More evidence of pro-wealth, anti-consumer behavior by the Trump regime coming from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which have reportedly cost consumers $19 billion in financial relief. The CFPB has become another tool of power for protecting allies to the administration.

Musk & Starlink are circumventing the Iranian govt's internet shutdown. Given Trump's vocal support for Iranian protesters, it's hard to imagine they are operating without tacit US approval. After similar involvement in Russia & Ukraine, this brand of state-platform intervention is here to stay.

Governments are no strangers to opacity. But it's worth noting that the merging of platforms and the U.S. govt is playing out not only through the sharing of data and tech but also the black-boxing of policy and decision-making, as the Trump regime sheds Biden-era standards on the use of AI.

Yet another knot of entanglement in the state-platform apparatus, as former Trump adviser Dina McCormick -- who pushed for AI development in her previous role at Meta -- is made president and vice chairman of Meta.

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Our position statement rejecting the use of GenAI for reflexive qualitative research can be found here papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This is already happening in research to an alarming degree: researchers, for various reasons, using gen AI to interpret results and write up studies, forcing assistants and coauthors to screen and correct "their" work or passing that labor debt to future researchers encountering their studies.

Publicly-funded research and data continue to be deleted. What steps can we as researchers take to effectively communicate the findings, significance, and veracity of our research as datasets and reports are cut out from under us? As if effective communication was not already a challenge.

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

Paper alert: in one or our latest apers, #AndrewWirzburger writes about #reviewbombing on the game #platform #Steam, arguing that review bombing serves as a political tool while being problematized by Steam as social misconduct. Read more at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...