Linda Huber
@puellaludens.bsky.social
Social Justice and Technology Postdoc at Swarthmore College; freshly minted PhD from University of Michigan School of Info. Educating, agitating, organizing in tech-ademia.
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In our latest, we discuss how healthcare costs are expected to dramatically spike next year and how the structure of the ACA itself ensures we’re going to relive moments like the shutdown fight until we can replace it with something fundamentally better
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The ACA and the Looming Healthcare Crisis (11/24/25) | The Death Panel
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November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
In our latest, we discuss how healthcare costs are expected to dramatically spike next year and how the structure of the ACA itself ensures we’re going to relive moments like the shutdown fight until we can replace it with something fundamentally better
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✨ New Essay! ✨
@mattseybold.bsky.social agues that the new Mamdani administration ought to fund CUNY to develop its own public, open-source educational technology. The result stands to socialize the means of knowledge production for collaborative use across the entire US higher education system.
@mattseybold.bsky.social agues that the new Mamdani administration ought to fund CUNY to develop its own public, open-source educational technology. The result stands to socialize the means of knowledge production for collaborative use across the entire US higher education system.
Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production (Let CUNY Socialize EdTech for All of Us)
by Matt Seybold This essay originally appeared on Matt Seybold’s The American Vandal Substack. We are grateful for his generous permission to republish it here. An understandable response to …
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November 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
✨ New Essay! ✨
@mattseybold.bsky.social agues that the new Mamdani administration ought to fund CUNY to develop its own public, open-source educational technology. The result stands to socialize the means of knowledge production for collaborative use across the entire US higher education system.
@mattseybold.bsky.social agues that the new Mamdani administration ought to fund CUNY to develop its own public, open-source educational technology. The result stands to socialize the means of knowledge production for collaborative use across the entire US higher education system.
“An analysis of the financial data by economics department members claimed TNS could have had a $7 million surplus instead of a $30.2 million deficit.“ 👀
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The New School Full-Time Faculty Union and AAUP-TNS Leadership Council release a joint statement about the administration’s austerity measures - The New School Free Press
The New School Full-Time Faculty Union (FTF), a group of full-time faculty organizing to create a union and AAUP-TNS Leadership Council denounced President Joel Towers’ restructuring in a released joi...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:21 AM
“An analysis of the financial data by economics department members claimed TNS could have had a $7 million surplus instead of a $30.2 million deficit.“ 👀
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After a decade of research and hundreds of billions of dollars spent, the genesis mission will still only talk about white genocide in South Africa.
"the president has directed the Department of Energy to launch an AI project called the genesis mission" sounds like something out of a technothriller
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Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
After a decade of research and hundreds of billions of dollars spent, the genesis mission will still only talk about white genocide in South Africa.
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"Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by US school districts against Meta and other social media platforms." www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
"Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by US school districts against Meta and other social media platforms." www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Wrote another headline with @lopatto.bsky.social www.theverge.com/business/828...
November 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Wrote another headline with @lopatto.bsky.social www.theverge.com/business/828...
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I really want to try to make this event next Thursday: www.eventbrite.com/e/w-e-b-du-b... - Happening in conjunction with an exhibition at Pratt Institute.
W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits with Dr. Whitney Battle-Baptiste
Get ready to dive into the fascinating world of W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits and how he inspired contemporary artists.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I really want to try to make this event next Thursday: www.eventbrite.com/e/w-e-b-du-b... - Happening in conjunction with an exhibition at Pratt Institute.
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Hundreds of Starbucks baristas and labor organizers blockaded Starbucks' largest distribution center in York, Pennsylvania, halting distribution of syrups, coffee beans, and other supplies to the entire northeast.
This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.
This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.
November 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Hundreds of Starbucks baristas and labor organizers blockaded Starbucks' largest distribution center in York, Pennsylvania, halting distribution of syrups, coffee beans, and other supplies to the entire northeast.
This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.
This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.
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Register for this event put on by CAHE's Anti-Fascism Caucus and co-sponsored by @debtcollective.bsky.social and @abolitionschool.bsky.social! Nov. 19, 12 pm EST.
November 15, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Register for this event put on by CAHE's Anti-Fascism Caucus and co-sponsored by @debtcollective.bsky.social and @abolitionschool.bsky.social! Nov. 19, 12 pm EST.
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🇵🇸The fourth in our five-part series is coming up next week! Please register and share!🇵🇸
November 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
🇵🇸The fourth in our five-part series is coming up next week! Please register and share!🇵🇸
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a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
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How can we turn discussions about what we read and think into discussion for action? How does action lead to new forms of critical analysis?
I’ll talk about this with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social and Vineeta Singh this Friday at 8pm ET for @debtcollective.bsky.social’s Jubilee School. Join us!
I’ll talk about this with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social and Vineeta Singh this Friday at 8pm ET for @debtcollective.bsky.social’s Jubilee School. Join us!
University Keywords: Study and Struggle
Our session will put two keywords in relation that are essential to the fight ahead in higher education and beyond: study and struggle.
debtcollective.org
November 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
How can we turn discussions about what we read and think into discussion for action? How does action lead to new forms of critical analysis?
I’ll talk about this with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social and Vineeta Singh this Friday at 8pm ET for @debtcollective.bsky.social’s Jubilee School. Join us!
I’ll talk about this with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social and Vineeta Singh this Friday at 8pm ET for @debtcollective.bsky.social’s Jubilee School. Join us!
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Happening Now: 100+ people rally outside of Apollo Management Group headquartered in NYC to protest its CEO Marc Rowan, the conservative billionaire behind Trump's Higher Ed compact deal that undermines universities ‼️
November 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Happening Now: 100+ people rally outside of Apollo Management Group headquartered in NYC to protest its CEO Marc Rowan, the conservative billionaire behind Trump's Higher Ed compact deal that undermines universities ‼️
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Please consider these generally unknown details.
November 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Please consider these generally unknown details.
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📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
October 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
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1) Government officials are starting to flag the circular investments between AI-related companies as an antitrust issue. @wsj.com
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Data-Center Power Use to Become Major Antitrust Issue
As tech giants pour billions into data centers to cope with unrelenting demand, regulators are taking note. Jonathan Kanter, a former top official at the U.S. DOJ’s trustbusting division, expects it t...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:49 PM
1) Government officials are starting to flag the circular investments between AI-related companies as an antitrust issue. @wsj.com
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/data...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/data...
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🇵🇸First in our upcoming series, co-sponsored by @JVP and AAUP/AFT Local 6741. Organized and moderated by our own Karim Mattar and the Palestine Caucus of CAHE.🇵🇸
October 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
🇵🇸First in our upcoming series, co-sponsored by @JVP and AAUP/AFT Local 6741. Organized and moderated by our own Karim Mattar and the Palestine Caucus of CAHE.🇵🇸
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For @aaup.org’s podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with Vineeta Singh, Jennifer Ruth, and Ellen Schrecker about academic freedom and about the work we have to do (organize) to translate writing and thinking and teaching into action.
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Defending Academic Freedom: Learning to Resist - AAUP Presents
The 9th episode of our special series “Academic Freedom on the Line” is a conversation among 4 authors who contributed to the recently published University Keywords, a volume on how universities opera...
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October 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
For @aaup.org’s podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with Vineeta Singh, Jennifer Ruth, and Ellen Schrecker about academic freedom and about the work we have to do (organize) to translate writing and thinking and teaching into action.
aauppresents.buzzsprout.com/1837772/epis...
aauppresents.buzzsprout.com/1837772/epis...
