Nick Srnicek

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We have 12 new jobs opening up in our department, including a few related to the digital economy: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/085129-... www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/085128-... www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/085091-... Feel free to message me if you want to chat about these.

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no joke, temu's ad spending is significantly responsible for big tech's surprisingly good quarter nymag.com/intelligence...

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The Department of Political Economy at King’s College London are hiring to a permanent lectureship in Gender and Political Theory. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/083947-...

Lecturer in Gender and Political Theorywww.kcl.ac.uk Job id: 083947. Salary: Grade 6/7: £43,205 to £61,021 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance.

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Dense, devastating essay on the toll of the Gaza campaign so far. Watching otherwise intelligent, empathic people defend Israel's actions over the last three months has been chilling to me in a way I can't remember with any other news event. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Tom Stevenson · Rubble from Bone: Israel’s Warwww.lrb.co.uk Israeli tactics have little in common with standard counterinsurgency doctrine or rules of engagement. The war on Gaza...

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Tech giants are building huge data centers around the world that require a ton of water and energy. The AI boom will only accelerate it, but local opposition is growing. I spoke to @slehuede.bsky.social about a group in Chile that fought a Google data center and why tech’s plans must be challenged.

How to stop a data centerdisconnect.blog An interview with Sebastián Lehuedé about a community in Chile that blocked Google

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I helped a little bit with the making of UNION, a documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and it premiered on Sunday night at Sundance. three years of filming, hard to believe! cool write up about the premiere if you're curious

Amazon workers’ unionizing crusade gets Sundance spotlightwww.washingtonpost.com The new documentary “Union” goes inside the labor fight inside the behemoth’s Staten Island warehouse: “We are the N.W.A. of the organizing world”

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Someone should write an article on the American push for free flow of data called "Tear Down This Firewall"

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New from me: I wrote about how search algorithms have created a web full of content and words for Google, not humans. We made a fake lizard website to show you what has happened over 25 yrs. The visuals are beautiful. I’m so proud to work with such talented people! www.theverge.com/c/23998379/g...

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Happy new year!! Just out: "Platform Capitalisms and Platform Cultures"-a short piece w/ Lin Zhang @linzhang.bsky.social & Rahul Mukherjee. Argues the importance of the State in the platform-culture-market nexus. We build on the imp work of @nsrnicek.bsky.social & others doi.org/10.1177/1367...

Didn't see any discussion of it at the time, but Amazon's e-commerce business lost more than $10 billion in 2022 👀

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Together with Joanne Kuai, I'm editing a special issue on generative AI governance in Information, Communication & Society. Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2024 Details: bit.ly/generative-a...

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It is with great sadness and outrage that I pass along word that Samer has died of his wounds.

Wael Al-Dahdouh has watched his entire family die from Israeli bombs, and continued reporting, a superhuman commitment to telling the world the truth about his people’s suffering. If you pray, pray for Wael and Samer. All this could have been prevented by a ceasefire that Biden vetoed.

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Book is published! Everything you always wanted to know about property in German Idealism but were afraid to ask.

Some of my favourite tunes from 2023 open.spotify.com/playlist/5ju...

Favourites of 2023open.spotify.com Favourites of 2023 · Playlist · 40 songs

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New article - @ambakak.bsky.social @meredithmeredith.bsky.social and I write about what three OpenAI board saga demonstrates about corporate concentration in AI and increasingly aggressive moves by Big Tech firms: www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/05/1...

Make no mistake—AI is owned by Big Techwww.technologyreview.com If we’re not careful, Microsoft, Amazon, and other large companies will leverage their position to set the policy agenda for AI, as they have in many other sectors.

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"Up to 1.8 million Gazans — around 80 percent of the population — have been forced to leave their homes since Israel began its bombardment in response to Hamas’s attack on Oct. 7. That number is expected to rise after Israel issued a new evacuation order on Saturday for areas in the south."

What the Scale of Displacement in Gaza Looks Likewww.nytimes.com Eighty percent of Gazans are displaced from their homes as Israel orders more evacuations. See where thousands have been sheltering amid the war’s destruction.

At the moment, Nvidia literally has to pick and choose who to ship chips too - so it's curious they've sold $500 million of H100s to a crypto dude apparently trying to compete with Microsoft and Google www.reuters.com/technology/c...

GPT-4 has reached its surly teenage years

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In less than two months, more than twice as many women and children have been reported killed in Gaza than in Ukraine after two years of war.

Gaza Civilians, Under Israeli Barrage, Are Being Killed at Historic Pacewww.nytimes.com In less than two months, more than twice as many women and children have been reported killed in Gaza than in Ukraine after two years of war.

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