Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D.

My condolences, Eryk, I’m so sorry to have read the news. Thinking of you ♥️

Btw @jeffreymoro.com, @briana-v.bsky.social + I have a forthcoming special issue on Algorithms + the occult w/ @xrw.bsky.social @drs.bsky.social AX Mina @thechristinet.bsky.social @jessrauchberg.bsky.social @aketchum22.bsky.social @serife.bsky.social @emmaquilty.bsky.social Xandro Segade + more

I preordered this a few months ago, & it arrived yesterday. Seems more than a just a “history of other networks,” but encourages us to think about our current networks, & to “radically imagine” those in our future, to “reawaken our sense of possibility by the excavation of networks from the past.”

Hospitals shutting down care in preemptive compliance with the Trump administration is cowardice.

All this will do is move care to individual providers where trans youth will not have access to large interdisciplinary teams.

It won’t stop care, but it will hurt patients.

“Specifically, [AGI] has become a tool for two worrying trends: (1) politically and economically motivated layoffs framed as inevitable AI progress, and (2) legislative and regulatory inaction on current harms to workers in favor of sweeping deregulation to speed along innovation”

Weaponizing AGI: How Speculative Futures Undermine Worker Protections | TechPolicy.Press Natalia Luka critiques speculative narratives about AI's future and how they are driving policy inaction.

For @techpolicypress.bsky.social, Natalia Luka warns us about how speculative harms attached to technologies like AGI miss how AI is impacting workers in the present and can actually lead to misdirected action

wizard zines is doing our first ~~ reader survey ~~!

very interested to hear about how people who read wizard zines are using computers

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sisyphus at daily standup: i had to roll back some changes

The Documentary Audit Listening and the Limits of Accountability Pooja Rangan Columbia University Press Documentary films are often celebrated with aural metaphors: they give “voice” to the “voiceless” and ask the public to “listen.” But when did listening become synonymous with social justice? How exactly do documentaries train audiences to listen when they ask them to right historic wrongs or hold power to account? The Documentary Audit challenges the association of listening with accountability and charts oppositional modes of listening otherwise. Pooja Rangan develops a framework for understanding how documentary practices have, under the mantle of accountability, provided a moral cover for listening habits that are used to profile, exclude, and incarcerate. From the British Crown’s promotional films to Zoom meeting recordings, from disability-informed filmmaking in Japan to forensic efforts to expose anti-Palestinian violence in Hebron, Rangan explores how historical and contemporary practitioners have challenged and refused the lures of normative documentary listening habits in order to listen with an accent, listen in crip time, and listen like an abolitionist. Through an interdisciplinary approach that bridges documentary and sound studies while considering raciolinguistics, disability access, and legal forensics, Rangan demonstrates how the question of listening is central to the study of documentary. Far from being a neutral ethic, The Documentary Audit shows, listening creates the reality it purports to verify—with transformative political possibilities. Pooja Rangan is professor of English in film and media studies at Amherst College. She is the author of Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary (2017) and coeditor of Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice (2023). Order Online: CUP.COLUMBIA.EDU Enter Code CUP20 for 20% discount

Out in June from Columbia University Press--THE DOCUMENTARY AUDIT. All of the information on the flier available on this website, where you can also order the book: cup.columbia.edu/.../the.../9... Cover description in comments

@versobooks.bsky.social has made "Riot. Strike. Riot" free for download, in solidarity with people in LA and elsewhere across the US. you can download it here

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Trump authorizes additional 2,000 National Guard members to Los Angeles, US officials say President Donald Trump has authorized the deployment of an additional 2,000 National Guard members to help respond to protests in Los Angeles over immigration raids, according to U.S. officials.

BREAKING: President Trump has authorized the deployment of an additional 2,000 National Guard members to Los Angeles, U.S. officials say.

Finally! 🙏🏽 Other Networks: a Radical Technology Sourcebook by @loriemerson.net with forward by @jomc.bsky.social arrived today! I couldn’t resist and ordered a copy for @aphid.org and me! ☺️ We can’t wait to share with our students! 📕

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_...

AI Con is such a great starting point for people looking to understand what’s wrong with generative AI. It was a pleasure to chat with @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social about their new book!

when the worst people in the world think youre the worst person in the world

Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online A Brazilian team used Discord’s API to scrape 10% of its open servers.

Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online

🔗 www.404media.co/researchers-...

I have been eagerly waiting for our copy! So excited!! Huge congrats, @loriemerson.net ♥️♥️♥️

Congress moves to loosen toxic air pollution rules The House and Senate both voted to loosen regulations on air pollutants like dioxin and mercury, which are associated with higher cancer risk.

Because they want to kill us, Congress voted to overturn a Clean Air Act regulation limiting toxic emissions from industrial facilities like refineries, chemical plants, and steel mills. This marks the first Congressional rollback of the landmark environmental law's protections since its creation.

Last night, we were one of the first outlets to report the ADULT ban on gender affirming care for Medicaid recipients who depend on it to access it.

This morning, that bill passed 215-214-1.

It now goes to the senate.

It's a bleak day for transgender Americans.

A brown trans woman with glasses and a yellow mask on holding a copy of a book, The AI CON, in both hands. A few other books are behind her, including that same book.

A brown trans woman, wearing glasses, a mask, and a backpack, holding a book, The AI CON, over her shoulder like a baby.

Went to @citylightsbooks.bsky.social and saw our baby on the shelves!

Come to City Lights next Thursday to catch @emilymbender.bsky.social and I yap about AI hype with @khari.bsky.social !

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Comic Culture | Breena Nunez | Season 2020 Cartoonist Breena Nunez talks about biographical comics and comics as an academic pursuit.

I feel so terrible for neglecting to share this interview I did for with Terence of Comic Culture on PBS! I’ve had the blessing of sharing a virtual space on PBS during the pandemic to talk about the things that bring me so much joy. www.pbs.org/video/breena...

We're Hiring a Processing Project Lead! Join the Processing Foundation to make a lasting impact on creative coding software.

#JobAlert! The Processing Foundation seeks a lead software developer to guide the maintenance and growth of the Processing (Java) software: processingfoundation.org/employment/p... (Full-time, fully-remote, $95K)

Hypertext TV Daily programming for the handmade web. Airing now.

made a new website hypertext.tv

The Heir Conditioner | Los Angeles Review of Books The LARB Quarterly, issue no. 44, “Pressure,” presents an excerpt from Hannah Zeavin’s “Mother Media.”

Happy pub day to @hzeavin.bsky.social's "Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century"! Read an excerpt of "Mother Media" in LARB Quarterly, no. 44: Pressure: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

Mellon Foundation The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

So relieved to see that Mellon will be providing emergency relief funding the US’s state and jurisdictional humanities councils.

If I learned one thing during my years at NEH, it was how crucial these organizations are to our public humanities infrastructure.

www.mellon.org/news/america...

AI Rights & Wrongs Series: Testing-in-the-wild w/ Thao Phan Testing-in-the-wild: innovation nationalism and the colonial dynamics of new technology testbeds

Bonus free public talk in London next week! I'll be talking AI and the long history of science and technology testing in the colony

7pm, Wednesday 9 April
Royal Georges, 85 Tanner's Hill London

Part of AI Rights & Wrongs series
@universityofessex.bsky.social

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I gave a talk about public libraries yesterday and one things I said was:

"I believe that public libraries offer an opportunity to fight FOR what we want to expand at a time when everything is a fight to block things or to stop things from happening."

YOU GUYS.