Just found out that my name, image and likeness was stolen and used by @grammerly.bsky.social -- along with other colleagues. I'm so done with these AI companies stealing everything including our identities. Thank you @juliaangwin.com for leading the charge! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Come to campus and check out these two amazing book talks at #UCLA next week! Karen Hao’s Empire of AI: datax.ucla.edu/news-events/... More, Everything, Forever Book Talk with Adam Becker: datax.ucla.edu/news-events/...

new read feat. thee @safiyanoble.bsky.social

If you are in NYC March 18 come one and all to @bambrooklyn.bsky.social to experience the brilliance of Dr. @safiyanoble.bsky.social irl (and as bonus you'll get to experience me admiring her).

increasingly clear that the academy’s mad rush into AI & concordantly away from the humanities corresponds to that same shift in the priorities of intelligence & defense funding—so accustomed to it now that they no longer know how to do anything different. the university as cargo cult

So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.

“The people whose rights are being violated don’t have a lot of power, and the people responsible for the pollution are huge mega corporations with a lot of power…And they’ve been getting away with this for decades now.”

We WILL keep going! “UCLA faculty are honored to stand with this coalition, which continues to show that when faced with an administration targeting the very heart of higher education, fighting back is the only option,” Markowitz said. www.latimes.com/california/s...

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

Run, do not walk, and get yourself a copy of this amazing book (calling all of my librarian friends!). This is an incredible event with Dr who is giving a powerful account of how to find justice and repair in our society. @terencekeel.bsky.social @repclub.bsky.social

@safiyanoble.bsky.social, UCLA professor and author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, explained how threats against educational institutions are intertwined with the threats against media and journalists. Watch the event recap: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6Kq...

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Here is the proposed agreement the Trump admin sent to UCLA, which administrators fought tooth and claw to keep secret ucop.edu/communicatio...

Please understand that the only reason this has been released is because of the UCLA faculty association who filed a request and challenged the refusal in court. If you are a UC faculty member, join your FA!

This is one of the best analyses of the total grift and scammery of AI in education I’ve seen, and it is a MUST Read: “Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI - defector.com/higher-eds-r...

Stop fighting your faculty in court, lady. “We are committed to being transparent about the challenges facing the university, but we must also evaluate our response to the administration’s settlement proposal that, like all settlement communications, is confidential.

An amazing community —it was such an honor to share and learn together! ♥️ Thank you for having me!

@mit.edu has done an incredibly important service to the nation by being willing to be the first school to reject the administration's "compact." President Kornbluth focuses—and she's right—on the principle that "scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."

If you’re in Los Angeles and want to get out for a few laughs, I’m doing a set in tonight’s comedy show lineup at the Kookaburra Lounge! Come at 6:30–starts at 7pm. (Disclaimer: I had no influence over the show name, ugh). Come through—I’m making art! www.thekookaburralounge.com/events/deezn...

Some news ♥️🎉 newsroom.ucla.edu/dept/faculty...

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

We're hiring a postdoc in Duke GSF!! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30734

Facing a proposed $1.2-billion fine and severe medical research grant cuts at UCLA, the University of California has not gone head-to-head with Trump in court. So on Tuesday, groups representing more than 100,000 of its employees did. www.latimes.com/california/s...

OpenAI is anything but “open”—very early on, it left behind that marketing tag to become increasingly closed, elitist, and inherently anti-democratic. Empire of AI had a rather different subtitle in its UK edition: “Inside the reckless race of total domination.”

I got to share a stage with the incomparable Karen Hao this morning and she is The Truth in every way. ♥️

the way someone was like “let’s invent an AI necklace that records and listens to your convos and berates you for said convos” when we have these horrific stories of chatbots influencing self harm is just expanding my understanding of hell

I'm proud to share a new project that @alexreisner.bsky.social and I launched at @theatlantic.com today! It's called AI Watchdog, and it's our new home for all of the investigations into training data sets, such as LibGen, Books3, and OpenSubtitles. www.theatlantic.com/category/ai-...

These dangerous, faulty, copyright infringing, psychosis-inducing consumer products need to be made illegal now.

While reading and retention go more slowly for me nowadays... Last completed: "How to Stand Up to A Dictator", Maria Ressa. Right now, I'm rereading @safiyanoble.bsky.social 's "Algorithms of Oppression" because it is still relevant, even today.

Excited to announce that I am following in the footsteps of my mentors @safiyanoble.bsky.social and @kishonna.bsky.social as the 2025 keynote speaker for the Digital Library Federation at CLIR Forum in Denver! forum2025.diglib.org/speakers/

Solidarity with pro-worker champion Rep. Nicole Collier – we've got your back! 🔥 #txlege

Attention chumps: If you, despite all our dire warnings, decided to put your newsletter on Substack, the untrustworthy asses who run the company just did what we all knew they would, and made it impossible to take your subscribers with you if you want to leave. support.substack.com/hc/en-us/art...

Republicans are holding her And Dems let her sit in there alone

Jackson, Mississippi, a primarily black city and the state’s capital, hasn’t had a proper running water treatment facility since late August of 2022.

If you think cuts to funding science is somehow caught up in the “culture wars that have nothing to do with science,” you are missing the point. The entire project of education as a public good is under threat, and a threat to one university is a threat to all. We have to stand together #UCLAResist

The absurdity continues. UCLA should counter sue the Administration for not rooting out antisemitism among its supporters.

In other mob boss fascist move, Trump is now trying to extort UCLA for $1B, force it to adopt his racist, transphobic, xenophobic policies & accept a “monitor” to control the university. Hard no. UCLA is a California public university subject to CA law & built on CA values. The answer is no.

Where is @governor.ca.gov on protecting UCLA from federal extortion and unprecedented overreach?

The media needs to stop calling these “settlements.” They are extortion payments. UCLA did not do any damage to the federal government it doesn’t have to “settle” shit.

NEW: UCLA should not bend “on their knees” to Trump in negotiations, Newsom says, chiding Columbia and Brown deals www.latimes.com/california/s...

BREAKING: The Trump administration is seeking $1 billion+ from the University of California to restore UCLA's frozen federal funding. The payout would far exceed any made by universities so far. UC has not agreed to it, sources say. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Local reporting uncovered Amazon was behind the water-guzzling data center slated for the desert. Residents fought against the data center. Today, the city council unanimously voted against Project Blue. If you care about local journalism that drives impact, consider donating to @azluminaria.org!

I would also like to remind folks that OpenAI wrote a paper in which they prompted GPT-4 on which jobs they thought would be most exposed to automation. They validated it by comparing it to responses that people who worked OpenAI gave to the same question. arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130

The ai hot mic problem.

911

IMHO, it’s worth noticing how these dweebs are now more openly inserting their eugenicist talking points into the hype for their tech. In this instance saying people will be at a “cognitive disadvantage” if they don’t use his tech. Dude what.

what's that @hypervisible.bsky.social quote about how every future envisioned by a tech company is worse than the last?

BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order directing states to criminalize and institutionalize people experiencing homelessness, addiction, and mental health disabilities.