We cannot allow all these data centers running on oil and natural gas to be built, y’all. We simply cannot. The Earth is too precious. To accelerate CO2 production for a technology this stupid is so profoundly reckless

Not for nothing, but using language like "the AI workplace," "the age of AI," and all that hooey affirms an epistemological matrix reifying that classic notion of, "Well that's just how it is now." And that is not how it is. That's how CEOS and the billionaire class WANT things to be.

Who is at the University of Illinois Chicago who would like to hire me?

Being an academic means going to your website to find your current CV because your work laptop is a lil messy.

I need to move to Chicago. Someone help.

Just delighted by the way @fordhampress.bsky.social came through with my book, Audiofuturism. Excited to be a Fordham author 💕📚 fordhampress.com/audiofuturism-hb-9781531513320.html #SFF

“By using GenAI: I accept the models were trained on stolen data. I accept that the data was labeled by exploited workers. I accept the environmental costs of the data centers running these models. I accept that I am outsourcing some of my skills to a company. I accept …”

Some folks in my department asked for some paragraphs about my book (and proposal) and how that's all going during my research leave. So I was sure to talk about how I've done 7 new course preps since starting and how it's really set me back as research faculty as nobody protected my time. ☺️

Beautiful, gorgeous, tall Mexican man at the coffee shop I'm at to write for the next few hours AND he arrived at the same time as me. I do, indeed, foresee marriage on the horizon. ☺️

SAW THIS IN ATLANTA AND WHOO BOY. She's a performer on a whole other level. The girls are simply not doing it like her!!

Dropbox, you will be punished for your sins

I wrote this essay and a bunch of folks engaged, reposted, or blocked me, and so on - it’s so the point of writing etc and I love it. People who use AI to “write” can never know this feeling… that something you write is being read by others …how incredible that is really

EXCITING NEWS: Applications NOW *open* to join LPL as a 2026 summer fellow. This paid fellowship is for *early-career* researchers looking to investigate surveillance technologies. Full details here -> cdn.prod.website-files.com/66045fc0d0be...

Booked and ready to spend some good time in Portland for RSA 2026!

Unfortunately, the only way to progress through this chapter is a crash course on medical sociology.

As I suspected, women, femmes, gays, theys, and especially academics of color have a lot to say about a certain book and thesis.

Adequacy... Girl. Someone needs to stop these white gays lmao.

What happens when you speak for a bit too long at a city council meeting in opposition to a data center being built in your town? In Claremore, Oklahoma, a man was arrested and charged with trespassing. Story by @mjgault.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/man-opposing...

Microsoft AutoUpdate, you will be tried for your crimes

Anyways, working on my sample chapter for my book proposal, and I'm trying to fold together platform capitalism, affect, settler colonial biopower, and queer of color critique. I need a nap.

"These ideas came to me as I was writing my dissertation in Paris..." Yeah well I wrote mine in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which is like the Paris of Appalachia if you think about it really hard (or not at all)

Do you read or write fanfiction? Take a few minutes to fill out this survey on fanfic authors’ and readers’ perspectives on generative AI. You must be 18 years or older to participate. Please repost and share with friends! bit.ly/FF-AI

Dating a man who can’t read is WILD. Ain’t no dick that good. Lord have mercy. Now I’m gonna have to institute reading tests for prospects, SMHHHH.

First they said critical ICE detention footage was "destroyed." Then, lost in a system crash. Then, never recorded. Now, in the latest court docs, it shows the federal government lost three hard drives it was supposed to put footage on in a case where ICE detainees say they faced inhumane abuse.

HEY. HEEEEY. We know your safety training is due in a week and a half, but here's a million reminders. HEYYYY. We know your course reading selections are due next month, but here's a million and one reminders NOW.

sigh

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

Heart rate at 95 at 9 AM (I'm looking at my student evaluations from Fall 2025 for my annual review). I always get scared, and they're always great (and I got some great comments too)

I refuse to take seriously anyone who uses "Age / Era of AI." I refuse to consider any kind of ethical concern about AI use when the two are incommensurable. My AI literacy is that I don't have any and don't want any.

Sure I have a ton of writing to catch up on, but maybe the best use of my time is redoing my website completely in Markdown 🤔

Renewing my PrEP prescription at the faculty course prep get together AMA

🙃 PhD in Email

I am once again sending emails 🫩🥴

My no-fun-at-parties take is that "christmas is a secular holiday" is an uncomfortable way of assuring me that christianity is the status quo and everything outside of that is an aberration. Sorry! It's still a christian holiday!! Just because you're an atheist doesn't make it secular!

I am not sorry. This is simply true. Academics should be able to write fluently and express themselves clearly and academics should do their own work. It’s literally our job. It’s what we trained until 22nd grade to do. This is a simple observation that should require no explanation or defense.

"a coalition of more than 230 environmental groups has demanded a ntl moratorium on new datacenters in the US, the latest salvo in a growing backlash to a booming AI industry that has been blamed for escalating electricity bills and worsening the climate crisis" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A Discord for gay gamers is in disarray after an exec at Anthropic forced an AI chatbot on the Discord. When confronted, the exec said he would not submit to mob rule and that AIs have emotions. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @mjgault.bsky.social www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...

Rochelle Jordan the following week in DC? 😍

Frasier really is perfect television!

Replaced my own car battery today 💪 it’s called gender, and I’m performing it (in a gross Butlerian misreading).

Doing my annual reread of the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons, though this time I’m listening to the audiobooks.

I did a Dark Urge playthrough in BG3. Ugh. *shiver*

A week away from Winter Break and Sabbatical Bliss. Anyone want to do a writing group this spring semester so I can catch up on work and *finally* get my projects to the next stages? 🙇🏻‍♂️

Spent the morning watching a friend’s dissertation defense. Wow. Almost everyone I know who was getting a PhD in grad school has one now. We’re all grown up 🥲

A week away from Winter Break and Sabbatical Bliss. Anyone want to do a writing group this spring semester so I can catch up on work and *finally* get my projects to the next stages? 🙇🏻‍♂️

Final grades are due on Monday by noon, so of course I'm cleaning out my project management to-dos and whatnot.

Happening later today, at 4 PM Eastern! There's still time to register (registration closes at 2:30 PM Eastern): my.ncte.org/NC__Event?id....

When I’m accused of “technopessimism“ I counter that I’m not “pessimistic about technology“; I am opposed to the economic, political, and social project of upward wealth transfer that “AI” is being leveraged to bring about. If that phrasing is useful to others, then go ahead and use it.

You used to have to do a layer or two of analysis to arrive at "Generative AI is fascist, don't use it."

When you read my tenure case, remember that I’m not just a good scholar and educator; I’m also a great head of hair 🫡