Angela Frederick
@angelafrederick.bsky.social
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Disabled Power: A Storm, A Grid, and Embodied Harm in the Age of Disaster
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Disabled Power: A Storm, A Grid, and Embodied Harm in the Age of Disaster
NYU Press
https://nyupress.org/9781479828142/disabled-power/
Use code NYUAU30 for 30% off.
Opinions my own.
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My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
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November 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
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“Eugenic policies & laws return time & time again like poison ivy.”
America’s legacy of eugenics is alive & well in Trump’s White House, @seemiaroll.bsky.social writes in an op-ed. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ableist rhetoric & dangerous policy proposals lead the U.S. down a deadly, yet familiar path.
America’s legacy of eugenics is alive & well in Trump’s White House, @seemiaroll.bsky.social writes in an op-ed. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ableist rhetoric & dangerous policy proposals lead the U.S. down a deadly, yet familiar path.
America’s legacy of eugenics is alive and well under Trump
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ableist rhetoric and dangerous policy proposals lead the U.S. down a deadly, yet familiar path
prismreports.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
“Eugenic policies & laws return time & time again like poison ivy.”
America’s legacy of eugenics is alive & well in Trump’s White House, @seemiaroll.bsky.social writes in an op-ed. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ableist rhetoric & dangerous policy proposals lead the U.S. down a deadly, yet familiar path.
America’s legacy of eugenics is alive & well in Trump’s White House, @seemiaroll.bsky.social writes in an op-ed. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ableist rhetoric & dangerous policy proposals lead the U.S. down a deadly, yet familiar path.
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Since we’re on the topic of tearing down buildings, I got the author copies of my book (!!). Real in the world December 2
TL;DR: Detroiters have a lot to teach us about how material conditions reproduce white supremacy w/o racist people and policies. Tearing things down isn’t a clean slate
TL;DR: Detroiters have a lot to teach us about how material conditions reproduce white supremacy w/o racist people and policies. Tearing things down isn’t a clean slate
October 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Since we’re on the topic of tearing down buildings, I got the author copies of my book (!!). Real in the world December 2
TL;DR: Detroiters have a lot to teach us about how material conditions reproduce white supremacy w/o racist people and policies. Tearing things down isn’t a clean slate
TL;DR: Detroiters have a lot to teach us about how material conditions reproduce white supremacy w/o racist people and policies. Tearing things down isn’t a clean slate
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NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence was misleading.
www.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
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It was always a lie that the focus would be deporting the worst of the worst. To get Dreamer/DACA status basically meant you were a Girl Scout or Boy Scout. And it's silly because many of these people got educated here since 2012 and now we're losing that talent and skill. 🤷🏾♀️
Dreamers were once obvious candidates for a path to citizenship. Now, they’re getting picked up, detained, and set for potential deportation.
Then they came for the Dreamers
Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.
www.motherjones.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
It was always a lie that the focus would be deporting the worst of the worst. To get Dreamer/DACA status basically meant you were a Girl Scout or Boy Scout. And it's silly because many of these people got educated here since 2012 and now we're losing that talent and skill. 🤷🏾♀️
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The mosquitoes that carry dengue and other dangerous diseases wouldn’t have been able to survive in Colorado before. Now they’re thriving in one community as temperatures warm.
A Disease-Carrying Mosquito Has Landed in the Rocky Mountains Where It Historically Couldn’t Survive - Inside Climate News
The Aedes aegypti mosquito that can carry dengue was thought to be too reliant on a hot and wet climate to survive in the Mountain West. But now, a population is thriving in Western Colorado.
insideclimatenews.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The mosquitoes that carry dengue and other dangerous diseases wouldn’t have been able to survive in Colorado before. Now they’re thriving in one community as temperatures warm.
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Welcome to target. If you are neurodivergent we will fire you
November 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Welcome to target. If you are neurodivergent we will fire you
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"Having somebody who is hungry and worried about feeding their own children is an enormous amount of stress that will impact anybody’s ability to do their job well."
I spoke with @aijenpoo.bsky.social about the issues domestic workers face at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I spoke with @aijenpoo.bsky.social about the issues domestic workers face at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Domestic workers count on SNAP. Trump's shutdown is hitting hard.
Cleaners, nannies, and home health aides work full-time—and still disproportionately rely on food stamps.
www.motherjones.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"Having somebody who is hungry and worried about feeding their own children is an enormous amount of stress that will impact anybody’s ability to do their job well."
I spoke with @aijenpoo.bsky.social about the issues domestic workers face at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I spoke with @aijenpoo.bsky.social about the issues domestic workers face at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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November 5, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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The IRS is reportedly not offering its Direct File program next year. Here’s a look back at how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free:
(Published 2019)
(Published 2019)
Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free
Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.
www.propublica.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The IRS is reportedly not offering its Direct File program next year. Here’s a look back at how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free:
(Published 2019)
(Published 2019)
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Interesting review documenting the rise in scholarship on visual misinformation, how it is more persuasive than text misinformation, and how #GenAI is both increasing visual misinformation content and being used to combat it. (!)
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
doi.org/10.1080/1520...
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
doi.org/10.1080/1520...
November 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Interesting review documenting the rise in scholarship on visual misinformation, how it is more persuasive than text misinformation, and how #GenAI is both increasing visual misinformation content and being used to combat it. (!)
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
doi.org/10.1080/1520...
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
doi.org/10.1080/1520...
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Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day.
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day
Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.
www.abc.net.au
November 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day.
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
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These companies are looking for the path of least resistance. Good to see so many communities making it difficult for them.
Microsoft is now warning investors about the pushback against its massive data centers.
