“There's this huge push to ramp up for the expectation that AI is going to be the new tech boom, and hopefully, not the new tech bubble… And that's not necessarily a great way to build your economy.”

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BREAKING: Prince George's County, the DC suburb of about 1 million people, is moving to suspend all data center permits while a task force completes a review of the projects and their impacts.

So, the uncanny valley shouldn't be used as a way to distinguish between humans + nonhumans, but instead as a way to identify when normative, dehumanizing conceptions of humanness are at work, so we can challenge + expand what counts as human.

(I wrote about this in my book The Robotic Imaginary.)

I've been seeing a resurgence of the uncanny valley lately, and I wanted to share my take on this theory. The uncanny valley theory is based on (and reproduces) narrow, exclusionary assumptions about human health, disability, and humanness more broadly.

This weekend I finished the manuscript for my book, *Not Inevitable: Counternarratives for Other AI Futures.* It's in the hands of my editor and the peer reviewers now. Godspeed, book.

Digital galleys are HERE for Close Reading for the 21C, which I co-edited with @johannawinant.bsky.social. You know you want it, want to review it. Write to barbara_tonetti [at] press [dot] princeton [dot] edu. Look at that gorgeous slate of contributors! Get it!

So stacked! I'm still pinching myself.

this is, quite literally, a stacked collection of contributors

So many brilliant scholars gathered in this collection! Can’t wait to get my hands on it

Thank you!

In incredible company with this new release coming in May.
Congrats to eds. Zach Blas, Melody Jue, and Jennifer Rhee. Diagrammatic Epilogue on my end. 30% off with code "E25ZBLAS" ordering from @dukepress.bsky.social
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Just Published: In 'Informatics of Domination,' edited by Zach Blas, @melodyjue.bsky.social, and @jsrhee.bsky.social, published by @dukepress.bsky.social, we were all set the task of writing about one entry each from Donna Haraway's famous chart in her 1984 legendary cyborg manifesto.

This book is a brilliant idea. The editors took @djeanneh.bsky.social 's Informatics of Domination chart from "A Manifesto for Cyborgs" & assigned each line to a different thinker -- @ritaraley.bsky.social , Alexander Galloway, Lucy Suchman, Homay King & others. An inventive & productive framework!

Ana Teixeria Pinto, Tung-Hui Hu, @thaophan.bsky.social @djeanneh.bsky.social @patriciareed-am.bsky.social

Shaka McGlotten, Jian Neo Chen, Ho Rui An, Caroline A. Jones, Dalida Maria Benfield, Amy Sara Carroll, @rrdominguez.bsky.social @michacard.bsky.social @bicycleuser.bsky.social Astrida Neimanis, Stephanie Dinkins, madison moore, Homay King, Shu Lea Cheang, Matthew Fuller, Lucy Suchman,

@amajosephine.bsky.social @baharnoorizadeh.bsky.social Mahan Moalemi, Larissa Lai, Isadora Neves Marques, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com Jacob Gaboury, Luciana Parisi, Ashkan Sepahvand, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Luiza Prado de O. Martins, Ashley Ferro-Murray, Justin Talplacido Shoulder, Jennifer Gabrys,

@ritaraley.bsky.social @alothian.bsky.social Radha May (@elisagiardinapapa.bsky.social @nupurmathur.bsky.social @bathshebaokwenje.bsky.social) @leonhilton.bsky.social, Eva Hayward, Stefan Helmreich, Ollie Zhang, Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, Kathy High, Lawrence Lek, Alex Galloway,

Informatics of Domination is out with @dukepress.bsky.social! I co-edited this experimental collection with Zach Blas + @melodyjue.bsky.social across years + countless zoom chats. I remain stunned by the brilliance of our 50 contributors: read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...

Check out our new Spring 2025 catalog, which features work by @gentlemanjane.bsky.social, @jsrhee.bsky.social, @totomcgee.bsky.social, @burrata.bsky.social, @fbille.bsky.social & many more. Download it today!
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Thank you, @drkalyncoghill.bsky.social for sharing your research project, "Digital Misogynoir, AI, and Harm Detection" with the AI Futures Lab!

Folks, if you don't know about Kay's research, please check it out. It's brilliant and really important.

As a reader of academic texts, I prefer texts that open with an explanatory introduction rather than an evocative example, though I definitely appreciate the value of the latter. As a writer of academic texts I'm wondering how (un)common my preference is. Fellow readers, what do you prefer?

Calling upon anyone holding the reins in UKHE to do the right thing feels akin to that apocryphal story about the Dutch boy who tried to plug a hole in a dyke with his finger, but nonetheless, please everyone sign this, remember to like & subscribe, &c., &c.

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Congratulations, J.D.!!