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Here Come the Long Knives (05/26/25) | The Death Panel Get more from The Death Panel on Patreon

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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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.

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:

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_...

Deskill, with Hagen Blix | The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan a lefty pod about perpetual tech promises

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:

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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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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"

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;

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...

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:

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...

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:

From Aspiration to Action: Organizing Through Exhaustion, Grief, and Uncertainty “Some days, my best efforts feel insufficient and overwhelming at the same time.”

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.

YouTube video by Mahindra Humanities Center Tanner Lecture One with Ruha Benjamin

Tanner Lecture 2, Dystopia, Utopia, or Ustopia? youtu.be/UYIi_OjcotM?... *captions are being added this wk

YouTube video by Mahindra Humanities Center Tanner Lecture One with Ruha Benjamin

“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?...

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Menace to the Future w/ Jess Whatcott (01/27/25) | The Death Panel Get more from The Death Panel on Patreon

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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Access Creativity: Translation as Interdisciplinary Arts - Program in Translation and Intercultural Communications Workshop

And on FEB 18, I’ll be giving a workshop:

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

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Both are free, co-hosted by Princeton’s Program in Translation & Intercultural Communication and Princeton Institute for Int’l & Regional Studies

On (Mis)Translation and the Vein of Resistance - Program in Translation and Intercultural Communications Lecture

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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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... "

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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!

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.

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/

Important thread.

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On this week's Still Here, co-hosts @mileswgriffis.bsky.social and @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social talk with producer @hashtagjames.bsky.social about a potential blood-based biomarker for Long COVID, funding for a preventative COVID-19 drug, the latest COVID-19 numbers, and more! bit.ly/3E7P2W7

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Week one disability rights watch. What happened?

Removal of the accessibility page and all content in ASL from the White House website. The administration sets the tone for what it does and does not value on its official website.

Executive Order "ending radical and wasteful government DEI programs and spending". this seeks to terminate all DEI related programs and work within the federal government in the text DEI is sometimes written to include accessibility as DEIA

Executive Order "Ending illegal discrimination and Restoring Merit based Order". Expands the reach of Anti-DEIA tasks including investigating private sector businesses that have any DEI or accessibility initiatives

Trying to collect info in one place for folks. Things are moving quickly. The multiply marginalized will be disparately impacted, especially BlPOC, immigrant, and/or queer disabled folks. Here's the round up from week 1.

"We have a long fight ahead of us. Catastrophe and preemptive surrender abound. The landscape will not be encouraging. We will have to create our own oases and sanctuaries. We will have to make our own light and offer ourselves and others moments of joy and relief. These efforts will sustain us as human beings, and help us hold onto our humanity, as dominant forces attempt to strip us of our values and our decency." - Kelly Hayes

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