nathan kim
@nathanckim.bsky.social
phd candidate Umich School of Information | with GEO3550, Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, DAIR Institute. tech, race/empire, capital, logistics
For a ruthless criticism of all that exists, towards a Marxism without guarantees, etc.
https://nathan-kim.org
For a ruthless criticism of all that exists, towards a Marxism without guarantees, etc.
https://nathan-kim.org
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NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: I finally have written up the extraordinary fact that the @federalreserve.gov has created an entire page specifically devoted to my FOIA requests entitled "Historical Board Documents". Also, my birthday sale is still underway!
www.crisesnotes.com/the-federal-...
www.crisesnotes.com/the-federal-...
The Federal Reserve Has Created an Entire Page Dedicated to My Successful FOIA Requests
Tomorrow is my 34th Birthday and as such this month's "Birthday" sale is still ongoing. Take advantage today!
Birthday Sale!
Longtime Notes on the Crises readers will remember that I hav...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: I finally have written up the extraordinary fact that the @federalreserve.gov has created an entire page specifically devoted to my FOIA requests entitled "Historical Board Documents". Also, my birthday sale is still underway!
www.crisesnotes.com/the-federal-...
www.crisesnotes.com/the-federal-...
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‘The new arrangement re-entrenches different forms of violence – dispossession, displacement, slow destruction – under cover of being provisional, with permanent advantages for Israel.’
Zinaida Miller on the Gaza ceasefire’s ‘Yellow Line’, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Zinaida Miller on the Gaza ceasefire’s ‘Yellow Line’, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Zinaida Miller | Temporary Measures
The Yellow Line is supposed to be temporary, but history suggests otherwise. Under ostensibly transient arrangements,...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
‘The new arrangement re-entrenches different forms of violence – dispossession, displacement, slow destruction – under cover of being provisional, with permanent advantages for Israel.’
Zinaida Miller on the Gaza ceasefire’s ‘Yellow Line’, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Zinaida Miller on the Gaza ceasefire’s ‘Yellow Line’, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
amidst all of the celebration re:Zohran there have been many criticisms of him being wishy-washy on arresting Netanyahu, apologizing to the NYPD, etc
Useful; we shouldn't have a naive "he is awesome and he will save us" stance -- but these say more about the left than anything about the candidate
Useful; we shouldn't have a naive "he is awesome and he will save us" stance -- but these say more about the left than anything about the candidate
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
amidst all of the celebration re:Zohran there have been many criticisms of him being wishy-washy on arresting Netanyahu, apologizing to the NYPD, etc
Useful; we shouldn't have a naive "he is awesome and he will save us" stance -- but these say more about the left than anything about the candidate
Useful; we shouldn't have a naive "he is awesome and he will save us" stance -- but these say more about the left than anything about the candidate
I am extremely blessed to find myself constantly surprised (these days) by the everyday successes of organizing around me
Most of the time organizing feels like a set of actions we go through because of a blind faith that change is needed -- trusting the conclusions of movements and moments past
Most of the time organizing feels like a set of actions we go through because of a blind faith that change is needed -- trusting the conclusions of movements and moments past
October 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I am extremely blessed to find myself constantly surprised (these days) by the everyday successes of organizing around me
Most of the time organizing feels like a set of actions we go through because of a blind faith that change is needed -- trusting the conclusions of movements and moments past
Most of the time organizing feels like a set of actions we go through because of a blind faith that change is needed -- trusting the conclusions of movements and moments past
Every time I see a paper advertising like participatory AI for large language models I have to laugh, like “no slop for us, without us!”
October 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Every time I see a paper advertising like participatory AI for large language models I have to laugh, like “no slop for us, without us!”
Soyjak Michael Scott-esque trump admin attorney: I DECLARE!! It is OFF RECORD!!!!
Chad Anna Bower: I took screenshots which are all available at www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Chad Anna Bower: I took screenshots which are all available at www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works
(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Soyjak Michael Scott-esque trump admin attorney: I DECLARE!! It is OFF RECORD!!!!
Chad Anna Bower: I took screenshots which are all available at www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Chad Anna Bower: I took screenshots which are all available at www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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When the state brings violence into our neighborhoods — when it throws elders to the ground, fills bodies with bullets, jails people without cause, and takes children from their homes — we must be able to bear witness, writes Dean Jackson, but Big Tech firms are silencing dissent.
