Dr Clea Bourne
@cleabourne.bsky.social
Reader, Dept of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies. Goldsmiths, University of London. Researcher at the intersection of markets, media and cultural studies. Editorial board, Economy and Society journal.
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It certainly appears that the United States government is run by neo-Nazis.
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
It certainly appears that the United States government is run by neo-Nazis.
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No one should gloss over how appalling this is. A president who feels this comfortable demeaning women, and so many others, is nothing short of embarrassing and shameful.
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
No one should gloss over how appalling this is. A president who feels this comfortable demeaning women, and so many others, is nothing short of embarrassing and shameful.
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Labour is handing more victories to the Far Right than the Far Right even thought was possible.
They're openly telling us in advance what's going to happen
November 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Labour is handing more victories to the Far Right than the Far Right even thought was possible.
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A piece I wrote about the manufactured ‘impartiality’ panics that greeted Tim Davie’s arrival just over 5 years ago, when GB News was still a glint in Robbie Gibbs’ eye www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
William Davies · Short Cuts: Woke Conspiracies
A British equivalent of Fox News, wherever it may come from, would have its own distinctive character – less...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
A piece I wrote about the manufactured ‘impartiality’ panics that greeted Tim Davie’s arrival just over 5 years ago, when GB News was still a glint in Robbie Gibbs’ eye www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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i think about this way too much - how tech companies act vs. “legacy” companies that produce consumer goods, news, media or entertainment.
Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.
OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
i think about this way too much - how tech companies act vs. “legacy” companies that produce consumer goods, news, media or entertainment.
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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I’ve heard her name a dozen times today in a room where I shouldn’t have heard it once. We are about to see a real world case study of the difference between authority and legitimacy.
November 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I’ve heard her name a dozen times today in a room where I shouldn’t have heard it once. We are about to see a real world case study of the difference between authority and legitimacy.
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Some say the solution to the UK’s productivity slump is to expand the sectors that pay the highest salaries. Next time you hear that ask the person how many quant hedge fund computer scientists earning £250k-£800k they think the economy needs to become more productive.
London becomes ‘quant’ powerhouse as traders rake in revenues
A pipeline of skilled graduates is helping the UK build out its expertise in algorithmic trading
on.ft.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Some say the solution to the UK’s productivity slump is to expand the sectors that pay the highest salaries. Next time you hear that ask the person how many quant hedge fund computer scientists earning £250k-£800k they think the economy needs to become more productive.
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If you just banked that coffee money every week and denied yourself every other instance of life’s gastronomic pleasures, however small and ordinary, you could save enough to make the down payment on that starter house in [checks notes] five hundred and seventy three years
“At the same time, more than half of Gen Z members say they are struggling to make ends meet, yet a majority buy themselves a small treat, such as a pastry, coffee, or sweet, at least once a week. That can lead to overspending…”
archive.ph/2TI8J
archive.ph/2TI8J
October 31, 2025 at 6:25 PM
If you just banked that coffee money every week and denied yourself every other instance of life’s gastronomic pleasures, however small and ordinary, you could save enough to make the down payment on that starter house in [checks notes] five hundred and seventy three years
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Pull up for a bumper issue, nine articles, from ecologization as a mode of economization to the prompting of generative AI models in UK government, with stops in Brazil, Venezuela, Kenya and the US along the way!
www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/c...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/c...
Economy and Society
Dedicated to Michel Callon, 1945–2025. Volume 54, Issue 3 of Economy and Society
www.tandfonline.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Pull up for a bumper issue, nine articles, from ecologization as a mode of economization to the prompting of generative AI models in UK government, with stops in Brazil, Venezuela, Kenya and the US along the way!
www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/c...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/c...
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NEW @jmmnews.bsky.social Process, profession and purpose: the 3 ps of digitalised marketing - Franck Cochoy, Johan Hagberg & me- SI Intro with @cleabourne.bsky.social Akmeraner-Kökat & @lenapell.bsky.social ; @christianfuentes.bsky.social & Stoopendahl www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
NEW @jmmnews.bsky.social Process, profession and purpose: the 3 ps of digitalised marketing - Franck Cochoy, Johan Hagberg & me- SI Intro with @cleabourne.bsky.social Akmeraner-Kökat & @lenapell.bsky.social ; @christianfuentes.bsky.social & Stoopendahl www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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"Amazon as a whole consumed 105bn gallons of water in total in 2021, as much as 958,000 US households, which would make for a city bigger than San Francisco, according to the memo."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows
Executives at world’s biggest datacenter owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
"Amazon as a whole consumed 105bn gallons of water in total in 2021, as much as 958,000 US households, which would make for a city bigger than San Francisco, according to the memo."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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We can't media literacy our way out of this systemic information catastrophe the same way we can't financial literacy ourselves out of what's designed to function as a commercial caste system
This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.
October 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
We can't media literacy our way out of this systemic information catastrophe the same way we can't financial literacy ourselves out of what's designed to function as a commercial caste system
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dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience
October 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience
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Congratulations to Professor Ragupathy Venkatachalam, who has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Istituto Lombardo.
Read the full story 👇https://www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/professor-venkatachalam-istituto-lombardo/
Read the full story 👇https://www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/professor-venkatachalam-istituto-lombardo/
Goldsmiths Professor elected to prestigious Italian academy
Ragupathy Venkatachalam, Professor of Economics at Goldsmiths, University of London, has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Istituto Lombardo – Accademia di Scienze e Lettere.
www.gold.ac.uk
October 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Congratulations to Professor Ragupathy Venkatachalam, who has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Istituto Lombardo.
Read the full story 👇https://www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/professor-venkatachalam-istituto-lombardo/
Read the full story 👇https://www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/professor-venkatachalam-istituto-lombardo/
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Humor is kryptonite to Trump, so let's have fun tomorrow!
March, dance, sing, and laugh at your local No Kings peaceful protest on Saturday. #NoKings
@gtconway.bsky.social
March, dance, sing, and laugh at your local No Kings peaceful protest on Saturday. #NoKings
@gtconway.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Humor is kryptonite to Trump, so let's have fun tomorrow!
March, dance, sing, and laugh at your local No Kings peaceful protest on Saturday. #NoKings
@gtconway.bsky.social
March, dance, sing, and laugh at your local No Kings peaceful protest on Saturday. #NoKings
@gtconway.bsky.social
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Wrote a blog post about why there's no such thing as a universal digital service - which may seem counterintuitive "now that everyone has a phone" but it remains as true today as it was 10 years ago.
www.careful.industries/blog/2025-10...
www.careful.industries/blog/2025-10...
There’s no such thing as a universal digital service — Careful Industries
In a world where Meta has more users than most countries have residents, it seems odd to say that digital services aren’t universal – but universal services need to work for everyone, not just for peo...
www.careful.industries
October 17, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Wrote a blog post about why there's no such thing as a universal digital service - which may seem counterintuitive "now that everyone has a phone" but it remains as true today as it was 10 years ago.
www.careful.industries/blog/2025-10...
www.careful.industries/blog/2025-10...
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tbh I think Microsoft is going to blink right before October 14, and if they don’t… well, that’s a very, very bad decision on their part.
October 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
tbh I think Microsoft is going to blink right before October 14, and if they don’t… well, that’s a very, very bad decision on their part.
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Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n
Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI
This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...
www.tandfonline.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n
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On the anniversary of his murder, when he was hacked to death by mercenaries hired by Saudi Arabia, Jamal Khashoggi is beautifully remembered by another writer they have tried to silence, Karen Attiah. Important reading for us all.
Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.
They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.
But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.
RIP, Jamal.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.
But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.
RIP, Jamal.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out
As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.
open.substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
On the anniversary of his murder, when he was hacked to death by mercenaries hired by Saudi Arabia, Jamal Khashoggi is beautifully remembered by another writer they have tried to silence, Karen Attiah. Important reading for us all.
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Join us this evening at @mediacomgold.bsky.social @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social for a fascinating discussion and film-screening on how to find the tools to do the essential work of #journalism. Details 👇🏽 complete with empanadas! There’s a livestream too on this link: www.youtube.com/live/IHf4Iue...
October 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Join us this evening at @mediacomgold.bsky.social @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social for a fascinating discussion and film-screening on how to find the tools to do the essential work of #journalism. Details 👇🏽 complete with empanadas! There’s a livestream too on this link: www.youtube.com/live/IHf4Iue...
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Fucking amazing.
New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.
This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
October 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Fucking amazing.
Story filed by Ellesheva Kissin from the FT: www.ft.com/content/934c...
Deloitte issues refund for error-ridden Australian government report that used AI
Big Four firm will repay final instalment after incorrect references and citations found in document
www.ft.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Story filed by Ellesheva Kissin from the FT: www.ft.com/content/934c...