also looks excellent: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · Jun 28

I've added FOUR new peer-reviewed academic articles to my round-up post, "What's wrong with the Cass Review?" Together, these highlight serious ethical issues with the Cass Review's design, recommendations, and implementations. It's important to keep this story live! ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/w...

Meme image of Bernie Sanders, with text that reads, I am once again updating my mega post about how awful the Cass Review is.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jun 4

Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85

The American essayist, playwrightauthor of books including A Boy’s Own Story and The Married Man, has died

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Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · May 30

Consumers defer payments on 'Buy Now Pay Later' purchases, suggesting an affordability crunch www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...

In our new article @dcockayne.bsky.social & I explore how fintech affects relations to payment, wages & debt. Check it out!
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Geographies of Fintech and Everyday Life: Reconfiguring Spaces, Practices, and Scales of Digital Money and Finance

Financial and monetary technologies, understood both through their digital platforms and the materiality of mobile devices, are increasingly pervasive, and now shape the economic practices of individ...

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · May 24

This will be perfect for the class I'm teaching on AI economies in *checks syllabus* four weeks' time.

blair @blairaf.com · May 7

What resources are distributed across the AI value chain, and to whom? Who benefits in the AI value chain, and who is harmed?

In "The Ethics of AI Value Chains", @davidthewid.bsky.social & I address these fundamental questions, now out in Big Data & Society!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The ethics of AI value chains - Blair Attard-Frost, David Gray Widder, 2025

Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers with an interest in the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) need more integrative approaches for studying and in...

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · May 23

Please sign and share this petition, calling on Newcastle University’s Executive Board to halt the threat of ill-considered and unnecessary redundances that are imperilling careers and the future of our institution.

www.change.org/p/end-unnece...

Sign the Petition

End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · May 15

I think we need to start upping the social pressure against using AI. Professors in the quotes talking about how it’s no different than Google. Absolutely pathetic.

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · May 14

Now it's the professors using ChatGPT. Students aren't happy about it.

I talked to professors. I talked to students. I read the scathing reviews on Rate My Professors.

Here you go: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · May 14

To the surprise of literally no one.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · May 14

People who stop weight loss drugs return to original weight within year, analysis finds

Research raises questions about long-term treatment of and support for people using weight loss drugs People on weight loss drugs regain all the weight they have lost within a year of stopping the medication, analysis has shown. Analysis of 11 studies of older and newer GLP-1 weight loss drugs by the University of Oxford found that patients typically lost 8kg on weight loss jabs but returned to their original weight within 10 months of stopping them. Continue reading...

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Dr Chris Noone @chris-noone.bsky.social · May 10

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Apr 25

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · Apr 18

Jesus fucking Christ

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · Mar 27

”Miyazaki said, 'I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.' He also said, 'I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.'"

OpenAI CEO Responds to ChatGPT Users Creating Studio Ghibli-Style AI Images

The latest version of OpenAI's image generation technology has resulted in a flood of users sharing images transformed in the style of Studio Ghibli.

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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · Mar 11

Only someone born and still living in Toronto, someone who has never left the GTA, could think this, surely...!

Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · Mar 8

In an attempt to be generous I'm wondering if some of these folks only knew the name of the panel they are speaking on and then overall event/poster detail was finalized later. Unlikely, but possible I suppose...

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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · Mar 8

Gross. Sad to see some of these names...

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · Mar 7

What the f everybody. The arrogance here, just, wow.

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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · Mar 4

If the only thing I know about music is that Britten's Festival Te Deum is a Kinsey 6, that's probably enough.

Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · Feb 26

This looks incredible!

Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Feb 25

In "Care at the End of the World," Jina B. Kim develops what she calls crip-of-color critique, bringing a disability lens to bear on feminist- & queer-of-color literature in the aftermath of US welfare reform. Read the intro for free on our website now! #DisabilityStudies
https://buff.ly/4b5wmmc

Cover of Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing by Jina B. Kim. Cover is bright yellow. The cover features painting by Tommi Parrish of a human figure in orange, wearing a yellow hard hat, holding on to a burst pipe which spills water all over. The title is in blue lower case text at the top, the subitle is below that in white. The author's name is in blue lower-case text at the bottom right.

Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · Feb 20

Currently @universityaffairs.bsky.social has like 20 followers, so anyway, Canadian academics (and others) should follow them.

Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · Feb 1

I've been using the term straightening device after Ahmed and I also want to use cissening device but it just seems too clumsy somehow...!

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Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · Jan 29

Or, perhaps, it's not.