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Linda Huber
@puellaludens.bsky.social
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Social Justice and Technology Postdoc at Swarthmore College; freshly minted PhD from University of Michigan School of Info. Educating, agitating, organizing in tech-ademia.
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interruptcrim.bsky.social
🗓️Tomorrow, Dec. 9 at 8 PM ET/Dec. 10 at 9 AM Manila time: Join us & @abolisyon.bsky.social for the final webinar in our Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism series! We'll be discussing strategies for resisting criminalization and organizing under authoritarianism. Register: bit.ly/event-pt3
Event flyer featuring “Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism," "December 9 at 8-9:30 PM ET," and "Live captioning" in bold black text on green, yellow, and pink boxes, above and next to a drawing of mushrooms and roots in black, with green, yellow, and pink lightning bolts. Small black text reads: "Interrupting Criminalization with Abolysion." "Join us for the final session in the series with organizers from the Philippines who have been advancing transformative justice within criminalized communities in the face of authoritarianism."
December 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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cariatida.bsky.social
A disaster in the making for millions of care workers and the people they support: "[The Trump administration proposal] reopens a loophole allowing employers to broadly classify care workers as “companions” who can be paid less than minimum wage and are not eligible for overtime pay."
profsheenalives.bsky.social David Weil @profsheenalives.bsky.social · 5d
I led the DOL's Wage and Hour Division when the homecare rule was affirmed and we implemented it for 2+million workers and the people they help. This article captures the cost of Trump's effort to take away those protections. capitalandmain.com/home-care-wo... @nelp.org @capitalandmain.bsky.social
Home Care Workers Are Losing Minimum Wage Protections — and Fighting Back
Three million care workers, many of them Black and Latina women, could be classified as “companions” instead of professionals.
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December 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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klonick.bsky.social
Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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bettyferrari.bsky.social
I had a lot of fun talking about my @ucpress.bsky.social book on this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast! Thanks to Megan Finn for letting me chat about Silicon Valley, activism, and the book on mutual aid I'm writing now.
🎧 in your fave podcast app or here: newbooksnetwork.com/appropriate-...
Elisabetta Ferrari, "Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge: Activist Imaginaries and the Politics of Digital Technologies" (U California Press, 2024) - New Books Network
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December 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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ainowinstitute.bsky.social
Join us on Thursday at 1pm ET to launch our North Star Policy Toolkit for Data Center Organizers & Policymakers. You’ll hear from organizers fighting data center expansion, like Angelantonio Enriquez Breault, Connie Di Cicco, & Mary Black.

RSVP: bit.ly/data-center-...
December 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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nycdsatech.bsky.social
Want to know what is happening with AI in NYC public schools? Join us Saturday 12/6 for a forum on AI in schools we are co-sponsoring with @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social! RSVP: act.climatefamilies.org/ai-in-school...
December 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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scholarsforsj.bsky.social
Join this Wednesday's webinar WHY PALESTINE IS A UNION ISSUE (12/3) at 5:30—7:30pm ET, hosted by our comrades at Coalition for Action in Higher Ed!

Registration: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
December 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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deathpanel.bsky.social
In our latest, we discuss how healthcare costs are expected to dramatically spike next year and how the structure of the ACA itself ensures we’re going to relive moments like the shutdown fight until we can replace it with something fundamentally better

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The ACA and the Looming Healthcare Crisis (11/24/25) | The Death Panel
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November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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moneyontheleft.bsky.social
✨ New Essay! ✨

@mattseybold.bsky.social agues that the new Mamdani administration ought to fund CUNY to develop its own public, open-source educational technology. The result stands to socialize the means of knowledge production for collaborative use across the entire US higher education system.
Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production (Let CUNY Socialize EdTech for All of Us)
by Matt Seybold This essay originally appeared on Matt Seybold’s The American Vandal Substack. We are grateful for his generous permission to republish it here. An understandable response to …
moneyontheleft.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
puellaludens.bsky.social
“An analysis of the financial data by economics department members claimed TNS could have had a $7 million surplus instead of a $30.2 million deficit.“ 👀
www.newschoolfreepress.com/2025/11/24/t...
The New School Full-Time Faculty Union and AAUP-TNS Leadership Council release a joint statement about the administration’s austerity measures - The New School Free Press
The New School Full-Time Faculty Union (FTF), a group of full-time faculty organizing to create a union and AAUP-TNS Leadership Council denounced President Joel Towers’ restructuring in a released joi...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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coreyryung.bsky.social
After a decade of research and hundreds of billions of dollars spent, the genesis mission will still only talk about white genocide in South Africa.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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justinhendrix.bsky.social
"Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by US school districts against Meta and other social media platforms." www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
In a 2020 research project code-named “Project Mercury,” Meta (META.O), opens new tab scientists worked with survey firm Nielsen to gauge the effect of “deactivating” Facebook, according to Meta documents obtained via discovery. To the company’s disappointment, “people who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness and social comparison,” internal documents said. Rather than publishing those findings or pursuing additional research, the filing states, Meta called off further work and internally declared that the negative study findings were tainted by the “existing media narrative” around the company. Privately, however, a staffer insisted that the conclusions of the research were valid, according to the filing. “The Nielsen study does show causal impact on social comparison,” (unhappy face emoji), an unnamed staff researcher allegedly wrote. Another staffer worried that keeping quiet about negative findings would be akin to the tobacco industry “doing research and knowing cigs were bad and then keeping that info to themselves.” Despite Meta’s own work documenting a causal link between its products and negative mental health effects, the filing alleges, Meta told Congress that it had no ability to quantify whether its products were harmful to teenage girls.
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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rollingstone.com
In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.

In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.

🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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reckless.bsky.social
Wrote another headline with @lopatto.bsky.social www.theverge.com/business/828...
Nvidia’s ‘I’m Not Enron’ memo has people asking a lot of questions already answered by that memoThe Streisand Effect strikes again
November 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
I really want to try to make this event next Thursday: www.eventbrite.com/e/w-e-b-du-b... - Happening in conjunction with an exhibition at Pratt Institute.
W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits with Dr. Whitney Battle-Baptiste
Get ready to dive into the fascinating world of W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits and how he inspired contemporary artists.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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moreperfectunion.bsky.social
Hundreds of Starbucks baristas and labor organizers blockaded Starbucks' largest distribution center in York, Pennsylvania, halting distribution of syrups, coffee beans, and other supplies to the entire northeast.

This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.
November 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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actioninhighered.bsky.social
Register for this event put on by CAHE's Anti-Fascism Caucus and co-sponsored by @debtcollective.bsky.social and @abolitionschool.bsky.social! Nov. 19, 12 pm EST.
November 15, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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actioninhighered.bsky.social
🇵🇸The fourth in our five-part series is coming up next week! Please register and share!🇵🇸
November 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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cait.bsky.social
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
r/ExpectationVsReality u/Additional-Simple858 • 3d Join Al 'doctor' said my back pain is depression, not a slipped disc. Now physical therapy won't get approved. Al Expectation We are reviewing claim #& submitted on 09/28/2025. Our records indicate the claim was filed under diagnosis code F32.9 (Depressive disorder, unspecified), while the corresponding prescription and referral history list treatment for lumbar disc herniation (back pain). Re: Incorrect Diagnosis in Record Hi Thank you for reaching out. We have reviewed your visit documentation and can confirm that the notes in question were generated using our Al scribe system. It appears the Al tool assigned diagnosis code F32.9 (Depressive disorder, unspecified), while your visit notes and treatment plan reference lumbar disc herniation (back pain). Per compliance policy, certain Al-generated fields cannot be manually updated by clinic staff and require vendor correction. We have escalated this to our vendor support team and opened ticket # . We'll notify you once we receive confirmation or correction from the vendor.
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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andyhines.bsky.social
How can we turn discussions about what we read and think into discussion for action? How does action lead to new forms of critical analysis?

I’ll talk about this with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social and Vineeta Singh this Friday at 8pm ET for @debtcollective.bsky.social’s Jubilee School. Join us!
University Keywords: Study and Struggle
Our session will put two keywords in relation that are essential to the fight ahead in higher education and beyond: study and struggle.
debtcollective.org
November 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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debtcollective.bsky.social
Happening Now: 100+ people rally outside of Apollo Management Group headquartered in NYC to protest its CEO Marc Rowan, the conservative billionaire behind Trump's Higher Ed compact deal that undermines universities ‼️
November 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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hofrench.bsky.social
Please consider these generally unknown details.
November 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
📣 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
October 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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techequity.bsky.social
1) Government officials are starting to flag the circular investments between AI-related companies as an antitrust issue. @wsj.com

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Data-Center Power Use to Become Major Antitrust Issue
As tech giants pour billions into data centers to cope with unrelenting demand, regulators are taking note. Jonathan Kanter, a former top official at the U.S. DOJ’s trustbusting division, expects it t...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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actioninhighered.bsky.social
🇵🇸First in our upcoming series, co-sponsored by @JVP and AAUP/AFT Local 6741. Organized and moderated by our own Karim Mattar and the Palestine Caucus of CAHE.🇵🇸
October 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM