man this sucks. Dewey is right underneath the Anthropology Dept so it's where i'd go to read for courses, for generals, to to pick up my books and ILL requests, staff were always the best and were trying to unionize my last year...... :/

It’s almost like all surveillance, no matter the purported use, eventually becomes an extension of the carceral state.

🌟 NEW PREPRINT 🌟 After six months of following people using chatbots for socioemotional health & 1 year of participatory engagements, we're proud to release a longitudinal qualitative study on how people use general-purpose LLMs and what it demands of AI governance: arxiv.org/abs/2605.23787

Very excited to be in conversation with @austinkocher.com next month to talk about my book and the politics of deportation. Austin's one of the clearest analysts of immigration policy there is - I'm sure it will be an engaging conversation. Register below! @ucpress.bsky.social

Right now at #DelaneyHall #Newark, NJ, other families waiting outside Delaney are sharing that GEO group is moving detainees, possibly for additional transfers.

Converting to Catholicism so I can tell my bosses using unregulated AI is against my religion and I will sue them like that cake lady who hated gay people if they make me use it

From Pax Christi New Jersey Want to help the people held at Delaney Hall and their families? Direct to Families- Linktr.ee/SupportOur Families Grocery Store Gift Card Fund- GiveButter.com/GroceryCards Commissary Fund- GiveButter.com/commissaryfund Pantry Bags- Food4NJ.org #EyesOnICE #FreeThemAll

the only video worth rescuing from my deleted twtter

someone let THEM IN

As agentic AI rapidly transforms internet infrastructure, how do we ensure disabled people's needs are not displaced? In a new article by me and @frank.computer, we argue that accessibility must not be treated as an incidental benefit of rapid AI expansion. Read below:

Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

this article on liberal listening as compliance infrastructure & technique of governance is fantastic, especially the authors' closing analyses of their university's response to pro-Palestine student protests + its restructuring of DEI initiatives anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

NEW — Alabama native, son of a civil rights movement pastor, and veteran journalist @solcrenshawjr.bsky.social attended the marches in Selma and Montgomery on Saturday to see up close the resurrected fight for Black rights. Read his moving and illuminating report:

A difference between educators and university administrators is that educators admire when students think, express and act on what they’ve learned, while university administrators want pliant, obedient customers

"AI alignment" but you can't even align a speech to its anticipated audience lol ok good luck

Anthropic partnering with the Gates Foundation on health and economic mobility while also making a deal to use the Memphis xAI data center polluting Boxtown, every day is a winding road

we (@saraevogel.bsky.social, @sciedhenry.bsky.social, Chris Procter + I) offer a raciolinguistic analysis and a deep dive into the "science" behind Amira, the "literacy tutor" mentioned in this article, in the Intro of our edited volume, out this October (!!) www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

It's academic year 2020 6-7

Well if you can't grade rn you might wanna read an article about how these centralized platforms are a risk to our finances and security that our bosses prefer to take instead of letting the experts build local solutions for cheap

Listen to @mattseybold.bsky.social about Canvas theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/historyofc...

you know what would've made canvas less vulnerable to these repeated attacks, stuffing it with an LLM "TA" or "grader" or "discussant chatbot" to "optimize" "instruction" and "steal more" of "everyone's "IP" and make me "hate myself" "and my job" :))))))

you cannot be posting this stuff when i have marking and another paper to do before i can return to the weird ‘prompting is a skill’ discourse

can't elaborate further but this kind of thing always strikes me as very masc cisheteronormative "let's play mermaids" behavior. like it's very playing with dolls in the dollhouse (but make it manly and therefore serious) coded

In March, Meta said it would "reduce its reliance on third-party vendors for content enforcement." But cutting its contract with Sama, which led to layoffs in Kenya, looks a lot more like Meta “ending the work… [because] it didn't want workers speaking out" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Sues LAPD for Hiding Records on their Partnership with Flock Safety Media advisory announcing Flock-related lawsuit morning at 9 am outside LAPD HQ 👀 I am co-counsel on this case with @shakeer.bsky.social Shut down Flock NOW! @stoplapdspying.bsky.social

Workers at the University of Chicago Press badly need pay equity to sustain the expert staff who make this institution one of the best of its kind. You can help our organizing efforts by signing a letter of support at the link below and following @ucpworkersguild on Instagram and Bluesky.

