BostonJoan πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ 🦫's Avatar

BostonJoan πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ 🦫

@bostonjoan.bsky.social

I am the founder of The Critical Internet Studies Institute and an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies at Boston University www.criticalinternet.org

34,151 Followers  |  1,243 Following  |  2,871 Posts  |  Joined: 30.04.2023
Posts Following

Posts by BostonJoan πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ 🦫 (@bostonjoan.bsky.social)

Congratulations DHS Secretary Stephen miller on continuing to be DHS Secretary

05.03.2026 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 704    πŸ” 137    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 5

NOEM IS OUT.

05.03.2026 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that

05.03.2026 03:02 β€” πŸ‘ 12195    πŸ” 3404    πŸ’¬ 249    πŸ“Œ 89

Amazing! Listening to your record on bandcamp now. I'm sure we have friends in common.

04.03.2026 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

BREAKING on MS NOW:

The House Oversight Committee just voted to subpoena Pam Bondi as part of the panel's Epstein investigation.

The vote was 24-19. 5 Republicans voted in favor.

04.03.2026 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 6912    πŸ” 1449    πŸ’¬ 213    πŸ“Œ 145

Do you ever wonder why there is a place like Disneyland?

04.03.2026 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Information Warfare in the Age of Reckless AI

04.03.2026 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Encrypted Resistance: Youth Revolt in Memes, Art & Metadata SXSW 2026 Schedule | As authoritarian regimes globally expand digital control through AI-powered surveillance, censorship algorithms, and language policing, free expression faces coordinated attacks. ...

I am really looking forward to the tacos and chill conversations with strangers.

schedule.sxsw.com/events/PP116...

04.03.2026 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone going to be at SXSW 18-20?

04.03.2026 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
One of the videos, which has got 70 million views and claims to be of an Iranian missile attacking a US fighter jet, is actually from a video game. #Iran #MiddleEast #News #BBCNews TikTok video by BBC News

BBC VERIFIED AT IT AGAIN!

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8QP34Nv/

04.03.2026 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

β€œPrevenge” is a rare choice.

Short for preventative revenge, β€œprevenge” is taking action knowing you are going to be punished no matter what. It’s something a 5 year old would think is cool diplomacy.

03.03.2026 02:19 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Can’t uninvent the πŸ’£, but we can πŸ›‘ KILLER πŸ€– πŸ€– πŸ€–

02.03.2026 01:10 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

First, we organize the evidence and lay out the facts.

Second, we raise public awareness through promotion of these findings.

Third, we look for local interventions into laws or regulations that meaningfully protect the dignity of human life against silicon death rays.

02.03.2026 01:10 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I never thought I’d need to say this, but here we go…

We must pass legislation against autonomous killer robots.

It’s that simple.

Worldwide ban on killer robots.

If you do investigations into this, please link your work #NoKillerRobots to be included in a syllabus on weaponized agentic AI.

02.03.2026 01:10 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

*Mario voice* here we go!

28.02.2026 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4773    πŸ” 589    πŸ’¬ 95    πŸ“Œ 8

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

03.01.2026 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 16475    πŸ” 5551    πŸ’¬ 216    πŸ“Œ 129
Video thumbnail

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

01.03.2026 05:23 β€” πŸ‘ 8596    πŸ” 2935    πŸ’¬ 118    πŸ“Œ 364
Preview
Meta won’t let morality get in the way of a product launch What a great time to add facial recognition to everything!

β€œJust because you are outside of your home doesn’t mean you have consented to having a random bozo collect your face and your name, the latter of which can enable them to search for your digital presence or even home address. The act of existing in public should not carry those risks.”

01.03.2026 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 756    πŸ” 300    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 26

We are really going to regret the technology we have built.

01.03.2026 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1498    πŸ” 204    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 22

Truer words never spoke

01.03.2026 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
a group of women standing in front of a sign that says union on it ALT: a group of women standing in front of a sign that says union on it

Let’s goooooo!

01.03.2026 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Luxury Surveillance β€” Real Life People pay a premium for tracking technologies that get imposed unwillingly on others

This really real dystopia is here. Mobile networked perpetual ambient recording is luxury surveillance. My colleague @hypervisible.blacksky.app is finishing a book on such contradictions between privacy, power, and public space.

Read about this core concept here: reallifemag.com/luxury-surve...

28.02.2026 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Has anyone thought about remaking the film β€œThey Live,” where the alien-detecting sunglasses are replaced with MetaRayBans?

In this version: The MetaRayBans unmask human beings by instantly identifying anyone by applying facial recognition.

True story: Meta wants to launch this feature IRL soon

28.02.2026 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

NO KILLER ROBOTS

NO KILLER ROBOTS

NO KILLER ROBOTS

NO KILLER ROBOTS

NO KILLER ROBOTS

NO KILLER ROBOTS

NO KILLER ROBOTS

NO KILLER ROBOTS

28.02.2026 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s 2am and I’m reading about killer robots.

I’m going to be ready for it.

Pull the plug.

28.02.2026 06:56 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

More: we need to be the author of and first signatory on the worldwide no-autonomous-weapons treaty.

28.02.2026 05:56 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Das Anthropic Verbot hat nichts mit nationaler Sicherheit zu tun, im Gegenteil.

Unternehmen sollten solche Entscheidungen nicht treffen!

Der Kongress muss den Einsatz von KI in autonomen Waffensystemen und zur Überwachung verbieten.

‼️FΓΌr jede Nation sollte dies hΓΆchste PrioritΓ€t haben‼️

28.02.2026 06:26 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Banning Anthropic from government contracts is not about national security, it’s the opposite.

No business should make that decision in the first place!

CONGRESS must ban AI from being used in autonomous weapons and for domestic surveillance.

This should be a topline issue for every nation.

28.02.2026 05:29 β€” πŸ‘ 102    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

It looks like they took down the original post.

27.02.2026 03:51 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
CUNYΒ BaruchΒ College Hosts Black History Month Edit-a-Thons – CUNY Newmark Wikimedian-in-Residence

CUNY history is NYC history! CUNY SEEK Program is featured in a new Wikipedia article, thanks to @baruch.cuny.edu Black History Month Edit-a-Thons w/ @CUNYedu @wikimedianyc.bsky.social @craignewmark.bsky.social #WikipedianInResidence – more at: tinyurl.com/58zzz9fmΒ #CUNYpediaFocusArticle

27.02.2026 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0