Worth remembering this is the same news org that effectively bans its reporters from using terms like “occupied territory” or “genocide” in reference to Israel and has effectively sanctioned decades of its occupation, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing (another phrase NYT says to “avoid”).

hanging on by a thread rn but at least the thread in question is the Gerald's Rham on Acid remix of Voodoo Ray www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtd3...

Just now seeing that this March event has been posted. I’m so excited for this and so grateful for this group of brilliant minds. I’ve been learning so much from them! You can register here: www.disconetwork.org/disco-events...

will kim is still in ICE detention

Organized Communities Against Deportations has launched a new mutual aid fund to support immigrant families in Chicago impacted by ICE raids Link to donate: donorbox.org/mutualaid2025

Miyako Inoue's "The Listening Subject of Japanese Modernity and His Auditory Double" is one of those articles that gets better with each and every reread and reminds me how much (and why) i love linguistic anthropology. i mean, look at her definition of language ideology - perfect, no notes

egregious choice akin to when Yale university hired the architect of Bush admin's "enhanced interrogation techniques," a decision for which they later apologized. it's still possible for U Chicago to amend this grave lapse of judgment, you can reach out here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

in which @lmesseri.bsky.social and @mjcrockett.bsky.social upend the increasingly pervasive premise of the LLM-fabricated human research subject (and the histories/ ideologies of cognition baked into the experimental "tasks" they're called upon to complete) at its epistemic roots

no university teaching center i will not join your workshop on how "customized AI-driven chatbots can support student learning" also stop

Seems like an opportune moment to re-up our paper about AWS seeking infrastructural dominance in education through a range of operations that include platforming the edtech industry on its cloud services codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2022/07/12/h...

A. This isn’t what learning is and B. Sadly more and more classes are being pushed in this direction as class sizes go through the roof because states and universities refuse to invest in their faculty

Follow the Global Sumud Flotilla live: www.youtube.com/live/Zeq7BQN...

Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

Protests, mass meetups, conferences—a youth-led movement is reclaiming the Luddite mantle, rejecting a future dominated by Silicon Valley companies, toxic apps, and generative AI. This fall, a "Luddite renaissance" is in full swing. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...

Paired texts: bsky.app/profile/hype...

surely the "medical assistant" tasked with mediating / being the human in the loop likely held the most responsible for the patient-LLM-physician communication pipeline will have totally chill and equitable and well-paid working conditions that def put them in a position to lend a "sympathetic ear"

yeah, i've been thinking about this fixation on Authoritative People using Math to tell us something already collectively understood. it has a conspicuously similar structure as the weird investments, shared even by ostensibly "critical" people, in the idea of Artificial Intelligence

it's not a statistical or a computational limitation, because that implies that if you have better statistical methods or bigger compute or bigger data you can get around these things the problem is that you're modeling word tokens; you can't get out from under that this isn't revelatory though

Who is Really Fueling your #AI? Join us on September 17 to discuss precarization and resistance in #datawork, with the @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social, @milamiceli.bsky.social and @superrrnetwork.bsky.social. Don't miss your chance to meet some of the shadow workforce behind AI. buff.ly/dHMHXPV

Please donate to support the work of the brave volunteers helping our immigrant community in NJ. They need money for gas, food, vests, to print flyers and to cover basic needs of families facing abduction and deportation. Anything helps. Please donate.

Fuck, gonna lose my job at the anxiety factory now

Who could’ve seen this coming!? (Literally everyone who has ever researched “Speech AI”)

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

Threatening people with internment in *checks notes* Little Tokyo near the Japanese American Museum is *really* dirty work.

Bumping this. If you work on disability, museums, and/or access, please consider submitting! Lmk if u have any questions!

ITV were interviewing a guy who was holding a white flag in the street in early 2024. As soon as the cameraman switched off his camera and they started to walk away, an IDF sniper shot the white guy flag through the heart. The problem here has not been a failure of understanding.

Any of my Bluesky friends fluent in asl? Looking for someone to interpret a seven min presentation! Will pay.

AHA is actually short for "AHAHAHAahahahahah" because this shit must be a joke

very measured take on what much of the "LLMs can do diagnosis better than humans" hype misunderstands regarding the way diagnosis operates in situated/institutional context (i.e. how it actually functions on the ground vs in an idealized experimental set-up) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

If you’ll recall, the “antisemitism” at UCLA involved primarily campus police allowing Zionist counter protesters to attack the pro-Palestinian camps (incl. many Jewish participants) while they did nothing, and arresting the anti-genocide students & faculty afterwards.

Trump's new executive order about AI states that companies' models must not incorporate the idea that trans people exist as a concept. Seems bad.

A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” enters its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.

"Under this definition of antisemitism, which absurdly conflates criticism of a nation-state & political ideology with the ancient evil of Jew-hatred, it is impossible with any honesty to teach about topics such as the history of the creation of Israel" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In light of the Columbia and Brown deals, I’m bumping these slides again about the Nazi takeover of German science, which includes discussion about how they took over academia, in a manner very similar to the Brown and Columbia deals

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring. Read it for yourself here: www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

Hearing in groupchats that the language here on gender is much worse than the Columbia settlement

A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me: “Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”

getting my phrenology checked by my laptop camera before I can listen to WAP, a future I always wanted www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...

The Israeli Defense Forces surrounded, beat, and choked American labor leader Chris Smalls, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition announced

Who has written the essay that talks about ai in terms of Blackness, literacy, and access to knowledge? Part of why I hate these systems so much is because I know the hard-fought battles just to use the library or learn to read. Now folks are telling us their machine has all the answers. 🤷🏿‍♂️

This summer, across a vast stretch of the eastern United States, monthly home electric bills jumped. Trenton, NJ: $26 Philadelphia: $17 Pittsburgh: $10 Columbus, OH: $27 Why? Big Tech's data centers. AI's destruction isn't free — we're paying for it. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The thing I gleaned most from being raised Jewish is the importance of education and I find it abhorrent that majors US Jewish orgs would rather quietly side w/ fascists against pro-Palestinian activists than be on the front lines against this historic assault on education, where they should be.

accepted (!) as not one but two panels (!!!) see you there #AAA2025

I watch my family grow thinner, quieter, more distant by the day. The world says it’s watching. But we are vanishing. Kindly don’t look away. My family is all I have. I entrust them to you. Don’t leave us alone in this. 🙏🏽

Trump's forthcoming AI action plan will inevitably center industry & lead to the unrestrained, unaccountable rollout of AI into every part of our lives. @dairinstitute.bsky.social is among the 90+ orgs demanding an AI policy agenda that puts the interests of people first. peoplesaiaction.com

It’s Abu Ghraib all over again. But inside our borders.