andrew
@andrew-whelan.bsky.social
sociologist on unceded Yuin Country. organizational & subcultural media; data politics. he/him. join the union. 🏴
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@andrew-whelan.bsky.social
· Mar 10
Mixed media portrait of Trump. Chicken schnitzel, pistachio shell, wool, crayon and carrot. Artist is 8.
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Bluesky’s head of trust & safety responding with a sarcastic image macro to a woman upset her husband was kidnapped by ICE is embarrassingly unprofessional & cruel behavior.
that account was then banned by Bluesky Trust & Safety. horrendously poor community management. what purpose does this serve?
that account was then banned by Bluesky Trust & Safety. horrendously poor community management. what purpose does this serve?
December 8, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Bluesky’s head of trust & safety responding with a sarcastic image macro to a woman upset her husband was kidnapped by ICE is embarrassingly unprofessional & cruel behavior.
that account was then banned by Bluesky Trust & Safety. horrendously poor community management. what purpose does this serve?
that account was then banned by Bluesky Trust & Safety. horrendously poor community management. what purpose does this serve?
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Happy Publication Day to those who celebrate...README is out in the world via @mitpress.bsky.social
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
My new book is a book about books about computing...enjoy!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
My new book is a book about books about computing...enjoy!
December 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Happy Publication Day to those who celebrate...README is out in the world via @mitpress.bsky.social
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
My new book is a book about books about computing...enjoy!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
My new book is a book about books about computing...enjoy!
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NEW: Over 50,000 people attempted to block the founding convention for the new youth org of the far-right AfD party on Nov. 29 in Gießen, Germany. Wide-ranging actions-including 19 blockades around the small city-prevented a majority of participants from attending. Police violently beat blockaders.
November 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
NEW: Over 50,000 people attempted to block the founding convention for the new youth org of the far-right AfD party on Nov. 29 in Gießen, Germany. Wide-ranging actions-including 19 blockades around the small city-prevented a majority of participants from attending. Police violently beat blockaders.
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I hope you take a look at the resources that professors Iris van Rooij and Olivia Guest are sharing. They are both Ph.D. in computational and cognitive science (in Artificial Intelligence departments). I think Iris has commented on this thread somewhere olivia.science/ai#letter
Critical AI
On this page are some resources for Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) from my perspective.
olivia.science
November 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I hope you take a look at the resources that professors Iris van Rooij and Olivia Guest are sharing. They are both Ph.D. in computational and cognitive science (in Artificial Intelligence departments). I think Iris has commented on this thread somewhere olivia.science/ai#letter
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This Black Friday and Cyber Monday don’t buy into genocide.
Avoid these brands enabling Israel’s ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.
https://loom.ly/TpPQsDY
Avoid these brands enabling Israel’s ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.
https://loom.ly/TpPQsDY
This Black Friday don’t buy into genocide
Avoid these BDS targets enabling Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians on Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
bdsmovement.net
November 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This Black Friday and Cyber Monday don’t buy into genocide.
Avoid these brands enabling Israel’s ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.
https://loom.ly/TpPQsDY
Avoid these brands enabling Israel’s ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.
https://loom.ly/TpPQsDY
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My new book, The Division of Rationalized Labor, is now shipping! A brief summary of the argument to follow…
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
My new book, The Division of Rationalized Labor, is now shipping! A brief summary of the argument to follow…
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My speaker notes & slides from today's panel on 'Resisting GenAI & Big Tech in Higher Education', co-organised with the Climate Justice Universities Union (CJUU). The full recording, slides and resources will be available soon via the CJUU site.
danmcquillan.org/resisting_ge...
danmcquillan.org/resisting_ge...
November 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
My speaker notes & slides from today's panel on 'Resisting GenAI & Big Tech in Higher Education', co-organised with the Climate Justice Universities Union (CJUU). The full recording, slides and resources will be available soon via the CJUU site.
danmcquillan.org/resisting_ge...
danmcquillan.org/resisting_ge...
