Gabriel Stein
@gabestein.com
Building more equitable, effective and sustainable open knowledge infrastructure (PubPub, Commonplace, DocMaps) at Knowledge Futures. Vitalist. Media, Science, Tech, Politics, General Silliness. Past: Massive Science, Upworthy, Fast Company, Google, etc...
Sneak peak of what we'll discuss on our "media theory of open science" virtual panel on Monday with @richardsever.bsky.social, @needhibhalla.bsky.social & @rachelzamzow.bsky.social at @journoresource.bsky.social/@shorensteinctr.bsky.social.
Learn more & register: www.gabestein.com/monday-why-w...
Learn more & register: www.gabestein.com/monday-why-w...
Monday: why we need a new "media theory" for open science
Join me Monday at 12:30pm Eastern for a virtual panel on how open academic publishing can help rebuild trust in research
www.gabestein.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Sneak peak of what we'll discuss on our "media theory of open science" virtual panel on Monday with @richardsever.bsky.social, @needhibhalla.bsky.social & @rachelzamzow.bsky.social at @journoresource.bsky.social/@shorensteinctr.bsky.social.
Learn more & register: www.gabestein.com/monday-why-w...
Learn more & register: www.gabestein.com/monday-why-w...
Reposted by Gabriel Stein
Happening this monday
On October 6, join me for a virtual panel with on a vital topic: how can we make sure that open science advances not just science itself, but society’s understanding of, trust in, and willingness to invest in research? Register here: shorensteincenter.org/new-event/ca...
How Can Open Science Practices Increase Trust In Research? | Shorenstein Center
Join representatives from each stage of open science for a frank discussion of how each part of the publishing process must adapt to make sure open science advances not just science itself, but societ...
shorensteincenter.org
October 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Happening this monday
One week until our virtual panel on how the open science and media communities can adapt to changes in our information ecosystem to (re)build trust in research. I hope it'll be the start of a much-needed longer conversation.
Don't miss it! Register here: shorensteincenter.org/new-event/ca...
Don't miss it! Register here: shorensteincenter.org/new-event/ca...
September 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
One week until our virtual panel on how the open science and media communities can adapt to changes in our information ecosystem to (re)build trust in research. I hope it'll be the start of a much-needed longer conversation.
Don't miss it! Register here: shorensteincenter.org/new-event/ca...
Don't miss it! Register here: shorensteincenter.org/new-event/ca...
On October 6, join me for a virtual panel with on a vital topic: how can we make sure that open science advances not just science itself, but society’s understanding of, trust in, and willingness to invest in research? Register here: shorensteincenter.org/new-event/ca...
How Can Open Science Practices Increase Trust In Research? | Shorenstein Center
Join representatives from each stage of open science for a frank discussion of how each part of the publishing process must adapt to make sure open science advances not just science itself, but societ...
shorensteincenter.org
September 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
On October 6, join me for a virtual panel with on a vital topic: how can we make sure that open science advances not just science itself, but society’s understanding of, trust in, and willingness to invest in research? Register here: shorensteincenter.org/new-event/ca...
Technology is neutral, but it distributes power in unpredictable ways. I've come to believe the attention economy is particularly insidious in the way it gives us the illusion of choice and voice. Here's the case for logging off as resistance.
www.gabestein.com/your-phone-o...
www.gabestein.com/your-phone-o...
Your phone or your freedom?
Logging off as resistance
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August 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Technology is neutral, but it distributes power in unpredictable ways. I've come to believe the attention economy is particularly insidious in the way it gives us the illusion of choice and voice. Here's the case for logging off as resistance.
www.gabestein.com/your-phone-o...
www.gabestein.com/your-phone-o...
👋 Substack. It’s cool that you’re interested in academic publishing. Before diving in, I suggest fully understanding the market you’re getting into and how you might link up with open science advocates. www.gabestein.com/substack-is-...
Substack is probably not going to solve academic publishing
But there are other ways platforms committed to rationality can help, if they’re willing to work with open science activists
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August 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
👋 Substack. It’s cool that you’re interested in academic publishing. Before diving in, I suggest fully understanding the market you’re getting into and how you might link up with open science advocates. www.gabestein.com/substack-is-...
Fun new threads:
1. "Vibe productivity."
2. Grappling with the impacts of open science on general audiences.
3. Let's stop playing "bureaucratic astrology" with the regime and start actively opposing it.
www.gabestein.com/i-am-going-t...
1. "Vibe productivity."
2. Grappling with the impacts of open science on general audiences.
3. Let's stop playing "bureaucratic astrology" with the regime and start actively opposing it.
www.gabestein.com/i-am-going-t...
I am going to try to write more (and I need your help)
Plus: new threads on "vibe productivity," trust in open science, and updating our cognitive models of bureaucracy for authoritarian times
www.gabestein.com
July 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Fun new threads:
1. "Vibe productivity."
2. Grappling with the impacts of open science on general audiences.
3. Let's stop playing "bureaucratic astrology" with the regime and start actively opposing it.
www.gabestein.com/i-am-going-t...
1. "Vibe productivity."
2. Grappling with the impacts of open science on general audiences.
3. Let's stop playing "bureaucratic astrology" with the regime and start actively opposing it.
www.gabestein.com/i-am-going-t...
Reposted by Gabriel Stein
This is one of the most important connections I've ever made. It's very simple, but I haven't quite heard anyone say so clearly: big tech and the Trump admin. aren't just working together out of convenience or fear, they're operating under the same core ideology.
www.gabestein.com/big-tech-and...
www.gabestein.com/big-tech-and...