The tech giant's latest earnings reports says: “We also face community opposition, local moratoriums and hyper-local dissent that may impede or delay infrastructure development."
The tech giant's latest earnings reports says: “We also face community opposition, local moratoriums and hyper-local dissent that may impede or delay infrastructure development."
November 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
These companies are looking for the path of least resistance. Good to see so many communities making it difficult for them.
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TIL about Faculty First Responders, a group that offers "peer-to-peer counseling and advice to academic workers experiencing media attacks, campaigns of harassment, doxing, or other threats to their academic freedom and free speech."
facultyfirstresponders.com
Thanks @hormiga.bsky.social !
facultyfirstresponders.com
Thanks @hormiga.bsky.social !
October 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
TIL about Faculty First Responders, a group that offers "peer-to-peer counseling and advice to academic workers experiencing media attacks, campaigns of harassment, doxing, or other threats to their academic freedom and free speech."
facultyfirstresponders.com
Thanks @hormiga.bsky.social !
facultyfirstresponders.com
Thanks @hormiga.bsky.social !
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Grateful as always for Dr Sascha Luccioni’s research into the energy discrepancies between image, text, & now video generation: “Creating [one] AI video uses approximately 90 Watt-hours, compared to the 2.9Wh needed for image generation and 0.047Wh for text generation.” www.cnet.com/tech/service...
Your AI Videos Use Way More Energy Than Chatbots. It's a Big Problem
As AI video generation climbs with tools like Sora, energy demands will rise, too.
www.cnet.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Grateful as always for Dr Sascha Luccioni’s research into the energy discrepancies between image, text, & now video generation: “Creating [one] AI video uses approximately 90 Watt-hours, compared to the 2.9Wh needed for image generation and 0.047Wh for text generation.” www.cnet.com/tech/service...
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This is actually a thing and I’d love to see some sociology & psychology lit on how car brain has wrecked American minds.
i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
October 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This is actually a thing and I’d love to see some sociology & psychology lit on how car brain has wrecked American minds.
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“Now, I know for a fact that the working class in this country looks more like a Latino woman who cleans houses than it looks like Platner, a former defense contractor turned oyster farmer with some leftist political beliefs.”
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social always.
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social always.
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
“Now, I know for a fact that the working class in this country looks more like a Latino woman who cleans houses than it looks like Platner, a former defense contractor turned oyster farmer with some leftist political beliefs.”
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social always.
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social always.
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NEW: Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.
www.propublica.org
October 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
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Maybe the thing that gives me a pulse-pounding throbbing headache is when I think of how techbros sold ChatGPT to universities as ‘revolutionizing’ higher education and our institutions just forked over money without even asking for actual evidence
When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
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October 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Maybe the thing that gives me a pulse-pounding throbbing headache is when I think of how techbros sold ChatGPT to universities as ‘revolutionizing’ higher education and our institutions just forked over money without even asking for actual evidence
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1 in 3 US community-service nonprofits lost government funding in early 2025.
These organizations run food pantries, deliver job training and offer mental health services. They provide independent living assistance, disaster relief and emergency shelter, among other services.
These organizations run food pantries, deliver job training and offer mental health services. They provide independent living assistance, disaster relief and emergency shelter, among other services.
1 in 3 US nonprofits that serve communities lost government funding in early 2025
Federal funding cuts are destabilizing many food pantries, homeless shelters, mental health clinics and other nonprofits, threatening the services they provide.
buff.ly
October 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
1 in 3 US community-service nonprofits lost government funding in early 2025.
These organizations run food pantries, deliver job training and offer mental health services. They provide independent living assistance, disaster relief and emergency shelter, among other services.
These organizations run food pantries, deliver job training and offer mental health services. They provide independent living assistance, disaster relief and emergency shelter, among other services.
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Dr. Stramondo: "Wheelchairs are NEVER medically necessary. They are SOCIALLY necessary to allow the user to access social inclusion and the good of life. This is ... medicalizing access!" #ASBH2025 #Bioethics
October 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Dr. Stramondo: "Wheelchairs are NEVER medically necessary. They are SOCIALLY necessary to allow the user to access social inclusion and the good of life. This is ... medicalizing access!" #ASBH2025 #Bioethics
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Notice how it’s always, “the Bible must inform our laws!” until it comes to the +2,000 verses in the Bible that discuss the generous use of wealth and possessions in a way that prioritizes the needs of the poor, this sick, the stranger, the vulnerable, and the oppressed.
October 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Notice how it’s always, “the Bible must inform our laws!” until it comes to the +2,000 verses in the Bible that discuss the generous use of wealth and possessions in a way that prioritizes the needs of the poor, this sick, the stranger, the vulnerable, and the oppressed.
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An employee at Sequoia Park Zoo in Northern California found a black bear who came in from the wild, introduced itself to the zoo’s bears and played with their toys, before being shown the exit.
Bear Breaks Into California Zoo to Mingle With Other Bears
Officials at Sequoia Park Zoo have no idea how the young bear got into the zoo and went “nose-to-nose” with the three bears there.
nyti.ms
October 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
An employee at Sequoia Park Zoo in Northern California found a black bear who came in from the wild, introduced itself to the zoo’s bears and played with their toys, before being shown the exit.
An elderly Austin woman froze to death in 2021. Authorities let the case sit idle for years www.statesman.com/news/local/a...
How Austin officials failed a woman who froze to death in 2021 winter storm
A Statesman investigation reveals how Austin's police, prosecutors and medical examiner overlooked evidence in the 2021 freezing death of Cynthia Pierce, 73.
www.statesman.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
An elderly Austin woman froze to death in 2021. Authorities let the case sit idle for years www.statesman.com/news/local/a...