"This insatiable hunger for power is slowing the transition to green energy." jacobin.com/2024/06/ai-dat…

📢Thrilled to finally introduce ✨the Data Workers' Inquiry ✨our 15 community researchers ✨and the repository! This is a long thread and a reminder to join an event that will challenge what you know about data work: data-workers.org/events/ July 8, 5 pm CET/11 am EST, 1/x🧵👇

Almost two years after its "debunking," I wrote about the half-life of the serotonin hypothesis for Parapraxis's Winter Issue on The Wish, just going online now: parapraxismagazine.com/articles/bad-m…

in the last 10 days the Supreme Court has ruled that the president can do crimes, bribery is legal, agencies have no actual authority, and also that the homeless can be thrown in prison for the crime of not having a home.

The Lancet publishes what Palestinians have been telling you for months — “conservatively” 186,000 or more dead.

Such important work by Data & Society researcher, colleague, and friend Joan Mukogosi on how Black-centered birth workers contend with, resist, and use datafication and engage in vigilant care. Report below📘

My new Data & Society report critically examines how financial literacy and wellness politics converge to sell us “financial wellness.” And how it’s promoted as financial inclusion and racial justice, while helping normalize organized abandonment. datasociety.net/library/medica…

If August 1 snuck up on you and you're in a mad scramble to finish your syllabi, consider teaching Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond (bonus: I can virtually visit your class and entertain your students) yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030024…

A reminder that almost every university leader in the West has refused to condemn this and many have tried to suppress students and staff protesting against this. What an utter disgrace.

Activists have been protesting Amazon, Google and Microsoft for their ties with the Israeli army for a while. Now we can reveal what those ties actually look like in the context of the assault on Gaza. A story by Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם for +972 Magazine שיחה מקומית 972mag.com/cloud-israeli-…

🚨In light of the ongoing racist attacks and Islamophobic violence spreading across the UK, we must not overlook how Big Tech platforms offer the far-right a powerful venue to incite hate and organize. Our statement👇amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

Gaza is covered in 42 million tonnes of rubble. The enduring human, environmental, and economic consequences of the immense toxic detritus of genocide—towering piles of debris that also bury an estimated 10,000 dead—are just staggering bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

Here is a drawing in my sketchbook of some of the thousands of people marching in the streets of Chicago on the final day of the DNC. Marching in solidarity with the people of Palestine and against the forces of genocide.

Some therapists have left their networks because insurers interfered with treatment. Others left after they delayed payments or tried to claw them back. “Insurance reimbursement barely covered the gas it took to get to my office,” one therapist said. projects.propublica.org/why-i-left-the…

“Although federal law requires insurers to provide the same access to mental and physical health care, these companies have been caught, time and again, shortchanging customers with mental illness — restricting coverage and delaying or denying treatment.” #MedicareForAll

Care, a site that connects users with caregivers, will pay $8.5 million to settle the FTC's claims that it inflated the number of jobs available and how much providers could expect to earn. bit.ly/3Xl0JzE

Looking forward to presenting this Friday Work, Employment & Society with Valeria Pulignano and James Farrar on meaningful work, moderated by Surviving Work . Details below!

This is an important legal precedent in regulating online therapy platforms. BACP suspends EAP giant Health Assured thanks to the team & contributors of #FileonFour BBC Radio 4 Alys Harte & Ella Rule investigation here bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

What a line up. If you have any interest in #platformization you could not do better by joining Work, Employment & Society tomorrow at 1pm to hear about wage theft, professional platformization & the uberization of therapy. Online registration @Britsoci [email protected] or phone 0191 383 0839

I am forever changed by this year, by the evil we are witnessing, by the silence of so many, by the acceptance of such horror as normal.