susannah glickman
@susglickman.bsky.social
assistant professor at stony brook university
writing about material and ideological infrastructures. semiconductors, the us state, quantum, political economy, sts/history of science
writing about material and ideological infrastructures. semiconductors, the us state, quantum, political economy, sts/history of science
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Data-center projects that “may sit empty for years because the local utility isn’t ready to supply electricity.”
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November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Data-center projects that “may sit empty for years because the local utility isn’t ready to supply electricity.”
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ICE agents detained the wrong people in Oregon, then stranded one in Mississippi
Feds also kept a gold chain one of the immigrants had received from his mother, as well as his cell phone.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Feds also kept a gold chain one of the immigrants had received from his mother, as well as his cell phone.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
ICE agents detained the wrong people in Oregon, then stranded one in Mississippi
Homeland Security confirmed the agents were looking for someone else when they broke into the men’s Gresham apartment.
www.oregonlive.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
ICE agents detained the wrong people in Oregon, then stranded one in Mississippi
Feds also kept a gold chain one of the immigrants had received from his mother, as well as his cell phone.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Feds also kept a gold chain one of the immigrants had received from his mother, as well as his cell phone.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
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What the fuck
November 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
What the fuck
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The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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MrBeast Is Opening A Theme Park In Saudi Arabia This Month
MrBeast Is Opening A Theme Park In Saudi Arabia This Month
Beast Land is being marketed as the 'Ultimate MrBeast Experience' and will be a part of Riyadh Season
kotaku.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
MrBeast Is Opening A Theme Park In Saudi Arabia This Month
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Up to 76% and still brutal for Dems, Long Island is the Florida of New York
Nassau BOE finally got its results page up. Bruce Blakeman is up 55-45 with 60% of precincts in — www.nassaucountyny.gov/571/Election...
Election Results | Nassau County, NY - Official Website
www.nassaucountyny.gov
November 5, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Up to 76% and still brutal for Dems, Long Island is the Florida of New York
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A whole lot of people in South America are about to be murdered if Trump & Hegseth import the War on Terror there.
The bunnies herald a wave of destruction.
The bunnies herald a wave of destruction.
Three Hops To Your Doom
As Pete Hegseth pledges to treat South America like al-Qaeda, the administration's targeting rules accordingly permit indiscriminate killing
www.forever-wars.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
A whole lot of people in South America are about to be murdered if Trump & Hegseth import the War on Terror there.
The bunnies herald a wave of destruction.
The bunnies herald a wave of destruction.
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this Jonathan Lethem piece is the first writing on One Battle After Another i've seen that deals directly with this deliberate discrepancy
it's also the first great negative take on the film that i've encountered www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
it's also the first great negative take on the film that i've encountered www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
October 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
this Jonathan Lethem piece is the first writing on One Battle After Another i've seen that deals directly with this deliberate discrepancy
it's also the first great negative take on the film that i've encountered www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
it's also the first great negative take on the film that i've encountered www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Nvidia is helping facilitate ICE investigations, federal procurement records show theintercept.com/2025/11/01/i...
ICE Investigations, Powered by Nvidia
ICE’s investigative division, increasingly involved in street-level immigration enforcement, struck a software deal with Nvidia.
theintercept.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Nvidia is helping facilitate ICE investigations, federal procurement records show theintercept.com/2025/11/01/i...
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these guys lie about basic historical facts to justify running more and more of the pentagon- seems bad! www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
October 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
these guys lie about basic historical facts to justify running more and more of the pentagon- seems bad! www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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Great @alexsammon.bsky.social article, and also, I wasn't imagining it after all slate.com/business/202...
October 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Great @alexsammon.bsky.social article, and also, I wasn't imagining it after all slate.com/business/202...
these guys lie about basic historical facts to justify running more and more of the pentagon- seems bad! www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
October 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
these guys lie about basic historical facts to justify running more and more of the pentagon- seems bad! www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down
Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.
www.404media.co
October 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
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Clown shit that this is who we were supposed to trust as a partner in revitalizing us chip manufacturing 🤷♀️
At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.
