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pipagaopoetry.bsky.social
We spent $150K in the last month and only raised $58K. Thankfully the earlier Itch Bundle fundraiser meant that we haven’t yet ran out.

All support is deeply appreciated to keep Gazans connected through forced starvation & colonial violence:

bit.ly/eSimsRUs

#ConnectingGaza
August 24, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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deathpanel.bsky.social
In our latest, we discuss the GOP “Murder Bill,” explain the enormity of its cuts to Medicaid and brazen attacks on trans care, and how Trump’s FDA is trying to eradicate the covid vaccines

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Here Come the Long Knives (05/26/25) | The Death Panel
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May 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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disabilitylab.bsky.social
Big news! Today, we’re dropping our brand new summer Pride and “Fashion Against Fascism” merch collection, including new disabled artist collaborations, muscle tanks, and more!! 🌈

Check out the DCL Shop now and order in time for pride! #DisabilityJustice

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Photo of six people with new DCL summer shirts. The first is a brown-skinned person with long hair wearing a white shirt with the words "Cure Ableism" in rainbow letters — they have fierce makeup. The second person is Black with long locs, silver jewelry, and tattoos in a black shirt that says "Disabled Joy is Revolutionary." The third is a brown-skinned femme in a white shirt with a red mask on it that reads "Mask If You Hate Fascists." The fourth is a femme with long straight dark hair wearing a gray shirt that reads "Protect Trans Kids" in hand lettering. The fifth is a brown-skinned person with short hair wearing a shirt that reads "Disability Justice is..." The sixth is a tall smiling person with a short beard wearing a shirt that reads "Crips Against Fascism" Five t-shirts on a light blue and blue background. Shirts read: “Disability Justice Is... Climate Justice, Repro Justice, Landback, Free Palestine, Black Liberation, Immigrant Justice, Queer Liberation, Gender Justice, Worker Justice, Economic Justice" in black with white lettering; “Protect Trans Disabled Youth” in gray with hand lettering in trans pride colors of light blue, pink, and white; “Mask If You Hate Fascists” in white with black and red text; “Cure Ableism” in white with the text written five times in rainbow pride colors; and “Disabled Joy is Revolutionary” in black with purple lettering. Two happy folks with white t-shirts in front of a light purple and teal background. The first is a smiling Black person with a red beanie and white t-shirt that reads “Crips Against Fascism.” The second is a brown trans person with long hair and fierce makeup in a white t-shirt with a red mask that reads “Mask If You Hate Fascists.” Black muscle tank and a gorgeous trans femme person in a gray t-shirt that both read “Protect Trans Disabled Youth” on a green and bright blue background. Muscle tank is black. Lettering on both is in trans pride colors of light blue, pink, and white.
May 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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techpolicypress.bsky.social
Do you have a long drive, walk, or downtime ahead of you this holiday weekend? Consider listening to this podcast discussion with @karenhao.bsky.social about her new book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, just out from Penguin Press:
Decolonizing the Future: Karen Hao on Resisting the Empire of AI | TechPolicy.Press
Hao's new book is Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI, out now from Penguin Press.
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May 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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techwontsave.us
We’re two and a half years into the AI hype cycle. How is it still going?

This week @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social join @parismarx.com to dig into the harms of generative AI and industry strategies to keep the public’s attention.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/277_...
May 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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commonnotions.bsky.social
Do we fear AI technology, or the threat of deskilling workers?

Hagen Blix, co-author of WHY WE FEAR AI, discusses one of the book's major themes on The Data Fix with @melhogan.bsky.social‬.

Listen to their discussion, and let us know what you think:
Deskill, with Hagen Blix | The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan
a lefty pod about perpetual tech promises
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May 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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kissane.myatproto.social
We just pushed an update to our @unbreaking.org Medicaid and Trans Healthcare explainers with a ton of links (and short explanations) about the effects of the House bill, what happens next, etc:

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Medicaid — Unbreaking
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May 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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ali-alkhatib.com
for my work, AI is not a technical project, but a political one. tech stacks float across my focus/inquiry almost inconsequentially compared to power disparities & administrative violence

brian's been saying this too - we can't productively talk about AI except as an "intensely political project"
bcmerchant.bsky.social Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · May 22
You cannot responsibly write about AI without writing about politics. "AI" is an intensely political project, especially in its current formation, where development is led by tech giants that increasingly depend on the state—for contracts, land rights, and, of course, for deregulation.
May 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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ali-alkhatib.com
reminding people to define and operate on "AI" according to definitions, boundaries, etc... that are actually productive and useful for your work

i have personally not encountered a coherent definition of AI that's predicated on technical implementations or paradigms of ML or anything of that kind;
May 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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kff.org
UPDATE: Our summary of the reconciliation bill’s key health provisions now reflects details from this morning’s House-passed version — with sections on Medicaid, the ACA, Medicare, and HSAs.

We’ll continue to update it as the bill goes through the Senate:
Tracking the Medicaid Provisions in the 2025 Reconciliation Bill | KFF
KFF is tracking the Medicaid provisions in the 2025 federal budget bill, including new Medicaid work and verification requirements and a reduction in the expansion match rate for states that use their...
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May 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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kff.org
Implementing #WorkRequirements — including exempting certain groups and requiring individuals to verify work status — proved challenging for Arkansas and led to 18,000 people losing coverage, without increasing employment.

Learn more:
Implementing Work Requirements on a National Scale: What We Know from State Waiver Experience | KFF
On May 18, the House Budget Committee advanced a budget reconciliation bill that includes significant changes to the Medicaid program. As anticipated, Medicaid work requirement provisions are included...
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May 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Grateful to everyone who shared their thoughts with me for this piece about the difference between how people imagined they would show up for a moment like this one, and how we're actually showing up—and how we can begin to close the gap between aspiration and action.
From Aspiration to Action: Organizing Through Exhaustion, Grief, and Uncertainty
“Some days, my best efforts feel insufficient and overwhelming at the same time.”
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May 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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ruha9.bsky.social
Tanner Lecture 2, Dystopia, Utopia, or Ustopia? youtu.be/UYIi_OjcotM?... *captions are being added this wk
Tanner Lecture One with Ruha Benjamin
YouTube video by Mahindra Humanities Center
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May 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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ruha9.bsky.social
“There is a reason, after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as before an ancient friend.” —Baldwin’s words grounded my Tanner lectures at Harvard, “Imagining Beyond the Artificial Intelligentsia”🤖

Lecture 1, Who Owns the Future? youtu.be/ZseJigkUhuE?...
Tanner Lecture One with Ruha Benjamin
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May 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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sfdirewolf.bsky.social
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January 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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deathpanel.bsky.social
In today’s episode, we speak with Jess Whatcott about the ideological links between incarceration and eugenics, how to unite abolition with disability justice, and their new book, Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics

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Menace to the Future w/ Jess Whatcott (01/27/25) | The Death Panel
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January 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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mailbykite.bsky.social
And on FEB 18, I’ll be giving a workshop:

Access Creativity: Translation as Interdisciplinary Arts
Noon-1.20PM Eastern

my.princeton.edu/piirsptic/rs...

Both are free, co-hosted by Princeton’s Program in Translation & Intercultural Communication and Princeton Institute for Int’l & Regional Studies
Access Creativity: Translation as Interdisciplinary Arts - Program in Translation and Intercultural Communications
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January 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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mailbykite.bsky.social
I’ll be giving a lecture & wshop at Princeton University in Feb!

