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things that made me smile recently

finally had time to read this great new article from Defector about the top-down push for AI in higher ed!

it also links to our AAUP report on ed tech and its impact on academic labor, which you can read here: www.aaup.org/reports-publ...

thread!!

AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse A new analysis of AI hardware being produced and how it is being used attempts to estimate the vast amount of electricity being consumed by AI.

tired: people AI-generating rando images of themselves as anime

WIRED: AI’s energy use already represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand, new analysis has found

152,000 transgender adults are enrolled in Medicaid

correcting a previous QT as details become clearer &, yes, this provision *would* also block access to HRT, as a “transition procedure.”

that affects up to 152,000 trans people who have no access to healthcare outside of medicaid/chip—a number i expect will rise due to employment discrimination.

Become unChatGPTable

A subtweet: every debate regarding college admissions is a debate about artificially constructed forms of capitalist scarcity. Every last college in this country could be and should be free and open-admissions

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It's Not You, It's Us - Lux Magazine Mutual aid activist Dean Spade gets personal with a book of self-help for radicals.

when we were in Seattle, @gelsworld.bsky.social spoke with Dean Spade for Lux Magazine about Spade's new book—a radical guide on "love, sex, romance, and friendship" ❤️‍🔥

you can read it online here: lux-magazine.com/article/dean...

It's Not You, It's Us - Lux Magazine Mutual aid activist Dean Spade gets personal with a book of self-help for radicals.

My interview with @deanspade.bsky.social is online and in print in Lux magazine!

lux-magazine.com/article/dean...

must-read thread!!

The University has hired 36 special officers who will have the ability to remove individuals from campus and/or arrest them. Those individuals are near completion of their training and credentialing under New York law to work on our campus. We will continue to assess the necessary size of this force to achieve our goals. The University has a longstanding relationship with the NYPD. While we train and credential our internal security force, we will continue to rely on our relationship with the NYPD to provide additional security assistance when needed.

Columbia is bringing cops on campus president.columbia.edu/content/fulf...

A lot of the work of justice is routine, ordinary & sometimes mundane. Care work is one of the most radical liberatory pursuits. Feminized labor is the backbone of all liberation struggles.

Every fight for justice is an abolitionist one - the movement for reproductive justice, migrant justice, climate justice, food justice, gender justice, disability justice, mad justice & beyond. Abolishing a carceral world blooms a multitude of freedoms for all of us.

Holy crap. The DOJ is arguing that the President can unilaterally deport anyone he wants without ANY statutory authority, just on his inherent authority as President over national security.

That is a terrifying claim to make and not one that has ever been recognized before in US history.

I have been on the phone for nearly 6 hours 🙃 and it’s like at this rate, do you even want my money?

You can’t even fix glitches or administrative errors with your student loans if you want to, because it’s not possible to reach customer service.

So, for those of you not following, the 1952 code that gives the Secretary of State authority to deport anyone deemed a threat to national security, the one they're using against Mahmoud, was written in the heart of the McCarthy era, a way to target "communists" ie Eastern European Jews.

The ‘can machines do creative writing’ thing is mostly a distraction from the use of the machines to go through text and images to cancel grants and put people on deportation lists

not one moment’s peace for anyone involved

This is not free-floating “uncertainty.” This is a robbery and we have CCTV footage and four hundred confessions of the thieves. Why be coy about the facts of what is happening?

Feminist Fascisms | Grace Byron Sophie Lewis’s new book opens up possibilities for excitement about what feminism could be—if only we could sit with its past.

In “Enemy Feminisms,” @reproutopia.bsky.social opens up possibilities for excitement about what feminism could be. But first, she explains, we need to sit with its past. She talks to @emotrophywife.bsky.social about “KKK feminism,” TERFs, and Andrea Dworkin.

📝 CfP 📝 @hellobrittparis.bsky.social & I are editing a special issue of the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies on labor organizing in libraries and information fields.

We greatly encourage contributions from library workers.

More info here: journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jc...