Please consider donating to support the family of Amin, the security guard at the Islamic Center who alerted teachers quickly of a shooter and died putting himself between the shooters and others. launchgood.com/Amin

For those following the murders at our Islamic Center of San Diego, please read a statement from community organization PANA. The news coverage is unrelenting and because Muslim families are mourning, the police and politician narrative fills the space www.panasd.org/statement-fr...

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

San Diego is spending at least 6 million dollars on encampment sweeps, there's no evidence it helps connect anyone to housing or services + police get overtime not included in 7 mill for supervising sweeps. A cruel subsidy in the millions to downtown tourism, real estate. pca.st/episode/f8dd...

No one needs this crap. Invest in public transportation and good jobs. That’s the futures we need. Not this dystopia!

1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:

📣 Join us for #CASPR2026 — CASTAC in the Spring! "Labor and Technoscientific Worlds: Historical Encounters and New Directions in the Field" — a roundtable with Kalpana Shankar, David Nemer & Lilly Irani honoring David Hakken. 📅 May 29 | 10:30AM–12:30PM CT 🎟️ Register: caspr2026.eventbrite.com

Rhythm Nation caused a resonant frequency that caused magnetic head spinning disk hard drives to crash! That's what the academics call materiality of the digital and what everyone calls fun!

Everything depends on the content of said bill. Does it include resources to organize a union, get workplace protections around unsafe or unfair AI use in your contracts, and learn how to stop using AI when it will make your code unsafe or your writing and relationships dull?

Why isn't US media reporting this? The CBC says 180 activists hav been captured in international by Israeli forces. The group was attempting to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza.

David Brophy | Dismissing #China ’s repression in #Xinjiang A reply to Vijay Prashad and Tings Chak #Uyghurs #UyghurQuestion #PRC #ChineseNationalitiesPolicy #humanRights #campism

I talked to my students a few months ago about how it's hard for them to see all the tech that has been canceled or rolled back, especially a social movement wins are often not publicized or taught. This is so important!

First Amazon closed its just walk out shops powered by AI and off-site surveillance workers. Now Walmart, dollar general, and others are rolling back self-check out basically because it makes theft too easy. Experimental tech doesn't only move "forward." www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

We will have breakout groups, including one on worker education then and now, in conversation with Hakken's 1983 piece on liberation pedagogies for workers. I would love non-academics in the room, and happy to send a link to the article PDF on dm req journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

and reproduces entirely the "AI is a race" scaling argument without clarifying a race towards what or a race against who.

Can't say I'm shocked that Jacobin is doing LLM apologia, but there it is. (The point of a national moratorium is to prevent the kind of NIMBYism of the wealthy this article decries and the drive for more compute is not customer demand but shareholder hype)

This is a problematic take. 1. This author draws on personal LLM experiences, such as tutoring as a PhD holder. Actual studies that show mixed results for LLMs as tutors in, say, CS education, including cognitive offloading and students not building relationships with other people.

Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism

While City Council was filled with thousands of people asking for the Flock contract to be dropped, SDPD signed a contract (same month!) with Flock for Nova, the Palantir-like data fusion software without bringing it to the public. www.axios.com/local/san-di...

Blocking access to Archive has serious implications for fact-checking & OSINT work. For journalists, researchers, investigators; archives aren’t optional; they are infrastructure for verification. Restricting them doesn’t just limit access to history, it limits the ability to independently verify it

The SAW Book Prize is awarded each year by the Society for the Anthropology of Work. In 2026, the prize will be awarded to a monograph with a publication date of 2024 or later: no edited volumes, please. Deadline for receiving books is June 1, 2026.

"Resistance is vital, be it in the form of students mocking administrators, instructors refusing to avoid controversial topics or legal action on the part of professional societies. These acts highlight cracks in the repressive regime and undermine its legitimacy."

Excellent piece by @torinmonahan.bsky.social on surveillance and censorship on campus post encampment, covering investigations, crowdsourced "complaint and syllabi-exposing systems" and more that make campuses less safe for most. www.merip.org/2026/04/cens...

