Rasmus BååthOn my blog: Rasmus’s maximum meeting length formula.
anthropologist of science and technology
mostly in UK, sometimes in Brazil
technically a doctor (the non-medical kind)
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Vlad Schüler-Costa
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Aram SinnreichI published empirical research back in the year 2000 showing that if you give consumers a safe, easy way to access a giant library of content without ads, they'll happily pay a fair market price.
The streaming successes of 2013-2020 proved this to be true.
Now, siloization, surveillance, advertising, price-gouging, and shitty algorithms are going to send everyone back to "piracy."
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/26/24015595/amazon-prime-video-ads-coming-january-29
John McQuaidDoes Twitter addiction corrode minds (Elon Musk, JK Rowling, Nate Silver, others too numerous to mention), or just reveal their true nature?
Justin PickardBit niche, but forthcoming anthro/STS/media postdoc on the social foundations of cryptography (sharp subhed: 'ethnography unearths what the group (under study) takes for granted'). 🕵️ 🔐
https://social-foundations-of-cryptography.gitlab.io/2023/12/14/postdoc-ad-ethnography/
bsky: @daniloc.xyzWhen I got to San Francisco in 2010, I really wanted to do it all
Build a startup, create change through technology.
But the more I learned of the culture, the less I wanted to succeed according to its rubric. The turning point for me was Airbnb
Around 2011, Airbnb was REALLY taking off. All the benefits of a software business, none of the drawbacks of a real estate business. The best of all worlds.
Except…
never obsoletePC Mag - February 2000
https://books.google.com/books?id=iiuZnCaRxmUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA80#v=twopage&q&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=iiuZnCaRxmUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA80#v=twopage&q&f=false
Niche Yorkshire/assemblag.es-relevant toot, but sorted a ticket and will be at Wuthering Bytes for the festival day at the end of this month (Fri 25th), along with @prehensile, @aithropologist, and others. If in the region, might be of interest?
Philip N CohenExpect to hear this from every econpolicybro you meet for the next 5 years: "When Asians move into rich neighborhoods, white people start to move out because they don't want their kids to lose relative class rank in school."
Arthur Charpentier ⏚ 🇨🇦 🇯🇵"The whole profession is built on a ranking system that emphasizes publishing in top-ranked journals, presenting at exclusive conferences, and landing academic positions at top-ranked programs. Most of those are really insular and not easily available to the vast majority of the field." https://www.mondayeconomist.com/p/economics-frustrations "more than 75% of the faculty at the top two programs (Harvard and MIT) earned their Ph.D.s from either Harvard or MIT" see https://www.edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/ai20-324.pdf
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