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Safiya Umoja Noble
@safiyanoble.bsky.social

Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.

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Safiya Umoja Noble is the David O. Sears presidential endowed chair of social sciences and professor of gender studies, African American studies, and information studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the director of the UCLA Center on Race & Digital Justice and co-director of the Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). She serves as interim director of the UCLA DataX Initiative, leading work in critical data studies. .. more

Communication & Media Studies 32%
Computer science 17%
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Meanwhile, lots of new real estate acquisitions and capital projects across the UC.

Deep.
Here is the proposed agreement the Trump admin sent to UCLA, which administrators fought tooth and claw to keep secret ucop.edu/communicatio...
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This is one of the best analyses of the total grift and scammery of AI in education I’ve seen, and it is a MUST Read: “Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI - defector.com/higher-eds-r...
Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector
If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...
defector.com
BREAKING: The California Supreme Court has DENIED the University of California's request that it block the release of a 28-page, $1.2-billion fine Trump administration UCLA settlement offer. UC is required to give a faculty group the document today. www.latimes.com/california/s...
UC must publicly release Trump administration's $1.2-billion settlement proposal
The California Supreme Court on Friday declined a request from the University of California to block the release of a roughly $1.2-billion Trump UCLA settlement. UCLA is required to share the document...
www.latimes.com

An amazing community —it was such an honor to share and learn together! ♥️ Thank you for having me!
It was such an honor to meet Dr. Safiya Noble @safiyanoble.bsky.social here at Wayne State U! And to learn and listen about search, algos, AI and their impacts on society and what is truly worth which tech we use. Absolute highlight! <3 safiyaunoble.com @waynestateclas.bsky.social

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Stop fighting your faculty in court, lady.

“We are committed to being transparent about the challenges facing the university, but we must also evaluate our response to the administration’s settlement proposal that, like all settlement communications, is confidential.

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It was such an honor to meet Dr. Safiya Noble @safiyanoble.bsky.social here at Wayne State U! And to learn and listen about search, algos, AI and their impacts on society and what is truly worth which tech we use. Absolute highlight! <3 safiyaunoble.com @waynestateclas.bsky.social
@mit.edu has done an incredibly important service to the nation by being willing to be the first school to reject the administration's "compact."

President Kornbluth focuses—and she's right—on the principle that "scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."

If you’re in Los Angeles and want to get out for a few laughs, I’m doing a set in tonight’s comedy show lineup at the Kookaburra Lounge! Come at 6:30–starts at 7pm. (Disclaimer: I had no influence over the show name, ugh). Come through—I’m making art! www.thekookaburralounge.com/events/deezn...
DEEZ NUTZ COMEDY SHOW — The Kookaburra Lounge
The "NEXT!!" of young stand-up comedians in SoCal have gathered together to perform inside the newly infamous Kookaburra Lounge at Ovation Hollywood. Vargus Mason gathers one of the more discerning ...
www.thekookaburralounge.com

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Facing a proposed $1.2-billion fine and severe medical research grant cuts at UCLA, the University of California has not gone head-to-head with Trump in court.

So on Tuesday, groups representing more than 100,000 of its employees did.

www.latimes.com/california/s...
UC employees, not waiting on leaders, sue Trump for 'financial coercion' over UCLA cuts
University of California faculty, students and staff on Tuesday sued President Trump over a $1.2-million penalty against UCLA and federal demands over campus changes. They argued that the actions camp...
www.latimes.com

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I got to share a stage with the incomparable Karen Hao this morning and she is The Truth in every way. ♥️
OpenAI is anything but “open”—very early on, it left behind that marketing tag to become increasingly closed, elitist, and inherently anti-democratic. Empire of AI had a rather different subtitle in its UK edition: “Inside the reckless race of total domination.”

Maybe we just aren’t abundant enough to appreciate him, lololol

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I'm proud to share a new project that @alexreisner.bsky.social and I launched at @theatlantic.com today! It's called AI Watchdog, and it's our new home for all of the investigations into training data sets, such as LibGen, Books3, and OpenSubtitles. www.theatlantic.com/category/ai-...

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the way someone was like “let’s invent an AI necklace that records and listens to your convos and berates you for said convos” when we have these horrific stories of chatbots influencing self harm is just expanding my understanding of hell
I Hate My Friend
The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that’s snarky and unhelpful. Worse, it can also make the people around you uneasy.
www.wired.com
OpenAI is anything but “open”—very early on, it left behind that marketing tag to become increasingly closed, elitist, and inherently anti-democratic. Empire of AI had a rather different subtitle in its UK edition: “Inside the reckless race of total domination.”

What is that? Need it!

These dangerous, faulty, copyright infringing, psychosis-inducing consumer products need to be made illegal now.

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One of my science colleagues at UCLA flatly told me that Columbia should have just shut down the college and leave only the med school because the scientists aren’t the problem and they are being punished over the Gaza protests. He was so clear and certain.

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Yes!! And what if those same scientists weren’t so willing to trade in and lob off their humanist, art, and social scientist colleagues they claim are the reason their funds are threatened, flatly misunderstanding the very nature of the politics of their actions and of this moment.
In response to this, name the last book that you read that you would recommend.

abcnews.go.com/Health/ameri...
Americans spend less time reading for fun and more time on screens: Study
Fewer Americans are opening a book for fun each day, with reading for pleasure in the U.S. down 40% over the past 20 years, a new study published Wednesday found.
abcnews.go.com

Woot!

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Excited to announce that I am following in the footsteps of my mentors @safiyanoble.bsky.social and @kishonna.bsky.social as the 2025 keynote speaker for the Digital Library Federation at CLIR Forum in Denver! forum2025.diglib.org/speakers/
Texas Republicans are holding a Black woman, a Democratic state rep, hostage in the legislative chamber. They have locked the doors and have banned her from leaving.
“‘I refuse to sign away my dignity as a duly elected representative just so Republicans can control my movements and monitor me with police escorts,’ Collier said in a statement that called her a ‘political prisoner’ for refusing Republican ‘surveillance protocol.’” www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Texas Democratic legislator to stay in state capitol after refusing law enforcement escort to leave
State Rep. Nicole Collier of Fort Worth on Monday said she will remain locked in the Austin statehouse chamber until the House reconvenes on Wednesday morning.
www.nbcnews.com