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my partner and i made a zine!! we'll post it on instagram and i'll link it once it's up, but it's exciting to see it physically printed. if you're anywhere near sour cherry comics in sf, they have lots of free copies there!

My puppy made it to another Christmas and that makes today great. She has a very regal and fluffy neck. Happy holidays yall.

Submitted my final grades for my first class as the Instructor of Record. Very grateful to have had the opportunity and looking forward to the next one. For now, resting and baking. :)

This is great issue!

I've been attempting to thrift a Dutch oven for over a year & 2 weeks ago, was able to purchase a new one using points. My mom sent me my Christmas present yesterday & it was ... a Dutch oven. I had never told her I was looking for one, she just thought I needed one. I am now flush in Dutch ovens.

Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?" Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."

Hey, @theguardian.com wrote about zines in today's movement and talked to @meganpiont.bsky.social and @prisonculture.bsky.social!!!! www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

New: 404 Media is making a zine! Risograph-printed zine all about the surveillance tech ICE has deployed. Facial recognition app; Palantir; much more. Will be available in January but you can pre-order now. The art is amazing, printed by local LA business. Details: www.404media.co/404-media-is...

Was not expecting a treasure trove of old surveillance artifacts from Gary T. Marx himself on the SSN listserv but boy howdy, am I grateful to be looking at these today.

Just caused myself the most psychic damage in the world by reading things I wrote as an undergrad. Makes me sad that undergrads may not experience this acute physical pain if they let AI write their work. 😅

A massive cache of Flock lookups collated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows as many as 50 federal, state, and local agencies used Flock during protests over the last year.

Swift in flight, boundless in view.

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-...

Bluesky rn

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Call for Abstracts / Panels PLANETARY SURVEILLANCE #SSN2026 – the 11th Biennial Surveillance Studies Network Conference 9-12 June 2026 Université Catholique de Lille, France Details: surveillance-studies.net/conference/ Submissions (open soon): ssn2026.sciencesconf.org

I do truly love baseball ⚾️💙

I don’t believe I have yet told Bluesky that I am from LA and am thus a lifelong Dodgers fan. Being in Vancouver during this series is neat! 😎

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...

After years of activist pressure, lawsuits, and bad press Ring made much needed reforms. Now, they’re pivoting back to mass police surveillance as a business model. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

Join SASSI for a digital workshop on Wednesday, October 1st from 7-8:30pm ET to learn how to identify and map Flock Safety cameras in your community and city as a tactic in challenging the use of automated license plate readers in your city.

"With Helene, there was something about the manifestation of Heaven on Earth the second time around that seemed to make it more expansive. Heaven wasn’t just a fleeting moment, but it was an entire mycelium network, growing and healing together..." rednecksrising.substack.com/p/i-saw-god-...

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

New The Cloud is Dead essay: @emmaquilty.bsky.social writes about data centers, undersea cables, and histories of colonialism in Fiji for @datasociety.bsky.social Points Emma is also a scholar of witches. And you should definitely get her book, Witch Power: Hexing the Patriarchy with Feminist Magic

I had the pleasure of speaking with @tega.bsky.social + @lav.io about their new exhibition — which engages with surveillance, data infrastructures, and climate — at @pioneerwork.bsky.social!

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Do I know anyone that has a copy of Empires of AI by Karen Hao I can borrow? I'm listening to the audiobook through the library and want to check something in the physical copy. Thank you!

A misconfigured platform used by the Department of Homeland Security left national security information—including some related to the surveillance of Americans—accessible to thousands of people. www.wired.com/story/a-dhs-...

Rewatching Love Lies Bleeding was a nice thing to do tonight.

Does anyone have a good semiotics meme?

Taught my first undergrad class this morning. It went well! :)

This is completely fine. Just. Completely fine. 🙃🙃🙃

Armed troops are on DC streets, setting up checkpoints, harassing residents + tearing down anti-ICE banners to leave a dildo in a kid's park. In response, residents are forming networks of resistance + mutual aid. Read our discussion w/ @remorahousedc.bsky.social: itsgoingdown.org/whole-city-f...

Remember how Flock kept claiming immigration officials don't have direct access to Flock's nationwide surveillance network? That was a lie. Flock gave Border Patrol access. www.9news.com/article/news...

Do I know anyone going to 4S in Seattle? I have a zine in the festival and will be talking about it Thursday afternoon, but if you also want to talk about tacks in the shoe and anti-surveillance practices and taxonomies, please say hi. :)

Sat in on a workshop about using gen AI in the classroom and just felt kind of sick the whole time. I guess when you’re spending all your other career hours critiquing technofacism, you really can’t get behind using it in the classroom 🫠

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

Working on the AI statement for my course this weekend. lucky to be teaching a course that discusses large tech and knowledge organization systems so we can discuss this continually throughout the term.

I start getting my tomato CSA box this week and I'm so excited. The only thing that's keeping me going to meet a deadline is the idea of a tomato burrata salad.

Armed officers, frequent use of force and people grabbed on the street or at their places of work. Working with @evidentmedia.org and @calmatters.org we have monitored the LA raids, discovering recurring trends and tactics used by officers. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/07...

Officially a PhD candidate :) feels really good after such a long journey. Still much more to go and ready to get started.

“i asked chat gpt” “i asked grok” Jeeves would kill you where you stand

Digital Revolutionary #zine is now free for 24 hours only: www.patreon.com/posts/free-d... Lock down your phone or burner, safety in crowd panics, protest prep myths, crowd surveillance 101, a crossword puzzle, and powerful laser Kiwis. Please share. #NoKings #Cybersecurity #privacy

My proposal defense is in a week! Nervous but excited to get it behind me so I can get started on my project.

@versobooks.bsky.social has made "Riot. Strike. Riot" free for download, in solidarity with people in LA and elsewhere across the US. you can download it here www.versobooks.com/products/115...

In LA, officers deployed tear gas and shot rubber bullets at protesters fighting against ICE raids. Here’s a reminder that those anti-protest weapons—which are billed as relatively safe—can actually cause serious harm.

Join us tomorrow!!