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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 17h

Another new paper on #assetization - this time about outer space!

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Diego Cerna Aragón @dc-a.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Assetization has gone too far here in Toronto #4S2026

TD street panel saying "Calm is an asset"

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And #4S2026 is off! Just getting a chance to grab lunch and catch a breather

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Finance and Society @finandsoc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Out now: The first of two themed special issues. Part 1 opens with an agenda-setting article on technofinance by the editors and a key essay by @paullangley.bsky.social and @andrewleyshon.bsky.social on the disappearance of fintech. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Finance and Society: Volume 12 - When finance becomes tech, Part I | Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core - Finance and Society - Volume 12 - When finance becomes tech, Part I

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Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The 4S Toronto 2026 final program is now available in multiple formats. (a) PDF final program is online here: tinyurl.com/sdes6emw

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The reason I'm so skeptical of the AI industry's latest breakthroughs is they are operating with infinite money and pretending that doesn't matter. So many things become easier when you have infinite money to throw at a problem. The Infinite Money Trick davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/the-infini...

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The Infinite Money Trick

Guarded skepticism about AI product releases

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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Volume 35, Issue 3 is finally out with the first part of the Forum on Tech Oligarchy! Edited by @keanbirch.bsky.social, the issue includes 14 articles about the emergence and the political, economic, and social implications of techno-financial elites. 🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/csac20/current

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Working for me, so not sure what the issue is

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our special issue on #TechOligarchy has just come out in @sciasculture.bsky.social! Our first issue has 13 articles in on lots of different topics by lots of different authors - go check it out! www.tandfonline.com/toc/csac20/3...

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Science as Culture

Tech Oligarchy Forum - Part 1. Volume 35, Issue 3 of Science as Culture

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...

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Amin Samman @aminsamman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Out now: the new issue of @finandsoc.bsky.social. It's the first of two themed special issues. Part 1 opens with an agenda-setting article on technofinance by the editors and a key essay by Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon on the disappearance of fintech. Check it! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is especially interesting to me as someone who now has an interest in national accounting - social artefacts rather than facts

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Anyone can sign up as "faculty" at the The Horowitz Andreessen Academy ... thinking of doing it || tally.so/r/RGOXel

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Faculty Application

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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

📢 Another addition to our Forum on Tech Oligarchy! 📜 In "Rite to mine: Bitcoin, ritual, and oligarchy," Owen Marshall examines crypto-mining as a foundational ritual practice of tech oligarchy. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

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Rite to mine: Bitcoin, ritual, and oligarchy

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's a riff on this classic: "Do artifacts have politics?" www.jstor.org/stable/20024...

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Client Challenge

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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today is Pub Day for "Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census"!!! ::bounce:: Please support me by buying a copy of the book or asking your library for a copy! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Do they not realise how vapid and self serving they sound?

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

How does anyone not laugh in his presence?

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Post-doc here with @zephoria.bsky.social: "empirical research study examining a novel question that gets at the political economy of tech..." 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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Amin Samman @aminsamman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Very pleased to announce the programme for this year's @finandsoc.bsky.social conference. We'll be talking everything from prediction markets and offshore finance to acid capitalism and the assetization of horses. Come join us in Copenhagen if you can! financeandsocietynetwork.org/finandsoc-co...

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

CfP: What has Driven Our Elites Insane? Workshop from @keanbirch.bsky.social and David Tyfield keanbirch.net?p=459

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

This is all because JK Rowling is using her vast wealth and influence to engage in lawfare and censor anything that criticizes her. I won't stand for it. bsky.app/profile/esqu...

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Nice rule from UC Berkeley Law School about use of genAI by students

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I have a new policy briefing out with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (#CIGI) called "Assetization: Anything & Everything?" - it's an introduction to #assetization + its implications for policymaking || www.cigionline.org/publications...

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Assetization: Anything and Everything?

Anything that can be owned, and from which benefit can be derived, can be an asset. What do we need to understand about changing systems of valuation and ownership?

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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If you'd like to know more about the link between assets and social conflict, our SI w/ @theobourgeron.bsky.social on #assetstruggles is now complete, featuring 7 papers on 175 pages. Thread with links to papers below. Email me if you'd like the whole pack. Again our huge thanks to all involved 🙏

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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

📣 New piece - Forum on Tech Oligarchy 📜 In "Epistemic oligarchisation: exploring capture and concentration through science reform," Sven Ulpts, Sheena F. Bartscherer, Bart Penders, and Nicole Nelson examine the impact of Tech Oligarchy on scientific knowledge production 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

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Epistemic oligarchisation: exploring capture and concentration through science reform

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I think the trick to getting rid of #Farage is for every media appearance he now makes ensuring that @countbinface.bsky.social is invited too

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

In a workshop presentation. Tech Oligarchy intro in @sciasculture.bsky.social develops it in writing

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Did it a couple of years ago!

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Yes, but it was very hot! Without a/c

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Lol ... Glasgow is one of the best cities I've lived in (& ended up liking it more than edinburgh)

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Scam stage of capitalism ... getting worse every day

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Is the current #Odyssey argument that Odysseus was the Sea Peoples? Causing the late Bronze Age collapse

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Ali Rıza Taşkale @alirizataskale.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

The first article of the Silicon Valley special issue I’m editing is out! @mrshoward.bsky.social shows how contrarianism isn’t genuine dissent but a performative strategy rooted in venture capital. The piece develops negative mimesis, how dissent is aestheticized, repackaged & stripped of politics.

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