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Aaron Shapiro

@bricolageyumyum.bsky.social
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associate professor of technology studies, UNC Comm

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4h
Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...
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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Graduate Center is proud to welcome the inaugural class in Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies (BRES), our first new Ph.D. program in more than 25 years www.gc.cuny.edu/news/graduat... @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social
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Josh Scannell @frannyrecounts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
With the book’s release, I want to give a brief overview and outline a few of the key arguments. I’d include links to contemporary events but there are too many connections. The worst part of writing about race, computation, and police power is that it is always timely.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.
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Tech Hype is Cannibalizing the Future
Every day, we are told that we live in the future—but hype is eating the future and leaving us the bones," writes Sun-ha Hong.
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Scott Richmond @scottrichmond.me · 06/10/2026
Published today! "The Critique of Instrumental Reason Circa 1976: Seymour Papert, Joseph Weizenbaum, Artificial Intelligence, and the Frankfurt School": quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/image... Finally, my first scholarly work on Papert is in the world!
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Aaron Shapiro @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
had >100 texts from dozens of websites sending me log in codes when I wasn’t trying to log in, eg, to Condé Nast or carfax. Then, someone got hold of my credit card info and spent >$1200 on Oura rings. How much of my life will have been spent on hold filing fraud reports or reporting fraud texts?
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Aaron Shapiro @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The yellowjackets are writing opinion pieces for the times now
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Aaron Shapiro @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ok what about automatic crash notifications
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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
PhD candidates/new grads: Postdoc opportunity with me focused on political economy and tech. See details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32502
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Cornell University, Department of Communication
Job #AJO32502, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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Aaron Shapiro @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Real big fish
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Aaron Shapiro @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Sublemon
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Aaron Shapiro @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Tallarico’s hoagie spread, the superior Italian chili crisp. I need a Philly-to-NC smuggler.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
faculty! Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas faculty! please answer this anonymous AAUP survey docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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2026 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey
The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...
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Aaron Shapiro @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
@sunhahong.bsky.social
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Aaron Shapiro @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
GM reported $800M from subscriptions and digital services, with a 70% margin. @mcforelle.bsky.social and I got the angles covered on the impacts of subscriptionization estsjournal.org/index.php/es... (finance.yahoo.com/news/gm-quie... )
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View of Driving into a Paywall: The Subscriptionization of Consumer Vehicles | Engaging Science, Technology, and Society
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Michael Ekstrand @md.ekstrandom.net · 21/07/2026
“Algorithmic Realism” by @benzevgreen.bsky.social and @salome.bsky.social is on my short list of papers most foundational to my research. Super excited that Ben has turned it into a book, and it's available for pre-order! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205570...
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Algorithmic Realism
The field of data science faces a moral crisis. Despite the desires of data scientists to develop algorithms for good, algorithms regularly produce injustice...
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
@alohacatss

if you’re hot, they’re hot. bring them inside

(image of an Ewok standing outside a door, probably wanting to come in)
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Aaron Shapiro @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Johnny 5 on mars ❤️
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Perseverance - WATSON selfie - Sol 1119 - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2pKmx3e
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Simeon Schmauß
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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · 08/07/2026
New article in @jacobinmag.bsky.social
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Kate Kaye @katekaye.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Bianca [hi!] - This idea is similar to a main thread in my podcast about 'trust measurement' (coming soon). The ways we as humans trust are shifting as people are increasingly subjected to the same computational measures of trustworthiness that AI agents [agentic 'coworkers'] are. AITrustControl.com
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Trust Control
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Brian Callaci @briancallaci.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
With University of Utah and the New School heterodox economics PhD programs under attack, the task is clear: Mayor Mamdani must create a PhD program at John Jay College, City University of New York
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Aaron Shapiro @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
People say the choice is btw social democracy w real welfare and air conditioning. I’ve just come from UK and they have neither so jokes on you
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Aaron Shapiro @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Fans in the UK don’t have swivel tech yet
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
"...annihilating attention is a political project w/ clear benefits for the 💰 class: if we cannot attend the world, neither can we intercede in it. We become passive recipients of their worldbuilding, disenfranchised from our own responsibility to make sense of—and [to] remake—the 🌏 around us."
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Umyazu
Reading is the art of attention.
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
We're hiring a post-doctoral research fellow! Apply by July 15.
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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I am hiring a qualitative postdoc to start this fall for the @datasociety.bsky.social project AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge. Fully remote but must be US-based. Interested in youth, scams, hustle/financial/consumer culture? More here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr...
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Post-Doctoral Fellow, AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge
Remote
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Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Alright all, it's that time: if you've ever taught my work, would you be so kind as to DM me with details? I (and my tenure file) appreciate it!
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Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
My UNC colleague @toriekstrand.bsky.social has a powerful op-ed today in the N&O on the insidious nature of so-called "institutional neutrality" - and how in practice it means anything but. www.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...
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Professor: Here’s an alternative to UNC’s charade of ‘institutional neutrality’ | Opinion
The author is a professor at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media.
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gillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
reposting this which enthuses not only about Sarah Sharma's book but also the work of Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social. @dukepress.bsky.social @goodrobotpod.bsky.social @robkitchin.bsky.social @ahjackman.bsky.social @melhogan.bsky.social @alinau27.bsky.social
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Aaron Shapiro @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Neighborhood connections, Bristol UK
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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. flaminghydra.com/welcome-to-t...
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Welcome to the U.S.A.
My habitual morning dose of TikTok brainrot is one-third news, and two-thirds memes, short comedy, and bewildering weird stuff. Until roughly three days ago, when it became nearly wall to wall coverag...
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Aaron Shapiro @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
one of those days when your body demands vegetables… lunch was roasted whole head of sprouting cauliflower. dinner is grilled zooks and squash
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Aaron Shapiro @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
If I ever go to montana I'm skipping billings and going straight to accounts receivable
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 01/06/2026
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...
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Seeing Like a Supply Chain
A history of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, and how the ambiguity built into that technology helps companies and ...
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Aaron Shapiro @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
researching and writing about the HBO signal scrambling controversies of the 1980s and discovering that i'm radically and rabidly anti-IP. LFG copyleft
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
“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
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No Mention of Gaza in the DNC’s 2024 Autopsy? Seriously?
Too many Democrats still refuse to acknowledge how gravely the party was harmed by a failure to actively oppose genocide.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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.
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Azadeh Akbari @azadehakbari.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
🧵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: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Screenshot of the paper's title and abstract called uneven datafication, for the journal Dialogues in Digital Society
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
New post about people I know who grifted and gabbed despite professing decent politics and how we all bear at least a little responsibility for this nightmare. stuckness.ghost.io/down-on-the-...
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Down on the Farm
Someone I was friends with 30 years ago has started a farm commune. From the outside, it also looks a little like a cult. The farm in question consists of one (1) shack, one and a half (1.5) gazebos,...
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Here's the link to the free pdf of my new book The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet. Access is so important and I'm grateful that the press is platforming it as one file that is easy to download. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...
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The Inattention Economy
Revealing the unheralded contributions of women of color to the foundation and development of the digital economyThe Inattention Economy challenges the wides...
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 27/03/2026
lots of trans ppl being kept in the closet rn due to the perception of an increasingly transphobic public and like I cannot overstate the degree to which 90+% of people Simply Do Not Have A Strong Opinion On Trans People And That Hasn't Changed Despite Years Of Transphobic Media Capture
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Aaron Shapiro @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I stand by this joke
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
We are looking for a 3-year postdoc to work on a self-defined research project in environmental history that places electronic or digital technologies at the center of its historical inquiry. More details in the announcement linked to below. #envhist
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Aaron Shapiro @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
new jawn from me out today in economy & society on the "subscription economy," part of my larger project on *the paywall society* www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Subscription's entanglements
PDF | On Feb 5, 2026, Aaron Shapiro published Subscription's entanglements | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
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Aaron Shapiro @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Wet Bot American Summer?
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The Mask of the Red Jeph @ass.golf · 20/03/2026
hey if "the economy" is completely decoupled from the welfare of the people, WHAT IS THE FUCKING POINT OF THE ECONOMY
"people are starving but THE ECONOMY is doing great"
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
If you leave the infrastructure of surveillance in place, people in power will inevitably find an excuse to resume using it. You have to take that shit down.
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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Book launch day! “Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self Surveillance” is out. Bluesky friends, I would be so grateful if you would buy a copy. And if you can’t afford it, could you at least share this announcement. Thank you. #BookSky politics-prose.com/search?q=You...
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