Christine Haskell, PhD

Bad Bunny “together we are America”

I want America to be a country where singing Spanish during a 15minute halftime show doesn't cause more shock than rich men r*ping children over decades

#BadBunny #SuperBowl #HalfTimeShow #SuperBowl2026 #SuperBowlLX #NFL #Football #GameDay #RememberTheEpsteinVictims #tRumpIsARapist #FuckIce #IceOut

The halftime show is the only part of the Superbowl I'm watching!

El mundo bailará!

🚨🚨🚨 HOLY SHIT: This powerful PSA from the Epstein Survivors will air during the #SuperBowl

I also find Barbara Ehrenreich's preface to the book compelling, which you can read here: monoskop.org/images/5/54/...

Good material to put in conversation with discourses on the imperial boomerang, as we do the work of tending to our analyses in service of building grounded strategies ♥️

GitHub - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI: Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI

We love to see it!

Community-created harm reduction infrastructure to contest the alarming integration of AI agents into the Windows operating system (which is currently the most reckless deployment environment) ♥️

github.com/zoicware/Rem...

Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot Google's Gemini is on pace to push Copilot into third place.

"Having an AI do it and fail half the time isn't exactly a winning alternative."

www.extremetech.com/computing/mi...

FOMO is the new rubbernecking.

Wonderful.

11 things UC Berkeley AI experts are watching for in 2026 - Berkeley News How will AI disrupt the labor market? What will deepfake videos mean for our understanding of truth? Are we in a bubble, and if so, will the bubble burst?

How will AI change things in 2026?

@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social asked experts including Profs. Hany Farid and Deirdre Mulligan.

Farid will watch how trust continues to erode with deepfakes, whereas Mulligan will monitor the privacy risks created by chatbot.

news.berkeley.edu/2026/01/13/w...

UPDATED: Notable Privacy Books: A Journey Through History papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 500+ books from the 1960s-present #PrivacyBooks

AI chatbots miss urgent issues in queries about women's health AI models such as ChatGPT and Gemini fail to give adequate advice for 60 per cent of queries relating to women’s health in a test created by medical professionals

"AI models such as ChatGPT and Gemini fail to give adequate advice for 60 per cent of queries relating to women’s health in a test created by medical professionals" www.newscientist.com/article/2510...

Doctors and therapists have years of training and experience . . . and well-established legal responsibilities, such as a fiduciary duty to act in the best interest of the patient. AI currently has none of these things. danielsolove.substack.com/p/ai-compani...

Wegmans is scanning your face at some stores. It’s not the only company | CNN Business Wegmans, the supermarket chain known for its cult-like following, angered some loyalists after revealing it uses facial recognition technology at New York City stores.

If I had a penny for every deja vu all over again in privacy, I'd be a billionaire. Remember FTC v. RiteAid . . . here we go again. www.cnn.com/2026/01/12/b...

Why Gig Platform Wage Theft is a Governance Crisis A report exposed an AI governance crisis in the gig economy, yet the response in Washington has been inadequate, David Sathuluri writes.

A nonprofit last year released a damning investigation finding that gig platforms are using algorithmic systems not simply to manage workers but to systematically extract labor while evading legal obligations, yet the response from government has been timid, David Sathuluri writes

The question isn’t really how this will go off the rails, but rather how many many different kinds of disasters will manifest.

Global publisher Google traffic dropped by a third in 2025 Google search traffic was down globally by a third in the year to November, according to new Chartbeat data.

Google traffic to publishers dropped by ONE THIRD in 2025 pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

A very cute but forlorn looking brown and white puppy with big eyes and floppy ears, sitting on a forest themed blanket. Facebook post message: “Central PA Humane Society: Susan from Accounting is a 4 month old female. We were told she is a Beagle/Australian shepherd mix”

BREAKING: This dog is named Susan From Accounting

Slowly coming to grips with the fact American voters chose this twice because they taught it would lower the price of eggs.

Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now.

Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations.

Source: dr.dk

The Surprising Relationship Between Happiness and Intelligence You might expect smarts and skill to lead to joy, but it’s not that simple.

In the Wonder Reader, @isabelfattal.bsky.social explores how to use your skills and smarts to add joy to your life, rather than letting them chip away at what actually makes the days meaningful.

🇩🇪 GERMANY— Far-right AfD Leader Alice Weidel: “Double standards… We’ve heard years of whining about Putin violating international law — now those same critics are strangely quiet when Trump does what they criticized Putin for in Venezuela and Greenland.”

Incalculable damage.

Column | Who’s in charge of college football? Nobody. That’s a problem. The sport’s rising tide is lifting plenty of boats, but without any central oversight, it threatens to flood the harbor.

Column: College football is broken because there is no single person or entity that wakes up every day and thinks: “What’s in the best interest of college football right now? And how does that change next week or next year?”

Fake advertisement for Draft Kings in a print copy of The Onion. In the front of a photo of a house with a foreclosure sign, it reads: "Draft Kings Earn a free $10 toward buying back your house."

excellent work by @theonion.com this month

‘UC workers are going to end up homeless’: 86,000 University of California employees plan massive strike In what could become one of the largest labor actions in the University of California’s history, more than 86,000 UC nurses, health care professionals and campus workers plan to walk off the job.

In what could become one of the largest labor actions in the University of California’s history, more than 86,000 UC nurses, health care professionals and campus workers plan to walk off the job.

lol! This meeting could have been a tablet. 🙌

Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams and banned goods, Reuters reports The report shows that the company was hesitant to crack down harder on scams, due to the billions in revenue that they were generating for Meta....

Over the years I have read A LOT of damning stories about what Meta executives were saying internally about serious harms on their platforms (most of them written by Reuters’ @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social ). His new story is a blockbuster:
www.reuters.com/investigatio...

sherwood.news/tech/meta-pr...

Fuck Waymo, Long Live KitKat A self-driving car killed a beloved SF cat. It’s part of a long history of tech companies using the Bay as a testing ground at our expense. People have had enough.

My first for @bayareacurrent.bsky.social -- A self-driving car killed a beloved SF cat. It’s part of a long history of tech companies using the Bay as a testing ground at our expense. People have had enough.

bayareacurrent.com/fuck-waymo-l...

Wired and 404 Media make FOIA reporting free. Other news outlets should too We spoke to Katie Drummond of Wired, Joseph Cox of 404 Media, and Lauren Harper of Freedom of the Press Foundation about the case for unpaywalling public records-based reporting

When @wired.com made FOIA-based stories free, subscriptions went up.

When @404media.co published public records reporting without a paywall, new sources came forward.

We spoke to both about why dropping paywalls like this is good for journalism — and for business.

Someone Snuck Into a Cellebrite Microsoft Teams Call and Leaked Phone Unlocking Details The leaked slide focuses on Google Pixel phones and mentions those running the security-focused GrapheneOS operating system.

New from 404 Media: someone managed to get into a Microsoft Teams call with phone hackers Cellebrite, who then detailed some of the company's hacking capabilities against Google Pixel phones. Also its capabilities against GrapheneOS, security-focused devices www.404media.co/someone-snuc...