Craig Gent
Author of CYBERBOSS. Work at LSE. Part of StreamArtNetwork. Critical algorithm studies, livestreaming, solidarity, labour, hybrid media. Co-host Heart Reacts. Previously Novara Media. c-gent.net
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- Low budget, high intensity! ✊💚
- Reposted by Craig GentIf Mandelson is being investigated for his Epstein connections, he must also be investigated for his Thiel connections, because they ran a joint fund when Mandelson fixed Starmer's visit to Palantir bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...
- Post-fossil internet and solar futures with the Non-Extractive Art School x CDI-TV x StreamArtNetwork @transmediale.bsky.social
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- Misty morning in Cambridge!
- For anyone who will be at transmediale, come say hi! The SAN Archipelago programme also has open-call slots available for anyone who wants to join for a discussion or performance via stream/in person. HMU
- Reposted by Craig Gent"We have to help people understand what is (the current, shared reality), we must collectively imagine what can be (a future possibility), & we have to diligently labor for what must be (organizing to sustain life/livingness & for liberation)." @prisonculture.bsky.social on how to move forward.
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- Reposted by Craig GentThank goodness everyone spent months deciding that the Chinese were stealing our data so we could switch to good old patriotic American data stealing
- According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
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- The democratic revolution is fighting for its life in Rojava. We must not be silent. The Kurds who defeated ISIS to the benefit of the world have been sold out by the West, betrayed by the Syrian govt, and are now under renewed threat from Turkish and ISIS militants. novaramedia.com/2026/01/22/r...
- New year, new Heart Reacts! This week: emotional libertarianism and its discontents Available at www.patreon.com/posts/episod... or wherever you get podcasts
- On young people using ChatGPT because their friends are "too busy" and whether you're better off having a baby with your partner or your best friend. Out now at www.patreon.com/posts/145683... or find us on your platform of choice
- A really stellar conversation. Highly recommended listening!
- If you haven't heard the letter with the Big Linklater Energy yet then make sure you find it in your podcast feed! or find us at patreon.com/heartreacts yknow 😉❤️
- Reposted by Craig GentGreat culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
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- Upload your grandparents so you can rent them forever <3
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- This from a university that is in a comparatively *good* financial position
- Reposted by Craig Gent🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies' 🗓️ 2-3 February 2026 📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating) Deadline: 14th November Full info: digicologies.com/cfp
- All new Heart Reacts on your podcast feed of choice! This week @sarahljaffe.bsky.social talk about feeling simultaneously over- and under-committed, whether having boyfriends is embarrassing now, and why people are talking "chalant"
- What is called splendour of the throne is no other than the corruption of the state, wrote Tom Paine in 1791. “It is made up of a band of parasites, living in luxurious indolence, out of public taxes.” Those two lines are worth more than anything put to paper by a republican in Britain for 70 years.
- Reposted by Craig GentMy book UP IN THE AIR: A HISTORY OF HIGH-RISE BRITAIN is out today!
- Episode 30! And we're getting/saying Down With Ambiguity (geddit?) Also available wherever you get podcasts www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
- Reposted by Craig Gent🚨We're hiring! 🚨 👉Open Position: Assistant Professor of #Philosophy with focus on #AI 🗓️ Application deadline: 3 November 2025 Apply via: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #PartOfLSE #LSEPhilosophy #Jobs
- Huge story with some absolutely shocking details. Big credit to @simonchilds.bsky.social and the workers who spoke to @novaramedia.com for this novaramedia.com/2025/10/15/u...
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- Reposted by Craig Gent#Postdoc at Technische Universität Berlin in digital humanities & history/philosophy/sociology of science #philsci #STS. ERC project investigates digital communication within the ATLAS collaboration at CERN Deadline: October 13, 2025 www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posti... #PhilJobs
- When I first heard Albania now has an AI minister I had just assumed they now had a minister for AI. Stupid me.
- This is guaranteed to be great!
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- [Supercilious platitude no one asked for or needed because they are, in fact, adults about why, even if we might disagree with someone, there is no excuse for [anything that could be construed as [adjective/verb] or minimising [abstract noun]] Sorry but someone had to say it, and it had to be me.
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- This episode of 301 (by @thejaymo.net) sums up the experience of being a British person on Bluesky. Kinda sad that after a fortnight or so of it seeming like a decent space, it actually just sucks. Sorry etc but I don't think it's the platform's fault either. permanentlymoved.online/2514-more-di...
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- "Ali says since being elected as a councillor he has campaigned in inner city areas across the country where people are fed up with the two-party system. The response, he argues, should be to promote self-empowerment within communities..." Me for @novaramedia.com novaramedia.com/2025/07/23/t...
