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anabrandusescu.bsky.social
Researcher, policy analyst, social scientist. PhD-ing in human geography on AI governance, political power, and privatization. I examine scale in public sector governance of AI, including chatbots. she/her | Waterloo/Montreal | anabrandusescu.com
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Back to stillness

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Finished last night.

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SCOOP: Documents show the extent to which UCalgary administration was influenced by pro-Israel framing of the Palestine solidarity movement leading up to its short-lived encampment. open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

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In 2015, a study showed that 1.6 million students attended schools that had a cop, but not a counselor. Schools are overly surveilled + overly policed. AI is an extension of this surveillance + policing. On that note, kids: do not ever say anything about your mental health to AI.

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Universities often don’t feel the very start of recessions, then take a sharp-ish hit when state funding and investment returns slump, and then rebound from stimulus and counter-cyclical enrollment gains. This time the recession is staring in academia.

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I dream of building a house for me and my family. Can anyone help us with that?😞 We currently need the costs of building a simple or mobile home to be a safe shelter for my family and our children. They need warmth every day. Please don't leave us alone. Donate for us. ⬇️🇵🇸 gofund.me/69f962fc

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AP finds that the Israeli military stored 13.6 petabytes of data on Microsoft servers, and usage of OpenAI/Microsoft tools was 200x higher than the week before Oct. 7. If there was any doubt of US tech companies and complicity in Israeli apartheid. apnews.com/article/isra...

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And we got finger-wagged by a New England journo "expert" for not staying in our lane and sticking to our knitting (his words) and leaving hard stuff to (paywalled) NYT and Wapo. So we were right, and we did the right thing, and we didn't need anyone's permission to make our own news decisions.

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The crash is beginning in academia.

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This is Israel's most read daily newspaper, openly calling for genocide and saying there are no innocent people in Gaza. This is who Biden sacrificed the country to arm.

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In 2025 you can just say things like "open-source ethical free range democratized enterprise SaaS AI platform" and people will throw money at you

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they are openly advocating for the use of physiognomy in recruitment make it stop

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Ok, I'm doing a version of this thread for 🧪 who are new to political conditions where info security is a safety issue: 1. Don't make public lists of people who are engaging in acts of resistance 2. Be weary of calls to advertise acts of subversion 3. Don't live post resistance meetings

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this is a policy decision. this is the logical conclusion of a government enacting cruelty in the name of obtaining “self-deportations”. may jocelynn now know peace that we were not able to give her here.

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👇 Anyone can use this and add to it. If you’ve published or posted or podded lately, please add your stuff or stuff from others that you think fits here: #datacenters

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ICYMI, our new paper on civic participation in AI: "We conclude that the future of public participation in AI requires careful attention to become meaningful including recognition of neoliberal intent and power differentials."

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"There is no academic freedom until it applies to all." —Maya Wind

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Gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss. And we should add, governance.

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Yikes.

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@bsky.app please please allow locked accounts. please.

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I hope and pray that future history books will include a chapter on all the headline writers carrying water for fascists

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This is getting at why I appreciate #TeslaTakeDown - wagingnonviolence.org/ipra/2025/02...

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"During the first Trump administration, many international students were already more reluctant to come to the US because of the president’s hostile rhetoric. With the return and rapid escalation of that rhetoric, international students are declining their admissions offers."

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Thank goodness TO did not fall for Sidewalk Labs/Google hype! "To resist AI governance agendas that fail to serve the public interest, the world can look to lessons learned from Canada’s resistance against undemocratic AI legislation."

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"Instead, to advance justice, we must radically transform not just the technology itself, but our ideas about it, and develop it from the bottom up, from the perspectives of those who stand the most risk of being harmed."

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The obsession with scale in tech policy is almost as strong as that of efficiency.

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This is so dangerous 🥲

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I got invited to attend the Paris AI Summit, anonymously, a couple of weeks after I finished reading Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Cesaire (1950). In the 75 years between its publication and the present moment, little has changed.

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Big tech waiting for the AI regs to roll out

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I got invited to attend the Paris AI Summit, anonymously, a couple of weeks after I finished reading Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Cesaire (1950). In the 75 years between its publication and the present moment, little has changed.

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The prodigal tech women: From leading facial recognition technology to doing responsible AI.

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"Instead, to advance justice, we must radically transform not just the technology itself, but our ideas about it, and develop it from the bottom up, from the perspectives of those who stand the most risk of being harmed."

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