Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D.
@drs.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Teaching; Art, Justice, and Digital Media & Core Faculty in Creative Technologies @ UCSC | Research in Voice Recognition, Assistive Technologies, Emergency Infrastructures | Co-founder of 5️⃣ & 9️⃣
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Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D.
@drs.bsky.social
· Nov 24
I’m researching emergency infrastructures in 8 US cities (NY, Miami, SF, LA, Chicago, Detroit, NOLA, and ATL). If you or someone you know has any suggestions on connecting with dispatchers, supervisors, organizers, and technologists working on crisis management, please feel free to connect me. 🙏🏽
We are living in the zombie apocalypse 🫣(I mean, we’ve been, but eeesh) 😩
“Rather than relying on an implant or a patient's own body fat to add volume to hips or augment breasts, alloClae — which can cost as much as $100,000 per procedure — uses donor fat from a cadaver as a first-of-its-kind body filler.”
Corporate types are clamoring for a new kind of plastic surgery — using dead people's fat
Corporate types are waiting weeks for — and spending big on — alloClae, which cuts out the recovery time typically associated with body enhancements.
www.businessinsider.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We are living in the zombie apocalypse 🫣(I mean, we’ve been, but eeesh) 😩
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I referenced Anjali Nath's work in my redaction project a few years ago. I see that her book — A Thousand Paper Cuts: US Empire and the Bureaucratic Life of War — is out this month!
November 24, 2025 at 5:14 AM
I referenced Anjali Nath's work in my redaction project a few years ago. I see that her book — A Thousand Paper Cuts: US Empire and the Bureaucratic Life of War — is out this month!
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Horrifying. This didn’t have to happen. History books should be filled with the names of the enablers. We should construct plaques with them in the cemeteries.
RFK Jr. is going to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.
It will take a few years before the deaths and disabilities ramp up to a level that even the most vile Republican cannot tolerate.
RFK Jr. will be long gone and unaccountable, as our babies die from preventable illness.
It will take a few years before the deaths and disabilities ramp up to a level that even the most vile Republican cannot tolerate.
RFK Jr. will be long gone and unaccountable, as our babies die from preventable illness.
December 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Horrifying. This didn’t have to happen. History books should be filled with the names of the enablers. We should construct plaques with them in the cemeteries.
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Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/
Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
A Bulgarian man from Chicago arrested during an immigration enforcement 'blitz' has died while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a Michigan private prison, the ABC7 I-Team has learned.
abc7chicago.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.
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Better questions:
Has misogyny failed women?
Has gendered violence failed women?
Has chronically unequal pay failed women?
Has inadequate childcare failed women?
Has the end of SNAP failed women?
Has transphobia failed women?Has inadequate healthcare failed women?
Has misogyny failed women?
Has gendered violence failed women?
Has chronically unequal pay failed women?
Has inadequate childcare failed women?
Has the end of SNAP failed women?
Has transphobia failed women?Has inadequate healthcare failed women?
December 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Better questions:
Has misogyny failed women?
Has gendered violence failed women?
Has chronically unequal pay failed women?
Has inadequate childcare failed women?
Has the end of SNAP failed women?
Has transphobia failed women?Has inadequate healthcare failed women?
Has misogyny failed women?
Has gendered violence failed women?
Has chronically unequal pay failed women?
Has inadequate childcare failed women?
Has the end of SNAP failed women?
Has transphobia failed women?Has inadequate healthcare failed women?
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Absolute catnip for media studies / fan studies folks!
I found it. The Bari Weiss/CBS News town hall promo for feminism does indeed use a 1964 photo of Beatles fans.
December 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Absolute catnip for media studies / fan studies folks!
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Critically important.
Rare survey done in IDOC shows at least 2/3 of incarcerated people experienced homelessness or housing instability in 3 years prior to entering prison. Illinois needs a statewide reentry housing strategy to ensure effective reentry into society, advocates say.
chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet...
chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet...
Thousands leaving Illinois prisons face high risk of housing instability, new study finds
A first-of-its-kind statewide survey shows many reentering society may face difficulty finding housing. Advocates say the data underscores the need for major investment in reentry housing and services...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Critically important.
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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
www.transyouthemergencyproject.org
December 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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
www.transyouthemergencyproject.org
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ICYMI: How can journalism create hope and shift narratives? The last of @lewispants.bsky.social's column on movement journalism offers some clarity: objectivejournalism.org/2025/12/move...
Movement journalism can transform narratives
When we accept that we are powerless, we foreclose our own radical potential. Stories can change that.
objectivejournalism.org
December 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM
ICYMI: How can journalism create hope and shift narratives? The last of @lewispants.bsky.social's column on movement journalism offers some clarity: objectivejournalism.org/2025/12/move...
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it's incredibly lovely to see that CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY is on the year-end list for @publicbooks.bsky.social not once but TWICE!!
thank you to @njdames.bsky.social and @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy!!
and among such amazing books!!!
www.publicbooks.org/public-picks...
thank you to @njdames.bsky.social and @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy!!
and among such amazing books!!!
www.publicbooks.org/public-picks...
Public Picks 2025 - Public Books
What were the books of 2025 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us? For this, the 13th-annual edition of Public Picks, section editors for Global Black
www.publicbooks.org
December 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
it's incredibly lovely to see that CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY is on the year-end list for @publicbooks.bsky.social not once but TWICE!!
thank you to @njdames.bsky.social and @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy!!
and among such amazing books!!!
www.publicbooks.org/public-picks...
thank you to @njdames.bsky.social and @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy!!
and among such amazing books!!!
www.publicbooks.org/public-picks...
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To me the guiding question has to be: What is a politics that is directed and singularly focused at the source of people's pain and suffering? - That is not a question of interest to the abundance Dems or the fascists.
I mean NYC is about the embark on a project of trying to implement some major policies intended to support regular people. Folks could focus on that to see what might be possible to achieve in similar positioned cities. Can NYC deliver universal childcare?
December 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
To me the guiding question has to be: What is a politics that is directed and singularly focused at the source of people's pain and suffering? - That is not a question of interest to the abundance Dems or the fascists.
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4 Republicans voting against is significant. There's leverage there. Somewhere. There's concern that this isn't a winning move in swing districts. Echoes of the Virginia election.
Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
December 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
4 Republicans voting against is significant. There's leverage there. Somewhere. There's concern that this isn't a winning move in swing districts. Echoes of the Virginia election.
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"Wherever the agents appear, even when they lean idly, chatting, we see the cold threat of violence and the fragility of freedom. And in the brave crowds who gather to confront them, scrambling their illusion of total control, we see the power of solidarity..."
hammerandhope.org/article/ice-...
hammerandhope.org/article/ice-...
War at Home
A record of ICE’s assault on immigrants and the people’s resistance.
hammerandhope.org
December 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"Wherever the agents appear, even when they lean idly, chatting, we see the cold threat of violence and the fragility of freedom. And in the brave crowds who gather to confront them, scrambling their illusion of total control, we see the power of solidarity..."
hammerandhope.org/article/ice-...
hammerandhope.org/article/ice-...
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More or less done with the reading list for History of the Database. You could take a lot of different approaches, but this is the one I went with.
Reading List – History of the Database
miriamposner.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
More or less done with the reading list for History of the Database. You could take a lot of different approaches, but this is the one I went with.
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Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
December 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
I’m so proud of @aphid.org for making, not one, but two artworks this year. A year that has been extremely challenging and filled with grief, loss, and deep sadness (for so many of us). Yet A found it in themselves to make deeply challenging and beautiful work. 😭🥹🥲
stegi.radio/show/transmi...
stegi.radio/show/transmi...
December 17, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I’m so proud of @aphid.org for making, not one, but two artworks this year. A year that has been extremely challenging and filled with grief, loss, and deep sadness (for so many of us). Yet A found it in themselves to make deeply challenging and beautiful work. 😭🥹🥲
stegi.radio/show/transmi...
stegi.radio/show/transmi...
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Ethical AI is an oxymoron, like automated science
December 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Ethical AI is an oxymoron, like automated science
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Every few years there's a bunch of "pivot to video" discourse about how creatives should all start making videos instead of doing text-based work. And every few years we discover again that the supposed "popularity" of video is based on fake audience numbers created by the video platforms.
December 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Every few years there's a bunch of "pivot to video" discourse about how creatives should all start making videos instead of doing text-based work. And every few years we discover again that the supposed "popularity" of video is based on fake audience numbers created by the video platforms.
Sooner or later (if not now, really), friends will have nothing to talk about. Thinking of the Betazoid character, Tam Elbrun, who would get irritated talking to people because he knew what they were thinking so he would just say it or interrupt them mid-sentence. Yet again, 💩 nobody asked for. 🙄
December 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Sooner or later (if not now, really), friends will have nothing to talk about. Thinking of the Betazoid character, Tam Elbrun, who would get irritated talking to people because he knew what they were thinking so he would just say it or interrupt them mid-sentence. Yet again, 💩 nobody asked for. 🙄
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TRL
December 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
TRL
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I read this piece 👆 after I had one of these incidents 👇 last week. Citation is *not* merely "academic." It's about honesty and honor and responsibility and generosity. And there are ways to do it that aren't clunky and intrusive!
I’ve occasionally been asked to offer feedback on “social entrepreneurship” projects; I almost always note the lack of acknwldgmt of relevant scholarship — and I’m told: “these aren’t scholars.” Sure, but the relevant rsch has lots of “real-world” implications + can prevent you from doing harm.
December 15, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I read this piece 👆 after I had one of these incidents 👇 last week. Citation is *not* merely "academic." It's about honesty and honor and responsibility and generosity. And there are ways to do it that aren't clunky and intrusive!
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Operation Metro Surge is state-sanctioned racial profiling used as a tool of political intimidation.
But Somali Minnesotans aren’t intimidated, we’re brave and resilient, and our neighbors have our back.
We don’t cower to bullies.
But Somali Minnesotans aren’t intimidated, we’re brave and resilient, and our neighbors have our back.
We don’t cower to bullies.
December 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Operation Metro Surge is state-sanctioned racial profiling used as a tool of political intimidation.
But Somali Minnesotans aren’t intimidated, we’re brave and resilient, and our neighbors have our back.
We don’t cower to bullies.
But Somali Minnesotans aren’t intimidated, we’re brave and resilient, and our neighbors have our back.
We don’t cower to bullies.
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What this study found is that AI is pretty good at adopting formal linguistic analysis that treats language as a set of disembodied linguistic structures unique to humans, which is not surprising since it relegates the complexity of human language to “performance” outside of the scope of linguistics
If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities? www.wired.com/story/in-a-f...
For the First Time, AI Analyzes Language as Well as a Human Expert
If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?
www.wired.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
What this study found is that AI is pretty good at adopting formal linguistic analysis that treats language as a set of disembodied linguistic structures unique to humans, which is not surprising since it relegates the complexity of human language to “performance” outside of the scope of linguistics
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His name is Ahmad Al-Ahmad and we can all choose to highlight him instead of the murderers who committed a massacre
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7News Australia reports that the hero who jumped and disarmed one of the terrorist shooters
His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed
A 43 year old married father of two
He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland
No experience with guns
He was walking past
He has two bullets in his arm
His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed
A 43 year old married father of two
He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland
No experience with guns
He was walking past
He has two bullets in his arm
December 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
His name is Ahmad Al-Ahmad and we can all choose to highlight him instead of the murderers who committed a massacre
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