there are so many AI related ads, anti-AI sticker campaign when???

i have been writing about the virginia supreme court decision with a certain amount of analytical detachment but if i’m being honest i’m also fucking furious i took the time to go vote and then my ballot got tossed out by these dipshits

I’ve been thinking a lot about the “NIMBY for good” happening right now related to data center & ICE detention center protests, please point me to your favorite writing about this

the technofascist takeover is exactly why concepts like permacomputing are really inspiring; if Big Tech can seize control via tools, so can we

Funny how after every SCOTUS ruling striking down some protection from government abuse, the officials those protections restrained — cops, prosecutors, Republican state electeds — immediately start acting in the precise manner SCOTUS assured us they no longer do.

New from 404 Media: spoke to four people who attended a trade show where senior ICE officials spoke about how much Palantir is supercharging their arrests. List of 20 million people on ICE agents phones now; increased chance of successful arrest from 28 to 80% www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...

I always say China and the US- despite their real differences - have many substantial similarities. This essay from @yilingliu95.bsky.social highlights on of them. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/o...

Other people have noticed this phenomenon too but danah boyd put the best slogan to it: social media is now parasocial media. Social media hasn't been social for a long while—how long depending on the platform, depending on the milieu. It's not folks sharing equally, but broadcasting and receiving.

troubling

When a federal agency changes AI vendors, it may also change how government systems perform and how they interpret policy goals and constraints. That could have huge implications, say Paulo Carvão, Isabel Adler, Jeffrey Zhou and Claudio Mayrink Verdun.

permacomputing

(I was the original creator of this)

of his dissertation, which the journal Internet Histories has just published. Very proud of him and happy to be a coauthor on this: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

two things. 1. when the trump administration says that something is “illegal DEI” they are saying “you don’t deserve this” 2. the practical effect of destroying the VRA is to make it nearly futile for these americans to get relief from congress

NEW: Despite a long-standing court order, the NYPD didn’t audit thousands of stops made by its Community Response Team, which has a history of unconstitutional policing and has drawn hundreds of civilian complaints.

separate from this issue, but just generally, is there a name for when conservatives rhetorically get overwhelmed by a high number? too many shots, too many pages, too many regs (to say nothing of the substance)

becoming busy so I can get things done becoming absent minded so I can give you those most thoughtful takes becoming overwhelmed so I can focus

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...

I can’t believe he has to say this www.nydailynews.com/2026/05/06/n...

I had a dream I had a secret benefactor/booster of TikTok content, that’d be a modern & weird Great Expectations

it feels like I’m a hater caterpillar becoming a hater butterfly which is actually a lover butterfly, incredibly strange but that’s how things go

I’m seeing ads from this company more and more on the NYC subway, but New Yorkers haven’t given it the Friend dot com treatment yet, I’m curious when they will

this is worse than “we were just following orders” evil which is quite evil, it’s “we were just following our own interpretation of words that actually have historically been interpreted the opposite way” evil, there is no way to absolve agency here, my god

for june, we are reading /the technological republic/ for civic tech book club. looking forward to the discussion, if not getting through the actual reading.

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this isn’t going well

this is not the first anti-Real ID skit at SNL, please tell me which writer hates Real ID so I can besties with them

students on campuses protesting genocide have been doxxed, targeted by social media harassment campaigns, lost jobs, scholarships, visas; threatened and attacked physically by cops/random strangers allowed onto campuses; and now, been RUN OVER BY A UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT I am in disbelief.

We now have 11 out of 51 City Council members supporting @nycplan.org's demand to benchmark public library funding at 0.5% of the city expense budget. We're over 20%. nycplan.org/scorecards/l... - Is your CM on this list? If not, you can help us to get them on record. Call script on our website.

BREAKING: A federal court granted anti-abortion politicians’ request to impose nationwide restrictions on telehealth access to mifepristone. If SCOTUS doesn’t block this ruling, it will upend how people across the country get abortion and miscarriage care even in states where abortion is protected.

good tweet

this from 12 days ago hasn’t aged well I am so saddened about the supercharged gerrymandering future, I just want democracy

Happy May Day everyone

We will start interviewing folks in May, apply today! (Also I’m not doing side Q&A about this to be equitable to all applicants, but I encourage all who are interested to apply.)

imagine if Jacob Elordi plays James Comey in the movie and the movie was very short and just about when he hid in the curtains while being so tall

every day technology gets us closer to engineering our own extinction, but I do find it very very chill that I can get away with “communicating” by just responding with an emoji

I recommend hanging in a crowd that makes you think "wisdom of the crowd" is a fundamental law of physics

I’m no one to give dating advice, but you could try asking someone you meet in person how they feel about data centers, I think that’ll get you pretty far (you could organize against data centers w them at the very least)

NEW REPORT with two findings: 1) Data centers cause health and environmental problems in the communities where they are sited; and 2) data centers are sited in communities that already have a lot of health and environmental problems techpolicy.press/data-center-...

Inevitability is not what it used to be.

I’m so irked when anyone says “AI” fears are like or “rhyme with” past fears of electricity & photography, etc. • they’re more different than they’re alike • what “AI” are you talking about, weapons? • that analogy serves the story of any concern being hysterical & the trajectory as inevitable

I’d prefer that Wired, and journalists generally, not normalize facial recognition search. This added little to the story and just teaches people to go out and use these tools, which Wired is well aware can have harmful consequences. From: www.wired.com/story/califo...

Baudrillard would have loved this

wow, a typo machine: mashable.com/article/sinc... I have an inkling that the machine made typos will feel different than the real ones

it feels poetic that energy & tech hardware comes from mining & that the prominent tech business model has been information mining extraction, extraction

NEW @citizenlab.ca report We uncover two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns. The findings expose how surveillance vendors exploit the global telecom ecosystem to conduct covert location tracking operations that can persist undetected for years. citizenlab.ca/research/unc...

would our country be in a better place if Truth Social had a stricter character limit? would Bluesky be better if I could do polls? I think we all know the answer to these questions

always has been

Two weeks ago, we walked out of @propublica.org’s offices for a one-day strike to demand a fair contract. We haven’t gotten ANY proposals from management since then. Tell our bosses that you’ll support us if we have to strike again: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...