Libbing out officially over

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks

You know what time it is: Family record party time

It’s disgraceful that the administration chose to go to court instead of fulfilling its responsibility to the American people. I will not stop fighting until every family has the resources they need to put food on the table. apnews.com/article/snap...

BREAKING: The USDA tells states funds will be made available later today to pay November SNAP benefits in full.

Absurd.

To understand the complex impacts of data centers, we need to look at the relationship between social and algorithmic harms, and "and other forms of embodied harms that communities are dealing with," D&S’s @tamigraph.bsky.social tells @yamachiodi.bsky.social. www.blogs.unicamp.br/geict/2025/1...

There are no words for how evil this is

Some of you have heard me talk about my speculative project on Yiddish ghosts and my convoluted family history. Here is a tiny morsel, thanks to @stacyewood.bsky.social, Jerry C. Zee, and the good folks at @limnpress.bsky.social

Go Fund Me for the teacher who was kidnapped in front of children in her classroom today: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

Seance and Technology Studies is for real, read the intro published by @asapjournal.bsky.social as part of "Algorithms and the Occult, or Chatbots are the New Psychic Friends Network" edited by @tamigraph.bsky.social @briana-v.bsky.social @jeffreymoro.com 🔮 asapjournal.com/node/seance-...

Help me plz

The people have spoken, motherfuckers

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC

Bruuuuuce

i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.

Does anyone have a trade book proposal they’d be willing to share with me? I want to make sure mine isn’t looking too bizarre

Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today! Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount

Excellent op-ed by environmental sociologist Eric Bond and Viktor Newby. "We submitted FOIA requests to every Virginia locality we could identify w/ an existing, approved, or proposed data center. We found that... 25 out of a total of 31 localities have NDAs." virginiamercury.com/2025/04/30/d...

According to reports, ICE officers are being told to trust the results of a faulty facial recognition app over evidence of citizenship. The Trump administration is steamrolling our due process and privacy rights to support its mass deportation agenda.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Someone claims to remember me from Theorizing the Web conferences, but I’m almost positive I never attended one. I wonder who they are confusing me with and also regret never (to my knowledge at least) attending

The layoffs are everywhere and I don’t think we can just blame “AI” even if management is using that as a line

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

In the latest in a series of reflections, @megyoung0.bsky.social & @tamigraph.bsky.social write about AIMLab's community-based algorithmic impact assessment of San José’s computer vision pilot program — and what happened when news broke about it while it was underway. datasociety.net/points/the-u...

What could go wrong?

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Dealing with my anxiety about the world by stacking new forms of anxiety, like the various anxieties attached to hosting a Halloween pizza party for a bunch of candy-fueled first graders at the same time my mom is in town

📣 Our method for conducting community-based algorithmic impact assessments is now available! We’ve just launched a new section on our website where you can find an extensive toolkit, documentation of our pilots, and a series of reflections on lessons learned. datasociety.net/research/alg...

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨 @tamigraph.bsky.social @briana-v.bsky.social and I discuss wellness chatbots, their labor implications, & "private vibes" vs "privacy". We call for critical human-AI communication scholarship that takes into account context & political economy: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Cornell (NYC and Ithaca) is recruiting AI postdocs, apply by Nov 20, 2025! If you're interested in working with me on technical approaches to responsible AI (e.g., personalization, fairness), please email me. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30971

“Though growing, the event was not without hiccups. Ryan Siebert, an AI product developer and hackathon attender, said he was able to get Gloo’s newest LLM, which has not yet been publicly launched, to provide him a recipe for methamphetamine through a prompt injection” lol lmao

Hard to imagine how Pat thinks he’s going to bring Jesus back with an AI chatbot company called Gloo, but maybe that’s why Intel went off the rails

Useful info for those in the CA Bay Area www.coyotemedia.org/these-bay-ar...

"Today, he deals with the center’s impacts in real time - the one that bothers him the most is the noise pollution. "'There are no birds around here anymore,' he said, noting the humming or buzzing noise the center emits scares away a lot of wildlife from his area."

“We may decide to release water volumes in the future, But … we should only do so if the lack of data undermines the programme or is required by regulators” Companies like Amazon use selective disclosure to obfuscate their water and energy use, knowing full well that those metrics are bullshit

A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.

The underlying article from LBNL here does something quite deliberately. Most of the anger about rising electricity prices comes from PEOPLE, residential customers. This paper looks at average prices for all industrial, commercial, AND residential customers. Immediately moving away from the issue.

Did AWS write this?

"embrace datacenters or face federal intervention" fucking called it

The specifics of this are extremely bad. DHS is using a tariffs/product importation law to demand Meta unmask the identity of an Instagram account that posts about ICE enforcement actions. The page sells no merch. Lawyers call it "wildly outside the scope" of the law www.404media.co/dhs-tries-to...

🔮Just in time for spooky season: A new cluster of essays in @asapjournal.bsky.social, edited by D&S’s @tamigraph.bsky.social and @briana-v.bsky.social, and @jeffreymoro.com, considers the relationships between algorithms and divination. 🔮 asapjournal.com/cluster/algo...

While this federal administration has been busy empowering ICE to become, essentially, an extrajudicial militia allowed to disappear people from our streets, the Bay has been organizing. We will not be beaten down.

"The Coast Guard said in a statement that its property would serve as a base for Department of Homeland Security agencies starting on Wednesday." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

We're seeing lots of headlines about the catastrophic impact of massive data center expansion. But what else could data centers look like? In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox. 🧵

It's live! Take a sip of ChatGPT(ea) with Jess and I in this algorithmically divine new publication 🍵 ... just in time for spoopy season!

My article “Cyber Spell Books: From Techno Pagans to AI Grimoires” discusses AI grimoires within a larger historical context of digital technology, magic practitioners, and popular culture. asapjournal.com/node/cyber-s... @asapjournal.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social @jeffreymoro.com

Just in time for Halloween, our @asapjournal.bsky.social cluster on Algorithms and the Occult is out! 👻 Featuring @emmaquilty.bsky.social, @aketchum22.bsky.social, @xrw.bsky.social, @drs.bsky.social, @serife.bsky.social, @thechristinet.bsky.social, @jessrauchberg.bsky.social, and more!