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Marisa Elena Duarte @mwhitehorse.bsky.social · 17h

Critical tech colleagues, see Stand.Earth @stand.earth report on Microsoft AI's pollution footprint stand.earth/resources/gl...

Global Ramifications, Local Impact – Microsoft’s AI Pollution Footprint - Stand.earth

By using the best available data on Microsoft’s AI expenditures and growth trajectory, as well as by examining the company’s energy providers and current investments in energy procurement, this report...

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Marisa Elena Duarte @mwhitehorse.bsky.social · 17h

Critical tech colleagues, see the worker rights supported by @chipscommunities.bsky.social Chips Communities United as well as environmental impacts of the semiconductor industry as reflected in a generation of advocacy by Center for Environmental Public Oversight. cpeo.org

Center For Public Environmental Oversight

The Center for Public Environmental Oversight (CPEO) promotes and facilitates public participation in the oversight of environmental activities at federal facilities, private "Superfund" sites, and Brownfields.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 3d

I am once again asking why these data centers are all fucking SECRETS

"A controversial plan to build a 2.2-million-square-foot data center on farmland may still happen. A rural community... is looking to settle a lawsuit recently filed by a development firm working for an unidentified tech giant."

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Dr Karaitiana Taiuru MITP, MInstD @ktaiuru.bsky.social · 1d

Sovereign computers, software and servers for home and office. Come and join me for this live webinar with an Open Source expert, noon October 22, Nau mai, haere mai koutou!

sovereign-computers.eventbrite.co.nz

Sovereign computers, software and servers for home and office

I talk with Tangata Tiriti Rob Elshire about his journey over decades setting up sovereign computers and data storage facilities.

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 6d

“Its elimination, critics argue, would not just cut courses but undercut the very values [Clara] Luper embodied: courage, resistance, and the fight for equality.”

theblackwallsttimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

University of Oklahoma Eyes Closure of African American Studies

University of Oklahoma considers dissolving African American Studies, sparking backlash over erasure of Clara Luper’s legacy.

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dylan @dylnbkr.bsky.social · 8d

$Across the top of the image is a fractured black rectangle where the left half is labeled "Frame: F is happening!" and the right side is labeled "Negation: F is not true!" left side of the box: "AI*" is so useful, it's revolutionizing everything. *massive, generative commercial "AI" models. right side of the box: "AI" capabilities are overblown, it's mostly slop. Below the box is a large image of Kirby, a pink blob inhaling and the "Frame F" fragment. In a box next to Kirby is the text: Kirby. K is happening. That's why they're saying F. In the pink box is the text: "AI" is functioning to fuel mass surveillance, exploitation of workers & the environment, and the consolidation of wealth and power on a massive scale.$

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WIRED @wired.com · 16d

The tech industry’s embrace of President Trump has left many of us asking the same question: What the hell happened to Silicon Valley? On Sept. 23 at 11 AM, our WIRED experts get into it. wrd.cm/4mslR0k

Have questions? Drop them below 👇🏼

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Marisa Elena Duarte @mwhitehorse.bsky.social · 20d

www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/asu-pol...

At the university where I work.

ASU police allegedly helped the feds detain a university employee

The ASU chapter of the National Lawyers Guild blasted the arrest of the unnamed employee, who was later released.

www.phoenixnewtimes.com

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 23d

The destruction of third spaces by corporate and governmental interests and their replacement with highly engineered corpora digital spaces being the leading edge of our tip into fascism and social scale incoherence is really one of those obvious domino effects.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Aug 14

"A living visual archive on cybernetics in the expanded field. Browse and contribute images of all kinds: diagrams, schematics, photos, graphic elements, and other visual fragments."

Cybernetics Image Library

A living visual archive on cybernetics in the expanded field.

cyberneticsimagelibrary.dev

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Marisa Elena Duarte @mwhitehorse.bsky.social · Aug 14

www.zdnet.com/article/this...

This infamous people search site is back after leaking 3 billion records - how to remove your data from it ASAP

National Public Data is back online. Protect your privacy from it now - and check if other people-search sites have your information.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Aug 12

Meanwhile in DC:

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Marisa Elena Duarte @mwhitehorse.bsky.social · Jul 24

Meanwhile en los EEUU mientras que el clientepresidente continua negociar con la Madame Maxwell allí estamos like...

