Lee Vinsel
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I do technology studies, make Peoples & Things podcast, co-founded @The_Maintainers, and profess Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech.
Blacksburg, VA
Joined December 2011
Read an enlightening interview with Lee Vinsel about "Using Podcasts to Humanize Scholars" in the new issue of Technology and Culture via @ProjectMUSE
https://t.co/bmKGTCZaZW
Hard for me to put into words how touched I was when the editors of Technology & Culture, which I've been reading for half my life, interviewed me about Peoples & Things, the technology studies podcast I make with a production team here at Virginia Tech. https://t.co/PZGbCELJax
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Hard for me to put into words how touched I was when the editors of Technology & Culture, which I've been reading for half my life, interviewed me about Peoples & Things, the technology studies podcast I make with a production team here at Virginia Tech. https://t.co/PZGbCELJax
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Seth Klarman avoids the spotlight—but his funding helps shape the Left’s policy machine.
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Folks, asking for a friend: Are there any good, short, clear pieces that you use to teach students about the history of the Dot-Com bubble and bust? Extra points for these traits: Written as narrative history, chapter/article length, free or easily obtainable.
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We've had a lot of great episodes of Peoples & Things recently. This week's features Whitney Laemmli talking about her neat forthcoming book, _Making Movement Modern: Science, Politics, and the Body in Motion_. https://t.co/qRmwdhtnU6
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I really enjoyed and was grateful for the opportunity to go on Charley Johnson's Untangled podcast to talk about my essay, "Against Narcissistic-Sociopathic Technology Studies, or Why Do People USE Technologies?" https://t.co/hkPIkKkdfJ
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It was published as part of a special issue on Interventionist Knowledges edited by my friends @EricHounshell and Verena Halsmeyer. The special issues examines cases where policymakers and others tried to "apply" social scientific knowledge to policy problems.
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Very happy to see my article “Join us in preparing people for tomorrow’s jobs”: Robert Reich, the “New Economy,” and mythic thinking as interventionist knowledge - https://t.co/LC1dM2IkVa - finally out in Science in Context.
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“Join us in preparing people for tomorrow’s jobs”: Robert Reich, the “New Economy,” and mythic thinking as interventionist knowledge
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A new post on The Conversation estimates that flushing the toilet equals the water used in 154 GPT-5 prompts and 1,714 GPT-4o prompts. I am wondering if anyone has seen analysis or pushback on the piece. https://t.co/07aMiuh86g
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A bane of hosting a podcast about technology is that I get loads of press releases and such, including not one but four - FOUR! - emails relating to this supposedly AI-enabled . . . pen.
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I wrote a little post about where the Peoples & Things podcast is at these days and, more importantly, about our most recent episode with Mary Bridges on her book, _Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower_. https://t.co/N4IykQh7W8
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I'm on research leave this fall, and it is giving me time to step back and reflect on what I've been up to the past few years. A lot of my work during that time has gone into making the podcast,...
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Was so glad to see the arguments of Mastery and Drift highlighted in this article!
Great stuff from @jialynnyang on what’s ailing the Democrats, with lots of sharp insights from @LGeismer, @daschloz, and others. “These kinds of Democrats fear mass participation. That’s what they’re afraid of. Instead, you tweak the system.” - Geismer https://t.co/A6VzhWImeM
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I just posted "Against Narcissistic-Sociopathic Technology Studies, or Why Do People *USE* Technologies?" about the need to be less preoccupied with our own judgments and more interested in what people who are not ourselves are up to. https://t.co/Pm1K0BZ6zG
peoples-things.ghost.io
Why and how do people USE technologies? This question should be at the center of any thinking about human life with technology. The ways in which people use technologies, after all, determines the...
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Had fun working on this post most of the day. Should be up tomorrow morning.
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Advocates for policies and policy frameworks will often argue that their proposal is more “democratic” while the one they oppose is “technocratic.” But conflicts in many industrial societies today are NOT between publics on one side and experts on the other.
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Any of y'all have favorite reporting/analysis of Trump and the Bureau of Labor Statistics? A reading group I'm a part of is looking for resources. Thanks!
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Very interesting set of thoughts. The bipartisan re-emergence of industrial policy in the USA is understandable for a number of reasons, but also kinda . . . bizarre and often untethered from historical reasoning.
📦 Can industrial policy work? Yes—the East Asian experience shows it can (at least partially). But its success rests on a key condition: labor control. 🇯🇵🇰🇷🇹🇼 Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan industrialized rapidly under authoritarian or semi-authoritarian regimes. Wages and
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Seems quite plausible to me. It has boggled my mind the way so many "critics" have gone along with data center projections as if there's a decent chance they will come to fruition. It's criticism that doesn't include critical thinking.
Even though I’m worried about coming electricity rate hikes, I also tried to put together a story under which demand growth won’t be that bad. What would that world look like? I think if you say data center froth subsides + AI capex falls + EVs collapse + a mild recession,
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Even though I’m worried about coming electricity rate hikes, I also tried to put together a story under which demand growth won’t be that bad. What would that world look like? I think if you say data center froth subsides + AI capex falls + EVs collapse + a mild recession,
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What are the risks of a discourse that exaggerates the role and risk of GenAI around elections? We look at this question in more detail in another excerpt from @Sacha_Altay & my paper on GenAI and elections, this time kindly published by the @oiioxford.
New blog! ‘Consequences of a skewed discourse around generative AI and elections’. Read why @_FelixSimon_ @oiioxford and @Sacha_Altay @IPZ_ch believe claims about the impact of generative AI on elections have been overblown: https://t.co/Gi2crTBK5J 1/2
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