Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Episode 62 www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis... Come to hear @mharrisondupre.bsky.social , @alexhanna.bsky.social and I dismantle the misplaced enthusiasm for chatbots in therapy, stay for the literal word sausages.

🚨New Publication Alert: “Silencing Dissent: Surveillance and Police Actions on University Campuses during Pro-Palestinian Protests” 🚨 This article explores #surveillance, #violence, and #dissent on university campuses in the United States. tinyurl.com/4fr95zxy

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...

Flock lied to cities and it has come out that federal immigration agents had direct access to Flock's networks. www.9news.com/article/news...

Give @kashhill.bsky.social all the garlands for her dogged, brave reporting yet again. It's shameful, outrageous and enraging that we allow tech companies to deploy AI products that cause harm to people--teenagers, Black fathers, mentally ill persons--every day. Enough is enough.

Paul Lynch’s _Prophet Song_ is an absolutely devastating novel that really got under my skin. It convincingly depicts a gradual slide into #totalitarianism, but on an intimate, human level. @ubisurv.net, if you haven’t read this one, I’m pretty sure you would like it.

OPD is attempting to expand its surveillance system to be able to easily integrate footage from public and private security cameras into one centralized database under the Flock system, a massive AI-powered tracking system that has been metastasizing across the country in the past two years. 1/x

[Publication Alert]: "Leaving Academia: Dual-Career Relationships and Partners’ Attrition from Academic Careers" 22% of aspiring academics who have an academic partner end up leaving academia. Women are most impacted. That's a lot of attrition! #openaccess www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10....

“Is it surprising that Trump’s stormtroopers are acting with impunity? [No.] But is it shocking to see a man—someone’s family member, someone’s friend, someone’s neighbor—being brutalized by agents who are fully aware they’re being watched and recorded? Yes. And I hope it remains shocking.”

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

I feel very lucky to have gotten a chance to talk about “AI” with @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social — authors of The AI Con. Enjoy the episode! pca.st/episode/ee9c...

The Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) invites nominations (including self-nominations) for the annual Surveillance Studies Book Award. The deadline for receipt of books from the publisher is October 15th, 2025. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

Hybrid workshop where you can hear from Lucy Suchman, HCI legend and organizer with Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, the amazing Joan Greenbaum with Computer People for Peace, and other awesome organizers from #notechforapartheid and other tech-ademia organizing efforts

The Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) invites nominations (including self-nominations) for its 2026 Arts Prize. The deadline for receipt of nominations is August 15th, 2025. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

📢 Our latest blog post is live! 'Anyone Who’s Watching Can See That You’re Watching, Too' by @corinnejones.bsky.social - about the relationship b/w #consumption, #visibility labours, & social media’s #surveillance economy. Find this & our other great contributions here: medium.com/surveillance...

In the new TMK, we dive into a secret partnership between the New Orleans Police Department and Project NOLA, a private organisation that owns and operates an extensive network of facial recognition cameras covering New Orleans and running live analysis on the public. soundcloud.com/thismachinek...

National Science Foundation staff were notified that their office space will be taken over by Department of Housing and Urban Development. It's unclear where the 1,800+ NSF employees will work. Renovation plans apparently include a personal gym for the HUD secretary & family eos.org/research-and...

PUBLISHED: New open issue of Surveillance & Society with articles on #desire, student tracking, #Tesla data collection, #surveillance #art, workplace surveillance, and urban “data walks.” The journal is always fully #openaccess. Check it out, and please spread the word: tinyurl.com/9c473scz

We're retiring this duplicate account. You can find more official posts here: @4sweb.bsky.social See you over there! Or on LinkedIn or X.

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

Feds Flew Predator Drones Over LA Protests 🔗 www.404media.co/dhs-flew-pre...

For everyone who was sad to miss it, the recording of the Data & Society event about THE AI CON (me and @alexhanna.bsky.social) and EMPIRE OF AI (@karenhao.bsky.social) moderated by @tamigraph.bsky.social is now online! datasociety.net/events/chall...

Such deployments of the #surveillance state are similar to Iran’s heavy-handed tactics to crush dissent, as @azadehakbari.bsky.social‬ has written about. Glad to see @mguariglia.bsky.social‬’s incisive critique in this piece.

