Ah, my favorite and thinking of your voice memos STILL makes me giggle 😘😘😘

The guide lists 7 risks “that come from AI governance: discriminatory work assignments, fluctuating wages, loss of worker control, constant surveillance, unreasonable performance evaluations, automated punishment, and non-payment.”

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We've launched a new report at Erin In The Morning: The Lavender Ledger, your strategic LGBTQ+ reader, covering the stories that we passed on because someone else covered it better than us. Here is our first one!

The reason they create devices is not to solve a problem but instead to build something that makes you a more perfect stream of data for them to monetize. www.cnet.com/tech/computi...

I'm creating an OpenHouseNY shortlist for out-of-town guests, and I think it's 🤗 — and, I'll admit, touching — that you can see where the Dept of Transport makes its signs, or visit the Dept of Sanitation's waste transfer station + compost facility, or watch new garbage trucks demo big-bin pickup...

One of my best friends helps lead a healthcare non-profit in the SF Bay Area focused on elder care (medical and housing). I’m very proud of her considering we met when we were 14 years old. There are things that can be done…but, she said something that has stuck with me for years 💔

Showing my film students STAR WARS (1977) on a vintage 35mm print because that's what I'm talking about when talking about The Rapture.

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🚨BREAKING: Pennsylvania Supreme Court RULES that election officials violated voter’s rights by rejecting mail-in ballots with technical errors without notifying voters. Voters must be given notice their ballots won’t count so they can challenge the disqualification or cast a provisional ballot.

Honestly, a really good article. It's not just Fox News and MAGA that have made it hell for trans people in recent years. It's some of the "liberal" news outlets and centrist publications that made this possible too.

There have been *so many* Academia[dot]edu warning signs over the past decade; I’m glad these new terms of service — claiming world rights to your work, your voice, your likeness, your signature, etc — are driving even more people away. May it advance the Ed Tech Luddite Revolution ✊

“What fascisms old and new have in common is they tend to look to women to fill in the gaps that the state misses." And, I'd add, they get women to fill these gaps by making patriarchy's coattails the only way means by which women can achieve security or esteem. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Last up is our keynote presentation by Christina Agapakis, an extremely interdisciplinary synthetic biologist working to build more creative and human futures for biotechnology. Can't make it in person? Join us virtually with a virtual pass: https://grayareafestival.io

Super excited to be part of this, and to collab with @drs.bsky.social

📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else! www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a recent study has identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability. By @abrahm.bsky.social, w/ graphics by @lucaswaldron.bsky.social

“So, the rise of these industrial-scale computing facilities that are needed for A.I. and other Internet applications is certainly one of the factors driving up prices.” “And I think there’s a chance that A.I. is going to drive our bills even higher in the future.”

So much bad news, but this fall the Metro NY Library Cncl is launching the first iteration of its Cross-Reference Coalition, an experimental interdisciplinary school ft 17 participants from across NYC’s libraries, colleges + municipal depts, plus artists + designers. We’re exploring The Misfit.

Oh look. When you fight instead of capitulating, you can have your funding restored.

"How to Report ICE" zines are available for free printable download for these places: California Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area Florida Massachusetts NC Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Zine request form in folder. drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Surveillance & Society has published a great new issue—w/ articles on data leaks, ceasefire monitoring, campus #protests, & much more! The journal is always fully #openaccess. Check it out, and please spread the word: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

A few people had questions of some of the states on my map such as NY/CA/IL moving up in risk for trans youth. If a state has moved up in risk, it's because of clinic closures at major clinics. I cannot in good faith keep a state low risk if state laws are not being enforced to keep clinics open.

Amidst all the bad news, this is great: Libraries across the country host cookbook clubs, offer classes in demo kitchens, loan spices + kitchen equipment, include food pantries, host farmer's markets, offer English language learning through cooking, host nutrition literacy programs, etc.

"Mamdani’s proposal to open 5 city-run grocery stores has industry execs — + other political foes — clutching their pearls. Critics call it a socialist fantasy. But publicly owned grocery stores already exist, serving > a million Americans every day, with prices 25-30% ⬇️ than conventional retail."

On top the abhorrent genocidal colonialism of it all, there's also a decade+ of scholarship on "smart cities" (a term + planning model I'd hoped were on the wane!) that acknwldg the monumental dangers of engineering a city, fm the ground up, on the logics of 🇮🇱 surveillance + carceral tech

I remember when folks were saying something similar about learning how to code/program (I’m thinking of Rushkoff’s Program or Be Programmed, which I didn’t wholly agree with, btw)…and look at where we are now (i.e., vibe coding, etc.)…

Excited to show work alongside my partner and collaborator, @aphid.org at SPAM. Abram is showing their work numb.station (a multi-channel sound piece) and I’m showing You are not a Monster, a lyric game dedicated to caregivers. Both of these installations are special and we put a lot of ♥️ in them!

I'll be sharing a new project at SPAM in September. Looking forward to seeing the other works &performances, the space looks amazing.

Reading this makes me want to revisit Virginia Eubanks’ book Automating Inequality. The issues have just gotten worse and that book was published in 2018. 🫣😵‍💫😩😳

Love this exchange between Elvia Wilk and her accountant about Elvia's "incorporation" of herself as an "S corporation"; the whole essay is 🌟 (as is all of Elvia's work) clereviewofbooks.com/elvia-incorp...

happy LABOR day weekend! find your WORKERS OVER BILLIONAIRES protest! almost 1000 planned in all 50 states and DC www.newsweek.com/map-list-cit...

The first Nazi book burnings were the biggest archive of trans research that existed at the time.

my takeaway from the time 100 ai list is that if you push ai slop on people, you get to call yourself an ✨innovator✨ now

What if scientists hadn’t waited until this point to speak about politics Every time I see a headline like this, my brain just shouts Like what if scientists hadn’t sat around silently watching everyone around them get attacked Maybe the fight on campus would have gone differently

According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.

Don't threaten us with a good time.

Age verification via face scans is not safety — it's surveillance. Biometric age guessing is inaccurate, discriminatory, and creepy AF. Stop normalizing it. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

the force of this writing - its humor and verve - is its own confirmation "the makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again."

I really hope we’re not dropping the "content" from "content creator". It’s a valuable label. Content is a very specific type of culture, one formatted according to the algorithms that determine its success.

I keep saying. (may have some new designs soon)

what other utilities do you know that would host a zine reading in the bowels of a treatment plant

Brought to you by the Santa Cruz Flyer Dude. Thanks for sharing @aphid.org

This part of OpenAI's statement stood out to me: Safeguards "can sometimes become less reliable in long interactions where parts of the model’s safety training may degrade." Memory and context windows make the product less safe, a point we made in this story: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...

"Laleh Khalili reflects on the hidden stories behind late capitalism, from seafarers abandoned on debt-ridden container ships to the nefarious reach of consultancy firms and the cronyism that drives record-breaking profits."

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

Humans will always find a way to “cut through the noise” ✂️

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