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https://mctavish.work
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resist big tech
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@northernaction.org
see also:
https://datapoets.com
https://mctavish.work
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resist big tech
@mctavish.work
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Another Maine town just defeated a data center in its backyard. In this Women Talking 'Bout AI podcast, Joline Blais explains how her community rallied to the cause, and why AI is only a small part of the reason these are being built www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
The Trojan Horse of AI - Women talkin' 'bout AI | Jon Ippolito
Need a feel-good holiday story? How about a Maine community coming together to reject a data center in their backyard.
One of the more instructive takeaways is that the premise of AI's inevitability ...
www.linkedin.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Another Maine town just defeated a data center in its backyard. In this Women Talking 'Bout AI podcast, Joline Blais explains how her community rallied to the cause, and why AI is only a small part of the reason these are being built www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
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Another great call: CALL FOR PAPERS
Breaking the Code: Hacktivating Non-Normative Algorithms
International Conference – 18–19 June 2026
Theme 2026: Error 403 – Critical Refusals
Porto + online
coda.letras.up.pt/brkcode/conf...
deadline: 15 January 2026
Breaking the Code: Hacktivating Non-Normative Algorithms
International Conference – 18–19 June 2026
Theme 2026: Error 403 – Critical Refusals
Porto + online
coda.letras.up.pt/brkcode/conf...
deadline: 15 January 2026
Breaking the Code: Hacktivating Non-Normative Algorithms | International Conference – 18–19 June 2026 – Breaking the Code
Breaking the Code: Hacktivating Non-Normative Algorithms International Conference – 18–19 June 2026 Theme 2026: Error 403 – Critical Refusals
coda.letras.up.pt
November 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Another great call: CALL FOR PAPERS
Breaking the Code: Hacktivating Non-Normative Algorithms
International Conference – 18–19 June 2026
Theme 2026: Error 403 – Critical Refusals
Porto + online
coda.letras.up.pt/brkcode/conf...
deadline: 15 January 2026
Breaking the Code: Hacktivating Non-Normative Algorithms
International Conference – 18–19 June 2026
Theme 2026: Error 403 – Critical Refusals
Porto + online
coda.letras.up.pt/brkcode/conf...
deadline: 15 January 2026
"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officials. "
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officials. "
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Another aspect of the over-heated AI landscape that is raising eyebrows is the circular nature of investments....."
www.npr.org/2025/11/23/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/23/n...
Here's why concerns about an AI bubble are bigger than ever
Tech companies are pouring billions into AI chips and data centers. Increasingly, they are relying on debt and risky tactics. Financial analysts are worried there's a bubble that will soon pop.
www.npr.org
November 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Another aspect of the over-heated AI landscape that is raising eyebrows is the circular nature of investments....."
www.npr.org/2025/11/23/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/23/n...
"Participants sought to distill the most important causes of authoritarian resilience; identify areas where applied research is needed to investigate these causes; and develop research priorities that could inform a collective, coordinated response."
ash.harvard.edu/articles/cou...
ash.harvard.edu/articles/cou...
Countering Autocratization: Lessons from the 2025 Harvard Nonviolent Action Lab Summit – Ash Center
ash.harvard.edu
November 19, 2025 at 10:26 PM
"Participants sought to distill the most important causes of authoritarian resilience; identify areas where applied research is needed to investigate these causes; and develop research priorities that could inform a collective, coordinated response."
ash.harvard.edu/articles/cou...
ash.harvard.edu/articles/cou...
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Here’s what we did in the fall! I’ll organize something similar for the spring! crossreference.wordsinspace.net/fall2025/
November 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Here’s what we did in the fall! I’ll organize something similar for the spring! crossreference.wordsinspace.net/fall2025/
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Apps are open for our spring session of the Cross-Reference Coalition! We're exploring Search & Discovery! "Our journey will encompass the history of exploration + cartography, legacies of inquiry, tools of discovery, theories of curiosity, and counter-algorithmic means of 'finding things out.'"
November 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Apps are open for our spring session of the Cross-Reference Coalition! We're exploring Search & Discovery! "Our journey will encompass the history of exploration + cartography, legacies of inquiry, tools of discovery, theories of curiosity, and counter-algorithmic means of 'finding things out.'"
The world's first website (simple tech that still works, doesn't cede control to an engagement-throttling, opaque algorithm or use enormous amounts of energy)
info.cern.ch
info.cern.ch
http://info.cern.ch
info.cern.ch
October 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The world's first website (simple tech that still works, doesn't cede control to an engagement-throttling, opaque algorithm or use enormous amounts of energy)
info.cern.ch
info.cern.ch
old-school navigation
mxb.dev/blog/webring...
mxb.dev/blog/webring...
October 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
old-school navigation
mxb.dev/blog/webring...
mxb.dev/blog/webring...
