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Nam June Paik returns home from a show in Sydney, hits a toll road, reaches into his pocket...
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Zohran Mamdani ran on freezing the rent in NYC.
Abigail Spanberger ran on supporting fired federal workers and lowering the cost of living in VA.
Mikie Sherrill ran on lowering utility bills in NJ.
Ensuring people can afford to live a decent life is the path forward.
Abigail Spanberger ran on supporting fired federal workers and lowering the cost of living in VA.
Mikie Sherrill ran on lowering utility bills in NJ.
Ensuring people can afford to live a decent life is the path forward.
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Zohran Mamdani ran on freezing the rent in NYC.
Abigail Spanberger ran on supporting fired federal workers and lowering the cost of living in VA.
Mikie Sherrill ran on lowering utility bills in NJ.
Ensuring people can afford to live a decent life is the path forward.
Abigail Spanberger ran on supporting fired federal workers and lowering the cost of living in VA.
Mikie Sherrill ran on lowering utility bills in NJ.
Ensuring people can afford to live a decent life is the path forward.
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Exciting CAALS event! 🎉 Join us Fri, Nov 14, 2:30-3:45pm EST for a talk with Chris A. Eng & Roberta Wolfson on their new books, Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian America & Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the US Security State! Zoom link: bit.ly/4nFc73u
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Exciting CAALS event! 🎉 Join us Fri, Nov 14, 2:30-3:45pm EST for a talk with Chris A. Eng & Roberta Wolfson on their new books, Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian America & Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the US Security State! Zoom link: bit.ly/4nFc73u
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this is what “faculty consultation” on AI initiatives has typically looked like, and usually the faculty member is getting money from tech industry somehow, if you spend five minutes looking into it
@nytimes.com Pls investigate deeper into this charade!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t...
"AI Advisory Board" has 1 faculty member & 1 student w/rest from tech. Interview CA Faculty Association? or SJSU-CIRCLE initiative faculty?
FFS
sloppy reporting that shills for the chancellor's office
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t...
"AI Advisory Board" has 1 faculty member & 1 student w/rest from tech. Interview CA Faculty Association? or SJSU-CIRCLE initiative faculty?
FFS
sloppy reporting that shills for the chancellor's office
Big Tech Makes Cal State Its A.I. Training Ground
www.nytimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:56 AM
this is what “faculty consultation” on AI initiatives has typically looked like, and usually the faculty member is getting money from tech industry somehow, if you spend five minutes looking into it
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After years of activist pressure, lawsuits, and bad press Ring made much needed reforms. Now, they’re pivoting back to mass police surveillance as a business model. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech
www.eff.org
October 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
After years of activist pressure, lawsuits, and bad press Ring made much needed reforms. Now, they’re pivoting back to mass police surveillance as a business model. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Technology like Flock and Ring doesn’t make people safer, it just subjects them to a round-the-clock warrantless digital dragnet. “Privacy isn’t dangerous, but giving privacy up for a false sense of security is very dangerous,” EFF’s Jennifer Pinsof told @CNBC.com. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/...
October 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Technology like Flock and Ring doesn’t make people safer, it just subjects them to a round-the-clock warrantless digital dragnet. “Privacy isn’t dangerous, but giving privacy up for a false sense of security is very dangerous,” EFF’s Jennifer Pinsof told @CNBC.com. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/...
Holy shit, this is huge.
Have you seen 3D animations from the IDF showing secret Hamas hideouts?
According to Israel's +972 magazine, many have "serious spatial inaccuracies or prefabricated assets—sourced not from classified intelligence but rather from commercial libraries, content creators, and cultural institutions."
According to Israel's +972 magazine, many have "serious spatial inaccuracies or prefabricated assets—sourced not from classified intelligence but rather from commercial libraries, content creators, and cultural institutions."
How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel’s 3D propaganda
An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators.
www.972mag.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Holy shit, this is huge.
Resources for writing a (humanities) dissertation while dealing with ADHD?
October 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Resources for writing a (humanities) dissertation while dealing with ADHD?
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There is so much unknown about how ICE intends to use Paragon's terrifying no-click surveillance spyware. We appreciate members of the House Oversight Committee for sending this letter and trying to find out how this spyware will be used.
oversightdemocrats.house.gov
October 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
There is so much unknown about how ICE intends to use Paragon's terrifying no-click surveillance spyware. We appreciate members of the House Oversight Committee for sending this letter and trying to find out how this spyware will be used.
