Anil Dash making a strong case for video creators to work on independence from TikTok and other big platforms. The algorithm is fragile. It might help you today, but tomorrow you’ve lost everything without a direct connection to your audience.

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
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“From street cameras to drones and regional fusion hubs, surveillance systems are increasingly built atop AWS. The pitch Amazon makes to law enforcement is about more than raw infrastructure. It is also about access, connections, and momentum.“

Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe) to direct a "Moomins" animated feature film.
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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

At the Zuri store to pick up a new dress and spotted this one called "Geared Up" in the window, which I think would be perfect for engineers, scientists, professors, and any aspiring Miss Frizzle. www.shopzuri.com/products/gea...

What is that?

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.

Amplify amplify amplify please.

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration reut.rs/4mIfztt

Ope this is going off

Ok folks! My Congressman is a MAGA clown who's on multiple ag committees.

As a farmer, I need ag policymakers who tell Trump no.

So for every donation to Kim Hardy, who's running against my
Congressman, I will post one (1) ag fact.

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I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.

Republicans in Washington did this.

This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

Closes 10/26

Beauty is not a luxury; rather it is a way of creating possibility in the space of enclosure, a radical art of subsistence, an embrace of our terribleness, a transfiguration of the given. It is a will to adorn, a proclivity to the baroque, and the love of too much.
—Saidiya Hartman

A good thing to do is, if your state AG is a Democrat but is not on this, contact them directly and ask them why that is.

Nicki Minaj is 43 years old.

The book Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, from the chapter “Surveillance Vigilantes, Property, Porch Pirates and Paranoia on Nextdoor”

Truly! I lived briefly in a neighborhood that wanted to reduce their reliance on the coops, but their solution was to use a community grant to buy ring cameras! I tried to get them to at least purchase cameras where they controlled the data and stored it locally, but I don't know what came of it.

Thank you! I'll share this with them today!

Funnily enough, I asked them what they thought their data was worth on Monday and a number of them said nothing or not very much. We'll be revisiting that conversation today.

This is my first time using Blackboard, so I was also surprised to discover that the platform evaluates the complexity of student writing, their level of critical thinking, and compares their score to other students in the class. (We use ultra if it matters.)

We also talked about the possibility of Blackboard introducing its own LLM or partnering with an existing company to share data considering how many professors use it to collect student assignments - papers, journals, discussion board posts, etc.

I was just talking to my students on Monday about how settler colonialism creates the conditions of data extraction that we encounter today. I ended class by talking about Blackboard (which we use) & asking them if they know how their data is being used and who it is being shared with.

BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here: