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Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️

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Former refugee. Abolitionist. Old-school net.person. UW MA Cultural Studies. UCSD PhD (in progress) Comm/STS. Surveillance, unbelonging & mediation of displacement. Unprecedentedness and crisis. Critical Data, AI, DH, maps, archives. She/They/Any

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Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · Sep 4

Final reading list for my AI course follows, week by week. UC summer sessions are 5 weeks, compressed from the 10 week regular quarter (already short). So, teaching Comm/Media undergrads an upper division class on this, during the summer of the constantly moving AI needle was… a challenge. Still:

Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · Jun 4

Pinned 🧵 -- a Critical AI reading list I'm building in conjuction with a course I'm teaching this summer. I'll be adding to this during the summer, both scholarly works and non-academic public writings, beginning with the Brian Merchant article in the post below:

Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · May 16

I'm building a list of sources, in the meantime. @bcmerchant.bsky.social's "Blood in the Machine" is in my Top 5. I'm happy to take other suggestions, and I'll be publishing the reading list. 4/4

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that this coming 9 days before the largest peaceful protest in modern American history is absolutely intentional. We will not back down. Trump and Miller can lie, smear, and threaten all they want. They will lose. No Kings, No Kings, No Kings. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · 1d

This is so good, not only as a review but also as political and media commentary on the version of the Left the feds would like people to believe they're up against.

Erasing the 1960s

One Battle After Another, Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

open.substack.com

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 5d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 7d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 5d

does it bode well when a federal judge schedules a hearing at 7PM on a sunday night

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Judge Karin Immergut has scheduled a hearing for 7p PT/10p PT tonight on the new TRO request, which includes California and argues that "[t]his Court should issue a second TRO to prevent circumvention of the first TRO." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · 5d

"I have no idea if Bratton is cultivating a "bad boy of AI orthodoxy" image as a kind of online brand or if this is just his personality."

I know I'm not supposed to laugh, but this was hilarious to me.

Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 5d

Wrote more about Benjamin Bratton's paranoid imagination of a media studies cabal holding back AI progress in Europe. mail.cyberneticforests.com/is-the-media...

Is the Media Studies Cabal in the Room With Us Right Now?

I read The Stack in 2020 as a grad student in ANU's Applied Cybernetics program. I give it credit for directing my attention to the interaction between layers of digital and physical infrastructures. ...

mail.cyberneticforests.com

Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · 7d

I haven't been on here all day, but every note I see about this is worse than the last. WTF.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 8d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 8d

did a bot conduct this survey

The Independent @the-independent.com · 8d

Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

www.independent.co.uk

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 9d

a figure walking away.

The Benefits of Walking Away

1. Makes bad things disappear quickly
2. Gives everyone optimal view of your back
3. Answers guestion, "I wonder what would happen if I just walked away"

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Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · 9d

Yes please

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9d

“The new tech will track 29 body parts of each player as they move across the court — although which specific body parts and exactly how they will be tracked, AWS did not say.”

Granular tracking of Black athletes’ “body parts” and the likely betting markets is a bit too on the nose for this moment

Amazon says its AI will let NBA fans track brand-new stats

The NBA is using AWS’s AI to bring fans brand-new stats this new basketball season.

www.theverge.com

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 9d

we should stop letting the police departments in supposedly progressive cities use poor communities as policy labs for dangerous technology designed to incarcerate as many of those people as possible

New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 9d

NEW: The NYPD plans to gain real-time access to nearly 18,000 cameras across 119 NYCHA developments, officials testified at an emergency City Council hearing.
nysfocus.com/2025/10/01/n...

NYPD Plans Massive Expansion of Real-Time Surveillance in NYCHA…

The City Council held an emergency hearing on the NYPD's use of a free internet program to gain real-time access to public housing cameras, in response to…

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Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · 10d

Omg, I completely forgot that was him.

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Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · 10d

He's been out-Falloning even himself lately.

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Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · 10d

I agree that honesty, perseverance, and wrestling genuinely with hard problems are qualities we need to encourage and develop, so I appreciate this response. I'm moving away altogether from the kind of high-stakes assessments that encourage cheating. But I recognize that's not always an option.

Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · 10d

We need to figure out how to take a hard turn away from policing students. They didn't create this problem. Educators didn't create this problem. All attention on control and stricture is wasted, while further entrenching and legitimizing industry extraction. Let students live. Change your pedagogy.

Jim McGrath @jimmcgrath.bsky.social · 10d

I’ve seen this Wikipedia resource on Signs of AI Writing going around. I would caution folks looking to use it as a manual or even reference in course assessment contexts. It is definitely useful and descriptive thinking out loud within the context of Wikipedia. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia

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Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · 11d

There is nothing more likely to send me into a rage than hardware problems. I know, but that's my work that just became inaccessible, my god.

First my drive failed, then in the process of troubleshooting, my BIOS demanded an update, now my HDMI out is broken too. Whyyyyy. Don't answer that.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 11d

There's no more money on the money tree. Venture Capitalists have run out.

OpenAl threatens the future of available capital for the entire tech industry.

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11d

You should read the whole piece from @edzitron.com but if you only read one paragraph, make it this one: OpenAI has burned so much money that there is no more money.

Read that again: it's not just OpenAI that's broke. All of VC is broke.

www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

Venture Capital Will Run Out At The Current Rate of Investment In Six Quarters, And OpenAI Needs More Investment Than Ever: The Information recently published some worrying data from venture capitalist Jon Sakoda — that “at today’s clip, the industry would run out of money in six quarters,” adding that the money wouldn’t run out until the end of 2028 if it wasn’t for Anthropic and OpenAI. In a very real sense, OpenAI threatens the future of available capital for the tech industry.

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 11d

As someone currently on probation at Princeton, what also stands out here is the sham faculty governance on display:

Faculty panel reviews all the evidence n decides there is no grounds for suspension.

Admin overrules their decision n Provost Kavita Bala calls for significant disciplinary action.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 11d

The whole outrageous story:

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint

Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.

www.thenation.com

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Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · 12d

History 2: Electric Boogaloo

Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social · 13d

Francis Fukuyama: ‘The neoliberals went too far. Now, we need more social democratic policies’

english.elpais.com/culture/2022...

Francis Fukuyama: ‘The neoliberals went too far. Now, we need more social democratic policies’

The political scientist, who at the beginning of the 1990s declared ‘the end of history,’ returns with a new book where he identifies the threats to classical liberalism: runaway capitalism and too mu...

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Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · 12d

This is dumb but never fails:

A dune buggy kicking up a monster cloud of red sand behind it, with a grinning cat spliced in as its driver. The caption reads: "actual photo of my cat leaving its litter box."

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Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · 12d

You too!! ❤️ It's been a weird summer/ fall so far, and I'm exhausted by the world. I keep scrolling through and finding no respite here, either. I really do think we need some silliness to balance out the doom and keep us together.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 12d

christ on tiny little crackers, climateworld, we've got to ask people to do good things that they can do, and which help them, rather than asking them to volunteer for an emotionally devastating existential-threat experience without exits into action

Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 12d

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

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Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · 12d

I actually have no idea on this one, Eileen. :(

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Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · 12d

Gods, yes. Tensions are so high right now, every little opportunity for levity can help. Pleeeeeeease.

Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 12d

Shouldn't that be not *too* hard to build for Bluesky?

I think polls would be a very popular feature. (They don't have to be scientifically accurate! Just for funsies!)

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12d

give. the. people. dumbpolls!

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