This, via @lanalanalana.bsky.social is basically my current research project (if you add a bit of institutional investment) #BIGSHEDS. The kind of money, financial instruments and endpoint consumption that funds these things = world
Yessss let's get together soon!
Read the primer by @lanalanalana.bsky.social, @alicetiara.bsky.social and Kate Larson: It maps what we know about generative AI’s role in scams, the communities most at risk, and the broader economic and cultural shifts at play. datasociety.net/library/scam...
"The more and more that AI becomes infrastructural and becomes part of our everyday lives, the more likely we are to encounter scams and fraud,” says @lanalanalana.bsky.social, co-author of our primer "Scam GPT: GenAI and the Automation of Fraud." www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...
Edinburgh! I am here until end of June!
Poster that says: "Charlottesville's a Union Town. Collective Bargaining for all Town Hall and Community Panel. Whether you're a UVA worker, student, or Charlottesville resident, come learn how you can use collective bargaining to get more of a say in UVA's impact on your life and raise the standards for all of us! Saturday, February 21, 2-3:30pm. Charlottesville Middle School Cafeteria. 1000 Cherry Ave. Child care and refreshments provided." At the bottom is a QR vode to RSVP and the UCWVA logo.
Hey #Charlottesville #cville folx. This weekend, Sat Feb 21 from 2-3:30 (with social time afterwards) UCW is hosting a town hall about collective bargaining and keeping UVA honest. Flyer below with an RSVP QR code with more information. Let your folx (esp other unionized folx) know! Tags incoming.
The more AI becomes infrastructural the more likely we are to encounter scams and fraud..’We absolutely are moving into an era where we're going to have to recalibrate our epistemologies in just about every aspect of our lives’ 🎧our AE @lanalanalana.bsky.social on www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...
The Trump admin's "choice of Instrument Serif came as a shock to its designers, Rodrigo Fuenzalida + Jordan Egstad.... 'I was disappointed to see the Trump administration adopt it,' Egstad writes. 'Using a freely available + open-source font to promote exclusionary policies is deeply ironic.'"
+ “We absolutely are moving into an era where we're going to have to recalibrate our epistemologies in just about every aspect of our lives”
Retail sales were flat in December.
Plus: AI website scams, crypto Fimbulwinter, imported bananas, and Alphabet’s century bond.
Today on Marketplace.
In which I use the word epistemology on the radio
www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...
I talk about AI vibe scamming on @marketplace www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...
Really enjoyed the conversation for the @jcultecon.bsky.social podcast. We discussed the paper we wrote with @arturocastro.bsky.social on how crypto embeds and reproduces neoliberalism, and how it participates in and benefits from crisis.
Enjoy the podcast, and please be patient with my Spanglish!
The weird & reactionary technopolitics of today are the result of 30+ years of debate among US technologists. Our paper with @arturocastro.bsky.social "Cryptofinancial Imaginaries" is out in the new issue of Journal of Cultural Economy.
Thrilled to be part of this debate: tinyurl.com/24ptrbkn
This was fun! Made me feel old. I didn't know it was going to be on video with no background blur so you get to see our vintage Dungeons and Dragons poster.
Our next episode is now LIVE! Featuring @lanalanalana.bsky.social, Andreu Belsunces @imaginaries.bsky.social & Kobe De Keere unpacking the neoliberal roots of crypto, its design principles, role as a ‘social and cultural shapeshifter’, and the promises broken along the way.
One of us
classic Shrockity
Bill Maurer on how stablecoins represent a "contemporary manifestation of patterns that have recurred throughout history when elites adopt new money forms to assert their authority, gather followers and manage their own political positions" duckbucks.com/a/stablecoin...
Meta knowingly makes billions from scam ads, while vulnerable users around the world lose devastating amounts. It’s time to hold the company accountable for its role in this shameful cycle of harm, @lanalanalana.bsky.social & D&S's @alicetiara.bsky.social write. www.theverge.com/tech/820906/...
New in @theverge.com - half of US scams originate on a Meta property. The company must do more. @lanalanalana.bsky.social and I weigh in www.theverge.com/tech/820906/...
My commentary with @alicetiara.bsky.social on Meta making a killing off scam ads www.theverge.com/tech/820906/...
A tour de force in less than 3000 words on how we got here by one of my favorite people
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...
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In the third episode of Gotcha!, our mini-series on scams, @alixdunn.com talks with @lanalanalana.bsky.social and @alicetiara.bsky.social about how generative AI is reshaping the fraud industry.
