University admins two years ago: all opinions must heard on college campuses even if they threaten our students University admins today: no more student speakers at graduation, here are 40 emails about how to handle “disruptions” at commencement because we don’t want students using these two words

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Tech hype isn't just marketing and PR—it's also alarm, paranoia, and propaganda. Fabian Muniesa argues today's hype matches what scholars Adorno and Horkheimer called reason's collapse into fascist madness.

What if we were to fight to abolish grades instead.

What the history of SPAM tells us about governing AI: "popular political power can be used to construct a new vision for the future, elevating the role of democratic values and the public interest online, for technologies as varied as the internet, artificial intelligence, and whatever comes next."

my feminist sts-inflected riot grrl band name would definitely be “birth control“ - hbu?

Here’s some of the art that UChicago deems too controversial to display at the Lab School

This video (from students at my alma mater) is crucial. Cornell has adopted the authoritarian playbook. It has done it to protect its "research enterprise" which is increasingly industry funded and moving away from public welfare, just like many other US universities. @cornelluniversity.bsky.social

The anti-data center movement isn’t just about limiting local development—it represents a new front in the fight against tech-enabled authoritarianism. Where else can people push back on job-eating algorithms, distorting deep fakes, and autonomous drone strikes? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Holy shit what a massive consent violation from google here. 4 damn gigs of your disk space stolen for their "AI" model which you did not necessarily ask for to run on your device in the background. I mean jfc

New issue of the @aaup.org Academe magazine -- AI in the Corporate University -- looks incredible. Important pieces by @dmgreene.bsky.social @hellobrittparis.bsky.social @heavyredaction.bsky.social @heavyredaction.bsky.social @tisjune.bsky.social and many others. www.aaup.org/academe

“AI native hospital”

In other infuriating news... @sukritv.bsky.social documented these Google Gemini advertising trucks parked in the middle of @swarthmorecollege.bsky.social campus...during exam week...and against campus policy around advertising without authorization...

You can literally be a scam for-profit college that rips people off with a fake degree and the Department of Education will do nothing. But if you are a legitimate school and admit trans women — you will be investigated.

New podcast! In this episode, Tech Policy Press fellow Chris Mills Rodrigo speaks with Katie Wells, a senior fellow at the AI Now Institute and the author of two reports on the 'gig-ification' of nursing, to dig into how AI is reshaping the profession from the inside out.

We’re organizing with 13 Black-led organizations all across the U.S. this Mother's Day to help Black mamas and caregivers return home to their families. #FreeBlackMamas today by giving to break open a cage: bit.ly/freeblackmamas2026 2026 Partners: nationalbailout.org/partners26

“This chilling effect created by unregulated 24/7 Flock mass surveillance on campus is absolutely anathema to the free and open exchange of ideas and participation in events and assemblies.” — Stanford AAUP

"Deep state" is originally a Turkish concept. So is the experience of living with one for decades. This week @ekoshy.bsky.social & I talk to @mertcanbayar.bsky.social about conspiracy theories and what Turkey's history tells us about Trump's America itallhappenedbefore.substack.com/p/episode-7-...

*Achille Mbembe laser eyes.jpg*

The new technology that is going to actually transform this century is being able to manufacture and deliver solid state batteries at scale. There are so many applications for this, all of which will replace fossil fuels at a scale not seen before and enable things we have not yet dreamed of.

AI is being deployed in classrooms at scale without evidence of the developmental impact, writes Ryan Lee. This isn’t a policy gap—it’s a policy vacuum being filled by whichever edtech vendor reaches the procurement desk first.

This community just voted to deny water to a new AI data center for nuclear weapons, p interesting tactic: www.404media.co/community-vo...

Every system that was regulated, either explicitly or implicitly, by the fact that they were effortful for humans (letters of recommendation, government filings, essays, or, as this paper finds, lawsuits) will break under a wave of AI.

8 more days to submit an abstract to our 4s panel, "Taking Back Technopower: STS and strategic interventions in the fight against technofascism." Looking forward to an engaging conversation centered on the (totally small, very easy) q: "how do we win?" Apply by 4/30: www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... What's up with AI and energy? In this article we explore the growing hunger of AI for energy and the growing intertwining of the energy industry and the AI infrastructure investment through power purchase agreements, especially for nuclear power

While India offers a 20-year tax holiday to become a global AI hub, the push is triggering fierce resistance from farmers over opaque land acquisitions and threats to local water resources https://restofworld.org/2026/india-data-center-tax-holiday-farmer-protests-ai/?utm_campaign=row-social

A controversial parking ramp project in Philadelphia's Grays Ferry neighborhood left three construction workers dead after a catastrophic collapse. At the vigil, we heard from Shawmar Pitts, an organizer from Philly Thrive, about the history of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) project.

Using secure messaging services for all communications and considering what content you post on social media are just two easy ways to build an online space that feels as free and safe as speaking with those closest to us in the offline world. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

“The wish that women’s care work be waged seems to have come true, albeit in a funhouse-mirror form: legions of women now work in low-paid roles caring for other peoples’ families, while the vast majority still take care of their own families for free.” www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Want to use AI to assess people’s medical care needs? Then @eff.org thinks you ought to be transparent about the data you’re using. www.courthousenews.com/digital-advo...

In Beneath the Wage, @anniemcc.bsky.social retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated. Out now (2 June UK pub). Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Sociology

In @newint.bsky.social, D&S's @mwoluchem.bsky.social and @livgar.bsky.social write about their work tracing the impacts of, and resistance to, the AI industry's development push in Pennsylvania — and introduce us to some of the people living in the thick of it. newint.org/science-and-...

Join us Friday, 2-4PM for @aydelottefound.bsky.social's panel - How to Stop a Data Center - online and @swarthmorecollege.bsky.social! Panelists from @datasociety.bsky.social, @kairosfellows.bsky.social, @peoplestechproject.bsky.social, and Philly Thrive. RSVP for zoom link: bit.ly/stopdatacenters

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

A new book by Molly Crabapple documents the rise and fall of a revolutionary Jewish party that fought against Zionism and for ‘solidarity across difference’

Along with passing legislation banning cooperation with ICE, Pittsburgh City Council also passed a resolution to disclose all surveillance technology the city is currently using against citizens.

New online: @sarahljaffe.bsky.social interviews Kathi Weeks about her new book. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

The government wouldn't give us a list of data centres seeking power in Ontario. So, we built one ourselves. What @rorywh.bsky.social and I found: at least 15 projects drawing a combined 2,202 MW: more electricity than 2 million homes. #OnPoli for @nationalobserver.com 🧵

Available to watch! If you missed our co-hosted even on "Hope and refusal in an era of criminalized care: Responses to Pirate Care", you can now watch the video recording of the event here: youtu.be/RSyFwmpad1w

My favorite comment on the FT story

This is why the phrase comes up in so many of the things I've written about AI. AI does three main things: 1) dismantle the institutions necessary for democratic society to thrive 2) transfer wealth upwards 3) create the permission structure for (1) and (2)

Well when you put it like that, I’m sold. (from @xiandivyne.bsky.social)

I'm going to be doing this webinar on AI and insurance tomorrow with two incredible scholars. It's going to be a great discussion. Come along! dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/co-opt...

As one of the authors of this thought I’d share a bit about how we got here and how you can do what we’ve done at you institution. Over the two years I’ve been at the University of Edinburgh I’ve grown increasingly concerned by fellow academics uncritically using LLMs, especially OpenAIs’s ChatGPT.

Approximately 950 non-tenure track faculty at New York University walked off the job on Monday, after their union and the university failed to reach agreement on raises and better job security. www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/23/n...

Having closely monitored the situation, I say that this is the best summary of prediction markets I've seen to date:

yesss thank you for coming Elsie! Shout out to @aydelottefound.bsky.social for sponsoring 🙏 #artagainstAI

"Finance, paranoïa et radicalisation de la valeur" - Fabian Muniesa - Multitudes - 101 - 2026 shs.cairn.info/tap-1e50d8y7...

Emily Tucker, the Executive Director of @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social, remains stellar and GOATed. medium.com/center-on-pr...