Jiaqi Wen
@jqwen.bsky.social
Histories of computation; infrastructure; affects; interests in queer thoughts.
Too many fantasies 🫧🌪️
Multi-ingredient melancholic creature ☔️
She/her can do art and other stuff 🎨🍸☄️
Too many fantasies 🫧🌪️
Multi-ingredient melancholic creature ☔️
She/her can do art and other stuff 🎨🍸☄️
3M once manufactured hard disk drives for 2 years, which is kinda suprising
October 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
3M once manufactured hard disk drives for 2 years, which is kinda suprising
AI development should consider its deeper environmental, technical, and sociopolitica infrastructures for the sake of sovreignty, sustainability, and fairness (not endless imaginary scalability!) - we argue for this (and many more) in this piece. So glad it's now out!
October 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
AI development should consider its deeper environmental, technical, and sociopolitica infrastructures for the sake of sovreignty, sustainability, and fairness (not endless imaginary scalability!) - we argue for this (and many more) in this piece. So glad it's now out!
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Research in Germany shows what most intelligent people who aren't strategists for major political parties already knew: mainstream politicians are both allowing #far-right parties to set the agenda and normalizing far-right policies. #authoritarianism #fascism
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Research in Germany shows what most intelligent people who aren't strategists for major political parties already knew: mainstream politicians are both allowing #far-right parties to set the agenda and normalizing far-right policies. #authoritarianism #fascism
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
So excited to see it out and honored to be part of this group!! Rare opportunity to learn about the real-world entanglements between policy and AI's pasts and futures. My special gratitute to @apasek.bsky.social and Kelly Bronson for their guidance.
This summer I got a bunch of smart academics together to think about anti-extractive Canadian AI futures. Our white paper, which parses good and bad AI policy directions for the federal government, is out now!
www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...
www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...
www.uottawa.ca
October 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
So excited to see it out and honored to be part of this group!! Rare opportunity to learn about the real-world entanglements between policy and AI's pasts and futures. My special gratitute to @apasek.bsky.social and Kelly Bronson for their guidance.
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One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.
They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.
They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.
@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.
Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr
Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr
October 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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I’m on the subway and these ads are as creepy and off putting as the product itself.
September 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I’m on the subway and these ads are as creepy and off putting as the product itself.
Mediation dies and revives and is seemingly trapped in such impasse, precisely because we all long for the immediacy of that gratification
September 15, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Mediation dies and revives and is seemingly trapped in such impasse, precisely because we all long for the immediacy of that gratification
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Tech companies have snatched millions of YouTube videos to train their AI models. Search The Atlantic’s new AI Watchdog tool to see if yours have been used:
At Least 15 Million YouTube Videos Have Been Snatched by AI Companies
Creators have unknowingly fueled tools that may eventually make their work obsolete.
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September 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Tech companies have snatched millions of YouTube videos to train their AI models. Search The Atlantic’s new AI Watchdog tool to see if yours have been used:
Post-Zoom self care: reading Barad
September 8, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Post-Zoom self care: reading Barad
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📆 Event Alert: Join in for an electric conversation with Dr. Susan Erikson, an SFU Distinguished Professor, who studies highly complex political economies that shape human health.
Link - investable.eventbrite.ca
#BookLaunch #Investable #SFUVancouver
@sfucmns.bsky.social
Link - investable.eventbrite.ca
#BookLaunch #Investable #SFUVancouver
@sfucmns.bsky.social
Author Meets Critics: Dr. Susan Erikson's Book Launch
Dr. Susan Erikson, SFU Distinguished Professor, launches her book 'Investable! When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance'
investable.eventbrite.ca
August 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
📆 Event Alert: Join in for an electric conversation with Dr. Susan Erikson, an SFU Distinguished Professor, who studies highly complex political economies that shape human health.
Link - investable.eventbrite.ca
#BookLaunch #Investable #SFUVancouver
@sfucmns.bsky.social
Link - investable.eventbrite.ca
#BookLaunch #Investable #SFUVancouver
@sfucmns.bsky.social
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Copies of JUST CODE just arrived! Partnering w Con & teaming w 19 brilliant STS authors on the vital topic of code/codes & inequality was so special! Authors (full list ToC below) On bsky: @mysdick.bsky.social @histoftech.bsky.social @dmulvin.bsky.social & blurb from @anitachan.bsky.social #histtech
August 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Copies of JUST CODE just arrived! Partnering w Con & teaming w 19 brilliant STS authors on the vital topic of code/codes & inequality was so special! Authors (full list ToC below) On bsky: @mysdick.bsky.social @histoftech.bsky.social @dmulvin.bsky.social & blurb from @anitachan.bsky.social #histtech
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"A compelling case for treating this misguided financial product as a cultural artifact — one that reflects the values, assumptions, and contradictions of a particular global order."
@jacobinmag.bsky.social reviews Susan Erikson's "Investable!: When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance":
@jacobinmag.bsky.social reviews Susan Erikson's "Investable!: When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance":
Making Plagues Investable
The World Bank’s pandemic bonds tried to turn public health crises into speculative opportunities.
jacobin.com
June 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
"A compelling case for treating this misguided financial product as a cultural artifact — one that reflects the values, assumptions, and contradictions of a particular global order."
