Published a new article with @coloradoboulevard.bsky.social about our fights against data centers in LA, specifically in the San Gabriel Valley www.coloradoboulevard.net/la-doesnt-wa... #ai #datacenter #la #environment #earthday

This study is really something. Kudos to @myra.bsky.social and the team for this great paper. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... I'll summarize my takeaways below contextualized through my research lens... 🧵

Join me on Friday with Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace for a discussion of AI, data centers, and technologies of control -- how this infrastructure is pushed on us to power systems of mass tech-enabled violence. #AI #datacenters #sgv #militarism #surveillance

Revealing tidbit from WSJ about Meta's AI revenues (www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...). Basically, Meta is claiming AI is working because it's growing it's advertising business -- ad clickthroughs on FB up 3.5% and $10b in Q4 from AI-generated video ads. This is AI's business model. Ads.

So now the EPA officially provides resources for data center developers to get around the Clean Air Act. That's nice. www.epa.gov/stationary-s...

Just when I thought my days getting riled up about Kyrsten Sinema were over, she comes back into my life. I was reading about data center fights across the U.S. and found that Sinema, former enemy of real climate policy, has now taken to AI lobbying zeteo.com/p/kyrsten-si...

When is enough enough? The U.S. violence against Venezuela is an indication that our society is off the rails, totally uncontrolled. I wrote a brief response on my blog discussing how we need to build back the means of controlling our rogue nation. ricknabb.medium.com/the-attacks-...

Over and over the US inflicts obscene violence against the global South, in flagrant violation of international law, to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation for its decadent billionaire class. It's disgusting and intolerable. We cannot continue to accept this.

This morning from @wsj.com. Trump admin is looking to override states regulating #AI. The contradictions from the party of States' rights are thick. Tech companies' actions are already deeply undemocratic. This techno-authoritarianism is unacceptable

NEW from @pewresearch.org: Most popular chatbots among US teens www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

Had a fun time revisiting Heidegger to comment on AI's potential to create massive alienation through AI-driven production -- making us see the world of human creativity as a means to an end, rather than an end in itself #AI #tech #philosophy #bigtech www.instagram.com/p/DR40cuBDot2/

Yesterday, at my university's Academic Senate, we raised critical questions to the administration about the CSU's $17m purchase of ChatGPT-Edu. This blog post contains the questions as well as lengthy context on AI and education ricknabb.medium.com/my-universit... #AI #Education #HigherEducation

Came across this interesting article a bit late: edsource.org/2025/ai-assi... CSU used AI in a legal filing as it fights against RAs joining the Employees Union & it hallucinated a court case in its argument Embarrassing for the system pushing to be the "AI leader" in higher ed #AI #highered

Well this article is a nightmare. When your technology is so unpopular that you have to force usage of it through firing the unwilling and hiring proponents, you have an issue. WSJ of course pushing forward the fear of retaliation on behalf of Big Tech www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-w... #AI

This monster also promoted the invasion of Iraq, which killed hundreds of thousands of people and created mass child malnutrition.

An excellent example of AI bias and how it stands to influence thought & media production. This is a GenAI tool in YT Studio to help creators get ideas for videos based on previous content. It gave me "The Future of Work: Automation and Human Purpose," which I expected to be totally different 🧵

Just read this post by @404media.co about Google hosting CBP's new app on the Play store while removing ICE tracking apps. What struck me most is how the CBP app reminded me of surveillance systems used to police Palestinians 🧵 www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Join me and other young movement organizers on Nov 18th to hear our perspectives on what the priorities should be for the peace and justice movements 🕊️ Register at: bit.ly/cpdcs-rising-gen #peace #justice #socialmovement #socialjustice

I created a list of 5 books you can read to develop more critical takes on #AI, cutting through the hype. I have my students read most of these. Take a look at the list and let me know which other books you'd recommend! www.instagram.com/p/DQp3afejL7... #BigTech #tech #critical #sociotechnical

Well this is a nightmare. #palantir hiring high-schoolers to intentionally not go to college and instead learn to become a tech worker by working at the company. Problematic for so many reasons 🧵 www.wsj.com/business/pal... #education #bigtech #tech #engineering

Maybe a bit late to this, but I found out about the latest Bill Gates climate memo from @climatedefiance.bsky.social and wanted to give my two cents. Written up in long form here: ricknabb.medium.com/bill-gates-c... But I'll summarize some main points in the 🧵 #BillGates #climatechange

This is the most neuro-nerd thing I've ever seen and I love it. IYKYK

Exciting position @northeasternu.bsky.social ! Managing Policy Director at the new Institute for Information, & Democracy, please share with interested parties. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

📹 New reel on IG: 3 Media Literacy Tips to help you Navigate GenAI Misinformation From a misinformation researcher's standpoint, here are three media literacy tips you can use to not get fooled by GenAI garbage: #misinformation #ai #socialmedia #openai #sora #vibes #media

How should we think about China in today’s debates on AI and society, and how might China serve as a productive analytical lens? In this commentary, @zhifan-luo.bsky.social and I offer a typology to see China as mirror, prototype, counterpoint, and global actor. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Happy to share our commentary is published on Big Data & Society today! Instead of seeing China as AI’s dystopian specter, what if we use it as a generative lens to rethink global AI? journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

📝New newsletter! poiesis.beehiiv.com/p/ai-and-pow... In it, I discuss AI and militarism, a recent webinar I was on discussing social movement power, and the new GenAI social media platforms -- Sora 2 and Vibes. #AI #tech #power #organizing #socialmedia #militarism

Thinking about the materiality of AI. While people are discussing water & electricity use, do we think about the cost of making countless chips for data centers? This @unep.org report "AI end-to-end" details some of that aspect wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/ha... #AI #climate #sustainability

On Indigenous People's Day, I'm reflecting on important work from one of my former students: reciprocity and materiality of data science and AI. AI has a material reality, and it's unsustainable www.instagram.com/p/DPwv51ekkpz/ #AI #indigenouspeoplesday #IPD #Indigeneity

Tonight! Come join CPDCS for a discussion of the state of the peace and justice movements, and how we should move forward. Featuring rad organizers from MA Peace Action and @codepink.bsky.social #activism #justice #strategy #peace #antiwar

📝 New blog post based on a talk I did for @uujec.bsky.social 🔗 ricknabb.medium.com/the-ai-kille... Despite the hype and fears of AI-powered super soldiers, it is actually used for deportation, surveillance, and policing -- Big Tech would rather you don't know that.

Grateful to have been asked by the Campaign for Peace Disarmament and Common Security to be on an upcoming panel: Some Way Out of Here: Peace & Justice Movements & Priorities with Cole Harrison from MA Peace Action and Ann Wright from @codepink.bsky.social Register at bit.ly/cpdcs-mvmt-priorities

Subscribe to my new newsletter, sharing my research on tech & society as well as how we can resist technological control 🔗 poiesis.beehiiv.com #tech #society #ai #misinformation #surveillance #resistance

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Recently made public by the American Society of Engineering Education: Maintaining Hope Amidst Critique: The Role of Social Change Frameworks in Sociotechnical Engineering Ethics Education 🧵 Brief description... peer.asee.org/maintaining-... #education #tech #ethics

So grateful to have been asked to speak on a webinar for @uujec.bsky.social about AI, militarism, and the climate crisis. There is so much to unpack and understand about these dynamics. More to come, but meanwhile, give the video a watch! www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_6L... #AI #military #climate

NEW from @pewresearch.org: 20% of US adults now regularly get news from TikTok, up from 3% in 2020. Among the youngest adults, 43% now regularly get news there, up from 9% in 2020. Full analysis: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

For the people who use it, TikTok is increasingly a source of news. 55% of adult TikTok users in the US now they say regularly get news there, up from 22% five years ago. New from @pewresearch.org: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

The Trump Admin's new AI Action Plan is a nightmare pushing for corporate domination, thought control, and ecological destruction. #AI #AIActionPlan #Trump #BigTech

Incoming thread analyzing the new, headline-making paper from @mitmedialab.bsky.social "Your Brain on ChatGPT" (arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872). For context, I have a PhD in computer and cognitive science and study STEM education. The paper and media reporting on it have many issues. I'll try to summarize

It's insane to me that a government site giving advice about Covid prevention and safety was turned into a conspiracy peddling page. This is the height of disgusting. More in the thread... www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru... #covid #covid-19 #misinformation #propaganda

Behold, my 18 followers: an article about protest and organizing for continuous social change ✨ nickrabb.substack.com/p/take-to-th... #protest #politics #democracy

This is basically the title of my dissertation. Glad to know my work made an impact www.proquest.com/openview/195...

Reflecting on progressive movements since 2016, we have not made major gains on resource distribution, social organization, political party control, media, and political skills. Our lack in these areas enables us to be better controlled, weakening movements. nickrabb.substack.com/p/do-our-pol...

Here's a write-up of a recent workshop I held on theories of power and change, specifically focusing on trying to apply them to our current political moment. open.substack.com/pub/nickrabb... #politics #resistance #SocialMovements

I think Trump admin forgot that Biden already canceled the Green New Deal 🤷🏻‍♂️ www.snopes.com/fact-check/d...

A few thoughts for the frightening and demoralizing last week in U.S. politics. nickrabb.substack.com/p/finding-ho...

Maybe not the most important news of the day, but briefly on Biden's exiting remarks as Trump begins his administration. As there's a wave of misinformation concern, we should remember whose admin denied a genocide for over 400 days nickrabb.substack.com/p/bidens-war... #misinformation #palestine

Some thoughts on the LA wildfires (which came very close to our apartment, luckily we were spared). While media regulation is essential, we also have to address social conditions leading to misinformation being so appealing. nickrabb.substack.com/p/our-misman...