Joe Noteboom
@joenote.bsky.social
Recent PhD in digital education, critical data studies, sociology of higher education
Currently Learning Tech @ Edinburgh Futures Institute
Currently Learning Tech @ Edinburgh Futures Institute
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We wrote a thing about AI, fascism, and why framing this as "hype" is too apolitical
www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...
www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...
Deflating “Hype” Won’t Save Us
The problem with AI isn’t hype. The problem is who and what it’s useful for.
www.liberalcurrents.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We wrote a thing about AI, fascism, and why framing this as "hype" is too apolitical
www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...
www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...
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Walking to and from South Bank last night, there was evidence of unambiguously Far Right behaviour (I saw a Hitler salute), and also a lot of extreme drunkenness. A couple in their 50s trying to walk to Waterloo, and barely managing it etc
Yes it's the Far Right organising marches like the one in London, but it also seems to bear a striking resemblance to the football hooliganism that was a constant feature of British society for a good 30 years, regardless of ideology, memes, manosphere etc.
September 14, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Walking to and from South Bank last night, there was evidence of unambiguously Far Right behaviour (I saw a Hitler salute), and also a lot of extreme drunkenness. A couple in their 50s trying to walk to Waterloo, and barely managing it etc
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
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‘Much of what universities spend a great deal of time discussing - such as global strategy, impact & innovation, development & philanthropy - even research… [has] very little effect on the bottom line.’
Useful primer on HE finance by @profserious.bsky.social
profserious.substack.com/p/understand...
Useful primer on HE finance by @profserious.bsky.social
profserious.substack.com/p/understand...
Understanding University Finances
... a very short guide
profserious.substack.com
August 10, 2025 at 10:50 AM
‘Much of what universities spend a great deal of time discussing - such as global strategy, impact & innovation, development & philanthropy - even research… [has] very little effect on the bottom line.’
Useful primer on HE finance by @profserious.bsky.social
profserious.substack.com/p/understand...
Useful primer on HE finance by @profserious.bsky.social
profserious.substack.com/p/understand...
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Piazza is a course discussion platform used by many colleges and universities. Piazza requires students to provide the following information when signing up.
From 2017-2019, Palantir Technologies paid Piazza $916,000 for access to this data. www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
From 2017-2019, Palantir Technologies paid Piazza $916,000 for access to this data. www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
June 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Piazza is a course discussion platform used by many colleges and universities. Piazza requires students to provide the following information when signing up.
From 2017-2019, Palantir Technologies paid Piazza $916,000 for access to this data. www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
From 2017-2019, Palantir Technologies paid Piazza $916,000 for access to this data. www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
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👀!! Just out - A sociology of dragons: danah boyd on AI, Trump, and critique @zephoria.bsky.social talking to @busedoyu.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A sociology of dragons: danah boyd on AI, Trump, and critique
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
June 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
👀!! Just out - A sociology of dragons: danah boyd on AI, Trump, and critique @zephoria.bsky.social talking to @busedoyu.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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UCU members at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social are striking today over University of Edinburgh plans to make £140million in cuts and threaten jobs
We're fighting against these reckless proposals
Share to show your support ✊
We're fighting against these reckless proposals
Share to show your support ✊
June 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM
UCU members at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social are striking today over University of Edinburgh plans to make £140million in cuts and threaten jobs
We're fighting against these reckless proposals
Share to show your support ✊
We're fighting against these reckless proposals
Share to show your support ✊
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Congratulations to Dr. Noteboom! All of us at EFI and @technomoralfutures.bsky.social are so proud to have supported your PhD research and very grateful to get to work with you. Congrats also to your amazing supervisors @jenr.bsky.social and @karengregory.bsky.social!
I'm very happy to share that I've officially completed my PhD in Sociology on datafication & higher education at the University of Edinburgh! I passed my viva late last year and have been working on some corrections over the last few months alongside my day job @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social .
June 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Congratulations to Dr. Noteboom! All of us at EFI and @technomoralfutures.bsky.social are so proud to have supported your PhD research and very grateful to get to work with you. Congrats also to your amazing supervisors @jenr.bsky.social and @karengregory.bsky.social!
I'm very happy to share that I've officially completed my PhD in Sociology on datafication & higher education at the University of Edinburgh! I passed my viva late last year and have been working on some corrections over the last few months alongside my day job @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social .
June 4, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I'm very happy to share that I've officially completed my PhD in Sociology on datafication & higher education at the University of Edinburgh! I passed my viva late last year and have been working on some corrections over the last few months alongside my day job @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social .
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No real negatives since our delivery van went electric other than people occasionally shouting Judas at us.
June 4, 2025 at 7:41 AM
No real negatives since our delivery van went electric other than people occasionally shouting Judas at us.
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Lots of great details in @semaforben.bsky.social's latest; extremely helpful for mapping out who is influencing whom on the right. Have been thinking for a while that private groupchats are at least as crazymaking as public social media, and much harder to study.
The group chats that changed America
A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.
www.semafor.com
April 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Lots of great details in @semaforben.bsky.social's latest; extremely helpful for mapping out who is influencing whom on the right. Have been thinking for a while that private groupchats are at least as crazymaking as public social media, and much harder to study.
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I've always wondered where the 1% come to their consensus, couldn't just be X, makes sense they opt for Bounded Social Media Spaces like Whatsapp or Signal as they claim they have to go private in "a soft authoritarian age of social media shaming and censorship"
www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
The group chats that changed America
A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.
www.semafor.com
April 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I've always wondered where the 1% come to their consensus, couldn't just be X, makes sense they opt for Bounded Social Media Spaces like Whatsapp or Signal as they claim they have to go private in "a soft authoritarian age of social media shaming and censorship"
www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
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Really interesting.
So basically there's a cabal of billionaire broligarchs, far right propagandists, and reactionary centrist journalists all on group chats radicalizing together and exerting coordinated narratives and influence on media and politics
www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
The group chats that changed America
A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.
www.semafor.com
April 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Really interesting.
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Absolute power can be a terrible weakness. On Trump, and how to mobilize against him www.programmablemutter.com/p/absolute-p...
Absolute power can be a terrible weakness
The relative vulnerabilities of tyrants and crowds
www.programmablemutter.com
April 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Absolute power can be a terrible weakness. On Trump, and how to mobilize against him www.programmablemutter.com/p/absolute-p...
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I got to write a short piece – On Compost – for the LRB.
(If you know me irl, you’ll understand that this is a happy thing)
(If you know me irl, you’ll understand that this is a happy thing)
Fraser MacDonald · On Compost
I sometimes wonder whether my love of compost is a response to the dispiriting cleanness of modern life – the spray’...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I got to write a short piece – On Compost – for the LRB.
(If you know me irl, you’ll understand that this is a happy thing)
(If you know me irl, you’ll understand that this is a happy thing)
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"Data Kindness" is a concept that @jesgilbert.bsky.social and I developed during our book tour for The Secret Life of Data.
We've never written about it. Til now.
time.com/7273469/data...
We've never written about it. Til now.
time.com/7273469/data...
How to Be Kind in a World That's Always Monitoring You
If we want to live in a more ethical data-driven world, we’re going to have to manage it ourselves.
time.com
April 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
"Data Kindness" is a concept that @jesgilbert.bsky.social and I developed during our book tour for The Secret Life of Data.
We've never written about it. Til now.
time.com/7273469/data...
We've never written about it. Til now.
time.com/7273469/data...
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a great deal of the problems with the UK debate are that people try to import American policy analyses as if they were strange tasting candy, then sell it from opaquely financed central London locations, also like candy.
March 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
a great deal of the problems with the UK debate are that people try to import American policy analyses as if they were strange tasting candy, then sell it from opaquely financed central London locations, also like candy.