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Some of you may know that I curate a huge reading list if Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It is not up to date… Please comment if you identify as Palestinian, or if you know of something that should be in the list! Please share for visibility. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...
Read Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading List
The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na…
soniasulaiman.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Some of you may know that I curate a huge reading list if Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It is not up to date… Please comment if you identify as Palestinian, or if you know of something that should be in the list! Please share for visibility. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...
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Amelia Acker: "Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty...: from magnetic tape + timesharing computer models from the 1950s,... to file structures + virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 yrs" — open access!
Archiving Machines
Archiving Machines advances our understanding of memory, information, and data by charting the struggle between the computing technologies that archive data ...
mitpress.mit.edu
November 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Amelia Acker: "Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty...: from magnetic tape + timesharing computer models from the 1950s,... to file structures + virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 yrs" — open access!
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Rest now sister. We have the kente. I'll see you in Wakanda.
November 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Rest now sister. We have the kente. I'll see you in Wakanda.
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There is probably plenty going on inside Bill Gates' head, but I reckon one of the most parsimonious explanations of why he's sagely pronouncing that climate groups need to stop worrying about short-term emissions targets can be found in the sustainability reports of the company he founded.
October 29, 2025 at 10:43 AM
There is probably plenty going on inside Bill Gates' head, but I reckon one of the most parsimonious explanations of why he's sagely pronouncing that climate groups need to stop worrying about short-term emissions targets can be found in the sustainability reports of the company he founded.
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I am beyond excited (and nervous!) to announce that my first book, "The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is available for sale!
This series of essay includes reworked talks, new reflections, and a lot of my heart
weherespace.myshopify.com/products/the...
This series of essay includes reworked talks, new reflections, and a lot of my heart
weherespace.myshopify.com/products/the...
October 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I am beyond excited (and nervous!) to announce that my first book, "The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is available for sale!
This series of essay includes reworked talks, new reflections, and a lot of my heart
weherespace.myshopify.com/products/the...
This series of essay includes reworked talks, new reflections, and a lot of my heart
weherespace.myshopify.com/products/the...
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Hate self promoting posts! And not going to say 'I am delighted' 😂 but also no one will promote this for me 😂. So sod it! Please give my article some love or a repost. This article means a lot to me on food aid beyond the food bank!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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‘Free Food Places’: Looking Beyond the Food Bank to Better Understand Alternative Models of Food Aid - Kate Haddow, 2025
In the last decade, there has been a vast increase in research into the rise of food aid, particularly food banks, in wealthier countries. However, what has bee...
journals.sagepub.com
August 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Hate self promoting posts! And not going to say 'I am delighted' 😂 but also no one will promote this for me 😂. So sod it! Please give my article some love or a repost. This article means a lot to me on food aid beyond the food bank!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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"tech giant Google has allowed the government of Israel to purchase sponsored content spots so that online users searching on the Global Sumud Flotilla will be shown inaccurate, propagandized content accusing the flotilla participants of being allied with violent, terrorist elements"
'Pure Incitement': Google Rebuked Over Israeli Sponsored Propaganda Aimed at Global Sumud Flotilla | Common Dreams
"It is clear that Israel is paving the ground for an attack on the flotilla. World public opinion needs to mobilize against Israel’s next war crime. Now!"
www.commondreams.org
September 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
"tech giant Google has allowed the government of Israel to purchase sponsored content spots so that online users searching on the Global Sumud Flotilla will be shown inaccurate, propagandized content accusing the flotilla participants of being allied with violent, terrorist elements"
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Reporter: “Is mainstream media complicit in the genocide in Gaza?”
Francesca Albanese: “What is most striking here is that Western media has effectively placed itself at the service of this genocidal enterprise.”
Francesca Albanese: “What is most striking here is that Western media has effectively placed itself at the service of this genocidal enterprise.”
September 20, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Reporter: “Is mainstream media complicit in the genocide in Gaza?”
Francesca Albanese: “What is most striking here is that Western media has effectively placed itself at the service of this genocidal enterprise.”
