Anna Gjika
@gjikaphd.bsky.social
Sociologist. Assistant Professor. Author of WHEN RAPE GOES VIRAL. Research on #gender #techabuse #sexualviolence #digitalculture #youth.
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genAI is STOLEN WORK. Using genAI in *any* capacity is trafficking in stolen work, supporting the plunder. Period. These facts aren't even denied by the AI companies, they just find ways to make that plunder seem benevolent. Using their product enables that lie. Stop enabling the theft of our work.
"we only use AI for coming up with ideas" no you don't. you use AI to come up with the a bland version of other people's ideas. there is currently NOBODY more replaceable than you
December 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
genAI is STOLEN WORK. Using genAI in *any* capacity is trafficking in stolen work, supporting the plunder. Period. These facts aren't even denied by the AI companies, they just find ways to make that plunder seem benevolent. Using their product enables that lie. Stop enabling the theft of our work.
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This is the institutionalization of Turning Point's professor watchlist. It invites mass harassment and declares war on independent ideas. If unlearned sociopaths can influence your teaching through threats, academic freedom is essentially dead.
It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.
We know the students don’t read the syllabuses. So who will? Right-wing activists looking for excuses to hound profs.
December 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This is the institutionalization of Turning Point's professor watchlist. It invites mass harassment and declares war on independent ideas. If unlearned sociopaths can influence your teaching through threats, academic freedom is essentially dead.
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Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.
December 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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Fellow academics and cultural workers, please consider joining me and scholars like Robin Kelley, Angela Davis and Ruthie Gilmore in signing this important UAE boycott letter:
spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...
spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...
For a Cultural and Academic Boycott of the UAE – Spectre Journal
TAGATU3 call for a cultural and academic boycott of the UAE.
spectrejournal.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Fellow academics and cultural workers, please consider joining me and scholars like Robin Kelley, Angela Davis and Ruthie Gilmore in signing this important UAE boycott letter:
spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...
spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...
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THERE ARE NO JOBS IN ACADEMIA! NO JOBS! DOZENS OF HYPER QUALIFIED APPLICANTS PER JOB!
December 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
THERE ARE NO JOBS IN ACADEMIA! NO JOBS! DOZENS OF HYPER QUALIFIED APPLICANTS PER JOB!
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It’s concerning that we’re enabling a police and surveillance state of unprecedented scale at the same moment when the veracity of any textual or visual document has become structurally suspect
“The thing that’s been the most difficult so far is that, in all of our interactions with the government, they’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them.”
ICE Says U.S. Citizen's Birth Certificate Is Fake After Arresting Her: Attorneys
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:15 AM
It’s concerning that we’re enabling a police and surveillance state of unprecedented scale at the same moment when the veracity of any textual or visual document has become structurally suspect
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“Kai Erikson, Who Studied the Collective Trauma Left by Disasters, Dies at 94 -
He said Hurricane Katrina was ‘far and away the most telling disaster of our national experience’.”
www.wsj.com/health/kai-e...
He said Hurricane Katrina was ‘far and away the most telling disaster of our national experience’.”
www.wsj.com/health/kai-e...
Kai Erikson, Who Studied the Collective Trauma Left by Disasters, Dies at 94
He said Hurricane Katrina was “far and away the most telling disaster of our national experience.”
www.wsj.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:47 AM
“Kai Erikson, Who Studied the Collective Trauma Left by Disasters, Dies at 94 -
He said Hurricane Katrina was ‘far and away the most telling disaster of our national experience’.”
www.wsj.com/health/kai-e...
He said Hurricane Katrina was ‘far and away the most telling disaster of our national experience’.”
www.wsj.com/health/kai-e...
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NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
December 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
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All the centers they’re cutting add up to less than $7 million in spending.
UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.
UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.
December 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
All the centers they’re cutting add up to less than $7 million in spending.
UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.
UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.
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At… PROPUBLICA????? God we’re so fucked
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
At… PROPUBLICA????? God we’re so fucked
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1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
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It’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
It’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.
I mean, is it too much to ask that students don't leave the "source=chatgpt.com" extension on their citation hyperlinks?
Like. Cheat better.
Like. Cheat better.
December 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I mean, is it too much to ask that students don't leave the "source=chatgpt.com" extension on their citation hyperlinks?
Like. Cheat better.
Like. Cheat better.
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@samanthamichaels.bsky.social has been a criminal justice reporter for over a decade. She has lived in an authoritarian country overseas.
But she has never seen a police presence like the one in ICE-occupied Memphis.
“The people supposedly eliminating crime are making the city unlivable.”
But she has never seen a police presence like the one in ICE-occupied Memphis.
“The people supposedly eliminating crime are making the city unlivable.”
I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."
www.motherjones.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
@samanthamichaels.bsky.social has been a criminal justice reporter for over a decade. She has lived in an authoritarian country overseas.
But she has never seen a police presence like the one in ICE-occupied Memphis.
“The people supposedly eliminating crime are making the city unlivable.”
But she has never seen a police presence like the one in ICE-occupied Memphis.
“The people supposedly eliminating crime are making the city unlivable.”
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Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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As a person who has been studying extreme far right ideologies for the last decade (and did a PhD on immigration) I find the entrance of “remigration” into the mainstream American political lexicon so profoundly disturbing
December 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
As a person who has been studying extreme far right ideologies for the last decade (and did a PhD on immigration) I find the entrance of “remigration” into the mainstream American political lexicon so profoundly disturbing
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There is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff.
This should be headline news.
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This should be headline news.
x.com/uaw7902/stat...
December 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
There is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff.
This should be headline news.
x.com/uaw7902/stat...
This should be headline news.
x.com/uaw7902/stat...
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“She was so afraid they would take her baby”
Why?
ICE is using smartwatches to track pregnant women — even *during* labor…
So pregnant immigrants are skipping the doctor altogether
Why?
ICE is using smartwatches to track pregnant women — even *during* labor…
So pregnant immigrants are skipping the doctor altogether
ICE is using smartwatches to track pregnant women, even during labor: ‘She was so afraid they would take her baby’
Pregnant immigrants in ICE monitoring programs are avoiding care, fearing detention during labor and delivery
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
“She was so afraid they would take her baby”
Why?
ICE is using smartwatches to track pregnant women — even *during* labor…
So pregnant immigrants are skipping the doctor altogether
Why?
ICE is using smartwatches to track pregnant women — even *during* labor…
So pregnant immigrants are skipping the doctor altogether
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JFC will you leave us alone already with your evil tech bullshit
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
JFC will you leave us alone already with your evil tech bullshit
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More to the point, this culture of students showing up to college at 18 believing they know what courses they need to take is ludicrous in its face, yet here we are.
You’re 3 months out of high school. In terms of insight and understanding of adult life you are effectively a toddler.
You’re 3 months out of high school. In terms of insight and understanding of adult life you are effectively a toddler.
A liberal arts education is designed to make you a better person, not train you to do a job.
If you are providing me with an education that is low utility in the world then it’s a disservice. My composition class spent four weeks on poetry. I’m sorry, but that only would’ve been useful if I wanted to be a poet. I don’t need to know iambic pentameter in order to be a victim advocate.
December 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
More to the point, this culture of students showing up to college at 18 believing they know what courses they need to take is ludicrous in its face, yet here we are.
You’re 3 months out of high school. In terms of insight and understanding of adult life you are effectively a toddler.
You’re 3 months out of high school. In terms of insight and understanding of adult life you are effectively a toddler.
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Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.
Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...
data-workers.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
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gen ai as a project exists to ingest the other and reconfigure it as white supremacist fantasy
Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.
Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...
data-workers.org
December 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
gen ai as a project exists to ingest the other and reconfigure it as white supremacist fantasy
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Watching people humanize ChatGPT while dehumanizing literal small human children is one of the most fucked things about this era.
I don’t care if your book has a Paint cover. I don’t care if you have typos. I don’t care if you took the cover photo with your phone. But I do not want to read a book YOU DID NOT WRITE.
Writing requires you to write. To feel. To think. To impart that. That is step one to Being a Writer.
Writing requires you to write. To feel. To think. To impart that. That is step one to Being a Writer.
December 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Watching people humanize ChatGPT while dehumanizing literal small human children is one of the most fucked things about this era.