How denying attorney-client privilege is an instrument of ICE detention. First article from Bianca Garcia and me now in @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...

Reading this, because Drexel just announced that they are also cutting a deal with OpenAI for Chat GPT Edu

"We don't have to have all the answers to call for change...We just need courage." Dr. Mary Bassett, "Why your doctor should care about social justice," TEDMED 2015. www.ted.com/talks/mary_b...

Once again with a dog sitch: These beautiful Bouviers seek a new home following the sad passing of their owner. Duchess (left) is a trained service dog; that’s her buddy Skye. They are robust, have sweet tempers, & can be w/ other pets. In Portola, CA. Pls share & also direct any questions my way!

Thank you for this and your visibility on this issue! Joining you as a hater of this BS from Cal Poly SLO, who just announced a $3M partnership w Nvidia to generate our next gen leaders who ”learn by doing” in our AI powered world 🫠 mustangnews.net/ai-factory-c...

AI Is Not Inevitable join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience zoom.us/webinar/regi...

My colleague and collaborator Martha Kenney here chatting to Sad Francisco! Martha Kenney and I are perhaps the most dedicated haters of Cal State’s initiative to waste $17M on ChatGPT. We’ve also had quotes in NYT, Merc News, and Current Affairs and essays in Inside Higher Ed and SF Chronicle

Kennedy's zombie ACIP panel just voted to restrict hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Experts say it will harm children for no reason. www.ms.now/news/rfk-cdc... ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner: "'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."

Stating the obvious, Lincoln would roll over in his grave at this—not least at the use of 11 stars to dog-whistle the Confederacy. Lincoln introduced pro-immigration legislation, opposed nativism and the Know-Nothing party, and signed the Emancipation Proclamation

O'Neill is a "longevity guy" and is buddies with Bryan Johnson and... "He has also supported the libertarian idea of creating new geographic zones, possibly at sea, in which residents can live by their own rules (including, notably, permissive regulatory regimes for new drugs and therapies). "

You mean this OpenAI?

Read this piece by @drjudystone.bsky.social and then take action.

can’t fucking catch a breath make it stop

Earlier this month, lawsuits brought against OpenAI suggested the potential of ChatGPT to cause serious mental health harms in users. In light of these cases, the Cal State U system must not continue providing ChatGPT to students. My opinion essay in @insidehighered.com today

Resisting GenAI and Big Tech in Higher Education - Tuesday 25th Nov, free registration, great panel, big focus on climate justice. Register here: lmula.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

We absolutely do not 'need humility' to engage with AI. Technology tools need to be designed around user needs, and prioritise user outcomes. And if the tools don't do that, we should not use them. Embedding AI into everything is not a fait accompli. We are doing this to ourselves.

Last week, Suncoast Searchlight's four reporters wrote a letter to their board. Their editor-in-chief had secretly been using ChatGPT and inserting hallucinated quotes into their drafts. The next day, one of those reporters was fired. My latest for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...

Concerning how folks in many fields are expressing AI fatalism—essentially arguing that like it or not, professionals in an ironclad compact with AI now and we just need to get on board

Free shovel to dig your own grave.

Sharing this important question!

New paper out today in AI & Society w/ Arsenii Alenichev and colleagues. "We can see a savage": a case study of the colonial gaze in generative AI algorithms rdcu.be/ePXNQ

It really seems like this administration is trying to eliminate the field of public health. MPHs and DrPHs will no longer be considered "professional degrees" by the DOE and, therefore, will face limits to accessing federal student loans. aspph.org/department-o...

Same week that they put gold cursive on the side of the White House. Pure class war from this administration

I hope Usha Vance has an incredible prenup

AI companies: The future of humanoid robots is here Humanoid robot:

Zohran Mamdani spent last night with the late-night workers he said are often forgotten — can drivers at LGA and hospital workers on a 7-7 shift at Elmhurst Hospital, before walking to Kebab King and then having a midnight press conference in Jackson Heights

"Under the plan... the Recreation and Parks Department would pay the estimated $4.4 million cost to have the 710-ton sculpture disassembled and moved to off-site storage for up to three years, while the artwork’s permanent fate is determined." $4.4 million to think about it! [gift link]

While she completed medical school, she never finished residency, and is likely to face tough questions from senators about her qualifications and views on vaccines. n.pr/4oPHYiZ

"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"

"these arrangements are not 'partnerships' or 'collaborations' but contracts that bring profit and publicity to AI firms, while making universities complicit in the continued empowerment of tech oligarchy and expansion of their 'AI Empire' (Tacheva and Ramasubramanian, 2023; Adams, 2024; Hao, 2025)"

Israel has contracted three US public relations companies to help it win back American hearts and minds.

"It took imagination to build Alligator Alcatraz in five days, and it took imagination to terrorize communities in the way that they are now being terrorized. It’s not about realism versus imagination. It’s about competing versions of an imagined future, an imagined present."

This is a beautifully written piece whose formal elegance underscores the author’s thesis: ”Developing our linguistic capacities — to master diverse concepts, to follow an intricate argument, to form judgments, to communicate those to others — is the development of our capacity to think.”

This piece is excellent. “Real working-class politics does not assume the worst of working-class people’s impulses. It does not launder their concerns for political points. It certainly does not argue, directly or indirectly, that a little racism is a good thing for reaching them.”

guarding food from hungry people i hate it here!!

They called the “winking mechanism”: Israeli officials “created a secret warning system: the companies [Google and Amazon] must send signals hidden in payments to the Israeli government, tipping it off when it has disclosed Israeli data to foreign courts or investigators.”

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming. Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

Maybe the thing that gives me a pulse-pounding throbbing headache is when I think of how techbros sold ChatGPT to universities as ‘revolutionizing’ higher education and our institutions just forked over money without even asking for actual evidence

I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."

Matched w/ Chotiner on a dating app many years ago... the cold sweat when I realized it was *that* Isaac

Zohran Mamdani: *Tells a heartbreaking story about a traumatic reality faced by many New Yorkers* CNN: "Okay, but was she *really* your aunt?"

Anthropologists of kinship, it is your moment to pitch an op-ed

Out this month from @oxfordunipress.bsky.social—“Crisis, Inequity, and Legacy: Narrative Analyses of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Really honored to have a chapter in this wonderful edited volume

And Oxford has also drunk the A.I. cool-aid, at undisclosed cost, and without consulation with the University's governing body (Congregation).

“An artificial intelligence system apparently mistook a high school student’s bag of Doritos for a firearm and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed.”

W/ my collaborator Martha Kenney, spoke to Natasha Singer for this piece out today about Cal State’s sweeping, costly, and non-transparent “AI-empowered university” initiative.

"We can stop. We can pause. We can demand something better. And we must. Because there is a body count."

chilling

This piece closes by uncritically endorsing a major MAHA talking point as if that were a completely normal place for its argument to rest