Starting 2026 off right with @thestorygraph.com's January Pages Challenge and @ruha9.bsky.social ✨ #BookSky

"The question for the Luddites was never simply whether to accept or reject a new machine, but rather who controlled it, how it was deployed, and whose interests it served. . .

“Accepting this story of AI’s inevitability — or that of any technology — is a grave mistake for educators. Not only does it cede tremendous power to tech companies that are unaccountable to teachers, students, or school communities…” 1/2 kappanonline.org/teach-like-a...

NEW: Data Centers, the Climate Crisis, and Community Defense How Local Activists are Interrupting Big Tech AI Investments unicornriot.ninja/2025/data-ce...

A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵

Israel is still bombing Gaza The press isn't covering it as much but it's still happening

If you’re looking for Palestinian speculative fiction for #ReadPalestine week, I got you: soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...

Wonderful to see @ruha9.bsky.social and @alexvitale.bsky.social joining @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's transition committees!

Pre-ordered!📕

This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is

Sooo many folks I’m excited to work with on Mamdani’s technology transition committee. All hands on deck to bring the Affordability Agenda to life: childcare, housing, transportation. While its easy to get swept up in personality, this is a group focused on peoples real needs. LETS KEEP THE FOCUS.

Pleased to see several familiar names on @wired.com's list of Great Tech Books, including @ashleyshoo.bsky.social, @margaretomara.bsky.social & @ruha9.bsky.social. #histSTM #STS #histtech #BigTech 🗃️📜

I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

Happy #PublicationDay, @terencekeel.bsky.social!🔍 THE CORONER’S SILENCE, his landmark intervention that uncovers how coroners and other death investigators are complicit in obscuring the violent circumstances of in-custody deaths, is a “searing exposé.” — @ruha9.bsky.social

Imagination is resistance, @ruha9.bsky.social reminds us that, " we need to reject the gospel that says technology is inevitable, that the train has left the station... In an error of automated bullshit, it’s time to become bullshit detectors," #MozFest

“In an era of automated bullshit,” Dr. @ruha9.bsky.social asks us to tell the truth! Starting with the fact that innovation often depends on exploitation… so social progress can never be taken for granted. What are we building? For whom? With whom? #MozFest

Opening up #MozFest, @ruha9.bsky.social asks us "who owns the future?" but also problematizing the notion of ownership. Need to shift the question, expanding the vision of how we imagine new futures.

Nabiha Syed and @ruha9.bsky.social in conversation on the main stage at #MozFest

Mozilla Festival 2025 is Nov 7-9 in Barcelona w/ 500+ session hosts, 200+ experiences, talks, labs, forums, film screenings, & installations. Keynotes @xychelsea.tv @audreyt.org @ruha9.bsky.social If you haven't gotten your festival badge, use code MOZSEHER 🎟️ @mozilla.org www.mozillafestival.org

I‘m so grateful to the advance readers like @ruha9.bsky.social who spent time with my book and understood the work I hoped it would do. The principled creative work that Ruha does is an incredible model 🖖🏽 Preorder The Edge of Space-Time today: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

When Israel bombs Gaza after pledging itself to a ceasefire, we apparently need to say this is a “Test of ceasefire” to avoid saying what is blatantly obvious, that this is a violation of the ceasefire Again, I’ll keep on repeating this: Israel does not do ceasefires unless forced to.

HAPPENING NOW.

UPDATE: Cornell Drops Its Discrimination Case Against a Pro-Palestine Professor After Public Outcry: “I think the pressure of the community and the outpouring of outrage for what happened to Cheyfitz contributed immensely.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Ice is kidnapping black citizens in Chicago in the middle of the night.

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman. Amplify amplify amplify please.

All eyes on the Global Sumud Flotilla—livestream: www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...

Yall please go watch @merriam-webster.com’s new AI ad😅 youtu.be/RvQnl3O0D3c?...

“This trial exposed their true aim: to intimidate and silence anyone who dares oppose them,” he added. “If we fail to fight back, Trump’s thought police won’t stop at pro-Palestinian voices – they will come for anyone who speaks out.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Young’s opinion, which rules that the Trump admin illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation, is absolutely scathing. “In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police…ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it.”

As someone currently on probation at Princeton, what also stands out here is the sham faculty governance on display: Faculty panel reviews all the evidence n decides there is no grounds for suspension. Admin overrules their decision n Provost Kavita Bala calls for significant disciplinary action.

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

hey, i'm gonna say more tomorrow, but i'm starting a reading group for "AI skeptics" - it's called "AI Skeptics Reading Group" i am not great at names; please suggest alternatives if you're creative. i'll be sending an email tomorrow, but here are a few things to get you started

they ask me to imagine but they want me to imagine their futures and i keep imagining mine.

Assata taught me that “Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.” May her spirit fly free!🤲🏾

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

On institutional “neutrality” and “restraint” in the face of slavery, civil rights movement, South African apartheid, and now the Palestinian genocide: “Princeton will take the lead when there is no longer a lead to take.” —Massie *stay tuned for a talk recording

Princeton area friends, join us for “Divestment & the Boundaries of Conscience” on 9/23 @ 630pm w/ Robert K. Massie ‘78: What challenges do activists face when invoking divestment? What can divestment accomplish? What are its limits? Where can it work & where not? aas.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

“(T)he way someone makes the argument – how nice they look, how erudite they sound, how polite they seem – has long taken precedent over the actual argument itself… as long as the tone is cheerful, there's no need to examine the ugliness of the words.” campaign-trails.ghost.io/the-white-ci...

NEW WRITING: "What will you stay curious about, even when authoritarians try to shape your reality by telling you not to think, not to read, not to ask questions, not to dare consider the possibility that there’s more to life than this?" 🧪

Other Tech Worlds Are Possible. Comics project funded by the University of Toronto and SSHRC. The volume 1 was co-created with the Homeless Workers’ Movement in Brazil. The online launch will be available next week in Portuguese, English, and Spanish.

Join us!

Happening soon!

O vol. 8 saiu! Entrevista com @carolinelevine.bsky.social sobre o ativismo humanista. Artigo de @ruha9.bsky.social sobre IA e eugenia. Texto de @chaykak.bsky.social sobre homogeneização pelo algoritmo. Notas sobre abundância, de @brankomilan.bsky.social. E resenha de Diego Farina.👇 ufrgs.br/carbono

As someone targeted by the ADL, this is welcome news: The National Education Association, the largest union in the US representing over 3 million members, voted to cut all ties with the Anti-Defamation League. www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

Good teacher union news today: the NEA cur ties with the racist, pro-genocide, anti-labor ADL Bad teacher union news today: the AFT has accepted a $21 million bribe from racist, pro-genocide, anti-labor Microsoft/Open AI

Under your "leadership" AFT is partnering with billionaires using tech to privatize education. Your partner steals our work! AFT is complicit. What an outrage! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

“In his efforts to demolish & disappear Black culture & the instns that support it, Trump has made a loud admission: if he truly believed that Black culture were inferior, he would be leaving it on display & intact. Its mere existence would prove white supremacy.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Here are three whole books that talk about the incomprehensibility of race and tech and the way that has been hidden. @thetrudz.photo discussed it for years on Twitter And I’d link new stuff but my old stuff keeps being relevant about how journalism aids erasure www.wired.com/story/listen...

Philly friends, this event tmrw at 530pm has a new location: Science History Institute (315 Chestnut St), details here: africana.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...