Book announcement: In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround is now out!!! 4 years in the making, co-edited by @gem_neves and me, this OA volume is full of chapters that will make you rethink the meaning of convenience. Please read & circulate! https://t.co/4hSVSck6Cw

staggering how much damage has been done to the us-canada relationship in trump’s first year.

academic writing is like teaching in that its effects might be seen only years later or not at all. your niche article probably won’t be the key to a future groundbreaking theory, but it might be. to labor under such delusion is both necessary to human knowledge AND romantic!!!

A failing paper in most classes

Looks like Costco is pricing Ozempic at $499 a month in US. Honestly, pays for the annual membership right there and this is going to juice their 90%+ retention rates even higher. Anyway, I wrote on how Costco cracked Japan (2nd largest market outside NA): https://t.co/lQMDIhQY5T

unbelievable... a model reproduces the training data... this changes everything....

Anyone writing a book on platforms right now, there's new series for you! Edited by some of the finest people (and editors!) in platform studies, consider publishing with Platform Societies: https://t.co/097dDQFdbI

I'm participating in a discussion of the Netflix film Pedro Páramo this Friday, with some folks including Masha Salazkina and Juan Carlos Rulfo (son of the author of the novel) - on adaptation, film in the Netflix era, and much else. Zoom and in person https://t.co/oeaRSHRUL1

So excited to read this new piece by @JingOnMedia on the Alipay+ transnational network - mapping how its payments work. Fantastic work! https://t.co/2iR1yC8aYG

So excited to share my new paper in the Journal of Contemporary China https://t.co/Jim3K4E6uB #fintech #digitalpayments #financialinfrastructure Also, hope this institutional history offer a framework in understanding China’s financial policies in the crypto era.

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against

A reminder of this excellent early book on Platform capitalism in India, available free many places https://t.co/1XFkevWVlM

my notes on the early history of more-than-human vision in China via ancient optics, 千里眼, and cybernetics (photos: Artur Tixiliski)

It's important to remember that web novels (in the sense of them on syosetu) are published on a very regular, consistent basis where a lot of success comes from being able to accrue a loyal audience and then translating that into winning competitions, awards, & editors.

Content is a useful way to think of it this (and many platforms do specifically see what they do is content, see @msteinbrg's work on it). Think of how the consistent YouTube video strategy is to pump out constant content. It's bloated, it's not great, it's not very good.

anyone else notice that Gen z hardly use butlers anymore?? they look at a butler and think it’s just a guy who serves you. they don’t understand they’re also our best friends and closest confidants 😂😂

Absolutely fantastic article about the narratives and myths propelling Putin, the incoherence of myths driving wars - and a demonstration of how vital humanities are to critical thought today The myths that made Putin’s war https://t.co/huGjNM4EHo via @ft

there’s obviously a nostalgic “humanist” reading of people falling in love with AI bots (ie. everyone is so desperate for any connection now, etc) but the antihumanist one feels correct: humans have always fallen in love with flat/partial/projective/“machinic” qualities in others

According to a confidential IDF Intelligence database, 83% of the Palestinians killed in Gaza were civilians (once again, the impeccably brave @yuval_abraham delivers). The remaining 17% include people like @AnasAlSharif0 (RIP), framed as active "terrorists". There is no

Anyone surprised by the racism, the wack economic ideas, the illiteracy, the fascism of the current US president should read this book to be reminded - these all go back to the 1980s and 90s, probably far longer. It’s almost therapeutic. Must read.