RT @LGeismer: Was so glad to see the arguments of Mastery and Drift highlighted in this article!.

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.

What do you want to know?.

Had fun working on this post most of the day. Should be up tomorrow morning.

RT @scritic: Advocates for policies and policy frameworks will often argue that their proposal is more “democratic” while the one they oppo….

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!.

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.

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.

RT @robinsonmeyer: Even though I’m worried about coming electricity rate hikes, I also tried to put together a story under which demand gro….

RT @_FelixSimon_: What are the risks of a discourse that exaggerates the role and risk of GenAI around elections?. We look at this question….

very good.

Headed to a departmental writing retreat in an old farmhouse here in Blacksburg. Really looking forward to it.

This is a beautiful example of cultural pessimist technology criticism. It pins some form of perceived social decline on an abstract essence called "technology," which seems to act on its own.

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RT @jpdysonplay: Very interesting discussion on the history of innovation-- @STS_News and Matthew Wisnioski

Starting to think it was probably Stephen Broadberry et al's work.

Annoyed at myself. Some years ago I bumped into a big quantitative - and I think UK-based - research project that was studying the emergence of capitalism/growth in Europe and pushing the dates back considerably. And now I can't remember them. Ringing bells for anyone?.

I remember reading a report from the 1990s - maybe from Commerce or the Bureau of Labor Statistics - saying layoffs were a normal part of even a growing, "healthy" economy. Not necessarily a sign of economic problems, just organizations reconfiguring in changing environments.

Somebody will turn this into a story about how leaders are using AI to kill jobs rather than normal belt-tightening cuts to make more room for investment.

Title/angle of this piece is absurd. Most examples come from medical imaging and sensing that people have been doing for *YEARS* before "AI." All kinds of ways we use technologies to look at humans in ways that we cannot look at ourselves. Peter Winch would have a field day.

RT @benjaminhsnyder: The 100th episode of People's and Things?!? It was a blast talking to @STS_News about my book Spy Plane on this very s….