in acknowledgement of the fact that There Is A Lot Going On, the deadline for this CFP has been extended by one week! oddletters.com/tech-money/

hey!

hey!!!

if you are an academic of any rank in the critical tech studies space who cares about how money, finance, and business structures work in science and technology, i want to see your abstracts for a collected volume! they're due tomorrow!!!

https//oddletters.com/tech-money/

92% of ICE Detention Growth in FY 2026 Driven by Immigrants with No Criminal Convictions

ICE published new detention data today that brings the current population to a record-high of 68,990. ICE records first detention death of 2026.

austinkocher.substack.com/p/92-of-ice-...

Renee Good’s Wife Says She Was Supporting Neighbors When Killed by ICE

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Annie Gowen, and Praveena Somasundaram

Gift link! @mollyhf.bsky.social @praveenavsoma.bsky.social

In case you needed a reminder that the maintenance of the fascist state and one's fragile masculinity go hand-in-hand.

Driving in San Francisco with no traffic lights apparently isn't difficult enough, so Waymo was gracious enough to stop two of their AVs at 17th and Valencia

You know, post-snowden privacy advocates said “no to mass surveillance, but targeted is ok” 😉Some of us said: you are throwing people of color, Muslims and those impacted by war on terror under the bus. And, here we are!

Me 😊: this proceeding should contribute to preparing the ground for a new DMA market investigation with the aim to updating obligations with regard to AI (ICYMI, there's one already ongoing for cloud) - as suggested in the @article19.bsky.social Report competitionwave.blogspot.com/2025/12/comm...

I mean, in what sense will you be able to say the college “survived”?

The @aaup.org beat Marco Rubio in court, with a Reagan-appointed judge ruling that ideological deportations obviously violate the first amendment.

These cases cost money. And we need millions of people moving together to make them stick. If you're faculty in the US, join AAUP and join the fight.

"...signal to consumers everywhere that A.I. isn’t an unstoppable tsunami about to overwhelm us. Now is the time for ordinary Americans to recognize our agency and act to put in place the guardrails we want"

Post doc opportunity on computational infrastructures

"How do computational infrastructures expand into sectoral organizations? Are current (digital) policies adequate in responding to their impact on administration of justice?"

careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-Po...

Interested in empirically and critically studying how computational infrastructures (clouds+end devices) expand into public organizations?

Then please consider applying to this 2 yr postdoc position within the algosoc project and situated at TUD:
careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-Po...