@jacobinmag.bsky.social reviews Susan Erikson's "Investable!: When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance":
@jacobinmag.bsky.social reviews Susan Erikson's "Investable!: When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance":
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Let history note: what's happening on the streets of LA is an extension of DOGE. Musk's guys illegally consolidated data from across government and cut a corrupt contract with Palantir to build an immigrant-hunting computer system. Presumably in use now.
June 10, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Let history note: what's happening on the streets of LA is an extension of DOGE. Musk's guys illegally consolidated data from across government and cut a corrupt contract with Palantir to build an immigrant-hunting computer system. Presumably in use now.
Fatal
Durchleuchtet US-Software #Palantir bald ganz Deutschland?
"Bayerns #Polizei arbeitet bereits mit dem #Überwachungsprogramm Palantir. Nun öffnet der Bundesrat womöglich den Weg für einen deutschlandweiten Einsatz des US-Programms..."
#Faschismus-Enabling
www.br.de/nachrichten/...
"Bayerns #Polizei arbeitet bereits mit dem #Überwachungsprogramm Palantir. Nun öffnet der Bundesrat womöglich den Weg für einen deutschlandweiten Einsatz des US-Programms..."
#Faschismus-Enabling
www.br.de/nachrichten/...
Durchleuchtet US-Software Palantir bald ganz Deutschland?
Bayerns Polizei arbeitet bereits mit dem Überwachungsprogramm Palantir. Nun öffnet der Bundesrat womöglich den Weg für einen deutschlandweiten Einsatz des US-Programms zur Verbrechensbekämpfung. Hinte...
www.br.de
June 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Fatal
Been looking for this for soooo long 😭🥹
June 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Been looking for this for soooo long 😭🥹
Making your paper logical is like riding a roller coaster and doing slow flow yoga at the same time... I died 🥲
May 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Making your paper logical is like riding a roller coaster and doing slow flow yoga at the same time... I died 🥲
I was there too. Finally in nature
May 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I was there too. Finally in nature
So we returned everything and ordered new ones. Somehow they were sent from the states and stuck there seemingly forever
realized all our online purchases for the badminton team were just 12 shuttlecocks and 4 racket covers. WHAT. life is too short to double check the shopping cart
April 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
So we returned everything and ordered new ones. Somehow they were sent from the states and stuck there seemingly forever
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columbia, brown, georgetown, cornell and now tufts — they’re taking our students, our colleagues, our kin
https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/international-student-tufts-university-reportedly-taken-into-federal-custody/2VK55QMAOZFIDBR2A6XNKC5XOU/?outputType=amp
https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/international-student-tufts-university-reportedly-taken-into-federal-custody/2VK55QMAOZFIDBR2A6XNKC5XOU/?outputType=amp
International student at Tufts University reportedly taken into federal custody – Boston 25 News
Tufts said they were told the student’s visa had been terminated.
www.boston25news.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
columbia, brown, georgetown, cornell and now tufts — they’re taking our students, our colleagues, our kin
https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/international-student-tufts-university-reportedly-taken-into-federal-custody/2VK55QMAOZFIDBR2A6XNKC5XOU/?outputType=amp
https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/international-student-tufts-university-reportedly-taken-into-federal-custody/2VK55QMAOZFIDBR2A6XNKC5XOU/?outputType=amp
Sometimes it reads like a RPS fanfic even though it's technically not
March 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Sometimes it reads like a RPS fanfic even though it's technically not
Suddenly I need to learn this, or, maybe I should cancel the whole trip at all
Traveling into the U.S. has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. From the ace @wired.com security team, here's tangible guidance on minimizing the risk of Customs and Border Patrol accessing your data.
www.wired.com/2017/02/guid...
www.wired.com/2017/02/guid...
How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact
Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Patrol accessing your data.
www.wired.com
March 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Suddenly I need to learn this, or, maybe I should cancel the whole trip at all
realized all our online purchases for the badminton team were just 12 shuttlecocks and 4 racket covers. WHAT. life is too short to double check the shopping cart
March 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
realized all our online purchases for the badminton team were just 12 shuttlecocks and 4 racket covers. WHAT. life is too short to double check the shopping cart
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We’re hiring!
Calling for applications for one full-time continuing teaching faculty appointment at the rank of Lecturer. Apply by April 30th to start in July 2025.
More details: www.sfu.ca/content/dam/...
Calling for applications for one full-time continuing teaching faculty appointment at the rank of Lecturer. Apply by April 30th to start in July 2025.
More details: www.sfu.ca/content/dam/...
March 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
We’re hiring!
Calling for applications for one full-time continuing teaching faculty appointment at the rank of Lecturer. Apply by April 30th to start in July 2025.
More details: www.sfu.ca/content/dam/...
Calling for applications for one full-time continuing teaching faculty appointment at the rank of Lecturer. Apply by April 30th to start in July 2025.
More details: www.sfu.ca/content/dam/...