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Ben Peters
@bjpeters
Writing on Soviet AI, #RussHack. Books: Your Computer is on Fire. Soviet Internet. Digital Keywords. Media theory, history, frisbee. Grew up in Iowa. Parent.
Mar 8, 2021 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
Project announcement (tell the world):

@marijetabozovic and I are enormously excited to announce:

Imagining Russian Hackers:
Myths of Men and Machines

hackersinitiative.yale.edu

1/ #russhack Thus begins phase one of this multi-year public research initiative--which @MarijetaBozovic and I are co-leading with a completely crack team of Yale doctoral researchers and some of the smartest people we know--in studying Russian hackers as a media phenomenon....

2/ #russhack
Mar 8, 2021 • 19 tweets • 18 min read
Thread on #computerfire contributors (my summaries).



Why is tech smoldering? What is to be done?



Read Your Computer is on Fire: new book launch & readings TOMORROW, Tuesday March 9, 2021 at 5 pm EST. Register: mitpress.mit.edu/books/your-com…


1/ Happy IntWomen'sDay! In “the Cloud is a Factory” @nensmenger launches the first section “nothing is virtual” with the cloud being coal-powered: Amazon, like Sears before it, organizes trust, bodies, and matter across the global carbon chains that is computing.



2/ #cloudfactory #computerfire