Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D.

We are living in the zombie apocalypse 🫣(I mean, we’ve been, but eeesh) 😩

I referenced Anjali Nath's work in my redaction project a few years ago. I see that her book — A Thousand Paper Cuts: US Empire and the Bureaucratic Life of War — is out this month!

Horrifying. This didn’t have to happen. History books should be filled with the names of the enablers. We should construct plaques with them in the cemeteries.

Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.

Better questions:

Has misogyny failed women?
Has gendered violence failed women?
Has chronically unequal pay failed women?
Has inadequate childcare failed women?
Has the end of SNAP failed women?
Has transphobia failed women?Has inadequate healthcare failed women?

Absolute catnip for media studies / fan studies folks!

Critically important.

For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care.

www.transyouthemergencyproject.org

Movement journalism can transform narratives When we accept that we are powerless, we foreclose our own radical potential. Stories can change that.

ICYMI: How can journalism create hope and shift narratives? The last of @lewispants.bsky.social's column on movement journalism offers some clarity: objectivejournalism.org/2025/12/move...

Public Picks 2025 - Public Books What were the books of 2025 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us? For this, the 13th-annual edition of Public Picks, section editors for Global Black

it's incredibly lovely to see that CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY is on the year-end list for @publicbooks.bsky.social not once but TWICE!!

thank you to @njdames.bsky.social and @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy!!

and among such amazing books!!!

www.publicbooks.org/public-picks...

To me the guiding question has to be: What is a politics that is directed and singularly focused at the source of people's pain and suffering? - That is not a question of interest to the abundance Dems or the fascists.

4 Republicans voting against is significant. There's leverage there. Somewhere. There's concern that this isn't a winning move in swing districts. Echoes of the Virginia election.

War at Home A record of ICE’s assault on immigrants and the people’s resistance.

"Wherever the agents appear, even when they lean idly, chatting, we see the cold threat of violence and the fragility of freedom. And in the brave crowds who gather to confront them, scrambling their illusion of total control, we see the power of solidarity..."

hammerandhope.org/article/ice-...

More or less done with the reading list for History of the Database. You could take a lot of different approaches, but this is the one I went with.

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.

My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!

go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

10 common tests and scans used to diagnose cancer Diagnosing cancer involves a combination of tests and scans to find and assess abnormal cells. Here are some of the main tests and imaging techniques used

Here are some common scans used to diagnose and surveil cancer:

www.cancercouncil.com.au/news/10-comm...

The spooky world of the 'numbers stations' This is the era of hyper-tech espionage, encrypted emails and mindboggling cryptography. But you can hear a very old-fashioned form of espionage on shortwave radio.

www.bbc.com/news/magazin...

citiesandmemory.com/2022/02/tuni...

Numbers Stations - 99% Invisible If you tune around on a shortwave radio, you might stumble across a voice reciting an endless stream of numbers. Just numbers, all day, everyday. These so-called “numbers stations,” say nothing about ...

Here are some resources for folks interested in number stations:

99percentinvisible.org/episode/numb...

Yet the “recognition,” (in numb.station) is more accurately understood as misrecognition, as these sounds functionally become gibberish. An interference signal broadcasts into the hollow space between these two logics. Listen carefully and jot down as many numbers as you can possibly recognize. 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣

In numb.station, speech-to-text methods “listen” to these scrambled, reassembled sounds. Sounds recognized as numbers by software are broadcast using a software-defined radio (SDR) transceiver over FM radio.

The 2nd work is an excerpt from “numb.station,” utterances of numbers drawn from collections of archived cold-war era numbers stations and machine listening datasets are broken into very short segments and reassembled.

The enhance-redact images are iteratively looped thru a process of transcoding to slow-scan television (SSTV), broadcast, reception, image enhancement, & image analysis. Textual descriptions of objects identified in the enhanced images are broadcast as radio-teletype (RTTY).

The 1st is from “enhance-redact (cancer surveillance study #1).” It operates on a series of medical images produced as part of cancer surveillance of their body.

The episode is divided between two durational transmission-based projects @aphid.org built using open-source software, software defined radio, and collections of media.

Please checkout Transmission Ecologies Ep.41 featuring Abram. They were invited by resident host and fellow artist and educator Afroditi Psarra! ☺️

I’m so proud of @aphid.org for making, not one, but two artworks this year. A year that has been extremely challenging and filled with grief, loss, and deep sadness (for so many of us). Yet A found it in themselves to make deeply challenging and beautiful work. 😭🥹🥲

stegi.radio/show/transmi...

Ethical AI is an oxymoron, like automated science

Every few years there's a bunch of "pivot to video" discourse about how creatives should all start making videos instead of doing text-based work. And every few years we discover again that the supposed "popularity" of video is based on fake audience numbers created by the video platforms.