Jordan Taylor
@jordant.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @ CMU HCII | Critical Computing + STS + Queer Art | he/they | https://jtaylor.gay | On the Job Market
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Jordan Taylor
@jordant.bsky.social
· May 14
🏳️🌈🎨💻📢 Happy to share our workshop study on queer artists’ experiences critically engaging with GenAI
Looking forward to presenting this work at #FAccT2025 and you can read a pre-print here:
arxiv.org/abs/2503.09805
Looking forward to presenting this work at #FAccT2025 and you can read a pre-print here:
arxiv.org/abs/2503.09805
This is the real reason behind all the “online safety” legislation being pushed atm: silencing queer and trans voices
The Florida Attorney General is demanding a Pensacola Theater cancel a drag Christmas pageant calling it demonic, obscene, anti-Christian and a threat to public health.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
This is the real reason behind all the “online safety” legislation being pushed atm: silencing queer and trans voices
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These companies already pulled ICE tracking apps in the US. I don't have high hopes if the Trump admin demands it, they won't also pull LGBTQ apps from their app stores.
www.wired.com/story/apple-...
www.wired.com/story/apple-...
Apple Pulls China’s Top Gay Dating Apps After Government Order
The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China’s marginalized LGBTQ+ community.
www.wired.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
These companies already pulled ICE tracking apps in the US. I don't have high hopes if the Trump admin demands it, they won't also pull LGBTQ apps from their app stores.
www.wired.com/story/apple-...
www.wired.com/story/apple-...
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BREAKING: Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to block transgender and nonbinary people from choosing passport sex markers.
Supreme Court lets Trump block transgender and nonbinary people from choosing passport sex markers
The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump’s administration to enforce a policy blocking transgender and nonbinary people from choosing passport sex markers that align with their gender identity.
bit.ly
November 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
BREAKING: Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to block transgender and nonbinary people from choosing passport sex markers.
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A law that requires "age assurance" sounds reasonable and moderate. But if that law defines age assurance as requiring government ID verification, it's not moderate at all—it's mass surveillance. Here’s a guide to what all those terms mean: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Age Verification, Estimation, Assurance, Oh My! A Guide to the
If you've been following the wave of age-gating laws sweeping across the country and the globe, you've probably noticed that lawmakers, tech companies, and advocates all seem to be using different
www.eff.org
October 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
A law that requires "age assurance" sounds reasonable and moderate. But if that law defines age assurance as requiring government ID verification, it's not moderate at all—it's mass surveillance. Here’s a guide to what all those terms mean: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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gonna offer extra credit if my students go to a sub-200 person venue to see a loud show and write me a little essay about it
September 3, 2025 at 2:43 AM
gonna offer extra credit if my students go to a sub-200 person venue to see a loud show and write me a little essay about it
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New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
This is why two companies shouldn’t get to decide what apps are on everyone’s phone
The federal government "jawbones" private companies by pressuring them to silence voices they can’t legally censor themselves, and Big Tech has erased ICE‑watching apps and an ICE-Sighting Chicago Facebook group.
The full story: lataco.com/big-tech-ice
By Nik Venet
The full story: lataco.com/big-tech-ice
By Nik Venet
October 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
This is why two companies shouldn’t get to decide what apps are on everyone’s phone
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1. Protests at Fenway have erupted this week, and further ones are planned.
The protests are in response to the capitulation of the institution to the Trump administration.
They have ended trans youth care.
The latest from writer S. Baum.
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The protests are in response to the capitulation of the institution to the Trump administration.
They have ended trans youth care.
The latest from writer S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
After Fenway Cuts Trans Care, Protests Erupt—Again and Again and Again
“This failure of courage does not have to be permanent.”
www.erininthemorning.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
1. Protests at Fenway have erupted this week, and further ones are planned.
The protests are in response to the capitulation of the institution to the Trump administration.
They have ended trans youth care.
The latest from writer S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
The protests are in response to the capitulation of the institution to the Trump administration.
They have ended trans youth care.
The latest from writer S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Busy applying to HCI jobs on some of the worst designed websites imaginable. Current one I'm working on doesn't allow you to have multiple degrees from the same university so I have to choose between putting in my undergrad or masters degree...
October 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Busy applying to HCI jobs on some of the worst designed websites imaginable. Current one I'm working on doesn't allow you to have multiple degrees from the same university so I have to choose between putting in my undergrad or masters degree...
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We're surveying researchers about name changes in academic publishing.
If you've changed your name and dealt with updating publications, we want to hear your experience. Any reason counts: transition, marriage, cultural reasons, etc.
forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP
If you've changed your name and dealt with updating publications, we want to hear your experience. Any reason counts: transition, marriage, cultural reasons, etc.
forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP
October 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
We're surveying researchers about name changes in academic publishing.
If you've changed your name and dealt with updating publications, we want to hear your experience. Any reason counts: transition, marriage, cultural reasons, etc.
forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP
If you've changed your name and dealt with updating publications, we want to hear your experience. Any reason counts: transition, marriage, cultural reasons, etc.
forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP
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NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams
NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams
The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...
www.thewrap.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams
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We are launching our Graduate School Application Financial Aid Program (www.queerinai.com/grad-app-aid) for 2025-2026. We’ll give up to $750 per person to LGBTQIA+ STEM scholars applying to graduate programs. Apply at openreview.net/group?id=Que.... 1/5
Grad App Aid — Queer in AI
www.queerinai.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:37 AM
We are launching our Graduate School Application Financial Aid Program (www.queerinai.com/grad-app-aid) for 2025-2026. We’ll give up to $750 per person to LGBTQIA+ STEM scholars applying to graduate programs. Apply at openreview.net/group?id=Que.... 1/5
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Good rundown of the current situation on Bsky (written before Rudy's update that Blacksky is going to make Link available to its users)
plus.flux.community/p/banning-co...
plus.flux.community/p/banning-co...
Banning controversy reveals Bluesky’s federation isn’t there yet
Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative network has figured out how to become independent
plus.flux.community
October 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Good rundown of the current situation on Bsky (written before Rudy's update that Blacksky is going to make Link available to its users)
plus.flux.community/p/banning-co...
plus.flux.community/p/banning-co...
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THEY BANNED ERIN TOO!?!??! NOO!!!!!!!
Erin Baba is a journalist. Link is a lawyer.
Bluesky silences journalists and lawyers now for the sake of the leadership egos.
These rank, arrogant amateurs playacting at being kings and queens of the sandcastle.
Bluesky silences journalists and lawyers now for the sake of the leadership egos.
These rank, arrogant amateurs playacting at being kings and queens of the sandcastle.
October 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
THEY BANNED ERIN TOO!?!??! NOO!!!!!!!
Just got a "upsell error" message from Adobe 🙃
October 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Just got a "upsell error" message from Adobe 🙃
If leadership has the power to arbitrarily enforce moderation policies, Bluesky is no better than Tw*tter
This warning from Cory Doctorow feels quite timely: doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
This warning from Cory Doctorow feels quite timely: doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
Bluesky and enshittification
No one is the enshittifier of their own story.
doctorow.medium.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM
If leadership has the power to arbitrarily enforce moderation policies, Bluesky is no better than Tw*tter
This warning from Cory Doctorow feels quite timely: doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
This warning from Cory Doctorow feels quite timely: doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
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NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.
Including some users passports & DLs
Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.
Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/
Including some users passports & DLs
Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.
Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/
October 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.
Including some users passports & DLs
Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.
Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/
Including some users passports & DLs
Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.
Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/
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oh look the fears of everyone who understands data privacy are valid
NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.
Including some users passports & DLs
Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.
Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/
Including some users passports & DLs
Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.
Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/
October 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
oh look the fears of everyone who understands data privacy are valid
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Tomorrow, @bsky.app will begin requiring all users in Ohio to submit facial scans, government IDs or other identity info to access the site, in order to prevent prosecution under the state's age-verification law.
Meanwhile, X does nothing. Because it likely doesn't fear prosecution.
Meanwhile, X does nothing. Because it likely doesn't fear prosecution.
Bluesky rolls out age verification for users in Ohio | TechCrunch
Users in Ohio will have to verify their age to use Bluesky's social network as of Monday.
techcrunch.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Tomorrow, @bsky.app will begin requiring all users in Ohio to submit facial scans, government IDs or other identity info to access the site, in order to prevent prosecution under the state's age-verification law.
Meanwhile, X does nothing. Because it likely doesn't fear prosecution.
Meanwhile, X does nothing. Because it likely doesn't fear prosecution.
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Instead of worrying that TikTok could carry Chinese government propaganda — which the Supreme Court declined to even consider — "people can now be concerned that TikTok could be a conduit for US government propaganda," EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social and @evacide.bsky.social said.
TikTok’s Future: U.S. Owners To Control Algorithm And Data In Proposed Deal
TikTok’s U.S. operations could soon be run by Oracle, Silver Lake Partners and the Murdochs under a proposed $100 billion deal.
www.forbes.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Instead of worrying that TikTok could carry Chinese government propaganda — which the Supreme Court declined to even consider — "people can now be concerned that TikTok could be a conduit for US government propaganda," EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social and @evacide.bsky.social said.
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Trump is rescinding road safety grants all over the country, in blue states and red ones.
The reason: those projects are "hostile" to cars.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The reason: those projects are "hostile" to cars.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Cancels Trail, Bike-Lane Grants Deemed ‘Hostile’ to Cars
The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities around the country this month, each time offering a simple rationale for yanking ba...
www.bloomberg.com
September 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Trump is rescinding road safety grants all over the country, in blue states and red ones.
The reason: those projects are "hostile" to cars.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The reason: those projects are "hostile" to cars.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."
So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
Texas A&M President to Step Down After Controversy Over ‘Gender Ideology’
www.nytimes.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."
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EFF has been investigating stories from users whose abortion-related content has been taken down. What did we find? Over and over again, the policies say one thing, but the actual enforcement says another. www.eff.org/pages/our-s...
Our Stop Censoring Abortion Campaign Uncovers a Social Media
For months, EFF has been investigating stories from users whose abortion-related content has been taken down or otherwise suppressed by major social media platforms. In collaboration with our
www.eff.org
September 19, 2025 at 11:58 PM
EFF has been investigating stories from users whose abortion-related content has been taken down. What did we find? Over and over again, the policies say one thing, but the actual enforcement says another. www.eff.org/pages/our-s...
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"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
www.insidehighered.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Folks gonna start adding a no hologram clause to their wills
For decades, Stan Lee was the king of comic conventions. Now, nearly seven years after his death at the age of 95, he will once again be a presence at L.A. Comic Con, this time as a hologram that will use AI to have conversations with fans.
An AI Stan Lee Hologram Will Speak With Fans at L.A. Comic Con
For decades, Stan Lee was the king of comic conventions. Now, nearly seven years after his death at the age of 95, he will once again be a presence at L.A. Comic Con, this time as a hologram that will use AI to have conversations with fans.
bit.ly
September 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Folks gonna start adding a no hologram clause to their wills