Has anyone else received weirdly specific but clearly AI generated and sketchy emails from “recruiters”? Like the book club scam emails but more LinkedIn in shape

Go Fund Me for the sister who was surrounded by white supremacists on the Metro in that viral photo. If you shared the photo, consider actually making a material donation.

Maine Public Radio's coverage of the killing by ICE this morning. It sounds like ICE is once again claiming that the victim tried to run them over, so just as a reminder, every time they've claimed this, it's been a lie. www.mainepublic.org/maine/2026-0...

Our local newspaper, The Portland Press Herald, has lifted their paywall on coverage of the ICE shooting of a man in Biddeford, Maine this morning. They have excellent reporters and will have much more accurate information than natl news as we learn more: www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/s...

Based on 10 months of fieldwork, Hannah Lipstein shares five takeaways from "Greening AI in the public sector," a new procurement handbook for agencies weighing AI's environmental impacts.

HYPERSCALE is hitting bookstores on October 20. Preorder it now! In the book, I dig into how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point, and the incredible efforts of people pushing back against the profit-driven interests of Big Tech. Get your copy: hyperscalebook.com

Very strange to me that one could critique critiques of Big Tech’s dominance by claiming that data center energy use isn’t real/isn’t a problem outside of the US. The ideological scaffolding and speculative investments behind “AI” are all too material and also global in their ambitions

NEW: The AI boom didn’t happen spontaneously. It’s the result of a corporate takeover of state capacity, setting the stage for Big Tech to make a killing while inflicting deep, lasting pain on the working class. @zeteo.com covers our latest research 🧵

I’ve been doing my best to ignore what must be a substantial clothing moth infestation in my closet but the evidence keeps finding me anyway

(i'm never allowed to buy a tshirt again as long as i live but) loving this "death cycle of AI" tshirt from Honor the Earth. Proceeds go to their activities countering data centers and extractive energy projects. Happy 4th. www.honorearth.org/shop/p/speci...

Resurfacing online to mention: my book on the history of Speech Rec, NLP, and data-driven AI is coming out in a couple of weeks! Just got my author's copy from @uchicagopress.bsky.social and it finally feels real! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

WEDNESDAY: Check out the TechEquity Data Work Landscape Team as they share a demo of the site and talk to the @labortechresearchnetwork.org about the research process, along with trends and insights in the AI data work field. @tnewmsblues.bsky.social

“Your next user isn’t human.” Welcome back to San Francisco!

Oops forgot to add the hashtag bc my conference posting skills are rusty #FAccT2026 Targeting systems are intentionally imprecise and unexplainable, this is not a sign of technological failure but of systems working exactly as they are meant to

Lucy Suchman’s keynote at @facct.bsky.social is a revelation. She’s citing media studies scholars like Orit Halpern and Lisa Gitelman while laying out in exacting terms how AI systems are used to perpetuate and legitimize genocide

You can reserve your seat for Thomas Mullaney's discussion of HOW WE DISAPPEAR w/ @tamigraph.bsky.social (Tamara Kneese) at Local Economy on July 9th here. It promises to be very good. luma.com/o8ar0rxe

Wait FAccT perfectly overlaps with the Montreal jazz festival?? We should be doing that my dudes

🎁FREE ACCESS to my new pub "The Environmental Impacts of AI" in the new Oxford Research Encyclopedia of STS. Beyond the hype, AI is an extractive force reliant on minerals, water, & energy. This entry introduces a 4-Scope framework to map AI's full lifecycle impacts. doi.org/10.1093/9780...

The entire book is free to read online, as a downloadable pdf, or you can order a hard copy!!

I’ve spent more than a year reporting on how the fossil fuel industry has infiltrated academia over the last 30 years, shaping fundamental paradigms on how to address climate change. My first story in the new @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social series, “Carbon Captured”, is out today.

A university that called the cops on its own peaceful students is now set to be represented by one of them in Congress

MAZEL TOV @bradlander.bsky.social, THE FIRST JFREJ MEMBER TO BE ELECTED TO CONGRESS!

Super excited for our CRAFT workshop on trans AI policy at FAccT, co-organized w @jhereia.bsky.social & @anabrandusescu.bsky.social, come join us if you're at the conference! More details here: programs.sigchi.org/facct/2026/p...

State of the economy: spent some quality time trying to figure out if my brother’s interview was for an actual job or if it was all an AI enhanced scam

📣 New! With a growing need for a more environmentally sustainable approach to AI use, this handbook by Hannah Lipstein outlines practical steps agencies can take to incorporate environmental performance criteria into public AI procurement. datasociety.net/library/gree...

A designer friend complained about being pressured to use AI. She named a new dynamic she’s seeing , where much of her job entails reading a pile of AI generated technical writing and providing feedback on it, enabling managers to outsource job responsibilities. A generator vs a reader/editor

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

networksofny2026.bigcartel.com/product/netw... hi, did you like my book Networks of New York when it came out in 2016? you might like the updated 2026 edition which I'll be releasing in September and you can pre-order now

The cheering, laughter, and applause. Better than therapy

I find it frustrating how AI infused writing tends to collapse academic genres and turn everything into a weak sauce HCI or CS paper when humanities and qual social science work doesn’t need to be formatted this way. I would much rather read rambling prose with useless, cryptic neologisms

Holy shit

Listening to the game from other other room sitting in total darkness

I wrote a thing about Backrooms, Us, the underground labyrinths of the Bay Area where I grew up, AI slopplegangers, and what's really lurking underneath Silicon Valley. It's my first for @oaklandreviewofbooks.org, and I think you'll really enjoy it.

I see the Very Famous Professor whose ghostwriter used AI to write me a brain picking email request has a new book out on chatbot communication

AAUP-TNS condemns in the strongest possible terms the recent firings of full-time faculty and staff across the university. To be clear, they were not let go on the basis of job performance. Read our full statement here 👇 docs.google.com/document/u/1... @aaup.org

Mad at California for so many reasons but especially for having a primary system that ensures we will be reminded of Spencer Pratt’s existence for several more months

Listen to the first single from Real Numbers' new album "Was It Always This Way." "Never Never Again" fully taps into the Razorcuts' Byrds-y glee-in-misery popsong formula while pondering weighty concepts. Delicious pop perfection! slumberlandrecs.lnk.to/neverneverag...

Feeling very secure knowing that a clown car driven by Hegseth, Mullin, and Bessent will be evaluating AI models

CCI is looking for a big-picture thinker for the role of Energy Policy Manager! If you’re hungry for new policy ideas and ready to bring together allies to make change, learn more and apply: climateandcommunity.org/careers

The San Francisco Historical Society will host an event on SF’s subversive history w/ Chris Carlsson, Rachel Brahinsky, and @dellsystem.bsky.social on 6/10 AI, like previous tech booms, may be remaking the city, but there’s so much more life worth talking about givebutter.com/Beyoundthegu...

There is something in here for everyone: Marxists, logistics obsessives, obsolete-software enthusiasts, and those are all the kinds of people I know about. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

In the last 48 hours, The New School has fired almost two dozen colleagues in humanities and social sciences, many of them tenured faculty of color, and multiple staff members, including in social justice.

“You are trying to delegitimize people who you’ve never met in communities you’ve never visited, so that you can continue to exploit the lives of people that you don’t give a damn about,” @justinjpearson.bsky.social 🎁 link wapo.st/4wVjTvN

This has unfortunately become Her Thing

Totally wild that data centers used 22% of Ireland’s electricity last year

🚨 Tech Workers Coalition and Collective Action in Tech are excited to announce the date for Circuit Breakers, our national tech labor conference! This year will be in NYC from Oct. 17-18th. Early bird tickets will be available soon, register for updates! techworkerscoalition.org/circuit-brea...

Eating dinner out alone in an actual city when you have a newborn at home feels so decadent. I brought my tiny notebook and everything

The baby’s emotional state today vacillates between passed tf out and pissed off at everything, and I can’t say I disagree with her

Exclusive: Unionized tech workers at the New York Times have filed grievances accusing management of using AI-powered performance tools to track and discipline staff. The Tech Guild says recent disciplinary notices appear to be generated using one of the tools. 🎁 www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...