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justine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

if you are at #4s2026 and are looking for a space to collectively explore the crucial question of our times -- how do we win? -- then check out our panel this saturday

taking back technopower: sts & strategic interventions for the fight against technofascism (great font)

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Having a great time in Chicago at the @socialismconference.org ! Thought I'd take this opportunity to let you all know that I've been working on a read-along podcast for Marx's Capital Volume 1! It even comes with cute illustrations in the show notes!

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Episode 1 A - Intro & Chapter 1 (first two pages only!) [p. 5-14]

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

great new article from AK Norris and Tavo Espinosa in Review of Radical Political Economics A Refutation of “Rent” in Technofeudalism and Knowledge-Commodity Theories: Toward a Theory of Surplus Profits journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The legal fund is running critically low, and the specific conspiracy charge they have chosen to pursue is designed to harm activist movements of all kinds.

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The SE Michigan pro-Palestine movement, after defeating the local prosecutor and the state AG on multiple occasions, are now facing the FBI and its allegations of "conspiracies to transmit threats across state lines." Please donate to the legal fund here: bit.ly/umlegalfund

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

my paper "Hyperscalers as logistical regimes" was published last week! Read on for a story about how Silicon Valley adopted ideas from the world of shipping to make (and to some extent, fulfill) promises about scale and the fluidity of the circulation of capital www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Hyperscalers as logistical regimes: software containers and the circulation of cloud capital

This article analyzes the software container as a device central to the rise of cloud capitalism. Firms like Google pioneered software containers internally as infrastructure for their own producti...

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cisong.bsky.social @cisong.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Trains... 🚊 trains... 🚂 I want more trains 🚆... dreaming of trains 🚞 ... One train from Cuyahoga Falls to Kent One train from Akron to Cleveland One train to Columbus One train to Ann Arbor One train to Chicago One train to Pittsburgh 🛤️ 🤤

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Huron Valley DSA @huronvalleydsa.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Join fellow workers for food, games, and camaraderie as we celebrate International Workers' Day. Connect with union members, hear contract organizing updates, and build our collective power! Family, friends, and community members are welcome! RSVP here: bit.ly/4ectQxU?r=qr

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justine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

three more weeks to submit abstracts to our 4S open panel, that articulate STS-flavoured responses to the most important question of our times: "how do we win?"

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Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The fight against the University of Michigan–Los Alamos data center reveals the “political and planetary stakes” of AI and the threat of “tech-enhanced militarism,” @tisjune.bsky.social , @shreyachowdhary.bsky.social & @nathanckim.bsky.social write in #Academe:

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AI as a War Issue, War as a Workers’ Issue

The fight against the University of Michigan–Los Alamos data center.

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

this immobilizing hatred of the world that prevents me from having a real job and means I need to do something like this [operating effectively on some strange form of social welfare] to survive

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Many people have discussed how graduate programs can lead to depression, but in my experience it is often the other way around: I am in this graduate program because I am depressed. For many reasons (my upbringing, inflated ego, the current conjuncture, etc) I have (1/2)

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

"AI as a War Issue, War as a Workers' Issue" Couldn't be more clear than this headline. @tisjune.bsky.social, @shreyachowdhary.bsky.social, and @nathanckim.bsky.social share their reflections on Organizing Against the Machine 👇

aaup.org

AI as a War Issue, War as a Workers’ Issue

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

new writing from @tisjune.bsky.social @shreyachowdhary.bsky.social and myself on AI, nuclear weapons, worker power, and the "biggest, baddest, fastest computer in the world" being built by UMich and los alamos national labs www.aaup.org/ai-war-issue...

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AI as a War Issue, War as a Workers’ Issue

The fight against the University of Michigan–Los Alamos data center.

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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 12/03/2026

The federal government is explicitly arguing that "wearing black clothes" at a noise demonstration is "enough to convict the eight defendants accused of material support" for terrorism. The outcome of this trial cold be catastrophic.

theintercept.com

Wearing All Black at Protests Makes You Guilty of Terrorism, Prosecutors Tell Jury

The case is a major test of the Trump administration's push to label "antifa" protesters as terrorists.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Every single person in the entire chain of command that massacred the schoolgirls in Minab, and that is currently carpet bombing Iranian civilians, needs to be tried and jailed in The Hague. Sick, depraved monsters drunk on imperial hubris.