An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’
Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Clown shit that this is who we were supposed to trust as a partner in revitalizing us chip manufacturing 🤷♀️
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My gut reaction to all these announcements of “AI” driven layoffs is that it’s ideological cover for recession-driven layoffs
October 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
My gut reaction to all these announcements of “AI” driven layoffs is that it’s ideological cover for recession-driven layoffs
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Were Australia's First Peoples fossil collectors? Giant echidnas, kangaroos & wombats once roamed Australia; ~50K years ago, First Peoples may have collected the animals' fossils, according to a new paper that also challenges the notion that Indigenous Australians hunted these giants to extinction🧪
A new analysis of cuts in bone rethinks theory of how Australia’s First Peoples used large game | CNN
Two recently examined fossils suggest that Australia’s First Peoples valued big animals for their fossils as well as for their meat, according to a new study.
www.cnn.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Were Australia's First Peoples fossil collectors? Giant echidnas, kangaroos & wombats once roamed Australia; ~50K years ago, First Peoples may have collected the animals' fossils, according to a new paper that also challenges the notion that Indigenous Australians hunted these giants to extinction🧪
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Both Intel and AMD continue to rebrand some of their older processors with new model numbers, muddying the waters for people trying to buy lower-end and midrange laptops.
AMD shores up its budget laptop CPUs by renaming more years-old silicon
Both AMD and Intel continue to serve low-end PCs with aging silicon.
arstechnica.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Both Intel and AMD continue to rebrand some of their older processors with new model numbers, muddying the waters for people trying to buy lower-end and midrange laptops.
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the 2025 cohort of a16z-backed AI startups is a forecast for all the ways AI is going to ruin your life in the near future www.404media.co/a16z-is-fund...
a16z Is Funding a 'Speedrun' to AI-Generated Hell on Earth
Do you want ‘AI-powered social orbits,’ ‘autonomous recruiting firms,’ and an ‘AI-powered credit card?’ Too bad, you’re getting them anyway.
www.404media.co
October 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
the 2025 cohort of a16z-backed AI startups is a forecast for all the ways AI is going to ruin your life in the near future www.404media.co/a16z-is-fund...
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I didn't understand until reading it, for instance, that your education came through an app, and you could win prizes and money by completing assignments. It seemed like workplace efficiency software, but only -- for kids
October 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I didn't understand until reading it, for instance, that your education came through an app, and you could win prizes and money by completing assignments. It seemed like workplace efficiency software, but only -- for kids
Clown shit that this is who we were supposed to trust as a partner in revitalizing us chip manufacturing 🤷♀️
At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.
An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’
Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Clown shit that this is who we were supposed to trust as a partner in revitalizing us chip manufacturing 🤷♀️
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".. But in the last quarter, something changed. Lenders shifted their focus .. to securing high levels of lien-subordination protection -- the term that governs who gets paid first when everything falls apart."
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Opinion | A Private-Credit Winter Is Coming
Lenders quietly rewrite their collateral rules, which suggests a crisis waiting to happen.
www.wsj.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
".. But in the last quarter, something changed. Lenders shifted their focus .. to securing high levels of lien-subordination protection -- the term that governs who gets paid first when everything falls apart."
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/opinion/a-pr...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/opinion/a-pr...
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Women who lack permanent legal status, like Ramos Baten — asylum seekers, mothers and longtime residents — are now casualties [of Trump's deportations]. Her death leaves her teenage daughter orphaned in a country she hasn’t lived in since early childhood. @nadrakn.bsky.social for @19thnews.org
Nory and her mother were deported together. Then she was orphaned.
Estela’s death at 45 followed her rapid deportation, leaving her teenage daughter to navigate a new life in Guatemala on her own — afraid of the same gang violence her mother originally fled.
19thnews.org
October 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Women who lack permanent legal status, like Ramos Baten — asylum seekers, mothers and longtime residents — are now casualties [of Trump's deportations]. Her death leaves her teenage daughter orphaned in a country she hasn’t lived in since early childhood. @nadrakn.bsky.social for @19thnews.org
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Data brokers are the scum of the earth and I sincerely wish them the days they deserve.
The Data Brokers Fueling ICE’s Deportation Machine—And the Union Shareholders Fighting Back
"As investors, we are thinking about this as a risk to our investments, but also as a social and ethical issue.”
inthesetimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Data brokers are the scum of the earth and I sincerely wish them the days they deserve.