Speaking on ideas from my book amuk:

On (Mis)Translation + the Vein of Resistance
FEB 17, 4.30-6PM
East Pyne Hall, Room 010

Introduced by the incomparable @shreedaisy.bsky.social, w my gratitude 🙏🏼

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On (Mis)Translation and the Vein of Resistance - Program in Translation and Intercultural Communications
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January 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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thellpsx.bsky.social
Crips for E Sims for Gaza friends are doing a call for submissions for an Itch bundle that will benefit us: itch.io/jam/esims-fo... "
Crips for eSims for Gaza Itch.io Bundle
A game jam from 2025-01-27 to 2025-02-10 hosted by Crips for eSims for Gaza, tofurocks, -hexcavator- & Barabones. Wherever you are, whatever sand you can throw on the gears of genocide, do it now. If ...
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January 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Resources in the Event of Care Cuts — Crip Crap
Resources and wishes for a future of creating the care we deserve.
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January 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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drsubini.blacksky.app
Hey folks, is anyone collecting articles on the ethical problems with AI? Either academic or popular? I have links that are here but know new ones are coming out all of the time. Please share in comments!
drsubini.blacksky.app Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · Jan 8
Today was the first day of class, Carceral Logics & Abolition in Ed. Here are our guiding words, mask policy citing T.L. Lewis within scope and aims of the course, and generative AI policy adapted & cited from @sgbuggs.bsky.social.
Feel free to use or adapt any policies, just cite!
ED 478/CSRE 378/AAS 278 Carceral Logics & Abolition in Education Winter 2025 Instructor: Subini Ancy Annamma, Ph.D. Guiding Words “Abolition geography starts from the…premise that freedom is a place…..abolitionist critique….shows how relationships of un-freedom consolidate and stretch, but not for the purpose of documenting misery. Rather, the point is not only to identify central contradictions…in regimes of dispossession, but also, urgently, to show how radical consciousness in action resolves into liberated-life ways.” — Ruth Wilson Gilmore, 2022, p. 475 (italics added) “Hope doesn’t preclude feeling sadness or frustration or anger or any other emotion that makes total sense. Hope isn’t an emotion, you know? Hope is not optimism. Hope is a discipline… we have to practice it every single day.”— Mariame Kaba Scope & Aims of the Course Abolition is a complex concept, often moving against the grain in a society fixated on punishment. What happens when we begin with the concept that life is valuable and that concept should be the center of society when building institutions and experiences and responding to harm? In this short course, we will explore how abolition has been conceptualized over time, particularly in relation to carceral logics, and how both relate to education. We will explore what educators can learn from community-driven abolitionist projects and how we can apply these conceptualizations and strategies to education spaces towards liberation. Our classroom community will enact an abolitionist politic infused with disability justice (see T.L. Lewis’ piece linked). Therefore, we will mask in all in-person classes. If you are sick, please stay home and rest or if you feel good enough to work but may still be contagious, ask for an alternative format. Generative AI****: I strongly discourage you from using AI bots/programs to complete assignments. There is evidence that use of AI facilitates labor exploitation of Global South laborers and risks severe environmental repercussions. Many AI platforms rely on stolen intellectual labor of artists and some platforms are regularly used to engage in sexual harassment and exploitation. Further, in many cases, these AI bots provide incorrect and unreliable information and citations. Often, the social and intellectual harms outweigh the positives. It is for these reasons, the use of AI is prohibited in this class. Concurrently, I am not interested in participating in a surveillance structure that claims to “detect” AI-produced material, creating a hostile dynamic between you and your instructor. College is a time for you to decide who you want to be, how you want to engage the work, and take some degree of control. This is also a class about carceral logics and abolition in education and the use of AI to do our work, both as student and professor, is part of carceral geographies that extend beyond the classroom and into our own logics about learning. We will discuss this more in class. ****Generative AI statement is adapted from Dr. Shantel Buggs Me in a mask with purple, grey, and black curls, a black shirt, giving a high five.
January 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
Some notes about the fact that they LLM-generated the data they used to train the system (before it grows into a full-blown narrative):

That still has environmental run costs, &

It's Still the same shitty biases that went into those other LLMs, but, y'know, iterated & amplified via LLM processes.
wolvendamien.bsky.social Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You! @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Jan 26
Like we genuinely told you this could be done for fractions of the cost and via different organizing principles.

Don't get me wrong, the Chinese team used the same stolen data openAI did, and I'm pretty sure they only released it for free because, again: it MASSIVELY disrupts the US "AI" market…
January 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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karenhao.bsky.social
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
January 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM