Dan Kotliar
@danmk.bsky.social
🎓 Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, U of Haifa. Previously: Stanford, Hebrew U. Studying algorithms & culture, AI ethics, AI Hype, data infrastructures, microbiomic futures & more.
🏡 https://www.dankotliar.com/
🏡 https://www.dankotliar.com/
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Dan Kotliar
@danmk.bsky.social
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🚨New article out!
𝗖𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗲: 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜’𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀
What happens in the so-called AI revolutions? And what role does hype play in them?
This article proposes a methodological framework for studying AI and its hype.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/studyhype
🧵👇
🚨New article out!
𝗖𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗲: 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜’𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀
What happens in the so-called AI revolutions? And what role does hype play in them?
This article proposes a methodological framework for studying AI and its hype.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/studyhype
🧵👇
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"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people"
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
The Ecological Cost of AI Is Much Higher Than You Think - Truthdig
As the demands of AI grow, each generation of microchips requires more energy, minerals and water to produce, driving a ruinous cycle.
www.truthdig.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people"
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
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9-10 November 1938 | The November Pogrom – a pogrom against the Jews throughout Nazi Germany. Hundreds were killed (or died by suicide), 30,000 men arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps, over 1,000 synagogues burnt, over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
9-10 November 1938 | The November Pogrom – a pogrom against the Jews throughout Nazi Germany. Hundreds were killed (or died by suicide), 30,000 men arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps, over 1,000 synagogues burnt, over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.
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“Did you stop to ask yourselves what change your decision has truly achieved?”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...
Israeli Academics Find Themselves Isolated Despite Gaza Cease-Fire
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
“Did you stop to ask yourselves what change your decision has truly achieved?”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...
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The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book
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The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
Yet another proof that Haifa is the future 💜.
If you can, donate to @standing-together.bsky.social, and if you're in NYC, go meet them. They offer true hope in a sea of violence and hate.
If you can, donate to @standing-together.bsky.social, and if you're in NYC, go meet them. They offer true hope in a sea of violence and hate.
Listen to Sally Abed, who’s not only a member of Standing Together’s national leadership but also a Haifa City Council member and the first Palestinian woman to lead a joint Jewish-Arab slate in Israel, describe what it takes to build grassroots and fight for all of our lives on this land. (1/2)
November 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Yet another proof that Haifa is the future 💜.
If you can, donate to @standing-together.bsky.social, and if you're in NYC, go meet them. They offer true hope in a sea of violence and hate.
If you can, donate to @standing-together.bsky.social, and if you're in NYC, go meet them. They offer true hope in a sea of violence and hate.
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While Israelis have been pouring into the streets for three long years, demanding change and even pushing for a national strike, this corrupt parasite sat on the sidelines, pretending to care while spewing every excuse except the truth. Well…now we know!
Bypass paywall 🔗
archive.fo/2025.11.04-1...
Bypass paywall 🔗
archive.fo/2025.11.04-1...
November 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
While Israelis have been pouring into the streets for three long years, demanding change and even pushing for a national strike, this corrupt parasite sat on the sidelines, pretending to care while spewing every excuse except the truth. Well…now we know!
Bypass paywall 🔗
archive.fo/2025.11.04-1...
Bypass paywall 🔗
archive.fo/2025.11.04-1...
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Fred Turner revient, deux ouvrages en approche : 1 nouveauté, Politique des machines, sur le glissement de la tech de l’idéologie californienne vers celle du Texas. Et la 2e édition (avec un nouveau titre) de Design d’une démocratie, histoire du #design en politique. Préparez-vous ! cfeditions.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Fred Turner revient, deux ouvrages en approche : 1 nouveauté, Politique des machines, sur le glissement de la tech de l’idéologie californienne vers celle du Texas. Et la 2e édition (avec un nouveau titre) de Design d’une démocratie, histoire du #design en politique. Préparez-vous ! cfeditions.com
Relatedly, Fred Turner has a great new piece on The Texan Ideology.
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...
November 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Relatedly, Fred Turner has a great new piece on The Texan Ideology.
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...
ראיון אופסימיסטי ומעורר מחשבה. מצד אחד, סורפרייז סורפרייז - אנחנו לא דמוקרטיה. מצד שני, לויצקי מדגיש שהמצב הפיך. לא הלכה המדינה, לא נגמרה, לא התאדתה. המצב רע אבל הוא יכול להשתפר. גם ההשוואה למצב בארה"ב (שלפיו, גרוע יותר) מאוד מעניינת.
www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/202...
www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/202...
"ישראל היא כבר לא ממש דמוקרטיה. חציתם את הקו לעבר משטר סמכותני"
פרופ' סטיבן לויצקי, מחשובי החוקרים שעוסקים בנסיגת הדמוקרטיה בעולם, מביט על מה שמתחולל כאן בחשש עמוק. ולמרות זאת, הוא סבור שהמצב בישראל הפיך — ומעודד יותר מאשר זה שבארה"ב
www.haaretz.co.il
October 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
ראיון אופסימיסטי ומעורר מחשבה. מצד אחד, סורפרייז סורפרייז - אנחנו לא דמוקרטיה. מצד שני, לויצקי מדגיש שהמצב הפיך. לא הלכה המדינה, לא נגמרה, לא התאדתה. המצב רע אבל הוא יכול להשתפר. גם ההשוואה למצב בארה"ב (שלפיו, גרוע יותר) מאוד מעניינת.
www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/202...
www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/202...
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Sociology Professor Blues, by Ethan B. Emerson.
"They say I'm a radical, but I really just need a sabbatical."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r12...
"They say I'm a radical, but I really just need a sabbatical."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r12...
Sociology Professor Blues
YouTube video by Ethan B Emerson - Topic
www.youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Sociology Professor Blues, by Ethan B. Emerson.
"They say I'm a radical, but I really just need a sabbatical."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r12...
"They say I'm a radical, but I really just need a sabbatical."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r12...
כך כך הרבה אלימות, טיפשות, שנאה, שקרים ואנטישמיות שם בחוץ. אז קחו תמונה של אייבי.
October 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
כך כך הרבה אלימות, טיפשות, שנאה, שקרים ואנטישמיות שם בחוץ. אז קחו תמונה של אייבי.
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There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
@klingebeil.bsky.social's beautiful pocket zine on HYPE has finally arrived!
As he writes:
🫧 Never trust the hype.
🫧 Always poke holes.
🫧 Let a thousand futures bloom.
As he writes:
🫧 Never trust the hype.
🫧 Always poke holes.
🫧 Let a thousand futures bloom.
October 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
@klingebeil.bsky.social's beautiful pocket zine on HYPE has finally arrived!
As he writes:
🫧 Never trust the hype.
🫧 Always poke holes.
🫧 Let a thousand futures bloom.
As he writes:
🫧 Never trust the hype.
🫧 Always poke holes.
🫧 Let a thousand futures bloom.
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Sam Stabler and I have a new article in the @bjsociology.bsky.social ! “Normative Cumulation: Justifying the Production of Knowledge in American Family Demography”
DM if you can’t access the full version.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
DM if you can’t access the full version.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Sam Stabler and I have a new article in the @bjsociology.bsky.social ! “Normative Cumulation: Justifying the Production of Knowledge in American Family Demography”
DM if you can’t access the full version.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
DM if you can’t access the full version.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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We're hiring an outstanding Assistant Professor whose core research is in the field of cultural sociology with demonstrable expertise in the sociology of #culture and #technology.
📅 Applications close Sunday 30 November 2025.
➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
📅 Applications close Sunday 30 November 2025.
➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
October 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
We're hiring an outstanding Assistant Professor whose core research is in the field of cultural sociology with demonstrable expertise in the sociology of #culture and #technology.
📅 Applications close Sunday 30 November 2025.
➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
📅 Applications close Sunday 30 November 2025.
➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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Michelle has been invaluable in that role for nearly a decade now, but the time has come for @aoir.bsky.social to find a new coordinator to take on these vital duties. 2/2
Job posting is on our listserv. Please share & apply! listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/ai...
Job posting is on our listserv. Please share & apply! listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/ai...
[Air-L] AoIR is searching for a new Association Coordinator!
listserv.aoir.org
October 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Michelle has been invaluable in that role for nearly a decade now, but the time has come for @aoir.bsky.social to find a new coordinator to take on these vital duties. 2/2
Job posting is on our listserv. Please share & apply! listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/ai...
Job posting is on our listserv. Please share & apply! listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/ai...
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Can the human sciences exist w/out the human? Proposals for using AI as human research subjects suggest yes. But @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I respond with, ‘not so fast.’ In fact, silicon subjects say more about the problems of the research paradigm than the promises of AI. 🚨New article, thread 1/
AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Can the human sciences exist w/out the human? Proposals for using AI as human research subjects suggest yes. But @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I respond with, ‘not so fast.’ In fact, silicon subjects say more about the problems of the research paradigm than the promises of AI. 🚨New article, thread 1/
תהיתי מה מניע אמנים להתחיל להחרים את ישראל דווקא עכשיו, אחרי שהמלחמה נגמרה. והנה התשובה - נראה שהאמנים האלה אימצו עמדה פלסטינית אולטרה-לאומנית, בלתי מתפשרת, שעלולה להוביל רק לעוד ועוד מלחמות. אבל אני מניח שזה לא מזיז להם. הם רק רוכבים על הטרנד.
www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/musi...
www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/musi...