Join @dairinstitute.bsky.social and workers on the front line of resisting AI as we release the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a new resource for fighting AI at work. 9 AM PT / Noon ET / 4 PM GMT on Wednesday, May 20 www.eventbrite.com/e/launching-...

Hi all! For our current study, I am interviewing TBIPOC social media users about their online trans community support & care experiences. Participants will be compensated $50 for a 1-hour Zoom interview! Interested? Please fill out our eligibility form - thank you! forms.gle/qbTF1uQ6QSxb...

Last weekend I received the Troland Research Award from the @nationalacademies.org. I’m so grateful to the communities who made this work possible. It's strange to receive this award at a time when much of the work being recognized is not eligible for federal funding. My remarks 👇 and a 🧵>>

Hot off the presses! In this new piece, we trace neoliberal automation in bus transit—"driverless" pushes that accelerate class decomposition and weaken collective bargaining, masked as innovation. These threaten wages and safety, yet workers are resisting and advancing more just alternatives.

Updating my "data surveillance" activities—would love to hear about interactive tools (esp newer ones) for students to learn about the extent of digital surveillance. Thinking of, e.g., @propublica's Project Blacklight, @eff.org's tool to see your browser's fingerprint (coveryourtracks.eff.org).

At Rutgers we’re putting forward contract language for decision-making ability around tech to protect our data/material + guard against discriminatory uses of tech. NJ’s future depends on Rutgers’ teaching, research, and service to promote real social + practical skills + outputs, NOT AI slop.

Just to reiterate something that @ali-alkhatib.com says continuously -- to reframe AI as a political project and not as a technology.

the photographer said "now do a silly one" so we did a silly one. thanks to the panelists and all participants for such a fantastic series of conversations and for keeping things both serious and silly

Well, they've finally struck home. #ICE has detained my former #umich student, Yousif Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech w/a valid visa. He was arrested while taking his children to school in Maryland. After multiple transfers, he is in a detention center in Arizona.

New #FAccT2026 paper with Su Lin Blodgett and @ninamarkl.bsky.social on the ideological work performed by discourses that sell the capabilities of generative AI products tisjune.github.io/papers/facct...

a grad student in my department has lost their mother. on top of the sudden, devastating, and unexpected grief they are also beset with a series of unexpected financial expenses. please consider donating what you can and/or circulating this fundraiser www.gofundme.com/f/care-for-s...

abolish all wiretapping spaghetti pucks immediately

do you ever wake up at 3am and think "shit that's a good idea, I better write that down so I can share it later on"

yes! more evidence that people should be listening to linguistic anthropologists when talking about how AI works

early view of my article is out! it explores the twinned ideologies of referentialism that often subtend language and "AI" and how those ideologies break apart in the R&D pipeline, where the social-pragmatic dimension of both speech + data come to the fore rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

see you in a minute!

a grad student in my department has lost their mother. on top of the sudden, devastating, and unexpected grief they are also beset with a series of unexpected financial expenses. please consider donating what you can and/or circulating this fundraiser www.gofundme.com/f/care-for-s...

When you read about applications of "AI" in medicine, a good Q to ask is "what is the billing code for that 'service'?" In the case of "screening" for IPV, no indication is required (unlike "assessments"). To document physical abuse, you can use ICD-10 code T74.1. Relevant source:

ok im either being scammed or Duol*ingo is legit recruiting me to appear in one of their youtube videos to talk about slang. either way, screaming crying throwing up and so on and so forth

This Friday, come celebrate the online launch of our special issue on Language Machines in @journaloflinganth.bsky.social with @soclinganth.bsky.social We are looking forward to a lively conversation with @bethmsemel.bsky.social, prosecco in hand :)

speaking of ling anth AI and special issues: the introduction to a special issue edited by Webb Keane & Costas Nakassis that i contributed to is now up online too. great day for our niche little corner of anthropology / spoiler alert for my article within rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

if you know me, you know i've been gassing up this special issue ever since it came out. i'm delighted to do so yet again at the online launch this Friday at noon EST. thanks @annaw.bsky.social, @mcastelle.bsky.social & Siri for the invitation and for the issue itself! tinyurl.com/languagemach...

UCSD drags professors into discipline, suspension without pay threats accusing them of participating in encampment two years later. Professor and students see political prosecution and campus that punishment for learning and talking about Palestine www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/04/12/u...