DOGE has screwed Americans’ data security so thoroughly that even the Senate Dems have noticed […]

Another #free comic book: Other Tech Worlds Are Possible, Vol. 1 https://digilabour.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Other-Tech-Worlds-Are-Possible-Vol.-1-Homeless-Workers-Movement-in-Brazil-English.pdf

👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/25/hegseth-generals-quantico-meeting/

So an AI chatbot, riddled with factual inaccuracies and engineered by a Nazi plutocrat to promote right wing disinformation, is being integrated into federal agencies’ decision-making processes. Cool. Cool cool cool cool cool […]

Cool #free resource: Code of Courage: A Comic About Digital Security for Activists https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/29108/

Don’t look away. https://www.wired.com/story/oral-history-doge-federal-workers/

New from me & @dunia: some feel-good funky soul for these dark and stormy times. 🎵❤️✊ #music #newmusic #soul https://duniaandaram.bandcamp.com/track/know-i-m-gonna-win

Happy Rosh Hashanah, when you find out which of the people you know thinks of you as their Jewish friend. Seriously, though, I appreciate the kind wishes for a happy new year, and wish the same for everyone.

I had a great conversation with Caroline and Seth from @theinternetiscrack #podcast, about #music, #ai, policy, culture, and resistance. Check out the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAZkhD_U3Y4

I am seeing a whole generation of kids finding solace in theater as a way of coping with their toxic media sphere, and gosh but history does repeat itself

I am in a giant room full of my fellow Gen Xers and it feels great

Someone is trying real hard to email me a Trojan hidden in a pdf attachment

iOS App Store now seems to be blocking VPN. Not a good look for a "privacy-friendly" company.

I did it. So can you.

My AA flight is now 3 hours late and we've undergone 2 gate changes and somehow it's not even one of the five most horrible things I've had to deal with today

It's a helluva time to be a media scholar

There was an excessively depressing all-hands-on-deck meeting at my school today, and even my saying this may be more than my employers are willing to countenance.

There were a bunch of gun violence threats at several public schools in my kid's school district today and tonight they sent a long email including this paragraph and can I say I FUCKING LOVE MY COMMUNITY

Beginning to suspect these accounts are run by the same person

I'm convinced that in the history books we'll credit BitTorrent for having preserved a significant chunk of humanity's cultural production

In 2022, I worked with 14 DC-area musical artists whose work had been stalled by the COVID-19 epidemic, using a mobile recording studio and a small grant from the Humanities Truck Foundation to produce free studio-quality recordings. We took a lot of video and interviewed everyone. The full […]

I have never smashed the purchase button so quickly in my life https://www.harpercollins.com/products/positive-obsession-susana-m-morris

Hey #dc #music people: I’ll be playing with the legendary Malian griot Cheick Hamala Diabate today at #adamsmorganday at 6pm, on the Jubilee Music Stage. It’s a free show. Come check us out, and wear your dancing shoes. https://www.admoday.com/event-schedule-2023/

Sure, the world is in chaos, but @rachelcleves and I just sent our new manuscript, a fantasy novel, off to our agent @Jenniegoloboy, so I’m gonna celebrate. 🎉📚

The inability to quote post on Masto is one of the main reasons my post volume is higher on Bluesky. Seems like that’s about to end. https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/12/mastodon-rolls-out-quote-posts-with-protections-to-prevent-dunking/

I said some things about the recent assassination to DC News Now. I did not mince words. https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/us-and-world/charlie-kirk-assassination-comes-amid-high-political-tensions-polarizing-rhetoric/

Some personal news: @jesse and I just won the Nancy Baym Book Award, granted annually by The Association of Internet Researchers (@AoIR ), for our @mitpress book The Secret Life of Data. I am honored, chuffed, and oh so grateful. https://aoir.org/2025nb_bookaward/

Paramount eat word https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-09-11/warner-bros-stock-jumps-amid-ellison-takeover-report-paramount

Two lockdowns at HBCUs today, and now an “incident” at the DNC HQ. Stay safe out there, my fellow academics, Washingtonians, Americans, and other humans […]

I was in NYC on 9/11. I was under the towers, in the subway, between the 1st & 2nd strikes. I watched the them burn from my office rooftop. I was in the ash cloud. The attack caused a national autoimmune reaction. We've destroyed ourselves over the past 24 years, fighting off a memory of a threat.

Well, it happened. I had my first ICE arrest nightmare. Probably not my last. Good job, monsters.

Assassination, even of detestable and hateful people, is unequivocally bad for society. Assassination on a college campus, in the presence of students, is even worse.

Boy would I love to attend a protest against Trump and ICE where people weren’t also chanting for the extermination of my own ethnic group.

The plot thickens. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthropic-judge-blasts-copyright-pact-as-nowhere-close-to-done

We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.

Free online talk by @rwg for his excellent new book “Move Slowly and Build Things,” hosted by @fediforum. Register here: https://fediforum.org/news/2025-09-04-robert-gehl-move-slowly-and-build-bridges-special-event/

New drop from one of my favorite #copyright scholars @djripley: Electronic Dance Music vs. Copyright: Law as Weaponized Culture Free PDF here: https://drive.proton.me/urls/TVH0PW4TZ8#EM5VMl1BUlny

Nobody beats Wodehouse.

Tired: labubu Wired: lafomo (Created by my 15yo for their friend's birthday)

It’s #bandcampfriday, and if you haven’t listened to the music I make with @duniabest.bsky.social now's the time. We mix reggae, jazz, soul, punk, and folk into a delicious brew that goes down easy and hits hard. duniaandaram.bandcamp.com

Damn, @jesgilbert.bsky.social and I really get tired of saying “I told you so” sometimes. https://www.404media.co/cbp-had-access-to-more-than-80-000-flock-ai-cameras-nationwide/

@aram I think we need it again, and full-on postmodernism, or at least a new theory of anti-essentialism that can counter digital nihilism

You don't hear much about deconstructionism these days

If he really wanted to help DC he'd send in the National Guard to stomp on lantern flies

This is a great example of what business analysts call "vertical disintegration." Which is also an excellent description of what happens to my internal organs when I eat too many hot dogs with ketchup. 🥁

Huge happy #laborday to my 21-year-old son who just signed his papers TODAY joining IATSE Local 1. I am kvelling like a mug.

The president of the United States is posting messianic apocalyptic threats to the propaganda platform he owns and there's not a word about it at NYT, @washingtonpost, @CNN, @npr, or @CBSNews. Only real coverage I've seen is by @thedailybeast.

If it's true there's going to be a party here in DC the likes of which the District has never seen