Hey, folks, please consider grabbing a copy of this anthology. I hope to keep it going.

My org @fightforthefuture.org has been “de-googling” for the last year. We’re totally off Google suite, Google docs, Drive, Calendar. We’re using Signal and Element for chat, Nextcloud for docs, etc Planning to publish a “how to” guide for other nonprofits and activist groups soonish.

tech ceos are so funny "we should bring back public executions" dude you don't know how to use a grocery store self checkout shut your nazi hole

fun fact, i went to high school with roys back in the day and she seems like an ok liberal / progressive but Hong seems much more like a cadre DSA candidate

Milwaukee DSA is hosting a discussion with DSA member and candidate for Wisconsin Governor Francesca Hong! As part of our endorsement consideration, we invite all Milwaukee DSA members in good standing to attend this event.  Link to RSVP in last post

(oddly i find electoralism boring and useless in michigan but marginally interesting in wisconsin)

In case you missed it.

tech people are fascists, example 10000000000000000000

Video shared to social media ~1:20 pm shows a different angle of community members and protestors facing federal immigration agents in Elgin, IL today. In the video, someone(s?) in the crowd throws snowballs at the agents as they appear to be dogpiling someone. Seconds later, gas comes out.

extremely sad news that Asad Haider has passed away. i didn't know him personally but it'd be impossible to overstate how important his writing and editing in Viewpoint was to my trajectory. as I said last night, we are losing too many comrades.

i want to buy this but i know i'd just get too mad www.connollybooks.org/product/fasc...

Are you a UM student or worker? DEMAND a better world!! We will not be the war machine!! Sign the petition @ bit.ly/UMNoDataCenterPetition

Big news for Saline!! We need to keep up public pressure to completely kill the ex parte application! See below!

The sandwich newsletter is back!!! Prepare to learn more than you ever thought you would about pastrami! Origin myths! Disputes! An outstanding historical mystery! Yiddish ballads! Unlikely lyricism! The Armenian Church takes a stand! buttondown.com/theswordandt...

all these mergers are ushering in the creation of North Central Positronics Ltd., which i’m sure will not effect anything in a negative way. nothing to worry about as far as beams or towers go i’m sure

Bernie Sanders keeps saying the most wrong headed about AI and paling around with Geoffery Hinton. We write more about it here -- buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

Ypsilanti Township demands the state pull back a $100 million grant to University of Michigan for a proposed data center the college is developing with Los Alamos National Laboratory. planetdetroit.org/2025/12/ypsi...

turbo libs are negatively polarizing themselves into defending F-150s in the quote tweets lol

i don't completely buy the argument that because the building trades have been shit on by the democratic party, they get a free pass to build concentration camps and data centers

Cloudflare is just one guy holding two cables together. The entire internet runs through them. He is being electrocuted 24/7 but holds on because he knows people need the world wide web. When he passes out from pain & exhaustion we get 404 errors

AI Is Not Inevitable join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience zoom.us/webinar/regi...

one of those too-cold-for-the-dog-to-go-out-much days

No! No!!!

"We can and must resist narratives of inevitability through collective labor action and strategic refusal." (The AI Con, p.164) So thankful to have an opportunity to be in conversation with @alexhanna.bsky.social this evening with @ali-alkhatib.com's book club!

It's simple — @propublica.org workers should not be replaced by artificial intelligence. Our contract proposal specifically says that generative artificial intelligence ("GAI") should not be used to replace employees. Management struck out this entire section in their response to our proposal.

i think we need a moratorium on a*** k*** posting, he is obviously just attention seeking / trying to boost stock value with fashy statements

Our latest exhibit at Chicago Gamespace is on Zork - coming on Saturday, December 6 (also my b-day). www.chicagogamespace.com/exhibitions/... For it, I also created a video about Zork with help of my good friend Alex @theycreateworlds.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-_M...

Thanks for the shout-out, @violetblue.bsky.social! Threat Model, an invaluable resource for Covid-related news, free every Thursday. www.patreon.com/posts/covid-...

There isn't a single young Jewish kid protesting for Palestine who doesn't know which river and what sea...and I can't decide if she is really that ignorant and doesn't know this (which means she doesn't know any Jewish kids) or if she is straight up lying on a public stage

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

like the most consistent position from elected Democrats is demanding to see the evidence to justify these strikes. that's not an anti-war position.

the Democratic Party is so useless that even outright con men like Shri look better than most Dems on this "On Monday, Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York dismissed the possibility of impeaching Hegseth."

Detroit Democrat Shri Thanedar has filed articles of impeachment against another Trump administration official.

We are glad to see @sanders.senate.gov pushing back against the tech broligarchy, but we wish he would base his arguments on reality rather than Hinton's fantasies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... We take apart the report he cites here:

if you want, you can join the reading group here we're going to continue reading after finishing The AI Con, and I think the group chat and the video chats every Thursday have been really rewarding spaces for people.

Remembering Fred Hampton, murdered by the state on Dec. 4, 1969.

Of note for Detroit-area folks: The presence of Jim Farley of Ford and Antonio Filosa of Stellantis (the latter of whom seems like he wants desperately to escape, and his PR people should have warned him). Mary Barra of GM sent a (pro-Trump?) plant manager. Rep. Lisa McClain is a bad banana.

It's the 20s and the head of Ford is promoting hateful false rhetoric aimed at expelling and killing a minority group.

both Michigan Senators-- Slotkin and Peters-- voted for this

finishing The AI Con by @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social; i'm so excited we're going to get to chat w/Alex tomorrow. looking forward to hearing if/how the hype landscape has changed, and her observations/thoughts of groups organizing against AI projects like the UM-LANL datacenter.

i know this is kind of sappy but i love the sort of personal stories people tell in the replies to music videos

I'm very serious guys: there are a lot of mutuals all of us have on here that have decided this rolling stone article is the chance to argue that "actually data centers aren't that big of a problem, it's just industrial farming" and every single one of them is in the programming/ML training world

index.php is so fucking back

(yes this is gemini full moon week alright)

the Democrats need to embrace Abundance and start celebrating success — and sometimes success comes in the form of six-figure bribes from Azerbaijan

oh lol, more microfascisms: apparently U-M Athletics is using biometrics (fingerprints of players, coaches, staff) for access control

oh and the fascists at DPSS (repressive campus police force known for beating students and workers) don't think U-M's access control systems are centralized enough, big surprise

new slogan for GEO/LEO/USU/etc: liberate the umich tunnels, liberate umich