Under Trump, Big Tech Decides Who Deserves Protection and Who Gets Iced Out | TechPolicy.Press
Must the public make only meek requests for accountability and transparency? That is not democracy, writes Dean Jackson.
buff.ly
October 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
When the state brings violence into our neighborhoods — when it throws elders to the ground, fills bodies with bullets, jails people without cause, and takes children from their homes — we must be able to bear witness, writes Dean Jackson, but Big Tech firms are silencing dissent.
I don’t hate the no kings protests! I think it’s awesome that millions are taking to the streets and seeking an outlet to express their anger, even if that frustration is expressed as rejection of Trump and not much else, plus a gratuitous support of law and order
October 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I don’t hate the no kings protests! I think it’s awesome that millions are taking to the streets and seeking an outlet to express their anger, even if that frustration is expressed as rejection of Trump and not much else, plus a gratuitous support of law and order
Are you a UM worker/student and want to hear better takes than the dude below on AI from university of Michigan faculty, students, staff?
then join the mass meeting on 10/28 at 7 to stop the UM-Los Alamos data center and its support of nuclear weapons!
bit.ly/UMichNoAIMeeting
then join the mass meeting on 10/28 at 7 to stop the UM-Los Alamos data center and its support of nuclear weapons!
bit.ly/UMichNoAIMeeting
There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI.
1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks.
2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it’s transformational.
Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.
1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks.
2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it’s transformational.
Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.
October 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Are you a UM worker/student and want to hear better takes than the dude below on AI from university of Michigan faculty, students, staff?
then join the mass meeting on 10/28 at 7 to stop the UM-Los Alamos data center and its support of nuclear weapons!
bit.ly/UMichNoAIMeeting
then join the mass meeting on 10/28 at 7 to stop the UM-Los Alamos data center and its support of nuclear weapons!
bit.ly/UMichNoAIMeeting
in @michigandaily.bsky.social -- Op-ed written by students and grad workers organizing against disciplinary charges for students alleged to have protested
Accountability in a time of genocide
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
Accountability in a time of genocide
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
Accountability in a time of genocide
The regents, who steadfastly refuse to cease funding the murder of Palestinian families and directing police violence against our community, must be held accountable. Disrupting a genocide is a moral ...
www.michigandaily.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
in @michigandaily.bsky.social -- Op-ed written by students and grad workers organizing against disciplinary charges for students alleged to have protested
Accountability in a time of genocide
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
Accountability in a time of genocide
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
Nathan Kim assigned she/her pronouns in two separate instances by Michigan Daily
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October 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Nathan Kim assigned she/her pronouns in two separate instances by Michigan Daily
www.michigandaily.com/news/adminis...
www.michigandaily.com/news/adminis...
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PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
October 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
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✨I’m on the academic job market ✨
I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻💻💪🏽💥
I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action
More info: cella.io
I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻💻💪🏽💥
I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action
More info: cella.io
Cella M. Sum –
cella.io
October 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
✨I’m on the academic job market ✨
I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻💻💪🏽💥
I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action
More info: cella.io
I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻💻💪🏽💥
I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action
More info: cella.io
Did you know that the university of Michigan is building the world’s largest supercomputer for Los Alamos National Labs’ nuclear weapons production programs, and paying for $830 million of it despite not being able to use >90% of it?
I wrote about it here:
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/umic...
I wrote about it here:
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/umic...
UMich says the Ypsi Data Center won’t “manufacture nuclear weapons.” What does Los Alamos think?
University administration must make a choice: Will it side with the public and live up to its stated ideals of serving the public good and public interest? Or will it side with LANL and spend hundreds...
www.michigandaily.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Did you know that the university of Michigan is building the world’s largest supercomputer for Los Alamos National Labs’ nuclear weapons production programs, and paying for $830 million of it despite not being able to use >90% of it?
I wrote about it here:
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/umic...
I wrote about it here:
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/umic...
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With labor friends like these, who needs enemies?
"A ChatGPT-based analysis from Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that AI could wipe out swaths of both white- and blue-collar jobs."
www.axios.com/2025/10/06/a...
"A ChatGPT-based analysis from Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that AI could wipe out swaths of both white- and blue-collar jobs."
www.axios.com/2025/10/06/a...
