The contiguous United States is experiencing record drought levels for this time of year, according to weather data.

New article by Britt Paris, Serita Sargent and me in Big Data & Society We discuss collective bargaining around AI and how organized labor can meaningfully push back on—and even refuse—the pervasive narrative of AI inevitability journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

things that made me smile recently

finally had time to read this great new article from Defector about the top-down push for AI in higher ed! it also links to our AAUP report on ed tech and its impact on academic labor, which you can read here: www.aaup.org/reports-publ...

thread!!

tired: people AI-generating rando images of themselves as anime WIRED: AI’s energy use already represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand, new analysis has found

correcting a previous QT as details become clearer &, yes, this provision *would* also block access to HRT, as a “transition procedure.” that affects up to 152,000 trans people who have no access to healthcare outside of medicaid/chip—a number i expect will rise due to employment discrimination.

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A subtweet: every debate regarding college admissions is a debate about artificially constructed forms of capitalist scarcity. Every last college in this country could be and should be free and open-admissions

when we were in Seattle, @gelsworld.bsky.social spoke with Dean Spade for Lux Magazine about Spade's new book—a radical guide on "love, sex, romance, and friendship" ❤️‍🔥 you can read it online here: lux-magazine.com/article/dean...

My interview with @deanspade.bsky.social is online and in print in Lux magazine! lux-magazine.com/article/dean...

must-read thread!!

Columbia is bringing cops on campus president.columbia.edu/content/fulf...

A lot of the work of justice is routine, ordinary & sometimes mundane. Care work is one of the most radical liberatory pursuits. Feminized labor is the backbone of all liberation struggles.

Every fight for justice is an abolitionist one - the movement for reproductive justice, migrant justice, climate justice, food justice, gender justice, disability justice, mad justice & beyond. Abolishing a carceral world blooms a multitude of freedoms for all of us.

Holy crap. The DOJ is arguing that the President can unilaterally deport anyone he wants without ANY statutory authority, just on his inherent authority as President over national security. That is a terrifying claim to make and not one that has ever been recognized before in US history.

You can’t even fix glitches or administrative errors with your student loans if you want to, because it’s not possible to reach customer service.

So, for those of you not following, the 1952 code that gives the Secretary of State authority to deport anyone deemed a threat to national security, the one they're using against Mahmoud, was written in the heart of the McCarthy era, a way to target "communists" ie Eastern European Jews.

The ‘can machines do creative writing’ thing is mostly a distraction from the use of the machines to go through text and images to cancel grants and put people on deportation lists

not one moment’s peace for anyone involved

This is not free-floating “uncertainty.” This is a robbery and we have CCTV footage and four hundred confessions of the thieves. Why be coy about the facts of what is happening?

In “Enemy Feminisms,” @reproutopia.bsky.social opens up possibilities for excitement about what feminism could be. But first, she explains, we need to sit with its past. She talks to @emotrophywife.bsky.social about “KKK feminism,” TERFs, and Andrea Dworkin.

📝 CfP 📝 @hellobrittparis.bsky.social & I are editing a special issue of the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies on labor organizing in libraries and information fields. We greatly encourage contributions from library workers. More info here: journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jc...

Arthur Russell instrumentals make me want to relearn clarinet in a way that isn’t a 10 year long power struggle with my mother.

is it uncharitable to say, i hope the new york times leadership gets not one moment of peace after this

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Just after we finished recording Part 2, we learned the Hughes fire had broken out. So this week’s public episode is out early, and one you won’t want to miss. Some really powerful statements from organizers on the ground, and great synthesis by @city.bsky.social and @reallandsend.bsky.social

I got access to an old Instagram account this morning only to realize I actually hate Instagram and Meta and another account won’t save me. 😌

Nothing makes me more annoyed right now than the pretentious leftists who are talking down to people doing good work and making them feel stupid or like they are not smart/radical enough or that their work is not the "real work" because they are caring for people, relationships and communities GTFOH

🌟new publication🌟 in Journal of Documentation explores how insights from critical disability studies can disrupt dominant ideas around access in Library & Information Science research www.emerald.com/insight/cont...

The way that university officials have begun to treat “peaceful” and “disruptive” as antonyms, when they in fact are not antonyms, is the kind of violence to language that one expects of authoritarians

🚨BOYCOTT STARBUCKS🚨 Union baristas are calling on EVERYONE to NOT buy from ANY Starbucks store between Dec. 20 -Dec. 24 while the workers are on strike! Here’s how to support: x.com/sbworkersuni...

I have had some major career things finally come to fruition this past week. My birthday tweet could focus on those. But really, all I want for my birthday is for this verified fundraiser for a Palestinian family in Gaza to reach its goal. chuffed.org/project/1159...

wow forgot this app existed for a second

More free COVID-19 tests from the government are available for home delivery through the mail

In our latest, we speak with Rasha Abdulhadi about refusing the idea that the genocide of Palestinians is inevitable, and how language used to describe the colonial project gives cover for deathmaking. Live in the patron feed, but free & unlocked: www.patreon.com/posts/91121697

In our latest, we speak with Shira Hassan about reclaiming harm reduction from public health, reclaiming formations of "peer work" from the nonprofit world, and building a politics and a practice of surviving together www.patreon.com/posts/90195142