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Some more details:
-a 1-time, 5% wealth tax on billionaires currently living in the state
-affects around 200 people
-moving won't matter; based on 2025 residency
-billionaires earn 7.5%/yr, they'd still come out ahead
-yields enough to cover the Medicaid gap for 5 years & have some $ left for K-12
-a 1-time, 5% wealth tax on billionaires currently living in the state
-affects around 200 people
-moving won't matter; based on 2025 residency
-billionaires earn 7.5%/yr, they'd still come out ahead
-yields enough to cover the Medicaid gap for 5 years & have some $ left for K-12
California is readying a one-time 5% tax on billionaires for the 2026 ballot that would go toward compensating for Trump's Medicaid cuts. The architects see it as a national model.
It will be announced today.
It will be announced today.
October 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Some more details:
-a 1-time, 5% wealth tax on billionaires currently living in the state
-affects around 200 people
-moving won't matter; based on 2025 residency
-billionaires earn 7.5%/yr, they'd still come out ahead
-yields enough to cover the Medicaid gap for 5 years & have some $ left for K-12
-a 1-time, 5% wealth tax on billionaires currently living in the state
-affects around 200 people
-moving won't matter; based on 2025 residency
-billionaires earn 7.5%/yr, they'd still come out ahead
-yields enough to cover the Medicaid gap for 5 years & have some $ left for K-12
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Gentle reminder that polls don't gauge what is ethical or just. A poll about how "most Americans" feel about trans healthcare is simply a way to understand how effective media and religious campaigns have been in their transphobia.
October 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Gentle reminder that polls don't gauge what is ethical or just. A poll about how "most Americans" feel about trans healthcare is simply a way to understand how effective media and religious campaigns have been in their transphobia.
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THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.
October 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.
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New @thedigradio.bsky.social: SECOND of two w @melindacooper.bsky.social on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. How asset boom and bust drove MAGA’s rise and also revealed powerful monetary tools that could make socialism—that and more www.thedigradio.com/podcast/from...
From Fiscal Austerity to Monetary Abundance w/ Melinda Cooper
Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Balanced budget conservatism and supply side populism engineered a politics of austerity and budget deficit...
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October 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
New @thedigradio.bsky.social: SECOND of two w @melindacooper.bsky.social on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. How asset boom and bust drove MAGA’s rise and also revealed powerful monetary tools that could make socialism—that and more www.thedigradio.com/podcast/from...
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"higher ed is an economic engine, health-care engine, technological-innovation engine.
it should be a common public good for everyone. the vast majority of Americans of any political stripe need education for their kids, their families, in order to move forward."
www.chronicle.com/article/is-t...
it should be a common public good for everyone. the vast majority of Americans of any political stripe need education for their kids, their families, in order to move forward."
www.chronicle.com/article/is-t...
Is the AAUP Too Partisan? Its President Doesn’t Think So.
Todd Wolfson has taken heat for some of the organization’s political stances during his tenure. Here’s what he makes of the criticism.
www.chronicle.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
"higher ed is an economic engine, health-care engine, technological-innovation engine.
it should be a common public good for everyone. the vast majority of Americans of any political stripe need education for their kids, their families, in order to move forward."
www.chronicle.com/article/is-t...
it should be a common public good for everyone. the vast majority of Americans of any political stripe need education for their kids, their families, in order to move forward."
www.chronicle.com/article/is-t...
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Here's your period reminder that "Luddite" does not mean "hates technology/progress".
It means "hates how technology/progress benefit only the bosses while the workers get the shaft".
It means "hates how technology/progress benefit only the bosses while the workers get the shaft".
Protests, mass meetups, conferences—a youth-led movement is reclaiming the Luddite mantle, rejecting a future dominated by Silicon Valley companies, toxic apps, and generative AI.
This fall, a "Luddite renaissance" is in full swing.
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...
This fall, a "Luddite renaissance" is in full swing.
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...
The Luddite Renaissance is in full swing
This fall, the new luddites are rising
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 23, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Here's your period reminder that "Luddite" does not mean "hates technology/progress".
It means "hates how technology/progress benefit only the bosses while the workers get the shaft".
It means "hates how technology/progress benefit only the bosses while the workers get the shaft".