"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.com: data.ddosecrets.com/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...

Home Depot is running a surveil Santa ad that also has Santa dropping off more surveillance gear for the family, in this world there is only surveillance

fuck yeah!

I asked about this, and one of our excellent librarians discovered that in fact AI summaries/"Research Assistant" can be switched off at the level of the library. Something to request. support.proquest.com/s/article/Eb...

here's something cool: the son of the letter carrier on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood (McFeely) is a real letter carrier for the USPS and he's our letter carrier and he's awesome

everyone knows Richard Scarry's "Very Busy Surveillance State." classic.

This is very clearly the direction in which things are headed, especially since so many of the people who built and maintained the tools the US IC has developed-in house have been fired or have left.

There is a lot going on in this sentence: "On 17 October, Gelsinger delivered his “Gutenberg moment” stump speech at Liberty University’s CEO Summit, which also featured Liz Truss, Michael Flynn and Dan T Cathy, the Chick-fil-A chairman, as keynote speakers." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

a good day for this banger, happy to own this on flexidisc

I see two diametrically opposed conversations about tech in the classroom—one from disability studies/justice, which focuses on accessibility for students; the other from media studies/STS, which focuses on EdTech as a mode of privatization. Are there ppl synthesizing the findings from both?

Time to rewatch Tribulation 99 (Craig Baldwin, 1991)

Something I write about in The Celluloid Specimen is that eugenics has always had a futurist bent, one that often involves replacing human workers. I feel as though this aspect isn't discussed as much in how the general public uses of the term.

Really looking forward to reading this

The UC Academic Council, which represents the T and TT faculty across the UC, has issued a letter calling on UC President James Milliken to reject any potential agreements with the Trump administration "that compromise institutional autonomy and academic freedom."

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

UC faculty are fighting through the courts to save the UC system. Our funding has been swept by central admin. We can’t pay to travel or research. Every time we lecture we’re at risk of attacks by right-wing mobs. Fortunately the UC Regents are on the ball: they’re…finding new ways to discipline us.

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.

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.”

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