Josh Schuschke
@joshschuschke.bsky.social
PhD. Black Media Studies & Educational Technology
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Hey, remember that time I said that pointing out that AI is giving bad data to ICE is missing the point because ICE doesn't actually care if the data is good? Check out how right I am.
NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...
www.wired.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Hey, remember that time I said that pointing out that AI is giving bad data to ICE is missing the point because ICE doesn't actually care if the data is good? Check out how right I am.
I know Lakers fans hate Gabe Vincent… but Luke Kennard actually does nothing to address our biggest issue. Goofy trade for both teams.
February 5, 2026 at 4:46 PM
I know Lakers fans hate Gabe Vincent… but Luke Kennard actually does nothing to address our biggest issue. Goofy trade for both teams.
Just came on here to say how 🔥🔥🔥 this new Ari Lennox album is
February 4, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Just came on here to say how 🔥🔥🔥 this new Ari Lennox album is
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Every university that capitulated to Trump’s financial demands looks so fucking stupid right now
February 3, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Every university that capitulated to Trump’s financial demands looks so fucking stupid right now
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Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users
Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.
www.cbsnews.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
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Important education message: "independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it."
A few profit and the most vulnerable pay
www.economist.com/united-state...
A few profit and the most vulnerable pay
www.economist.com/united-state...
Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
Independent research identifies few learning gains
www.economist.com
February 1, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Important education message: "independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it."
A few profit and the most vulnerable pay
www.economist.com/united-state...
A few profit and the most vulnerable pay
www.economist.com/united-state...
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Michael "5000" Watts, the producer who founded Swishahouse and helped propel Houston’s "chopped and screwed" sound to international heights, has died at 52
Michael ‘5000’ Watts, Swishahouse founder and Houston hip-hop pioneer, dies at 52
Houston hip-hop icon Michael "5000" Watts, the founder of Swishahouse Records and a pioneer of the "chopped and screwed" sound, has passed away following a recent hospitalization.
www.fox26houston.com
January 31, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Michael "5000" Watts, the producer who founded Swishahouse and helped propel Houston’s "chopped and screwed" sound to international heights, has died at 52
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Student from Minneapolis just spoke at Princeton’s ICE Out rally and said, “my neighbors Renee Good & Alex Pretti were murdered for less than what we’re doing now.” Next a *high schooler* from Trenton described the days she spends doing ICE Watch. If kids can show up and organize you can too.
January 30, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Student from Minneapolis just spoke at Princeton’s ICE Out rally and said, “my neighbors Renee Good & Alex Pretti were murdered for less than what we’re doing now.” Next a *high schooler* from Trenton described the days she spends doing ICE Watch. If kids can show up and organize you can too.
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4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
January 30, 2026 at 6:45 PM
4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
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Waymo under scrutiny after hitting child near Santa Monica elementary school
Waymo under scrutiny after hitting child near Santa Monica elementary school
A Waymo driverless taxi in Santa Monica struck a child last week while traveling around six mph.
www.latimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:07 AM
Waymo under scrutiny after hitting child near Santa Monica elementary school
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This is so unhinged
January 29, 2026 at 9:34 PM
This is so unhinged
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We talking Roland Fryer who was recently allowed to start having advisees again after a sexual harassment suspension? www.thecrimson.com/article/2021...
Roland whose publication claiming no racial bias in the policing of Black people helped spur RAND to produce this?
www.rand.org/research/gun...
Roland whose publication claiming no racial bias in the policing of Black people helped spur RAND to produce this?
www.rand.org/research/gun...
January 27, 2026 at 5:41 PM
We talking Roland Fryer who was recently allowed to start having advisees again after a sexual harassment suspension? www.thecrimson.com/article/2021...
Roland whose publication claiming no racial bias in the policing of Black people helped spur RAND to produce this?
www.rand.org/research/gun...
Roland whose publication claiming no racial bias in the policing of Black people helped spur RAND to produce this?
www.rand.org/research/gun...
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Amazon announces it is closing its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/a...
January 27, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Amazon announces it is closing its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/a...
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Imagine working for Satan and complaining that Hell is hot
Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Imagine working for Satan and complaining that Hell is hot
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The fact that white folks are still "imagining" the brutality that Black folks have endured for two and a half centuries is FRYING ME.
January 25, 2026 at 6:39 PM
The fact that white folks are still "imagining" the brutality that Black folks have endured for two and a half centuries is FRYING ME.
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it's boring as hell but data governance and regulation needs to be a central plank of Reconstruction 2
So which politician is calling for the dismantling of the probably illegal database that ice & this government is collecting biometric data of protesters?
January 25, 2026 at 6:13 PM
it's boring as hell but data governance and regulation needs to be a central plank of Reconstruction 2
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So which politician is calling for the dismantling of the probably illegal database that ice & this government is collecting biometric data of protesters?
January 25, 2026 at 5:42 PM
So which politician is calling for the dismantling of the probably illegal database that ice & this government is collecting biometric data of protesters?
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“civil rights protestors wanted to get beaten” is an interpretation so widely accepted and repeated that it borders on self-evident truth territory. But it is both misleading and, if you stop to think about it, a pretty fucked up idea to circulate
January 25, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
January 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
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To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS:
1) put your phone in airplane mode
2) open TikTok and go to your profile
3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account
4) turn airplane mode off
5) delete your account
Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this
1) put your phone in airplane mode
2) open TikTok and go to your profile
3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account
4) turn airplane mode off
5) delete your account
Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this
According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes
According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.
www.wired.com
January 24, 2026 at 5:59 AM
To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS:
1) put your phone in airplane mode
2) open TikTok and go to your profile
3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account
4) turn airplane mode off
5) delete your account
Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this
1) put your phone in airplane mode
2) open TikTok and go to your profile
3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account
4) turn airplane mode off
5) delete your account
Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this
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Thank goodness everyone spent months deciding that the Chinese were stealing our data so we could switch to good old patriotic American data stealing
According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes
According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.
www.wired.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Thank goodness everyone spent months deciding that the Chinese were stealing our data so we could switch to good old patriotic American data stealing
Welp…TikTok was a fun ride while it lasted
January 23, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Welp…TikTok was a fun ride while it lasted
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“This is un-American“ is anti-Indigenous, anti-Black gaslighting and if you find that inconvenient imagine how our colonized and enslaved ancestors felt and grow the fuck up
January 23, 2026 at 4:17 AM
“This is un-American“ is anti-Indigenous, anti-Black gaslighting and if you find that inconvenient imagine how our colonized and enslaved ancestors felt and grow the fuck up
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A lot of prominent pundits and public intellectuals claimed—frequently and spuriously—that DEI measures in higher ed are anti-free speech. The standing federal ruling on this question, though says the opposite—only after their polemics helped fuel worse censorship than the McCarthy Era.
Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges. This leaves in place a federal judge's ruling that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment and federal procedural rules. (Via AP) apnews.com/article/dei-... #ncpol #nced
Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges
The Trump administration is dropping its appeal of a federal court ruling that blocked a campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion threatening federal funding to the nation’s schools and colle...
apnews.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:24 AM
A lot of prominent pundits and public intellectuals claimed—frequently and spuriously—that DEI measures in higher ed are anti-free speech. The standing federal ruling on this question, though says the opposite—only after their polemics helped fuel worse censorship than the McCarthy Era.