@keanbirch.bsky.social
Ontario Research Chair in Science Policy, YorkU + Otto Mønsted Visiting Professor, Copenhagen Business School
Obsessed with assets & assetization + into science & technology studies, political economy, economic sociology: https://keanbirch.net/
@dc-a.bsky.socialReposted by @keanbirch.bsky.socialAssetization has gone too far here in Toronto #4S2026
@keanbirch.bsky.socialAnd #4S2026 is off! Just getting a chance to grab lunch and catch a breather
@finandsoc.bsky.socialReposted by @keanbirch.bsky.socialOut 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...
@4sweb.bsky.socialReposted by @keanbirch.bsky.social The 4S Toronto 2026 final program is now available in multiple formats.
(a) PDF final program is online here:
tinyurl.com/sdes6emw
@davekarpf.bsky.socialReposted by @keanbirch.bsky.socialThe 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...
@sciasculture.bsky.socialReposted by @keanbirch.bsky.socialVolume 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
@keanbirch.bsky.socialWorking for me, so not sure what the issue is
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@keanbirch.bsky.socialOur 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...
@quantian.bsky.socialReposted by @keanbirch.bsky.socialDancing 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...
@aminsamman.bsky.socialReposted by @keanbirch.bsky.socialOut 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...
@keanbirch.bsky.socialThis is especially interesting to me as someone who now has an interest in national accounting - social artefacts rather than facts
@keanbirch.bsky.socialAnyone can sign up as "faculty" at the The Horowitz Andreessen Academy ... thinking of doing it || tally.so/r/RGOXel
@keanbirch.bsky.socialIt's a riff on this classic: "Do artifacts have politics?" www.jstor.org/stable/20024...
@keanbirch.bsky.socialMay interest you - "do artifacts have political economy?" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@zephoria.bsky.socialReposted by @keanbirch.bsky.socialToday 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...
@keanbirch.bsky.socialDo they not realise how vapid and self serving they sound?
@keanbirch.bsky.socialHow does anyone not laugh in his presence?
@tyleraking.comReposted by @keanbirch.bsky.social“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.”
@keanbirch.bsky.socialScam stage of capitalism