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justine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

hi STS people! are you engaged in political struggle against fascism? do you have things to share: strategic reflections, organizing artefacts, etc.? do you have thoughts about how we will win? if so, you should submit something to our open panel at 4S this year! www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...

Title: Taking Back Technopower: STS and strategic interventions for the fight against technofascism
with authors and research areas

The current moment is characterized by resurgent struggles against technofascism. These struggles include community resistance against data centers, strategic actions against tech companies complicit in genocidal violence, and organizing efforts across many sectors against the proliferation of AI in the workplace. This open panel gathers people engaged in these sites of struggle to collectively consider the following question: how can STS approaches advance these struggles against fascist technopower, and work towards constructing more liberatory futures?

In addressing this question, we seek to surface the incipient militant potential of STS, often submerged under scholarship that muddies strategic analysis and disarms political action through the register of subversive critique. Through close attention to relationality and sociality, STS may help build solidarities while unsettling the sedimented categories that impede movement building (Breymen et al, 2017). By incorporating materialist, political economic accounts of technology, STS may help push beyond the boundaries of "ethical tech” by revealing the imbrications of economic and financial processes with technoscience (Birch, 2013). And as a roving, interdisciplinary field attuned to embodied and situated practices (Haraway, 1988), an STS lens may help ensure that analyses are constantly attentive to the lively contingencies of on-the-ground struggles.

We seek to explore theories born through political struggle, and examples of how STS theory informs praxis. Submissions may include, but are not limited to: strategic reflections from organizers and activists; historical accounts that can inform future organizing and activism; or the analysis of organizing artefacts (e.g., propaganda, slogans, campaigns) and their role in advancing political struggle. We will facilitate this panel as an open discussion among folks situated across different sites of struggle, aiming to provide a space for advancing the struggle against technofascism through the development of relationships, theories, and strategic insights.

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Huron Valley DSA @huronvalleydsa.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

HVDSA members Dave Zeglen and Yousef Rabhi are challenging Ann Arbor’s Democratic Party establishment, running for city council and mayor! www.michigandaily.com/news/ann-arb...

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Ann Arbor elections draw democratic socialist candidates

Yousef Rabhi and David Zeglen, Ann Arbor’s newest candidates for public office, are running on democratic socialist platforms.

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davez4thepeople.bsky.social @davez4thepeople.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I'm a proud democratic socialist running for Ann Arbor City Council because we deserve a city for the people.

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

UM FOIA office denies my record dated... Nov 2026? one of the funnier denials given that (query was in response to www.justice.gov/epstein/file... www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)

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🌶 David Gray Widder @davidthewid.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I presented @nathanckim.bsky.social and my "How Big Cloud gets Bigger" paper analyzing crunchbase to show how: *Google/Microsoft/Amazon invest at rates rivaling the largest VCs.* Big Cloud = Critical Infrastructure *AND* Venture Capital. here are the slides:

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

funny letter, from a frustrated scientist reacting to the University of Michigan seeking to distance itself from the defense industry, 1972. From an ongoing project on UMich's relationship to national security since WWII

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

As a VA nurse, Alex Pretti was a member of AFGE. This union also reps Border Patrol, and may have repped Pretti's killer. I talked to VA workers who are furious and want Border Patrol out of AFGE. "For a union member to kill another is a fundamental betrayal of what a union is supposed to be.”

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Alex Pretti’s Killer May Be Part of His Union

Border Patrol agents belong to the same federal workers union as VA nurses, a situation some of Pretti’s colleagues are determined to change.

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Artie Vierkant @avierkant.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

What all the crowd shots won’t show you is this energy extends to the rest of the metro. There are additional huge gatherings of people all around the cities, ICE watch is visible on so many street corners, walk a few blocks and you’ll pass people clearly in the middle of distro

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The Tigray genocide was, in part, actively facilitated through social media platforms, @nuredinali.bsky.social writes, and inadequate content moderation was part of the problem. On Points, he lays out how better moderation can make a difference, and what it requires. datasociety.net/points/how-t...

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Big Data & Society @bigdatasoc.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Join us for BD&S 2026 Colloquium, Panel 1: Constructing Alternatives through Community Data & Data Activism Jan 21 | 16:00–18:00 GMT (11:00 AM–1:00 PM EST) uky.zoom.us/j/85254638887 #DataActivism #CriticalDataStudies #DataJustice

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I’ll respond to this disingenuous question exactly one time. Maduro’s rule does is immaterial to the violation of sovereignty and international law that this strike represents. Go bother someone else with this nonsense.

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Writing down…. Underwear factories just like AI

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I graduated in 2022. I used blue books every semester in 2018,2019,2020,2021, and 2022 It’s such a non-story to me like they are just part of being a college student that never went away nor were the subject of students’ biggest gripes

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Thread of 2025

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 19/12/2025

The New School owns about a billion dollars worth of art, most of which is not on display. They could sell the two Warhols they own and raise $100 million tomorrow. But they’d rather close academic departments.

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Considering developments in Michigan as a case study, Nathan Kim and Ira Anwar say current state incentives for data centers reflect a false binary between new jobs and detrimental community impacts.

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Michigan Offers Handouts for Data Centers Promising Jobs. Will Those Jobs Come? | TechPolicy.Press

Nathan Kim and Ira Anwar say current state incentives for data centers reflect a false binary between new jobs and detrimental community impacts.

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Nathan can have a little LLM sensationalizing as a treat

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

It’s not even just that students are using ChatGPT. But that they leave the prompt in the answer they put online. And they copy paste an answer twice. And that they include the “Certainly! Here’s a …” in the answer. Etc

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: I finally have written up the extraordinary fact that the @federalreserve.gov has created an entire page specifically devoted to my FOIA requests entitled "Historical Board Documents". Also, my birthday sale is still underway! www.crisesnotes.com/the-federal-...

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The Federal Reserve Has Created an Entire Page Dedicated to My Successful FOIA Requests

Tomorrow is my 34th Birthday and as such this month's "Birthday" sale is still ongoing. Take advantage today! Birthday Sale! Longtime Notes on the Crises readers will remember that I hav...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 23/11/2025

‘The new arrangement re-entrenches different forms of violence – dispossession, displacement, slow destruction – under cover of being provisional, with permanent advantages for Israel.’ Zinaida Miller on the Gaza ceasefire’s ‘Yellow Line’, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

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Zinaida Miller | Temporary Measures

The Yellow Line is supposed to be temporary, but history suggests otherwise. Under ostensibly transient arrangements,...

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Fixing the candidate happens by changing those broader political waves; we can't wait around for another candidate that's going to be better, or discard electoral politics because elected none of them will "save" the masses -- the job is to transform the movements that dictate a candidate's actions

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Zohran (especially) is just an expression of the current political powers and conflicts, and all of its contradictions among the left. Him trying to bring liberal Zionists in coalition with pro-Palestine activists is just a function of what kind of power and alliances were needed to win

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

amidst all of the celebration re:Zohran there have been many criticisms of him being wishy-washy on arresting Netanyahu, apologizing to the NYPD, etc Useful; we shouldn't have a naive "he is awesome and he will save us" stance -- but these say more about the left than anything about the candidate

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

we are running an anti-data center mass meeting today for campus workers and students. Last week I was joking around and said "wouldn't it be crazy if 150 people signed up for this thing?" and today there are 150 people signed up, enough to make us worry that we did not book a large enough venue

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

But in the current context it feels instead as if we are developing strategies that indeed resonate with people at an apartment complex on Sun, folks were shocked to hear about a fire another tenant experienced due to management negligence and were enthusiastic to join

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

as much as we try to update our analyses and do the Right Strategy for the moment and context, things fail, then things feel pointless and estranged from reality people do seem upset but all too often it seems no call to action would succeed, feels like we are making irrelevant strides to organize

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I am extremely blessed to find myself constantly surprised (these days) by the everyday successes of organizing around me Most of the time organizing feels like a set of actions we go through because of a blind faith that change is needed -- trusting the conclusions of movements and moments past

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Every time I see a paper advertising like participatory AI for large language models I have to laugh, like “no slop for us, without us!”

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Soyjak Michael Scott-esque trump admin attorney: I DECLARE!! It is OFF RECORD!!!! Chad Anna Bower: I took screenshots which are all available at www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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