Big tech and Trumpism share the same ideology
It's time for tech workers to opt out and build a new industry
www.gabestein.com
July 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
This is one of the most important connections I've ever made. It's very simple, but I haven't quite heard anyone say so clearly: big tech and the Trump admin. aren't just working together out of convenience or fear, they're operating under the same core ideology.
www.gabestein.com/big-tech-and...
www.gabestein.com/big-tech-and...
This is one of the most important connections I've ever made. It's very simple, but I haven't quite heard anyone say so clearly: big tech and the Trump admin. aren't just working together out of convenience or fear, they're operating under the same core ideology.
www.gabestein.com/big-tech-and...
www.gabestein.com/big-tech-and...
Big tech and Trumpism share the same ideology
It's time for tech workers to opt out and build a new industry
www.gabestein.com
July 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
This is one of the most important connections I've ever made. It's very simple, but I haven't quite heard anyone say so clearly: big tech and the Trump admin. aren't just working together out of convenience or fear, they're operating under the same core ideology.
www.gabestein.com/big-tech-and...
www.gabestein.com/big-tech-and...
I’m fairly sure we’re going to find that LLMs are like any other kind of software. That’s not a good thing for an industry predicated on replacing entire professions.
The future of generative AI is using it less
The boring business problem at the heart of the generative AI bubble
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July 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I’m fairly sure we’re going to find that LLMs are like any other kind of software. That’s not a good thing for an industry predicated on replacing entire professions.
I've long told folks not to read my newsletter, gabestein.com.
I stand by this. Readers may start suspecting that big tech’s real mission is to privatize civil society, experience skepticism about new “magical” tools, or realize the media is incapable of meeting today’s needs. You’ve been warned.
I stand by this. Readers may start suspecting that big tech’s real mission is to privatize civil society, experience skepticism about new “magical” tools, or realize the media is incapable of meeting today’s needs. You’ve been warned.
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July 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I've long told folks not to read my newsletter, gabestein.com.
I stand by this. Readers may start suspecting that big tech’s real mission is to privatize civil society, experience skepticism about new “magical” tools, or realize the media is incapable of meeting today’s needs. You’ve been warned.
I stand by this. Readers may start suspecting that big tech’s real mission is to privatize civil society, experience skepticism about new “magical” tools, or realize the media is incapable of meeting today’s needs. You’ve been warned.
It's scary that Facebook's latest privacy scandal has barely broken through.
You simply cannot trust these people (and should stop using their products)
It's scary that Facebook's latest privacy scandal has barely broken through
buttondown.com
June 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
It's scary that Facebook's latest privacy scandal has barely broken through.
Anyone in the scicomm/policy world working on efforts like described to resist cuts to U.S. biomedical research? Imo, Josh is right that activating patient communities is likely the most effective way to demonstrate the political costs of cuts to legislators. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...
A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research
Over the past four months, I’ve spoken to dozens of biomedical researchers...
talkingpointsmemo.com
May 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Anyone in the scicomm/policy world working on efforts like described to resist cuts to U.S. biomedical research? Imo, Josh is right that activating patient communities is likely the most effective way to demonstrate the political costs of cuts to legislators. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...
You can and should admit it: yesterday was deeply, absurdly funny. buttondown.com/gabestein/ar...
April 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
You can and should admit it: yesterday was deeply, absurdly funny. buttondown.com/gabestein/ar...
A coup looks different in a world where software is power.
Soft(ware) power
A coup looks different in a world where software is power.
buff.ly
February 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
A coup looks different in a world where software is power.
Wherein we oscillate between personal time zone choices, political silliness, and the lengths people went to entertain themselves when history ended.
Greeland Standard Time
Wherein we oscillate between personal time zone choices, political silliness, and the lengths people went to entertain themselves when history ended.
buff.ly
January 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Wherein we oscillate between personal time zone choices, political silliness, and the lengths people went to entertain themselves when history ended.
Do we actually make things, or do we just light money on fire and call it innovation?
Do we actually make things?
We are not ready to play with fire.
buff.ly
December 5, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Do we actually make things, or do we just light money on fire and call it innovation?
I did an AI, and it convinced me that building actually valuable AI products is a very specific, very difficult skill.
I did an AI
Chatbots are just friendly reverse-centaurs
buff.ly
November 21, 2024 at 11:49 PM
I did an AI, and it convinced me that building actually valuable AI products is a very specific, very difficult skill.
How to inoculate yourself against bad takes
How to inoculate yourself against bad takes
Resisting the temptation to analyze What Happened may be the most important thing you can do right now.
buff.ly
November 15, 2024 at 9:50 PM
How to inoculate yourself against bad takes
I regret to inform you I have "launched" a "newsletter" in an attempt to get off these platforms but keep dialoging (?) with you. All the usual stuff — intersection of tech, politics, etc. Abuse of theory. Here's the first one. Much obliged if you check it out. buttondown.com/gabestein/ar...
The Metamodern Miasma
First, some housekeeping. If you’re getting this, it’s because you previously subscribed to my blog, gabestein.com, or because we’ve been talking about this...
buttondown.com
November 15, 2024 at 8:47 PM
I regret to inform you I have "launched" a "newsletter" in an attempt to get off these platforms but keep dialoging (?) with you. All the usual stuff — intersection of tech, politics, etc. Abuse of theory. Here's the first one. Much obliged if you check it out. buttondown.com/gabestein/ar...