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The group chat is one of those omnipresent media forms that don't get five percent of the attention of a TikTok or Twitter
March 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The group chat is one of those omnipresent media forms that don't get five percent of the attention of a TikTok or Twitter
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I’m not spending another 15 years of my life on this. It suffices to say:
1. How do you ask “right questions” with “zero education”?
2. Who would want that?
3. Are you afraid enough in your white collar job to finally accept that AI is pure labor busting?
1. How do you ask “right questions” with “zero education”?
2. Who would want that?
3. Are you afraid enough in your white collar job to finally accept that AI is pure labor busting?
March 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I’m not spending another 15 years of my life on this. It suffices to say:
1. How do you ask “right questions” with “zero education”?
2. Who would want that?
3. Are you afraid enough in your white collar job to finally accept that AI is pure labor busting?
1. How do you ask “right questions” with “zero education”?
2. Who would want that?
3. Are you afraid enough in your white collar job to finally accept that AI is pure labor busting?
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🧵 PLEA-RANT In the midst of all this I'm still going to be puffing 🎥 @sapphiregoss.bsky.social and I made for @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social and @jcultecon.bsky.social that releases on Feb 20 YouTube & in person. I want to explain why it still matters efi.ed.ac.uk/event/opens-...
Opens and Closes: the future of Edinburgh’s histories Premiere - Edinburgh Futures Institute
A film by Sapphire Goss, produced, written and narrated by Liz McFall. The screening will be followed by a discussion with special guests.
efi.ed.ac.uk
February 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
🧵 PLEA-RANT In the midst of all this I'm still going to be puffing 🎥 @sapphiregoss.bsky.social and I made for @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social and @jcultecon.bsky.social that releases on Feb 20 YouTube & in person. I want to explain why it still matters efi.ed.ac.uk/event/opens-...
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Students in Serbia are at the forefront of nationwide protests and institutional occupations, which have brought higher education—and the whole country—to a halt.
I wrote a text explaining what it is all about, please read & share, thank you! 🤝
#students #highered #Serbia
I wrote a text explaining what it is all about, please read & share, thank you! 🤝
#students #highered #Serbia
Inside the student blockades in Serbia
Over the past two months, students in Serbia have been at the forefront of nationwide protests and institutional occupations, bringing higher education in the country to a standstill. The protests hav...
wonkhe.com
January 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Today I sketch the threat posed to democracy in the UK by the emerging mix of technology and oligarchy in the US
When oligarchy meets technology
Trump’s first days promise a rupture in American politics that also threatens democracy in the UK
open.substack.com
January 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Today I sketch the threat posed to democracy in the UK by the emerging mix of technology and oligarchy in the US
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The Sorrowful Tale of the Dread Pirate Roberts.
Ross Ulbricht's pardon, and the squalid bargain between Trump and the Silicon Valley right
www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-sorrow...
Ross Ulbricht's pardon, and the squalid bargain between Trump and the Silicon Valley right
www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-sorrow...
The Sorrowful Tale of the Dread Pirate Roberts
Ross Ulbricht's pardon, and the squalid bargain between Trump and the Silicon Valley right
www.programmablemutter.com
January 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The Sorrowful Tale of the Dread Pirate Roberts.
Ross Ulbricht's pardon, and the squalid bargain between Trump and the Silicon Valley right
www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-sorrow...
Ross Ulbricht's pardon, and the squalid bargain between Trump and the Silicon Valley right
www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-sorrow...
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Duolingo reports a 216% increase for users learning Mandarin Chinese in the U.S. following a transition from TikTok to Xiaohongshu, also known as “RedNote.”
January 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Duolingo reports a 216% increase for users learning Mandarin Chinese in the U.S. following a transition from TikTok to Xiaohongshu, also known as “RedNote.”
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All I can think about is
January 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
All I can think about is