Exclusive: AI could erase 100 million U.S. jobs, Senate Dem report finds
A ChatGPT-based analysis from Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that AI could wipe out swaths of both white- and blue-collar jobs
www.axios.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
With labor friends like these, who needs enemies?
"A ChatGPT-based analysis from Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that AI could wipe out swaths of both white- and blue-collar jobs."
www.axios.com/2025/10/06/a...
"A ChatGPT-based analysis from Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that AI could wipe out swaths of both white- and blue-collar jobs."
www.axios.com/2025/10/06/a...
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NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders.
I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...
I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...
September 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders.
I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...
I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...
No, it's not just passing the same $100 billion back and forth...we generated $200 billion in GDP...
September 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
No, it's not just passing the same $100 billion back and forth...we generated $200 billion in GDP...
At UMich, CS students have been raiding the school of information offices for coffee/snacks and it has led to huge messes like someone pissing in a trash can and spilling coffee everywhere
So now facilities has implemented what SI grads lovingly refer to as martial law in order to reclaim our land
So now facilities has implemented what SI grads lovingly refer to as martial law in order to reclaim our land
September 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
At UMich, CS students have been raiding the school of information offices for coffee/snacks and it has led to huge messes like someone pissing in a trash can and spilling coffee everywhere
So now facilities has implemented what SI grads lovingly refer to as martial law in order to reclaim our land
So now facilities has implemented what SI grads lovingly refer to as martial law in order to reclaim our land
I’m at 4s this week in Seattle! Would love to chat about marxisms in STS, political economy of tech, and techs role in racial capitalism if you’re here as well
Signal at @nathanckim18.49
Signal at @nathanckim18.49
September 3, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I’m at 4s this week in Seattle! Would love to chat about marxisms in STS, political economy of tech, and techs role in racial capitalism if you’re here as well
Signal at @nathanckim18.49
Signal at @nathanckim18.49
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This Google decision appears to be a complete failure to break up its monopoly. It has to share *some* search data? Big deal. Plus it can still legally do search engine payola. And no Chrome sale.
A best possible outcome for Google, the same monopolized, enshittified internet for the rest of us.
A best possible outcome for Google, the same monopolized, enshittified internet for the rest of us.
Judge Orders Google to Share Search Results to Help Resolve Monopoly
www.nytimes.com
September 2, 2025 at 11:03 PM
This Google decision appears to be a complete failure to break up its monopoly. It has to share *some* search data? Big deal. Plus it can still legally do search engine payola. And no Chrome sale.
A best possible outcome for Google, the same monopolized, enshittified internet for the rest of us.
A best possible outcome for Google, the same monopolized, enshittified internet for the rest of us.
in the cloud. straight up "deployng it". And by "it", haha , well. let's justr say. my kubernets
September 2, 2025 at 2:50 AM
in the cloud. straight up "deployng it". And by "it", haha , well. let's justr say. my kubernets
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Nothing like good ‘ol Michigan football straight to the face
August 31, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Nothing like good ‘ol Michigan football straight to the face
I worked at a USDA dairy lab the summer after high school and one of our primary research goals was finding uses for millions of tons of whey protein that was a byproduct of subsidized cheese production. This was when I first learned about the Missouri Cheese Caves
I feel like we haven’t really talked enough about how much of MAHA/masc-coded wellness grift is just boosterism for the cattle industry
- collagen
- whey protein
- colostrum
- tallow
- organ meats
It’s all repackaged beef & dairy byproduct, baby
- collagen
- whey protein
- colostrum
- tallow
- organ meats
It’s all repackaged beef & dairy byproduct, baby
August 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I worked at a USDA dairy lab the summer after high school and one of our primary research goals was finding uses for millions of tons of whey protein that was a byproduct of subsidized cheese production. This was when I first learned about the Missouri Cheese Caves
inviting thoughts: i think criticizing a paper for situating itself within a particular historical moment as limiting its accessibility and longetivity is absurd. We exist in historical moments, people --
August 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
inviting thoughts: i think criticizing a paper for situating itself within a particular historical moment as limiting its accessibility and longetivity is absurd. We exist in historical moments, people --
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another fan of @long-haul-mag.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 1:07 AM
another fan of @long-haul-mag.bsky.social