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beth semel
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AI killjoy, prednisone hater, writing a book about voice analysis AI and the labor of technosolutionist listening in American mental healthcare
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resources for supporting Haitian immigrants in Springfield, OH likely losing TPS on Tuesday abortionfundofohio.org/springfield/
Stand with Springfield - Abortion Fund of Ohio
Springfield, OH, is home to thousands of Haitian immigrants working & residing under Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which is set to expire after February 3rd. Local leaders now believe a 30-day imm...
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February 1, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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You mean the same Gemini being pushed into K-12 schools?
January 31, 2026 at 2:20 PM
linguistic anthropologists everywhere once again vindicated for despising chomsky's work for decades
January 31, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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Miriam* fled enslavement in Mauritania in a heroic middle of the night escape - she found out she was pregnant with her enslaver’s 5th child here. Denied schooling she is illiterate. Today she lives in fear of being targeted by ICE. I’m raising money for her. Venmo is @Heba-gowayed.
January 30, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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In addition to Don Lemon, they arrested journalist Georgia Fort
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journalist georgia fort was arrested by the feds this morning for filming the church protest in st. paul where an ICE agent is the pastor. nekima levy-armstrong and chauntyll allen were already arrested for organizing it

she went live on facebook about it, @jasonderusha.com has recording on twitter
January 30, 2026 at 1:30 PM
hey look it's @slaydok.bsky.social making good on his username
January 29, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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Palantir working hard to be the IBM of this era.
ICE Is Using Palantir’s AI Tools to Sort Through Tips
ICE has been using an AI-powered Palantir system to summarize tips sent to its tip line since last spring, according to a newly released Homeland Security document.
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January 28, 2026 at 10:12 PM
thanks to the enablers of this past this article will now be appearing in an upcoming special issue on linguistic anthropology and AI in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, great work everyone
if i were to hypothetically speaking have been invited to write an article about this would you read it / 1 like = 1 vote of enablement
all LLM hype can be boiled down to the same endless shilling of the same incredibly narrow and contingent yet politically efficacious language ideology over and over again that linguistic anthropologists have been pulling their hair out over since the birth of the sub-discipline
January 28, 2026 at 10:12 PM
am i the last one on earth to learn that Stafford Beer had a daughter he named........Vanilla Beer
January 28, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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Does women’s health need sex-specific algorithms? In a paper just out in Big Data & Society (bigdatasoc.bsky.social) we at the GenderSci Lab warn against the growing use of so-called “pink” and “blue” algorithms, arguing that they risk embedding biological sex essentialist assumptions into medicine.
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January 28, 2026 at 6:12 AM
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"everyone is talking about machine learning but no one is talking about machine yearning" used to be a joke, but now they are playing it straight
January 26, 2026 at 1:05 PM
excellent tool for looking into who in your neighborhood is turning a profit via ICE/has DHS contracts www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/v...
Who's Profiting from ICE? - Google My Maps
ICE relies on a nationwide web of private companies, local law enforcement agencies, and elected officials to carry out its work. Boycott Citizens is committed to the principles of nonviolent action....
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January 26, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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We cannot allow the clarity and consciousness produced in these horrific moments of struggle to be co-opted by elites in the policing industry or Democratic establishment in service of any agenda other than reducing the size and power of the government’s capacities for repression and violence.
January 24, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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THREAD. In the section of my Copaganda book on how body cameras as a supposed “reform” are one of the great propaganda achievements in the history of the police/surveillance industry, I explain that one of the reasons police wanted them so badly for years was to link to facial recognition tech.
January 24, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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"This is a verified page fundraising support for the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO and Working Partnerships' 2026 rapid response effort to meet the needs of impacted union members, worker center members, and their families..."

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January 17, 2026 at 1:52 AM
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Fascism has no equilibrium. Its reliance on escalation as proof of legitimacy requires continual acceleration. This process produces contradictions and instabilities that can and must be exploited.
January 16, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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If you live in North America, the next time you call the police, your call may be answered by AI.

This week, the Toronto Police Service announced it will begin using a voice AI system developed by Hyper for 811 non-emergency calls.
January 16, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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NEW: We obtained 100 gigabytes of data from unlisted websites associated with Canary Mission, revealing their internal workings, employees, and an internal website called BlackNest where the group celebrated its “impacts”— arrests and deportations.

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BlackNest: Inside Canary Mission’s Secret Web of Unlisted Sites
One Canary Mission-affiliated website, BlackNest, reveals the group's internal operations, plans to expand, and how they celebrate deportations and firings
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January 6, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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Starting tomorrow, the Trump administration is set to send notices to 1,000 student loan borrowers (first round) noticing them of an intent to garnish their wages for student loan debt.

This is cruel and unnecessary.

If you receive a notice, send it to us and we'll try to help.
January 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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Why are the negative consequences of so-called AI so consistently directed at disabled and racialized people? Disabling Intelligences details the ongoing effects of the eugenicist mindset on our corporate ventures and our interpersonal relationships. link.springer.com/book/9783032...
Disabling Intelligences
This book discusses the influences of eugenics on the AI industry and the impacts of AI opportunism on disabled people.
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September 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Our collective belief in our own inadequacy is required to sustain the AI project—a metaeugenic worship of intelligence and a belief that most people do not possess enough of it.
September 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Now published in print: "The Legality of Logistics: On Techno-Orientalism and Geopolitics in Semiconductor Production" in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing as a part of this special issue 'Automation by Design' co-edited by @cperold.bsky.social , Gerardo Con Diaz, and @justcode.bsky.social .
December 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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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
December 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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And again, if you’re someone who thinks AI has gotten a bad rap, maybe consider the most prominent use cases so far which now include keeping Black and Queer scholarship off of college campuses.
December 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM