The EU says it ordered X to retain all internal docs and data relating to Grok until the end of 2026, after criticizing Grok's nonconsensual image generation (Louise Breusch Rasmussen/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

“When the U.S. has faced resistance or defeat elsewhere in the world, they come back 'home' to the Western Hemisphere. They use Latin America as an imperial laboratory."

mastodon.online/@parismarx/1... Jump on over to the fediverse to cast your ballot!

Join the conversation TODAY at 3PM PT | 6PM ET to break down the data center proposals coming to the Southwest and strategies for resisting them, led by local grassroots organizers. bit.ly/TheSWResists

Me before becoming a CS professor: "with tightly scoped and heavily regulated use-cases, it's worth developing an extremely limited form of AI" Me after 3 years as a CS professor: "we have to destroy all AI of any and every kind immediately and ban any future development work of any kind"

A heads-up state and federal agencies are actively monitoring online activity tied to criticism and protest of the immigration crackdown in New Orleans. That includes social media comments, posts, group chats, and other digital spaces.

So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.

We are living at a time when university leadership amplifies anti-intellectual tropes and technologies These are very troubling times

www.npr.org/2025/11/29/n... Exacciones ilegales.

A new AAUP Report on faculty senates is out! 📝 As political attacks on faculty governing bodies increase, our new report argues that effective shared governance requires that faculty have a strong, distinctive & representative collective voice to safeguard academic freedom. Read below 👇

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks

So just a heads up being supportive of trans folks wins you elections.

Africana Studies is going to have one hell of an update to their "what our majors have done with their degree after graduation" page.

Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today! Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount

This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true. _This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure. https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/

The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to fire the director of the U.S. Copyright Office. https://to.pbs.org/3X2xpNi

"The annihilation of education is a central pillar of Israel’s genocide, targeting not just Palestinian educators and educational infrastructure, culture, and knowledge systems, but the very core of Palestinian life." 👇https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03626784.2025.2558520

Okay, thank you for this, as the president of my university recently compared AI to the printing press, and as an information scientist I am saying, "no, sir, that is neither helpful nor accurate."

Here’s the true cost of Donald Trump’s “unconditional donation” of a $400 M luxury aircraft gifted to him by Qatar. cc: @altspaceforce.altgov.info

www.anti-imperialists.com/blog/unity-o... New essay by Profesor A. Aviña, Unity or Submission: The Great Yankee Risk, on the targeting of boats in Venezuela: "The Mexico-Palestine border is everywhere, including in the Caribbean."

Join us on Thursday, OCTOBER 16th at 4:00 - 5:30 PM ET over Zoom for a conversation about How to Survive Techno-Hellscapes 🔥💻🌐 This panel will feature four phenomenal disability culture workers, activists, writers, and scholars in conversation with DISCO's own @remiyergeau.bsky.social

Ah yes, carving through the wilderness so someone can make an AI video of Darth Vader doing a TikTok dance. interc.pt/478DpZU

A sheriff told the media that his team searched a license plate reader database because they were worried about a woman's safety. Records show it was an abortion investigation. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Critical tech colleagues, see Stand.Earth @stand.earth report on Microsoft AI's pollution footprint stand.earth/resources/gl...

Critical tech colleagues, see the worker rights supported by @chipscommunities.bsky.social Chips Communities United as well as environmental impacts of the semiconductor industry as reflected in a generation of advocacy by Center for Environmental Public Oversight. cpeo.org

I am once again asking why these data centers are all fucking SECRETS "A controversial plan to build a 2.2-million-square-foot data center on farmland may still happen. A rural community... is looking to settle a lawsuit recently filed by a development firm working for an unidentified tech giant."

Sovereign computers, software and servers for home and office. Come and join me for this live webinar with an Open Source expert, noon October 22, Nau mai, haere mai koutou! sovereign-computers.eventbrite.co.nz

“Its elimination, critics argue, would not just cut courses but undercut the very values [Clara] Luper embodied: courage, resistance, and the fight for equality.” theblackwallsttimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

The tech industry’s embrace of President Trump has left many of us asking the same question: What the hell happened to Silicon Valley? On Sept. 23 at 11 AM, our WIRED experts get into it. wrd.cm/4mslR0k Have questions? Drop them below 👇🏼

www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/asu-pol... At the university where I work.

The destruction of third spaces by corporate and governmental interests and their replacement with highly engineered corpora digital spaces being the leading edge of our tip into fascism and social scale incoherence is really one of those obvious domino effects.

"A living visual archive on cybernetics in the expanded field. Browse and contribute images of all kinds: diagrams, schematics, photos, graphic elements, and other visual fragments."

Meanwhile in DC:

Meanwhile en los EEUU mientras que el clientepresidente continua negociar con la Madame Maxwell allí estamos like...

GWU IDDP organized a Council to reflect on the comments submitted to NTIA’s Request For Comment (RFC) regarding Ethical Guidelines for Research Using Pervasive Data. Check out the findings here: iddp.gwu.edu/ethical-use-...

In a new Lawfare Research Paper, Sezaneh Seymour and Brandon Wales examine the risks and benefits of expanding private-sector participation in offensive cyber operations and provide a framework for policymakers to use when considering this type of involvement in cyber operations.

wordsinspace.net/2025/06/30/i... Shannon, I just read your post, reflecting what so many of us are experiencing in academia. Yes to libraries. This type of university cannot persist.

Okay, Native Studies, you know how we all post the painting of Louis Gasts's (1872) American Progress in our slide decks? Well, lucky for us, DHS did a rebrand.

"Universities have become increasingly dependent on a proliferation of outsourced services, database providers + info mgmt systems, w/ spiraling costs... Understanding [the uni as an infrastructure stresses] that the tech it chooses to adopt follow a colonial + extractivist model...