Spencer Beswick
@spencerbeswick.bsky.social
Historian of anarchism, labor, and the left in the Americas / Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell's Humanities Scholars Program / Views my own, not my employer's
Update: it got a chuckle/groan from the audience.
November 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Update: it got a chuckle/groan from the audience.
Reposted by Spencer Beswick
This is an especially worrying statement when facial recognition can be inaccurate, biased, and generally make mistakes. Basing whether someone should be in the US or not, and ignoring physical media like a birth certificate, is ripe for disaster bsky.app/profile/jose...
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
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October 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This is an especially worrying statement when facial recognition can be inaccurate, biased, and generally make mistakes. Basing whether someone should be in the US or not, and ignoring physical media like a birth certificate, is ripe for disaster bsky.app/profile/jose...
Reposted by Spencer Beswick
Today's crisis of academia has been building for decades. Now, we are in a reckoning. I think that higher ed is worth fighting for. But we cannot simply return to the pre-Trump era. This is our chance to fight for a new future of revitalized higher education as a public good. 4/4
July 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Today's crisis of academia has been building for decades. Now, we are in a reckoning. I think that higher ed is worth fighting for. But we cannot simply return to the pre-Trump era. This is our chance to fight for a new future of revitalized higher education as a public good. 4/4