We are living in the zombie apocalypse 🫣(I mean, we’ve been, but eeesh) 😩

I referenced Anjali Nath's work in my redaction project a few years ago. I see that her book — A Thousand Paper Cuts: US Empire and the Bureaucratic Life of War — is out this month!

Horrifying. This didn’t have to happen. History books should be filled with the names of the enablers. We should construct plaques with them in the cemeteries.

Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.

Better questions: Has misogyny failed women? Has gendered violence failed women? Has chronically unequal pay failed women? Has inadequate childcare failed women? Has the end of SNAP failed women? Has transphobia failed women?Has inadequate healthcare failed women?

Absolute catnip for media studies / fan studies folks!

Critically important.

For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care. www.transyouthemergencyproject.org

ICYMI: How can journalism create hope and shift narratives? The last of @lewispants.bsky.social's column on movement journalism offers some clarity: objectivejournalism.org/2025/12/move...

it's incredibly lovely to see that CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY is on the year-end list for @publicbooks.bsky.social not once but TWICE!! thank you to @njdames.bsky.social and @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy!! and among such amazing books!!! www.publicbooks.org/public-picks...

To me the guiding question has to be: What is a politics that is directed and singularly focused at the source of people's pain and suffering? - That is not a question of interest to the abundance Dems or the fascists.

4 Republicans voting against is significant. There's leverage there. Somewhere. There's concern that this isn't a winning move in swing districts. Echoes of the Virginia election.

"Wherever the agents appear, even when they lean idly, chatting, we see the cold threat of violence and the fragility of freedom. And in the brave crowds who gather to confront them, scrambling their illusion of total control, we see the power of solidarity..." hammerandhope.org/article/ice-...

More or less done with the reading list for History of the Database. You could take a lot of different approaches, but this is the one I went with.

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

I’m so proud of @aphid.org for making, not one, but two artworks this year. A year that has been extremely challenging and filled with grief, loss, and deep sadness (for so many of us). Yet A found it in themselves to make deeply challenging and beautiful work. 😭🥹🥲 stegi.radio/show/transmi...

Ethical AI is an oxymoron, like automated science

Every few years there's a bunch of "pivot to video" discourse about how creatives should all start making videos instead of doing text-based work. And every few years we discover again that the supposed "popularity" of video is based on fake audience numbers created by the video platforms.

Sooner or later (if not now, really), friends will have nothing to talk about. Thinking of the Betazoid character, Tam Elbrun, who would get irritated talking to people because he knew what they were thinking so he would just say it or interrupt them mid-sentence. Yet again, 💩 nobody asked for. 🙄

TRL

I read this piece 👆 after I had one of these incidents 👇 last week. Citation is *not* merely "academic." It's about honesty and honor and responsibility and generosity. And there are ways to do it that aren't clunky and intrusive!

Operation Metro Surge is state-sanctioned racial profiling used as a tool of political intimidation. But Somali Minnesotans aren’t intimidated, we’re brave and resilient, and our neighbors have our back. We don’t cower to bullies.

What this study found is that AI is pretty good at adopting formal linguistic analysis that treats language as a set of disembodied linguistic structures unique to humans, which is not surprising since it relegates the complexity of human language to “performance” outside of the scope of linguistics

His name is Ahmad Al-Ahmad and we can all choose to highlight him instead of the murderers who committed a massacre bsky.app/profile/impl...

Practicing peace is hard. It means practicing justice and it means not indulging an understandable desire for revenge. This is hard. But practicing peace is practicing survival for our species and our ecosystems.

For those who are interested, @prisonculture.bsky.social and I talk about political psychology and its role in organizing a bit in our book Let This Radicalize You.

Second session runs this weekend! Free ticket here: www.eventbrite.hk/e/zine-yo-fe...

There’s a lot of talk about the Hitler youth types who are turning in their professors and not enough discussion about the ones who are feeling intense despair because they're going to school with the Hitler youth types and immigrants are being kidnapped and trans people are facing genocide &etc

Preorder today. “Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance.” #books

Increasingly wondering what will be left (aside from like Palantir) when the regime finally crumbles gothamist.com/news/the-new...

M (@blinkpopshift.com) is the lead artist for the Leonardo CripTech AI Lab of the and they're an amazing being. I got a lot out of their instruction, facilitation, questions, and reflections. M provided important framing for thinking through, with, and against tech with thoughtful &embodied care.

Y'all I got to work with aphid this year and let me tell you the banger lines they were handing out were such a snack

This. It can happen to anyone. That’s where we are.

"The thing is, even if you're just thinking in terms of fiscal value, having gone through a degree program and being able to put it on your resumé/CV isn't the most significant return on your investment: the way you have further developed your mind is."

My final manuscript in! And now I give you..... COVER REVEAL (US cover, UK is sooooo different but it's not public yet)

Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion. That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/

The designer calls the ring “an ‘external memory’ for your brain.”

I love this; everyone should make a "DIY Wrapped" with @leaflet.pub & canvas "looseleaf" works particularly well for this! great for things you watched, read, listened to…or all the above!

Extremely proud of @aphid.org for tirelessly working on two artworks this year! enhance-redact being one of them. This work explores medical imaging, cancer surveillance, and transmission. It’s so much more than these words. I always tell Abram how deeply poetic their work is. ♥️

i dont want to live in a world that values gambling apps and ai i want to live in a world that celebrates mustard and puppets

I thought this book would make us laugh. But I started reading them out loud to @aphid.org and we were both finding each entry activating. 😵‍💫🥴🫩 Clearly, every excuse is anonymized. Real talk, I felt like I was reading Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style (99 literary variations of the same story)!

Anywho, it's valuable to read deeply about Montgomery if you are organizing today. Start with @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social's The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks - www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/221039... - the book also has a young reader's edition.

“Landlords may say ‘smart home’ devices are a tenant convenience. But the reality is, these AI-enabled systems can track patterns of tenant behavior, identify when people are home, and provide landlords with personal information that could be used to push out tenants perceived as too costly.”

In these cases, AI is being used to solder together the libertarian goal of dismantling administrative capacity with the fascist goal of ever present control and enforcement. This mediating function between contrasting desires is at least as important whether it actually works.

🎧Great playlist from the Infinite Women podcast!

Blockbuster Video Coffeyville, KS

My friend Nami had me as a guest for her podcast series “Safety Nets: Let Me Zine” which explores web security protocols for artistic web makers and cultural server operators in reconsidering the direction of the personalised web. let-me-zine.htmlzine.club/podcast/epi2...

“Tools help us accomplish tasks; technologies reshape the environments in which we think, work, & relate…With tools, we retain agency—we can choose when & how to use them. With technologies, the choice is subtler: they remake the conditions of choice itself.” www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

In bookstores today! It's "We Will Rise Again," a book of hard-won hope in this dark season. I co-edited it with the wondrous @older.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social -- it's an anthology of speculative stories and essays about protest and resistance! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...