"We find a sharp rise in non-existent references following widespread LLM adoption, with a conservative estimate of 146,932 hallucinated citations in 2025 alone....hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars." arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

Here’s a presentation for students on data brokers & digital surveillance, with a lot of links that might be of interest. (Got a little enthusiastic about animations!) docs.google.com/presentation...

RightsCon isn't cancelled in a vacuum, Trump is bullying Zambia over meds & China is cutting deals. It's Zambia nodding to geopolitics. This is a scary signal of more pressure coming to everyone working to preserve rights in tech & democracy, not just from China. www.techpolicy.press/rightscon-ca...

That’s right. As it should be.

I'm the daughter of an Army paratrooper who refused orders during our illegal invasion of Vietnam back in the day. He went to LBJ military jail. Dad taught his girls this: "Just following orders" is NEVER any excuse for anyone who's complicit in war crimes. You MUST refuse heinous orders.

Once a semester, a Cornell University instructor requires her students to complete an in-class assignment using typewriters -- an exercise to help them understand what writing, thinking and classrooms were like before everything turned digital.

From the front page of today's Discogs. Happy to see that Oswald's album is #1, as it should be...... www.discogs.com/digs/music/e...

once again feeling validated that I fought for an exception to my campus's "upload dissertation to pro quest" requirement, which should be the default.

THE APP - dashare.zone ADMIN

Software is not a consumer product under CPSC jurisdiction, but if you were to print out the deck, bind it into a book, sell it to the public, then it spontaneously combusted in homes, now we're talking.

A judge has allowed the DOGE deposition videos back online. After originally ruling plaintiffs had to "claw back" the videos and them being removed from YouTube, the judge has now said the videos fall "squarely within that core public interest." Now back on YouTube www.404media.co/judge-allows...

even using slow, locally run, open source models on low-power minipcs for a recent piece (and still ambivalent/hostile about even that level of use of this tech), the only aspect i was willing (and nonetheless failed) to outsource: the terrors of "scanxiety" associated with cancer surveillance.

can't fuck without friction

*breathing into a paper bag*

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

I have a new video project in this upcoming show (opening on Tues in San José) that documents my use of emulation to preserve/reauthor materials from Christine Tamblyn's CD ROM projects and reflecting on archival memory, media, and mortality. events.sjsu.edu/event/natali...

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Significance: "It is a landmark case that tests both the limits of immunity for military contractors, as well as the ability of foreign citizens to pursue accountability in American courts for offenses that happened thousands of miles away."

Torturers were compared to pirates.(!) "In establishing their jurisdiction, the judges compared torturers to pirates, 'the same small category of criminals representing enemies of all mankind' and 'fair game wherever found, by any nation.'”

Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial.

I love that @modernlanguage.bsky.social has posted the depositions of the DOGE bros who gutted the National Endowment for the Humanities. All part of the lawsuit the MLA, AHA, and ACLS have filed against the federal government.

The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the Oldest Surviving Animated Feature Film, Is Now in the Public Domain (1926)

Welcome to the public domain, GRAND HOTEL (1930) by Vicki Baum 🏨 A glamorous Berlin hotel is the site for intertwined lives in this bestselling novel of drama, romance, and ambition 📖 The 1932 movie starring Greta Garbo. Read it here ➡️ archive.org/details/bwb_... #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain

Never forget that shutting down your local arms factory is infinitely more useful to the victims of war than voyeuristically consuming imagery of mutilation.

Thinking about this film again this morning. How many of us, directly or indirectly, are working to facilitate last night's bombings? And I don't just mean by paying taxes. How many of our institutions partner with companies like Boeing? What responsibility and leverage does this give us?

a bad Leisure Suit Larry game? no, it's Roy Lichtenstein in 1973.

No cheating. Your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist. (as close as I could find)

20. Nothing Ventured (2004). I love Farocki's films about business culture. He's fearless when it comes to immersing audiences into the utterly mundane office settings where real power is brokered. Makes me curious what one would put in a screening series of films venture capital and private equity?

"you can't stop progress" yes you absolutely can. Remember when they trashed all the intercity rail in north america because a few car companies lobbied for an interstate system? We've thrown away more good ideas than we can remember. Lets do the same with bad ones

We’ve marched through file cabinets, hierarchies, networks, and relational models in History of the Database. Today we’re at NoSQL! miriamposner.com/classes/is29...

The website for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is completely scrubbed and gone! They didn't even leave a legacy statement.

The grim roll call of abuses continues. Our govt caused permanent mutilation and damage to a man in U.S. detention, this time in the Tacoma, Washington detention center.

“Dozens of UC faculty groups and unions sued to win the preliminary injunction. UC is not a party to the case.” Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement (No-paywall to follow)

Audre Lorde, in a 1989 commencement address, said, "Remember this, despair is a tool of your enemies. That rumor, 'You can’t fight City Hall,' is circulated by City Hall. Facing the realities of our lives gives us the motivation for action, it gives us the power to change. You are not powerless."

This is so unhinged

My wife told me she heard at a training she attended that ICE has argued "ALL ARE WELCOME HERE" signs are invitations to enter private spaces and if that don't beat all I don't know what does.

I'm a labor activist - my knowledge of law, politics, economics, history, etc. is focused primarily and insistently upon supporting the cause of labor - and I never thought I'd see a general strike in my lifetime. There hasn't been anything like this in the U.S. since the Palmer Raids in 1920.

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The censored 60 Minutes' segment, Inside CECOT, is now available. Download from @ddosecrets.org: data.ddosecrets.org/Inside%20CEC... Download/stream from @archive.org: archive.org/details/insi... The original video was recorded by @jasonparis.bsky.social, and cleaned up by @emma.best

I’m so proud of @aphid.org for making, not one, but two artworks this year. A year that has been extremely challenging and filled with grief, loss, and deep sadness (for so many of us). Yet A found it in themselves to make deeply challenging and beautiful work. 😭🥹🥲 stegi.radio/show/transmi...

*What happens to 'em then? Well, according to Parikka and Hertz, the rare survivors become "zombie-media art projects"

M (@blinkpopshift.com) is the lead artist for the Leonardo CripTech AI Lab of the and they're an amazing being. I got a lot out of their instruction, facilitation, questions, and reflections. M provided important framing for thinking through, with, and against tech with thoughtful &embodied care.

Extremely proud of @aphid.org for tirelessly working on two artworks this year! enhance-redact being one of them. This work explores medical imaging, cancer surveillance, and transmission. It’s so much more than these words. I always tell Abram how deeply poetic their work is. ♥️

put a new piece out into the world on friday. it's a transmission of medical images using slow-scan television and radio teletype. it's a rumination on cancer surveillance. aphid.org/enhance-reda...

In these cases, AI is being used to solder together the libertarian goal of dismantling administrative capacity with the fascist goal of ever present control and enforcement. This mediating function between contrasting desires is at least as important whether it actually works.

Today's absurd sci-fi headline that's somehow our reality: Fact-checkers barred from immigrating to the U.S.

Here’s a folder with the key assignments I use to get my students using Zotero. Along with this, they produce an annotated bibliography for a research prospectus and have to put all the annotations in Zotero. I introduce the platform in an in class workshop. drive.google.com/drive/folder...