associate professor of technology studies, UNC Comm
Aaron Shapiro
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researching and writing about the HBO signal scrambling controversies of the 1980s and discovering that i'm radically and rabidly anti-IP. LFG copyleft
Aaron Shapiro
There is something in here for everyone: Marxists, logistics obsessives, obsolete-software enthusiasts, and those are all the kinds of people I know about. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
The real solution to helping historians do research is actually pretty simple: give archives more money. Money for conservation, preservation, storage (physical an digital), climate controlled facilities, and staff (paid at a living wage). You don't need LLMs, you need money.
Because I also like a record of Engagement, me at Flaming Hydra: on the joys of watching people discover how weird we are in the USA and the necessary mirror it places up to us when they do. Also, weird is a good thing in this instance.
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Congratulations @paullangley.bsky.social & @andrewleyshon.bsky.social on the publication of #FinTechCapital @fintechcapital.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social It’s a huge achievement & a timely intervention
“There is not a single mention of Gaza in the DNC’s 192-page autopsy report (on the 2024 presidential race). As someone who campaigned in MI and WI, let me tell you that one of the reasons we lost was our blank check to Israel and Netanyahu while they committed genocide in Gaza.”
— US Rep. Ro Khanna
If I ever go to montana I'm skipping billings and going straight to accounts receivable
one of those days when your body demands vegetables… lunch was roasted whole head of sprouting cauliflower. dinner is grilled zooks and squash
Neighborhood connections, Bristol UK
🧵My paper on "Uneven Datafication" just came out! It draws on literature on coloniality, uneven development and dependency. Uneven datafication operates through three interrelated dynamics:
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