October 22, 2025 at 8:43 AM
תהיתי מה מניע אמנים להתחיל להחרים את ישראל דווקא עכשיו, אחרי שהמלחמה נגמרה. והנה התשובה - נראה שהאמנים האלה אימצו עמדה פלסטינית אולטרה-לאומנית, בלתי מתפשרת, שעלולה להוביל רק לעוד ועוד מלחמות. אבל אני מניח שזה לא מזיז להם. הם רק רוכבים על הטרנד.
www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/musi...
www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/musi...
That’s how Zoom’s AI summarizes meetings in minor languages (in this case, Hebrew). It’s what I once called data orientalism, or, better yet, data ethnocentrism.
October 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
That’s how Zoom’s AI summarizes meetings in minor languages (in this case, Hebrew). It’s what I once called data orientalism, or, better yet, data ethnocentrism.
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We have a new paper just published in Information, Communication & Society. Maayan Cohen and I are looking at how the discourse around algorithmic bias was taken up, amplified, and reframed across ideological lines in the launch of ChatGPT 3.5. >>
doi.org/10.1080/1369...
doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Hijacking algorithmic bias: analyzing the political discourse around ChatGPT on social media
Following the introduction of ChatGPT 3.5, the first widely available general-purpose large language model, users were able to experiment and interact with this new AI technology at scale for the f...
doi.org
October 19, 2025 at 6:39 AM
We have a new paper just published in Information, Communication & Society. Maayan Cohen and I are looking at how the discourse around algorithmic bias was taken up, amplified, and reframed across ideological lines in the launch of ChatGPT 3.5. >>
doi.org/10.1080/1369...
doi.org/10.1080/1369...
אפרופו ייצוגים של רמת הנדיב - לפני כמה שנים מצאנו מצלמה ישנה של סבא שלי משנות ה50-60. בתוכה היה פילם שחיכה שימצאו אותו כ65 שנים.
הצלחנו לפתח ממנו תמונה אחת - סבתא שלי ואמא שלי ברמת הנדיב באמצע שנות ה50 - קצת אחרי פתיחת הגנים שם.
הצלחנו לפתח ממנו תמונה אחת - סבתא שלי ואמא שלי ברמת הנדיב באמצע שנות ה50 - קצת אחרי פתיחת הגנים שם.
October 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
אפרופו ייצוגים של רמת הנדיב - לפני כמה שנים מצאנו מצלמה ישנה של סבא שלי משנות ה50-60. בתוכה היה פילם שחיכה שימצאו אותו כ65 שנים.
הצלחנו לפתח ממנו תמונה אחת - סבתא שלי ואמא שלי ברמת הנדיב באמצע שנות ה50 - קצת אחרי פתיחת הגנים שם.
הצלחנו לפתח ממנו תמונה אחת - סבתא שלי ואמא שלי ברמת הנדיב באמצע שנות ה50 - קצת אחרי פתיחת הגנים שם.
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+/ For all the talk about peace, these algorithms are not promoting peace or mutual understand or a position of constructive dialogue - they’re promoting THEM VS US, which is an absolute disaster for peace activists
Makes me realise how much true peace builders have the odds stacked against them
Makes me realise how much true peace builders have the odds stacked against them
October 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
+/ For all the talk about peace, these algorithms are not promoting peace or mutual understand or a position of constructive dialogue - they’re promoting THEM VS US, which is an absolute disaster for peace activists
Makes me realise how much true peace builders have the odds stacked against them
Makes me realise how much true peace builders have the odds stacked against them
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“Hope is never something that comes easily. It’s always something you’ve got to fight for, to work on.”
On Monday, as the last living hostages were released, I read Eli Sharabi's agonising memoir about captivity under Hamas and losing his wife and daughters
www.newstatesman.com/culture/2025...
On Monday, as the last living hostages were released, I read Eli Sharabi's agonising memoir about captivity under Hamas and losing his wife and daughters
www.newstatesman.com/culture/2025...
Surviving 491 days in Hamas captivity
Eli Sharabi’s agonising memoir explores how the world nearly forgot the Gaza hostages
www.newstatesman.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:59 AM
“Hope is never something that comes easily. It’s always something you’ve got to fight for, to work on.”
On Monday, as the last living hostages were released, I read Eli Sharabi's agonising memoir about captivity under Hamas and losing his wife and daughters
www.newstatesman.com/culture/2025...
On Monday, as the last living hostages were released, I read Eli Sharabi's agonising memoir about captivity under Hamas and losing his wife and daughters
www.newstatesman.com/culture/2025...