Francesca Albanese: “What is most striking here is that Western media has effectively placed itself at the service of this genocidal enterprise.”
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there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
August 10, 2024 at 3:21 PM
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
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the rats nest that is the flow of money in AI compute is so unbelievably complicated and circular that i had to make a diagram
September 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
the rats nest that is the flow of money in AI compute is so unbelievably complicated and circular that i had to make a diagram
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"To take a position against genocide is certainly not an antisemitic thing to do," says feminist scholar Judith Butler, who faces possible investigation by the Trump administration as part of its crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.
Judith Butler: Jewish Prof. Among 160 Named in UC Berkeley “Antisemitism” Files Handed to Trump Admin
The University of California, Berkeley has provided Trump officials with the names of at least 160 students, faculty and staff in cases of alleged antisemitism on campus, in response to the administration's sweeping crackdown on Palestinian solidarity a...
www.democracynow.org
September 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"To take a position against genocide is certainly not an antisemitic thing to do," says feminist scholar Judith Butler, who faces possible investigation by the Trump administration as part of its crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.
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Today's the day! My new book MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER is finally out! If you want to understand why tech billionaires are so obsessed with impossible ideas about space and AI — and why that's dangerous — this book is for you. #MoreEverythingForever www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adam-...
More Everything Forever
This "wild and utterly engaging narrative" (Melanie Mitchell) shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death,...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Today's the day! My new book MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER is finally out! If you want to understand why tech billionaires are so obsessed with impossible ideas about space and AI — and why that's dangerous — this book is for you. #MoreEverythingForever www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adam-...
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I shouldn't brag about it, if I were you.
NEW: Oxford will be the first UK university to give all staff and students free ChatGPT Edu access, from this academic year.
ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.
ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.
September 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I shouldn't brag about it, if I were you.
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Another journalist, Max Blumenthal, absolutely shredding Blinken to bits at the same press conference where Sam Husseini was forcibly removed
January 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Another journalist, Max Blumenthal, absolutely shredding Blinken to bits at the same press conference where Sam Husseini was forcibly removed
A group of philosophers consciously deciding yet again to be disappointing. They have such a special combination of polite rightwing spite and obtuseness.
This is virulently anti-trans: not simply arguing that there's a reasonably natural concept of transition-independent biological sex (fine) but also that there is no reasonably natural biological or social concept whose extensions is trans and cis women dailynous.com/2025/09/19/p...
Philosophers File Amicus Brief in Supreme Court Cases on Transgender Athletes - Daily Nous
A group of 24 philosophers has submitted an amicus curiae brief for two US Supreme Court cases concerning laws about the participation of transgender athletes in sports. The two cases are Bradley Litt...
dailynous.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
A group of philosophers consciously deciding yet again to be disappointing. They have such a special combination of polite rightwing spite and obtuseness.
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On October 8, Alana Lentin will host a book launch for 'The New Racial Regime', on Gadigal land (Sydney), w guests Kaiya Aboagye, Keiran Stewart-Assheton & Shawna Tang.
Monies raised split b/w Al-Aqra family in Deir Al-Balah & Mob Strong.
Moar deets/tix : events.humanitix.com/the-new-raci....
Monies raised split b/w Al-Aqra family in Deir Al-Balah & Mob Strong.
Moar deets/tix : events.humanitix.com/the-new-raci....
September 19, 2025 at 6:02 AM
On October 8, Alana Lentin will host a book launch for 'The New Racial Regime', on Gadigal land (Sydney), w guests Kaiya Aboagye, Keiran Stewart-Assheton & Shawna Tang.
Monies raised split b/w Al-Aqra family in Deir Al-Balah & Mob Strong.
Moar deets/tix : events.humanitix.com/the-new-raci....
Monies raised split b/w Al-Aqra family in Deir Al-Balah & Mob Strong.
Moar deets/tix : events.humanitix.com/the-new-raci....
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and a retired meteorologist shall lead us
September 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
and a retired meteorologist shall lead us