CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

findmeatherapist.org

What our ongoing research with @briana-v.bsky.social at @datasociety.bsky.social is also finding:

This should be repeated constantly:
"In three years, roughly a tenth of US energy demand will come from data centers alone."

We need to have a real response to this!!
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

On Lawfare Daily, @tylermcbrien.com spoke to @mwoluchem.bsky.social, @livgar.bsky.social, and Joan Mukogosi from @datasociety.bsky.social about their research trips across Pennsylvania, where they learned about the current and future impacts of the nascent AI data center industry in the state.

It was lovely to talk about PA with @mwoluchem.bsky.social and Joan on the transformations being pushed by the data center industry across the state. Looking forward continuing this work with @anthrotechana.bsky.social and @cellllla.bsky.social 🛣️

An absolutely harrowing and important story -- ChatGPT and other chatbots are becoming deeply enmeshed in many people's personal and social lives to an incredible degree, and the consequences can be devastating.

In our second installment of our trip through PA, we linger on Three Mile Island on the banks of Susquehanna river. Nuclear energy coming back to power Microsoft data centers stands in strange contrast to small town diners, empty malls, and steel mill closures. Read below:

Thank you to @justinhendrix.bsky.social and @techpolicypress.bsky.social for eliciting some thoughts on some recent tragic incidents brought about by chatbots and what are increasingly becoming forms of technologically predatory companionships:

Commentary today from TI’s brilliant @livgar.bsky.social and many other experts about Meta’s profoundly disturbing chatbot policies and their real human impacts. Essential reflections for any and all of us using the internet

Chatbots for therapy: Worst idea ever or a good way to drive people into psychosis?

On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream, @mharrisondupre.bsky.social‬ will join @alexhanna.bsky.social and me to process the hype:

Monday, August 18, noon Pacific
twitch.tv/dair_institute

Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly:

"No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."

"HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."

Today Trump, Sen. McCormick, and industry leaders convened to discuss their plan for AI-forward PA. Upshot: $92 billion will go to data centers, natural gas & nuclear infrastructure, & re-organizing labor around the AI race. DoE Sec. Chris Wright declared: “AI is our second Manhattan Project.”

Happy to have a shared piece on trust in relationality in the new @datasociety.bsky.social Trust Issues Anthology! Read below 🪢

“You don’t like AI therapists because they’re a threat to your income”

No, I don’t like AI therapists because they are harmful!

It’s Earth Week! In this new series, members of our research network explore how communities have addressed the unequal power dynamics between tech production and deployment, and how tech impacts people’s everyday lives and the environment around them. datasociety.net/points/the-c...

It's Fustilarian Friday, so here's the latest statement from NSF's director, trying to dodge the news cycle.

www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

All of this, all of it, is illegal. Congress appropriated that money, OUR money, to support research and invest in America’s future innovation.

It is not up to anyone in the Executive Branch to block it whenever they feel like it.

The other co-equal branches of government have a duty to end this

It’s so weird how we’re all just working like this is still a normal country.

if the government is willing to disappear immigrants for their writing, they’re willing to do the same to citizens.

I wrote about therapy, platform intrusions, Virginia Woolf, and the need for trusted rooms of our own in these times 🪟 for The American Psychoanalyst 🛋️

Powerful lawsuit, filed today, against the Trump administration's abhorrent policy of ideological deportation. @aaup.bsky.social, MESA, and AAUP chapters at Harvard, NYU, and Rutgers are co-plaintiffs: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trustworthy Infrastructures is hiring! Come work with @livgar.bsky.social, Joan Mukogosi, and me, as we look to build out our Nodes & Conduits project. We're really looking forward to getting to know you and your work - please don't hesitate to reach out with any additional questions!

heartbreaking.