🌶 David Gray Widder
@davidthewid.bsky.social
🔜 Assistant Prof at UT Austin's iSchool.
AI ethics, political economy of tech, feminist STS
trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me
art: instagram.com/davidthewid
exCMU/NASA/MSR/IntelLabs.
davidwidder.me
AI ethics, political economy of tech, feminist STS
trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me
art: instagram.com/davidthewid
exCMU/NASA/MSR/IntelLabs.
davidwidder.me
Congrats! RE business of AI, you may enjoy our recent report: bsky.app/profile/davi...
📣🚨NEW: ☁️ Big Cloud—Google, Microsoft & Amazon—control two thirds of the cloud compute market. They’re getting rich off the AI gold rush.
In new work with @nathanckim.bsky.social, we show how Big Cloud is expanding their empire by scrutinizing their *investments*… 🧵
📄PDF: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
In new work with @nathanckim.bsky.social, we show how Big Cloud is expanding their empire by scrutinizing their *investments*… 🧵
📄PDF: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
November 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Congrats! RE business of AI, you may enjoy our recent report: bsky.app/profile/davi...
Ive read and loved this piece way back when I was writing a term paper on robotics and gender for my Human-Robot Interaction class!
November 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Ive read and loved this piece way back when I was writing a term paper on robotics and gender for my Human-Robot Interaction class!
Reposted by 🌶 David Gray Widder
The TL;DR (even though it’s a very short review): perhaps the first book to attempt a serious move towards an analysis of AI rooted in the logics of capital, indeed as a direct manifestation of capital — and then attempts to think towards futures on those same terms.
October 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The TL;DR (even though it’s a very short review): perhaps the first book to attempt a serious move towards an analysis of AI rooted in the logics of capital, indeed as a direct manifestation of capital — and then attempts to think towards futures on those same terms.
Reposted by 🌶 David Gray Widder
Did economists paid my Microsoft apologize as well?
October 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Did economists paid my Microsoft apologize as well?
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We should be paying more attention. Nvidia's all over the headlines. But we should be paying a lot more attention to Big Cloud's land grab—especially as it's leading to what the researchers say are a host of new anticompetitive practices.
Their full paper here:
Their full paper here:
How Big Cloud becomes Bigger: Scrutinizing Google, Microsoft, and Amazon's investments
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In an AI gold rush, those selling the proverbial pickaxes are surest to win: cloud companies provide scalable managed computational resources as a subscr
papers.ssrn.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
We should be paying more attention. Nvidia's all over the headlines. But we should be paying a lot more attention to Big Cloud's land grab—especially as it's leading to what the researchers say are a host of new anticompetitive practices.
Their full paper here:
Their full paper here: