Praba Pilar
@pilarva.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary artist, working with & critiquing emerging technologies, with a focus on technologies of life. Critical Theory professor, Co-director of Bioart Ethical Advisory Kommission. More at https://www.prabapilar.com
Very sad to learn of Steve Kurtz' recent death, he was a wonderful person, artist and friend. Please, please, please, watch his 2025 talk on 'Unreality and Its Discontents: The Struggle Against Christian Nationalism,”' youtu.be/H_pWRcToIts?...
Unreality and Its Discontents, book launch by the Critial Art Ensemble FULL TALK
YouTube video by Myymälä 2
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November 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Very sad to learn of Steve Kurtz' recent death, he was a wonderful person, artist and friend. Please, please, please, watch his 2025 talk on 'Unreality and Its Discontents: The Struggle Against Christian Nationalism,”' youtu.be/H_pWRcToIts?...
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“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
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OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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This Is How to Fight Fascism: Naomi Klein, AOC & Brad Lander on Mamdani Victory
This Is How to Fight Fascism: Naomi Klein, AOC & Brad Lander on Mamdani Victory
At Zohran Mamdani’s victory party at the Brooklyn Paramount on Tuesday night, Democracy Now! spoke with Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “We’re not going to be intimidated,” Ocasio-Cortez said...
www.democracynow.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This Is How to Fight Fascism: Naomi Klein, AOC & Brad Lander on Mamdani Victory
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#CallForApplications
Offering up to three positions in our “First Research Article” Fellowship Program!
🌐 For PhD students at Asian, African, or Latin American institutions
🚀 Research in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, or #STS
🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15, 2026
🔗 bit.ly/4oygRbJ
#HistSci
Offering up to three positions in our “First Research Article” Fellowship Program!
🌐 For PhD students at Asian, African, or Latin American institutions
🚀 Research in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, or #STS
🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15, 2026
🔗 bit.ly/4oygRbJ
#HistSci
October 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
#CallForApplications
Offering up to three positions in our “First Research Article” Fellowship Program!
🌐 For PhD students at Asian, African, or Latin American institutions
🚀 Research in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, or #STS
🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15, 2026
🔗 bit.ly/4oygRbJ
#HistSci
Offering up to three positions in our “First Research Article” Fellowship Program!
🌐 For PhD students at Asian, African, or Latin American institutions
🚀 Research in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, or #STS
🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15, 2026
🔗 bit.ly/4oygRbJ
#HistSci
It is more important than ever to be clear, name names, and stand in solidarity
AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
October 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
It is more important than ever to be clear, name names, and stand in solidarity
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Wouldn’t it be something if #AOC was prez, #Bernie was VP and #JasmineCrockett was #SenateMajorityLeader and #JamieRaskin was #SpeakeroftheHouse.
One can dream. #Manifest your destiny.
Crockett weighing possible Texas Senate bid
#JasmineCrockettSenate
ground.news/article/jasm...
One can dream. #Manifest your destiny.
Crockett weighing possible Texas Senate bid
#JasmineCrockettSenate
ground.news/article/jasm...
Crockett weighing possible Texas Senate bid
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) is “strongly” considering running for Senate, she said on Wednesday, raising the prospect of adding yet another marquee name to what is already a crowded Democratic pri...
ground.news
October 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Wouldn’t it be something if #AOC was prez, #Bernie was VP and #JasmineCrockett was #SenateMajorityLeader and #JamieRaskin was #SpeakeroftheHouse.
One can dream. #Manifest your destiny.
Crockett weighing possible Texas Senate bid
#JasmineCrockettSenate
ground.news/article/jasm...
One can dream. #Manifest your destiny.
Crockett weighing possible Texas Senate bid
#JasmineCrockettSenate
ground.news/article/jasm...
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Trump has blown up a seventh small boat filled with civilians, this time linked to Colombia.
October 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Trump has blown up a seventh small boat filled with civilians, this time linked to Colombia.
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Colombia Recalls Ambassador, Blasts Trump Over Killing Fisherman
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Colombia Recalls Ambassador, Blasts Trump Over Killing Fisherman | Crooks and Liars
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October 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Colombia Recalls Ambassador, Blasts Trump Over Killing Fisherman
Worst case scenario, starting another war with Latin America, carajo
October 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Worst case scenario, starting another war with Latin America, carajo
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“Mr. Trump is furious that I don’t support the Americans, with the Colombian army, to invade Venezuela. What stupid Colombians would think of helping to invade his cousins… so they can be killed like in Gaza?” Colombian President Gustavo Petro gives a fiery interview blasting Trump’s oil
October 24, 2025 at 5:06 AM
“Mr. Trump is furious that I don’t support the Americans, with the Colombian army, to invade Venezuela. What stupid Colombians would think of helping to invade his cousins… so they can be killed like in Gaza?” Colombian President Gustavo Petro gives a fiery interview blasting Trump’s oil
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The US let the seeds of this fester for so long. This kind of expansion is what I wrote ONE LONG NIGHT to try to stop, but even thoughtful people had a hard time imagining what could happen. Someone from the Obama administration I interviewed a decade ago just sent me this article.
The Department of Homeland Security is funneling $10 billion through the Navy to help facilitate the construction of a sprawling network of migrant detention centers across the US in an arrangement aimed at getting the centers built faster. https://cnn.it/4oDFP9W
October 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The US let the seeds of this fester for so long. This kind of expansion is what I wrote ONE LONG NIGHT to try to stop, but even thoughtful people had a hard time imagining what could happen. Someone from the Obama administration I interviewed a decade ago just sent me this article.
When even the grotesque inversion of a symbolic military attack firing live rounds on California on the day of the No Kings march stops being symbolic and they fire on their own troops - WTF
ICYMI — a shell fired during Vance’s live-fire show of insecurity prematurely detonated over I-5, dropping fragments on his protective CHP detail on a ramp… which thankfully ordered closed by Gov. @GavinNewsom
a damn circus🎪
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
a damn circus🎪
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October 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
When even the grotesque inversion of a symbolic military attack firing live rounds on California on the day of the No Kings march stops being symbolic and they fire on their own troops - WTF
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Don’t wait to vote — mail in your ballot today! Vote YES on Prop 50 and protect our democracy🗳️
October 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Don’t wait to vote — mail in your ballot today! Vote YES on Prop 50 and protect our democracy🗳️
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New lawsuit against AI music company Suno just landed - brought by a group of independent musicians.
The same group of musicians who also sued Udio this week.
www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/...
The same group of musicians who also sued Udio this week.
www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/...
October 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
New lawsuit against AI music company Suno just landed - brought by a group of independent musicians.
The same group of musicians who also sued Udio this week.
www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/...
The same group of musicians who also sued Udio this week.
www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/...
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ICE isn’t just tapping into government databases — it’s also tapping into local police scanners, EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social said on an @nyu.edu panel. “ICE is buying millions of people’s geolocations and weaponizing all government data toward immigration.”
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NYU’s annual Detention and Deportation Conference means something different this year - Washington Square News
“This conference on immigration and detention and deportation has become a radical act. It’s sad, but it’s true,” migration scholar and keynote speaker Allison Mountz told an audience of close to 200 people on Wednesday, who stood along the back wall and spilled out the conference room’s double doors. The radical act in question was...
nyunews.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
ICE isn’t just tapping into government databases — it’s also tapping into local police scanners, EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social said on an @nyu.edu panel. “ICE is buying millions of people’s geolocations and weaponizing all government data toward immigration.”
nyunews.com/culture/ieq...
nyunews.com/culture/ieq...
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Meta has removed a Chicago ICE-tracking Facebook page.
The move follows Apple and Google removing ICE activity tracking apps from their app stores.
The removals came after a demand from Trump's DOJ.
Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.
Meta has removed a Chicago ICE-tracking Facebook page.
The move follows Apple and Google removing ICE activity tracking apps from their app stores.
The removals came after a demand from Trump's DOJ.
Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.
October 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
reich
Meta has removed a Chicago ICE-tracking Facebook page.
The move follows Apple and Google removing ICE activity tracking apps from their app stores.
The removals came after a demand from Trump's DOJ.
Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.
Meta has removed a Chicago ICE-tracking Facebook page.
The move follows Apple and Google removing ICE activity tracking apps from their app stores.
The removals came after a demand from Trump's DOJ.
Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.
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We have a toolkit for you if Federal forces invade your city next:
bit.ly/resistancetoolkit
bit.ly/resistancetoolkit
Trump: "We're just at the start. We're going to go into other cities that we're not talking about purposely. We're getting ready to go in."
October 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
We have a toolkit for you if Federal forces invade your city next:
bit.ly/resistancetoolkit
bit.ly/resistancetoolkit
Where we're at with #AI now, the #enshittified slop phase, with Peter Thiel rambling incoherently about his buddies the Anti-Christs, just more and more epistemic pathogenic #tech boy feces, #artifecalintelligence and #artifecallogics. From my latest talk on Desludging AI.
October 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Where we're at with #AI now, the #enshittified slop phase, with Peter Thiel rambling incoherently about his buddies the Anti-Christs, just more and more epistemic pathogenic #tech boy feces, #artifecalintelligence and #artifecallogics. From my latest talk on Desludging AI.
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Solipsism as a service. www.wsj.com/tech/persona...
October 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Solipsism as a service. www.wsj.com/tech/persona...
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October 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings
October 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings
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I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.
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September 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.
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🌟 New preprint 🌟, by @olivia.science and me:
📝 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). *Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists*. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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📝 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). *Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists*. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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October 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
🌟 New preprint 🌟, by @olivia.science and me:
📝 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). *Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists*. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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📝 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). *Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists*. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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