University Professor, The New School.
Author of Anti-Crisis
Dir. Platform Economies Research Group (PERN)
Member Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC)
Since Elon has started purging real journalists while elevating conspiracists and bigots I wonder what the point is of being here anymore. It's like being in Berlin in 1933. Maybe social media is just...over?
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Friends & colleagues who still post, retweet, like on Twitter: maybe we should heed this statement from US civil rights groups? Refers to DJT, but not labor practices, Kanye, Saudis...)
(my acct will remain open but only for #mastodon#immigration)
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My second article (and the โฅ๏ธ of my phd) is out & open access. In it I argue that venture capital firms leave their imprint on startups and the economy. Short ๐งต (1/6): https://t.co/zYUt9hQAjE
@JamesGDyke@adam_tooze Thank you for reading my essay, which is just an Afterword to a collection. The full argument is in the book, Anti-Crisis. Metaphors abound ! (-;
@adam_tooze Polycrisis signifies multiple causality, if I understand you correctly. But of course any situation that is qualified as a crisis (eg war) has multiple causes. Our lives today are defined by a virus, an invasion, central bank policies, etc. So what?
@adam_tooze We can say that SBF/FTX is in crisis; that the crypto exchanges are currently in crisis. But they were always already undercapitalized/undercollateralized, much like the SUBprime mkts of 2007. Declaring them "in crisis" is a means of intervention, not a description of those mkts.
Massive thanks to Christian Borch and @BondoHansen for joining us last night to discuss their research on "Alternative Data" in investment mgmt and algorithmic trading ๐ The conversation is archived at https://t.co/NGltym1aUc
@Gauntlet_Media@jeanburgess Rapid, yes. But surprising? Not sure, given that the goal of becoming a payments platform is increasingly the only game in town.
@Gauntlet_Media: Mastodon is the DuckDuckGo for public conversations but academics aren't comfortable w/ the lack of algos that serve self-promotion
SCOOP - CNN has obtained the termination notice sent to staff at Twitter's only office in Africa - in Accra ๐ฌ๐ญ
It was sent to their personal emails but didn't mention any of them by name. Unlike in the US, it doesn't offer next steps or severance