Andrew Hamann
ahamann.bsky.social
Andrew Hamann
@ahamann.bsky.social
Informatics PhD Student @ UC Irvine
I study the cultural and political dimensions of public planning data practices
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LA people, Critical Resistance is offering a “We Keep Us Safe” workshop on protecting the community from ICE on Monday at 6:30. Register: criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click
Critical Resistance LA – ICE Community Self Defense Training
criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com
June 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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It’s very strange that this article on the staffing issues at Newark Airport doesn’t mention the fact that DOGE fired 400 FAA employees a few months ago, and union officials warned about exactly these kinds of shortages.
Newark Airport Had 3 Controllers on Duty When the Goal Is 14
www.nytimes.com
May 13, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Arjun Appadurai and Sheldon Pollock on boards of trustees: “Who actually runs Columbia University?” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
April 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Ursula K. Le Guin on the true pain of being a writer
March 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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A scrolling essay about scrolling, textual navigation, and interface design: "The scroll bar faded away, almost like a ghost of its former self, replaced by an emphasis on continuous motion instead of clear indicators." navigation-queues-navigation-cues.f451.studio?ref=thebrows...
Navigation queues | Navigation cues
A web-essay written by Domitille Debret, designed and developed by F451 for The HTML Review Issue 04, Spring 2025.
navigation-queues-navigation-cues.f451.studio
March 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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FULL KEYNOTE -- me + Guy K at SXSW on why privacy is a fundamental guarantor of a gorgeous, good life (not an absence, not a vacuum, not abstract). And how AI threatens privacy. And why Signal is so special and why you should use & love & support it ❤️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyH7...
The State of Personal Online Security and Confidentiality | SXSW LIVE
YouTube video by SXSW
www.youtube.com
March 11, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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@alexanderchee.bsky.social: "What were some of the forms that interested you in the process of composing the book?"

Ocean Vuong: "...I wanted to pursue a restlessness of form.

A: "A restless form?"

O: "Yes. Where every poem was trying on different clothes."
Writing Prompt: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong
Notes On A Restless Form
querent.substack.com
February 24, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.
February 23, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.
February 22, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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My desire for tech ethics is not to be the convenient idiots. Trotted out to play the foil for the tech bros, applauded and snapped by the public, only to be shelved until the next appropriate moment where the veneer of accountability is required.
February 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Loved every second of this podcast @ruha9.bsky.social !!! It was affirming listening to this!!! Thank you!

This is an important listen for CS educators and students.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VRC...
RIP… D.E.I. with Ruha Benjamin | What Now? with Trevor Noah Podcast
YouTube video by What Now? with Trevor Noah
www.youtube.com
February 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.
February 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive.

Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!
February 3, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Last night, Musk's staff were stopped trying to enter USAID's HQ. They threatened to call U.S. Marshals.

@cnn.com: Sources say they wanted access to security systems and personnel files and to access classified information.

Today, the USAID Director of Security and his deputy were put on leave.
Senior USAID security officials put on leave after refusing Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems | CNN Politics
Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave Saturday night after refusing to allow officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Ef...
www.cnn.com
February 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Indigenous Australian artist Alma Nungurrayi Granites paints the great Warlpiri story of 7 Sisters Dreaming, about the ancestral Napaljarri sisters who are found in the night sky in the star cluster Pleiades #womensart
January 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Sketches from the Eameses’ IBM exhibition files at the LoC
January 23, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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"...we’re offering some counterprogramming to the inauguration with a discussion of Toni Morrison’s lecture, “Goodness: Altruism +d the Literary Imagination.” Saeed Jones joins us to explore Morrison’s thoughts on how goodness sustains itself in the face of evil..."
Bonus Episode: Toni Morrison’s “Goodness” with Saeed Jones — The Stacks | Traci Thomas — The Stacks | Traci Thomas
www.thestackspodcast.com
January 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Message with an intended audience of one. Very similar message/strategy to a video that TikTok served me, from their official account, featuring their CEO, last night. Isn’t this what Harris explained on the debate stage? Flattery as foreign policy.
January 19, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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One thing the TikTok ban discourse has not included is that many TikTok creators privately do not like TikTok, which of course they’re not saying because none of us want it banned.

It’s a brutal creative ecosystem that extracts from creators until they burnout and then they are replaced.
January 18, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Googling “YouTube disable shorts”

hockeyguyfieri nailed it
January 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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This piece has resonated throughout the week. And now that I think about it, a thing I wrote a few years ago about lichen — alternating vitality + dormancy across multiple timescales, chipping away, incrementally, at the seemingly intractable for the longue durée — seems relevant, too
January 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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People: What productivity software do you use?

Me:
December 7, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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finally finished downloading my limewire wrapped after 20 years
December 4, 2024 at 9:11 PM