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BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
October 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
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so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff
www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...
www.404media.co
October 3, 2025 at 2:38 AM
so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff
www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
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Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson
Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson
What is happening to Judith Butler – a Jewish intellectual – in the name of fighting ‘antisemitism’ is outrageous
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson
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"... One indelible image of this capture is from Trump’s second inauguration, where a decisive quorum of tech’s elite, after dutifully kicking in million-dollar checks, occupied front-row seats."
www.wired.com/story/silico...
www.wired.com/story/silico...
I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.
www.wired.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
"... One indelible image of this capture is from Trump’s second inauguration, where a decisive quorum of tech’s elite, after dutifully kicking in million-dollar checks, occupied front-row seats."
www.wired.com/story/silico...
www.wired.com/story/silico...
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🚨CASES WE’RE WATCHING TODAY🚨
⚖️ Maryland DOGE SSA Access Challenge: The 4th Circuit will hear an appeal concerning whether DOGE can access sensitive personal data at the Social Security Administration.
WATCH IT HERE: www.youtube.com/live/ioskch_...
⚖️ Maryland DOGE SSA Access Challenge: The 4th Circuit will hear an appeal concerning whether DOGE can access sensitive personal data at the Social Security Administration.
WATCH IT HERE: www.youtube.com/live/ioskch_...
En Banc (Green Courtroom) Oral Arguments - 9:00am Thursday 9/11/2025
Audio livestream of oral arguments for the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.For more information on cases being argued, see the Oral Argument Calen...
www.youtube.com
September 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
🚨CASES WE’RE WATCHING TODAY🚨
⚖️ Maryland DOGE SSA Access Challenge: The 4th Circuit will hear an appeal concerning whether DOGE can access sensitive personal data at the Social Security Administration.
WATCH IT HERE: www.youtube.com/live/ioskch_...
⚖️ Maryland DOGE SSA Access Challenge: The 4th Circuit will hear an appeal concerning whether DOGE can access sensitive personal data at the Social Security Administration.
WATCH IT HERE: www.youtube.com/live/ioskch_...
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On the massive rightwing media network that Trump #NIH director Bhattacharya is deeply enmeshed with.
Bhattacharya did an interview with John Solomon at JTN, smearing Bethesda Declaration signers. Rightwing money then pushed out that message. Read this one 👇
Bhattacharya did an interview with John Solomon at JTN, smearing Bethesda Declaration signers. Rightwing money then pushed out that message. Read this one 👇
Inside the hidden conservative network bankrolling an "ecosystem" of right-wing news
John Solomon's Informing America set out to create an echo chamber to shape public opinion. It's working.
www.motherjones.com
September 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
On the massive rightwing media network that Trump #NIH director Bhattacharya is deeply enmeshed with.
Bhattacharya did an interview with John Solomon at JTN, smearing Bethesda Declaration signers. Rightwing money then pushed out that message. Read this one 👇
Bhattacharya did an interview with John Solomon at JTN, smearing Bethesda Declaration signers. Rightwing money then pushed out that message. Read this one 👇
“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany. “These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart
Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent
www.theguardian.com
September 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany. “These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
"Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps —
Trump administration contract with Paragon Solutions gives immigration agency access to one of the most powerful stealth cyberweapons"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump administration contract with Paragon Solutions gives immigration agency access to one of the most powerful stealth cyberweapons"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps
Trump administration contract with Paragon Solutions gives immigration agency access to one of the most powerful stealth cyberweapons
www.theguardian.com
September 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
"Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps —
Trump administration contract with Paragon Solutions gives immigration agency access to one of the most powerful stealth cyberweapons"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump administration contract with Paragon Solutions gives immigration agency access to one of the most powerful stealth cyberweapons"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...
April 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...
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The time to protect civil rights in the digital age is now.
We’re hosting the ACLU’s first-ever AI summit on Thursday 7/10 at 10:15 a.m. EDT – 3 p.m. ET to discuss this rapidly evolving technology's impact on our civil rights and liberties. RSVP today.
We’re hosting the ACLU’s first-ever AI summit on Thursday 7/10 at 10:15 a.m. EDT – 3 p.m. ET to discuss this rapidly evolving technology's impact on our civil rights and liberties. RSVP today.
AI SUMMIT: CIVIL RIGHTS IN A DIGITAL AGE
aclu.org
July 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The time to protect civil rights in the digital age is now.
We’re hosting the ACLU’s first-ever AI summit on Thursday 7/10 at 10:15 a.m. EDT – 3 p.m. ET to discuss this rapidly evolving technology's impact on our civil rights and liberties. RSVP today.
We’re hosting the ACLU’s first-ever AI summit on Thursday 7/10 at 10:15 a.m. EDT – 3 p.m. ET to discuss this rapidly evolving technology's impact on our civil rights and liberties. RSVP today.