Safiya Umoja Noble

Come to campus and check out these two amazing book talks at #UCLA next week!

Karen Hao’s Empire of AI: datax.ucla.edu/news-events/...

More, Everything, Forever Book Talk with Adam Becker: datax.ucla.edu/news-events/...

Digital blackface flourishes under Trump and AI: ‘The state is bending reality’ From TikTok deepfakes to smears put out by the White House, fake videos modeled on Black archetypes are running rampant - putting Black users at risk

new read feat. thee @safiyanoble.bsky.social

Art, Tech, and Representation Annie Dorsen and Dr. Safiya Noble discuss how emerging technologies affect culture and art.

If you are in NYC March 18 come one and all to @bambrooklyn.bsky.social to experience the brilliance of Dr. @safiyanoble.bsky.social irl (and as bonus you'll get to experience me admiring her).

This is always the stuff of my nightmares. So many hours of sitting in front of a camera, only to have it dwindled down to seconds and sentence fragments pieced together in service of some grand narrative I would have never imagined being tethered to…so guess now I gotta watch it? Sigh. Sorry.

My work wouldn’t be anything without her tremendous influence. And, she was so kind and generous when I met her once. ♥️💫

increasingly clear that the academy’s mad rush into AI & concordantly away from the humanities corresponds to that same shift in the priorities of intelligence & defense funding—so accustomed to it now that they no longer know how to do anything different. the university as cargo cult

So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.

'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.

“The people whose rights are being violated don’t have a lot of power, and the people responsible for the pollution are huge mega corporations with a lot of power…And they’ve been getting away with this for decades now.”

Judge blocks Trump administration push to fine UCLA $1.2 billion for alleged antisemitism A federal judge late Friday issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from imposing a $1.2-billion fine on UCLA for alleged civil rights violations over antisemitism, its recog...

We WILL keep going!

“UCLA faculty are honored to stand with this coalition, which continues to show that when faced with an administration targeting the very heart of higher education, fighting back is the only option,” Markowitz said.
www.latimes.com/california/s...

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

Run, do not walk, and get yourself a copy of this amazing book (calling all of my librarian friends!). This is an incredible event with Dr who is giving a powerful account of how to find justice and repair in our society. @terencekeel.bsky.social @repclub.bsky.social

@safiyanoble.bsky.social, UCLA professor and author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, explained how threats against educational institutions are intertwined with the threats against media and journalists.

Watch the event recap: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6Kq...

Shamblin’s conversation partner wasn’t a classmate or friend – it was ChatGPT, the world’s most popular AI chatbot. A CNN review of nearly 70 pages of chats between Shamblin and the AI tool in the hours before his July 25 suicide, as well as excerpts from thousands more pages in the months leading up to that night, found that the chatbot repeatedly encouraged the young man as he discussed ending his life – right up to his last moments.

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Meanwhile, lots of new real estate acquisitions and capital projects across the UC.

Deep.

Here is the proposed agreement the Trump admin sent to UCLA, which administrators fought tooth and claw to keep secret ucop.edu/communicatio...

Please understand that the only reason this has been released is because of the UCLA faculty association who filed a request and challenged the refusal in court. If you are a UC faculty member, join your FA!

Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...

This is one of the best analyses of the total grift and scammery of AI in education I’ve seen, and it is a MUST Read: “Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI - defector.com/higher-eds-r...

Stop fighting your faculty in court, lady.

“We are committed to being transparent about the challenges facing the university, but we must also evaluate our response to the administration’s settlement proposal that, like all settlement communications, is confidential.

An amazing community —it was such an honor to share and learn together! ♥️ Thank you for having me!

Judge orders UC to release Trump UCLA settlement offer at the center of private negotiations A judge ordered UC to release the settlement proposal sent by the Trump administration in August. It outlines a $1.2-billion fine and vast campus changes.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

@mit.edu has done an incredibly important service to the nation by being willing to be the first school to reject the administration's "compact."

President Kornbluth focuses—and she's right—on the principle that "scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."

DEEZ NUTZ COMEDY SHOW — The Kookaburra Lounge The "NEXT!!" of young stand-up comedians in SoCal have gathered together to perform inside the newly infamous Kookaburra Lounge at Ovation Hollywood. Vargus Mason gathers one of the more discerning ...

If you’re in Los Angeles and want to get out for a few laughs, I’m doing a set in tonight’s comedy show lineup at the Kookaburra Lounge! Come at 6:30–starts at 7pm. (Disclaimer: I had no influence over the show name, ugh). Come through—I’m making art! www.thekookaburralounge.com/events/deezn...

Some news ♥️🎉

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Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

We're hiring a postdoc in Duke GSF!!

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30734

UC employees, not waiting on leaders, sue Trump for 'financial coercion' over UCLA cuts University of California faculty, students and staff on Tuesday sued President Trump over a $1.2-million penalty against UCLA and federal demands over campus changes. They argued that the actions camp...

Facing a proposed $1.2-billion fine and severe medical research grant cuts at UCLA, the University of California has not gone head-to-head with Trump in court.

So on Tuesday, groups representing more than 100,000 of its employees did.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

OpenAI is anything but “open”—very early on, it left behind that marketing tag to become increasingly closed, elitist, and inherently anti-democratic. Empire of AI had a rather different subtitle in its UK edition: “Inside the reckless race of total domination.”