Government civil rights investigations examine institutional civil rights management practices, not individuals. Individuals are not legitimate targets of federal civil rights investigation.

UC should not give personally identifiable information to federal gov, says @aaup.org. Where they already have, they need to implement harm reduction measures immediately. www.aaup.org/sites/defaul... This echoes the call San Diego Faculty Association made to our Chancellor and UCOP 2 weeks ago.

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Super excited to be part of this, and to collab with @drs.bsky.social

getting fired from your job because some dipshit student who missed their calling in the Stasi filmed you talking about gender in a class about gender

"The firm guarding sites where aid is distributed in Gaza has been using members of a US biker gang with a history of hostility to Islam....BBC News has confirmed the identities of 10 members of the Infidels Motorcycle Club working in Gaza" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Update: He has updated Apache to 2.4.65! Public disclosure after getting privately ignore works, it turns out

I'll be sharing a new project at SPAM in September. Looking forward to seeing the other works &performances, the space looks amazing.

Same as it ever was, same as it ever was (ask the historian).

Canvas just became one of the most powerful surveillance, IP theft, & data monetization tools in the world. OpenAI bought a user-base locked in to long-term contracts. But they can’t make us use their trashware. Boycott. Luddify. Open source. Don’t let them have your work or your students.

NYC announces partnership with the app formerly known as “Vigilante.”

Malcolm Jamal Warner performing his poem "Comfort Food" as part of Visualizing Abolition's Music for Abolition series @ UCSC. RIP. vimeo.com/1062919899

We should think of the "intelligence" in artificial intelligence not as any kind of mental property, but as the kind one gathers - the stuff of central intelligence agencies. Then we can immediately understand that AI is a technological form of Taylorism, a way for capital to accumulate power.

Rest in power, Andrea Gibson. “Dying is the opposite of leaving. When I left my body, I did not go away. That portal of light was not a portal to elsewhere, but a portal to here. I am more here than I ever was before.”

California: $927,965,332

This is a dramatic understatement of what UPenn agree to. They are also banning any and all Title IX protections for trans students and agreeing that trans people don't actually exist.

TIL AI is not only stealing our archives, it’s killing them. www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...

“online cultural heritage collections… described servers and collections straining – and sometimes breaking – under the load of swarming bots. The bots were reportedly scraping all of the data from collections to build datasets to train AI models…The frequency of these swarms may be increasing.“

They're literally doing the meme

A lot of people know about the Germans in the space program, but the more relevant engineer might be Qian Xuesen, the MIT/CalTech aerospace professor who co-founded JPL and was sent to recruit the Germans. We deported him the 1950s. He became the leader of China’s missile program.

Out in June from Columbia University Press--THE DOCUMENTARY AUDIT. All of the information on the flier available on this website, where you can also order the book: cup.columbia.edu/.../the.../9... Cover description in comments

We are delighted to launch ‘Fragments’, a new journal of experimental videographic form and method. Please enjoy our first collection of fragments and check out our evolving manifesto to learn a little more about our ambitions for this journal. fragments.video

finally the academics are making segs

one more time for those in the back, WE FUCKING WARNED YOU. city voters should rank Jen Fleisher first, because we need an anti-Flock majority on city council ASAP.

If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

Alabama hires bespoke law firm to defend its prison system; firm uses ai and cites cases which don’t exist.

Bluesky is “screen reader accessible” the way a staircase with curb cuts on each step is a “wheelchair ramp.” No keyboard nav. No useful landmarks. No focus memory. I lose my place every time I interact with a post. Compliance ≠ usability. Day 14 asking @support.bsky.team to fix this #A11yFail

"view our 103 partners" 😬 #privacy #tracking

I'd wondered for decades what the organ loop @wfmu.bsky.social used as the background for the always wonderful "Radio Chat Room" segments on Seven Second Delay. Today I learned: www.youtube.com/watch?v=szds...

Some federal agencies report using AI to process FOIA requests. We asked for documentation, but they say none exists. www.muckrock.com/news/archive...

It struck me last night that among the reasons to attack the nonprofit status of universities is that it will cut off working in academia as a method to discharge loans via public service.

also you all need to see this, because this is something I don't think *anybody* could predict for where this ad goes

Hackers stole deportation info from the company that ran Alien Enemies Act flights to El Salvador “Anonymous has decided to enforce the Judge's order since you and your sycophant staff ignore lawful orders that go against your fascist plans,” a defacement message posted to GlobalX’s website reads"

If you don't know about Texas SB37, it is a sweeping bill that will destroy every university in Texas. This bill has already passed the state Senate and is being considered by the state House this week.

Joshua wrote a long, generous email about an early draft of a poem of mine. In it he wrote, “compression is the frenemy of the dialectic”. Every exchange was a revelation.

apps.neh.gov/publicquery/... Likely cut because it has the word "Diverse". Worst timeline.

Atelier Populaire, Halte a l'Expulsion!, 1968 via Letterform Archive oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=...

According to organizers, Meta said the ad didn’t align with their policies regarding “social issues, elections and politics.”

In light of the recent visa withdrawals, here is a PDF with advice for international students at UCLA. I’m so sorry to have to share this. drive.google.com/file/d/1x8_z...

The silicon valley model of consent

Our executive director @rshapiro.bsky.social discussing our latest: DHS/FBI docs cast significant doubt on the use of tattoos to identify TdA gang membership, as revealed in new intel docs we obtained and shared w/ @willcarless.bsky.social / @usatoday.com. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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It is with profound sadness that we mourn the passing of Jonathan Sterne, an extraordinary scholar whose groundbreaking work transformed the fields of sound studies, media theory, and the cultural study of technology.

this morning friends, colleagues, and students recieved an email with the sad news that jonathan sterne passed away last night in his sleep. if you would like to reach out to carrie, you can do so at the heyjonandcarrie email that was previously distributed. (dm me if you dont have this)

In partnership with @freedom.press, WIRED will make all of its FOIA-based reporting free to access for anyone. Public records should be public, and I hope to see more outlets follow suit: freedom.press/issues/wired...

This is terrifying beyond belief. Mass deportations to labor camps without a trace.

this is some john-yoo-torture-memo level shit