Tonia Sutherland

Senior Correspondent, Politics WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...

Journalism job alert: @wired.com is hiring an experienced politics writer. I might be biased, but WIRED is doing some of the best political coverage out there. This is your chance to join our amazing newsroom! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

The ayatollah that came into power in 1979 died nearly 40 years ago.

How did we end up threatening our kids’ lives with AI? - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: www.anildash.com/2026/02/18/t...

The blockade on Cuba is unconscionable.

The website for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is completely scrubbed and gone! They didn't even leave a legacy statement.

The first three articles:
• harmony bench & Kate Elswit on motion data, consent, and embodied archives
• Orla Delaney on feminism, silence, and Ireland’s abortion archive as political infrastructure
• @ranjodhdhaliwal.com on scale — and why small, local AI might matter most

The issue gathers scholarly, curatorial, and critical work across digital humanities, critical AI & data studies, artistic research, feminist and decolonial theory, examining the entanglements between AI imaginaries, machine learning, and archival theory, practice, and power.

Edited by @ktmac.bsky.social, myself, @toniasutherland.bsky.social, Caroline Bassett, Eun Seo Jo & @louravn.bsky.social Ravn, this issue brings together one of the first collective efforts to articulate an archival turn in AI research.

✨ We’re excited to share the first articles from AI & ARCHIVES — a special issue of the new journal Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society (Cambridge University Press). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Donate to Support Stevie Wilson's New Beginning, organized by Danielle Squillante Our beloved comrade and friend Stevie Wilson is FINALLY coming home from pri… Danielle Squillante needs your support for Support Stevie Wilson's New Beginning

My friend and one of the co-authors of Read This When Things Fall Apart, Stevie Wilson, will be released from prison in less than a week. Stevie has done tremendous work as an incarcerated organizer and has plans to continue doing important work on the outside. Let's help him make a new start.

Please feel free to reach out!

Dr. Janell Green Smith, a midwife who advocated for Black maternal health, dies of childbirth complications Dr. Janell Green Smith, a South Carolina midwife and advocate for Black maternal health, has died due to complications during childbirth.

thegrio.com/2026/01/04/d...

Screenshot of class website, a grid with an image embodying the theme of each week.

Seeing lots of folks incorporating "critical university studies" lessons into their spring classes. For what it's worth, my 2022 Redesigning the Academy class site is totally open, and I've got a bunch of relevant (open) Arena channels, too... [1/2]

redesigningacademy.wordsinspace.net/spring2022/

Applications now open for Web Archiving School fellows, instructors, and teaching assistants. Apply here: www.archivingtheblackweb.org/apply/

Donate to Honoring Dr. Janell Green Smith, CNM, organized by Nichole Wardlaw Dr Janell Green Smith, CNM a respected midwife, scholar, and advocate has died fr… Nichole Wardlaw needs your support for Honoring Dr. Janell Green Smith, CNM

Dr Janell Green Smith, CNM a respected midwife, scholar, and advocate has died from complications related to childbirth. She leaves a husband and newborn that need the support of her village.

If you are able, please consider joing me in donating.

www.gofundme.com/f/dr-janell-...

You don’t have to want kids or even enjoy being around them. But it’s also worth unpacking why kids simply existing, learning, or having unmet needs reads as “annoying,” “unlikeable,” or “bad behavior.”

This collective discomfort with noise, need, & vulnerability is why many ADULTS are struggling.

Live Updates: As Venezuela Projects Defiance, Rubio Says U.S. Will Use ‘Leverage’ to Advance Its Interests

The death toll from the attack on Venezuela is now at 80, per Venezuelan officials. That includes civilians. Every article about the attack, or how the US somehow claims it will run the country, should mention the fact that, you know, people died, including civilians. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

A major use-case for AI is reality destabilization.

YouTube video by NBC10 Boston USPS changing its postmark process

If you vote BY MAIL, the rules have changed.
Please SHARE.

youtube.com/watch?v=4F8F...

Tech Giants Are Racing to Embed A.I. in Schools Around the Globe

“Fueled partly by American tech companies, governments around the globe are racing to deploy generative A.I. systems and training in schools and universities.”

Trooper sues Washington State Patrol over AI deepfake video, harassment The lawsuit claims a pattern of discrimination and harassment, including a deepfake AI video depicting the trooper kissing another coworker.

"AI is inevitable." (To use to harass people.)

I really think we are just not at all prepared for the tsunami of social harm that "AI" is about to dump on us.

This School Board President Took Her Oath on a Stack of Contested Books. Here's Why The school board for Central Bucks County, Pa., has been at the center of divisive political debates.

And please, PLEASE let us not forget that time in 2023 when Karen Smith was elected President of the school board in Bucks County, Pa and swore her oath on a stack of banned books. The most gangsta oath ever! Just brilliant. www.edweek.org/leadership/t...

Our Constitution (Article VI) expressly forbids any “religious tests” for holding public office, so it would be impossible for a Bible or any other religious book to be “required” for swearing in.

Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.

*laughs in archivist* anyone who thinks it's all been digitized is out of their goddamn mind. We don't have the staff, resources, or digital infrastructure to digitize, store, check, and maintain at preservations standards a digital copy of every single item in our collections.

It’s easy to be cynical about the media but entire GENERATIONS of mostly not-famous journalists at places like CBS and the WaPo spent their whole careers doing the work that created the credibility those places had which made them important enough for self-serving billionaires to decide to ruin them

i’m really glad food delivery apps don’t do year-end recaps. lmfao

LA Parents say school-issued iPads and Chromebooks cause chaos A growing contingent of public school parents say school-mandated iPads, particularly in elementary and middle schools, are leading to behavior problems.

What I’ve been up to! www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated: