ellie c
@pinebeltblues.bsky.social
🏳️🌈🖤💜🤍
ref librarian & law prof @ UNC law library
PhD student @ UNC AmSt
UE150
she/her from AL
ref librarian & law prof @ UNC law library
PhD student @ UNC AmSt
UE150
she/her from AL
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In his forthcoming book, Your Data Will Be Used Against You, George Washington University Law School professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson explores how sensor-driven technologies, social media monitoring, and artificial intelligence can be weaponized against democratic values and personal freedoms.
How to Apply the 'Tyrant Test' to Technology
George Washington University Law School professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson is the author of the forthcoming book Your Data Will Be Used Against You.
www.techpolicy.press
February 1, 2026 at 4:02 PM
In his forthcoming book, Your Data Will Be Used Against You, George Washington University Law School professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson explores how sensor-driven technologies, social media monitoring, and artificial intelligence can be weaponized against democratic values and personal freedoms.
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Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
February 2, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
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Okay, it took me three days to finally do this, BUT!
You can buy whistles from us now!
I stress again that getting the whistles free is the OBVIOUS OPTION but some folks want 1-5 Kit Rocha whistles instead of 100 whistles, or to support us. So. OK!
thebrokencircle.etsy.com/listing/4449...
You can buy whistles from us now!
I stress again that getting the whistles free is the OBVIOUS OPTION but some folks want 1-5 Kit Rocha whistles instead of 100 whistles, or to support us. So. OK!
thebrokencircle.etsy.com/listing/4449...
January 30, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Okay, it took me three days to finally do this, BUT!
You can buy whistles from us now!
I stress again that getting the whistles free is the OBVIOUS OPTION but some folks want 1-5 Kit Rocha whistles instead of 100 whistles, or to support us. So. OK!
thebrokencircle.etsy.com/listing/4449...
You can buy whistles from us now!
I stress again that getting the whistles free is the OBVIOUS OPTION but some folks want 1-5 Kit Rocha whistles instead of 100 whistles, or to support us. So. OK!
thebrokencircle.etsy.com/listing/4449...
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Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants https://theonion.com/democrats-condemn-ice-for-murdering-without-proper-warrants/
January 30, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants https://theonion.com/democrats-condemn-ice-for-murdering-without-proper-warrants/
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Remind me again: How many millions of dollars is the football staff being paid?
www.dailytarheel.com/article/brea...
www.dailytarheel.com/article/brea...
UNC System policy draft would cut free legal aid for students, limit funds for student organizations
The policy draft would impose restrictions on how student activity fees can be distributed across the UNC System. According to its director, the Carolina Student Legal Services will not be able to con...
www.dailytarheel.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Remind me again: How many millions of dollars is the football staff being paid?
www.dailytarheel.com/article/brea...
www.dailytarheel.com/article/brea...
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![3-panel comic. (1) [Three small arthropods on ocean floor.] ARTHROPOD 1: Now that we’re multicellular, what are your plans? I’m gonna evolve little legs and swim around with them! ARTHROPOD 2: I’m gonna evolve sharp pincers and use them to crunch stuff! ARTHROPOD 3: I’m gonna evolve glands to make string from my butt and use it to construct elaborate geometric nets hundreds of times my size to catch other animals. (2) [Silence] (3) ARTHROPOD 1: *Dude.* ARTHROPOD 2: Can you *please* just be normal about this? ARTHROPOD 3: *What??!*](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreia3p425asp237hjolbn5lly6g6hzm2eoygqjpkd5dii6zrwqnp7qi@jpeg)
January 28, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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Today’s flower, a personal favorite, the dandelion: Symbolizes the ability to overcome challenges and survive in difficult conditions. 🌱 F*ck Trump and his fascist regime.
January 26, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Today’s flower, a personal favorite, the dandelion: Symbolizes the ability to overcome challenges and survive in difficult conditions. 🌱 F*ck Trump and his fascist regime.
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AAUP NC President Belle Boggs: “When people don’t feel safe, if they don’t feel like they can do their research, I don’t see how they can stay.”
dailytarheel.com/article/inve...
dailytarheel.com/article/inve...
Survey suggests faculty dissatisfaction despite decreasing levels of turnover
The Daily Tar Heel conducted an anonymous faculty survey during the Fall 2025 semester; roughly one-fourth of the respondents said they were planning to seek employment elsewhere within the next year.
dailytarheel.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:18 PM
AAUP NC President Belle Boggs: “When people don’t feel safe, if they don’t feel like they can do their research, I don’t see how they can stay.”
dailytarheel.com/article/inve...
dailytarheel.com/article/inve...
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“They have largely given up on organic adoption by consumers. They have moved on to a new dream of forced adoption mandated by government and managerial coercion.”
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/you-have-t...
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/you-have-t...
"You have to use it. You have to trust it.": Forced Adoption of AI is The Subtext of Davos
Authoritarianism is the AI Bailout; But If AI Doesn't Need a Bailout, Does it Need Authoritarianism?
theamericanvandal.substack.com
January 24, 2026 at 8:25 PM
“They have largely given up on organic adoption by consumers. They have moved on to a new dream of forced adoption mandated by government and managerial coercion.”
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/you-have-t...
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/you-have-t...
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As a someone with a 33 year NIH-funded lab whose grant is supposed to be reviewed this week, shut NIH down if that is what's needed to end ICE terrorism. Innocent lives are more important 🧪
The Senate may choose to vote together on the DHS and LHHS bills. Thus, a filibuster on DHS may mean no funding for NIH. What my colleagues are saying:
“Shut it down, public health will understand. I’ll work without pay again.”
- anonymous NIHer
“Shut it down, public health will understand. I’ll work without pay again.”
- anonymous NIHer
January 25, 2026 at 12:59 PM
As a someone with a 33 year NIH-funded lab whose grant is supposed to be reviewed this week, shut NIH down if that is what's needed to end ICE terrorism. Innocent lives are more important 🧪
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Check out Chapelboro’s curated guide of local winter weather resources here:
Here Are Winter Storm Resources in Orange County Ahead of and During Icy Weather - Chapelboro.com
With a massive winter storm forecasted, many in Orange County are preparing for frigid temperatures. Here are key resources to stay safe.
chapelboro.com
January 24, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Check out Chapelboro’s curated guide of local winter weather resources here:
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I watched a bunch of AI sessions at the WEF so you wouldn’t have to.
But you should read this.
But you should read this.
"You have to use it. You have to trust it.": Forced Adoption of AI is The Subtext of Davos
Authoritarianism is the AI Bailout; But If AI Doesn't Need a Bailout, Does it Need Authoritarianism?
theamericanvandal.substack.com
January 24, 2026 at 1:01 PM
I watched a bunch of AI sessions at the WEF so you wouldn’t have to.
But you should read this.
But you should read this.
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Story of the modern US state and capitalism since at least the 1940s—always money for war, police, and surveillance, and never enough for socially useful institutions, food, shelter, health care, and other public goods
It should piss everyone in the U.S. off that a first-year public school teacher averages $45k a year, while a first-year ICE agent averages about $80k and gets a $50k sign-on bonus. We are bankrolling terrorists & bankrupting teachers. This is a systemic values problem, not a budget one.
January 21, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Story of the modern US state and capitalism since at least the 1940s—always money for war, police, and surveillance, and never enough for socially useful institutions, food, shelter, health care, and other public goods
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Terrific essay by @erikmbaker.bsky.social in Jewish Currents
"Accommodating militarism in higher education for the sake of fighting Trump will not do anything to prepare the academic profession to eventually confront its complicity in American-sponsored atrocities" jewishcurrents.org/higher-eds-b...
"Accommodating militarism in higher education for the sake of fighting Trump will not do anything to prepare the academic profession to eventually confront its complicity in American-sponsored atrocities" jewishcurrents.org/higher-eds-b...
Higher Ed's Bad Bargain
To salvage academic freedom amid Trump’s attacks, universities must break from their Cold War compromise with US militarism.
jewishcurrents.org
January 21, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Terrific essay by @erikmbaker.bsky.social in Jewish Currents
"Accommodating militarism in higher education for the sake of fighting Trump will not do anything to prepare the academic profession to eventually confront its complicity in American-sponsored atrocities" jewishcurrents.org/higher-eds-b...
"Accommodating militarism in higher education for the sake of fighting Trump will not do anything to prepare the academic profession to eventually confront its complicity in American-sponsored atrocities" jewishcurrents.org/higher-eds-b...
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"Drawing on a 20.3-million-query audit of ChatGPT, we map systematic biases in the model's representations of countries, states, cities, and neighbourhoods. From these empirics, we argue that bias is not a correctable anomaly but an intrinsic feature of generative AI”.
ht: Dagmar Monett
ht: Dagmar Monett
The silicon gaze: A typology of biases and inequality in LLMs through the lens of place - Francisco W. Kerche, Matthew Zook, Mark Graham, 2026
This paper introduces the concept of the silicon gaze to explain how large language models (LLMs) reproduce and amplify long-standing spatial inequalities. Draw...
journals.sagepub.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:15 AM
"Drawing on a 20.3-million-query audit of ChatGPT, we map systematic biases in the model's representations of countries, states, cities, and neighbourhoods. From these empirics, we argue that bias is not a correctable anomaly but an intrinsic feature of generative AI”.
ht: Dagmar Monett
ht: Dagmar Monett
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Library Workers in Times of Hype: AI Edition
Matthew Noe, Ella Gibson, Ruth Monnier
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papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Matthew Noe, Ella Gibson, Ruth Monnier
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papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Library Workers in Times of Hype: AI Edition
Library workers can be AI literacy leaders without using, or encouraging the use of, generative AI tools.
papers.ssrn.com
January 20, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Library Workers in Times of Hype: AI Edition
Matthew Noe, Ella Gibson, Ruth Monnier
📚
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Matthew Noe, Ella Gibson, Ruth Monnier
📚
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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What's the best map of global AI supply chains you've seen? Looking for visuals for a lecture on tech colonialism
January 19, 2026 at 10:00 PM
What's the best map of global AI supply chains you've seen? Looking for visuals for a lecture on tech colonialism
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Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
January 19, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
I’ve got another review up at @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org !
This Page Intentionally Left Blank: @pinebeltblues.bsky.social reviews KJ Cerankowski's NOTHING WANTING (@uminnpress.bsky.social)
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
January 19, 2026 at 10:56 PM
I’ve got another review up at @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org !
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imagining a script that adds "the only nation to ever deploy a nuclear weapon in war" as a clause prefix to each instance of "the US" I read in print and finding it incredibly clarifying actually
January 19, 2026 at 7:52 PM
imagining a script that adds "the only nation to ever deploy a nuclear weapon in war" as a clause prefix to each instance of "the US" I read in print and finding it incredibly clarifying actually
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Really nice to see @notquitehydepark.bsky.social back in the @lrb.co.uk with a piece on Richard Siken (fear not, she brings up both Supernatural *and* AO3). She builds a career retrospective with fine economy (“Siken … cannot lie”).
More from SB in @strangehorizons.bsky.social soon!
More from SB in @strangehorizons.bsky.social soon!
Stephanie Burt · On Richard Siken
When Didion declared ‘we tell ourselves stories in order to live,’ she meant that we lie to ourselves all the time....
www.lrb.co.uk
January 19, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Really nice to see @notquitehydepark.bsky.social back in the @lrb.co.uk with a piece on Richard Siken (fear not, she brings up both Supernatural *and* AO3). She builds a career retrospective with fine economy (“Siken … cannot lie”).
More from SB in @strangehorizons.bsky.social soon!
More from SB in @strangehorizons.bsky.social soon!
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Dr. King on the relationship between colonialism & fascism:
"But one of the greatest things that this war is doing to us in Civil Rights is that it is allowing the Great Society to be shot down on the battlefields of Vietnam every day."
"But one of the greatest things that this war is doing to us in Civil Rights is that it is allowing the Great Society to be shot down on the battlefields of Vietnam every day."
Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement -- The Other America
Civil Rights Movement -- The Other
America.
www.crmvet.org
January 19, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Dr. King on the relationship between colonialism & fascism:
"But one of the greatest things that this war is doing to us in Civil Rights is that it is allowing the Great Society to be shot down on the battlefields of Vietnam every day."
"But one of the greatest things that this war is doing to us in Civil Rights is that it is allowing the Great Society to be shot down on the battlefields of Vietnam every day."
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In light of Democrats calling for more "training" for ICE, this passage from my book Copaganda seems relevant:
January 19, 2026 at 6:29 PM
In light of Democrats calling for more "training" for ICE, this passage from my book Copaganda seems relevant:
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Maybe we should stick to a message this simple.
January 19, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Maybe we should stick to a message this simple.
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This Page Intentionally Left Blank: @pinebeltblues.bsky.social reviews KJ Cerankowski's NOTHING WANTING (@uminnpress.bsky.social)
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
January 19, 2026 at 2:45 PM
This Page Intentionally Left Blank: @pinebeltblues.bsky.social reviews KJ Cerankowski's NOTHING WANTING (@uminnpress.bsky.social)