Marisa Elena Duarte
@mwhitehorse.bsky.social
Indigenous studies, information studies, justice studies, professor at School of Social Transformation, yoem hamut, xicanx. "En el país de los ciegos el tuerto es rey."
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📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
October 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
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So just a heads up being supportive of trans folks wins you elections.
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
So just a heads up being supportive of trans folks wins you elections.
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Africana Studies is going to have one hell of an update to their "what our majors have done with their degree after graduation" page.
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Africana Studies is going to have one hell of an update to their "what our majors have done with their degree after graduation" page.
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Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today!
Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount
Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount
November 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today!
Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount
Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount
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This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true.
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
October 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true.
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
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The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to fire the director of the U.S. Copyright Office.
https://to.pbs.org/3X2xpNi
https://to.pbs.org/3X2xpNi
Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to allow it to fire head of U.S. Copyright Office
The case is the latest that relates to Trump’s authority to install his own people at the head of federal agencies.
www.pbs.org
October 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to fire the director of the U.S. Copyright Office.
https://to.pbs.org/3X2xpNi
https://to.pbs.org/3X2xpNi
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"The annihilation of education is a central pillar of Israel’s genocide, targeting not just Palestinian educators and educational infrastructure, culture, and knowledge systems, but the very core of Palestinian life." 👇https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03626784.2025.2558520
Scholasticide and resilience: The Gaza Genocide and the struggle for Palestinian higher education
In this article, we examine the concept of scholasticide, its historical evolution, and its contemporary relevance with specific reference to Palestine. Focusing on Israel’s attempt to annihilate h...
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October 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"The annihilation of education is a central pillar of Israel’s genocide, targeting not just Palestinian educators and educational infrastructure, culture, and knowledge systems, but the very core of Palestinian life." 👇https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03626784.2025.2558520
Okay, thank you for this, as the president of my university recently compared AI to the printing press, and as an information scientist I am saying, "no, sir, that is neither helpful nor accurate."
really nice piece on this btw from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...
"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History — Sonja Drimmer
The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself. It's become a favorite catchphrase among tech boosters of any sort (see my post on...
sonjadrimmer.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Okay, thank you for this, as the president of my university recently compared AI to the printing press, and as an information scientist I am saying, "no, sir, that is neither helpful nor accurate."
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Here’s the true cost of Donald Trump’s “unconditional donation” of a $400 M luxury aircraft gifted to him by Qatar.
cc: @altspaceforce.altgov.info
cc: @altspaceforce.altgov.info
Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho
October 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Here’s the true cost of Donald Trump’s “unconditional donation” of a $400 M luxury aircraft gifted to him by Qatar.
cc: @altspaceforce.altgov.info
cc: @altspaceforce.altgov.info
www.anti-imperialists.com/blog/unity-o...
New essay by Profesor A. Aviña, Unity or Submission: The Great Yankee Risk, on the targeting of boats in Venezuela: "The Mexico-Palestine border is everywhere, including in the Caribbean."
New essay by Profesor A. Aviña, Unity or Submission: The Great Yankee Risk, on the targeting of boats in Venezuela: "The Mexico-Palestine border is everywhere, including in the Caribbean."
Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective
www.anti-imperialists.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
www.anti-imperialists.com/blog/unity-o...
New essay by Profesor A. Aviña, Unity or Submission: The Great Yankee Risk, on the targeting of boats in Venezuela: "The Mexico-Palestine border is everywhere, including in the Caribbean."
New essay by Profesor A. Aviña, Unity or Submission: The Great Yankee Risk, on the targeting of boats in Venezuela: "The Mexico-Palestine border is everywhere, including in the Caribbean."
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Join us on Thursday, OCTOBER 16th at 4:00 - 5:30 PM ET over Zoom for a conversation about How to Survive Techno-Hellscapes 🔥💻🌐
This panel will feature four phenomenal disability culture workers, activists, writers, and scholars in conversation with DISCO's own @remiyergeau.bsky.social
This panel will feature four phenomenal disability culture workers, activists, writers, and scholars in conversation with DISCO's own @remiyergeau.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Join us on Thursday, OCTOBER 16th at 4:00 - 5:30 PM ET over Zoom for a conversation about How to Survive Techno-Hellscapes 🔥💻🌐
This panel will feature four phenomenal disability culture workers, activists, writers, and scholars in conversation with DISCO's own @remiyergeau.bsky.social
This panel will feature four phenomenal disability culture workers, activists, writers, and scholars in conversation with DISCO's own @remiyergeau.bsky.social
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Ah yes, carving through the wilderness so someone can make an AI video of Darth Vader doing a TikTok dance. interc.pt/478DpZU
October 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Ah yes, carving through the wilderness so someone can make an AI video of Darth Vader doing a TikTok dance. interc.pt/478DpZU
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A sheriff told the media that his team searched a license plate reader database because they were worried about a woman's safety. Records show it was an abortion investigation. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a
New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and
www.eff.org
October 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
A sheriff told the media that his team searched a license plate reader database because they were worried about a woman's safety. Records show it was an abortion investigation. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Critical tech colleagues, see Stand.Earth @stand.earth report on Microsoft AI's pollution footprint stand.earth/resources/gl...
Global Ramifications, Local Impact – Microsoft’s AI Pollution Footprint - Stand.earth
By using the best available data on Microsoft’s AI expenditures and growth trajectory, as well as by examining the company’s energy providers and current investments in energy procurement, this report...
stand.earth
October 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Critical tech colleagues, see Stand.Earth @stand.earth report on Microsoft AI's pollution footprint stand.earth/resources/gl...
Critical tech colleagues, see the worker rights supported by @chipscommunities.bsky.social Chips Communities United as well as environmental impacts of the semiconductor industry as reflected in a generation of advocacy by Center for Environmental Public Oversight. cpeo.org
Center For Public Environmental Oversight
The Center for Public Environmental Oversight (CPEO) promotes and facilitates public participation in the oversight of environmental activities at federal facilities, private "Superfund" sites, and Brownfields.
cpeo.org
October 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Critical tech colleagues, see the worker rights supported by @chipscommunities.bsky.social Chips Communities United as well as environmental impacts of the semiconductor industry as reflected in a generation of advocacy by Center for Environmental Public Oversight. cpeo.org
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I am once again asking why these data centers are all fucking SECRETS
"A controversial plan to build a 2.2-million-square-foot data center on farmland may still happen. A rural community... is looking to settle a lawsuit recently filed by a development firm working for an unidentified tech giant."
"A controversial plan to build a 2.2-million-square-foot data center on farmland may still happen. A rural community... is looking to settle a lawsuit recently filed by a development firm working for an unidentified tech giant."
October 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I am once again asking why these data centers are all fucking SECRETS
"A controversial plan to build a 2.2-million-square-foot data center on farmland may still happen. A rural community... is looking to settle a lawsuit recently filed by a development firm working for an unidentified tech giant."
"A controversial plan to build a 2.2-million-square-foot data center on farmland may still happen. A rural community... is looking to settle a lawsuit recently filed by a development firm working for an unidentified tech giant."
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Sovereign computers, software and servers for home and office. Come and join me for this live webinar with an Open Source expert, noon October 22, Nau mai, haere mai koutou!
sovereign-computers.eventbrite.co.nz
sovereign-computers.eventbrite.co.nz
Sovereign computers, software and servers for home and office
I talk with Tangata Tiriti Rob Elshire about his journey over decades setting up sovereign computers and data storage facilities.
Sovereign-Computers.eventbrite.co.nz
October 8, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Sovereign computers, software and servers for home and office. Come and join me for this live webinar with an Open Source expert, noon October 22, Nau mai, haere mai koutou!
sovereign-computers.eventbrite.co.nz
sovereign-computers.eventbrite.co.nz
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“Its elimination, critics argue, would not just cut courses but undercut the very values [Clara] Luper embodied: courage, resistance, and the fight for equality.”
theblackwallsttimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
theblackwallsttimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
University of Oklahoma Eyes Closure of African American Studies
University of Oklahoma considers dissolving African American Studies, sparking backlash over erasure of Clara Luper’s legacy.
theblackwallsttimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
“Its elimination, critics argue, would not just cut courses but undercut the very values [Clara] Luper embodied: courage, resistance, and the fight for equality.”
theblackwallsttimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
theblackwallsttimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
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The tech industry’s embrace of President Trump has left many of us asking the same question: What the hell happened to Silicon Valley? On Sept. 23 at 11 AM, our WIRED experts get into it. wrd.cm/4mslR0k
Have questions? Drop them below 👇🏼
Have questions? Drop them below 👇🏼
September 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The tech industry’s embrace of President Trump has left many of us asking the same question: What the hell happened to Silicon Valley? On Sept. 23 at 11 AM, our WIRED experts get into it. wrd.cm/4mslR0k
Have questions? Drop them below 👇🏼
Have questions? Drop them below 👇🏼
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The destruction of third spaces by corporate and governmental interests and their replacement with highly engineered corpora digital spaces being the leading edge of our tip into fascism and social scale incoherence is really one of those obvious domino effects.
September 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The destruction of third spaces by corporate and governmental interests and their replacement with highly engineered corpora digital spaces being the leading edge of our tip into fascism and social scale incoherence is really one of those obvious domino effects.
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"A living visual archive on cybernetics in the expanded field. Browse and contribute images of all kinds: diagrams, schematics, photos, graphic elements, and other visual fragments."
Cybernetics Image Library
A living visual archive on cybernetics in the expanded field.
cyberneticsimagelibrary.dev
August 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
"A living visual archive on cybernetics in the expanded field. Browse and contribute images of all kinds: diagrams, schematics, photos, graphic elements, and other visual fragments."