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quite a big study here showing that actual emissions reductions for a bunch of different offsets types are significantly lower than how they're marketed This is exactly what you expect from a system that rewards maximum offset sales, not maximum climate action www.nature.com/articles/s41...

finally some news to celebrate

stunning new report on Carceral AI “a growing class of algorithmic and data-driven practices designed to police, incarcerate, surveil, and control people” with recommendations for divesting, blocking, resisting, and abolishing this oppressive & violent tech www.carceral-ai.com/what-is-carc...

Haven’t been here in a bit so for Bsky folks who may not know, @laurenebridges.bsky.social, myself, and a wonderful research team published this really cool multimedia project on e-waste called Geographies of Digital Wasting and y’all should check it out! www.geographiesofdigitalwasting.com

Thrilled to share my new article on “competing digital capacities” & data center tradeoffs out today in Information, Communication & Society as part of a special issue on “Platform, Power, & Friction” by special editors @ppopiel.sky.social & Krishnan Vasudevan www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NHB4H...

ICYMI, offsets are another arm of petrocapitalist business strategy, premised on enclosure & domination, and will not save anyone

One of the things I want folks to understand about the billionaires who forced the Penn pres to resign is they started all this before Oct 7 and among their complaints is that Penn “prioritizes DEI” is “too social justice focused” and is “unrecognizable” to what it looked like when they attended.

This week in the Disconnect Roundup: The EU AI Act has been finalized, but it has some big holes including those put there by OpenAI lobbyists. Plus, plenty of recommended reads, labor updates, and other news you might have missed!

The Labor Tech Research Network endorses DAIR's statement calling for a #CeasefireNOW and #NoTechForApartheid. Read the full statement here: www.dair-institute.org/blog/palesti...

Forensic Architecture event gets cancelled by Technical University Aachen, one of Germany’s largest and most prestigious STEM universities, ffs