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Marisa Elena Duarte @mwhitehorse.bsky.social · Jul 24

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-big-te...

How big tech is force-feeding us AI

Plus, OpenAI's absurd listening tour, top AI scientists say AI is evolving beyond our control, Facebook is putting data centers in tents, and the AI bubble question — answered?

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Anna Lenhart @annalenhart.bsky.social · Jul 22

GWU IDDP organized a Council to reflect on the comments submitted to NTIA’s Request For Comment (RFC) regarding Ethical Guidelines for Research Using Pervasive Data. Check out the findings here: iddp.gwu.edu/ethical-use-...

Ethical Use of Pervasive Data for Research | Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics (IDDP) | Columbian College of Arts & Sciences | The George Washington University

The IDDP Council for Pervasive Data Ethics - Next Steps for the U.S convened to chart a set of actions to advance ethical practices in computing research.

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Marisa Elena Duarte @mwhitehorse.bsky.social · Jul 23

www.congresonacionalindigena.org/2025/07/22/c...

CONVOCATORIA 6a ASAMBLEA NACIONAL POR EL AGUA, LA VIDA Y EL TERRITORIO

<p>Al Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN Al Congreso Nacional Indígena, CNI Al Concejo Indígena de Gobierno, CIG A la Europa Insumisa, Digna y Rebelde A quienes firmaron la Declaración po...

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · Jul 16

In a new Lawfare Research Paper, Sezaneh Seymour and Brandon Wales examine the risks and benefits of expanding private-sector participation in offensive cyber operations and provide a framework for policymakers to use when considering this type of involvement in cyber operations.

Partners or Provocateurs? Private-Sector Involvement in Offensive Cyber Operations

A structured framework to evaluate the risks and benefits of authorizing private companies to “hack back.”

www.lawfaremedia.org

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Marisa Elena Duarte @mwhitehorse.bsky.social · Jul 16

wordsinspace.net/2025/06/30/i... Shannon, I just read your post, reflecting what so many of us are experiencing in academia. Yes to libraries. This type of university cannot persist.

I Prefer Weeds to Ivy

Words in Space is the work of Shannon Mattern.

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Marisa Elena Duarte @mwhitehorse.bsky.social · Jul 15

Okay, Native Studies, you know how we all post the painting of Louis Gasts's (1872) American Progress in our slide decks? Well, lucky for us, DHS did a rebrand.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Jul 14

The official DHS account is now tweeting about “your homeland’s heritage”

Homeland Security DHS account on X: Remember your Homeland's Heritage.
New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Jul 14

"Universities have become increasingly dependent on a proliferation of outsourced services, database providers + info mgmt systems, w/ spiraling costs... Understanding [the uni as an infrastructure stresses] that the tech it chooses to adopt follow a colonial + extractivist model...

CM Vol 25 CfP University as Infrastructure

Culture Machine Vol. 25 Call for Papers: University as Infrastructure Guest-edited by: Alexandra Anikina, Johannes Bruder, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Stephen Cornford, Kwame Phillips & Geoff Cox …

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Marisa Elena Duarte @mwhitehorse.bsky.social · Jul 11

www.latimes.com/california/s...

About 200 arrested in chaotic immigration raid at cannabis farm, one worker reportedly dies in fall

Protesters blocked the roads in and out of one of the farms, and at one point federal agents drove their vehicles through the fields.

www.latimes.com

Marisa Elena Duarte @mwhitehorse.bsky.social · Jul 8

abovethelaw.com/2025/07/tria...

Trial Court Decides Case Based On AI-Hallucinated Caselaw - Above the Law

Appellate court to trial judge: you know these cases are made up, right?

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Marisa Elena Duarte @mwhitehorse.bsky.social · Jul 7

www.therednation.org/the-red-nati...

N8V whisper network says A Coulter has taken to X wishing the Settlers had killed more Indians. Well, here's the thing. We are everywhere. Why? Because the teachings make sense. And colonizer hatred simply doesn't.

The Red Nation Podcast - Anti-Imperialism and Indigenous methodologies w/ Sardana Nikolaeva and Masha Kardashevskaya

TRN Podcast host Nick Estes is joined by Sardana Nikolaeva and Masha Kardashevskaya, two researchers from the Sakha Republic and hosts of Red Media's newest media project, TYMSYY. Make sure to check ...

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