death cult nation

Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon. Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.

Excited to head over to Princeton this week and be in conversation with these fantastic scholars on data work. I'll be speaking about my second manuscript in preparation on ImageNet and cultural labor. Thank you to @bethmsemel.bsky.social for organizing!

The thread linked here is a close reading of the leaked code base and friends it is *brutal*

Join us Friday, April 10th to explore the histories, politics, topographies, and lived realities of data work around the world, centering the people behind the AI systems that dominate our present to imagine alternative futures. @bethmsemel.bsky.social 🔗https://bit.ly/3OfDzZR

Join the @scholars.org and I as we discuss AI in higher ed and push back against Cal State’s $17M contract with OpenAI, as many of the system’s priorities go unaddressed. Register for an op-ed workshop to follow! scholars.my.salesforce-sites.com/event/home/b...

"a term popularized by Palantir" we are cooked

I think this court's overall approach to medical outcomes as a matter of partisan opinion is really concerning, and something most people are missing because so many of the cases have to do with trans people.

How can therapy be regulated as an evidence based therapeutic intervention if therapists have a First Amendment right to say anything to any client? If therapy can't be regulated as a therapeutic intervention, why would insurance pay for it any more than it pays for newspaper subscriptions?

Here's the link to the free pdf of my new book The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet. Access is so important and I'm grateful that the press is platforming it as one file that is easy to download. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...

urban/suburbn-dwelling animals expert @slaydok.bsky.social says this guy is eating an old scone can some dry pastries expert now weight in

Anyway, AI is a managerial technology that came out of fields where researchers act more like managers than researchers and this is not a coincidence. It’s fundamentally related to why certain people jumped at the chance to try to build certain kinds of systems that devalued (other people’s) work.

I think this gives you a sense of what it's about.

Apparently you can pre-order? (Thank you @alilleybrinker.com for pointing this out!) Just be sure not to read it ha ha ha? yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

interested in questions of tech, labor, and worker futures? on April 10 in Princeton i'm hosting an outstanding lineup of panelists at "the future of (data) work," where speakers will discuss the ethnographic, archival, and participatory action research they've conducted with data + tech workers

Hi everyone, I wanted to share a research study I just launched on rest, energy, & ME/CFS, open to people with ME/CFS & medical or healthcare providers who are currently practicing or conducting research & have had at least 1 patient or participant with ME/CFS. Visit restandmecfs.com for more.

all these clinical decision support systems sold as ways to "make healthcare more accessible" by scaffolding it with an automated agent are always also vehicles for redirecting/deferring patients away from actual human doctors and medical resources. they're actuarial tools designed to titrate access

ai is a rhetorical technology. when it produces a list of permissible targets, its value is not producing targets but producing permission

famously horses that were no longer pulling carriages were "freed" and definitely did not become glue or jello or dog food

need her now more than ever

As part of this sociotechnical education, students can share what they learn through compelling artifacts. A few years ago, as part of the Young People's Race, Power, and Technology Project, we worked w local youth to create documentaries on issues such as gang databases and ICE. Watch the docs at:

beautiful

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)

‼️ 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...