And nobody around Trump will show this to him

I do feel bad for all the legitimately good tech people out there catching strays over this, but let’s make sure we’re keeping our eyes on the “genuine threat of technofascism” ball

A breakdown of Palantir's fascist gesture -- be softer on your electeds, recognize "national cultures" so you can make denigrate while peoples without deliberation or human rights, and Silicon Valley needs to give people something more than iPhone apps -- but definitely not housing and health care.

“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political, I must listen to the birds. And in order to hear the birds, the warplanes must be silent” - Marwan Makhoul

It’s honestly shocking that any scholarship still gets conducted at universities, given the circumstances www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

An immigration agent shot out his eye at a 'No Kings' rally. His lawyers plan to file claim against Homeland Security

If you can, please donate to support legal fees for these professors. chuffed.org/project/lega...

UCSD drags professors into discipline, suspension without pay threats accusing them of participating in encampment two years later. Professor and students see political prosecution and campus that punishment for learning and talking about Palestine www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/04/12/u...

If you can, make a recurring donation to help workers organize, flex power, and strike. "unions are the most accessible, potent, and realistic road to power that most regular people can access," writes @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social www.unionnow.org

We aren't talking enough about how data centers increase risk of Legionnaire's Disease, which can be deadly. "For...the bacteria responsible for more than 98% of human legionnaire disease contamination, which thrive in water between 20 to 45°C, these cooling systems are a perfect fit."

it's officially out! :)

There's no excuse for the way this administration treats people, land, and words: “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” There's no excuse to say this about anyone.

"They're the enemy, they're animals" is the dumbest lie to try to sell about people we all personally know. In SoCal especially but throughout the US, we all grew up with Persian families. That's my high school best friend, that's my classmate, that's my coworker you're talking about!

An upcoming Montana ballot referendum would deny corporations the power to spend in state and federal elections. If it passes in deep red Montana, it could pass anywhere. State by state, this could effectively nullify Citizens United. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1fPbGHe3xE

Are you near Princeton and want to talk about futures of (data) work? Come through next week! I'll be sharing about struggles over work and AI with our UCSD Labor Center. anthropology.princeton.edu/events/futur...

Israeli Knesset passes bill to give Palestinians the death penalty for convictions if fatal crimes while the same punishment is not available to Israelis. But Israel is not an apartheid state when mobility, infrastructure land water rights, and now punishments are clearly differentiated by group?!!

ChatGPT manages to combine its trademark sycophancy with league-leading failure to credit news organizations. It will steal your ideas even as it kisses your ass. Chapeau!

This is really very good and reminds me yet again of how we need to start pulling together an Actual Political Economy of AI.

Israeli historian Lee Mordechai says his country is committing genocide, as his report documents a wide range of atrocities committed by Israeli forces. He concurs with the statistics of the Gaza Health Ministry. www.middleeasteye.net/news/blindfo...

Why LLM prompt AI systems aren't just like a calculator, because calculators didn't offer to do whole activities or compositions for you

After the CIA and MI6 first sanctioned and then engineered the coup of Mossadegh to keep profits from Iran's oil, they went on to plan and carry out the assassination of Lumumba to keep access to Congo's uranium.

at this point they could finance the war with a coordinated program of derivatives trading and press statements

All blinded by law enforcement at immigration protests January 10 Kaden Rummler, 21 Britain Rodriguez, 31 Santa Ana, CA federal building, blinded by DHS agents . January 31 Jesus Javier Gomez Islas, 23 At a protest near L.A.'s Metropolitan Detention Center. Blinded with a less lethal munition.

Los Angeles Bluesky, I need your help. I just learned that on Saturday at the protest at the downtown Metropolitan Detention Center, a friend’s 18-year-old son was shot in the eye with a pepper ball by DHS, permanently blinding him. He needs justice. If you were there and saw anything, please… 1/5

Actor falls out of window and is injured on the set. Producers don't deny the safety issues leading to IATSE strike but they told the reporter they “don’t negotiate with communists.” Effective fascists have to co-opt communist programs to win, silly deadline.com/2026/04/jona...