- This week on Heart Reacts, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social and I answer questions on AI, working in tech, and care work. find at patreon.com/heartreacts or wherever you get your podcasts!
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- Reposted by Craig GentWe welcome proposals for the @britishacademy.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellowships in the following areas: 🟢 Literature and Digital Humanities 🟢 DH-based research engaging with GLAM 🟢 Creativity Apply by 27 July to be considered for internal selection: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/c...
- There are people running Labour who think it's actually a good thing - a glowing vindication of their choices - that tens of thousands of people at Glastonbury will enthusiastically shout "Fuck Keir Starmer!" To them, this is success, while crowds chanting "Oh Jeremy Corbyn" was only ever despair.
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- All-new Heart Reacts in which @sarahljaffe.bsky.social and I talk "social deskilling" and scummy landlords. Listen on Patreon, Spotify or wherever you podcast. Just search "Heart Reacts" (and if you've never listened before, this is a good place to start!)
- Reposted by Craig GentNO REDUNDANCIES at the University of Dundee. Fantastic news in our fight to save jobs, as interim Principal Prof Nigel Seaton confirms that there will be no redundancies. A massive victory for everyone who has supported us. Looking forward to receiving the removal of Section 188 in writing.
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- 'The report says a “considerable” number of people it spoke to commented about the way in which dissent, or challenge was routinely”‘shut down”, particularly by the principal who “did not welcome difficult conversations”.' ...........
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- All-new Heart Reacts - on uprisings and "nice guys" Find wherever you get your podcasts!
- Describe your favourite film in the most misleading way possible. Three frenemies learn the value of teamwork while two vie for the affection of Veronica Lake ❤️
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- Reposted by Craig GentAbsolutely fucking brilliant: students use AI to write their assignments, and then teachers use AI to grade them. David Graeber wrote an entire book on "bullshit jobs," but I don't think even he could foresee how rapidly we would all run off this cliff together.
- We've been getting such a great response to Heart Reacts, it's genuinely very humbling! If you'd like to write in and tell us what's going on with you (life/work/love/politics) then you can do so anonymously (or not!) at www.askmeanything.cc/heartreacts
- All new Heart Reacts in which @sarahljaffe.bsky.social and I discuss prioritisation, partners, pals, pop psychology and, yep, polyamory. And things that don't begin with P, such as the collapse of late capitalism. www.patreon.com/posts/episod... or wherever you podcast
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- Just listened to this excellent conversation between @docmattmoudi.bsky.social and @eleanorkpenny.bsky.social and you should too. I hear from tech worker pals all the time - Palantir is getting all over the British state. Serious stakes. Join the @novaramedia.com supporter drive while you're at it!
- I've been followed by a significant number of anti-AOC Democrats today 🤔 this is a weird platform
- Both Nawrocki and Trzaskowski appeared on...livestreams hosted by [far-right] Mentzent. Nawrocki played to type. Yet it was Trzaskowski’s performance that was most surprising: while he expressed some polite disagreements with his opponent, he also nodded along to demands like opposing all new taxes.
- An excellent time to fund independent media. Novara Media is a constant reminder of the media we could have and the world we can win.
- All new Heart Reacts in which @sarahljaffe.bsky.social and I discuss prioritisation, partners, pals, pop psychology and, yep, polyamory. And things that don't begin with P, such as the collapse of late capitalism. www.patreon.com/posts/episod... or wherever you podcast
- Some cool news - CYBERBOSS is getting a Korean translation! My dream of a Bong Joon Ho adaptation lives!
- This was a huge moment at this weekend's UCU congress - very excited to get stuck into discussing next steps with members across the country!
- Looking forward to this
- Do you have a long drive, walk, or downtime ahead of you this holiday weekend? Consider listening to this podcast discussion with @karenhao.bsky.social about her new book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, just out from Penguin Press: www.techpolicy.press/decolonizing...
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- All new Heart Reacts - on shaming (intentional and otherwise), school strikes, and Joshua Clover. Find wherever you pod or at patreon.com/heartreacts
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- Write to us at www.askmeanything.cc/heartreacts 💌 Recent questions include what to do about rich partners, the state, aggravating in-laws, political organisations, and polyamory. So yknow, we've got your bases covered
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- You can get 30-50% off CYBERBOSS and all other titles when ordering 3 books or more from Verso in their May Day offer! Discount is applied at checkout and the offer is on until 8th May. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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- Episode 20 (20!) of Heart Reacts is now in your podcast feed. Me and @sarahljaffe.bsky.social get into The Family and its discontents, and whether socialism means being nice to everyone. Thanks to all our patreon supporters who helped us get this far!
