The students really are't down with the AI praise. A compilation of the latest commencement speakers that got booed, and also a school that used an AI system to read off graduates' names, and glitched. From our latest pod here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE0E...

Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

I had a realisation Context: In our Reclaiming AI paper we argued that AI systems cannot scale up to human-level cognition without consuming astronomical amounts of resources My realisation: The AI industry is determined to burn through the earth’s resources just to prove us right *empirically*

If US wealth were spread equally over all households, the poorest 50% of households today would get *$1.2 million* richer on average. The next-poorest 40% of households would get $300k richer on average. Only the richest 10% of Americans would lose any wealth, at all. Calculations and data source:

In response to the year of negative reporting on Flock and its harms, the vendor has started hosting webinars on how police chiefs should engage city government at budget hearings. What you’re seeing is a corporate-backed propaganda campaign in real time.

"have we been operating without a contract" with flock? "yes, we have," says maclean. this means flock has had unrestricted access to the county's license plate readers for nearly three years, since the initial emergency contract with flock expired in 2023.

1/ Last fall, as we were interviewing immigrants detained during a dramatic immigration raid at an apartment complex in Chicago, we kept hearing about a Nigerian man whose leg was mauled by a police dog. 🧵:

Really important point. "The anti-datacenter movement, in other words, isn’t just about the future of a novel technology. It’s about the future of democracy. It’s about who controls the economy and whether regular people have a say in the decisions that affect them."

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

just deleted all instagram accounts (after finally deleting twitter a few months back) since end to end encryption is being removed tomorrow. lamenting the loss of these social spaces but rebuilding elsewhere! maybe more reading :)

In other words, AI resentment maps pretty directly to how precarious your job situation is. For Gen Z, this is the worst entry level job market in decades; no wonder they hate AI, which they are routinely told is the reason why there's no work. The rich, meanwhile, are just fine with more automation

You should turn off message content in your notification settings. No real point in using an end to end encrypted app if people can just read the push notification.

So fun to see OSHWA in @xjasminelu.bsky.social 's thesis defence! Congratulations Jasmine, we can't wait to see what you do next 🥳

I am so excited to announce I will be holding my PhD defense this Thursday at 10 AM CDT! I’ll be discussing my work on “recomputing” e-waste with some reflections on my PhD journey. If you’d like to attend online dm or email me for a link!

EXCITING NEWS: Applications NOW *open* to join LPL as a 2026 summer fellow. This paid fellowship is for *early-career* researchers looking to investigate surveillance technologies. Full details here -> cdn.prod.website-files.com/66045fc0d0be...

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

I refuse to stay silent while Secretary Noem breaks the rule of law and terrorizes our communities. I am introducing Articles of Impeachment against her for violating the public trust, obstructing Congress, and self-dealing. Read my full statement: robinkelly.house.gov/media-center...

Cella will be an incredible colleague and asset to any department! her work is so timely and meaningful. hire her!!!!!

8-year old Dasha Ramirez was playing with her brother at Millennium Park when Border Patrol took them. They’re now awaiting deportation to Guatemala. “We never imagined our Sunday would end this way, mother Noemi Chavez said. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/i...

✨I'm on the faculty job market! ✨ I’m a University of Chicago Computer Science PhD Candidate building more sustainable computing ecosystems 💻🌱 I develop computational approaches for reducing, reusing, and recycling e-waste (I like to call it recomputing e-waste) read more: jasminelu.site 🧵 (1/7)

What can #CSCW learn from tech workers who have been involved in collective action and unionization about how to make transformative change within our field? My new #CSCW2025 paper with Mona Wang, Anna Konvicka, and Sarah Fox seeks to answer this question. Pre-print: arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12579

TOMORROW we rock the livestream with @xjasminelu.bsky.social , Silard Gal and Chris Dirks who will be telling us all about their extremely cool recently certified projects! Going live at 1pm EST on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJuA...

BLOOD IN THE MACHINE was given early access to survey data pulled from interviews with 1,400 Californians on their thoughts about AI. Among the findings: -59% think AI will primarily benefit corporations and the wealthy -55% are more concerned than excited -*70%* want strong AI laws

for the unawares, monthly jobs reports explicitly exclude farm workers. so feel free to also mentally account for the impact of ICE hunting down agricultural laborers like runaway slaves

my work was covered so sweetly on a midwest public radio station (interlochen) check it out!! open.spotify.com/episode/1TNc...

