Mini-lecture on AI, Politics, and Inequality by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social building on @dmgreene.bsky.social, or why are university administrations capitulating to AI? www.instagram.com/tressiemcphd...
20.10.2025 02:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@gleemie.bsky.social
Professor, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker. These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.
Mini-lecture on AI, Politics, and Inequality by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social building on @dmgreene.bsky.social, or why are university administrations capitulating to AI? www.instagram.com/tressiemcphd...
20.10.2025 02:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I think the massification of the classroom also set up a vacuum of personal teaching relationships that made public higher Ed beyond the community college (which has smaller classes and a teaching only mission) particularly vulnerable
19.10.2025 15:33 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@tressiemcphd.bsky.social has a great analysis I saw on Instagram that I also teach explaining how austerity in public higher Ed in the us forces schools to do public private partnership deals for resources and to seem "relevant" to elites, drawing on @dmgreene.bsky.social work on libraries
19.10.2025 15:33 β π 31 π 6 π¬ 2 π 0wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
17.10.2025 01:15 β π 7257 π 3532 π¬ 91 π 324New at PB: Each day this week, weβre publishing a series on the cybernetic border, which contributions from IvΓ‘n Chaar LΓ³pez, @philippseuferling.bsky.social, @kalindivora.bsky.social, and @gleemie.bsky.social.
16.10.2025 13:35 β π 12 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0A short read on why a wide range of people have a stake in shutting down mass surveillance and overcoming the politics of fear and othering.
16.10.2025 17:41 β π 9 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0New at PB: Last in our series on IvΓ‘n Chaar LΓ³pezβs book "The Cybernetic Border," Lilly Irani (@gleemie.bsky.social) warns that no one is safe under the cybernetic border, as data grows and the definition of "intruder" shifts.
16.10.2025 16:59 β π 10 π 6 π¬ 0 π 2βWe need to understand border enforcement & borders as ensembles mixing the social & technical in the management of inclusion and exclusion.β
New at PB: IvΓ‘n Chaar LΓ³pez introduces a series that responds to "The Cybernetic Border" (@dukepress.bsky.social).
Silverio Villegas Gonzalez
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Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
10.10.2025 08:38 β π 110 π 75 π¬ 8 π 5Chuffed page is down :(
11.10.2025 16:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Portland Frog isn't just a meaningless shit post. It creates a new association of meaning between antifa and cute. It is semiotic combat. Such tactics work on televisual and photo print media too, not just the Internet. What makes it internet is the networked frog fan culture.
11.10.2025 16:41 β π 26 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0Dear Google, when I click Chrome Listen to this Page, I just want the AI to read the damn words in robot voice written by the author. I don't want your ai podcast chatter chopping up the authors words into a morning coffee chat.
To think this feature coulda been tax dollars funding a library
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would βkillβ the AI industry
26.05.2025 13:40 β π 4471 π 862 π¬ 3656 π 8915News coverage: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...
08.10.2025 22:31 β π 45 π 13 π¬ 1 π 1Ep. 18: September to Remember October 6 β’ S1 E18 β’ 44 min Also, we proposed a idea how to do a end run on vote by mail. Concept is based on what Trump proposed. When you vote, you check everyone's citizenship as well as voter ID. In a vote by mail state, you might be able to check citizenship during voter registration. You can send copies of your passport and your birth certificate in. How in the world are you going to check our voters? Voter ID, right? Vote by mail. So that creates a problem for Oregon. But if federal government new requirement is to check both, and if Oregon can comply with the requirements, what would happen to our election result? I'm talking about the entire federal delegation. For federal elections, we're talking about only federal elections. COMMON SENSE Vascluar
Ep. 18: September to Remember October 6 β’ S1 E18 β’ 44 min So entire federal delegation, congressmen and senators could be challenged, could be unseated because you didn't follow federal requirements to elect them. So I said the trade-off is worth it. You know why? Democrats control two Senate seats out of six congressional seats. We only control one. They control five. You talk about trade-off, right? COMMON SENSE Sanctuany
Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.
09.10.2025 02:17 β π 2114 π 1119 π¬ 71 π 73Hollowing out of the democratic party by @philiprocco.bsky.social pretty much contextualizes so much of my experience of policy and organizing around technology, work, and surveillance issues.
Organizations organizations organizations
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New book alert!π
Our book on workers talking about their experiences of workers inquiry research, and working with academic workers to build power! with the Capacitor Collective
Thank you for these. Insightful, resonant, and well worth sharing with colleagues on our campuses.
30.09.2025 20:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
Government civil rights investigations examine institutional civil rights management practices, not individuals. Individuals are not legitimate targets of federal civil rights investigation.
28.09.2025 06:39 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0UC should not give personally identifiable information to federal gov, says @aaup.org. Where they already have, they need to implement harm reduction measures immediately.
www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
This echoes the call San Diego Faculty Association made to our Chancellor and UCOP 2 weeks ago.
This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like
27.09.2025 15:30 β π 5632 π 1946 π¬ 204 π 361A coalition of higher ed unions jointly filed a lawsuit against the Trump admin for the threats to the University of California including @uaw4811.bsky.social @afscme3299.bsky.social @uptecwa.bsky.social @ucaft.bsky.social @teamsterslocal2010.bsky.social @aaup.org @aft.org @uaw.org and CUCFA.
16.09.2025 20:48 β π 79 π 25 π¬ 1 π 1Today, we joined a broad coalition of unions in suing the Trump administration over their unilateral termination of federal research grants to UCLA and other ongoing federal funding threats: www.latimes.com/california/s...
17.09.2025 00:02 β π 55 π 22 π¬ 2 π 0UC nurses are joining faculty workers to sue the Trump administration and stop its illegal attack on gender-affirming care and ICE deportations at our universities and hospitals.
This lawsuit is about protecting our patientsβ rights and standing up for care, not cruelty.
Workers of the UC stand together to protect people, not just money.
Join your UC Faculty Association or union!
Really excited about Sarah T. Hamid this Saturday in San Diego, speaking about research the EFF has done to understand what is working and not working with surveillance organizing around the country! Join us!
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also, I'm revising proofs where I cite your work on hiring halls :)
California closer to bond measure to fund our own science and health reaearch. Ty
@uaw4811.bsky.social! Yes to this! But it should not fund a UC that also submits to federal prohibitions on politically targeted research.
https//www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/us/california-scientific-research-bond.html