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sorry for the dumb ai discourse subtweet but i would really love to see a language ideological account of the political work done by the distinction between "the drudgery" and "the creative, expressive part"

if you're an intellectual busily imagining capacious future for AI, not a little bit embarrassed taking so much effort to ridicule folks for not being creative enough w/AI when the reality of it looks like this, we are fundamentally different creatures. you must have lost the shame gene or something

did you all know that the guy Disney hired to do the Our Friend The Atom show was an Operation Paper Clipped Nazi, i certainly did not

“The bus driver made sure that all of the students made it to class safely by circling back to the bus stop multiple times, according to the district.” Thank you to the bus driver for showing what it means to protect our communities.

Google gave ICE this British STUDENT JOURNALIST's personal info bank account numbers while they were trying to detain him for attending a protest at a job fair at Cornell for just 5 minutes. Not a crime. He fled to Switzerland & EFF is representing him now. theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...

also the hand-sweeping work that "we" does even as it's appended by the same qualifying asterisk that appends the liberal human subject (#notallhumans)..it's almost like Jennifer Rhee, Atansoski and Vora, and many other feminist STS and Black feminist scholars have written entire books about this

"When I asked ChatGPT to comment on its chief rival, it noted that Claude is “good at ‘helpful & kind without becoming therapy.’ ... Claude was, it italicized, “less mad-scientist, more civil-servant engineer.”" Yeah, well I asked the Lady of the Lake about DeepSeek; she said it was a Commie trap.

A point I make in my work on this subject is that we need to reject the insistance that convos abt commercial AI products should be about the tech. Determining whether AI is “conscious” is a Smartwashing exercise in solipcism that distracts from the material conditions of the product’s distribution

paging @saraevogel.bsky.social, @sciedhenry.bsky.social, @charleswlogan.bsky.social, anyone else??

Hey folks! Street Medics in Minneapolis have reached out to us asking for help boosting another wishlist! Everything on this list is going straight to Columbia Heights. (If you hate amazon, please visit www.standwithminnesota.com and find a different way to help! just help, that is what matters)

"Knowing what questions to ask a patient and what information might be withheld or missing during an examination are nuanced skills that make great human physicians; based on this study, chatbots can’t reliably replicate that kind of care."

‼️ NEW JERSEY ‼️ Share this resource widely. If you see ICE activity, call/text the NJ Rapid Response hotline for your county. #ICEoutofNJ

This document is one of the great political failures of our time. It must be immediately denounced by all people of good will. And it will be a major scandal if any "civil rights" organization gives cover to this capitulation to fascism.

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

It’s hard to put into perspective how truly massive the warehouse is that was recently sold by the Rockefeller Group to the Department of Homeland Security for $70 million to build a concentration camp in Surprise, AZ. Across the street is a huge neighborhood and a school. It’s 400,000-square-feet.

resources for supporting Haitian immigrants in Springfield, OH likely losing TPS on Tuesday abortionfundofohio.org/springfield/

You mean the same Gemini being pushed into K-12 schools?

linguistic anthropologists everywhere once again vindicated for despising chomsky's work for decades

Miriam* fled enslavement in Mauritania in a heroic middle of the night escape - she found out she was pregnant with her enslaver’s 5th child here. Denied schooling she is illiterate. Today she lives in fear of being targeted by ICE. I’m raising money for her. Venmo is @Heba-gowayed.

In addition to Don Lemon, they arrested journalist Georgia Fort bsky.app/profile/tayl...

hey look it's @slaydok.bsky.social making good on his username

Palantir working hard to be the IBM of this era.

thanks to the enablers of this past this article will now be appearing in an upcoming special issue on linguistic anthropology and AI in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, great work everyone

am i the last one on earth to learn that Stafford Beer had a daughter he named........Vanilla Beer

Does women’s health need sex-specific algorithms? In a paper just out in Big Data & Society (bigdatasoc.bsky.social) we at the GenderSci Lab warn against the growing use of so-called “pink” and “blue” algorithms, arguing that they risk embedding biological sex essentialist assumptions into medicine.

"everyone is talking about machine learning but no one is talking about machine yearning" used to be a joke, but now they are playing it straight

excellent tool for looking into who in your neighborhood is turning a profit via ICE/has DHS contracts www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/v...

We cannot allow the clarity and consciousness produced in these horrific moments of struggle to be co-opted by elites in the policing industry or Democratic establishment in service of any agenda other than reducing the size and power of the government’s capacities for repression and violence.

THREAD. In the section of my Copaganda book on how body cameras as a supposed “reform” are one of the great propaganda achievements in the history of the police/surveillance industry, I explain that one of the reasons police wanted them so badly for years was to link to facial recognition tech.

"This is a verified page fundraising support for the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO and Working Partnerships' 2026 rapid response effort to meet the needs of impacted union members, worker center members, and their families..." workingpartnerships.betterworld.org/campaigns/su...

Fascism has no equilibrium. Its reliance on escalation as proof of legitimacy requires continual acceleration. This process produces contradictions and instabilities that can and must be exploited.

If you live in North America, the next time you call the police, your call may be answered by AI. This week, the Toronto Police Service announced it will begin using a voice AI system developed by Hyper for 811 non-emergency calls.

NEW: We obtained 100 gigabytes of data from unlisted websites associated with Canary Mission, revealing their internal workings, employees, and an internal website called BlackNest where the group celebrated its “impacts”— arrests and deportations. www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mis...

Starting tomorrow, the Trump administration is set to send notices to 1,000 student loan borrowers (first round) noticing them of an intent to garnish their wages for student loan debt. This is cruel and unnecessary. If you receive a notice, send it to us and we'll try to help.

Why are the negative consequences of so-called AI so consistently directed at disabled and racialized people? Disabling Intelligences details the ongoing effects of the eugenicist mindset on our corporate ventures and our interpersonal relationships. link.springer.com/book/9783032...

Our collective belief in our own inadequacy is required to sustain the AI project—a metaeugenic worship of intelligence and a belief that most people do not possess enough of it.

Now published in print: "The Legality of Logistics: On Techno-Orientalism and Geopolitics in Semiconductor Production" in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing as a part of this special issue 'Automation by Design' co-edited by @cperold.bsky.social , Gerardo Con Diaz, and @justcode.bsky.social .

what a monumental loss for this institution www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care. www.transyouthemergencyproject.org

And again, if you’re someone who thinks AI has gotten a bad rap, maybe consider the most prominent use cases so far which now include keeping Black and Queer scholarship off of college campuses.

“At Texas A&M, internal emails show staff are using AI software to search syllabi and course descriptions for words that could raise concerns under new system policies restricting how faculty teach about race and gender.” www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...

metalinguistic awareness mentioned

What this study found is that AI is pretty good at adopting formal linguistic analysis that treats language as a set of disembodied linguistic structures unique to humans, which is not surprising since it relegates the complexity of human language to “performance” outside of the scope of linguistics

Must read new report from @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social co-researcher Michael Geoffrey Asia. Find more at data-workers.org and read more about the DWI project at www.dair-institute.org/projects/dat...

Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion. That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/

new paper so fresh it doesn't have an issue # yet! Noya Kohavi and I looked at a crowdsourced AI testing suite and analyzed how contributors’ ideas about language, intelligence & cognition play a surprisingly big role in shaping how LLMs are tested, and what we think AI is. doi.org/10.1111/jola...

student in my surveillance studies course is doing an (excellent) final project about SnitchBench and imaginaries surrounding the use of LLMs as snitches/whistleblowers and it has me wishing some linguistic anthropologist out there would write further about it snitchbench.t3.gg