Look here, @cyberlyra.bsky.social is at it again!

Heads up, #4S2025 ! So excited for my Making and Doing workshop on "How to Get Off," teaching y'all how to evade Big Tech, on Thursday 1:30-3PM! Then reflections on long-term fieldwork on Friday at 1:30PM And my TECH/MONEY talk Friday at 3:40 on why NASA goes over budget ... See you in Seattle!

This month we #ChuckZuck from our devices and our lives! Choose a Zuckerverse product and delete it. Reclaim your data. Reclaim your life. Instructions and more here -- follow along! Let's do this TOGETHER!

Your Data Will Be Used Against You. appleinsider.com/articles/25/...

#NewPaper alert! How different AI company "scenes" do boundary work to encourage or discourage investment. TL;DR: It's not all one type of #AI #Hype , and that matters for the tech, the money, regional geopolitics, and sociotechnical imaginaries. With student Jason Bohner: doi.org/10.1177/0894...

The opt-out project is all the work of @cyberlyra.bsky.social - well worth a follow! Once I understood that I had stopped using the tech products and and *become* the product, it changed everything.

On news that ~2,145 senior-ranking NASA staff are set to leave under a Trump administration effort, resurfacing this from Janet Vertesi (@cyberlyra.bsky.social). It is possible to lose entire swaths of technical or scientific prowess—if you dismantle the teams and institutions responsible for them.

FYI #Google has enabled #Gemini (AI) on #Android by default to save and process everything you say and do for up to 72 hours. Here's how to disable -- then install GrapheneOS or eOS, cos fiddling with Google "privacy settings" is full-on deck chairs on the Titanic. support.google.com/gemini?p=pau...

You escaped the Bird Site and found community here. Who else will you help find their freedom? #stopthescroll #reclaimtech #optout www.reclaimcontrol.tech/stopthescrol...

You once helped your mom get on Facebook. Maybe now is a good time to help her get off? ;) #stopthescroll #reclaimtech #july4th

It's not about abstinence, it's about INDEPENDENCE! This #4thofJuly, #stopthescroll to reclaim control over our devices, data, and digital future. Cut out social media. Resist the endless scroll. Invest in alternatives. Boost and repost so we can #reclaimtech ! reclaimcontrol.tech/stopthescroll

On the Fourth of July, we #stopthescroll! Join us in a movement to resist the endless feed, the mindless habits, and choose alternatives that feed our minds and communities instead of feeding off of them. It's time to #reclaimtech !

Delighted to announce my newest project, a non-profit in community with really terrific people, to help more people disentangle ourselves from Big Tech. We'll work step by step, together, to #reclaimcontrol over our tech stack and help each other make better choices. www.reclaimcontrol.tech

@astrokatie.com is right, you should just click on this link to Rubin images. But maybe do it on a computer with a large screen because there’s a lot of amazing to take in. 🧪

The MAVEN mission satellite is still working and still doing science--and also acting as a surface relay node. In space, you work with trusted hardware as long as possible. Don't turn off our actual, functioning interplanetary internet because some dude promises to build you a better one eventually.

OPPOSITION TO AI workshop at #cscw2025 with @saysvera.bsky.social @richmondywong.bsky.social and more... ‬ Position papers due by July 1, details and CFP at oppositiontoai.wordpress.com The resistance is growing --JOIN US!

#til that every academic (but me) a) uses Google Scholar b) links their publications to their account and c) cares about h-indexes and other metrics on their Google Scholar page. I've resisted Google products since 2012. If I've been sinking my own career, at least I did it on principle. #fuckgoogle

So happy to see this paper on the organization of labor in the Gig Economy with Diana Enriquez published! We argue gig orgs are heterarchies, combining flat org zero management with industrial algorithmic oversight, making sense of the paradoxes of gig work. sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...

Congratulations to my old high school classmate, Wade Grant, on winning the seat in Vancouver Quadra!! He will be a great MP for our Liberal riding and a strong voice for indigenous representation in parliament. Together with our First Nations #Canada is stronger and can face this threat.

It's much easier to use apps that support end-to-end encryption than it used to be, but it's still good to know how it works.

President's Budget Request proposes "extinction-level event" for NASA science. If you ever admired a picture of Mars or Pluto or the universe, this is game over for those people. Unless you flood your reps with protest calls NOW. arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

PSA: Asynchronous group chat is literally THE WORST way to make life or death decisions. Contextual cues are missing. People who are busy don't chime in, pay only partial attention. The conversation unrolls at breakneck pace riddled with gaps and misunderstandings. Decision-making quality is 💩!!