Want to work with one of the best thinkers out there, with endless creativity and super supportive environment in futuristic Taipei? 😎 My former PhD student, (now Prof.) @tengshanyuan.info just started the Dexterous Interaction Lab @ NTU lab.tengshanyuan.info #hci #haptics #phd #academicChatter 😍

@tengshanyuan.info is starting the Dexterous Interactions Lab at NTU! lab.tengshanyuan.info Shan-Yuan is a special case of kind, generous, and incredibly talented. Students will be so lucky to work with him. Excited to see all the beautiful work him and his team produce!

Just out: 'Resisting the Techno-Fascist Takeover: Are We Ready for Decomputing?' berlinergazette.de/resisting-th... in which I diagnose DOGE as institutional cyberattack and argue that the way to stop it spreading is to revive an alternative technopolitics.

Piazza is a course discussion platform used by many colleges and universities. Piazza requires students to provide the following information when signing up. From 2017-2019, Palantir Technologies paid Piazza $916,000 for access to this data. www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

Data centers are building their own gas power plants in Texas. grist.org/energy/data-... #Gas #DataCenters #AI #Climate #Elon #TX

Announcing COMPASS'25 Workshops! Throughout the next few days we'll be posting about the 10 workshops. You can read about all of them here: compass.acm.org/compass-2025... Note: to attend workshops you must register for the conference (deadline: July 8th!)

*FREE REGISTRATION OPPORTUNITY!* Send us your best t-shirt design for #COMPASS25 in order to win free registration for the conference (open to all). Submit by June 27 for consideration! Read more about the t-shirt design competition here: compass.acm.org/call-for-t-s...

Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit

Announcing COMPASS'25 keynotes! We're so excited to host two incredible speakers Renee Steiber will present "Participatory AI governance as a sustainability goal" and Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar will share "Why Designing with Place Matters in Technology Development" more @ compass.acm.org/keynote-spea...

ACM COMPASS is now on bluesky! #COMPASS25 will be happening next month at the University of Toronto, Canada from July 22-25, 2025. Registration ends July 8th! Find more at: compass.acm.org

ICYMI: Our new collection of essays, “Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity,” is out! ✨ Download it here: doi.org/10.18130/03d.... Offering some responses & asking more questions, we cover topics like arts administration, data centers, digital sovereignty, sustainability & more.

A new cold war is brewing over rare earth minerals

Harvard just handed all school and disciplinary records of international students to DHS. Absolutely contemptible. They're putting their own students in danger and lying by telling them that everything is ok. These students could be black bagged to Louisiana or El Salvador after this.

Microsoft is spending about 6x the annual budget of the entire NSF on building more server farms.

For those at #CHI2025: if anyone is feeling confused, anxious, stressed, and/or feeling feelings around travelling back to the US, you are not alone! Join us during Wednesday's lunch (G314) to vent / share tips / offer support with others going through the same fears. More information in the flyer!

@xjasminelu.bsky.social presenting the latest work of her PhD on computational recycling, this system uses computer vision (#CV) to fit a new circuit into an existing PCB made for a different purpose or device. It allows a new form of e-waste reusing! #CHI2025 #Sustainability 1/4

I’m in Yokohama for #CHI2025. Will have a packed first day - 2 talks (before and after lunch) and demo during reception! both talks will be exploring threads of my PhD work on reducing, reusing, and recycling electronic waste!

incredible piece by jen! about how histories of development in the american south (like sugarcane plantations) connect to current expansion of data centers in the region. gonna be thinking about this for a while! datasociety.net/points/from-...

CliFi writers! The new soilpunk magazine Tractor Beam is open for submissions! Theme: The Garden Link for the submission page below and while you’re there check out Issue 1 www.tractorbeam.earth/about #solarpunk #soilpunk #clifi

New paper out! We explore avatar embodiment experiences of 52 Black users in social VR from ethnographic interviews + lab study. Findings unpack embodied consequences of racial representation in immersive VR and how users navigated challenges to expressing identity. vhil.stanford.edu/publications...