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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · 5h

Did you know that the university of Michigan is building the world’s largest supercomputer for Los Alamos National Labs’ nuclear weapons production programs, and paying for $830 million of it despite not being able to use >90% of it?

I wrote about it here:

www.michigandaily.com/opinion/umic...

UMich says the Ypsi Data Center won’t “manufacture nuclear weapons.” What does Los Alamos think?

University administration must make a choice: Will it side with the public and live up to its stated ideals of serving the public good and public interest? Or will it side with LANL and spend hundreds...

www.michigandaily.com

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 2d

With labor friends like these, who needs enemies?

"A ChatGPT-based analysis from Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that AI could wipe out swaths of both white- and blue-collar jobs."

www.axios.com/2025/10/06/a...

Exclusive: AI could erase 100 million U.S. jobs, Senate Dem report finds

A ChatGPT-based analysis from Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that AI could wipe out swaths of both white- and blue-collar jobs

www.axios.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12d

NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders.

I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · 15d

No, it's not just passing the same $100 billion back and forth...we generated $200 billion in GDP...

nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · Sep 4

At UMich, CS students have been raiding the school of information offices for coffee/snacks and it has led to huge messes like someone pissing in a trash can and spilling coffee everywhere

So now facilities has implemented what SI grads lovingly refer to as martial law in order to reclaim our land

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · Sep 3

giving a talk on Fri on a panel led by @oddletters.bsky.social; I’ll talk about imperial ambitions in Silicon Valley’s 2001 conjuncture caught between the dot com crash and the post9/11 rise of the security state

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · Sep 3

I’m at 4s this week in Seattle! Would love to chat about marxisms in STS, political economy of tech, and techs role in racial capitalism if you’re here as well

Signal at @nathanckim18.49

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · Sep 3

Right it’s not like google is maintaining its monopoly by having a better search product or anything so sharing search data effectively does nothing to break up the monopoly

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Sep 2

This Google decision appears to be a complete failure to break up its monopoly. It has to share *some* search data? Big deal. Plus it can still legally do search engine payola. And no Chrome sale.

A best possible outcome for Google, the same monopolized, enshittified internet for the rest of us.

Judge Orders Google to Share Search Results to Help Resolve Monopoly

www.nytimes.com

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · Sep 2

in the cloud. straight up "deployng it". And by "it", haha , well. let's justr say. my kubernets

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James M. Zumel Dumlao @jamesmzd.bsky.social · Aug 31

Nothing like good ‘ol Michigan football straight to the face

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · Aug 22

I worked at a USDA dairy lab the summer after high school and one of our primary research goals was finding uses for millions of tons of whey protein that was a byproduct of subsidized cheese production. This was when I first learned about the Missouri Cheese Caves

Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · Aug 22

I feel like we haven’t really talked enough about how much of MAHA/masc-coded wellness grift is just boosterism for the cattle industry

- collagen
- whey protein
- colostrum
- tallow
- organ meats

It’s all repackaged beef & dairy byproduct, baby

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