🌶 David Gray Widder
@davidthewid.bsky.social
🔜 Assistant Prof at UT Austin's iSchool.
AI ethics, political economy of tech, feminist STS
trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me
art: instagram.com/davidthewid
exCMU/NASA/MSR/IntelLabs.
davidwidder.me
AI ethics, political economy of tech, feminist STS
trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me
art: instagram.com/davidthewid
exCMU/NASA/MSR/IntelLabs.
davidwidder.me
Ive read and loved this piece way back when I was writing a term paper on robotics and gender for my Human-Robot Interaction class!
November 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Ive read and loved this piece way back when I was writing a term paper on robotics and gender for my Human-Robot Interaction class!
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The TL;DR (even though it’s a very short review): perhaps the first book to attempt a serious move towards an analysis of AI rooted in the logics of capital, indeed as a direct manifestation of capital — and then attempts to think towards futures on those same terms.
October 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The TL;DR (even though it’s a very short review): perhaps the first book to attempt a serious move towards an analysis of AI rooted in the logics of capital, indeed as a direct manifestation of capital — and then attempts to think towards futures on those same terms.
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Did economists paid my Microsoft apologize as well?
October 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Did economists paid my Microsoft apologize as well?
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We should be paying more attention. Nvidia's all over the headlines. But we should be paying a lot more attention to Big Cloud's land grab—especially as it's leading to what the researchers say are a host of new anticompetitive practices.
Their full paper here:
Their full paper here:
How Big Cloud becomes Bigger: Scrutinizing Google, Microsoft, and Amazon's investments
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In an AI gold rush, those selling the proverbial pickaxes are surest to win: cloud companies provide scalable managed computational resources as a subscr
papers.ssrn.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
We should be paying more attention. Nvidia's all over the headlines. But we should be paying a lot more attention to Big Cloud's land grab—especially as it's leading to what the researchers say are a host of new anticompetitive practices.
Their full paper here:
Their full paper here:
Thanks for engaging with our work!
October 20, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Thanks for engaging with our work!
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💫 "In this report, we explore an underrecognized manner in which AI ecosystems increasingly depend on Big Cloud: Big Cloud’s investment in other companies." @ssrn.bsky.social @davidthewid.bsky.social buff.ly/AdcJjoM
papers.ssrn.com
August 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
💫 "In this report, we explore an underrecognized manner in which AI ecosystems increasingly depend on Big Cloud: Big Cloud’s investment in other companies." @ssrn.bsky.social @davidthewid.bsky.social buff.ly/AdcJjoM
(This may be part of your point! Not clear if we're disagreeing)
October 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
(This may be part of your point! Not clear if we're disagreeing)
to the extent that the narrative has changed against Trump, I think part of this change has been relative disengaged/moderates watching tacticool masked ICE officers beat and disappear americans, watching troops march through peaceful parks. So mass protest is part of narrative change.
October 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
to the extent that the narrative has changed against Trump, I think part of this change has been relative disengaged/moderates watching tacticool masked ICE officers beat and disappear americans, watching troops march through peaceful parks. So mass protest is part of narrative change.
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Second main takeaway:
2️⃣➤ Each investment may be insignificant, but cumulatively they shape tech ecosystems in Big Cloud’s interest.
Thus, beyond scrutinizing only the big deals (eg, MSFT-OpenAI), we must track these investments and their effects in an ecosystem-wide, cumulative, & ongoing manner.
2️⃣➤ Each investment may be insignificant, but cumulatively they shape tech ecosystems in Big Cloud’s interest.
Thus, beyond scrutinizing only the big deals (eg, MSFT-OpenAI), we must track these investments and their effects in an ecosystem-wide, cumulative, & ongoing manner.
August 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Second main takeaway:
2️⃣➤ Each investment may be insignificant, but cumulatively they shape tech ecosystems in Big Cloud’s interest.
Thus, beyond scrutinizing only the big deals (eg, MSFT-OpenAI), we must track these investments and their effects in an ecosystem-wide, cumulative, & ongoing manner.
2️⃣➤ Each investment may be insignificant, but cumulatively they shape tech ecosystems in Big Cloud’s interest.
Thus, beyond scrutinizing only the big deals (eg, MSFT-OpenAI), we must track these investments and their effects in an ecosystem-wide, cumulative, & ongoing manner.