Trump is rescinding road safety grants all over the country, in blue states and red ones. The reason: those projects are "hostile" to cars. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

EFF has been investigating stories from users whose abortion-related content has been taken down. What did we find? Over and over again, the policies say one thing, but the actual enforcement says another. www.eff.org/pages/our-s...

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Folks gonna start adding a no hologram clause to their wills

"In parts of the country, the government would like sites to collect an unprecedented amount of identifying information about their users. In the whole country, the government would like to track down and prosecute those users if they are rude... It doesn’t take a mastermind to see the risks."

Nearly 50 college instructors across #Illinois landed on #CharlieKirk's “Professor Watchlist.” @wbez.org reached out to all of them and found the list triggered hateful messages, threats of rape or death, and intensification since Kirk's killing. #twill www.wbez.org/politics/202...

"If bills like HB 4938 are the future of the conservative movement, then the true obscenity isn’t pornography—it’s the authoritarian urge to strip people of their rights under the guise of protecting morality: No one is protected; everyone is a criminal."

I’m sure all the standup comedians who have been ranting about censorship the last few years are going to take to the streets any minute now.

People upset about the Michigan "antiporn" law don't realise the power the state already has to deeem vast swaths of sex related content illegal — and the power to harass those who challenge them. This 2 Live Crew arrest is a good refresher.

Michigan lawmakers have introduced a bill prohibiting the any "depiction or description" of trans people or trans existence online, including it in a bill banning "pornographic" material The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.

Add Knoxville to the growing list of campuses where faculty have been terminated or are facing termination procedures due to social media statements.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss. A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️ Trans people are "a vulnerable minority group that has been widely demonized. Any good journalistic practice would involve nailing down accuracy to avoid making things worse." – @lopatto.bsky.social www.theverge.com/politics/777...

we passed this point long ago. the Christchurch shooter murdered more than 50 people for the memes. if you don't realize that was part of the point for him you don't understand this stuff.

Q. Who aligns the aligners? A. alignmentalignment.ai Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

Publicly targeting one of the most prominent Jewish public intellectuals in the country right now is one way to "fight antisemitism," I suppose.

UC-Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names “related” to anti-semitism, mostly for voicing support for Palestinians. Judith Butler is among them, she calls this “McCarthyism” UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

penn ave rightsizing, LFG!!!

Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

SEPTA cuts hit Philadelphia schools hard the first week of school. Fewer buses and trolleys meant fewer students coming to class — and more students late, district records show.

Just murdering and mutilating some North Korean fisherman to hide our secret bugging mission, no biggie

This is an extraordinary article in many ways. But: 1) “it left unarmed North Koreans dead” is a polite way of phrasing “SEALS killed them.” 2) It isn’t until paragraph 59 that the NYT tells us the people the seals killed were civilians. They were fishing, and America killed them.

If you're eligible, please consider participating in my PhD advisee @lameiro.bsky.social's interview study with online sex workers about non-consensual intimate deepfakes. Quick screening survey: bit.ly/deepfakesint... Please also help spread the word by sharing with potential participants!

Something I didn't get to say yesterday: We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.

Parental consent / age verification laws are so harmful

"Open source is one person, even the popular stuff" … absolutely wild. opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-...

Worst part of being on the job market is having to use LinkedIn again

What can #CSCW learn from tech workers who have been involved in collective action and unionization about how to make transformative change within our field? My new #CSCW2025 paper with Mona Wang, Anna Konvicka, and Sarah Fox seeks to answer this question. Pre-print: arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12579

CVS Health will not cover Gilead's Yeztugo, generic name lenacapavir (LEN), citing "clinical, financial, and regulatory factors."

The censorship resulting from these age verification laws isn’t an accident. It’s the whole point.

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

I am going to have an aneurysm

1. In an alarming move, the Trump administration has banned trans coverage for federal employees and their families, including youth and adults. It mandates faith-based conversion therapy coverage. It is one of the largest removals of coverage in the US. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Trying to remember a Wicked song only for Google to give me unasked AI-generated linguistic prescriptivism

Anxiously woke up at the exact time #CSCW reviews came out

If you've read about the sudden appearance of age verification across the internet in the UK and thought it would never happen in the U.S., take note: many politicians want the same or even more strict laws. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

1. The philosophy of science sometimes gets an unearned reputation as a purely academic exercise that offers little by way of concrete tools for advancing research. This is wrong. And today, as we grapple with how AI is changing the nature of scientific activity, it's desperately wrong.

This is why biological essentialism is so dangerous

This behavior is indistinguishable from the worst secret polices of fascist regimes of the 20th century.

Is it too petty to cite Anita Bryant’s obituary?

Remember that the Closing of the American Internet didn't start with YouTube. It started with Pornhub. You just believed them when they said it would stop there.

Wikipedia losing its court case against the Online Safety Act is a blow for them, but the Wikimedia Foundation believes the fight isn't over (and piled pressure on Ofcom to categorise platforms correctly) www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

An interesting development in the aestheticization of politics www.404media.co/spotify-publ...

Yet another case of the Online Safety Act taking down harm-reduction and community support services -- in this case because the site hasn't been able to implement age verification yet (it's expensive as fuck!)

It’s only problematic through a capitalist lens -- to people who mistake community for a growth metric rather than a space for actual conversation.

Chris Cuomo posting a deepfake of AOC the same week that Jim Acosta “interviews” a deepfake of a school shooting victim are both harbingers of how traditional media power players will help usher in the worst of the AI slop era

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?