timko
@timko.bsky.social
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researcher at 東京大学 | space, anthropology; space anthropology, technology, the future, etc. | previously @ARIESanthro at @jagiellonskiuni
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The first article of the Silicon Valley special issue I’m editing is out! @mrshoward.bsky.social shows how contrarianism isn’t genuine dissent but a performative strategy rooted in venture capital. The piece develops negative mimesis, how dissent is aestheticized, repackaged & stripped of politics.
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Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...
www.wired.com
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"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."
America is now one big bet on AI
It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy
www.ft.com
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Book tour!📕 Whoever said crime doesn't pay, never had any good cryptocurrency
Crime does pay--as long as it's paid in Bitcoin
In my new book, the devil takes bitcoin—we take a deep dive into how crime propelled an academic exercise into a powerful currency.
tokyopaladin.substack.com/p/us-book-to...
US Book Tour! 📕 The Devil Takes Bitcoin 😈 (**UPDATED**)
The Devil Takes Bitcoin: Cryptocurrency Crimes and the Japan Connection is out October 14 in the US. Get an early look with two pre-release events in Seattle and Philadelphia!
tokyopaladin.substack.com
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"Layered both literally and figuratively on top of the future pathway of the Google internet infrastructure, the sugarcane railway tracks evoke the longevity of colonial infrastructures as well as the ideologies underlying them." – @emmaquilty.bsky.social datasociety.net/points/confr...
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This is a super helpful resource if you're trying to figure out public finance, geoeconomics, and international financial institutions. Open access and well assembled by @bsrbarab.bsky.social @c-westermeier.bsky.social and Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure
Cambridge Core - Finance and Accountancy - The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure
www.cambridge.org
also, having lived in nijmegen, i can attest it is an okay place!
pretty bad! this thread also has some stories about the poor labor conditions at SpaceX which sound similar to what I heard in my own research
One of the SpaceX fan cams caught a crane collapse at Starbase in Texas. This kind of thing only happens from a completely unacceptable safety culture failure and I'd be shocked if there wasn't a death here
this is today!
this week! the social studies of outer space network is back with the June monthly meeting, join us online to talk space, social science, and citational practices!

need the link? just ask
this week! the social studies of outer space network is back with the June monthly meeting, join us online to talk space, social science, and citational practices!

need the link? just ask
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BREAKING: The head of the $42 billion federal BEAD program that aims to bring broadband internet to rural and unserved areas has left the Commerce Dept.

He sent a departing email warning of "deeply negative outcomes" for people if the Trump admin shifts $$ from fiber internet to Musk's Starlink:
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making unpleasant music with click farm equipment I bought on the internet
today! it's the Social Studies of Outer Space Network monthly meeting. meet and talk with researcher around the world, just ask for the link!
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Image by Michael Carroll shows some asteroids to scale. We did NOT see the little one coming & it hit Earth above Chelyabinsk in 2013, injuring >1400 people. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is bigger than the little one, perhaps as large as the football field! JWST 🔭 data next month will help pin down the size.