The Opt Out Project by @cyberlyra.bsky.social is an incredible breakdown of how to completely divest + replace every bit of everything you do with your browser, computer and phone. www.optoutproject.net

Ask yourself, "WHAT WOULD HARRIET TUBMAN DO?" And then be brave enough to do it.

In my opinion the indominable Harriet Tubman is THE ORIGINAL AMERICAN SUPERHERO. So powerful in real life, that America had to to invent white dudes in underpants leaping over buildings with laser eyes to eclipse her true and incontrovertible might. We could all embody her power, if we so choose.

It's #harriettubmanday!!! Like I need an excuse to celebrate my FAVORITE freedom fighter in U.S. history who: -Escaped slavery -Returned to the upper south NINETEEN TIMES on rescue missions -Commanded a massive civil war victory at Combahee River Total people ONE PERSON saved from slavery: 1000!

Since this is probably about to be relevant: a reminder that when you poll the general public, they estimate NASA to be between 10-30% of the federal budget. It's less than 1%. All that amazing science and technology and wonder is got for less than a penny on the dollar of your taxes.

Looking for something to call your Rep about today? #NASA is closing their Office of the Chief Scientist, their Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy, and their DEIA office, and laying everyone off. A travesty for science & American leadership in space. nasawatch.com/ask-the-admi...

gonna get rid of the people who don’t make rockets explode every other month for the guy who hasn’t managed to launch anything but satellites

New emergency legislation introduced by Rep. Seth Magaziner (D-RI) to "prohibit funds for the Armed Forces to engage in operations to invade or seize territory from Canada, the Republic of Panama, or the self-governing territory of Greenland" www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

"It is possible, even easy, to systematically forget or lose entire swaths of technical or scientific prowess—if you dismantle the human teams and institutions responsible for them." www.techpolicy.press/invigorating...

Marechal + Doty: “It’s time to enact legal requirements to require companies to offer the option to send universal opt out signals and for data-collecting entities to respect them.” cdt.org/insights/mea...

Tacit knowledge: use it wisely, or break it all up and lose it for good. #nasa #science #space www.techpolicy.press/invigorating...

Today I encountered my first AI-generated news article that included a manufactured quote from me on a topic I did not speak or post about, just in case you're wondering how AI is going.

NASA has been the beacon of America's prowess in science and technology since the 50s. If what looks likely to happen, happens, then that light will dim. Future generations will be cautious to take the time to learn the skills to join such an unstable organization. For no reason. 5/6

I am delighted to announce my role as Associate Director of the Keller Center in the School of Engineering at Princeton. Dedicated to innovation and improved societal impacts, I'll be building a Design program that fosters a responsible, society-first, humanistic approach. kellercenter.princeton.edu

I struggle to express just how *weird* Vance’s #MSC2025 speech was. This is a transatlantic security conference, happening while there is a war in Europe, and the US is announcing a partial withdrawal from European security. And the US VP speaks about (alleged) threats to free speech in Europe??

Just did this interview with American Institute of Physics about my new book, Shaping Science (Chicago, 2020), all about NASA teams and what makes them tick. www.aip.org/history-prog...

I'd love people's help getting this out into major subreddits. Especially ones frequented by technology workers. The more people in Silicon Valley who know the truth, the better. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-a...

I didn’t know if it might help to actually see what we are talking about with indirect costs so I did a little lab tour. youtube.com/shorts/ttia4...

This… is important.

Hey, guess what has suddenly disappeared from the HHS website? Any mention of this $306M investment in pandemic flu preparedness that was approved in the last days of the Biden administration. Not DEI. Not USAID. Our surveillance & response program around H5N1.

Europe urgently needs to rethink technological sovereignty in this new Trumpocene, writes Tech Policy Press fellow William Burns. The stakes are high because, “without action, the hope of achieving a socially responsible kind of tech will fade yet again on the continent.”

A propos of nothing, it's time to learn about these technopolitical philosophies galvanizing Silicon Valley: Effective Accelerationism (force societal collapse->AI overlords->posthuman utopia for few): a16z.com/the-techno-o... Network State ("tech Zionism," Greys purge Blues): thenetworkstate.com

It would be a shame if the data you rely on for your scholarship or science is hosted on a .gov website and suddenly disappears without you having downloaded it all first and stored it somewhere safe immediately, maybe coordinating with friends cos it’s a lot. #academicsky

A reminder that DEI hiring programs don’t fell planes, systematic underfunding of public safety jobs while replacing those jobs with contracts to companies who purportedly can do it for cheaper but just hire fewer people for less money and no benefits fells planes.

My third book project examines how the "contract to the efficient private sector" narrative results in the contractor a) overspending and b) failing. My example is spaceflight but this is happening everywhere. Neoliberalism is not a solve for austerity, but enhances overruns, precarity, and failure.

Continued American global leadership in science and technology depends on these grants.