We’ve just published a fabulous new issue of Surveillance & Society with articles on #desire, student tracking, #Tesla data collection, #surveillance #art, workplace surveillance, and urban “data walks.” The journal is always fully #openaccess. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

I've spent years researching & writing a book on the US government's history of collecting information on individuals. I've seen the dangers and corruption when punitive agencies draw from the same well as those that provide essential public goods. That's why we wrote about what's happening now:

My recent love letter from #NIH. It’s not enough to pull funding, they must insult us too.

As some of us are preparing for international travel. Some helpful tips... boingboing.net/2025/05/19/c...

I cannot emphasize this enough: Please do not use AI tools as therapy. Not only is it not a good replacement for actual therapy, but your chat logs could be shared with the government, and I don't think you need a reminder that especially right now in the US, that could put you in danger.

A powerful and important thread from a former White House tech policy leader

We are excited to announce the 11th Biennial #Surveillance Studies Network Conference happening 9th-12th June 2026, in Lille, France. It includes a #PhD Colloquium. #SSN2026 is hosted by @univcatholille.bsky.social ETHICS & ISTC. Look out for more info soon... And get those abstracts ready!

It was such an honor to “hood” my friend and PhD advisee Will Partin at UNC’s graduation ceremony this past weekend. So proud of the amazing work he’s done and will continue to do.

Good article below, extends the concerns I outlined in @techpolicypress.bsky.social last month — www.techpolicy.press/the-ai-state...

I’ve got to imagine that this project is trying to do something critical, but it just seems like a mistake—on many levels. #surveillance #AI www.hownormalami.eu

Just received a very charming thank you from @torinmonahan.bsky.social's grad seminar students, which reminds me: if you want me to visit to talk about Watching Women this fall, I would be thrilled to chat. Surveillance, suffragettes, women in&against policing! utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Info on its energy gobbling should be in every news story about AI. It is newsworthy. It is inseparable from the tech itself.

“I know there are a number of regulatory burdens that landlords face, and having to avoid violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act by conspiring with your fellow landlords is a very modest burden.” - @foxcahn.bsky.social ​ ​Read more: www.kgw.com/article/news...

We're ‪reading Petra Molnar‬'s [@petramolnar.com] The Walls Have Eyes in my surveillance studies grad seminar this week, and its rich ethnographic stories are riveting. I love the attention the book gives to the very human consequences of surveillance and captivity of people on the move.

The editorial „sketches some of the key dangers presented by the second Trump presidency“ and reading this just send chills down my spine

“And a university – which stands for academic freedom, for freedom of thought, speech and expression, including the right to peacefully protest – cannot buckle to demands to undermine those principles.”

Surveillance is an “apparatus of power that produces and reproduces the social order“ - don’t miss overview of facts, harms and consequences of pervasive surveillance in Trump’s America by @torinmonahan.bsky.social ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

📣 New Publication Alert: “Surveillance in Trump’s America” ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su... This #openaccess paper sketches some of the key surveillance dangers presented by the second Trump presidency. #surveillance #censorship #disinformation #racism

Great-looking internship opportunities at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. Tell your students! [@stopspyingny.bsky.social] www.stopspying.org/internships

If it was done in defiance of a judges order the technical term for that is "illegal" which means it's not an arrest and deportation - which require those conducting it to at least presume they are acting within the law - but a kidnapping and human trafficking

We’ve just published a fabulous new issue of Surveillance & Society with a special Dialogue section on the #authoritarian #surveillance. The journal is always, fully #openaccess. Check it out, and please spread the word: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

Imagine: a Palantir company town where everyone’s on gene therapy + ketamine and lives to 200, where each cul-de-sac gets its own nuclear plant and data center, where nobody’s a citizen + everybody’s a customer, where the owners are unregulated but everyone else is governed by Lumon-esque policy!

Don't legitimize this absurd list by selectively highlighting its most outrageous points. The entire document is flawed and deserves rejection in its entirety. ALL of this is ludicrous. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Dept of Anthropology at UC-Davis is hiring a sociocultural anthropologist scholar with a cutting-edge, ethnographically-grounded research agenda whose work addresses key topics in Palestine Studies. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06996

If you're still feeling like "wait why is everyone mad at Spotify?" and you enjoy listening to podcasts, you would do very well to listen to @lizpelly.bsky.social being interviewed on @techwontsave.us Liz also has an incredible article on "ghost artists" on Spotify: harpers.org/archive/2025...