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We now have generative AI to hallucinate a past that never was, while simultaneously purging the digital archives of traces of a history that doesn't fit the white supremacist ideology of our new techno-fascist overlords. It‘s getting darker every day

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Our latest dystopia: using AI to scan students' social media and deport them www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Great piece from @chaykak.bsky.social on America’s technofascism — includes some of my work on 1990s Silicon Valley, as well as other important precursors www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

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“If you care about working people & you care about health & education – prove it. Stand up and fight.” “Remember, we are in every city, on every campus, in every hospital, in every lab, & we are not backing down.” - Todd Wolfson, AAUP President www.insidernj.com/trumps-reckl...

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Another way to put this: Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.

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Google enables marketers to target people with serious illnesses and crushing debt—against its policies—as well as the makers of classified defense technology, a WIRED investigation has found.

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A deportation flight leaving the U.S. Thursday carrying 135 mostly Asian undocumented migrants is expected to land in Costa Rica in the afternoon. Almost half of the migrants will be children.

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The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has threatened to annihilate 60 years of advancements in equal opportunity by eliminating all federal funding for schools that support and celebrate students from diverse backgrounds. 🧵 1/

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JUST IN: ICE van reportedly set on fire in Philadelphia

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This is a concentration camp. They are describing a concentration camp.

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BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

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Washington Post Cancels Ad From Groups Calling for Trump to Fire Musk www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/b...

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NEW: Four days into the Gaza ceasefire, forcibly displaced Palestinians returning to Rafah were attacked by Israeli forces. Several Gazans spoke to Unicorn Riot about their feelings, their hopes of finding their loved ones, their homes, and for an end of the bloodshed. vimeo.com/1057686488

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"The department plans to buy armored Tesla vehicles. Elon Musk, who is leading efforts to cut government spending, has won more than $13 billion in government contracts in the past five years." one news story that really brings together a lot www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

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This article is a must-read: The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s @beccalew.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

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Essential essay by @beccalew.bsky.social about how Silicon Valley’s flirtations with fascism and defense of white male power are nothing new — but a return to what many of the industry’s current leaders would’ve learned in the 1990s when right-wing figures warned of the “pussification” of tech.

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From @aaup.bsky.social, what to do if ICE is on your campus.

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A former nyt co colleague pubbed a very powerful account of deep anti-trans bias at the nyt this morn. She did so with great bravery and honesty. Please read for the inside story of how the nyt silences trans employees as it pursues its biased coverage. (Also, please note Carly’s content warnings)

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I wrote about why Mark Zuckerberg is spectacularly evil in a three-part series here - based in part on my experiences reporting in Myanmar in the early 2010s. little-flying-robots.ghost.io/facebook-des...

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North Carolina's Supreme Court will decide whether or not to overturn the re-election of one of it's members. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

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I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water. Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?

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disappointed to learn that motion smoothing still exists

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the feds: stop trying to turn this guy into some cool antihero with a badass public image also the feds: treat him like they’ve captured the joker

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Thousands of Amazon workers will walk off the job on Thursday at 6 a.m. ET, in the crucial final days of the holiday season, after union officials said the retailer failed to come to the bargaining table reut.rs/4fpKl6M

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Teenager is woken by police in the middle of the night. “As it turns out, a poem she had written years ago triggered the alarms of a software called GoGuardian Beacon, which its maker describes as a way to ‘safeguard students from physical harm.’”

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Bananas

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The best way to understand the NYT is as a chronicle of power, which may explain why there are checks notes seven reporters on this single story about beefing up executive security

submitted 92 days ago • 75 comments

AI is a straight up Trojan Horse for higher ed. And it's amazing how many colleges and colleagues are happy to help Silicon Valley "disrupt thinking." Beware geeks bearing grifts.

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a lot of you post as though you’re very confident that the FBI will never read what you’re writing

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Trans folks held a dance party in the Capitol bathroom to protest the bathroom ban on there.

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JONI MITCHELL: They took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum / And they charged the people a dollar an' a half just to see 'em TECH BRO: Sounds awesome but can we make it a monthly subscription

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