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“Try to minimize what you take with you across the border to only the essentials,” EFF’s @legind.bsky.social advises international travelers in @wired.com. “If you are taking a vacation, do you really need that work laptop with you?”
Worried About Phone Searches? 1Password's Travel Mode Can Clean Up Your Data
Travel Mode not only hides your most sensitive data—it acts as if that data never existed in the first place.
www.wired.com
September 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
“Try to minimize what you take with you across the border to only the essentials,” EFF’s @legind.bsky.social advises international travelers in @wired.com. “If you are taking a vacation, do you really need that work laptop with you?”
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The biggest threat to generative AI is people’s basic desire to know and make things. I believe that that will be what undoes this creeping, cancerous mediocrity, if anything does, because nothing else (including, sadly, respect for life or others) is strong enough or ineradicable enough to persist.
September 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The biggest threat to generative AI is people’s basic desire to know and make things. I believe that that will be what undoes this creeping, cancerous mediocrity, if anything does, because nothing else (including, sadly, respect for life or others) is strong enough or ineradicable enough to persist.
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At Texas Tech our Faculty Senate managed to get a proposal out to keep functioning, at least. This is a disaster for UT.
The UT System Board of Regents authorized campus presidents on Thursday to replace faculty senates with less independent versions of the bodies.
Regents also authorized major policy changes that will significantly limit free speech on campuses in response to pro-Palestinian protests last year.
Regents also authorized major policy changes that will significantly limit free speech on campuses in response to pro-Palestinian protests last year.
UT System nixes faculty senates, approves restrictions on campus protests
The changes are in response to new state laws seeking to limit faculty’s influence and put guardrails on campus demonstrations.
www.texastribune.org
August 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
At Texas Tech our Faculty Senate managed to get a proposal out to keep functioning, at least. This is a disaster for UT.
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Big AI in education news from South Korea.
After huge government financial support, masses of media, substantial backing from education publishers, and a lot of international interest, it's now abandoning its flagship AI textbooks program for schools
m.koreaherald.com/article/1054...
After huge government financial support, masses of media, substantial backing from education publishers, and a lot of international interest, it's now abandoning its flagship AI textbooks program for schools
m.koreaherald.com/article/1054...
South Korea pulls plug on AI textbooks
South Korea’s National Assembly passed a bill on Monday stripping artificial intelligence-powered digital textbooks of their legal status as official teaching
m.koreaherald.com
August 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Big AI in education news from South Korea.
After huge government financial support, masses of media, substantial backing from education publishers, and a lot of international interest, it's now abandoning its flagship AI textbooks program for schools
m.koreaherald.com/article/1054...
After huge government financial support, masses of media, substantial backing from education publishers, and a lot of international interest, it's now abandoning its flagship AI textbooks program for schools
m.koreaherald.com/article/1054...
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So a *lot* of the national Flock lookups we wrote about in this article that were run by local police over the last year were run for the reason "HSI." Police told us they couldn't possibly be for immigration reasons because HSI only focuses on "serious" crimes
www.404media.co/ice-taps-int...
www.404media.co/ice-taps-int...
August 14, 2025 at 3:22 AM
So a *lot* of the national Flock lookups we wrote about in this article that were run by local police over the last year were run for the reason "HSI." Police told us they couldn't possibly be for immigration reasons because HSI only focuses on "serious" crimes
www.404media.co/ice-taps-int...
www.404media.co/ice-taps-int...
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NEW: Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents.
ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a way that could result in cartel-like behavior.
By @heathervogell.bsky.social
ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a way that could result in cartel-like behavior.
By @heathervogell.bsky.social
America’s Largest Landlord to Stop Using RealPage Rent-Setting Software, Makes Deal With DOJ
Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents. ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a...
www.propublica.org
August 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
NEW: Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents.
ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a way that could result in cartel-like behavior.
By @heathervogell.bsky.social
ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a way that could result in cartel-like behavior.
By @heathervogell.bsky.social
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The thing about surveillance is that it is *never* just about official structures and formal regulation. There are always informal underground forms of exploitation
Another insane surveillance story. DACA recipient pulled over in Colorado by police, then let go. Police tell a Signal group that includes dept that collabs with ICE. That dept then logs into an ALPR system from another department. Woman then arrested by ICE
therevolutionistgj.org/2025/08/12/g...
therevolutionistgj.org/2025/08/12/g...
GJPD Cameras Accessed Five Times During Goncalves Incident
by Jacob Richards On June 5, from when Deputy Zwinck first pulled over Caroline Dais Goncalves for following too close behind a semi truck, through her release and later arrest by ICE/HSI officers,…
therevolutionistgj.org
August 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The thing about surveillance is that it is *never* just about official structures and formal regulation. There are always informal underground forms of exploitation
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If they SUPPORT FASCISM ABROAD what makes you think they will FIGHT FASCISM AT HOME!?
If they IGNORE APARTHEID ABROAD what makes you think they will PROTECT DEMOCRACY AT HOME!?
If they FUND GENOCIDE ABROAD what makes you think they will STOP GENOCIDE AT HOME!?
PRIMARY THEM ALL. GET THEM OUT.
If they IGNORE APARTHEID ABROAD what makes you think they will PROTECT DEMOCRACY AT HOME!?
If they FUND GENOCIDE ABROAD what makes you think they will STOP GENOCIDE AT HOME!?
PRIMARY THEM ALL. GET THEM OUT.
This week, Democrat members of Congress are going to Israel on a trip that will likely include a meeting with Netanyahu. It is, of course, AIPAC-funded.
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/08/...
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/08/...
August 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
If they SUPPORT FASCISM ABROAD what makes you think they will FIGHT FASCISM AT HOME!?
If they IGNORE APARTHEID ABROAD what makes you think they will PROTECT DEMOCRACY AT HOME!?
If they FUND GENOCIDE ABROAD what makes you think they will STOP GENOCIDE AT HOME!?
PRIMARY THEM ALL. GET THEM OUT.
If they IGNORE APARTHEID ABROAD what makes you think they will PROTECT DEMOCRACY AT HOME!?
If they FUND GENOCIDE ABROAD what makes you think they will STOP GENOCIDE AT HOME!?
PRIMARY THEM ALL. GET THEM OUT.
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No sleep for ICE tonight as activists found their hotel again. Hotel managers have to decide whether that GSA per diem money is worth having their hotel completely surrounded 24/7 by protesters.
June 11, 2025 at 3:25 AM
No sleep for ICE tonight as activists found their hotel again. Hotel managers have to decide whether that GSA per diem money is worth having their hotel completely surrounded 24/7 by protesters.
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If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason.
If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half.
📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social
If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half.
📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason.
If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half.
📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social
If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half.
📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social
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I can’t compete with this
June 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I can’t compete with this
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The city repeatedly asked the Justice Department to identify alleged antisemitic incidents. The Justice Department never responded. Now the meeting is canceled.
Seems like more people need to be calling the Trump administration's bluffs.
Seems like more people need to be calling the Trump administration's bluffs.
The Trump administration asked Boston for a meeting about antisemitism. Then it went quiet. - The Boston Globe
City officials say they have not heard from the Justice Department about the meeting that was to take place Wednesday.
www.bostonglobe.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The city repeatedly asked the Justice Department to identify alleged antisemitic incidents. The Justice Department never responded. Now the meeting is canceled.
Seems like more people need to be calling the Trump administration's bluffs.
Seems like more people need to be calling the Trump administration's bluffs.
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Universities that won’t stand up for their students are going to start looking like they’re empty if they keep up with their current stance (or total absence of one).
April 22, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Universities that won’t stand up for their students are going to start looking like they’re empty if they keep up with their current stance (or total absence of one).
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COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back
April 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back
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Keen sociological analysis on loyalty vs dominance regimes.
I’ve seen a lot of assumptions in the media that Trump (and Musk) are targeting institutions with loyalty tests.
But that’s not quite right. They’re using dominance tests. And the difference between these two things matter. 🧵
But that’s not quite right. They’re using dominance tests. And the difference between these two things matter. 🧵
March 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Keen sociological analysis on loyalty vs dominance regimes.
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New: a map called "DOGEQUEST" claims to be posting addresses of some Tesla owners, DOGE employees, and posting locations of Tesla superchargers and dealerships:
www.404media.co/dogequest-si...
www.404media.co/dogequest-si...
‘Dogequest’ Site Claims to Dox Tesla Owners Across the U.S.
The site also has information on Tesla dealerships and members of DOGE. “At DOGEQUEST, we believe in empowering creative expressions of protest that you can execute from the comfort of your own home.”
www.404media.co
March 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
New: a map called "DOGEQUEST" claims to be posting addresses of some Tesla owners, DOGE employees, and posting locations of Tesla superchargers and dealerships:
www.404media.co/dogequest-si...
www.404media.co/dogequest-si...