Venezuelanist, art historian (PhD UT Austin), now studying the discourse on space & place, networks, bodies, & ‘the sacred.’ Esp interested in links betw prehistory, history, & consciousness. Pedagogue. Knitter, spinner. I miss Caracas, though.
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Regardless of the disgraceful nonsense we will likely hear from this administration in the coming days on vaccine “recommendations,” Americas healthcare insurers issued a joint statement tonight saying coverage for Covid and flu shots will remain unchanged from prior years. Speaks for itself.
Tragic and alarming: From the states collecting data, 68% of U.S. counties and jurisdictions have immunization rates below 95% for the MMR vaccine — the level of herd immunity that is required to stop the spread of measles.
Was reminded in conversation with a student at @banffcentre.bsky.social of this thing I wrote a few years ago, & thought it worth sharing again.
Sign up for the Feminist Art History Conference, where I’ll be presenting on the 27th. I hope to see you there!
For those seeking the original report, now saved by archivists on the net. web.archive.org/web/20250911...
The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
Kirk may not have died for his culture-war views, but his fans sure seem ready to kill for them.
Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.
On June 24, I began my Election Night speech by quoting Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” That's the spirit of this campaign, and our city. This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.
“…built with OpenAI’s technology, the toy is supposed to “learn” your child’s personality and have fun, educational conversations with them. It’s advertised as a healthier alternative to screen time and is part of a growing market of AI-powered toys.”
AI is the wrong tool to tackle complex societal & systemic problems. AI4SG is more about PR victories, boosting AI adoption (regardless of merit/usefulness) & laundering accountability for harmful tech, extractive practices, abetting atrocities. yours truly www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/ai-...
@abeba.bsky.social was recently asked to censor a presentation at an "AI for good" summit because it contained criticism of the weaponised mass murder of children and other civilians -->>> genevasolutions.news/science-tech...
this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers
We’re offering a training on how to identify, defuse, and prevent the spread of political violence. By standing up in defense of democracy and in opposition to violence, we spread the courage for more to do so.
Wherever you are, please attend an ICE Watch training. Then link up with a rapid response network, if you're able to do so. In Chicago, trainings are happening regularly. Once you manage to attend one, you can contact OCAD about getting plugged into a rapid response network.
absolutely repugnant, gutfeld completely dismisses the assassination of melissa hortman, calls it a "bull shit" example of political violence
BREAKING: Students at Boston University have taken over the student union in solidarity with Gaza. Read their demands in the thread
Referring all questions to this:
Sincerely hate stunts like this with my entire being. Disappointed to see Massive Attack be the ones doing it.
The data center industry already accounts for more than 4% of total U.S. electricity consumption, and energy usage by data centers is expected to triple by 2028.
So the @washingtonpost.com fired @karenattiah.bsky.social for ruminating on the politics of violence in this country &, ancillarily, for quoting that time that CK said some deeply terrible shit about Black women & affirmative action? I used to be really proud of my hometown newspaper; now it's a rag
And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section. Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.
Karen Attiah, a black woman, got fired for A: accurately quoting what Charlie Kirk said about Black women B: Accurately observing that most white Americans seem permissive of white violence. It's bullshit, but almost expected in this white supremacist country.
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...
beautiful photo choice
Gosh, what a smart guy. I wonder where you learn that. 🙄 @apnews.com: AI scientist says ‘learning how to learn’ will be next generation's most needed skill
The number of Americans who have discovered names like Jack Posobiec and Nick Fuentes this past week without knowing what they actually stand for is pretty alarming
A Kantian take on Integrated Information Theory - newly published in Philosophical Explorations by our very own @robertchisciure.bsky.social - and its #OpenAccess too 🎉👇https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13869795.2025.2550245
#BlackSky
“…because digital IDs are so easy to share, it will be much easier for companies to request — and eventually demand — that people share their IDs in order to engage in all manner of transactions.”
I had to laugh at ARC's statement: "In fiscal years 2023 and 2024, ARC received no requests to delete personal information ... no requests to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal info." Lol. That's because no one knew ARC would sell their data until @josephcox.bsky.social wrote about it. :)
CNN's quoting Jack Posobiec, and the NYT Mag won't quote Kevin Kruse. We're living through attempts at mass erasure of leftist (and not even extreme left) opinion in mainstream media (cc: @karenattiah.bsky.social) that represents the POV of >25% of Americans.
And Jack Posobiec and Curtis Yarvin are who Vance endorses. Someone has got to start asking Vance about this.
Looking for resources for students: how are students studying *with* AI? Funny how there’s books & references for faculty on how to teach with it, but nothing specific for students on how to study with it. If we’re serious about expecting them to use it (not just ethically), where are the resources?
Last November I wrote that Republicans wanted to “socialize the means of cancellation” through the creation of a “Snitch State.” Feels relevant now. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
If these guys genuinely become mainstream there’s just no going back as a country. Trumpism is bad enough. These guys think Trump is too soft. I don’t know if you ever put that genie back in the bottle.
This technology is so clearly designed to profit off cheating and struggling students--its insidious. And yet universities keep announcing how they're allowing this company into its midst, to exploit and incapacitate our students even more
On the bright side, ChatGPT suddenly being advertised anywhere and everywhere reeks of desperation. This is not a tactic undertaken to sell something that is as "incredible" and "inevitable" as AI is claimed to be...
Why? Why should parents and children "use AI together?" Why not make an ethical choice not to use it together? Why is the implicit and explicit message always "you must use it, there is no other option"
Almost seems like something college could be good for apnews.com/article/gree...
Reading today’s big NYT Magazine story made me physically sick It details how Trump & the men he put in charge of federal research—men like Jay Bhattacharya & RFK Jr—are dismantling cancer research Not just the US vaccine system—they’re crushing cancer R&D 🎁Link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
On Thursday, NPR invited CPAC Chair Matt Schlapp to pay tribute to his friend, Charlie Kirk, which he did, at length.. But he ended up getting angry and cutting the interview short. This is what angered him: www.npr.org/2025/09/11/n...
Origins: "we have struggled to convince some of our colleagues and students of the deskilling impact of these technologies. These trials and tribulations are perhaps well-known to those who agree with us. Yet, they may pass unnoticed by others" www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g... 2/n
💛🚫🤖 No AI Gods, No AI Masters 🤖🚫💛 I am massively excited to share the backstory ACADEMIC SHENANIGANS behind our Open Letter (& so this paper below too) — and as always big thanks to my co-authors {@irisvanrooij.bsky.social & @marentierra.bsky.social}: www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g... 1/n
Ok PBS just let David Brooks say that his friends texted him “this is our George Floyd”
I abhor violence, even as I was targeted with violent threats. Turning Point USA has a professors watchlist: it has been used to harass hundreds of academics, many women, people of color and LGBTQ people. 3/
This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.
This is a big one, y'all. Please do come if you're in NYC. We gotta draw the line.
They just shit canned a professor at Texas A&m for discussing how gender is handled in children's books.
On Monday, Peter Thiel begins a secret four-part Antichrist lecture series in San Francisco. What the hell is going on? Why all this bible doom talk? I talked to an Antichrist historian & a theologian about this outbreak of tech apocalypse hype: www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-...
Wrote about the week. How the shooter's ID didn't appear to matter to ppl. How the discourse takes place in very same spaces that incubate/perpetuate hate & violence. How shooters now know that their acts will be flattened, analyzed, argued over & amplified. How all of this feels so dark & poisonous
This is the last day for the Murderbot + Witch King and my other fantasy Humble Book Bundle: www.humblebundle.com/books/martha... We've raised $89,000 in donations for World Central Kitchen so far!
“Newsrooms had either ignored previous online flare-ups or covered them clumsily. But Gamergate spilled far beyond niche pockets, seeping into the public consciousness and into the real world in ways that demanded sustained, mainstream coverage.”
It's the weekend! Opening Sunday #manray at The Met, and don't miss Jeffrey Gibson's commissioned sculptures as part of The Met Facade on your way in. Man Ray: When Objects Dream at The Metropolitan Museum of Art gothamtogo.com/man-ray-when...
So do I have this right: the Extremely Online head of the FBI missed that all the evidence on the bullets were 4chan memes, the suspect's social media is full of groyper memes, and he was only caught because his LEO father taught him how to shoot but not about STFU Friday?
It’s likewise tacitly assumed that assisted-thinking technology in specific and the phenomenon of education in general puts students against teachers, rather than both against assisted thinking and the wider evisceration of higher ed. Again, the necessity of thinking this way is unclear to me.
In the absence of institutional leadership or professional organization, it’s been tacitly assumed that the burden of getting students to learn falls on individual teachers. I see no good reason for that assumption, and some real stakes for students both in learning and in being seen to do so.
You can use ChatGPT instead of your own brain to write your paper if I can talk about ChatGPT instead of you in your letter of reference
People really need to understand their is a coordinated effort going on to target trans folks minorities and female counter far right journalists with networked stochastic violence all because they correctly labeled the shooting of Kirk. This is the face of coordinated decentralized violence
lareviewofbooks.org/article/if-a... “ . . . no matter what tech advocates may claim, science and technology are not autonomous or inevitable. They are the outcome of funding choices, implicit or explicit, made by powerful forces.”
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wrote about Charlie Kirk's history of promoting political violence. if you want to oppose political violence, you need to repudiate the attack on Kirk, but you also need to be honest about what he advocated for, and not celebrate that. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/whitewashi...
Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative
.... well i wrote one book about weird right wing internet shit and one book about conservative american religion
@petertarras.bsky.social not sure if you follow her
Every major publication in this country needs to have dedicated staffers or correspondents reporting on gaming, streamers, podcasts, and TikTok. Not as a once in a while thing. As standard beats. These are massive segments of American culture. No excuses for it anymore.
Here’s my @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social article about the Asilomar meeting on the future of biotechnology held back in February, and the deliberations that took place afterwards.
Tagging @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social and @poisonivy47.bsky.social who might want to weigh in
Starting a new thread to collect critical perspectives on AI, as they are articulated dozens of times every day and appear repeatedly on my timeline. I can't read everything right away, but if, like me, you want to stay up to date, then this might help a bit:
In a curriculum meeting for the state. I’m playing cognitive bias bingo
I am old enough to remember Asilomar, I was a baby molecular biologist in the early 1980s, @alondra.bsky.social, so this makes total sense!
The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.
When do we get a retraction from The Wall Street Journal for erroneously claiming the assassination was related to trans people? When do we get apologies from every journalist who spread that disinformation?
If you haven't seen it yet: this administration is cutting off funding to any higher-ed institution that predominantly served a minoritized group. That includes HBCUs, Hispanic-serving institutions, etc. Historically, this has always been funded by Congress... www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
UC Berkeley has given the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty, and staff as part of an investigation into antisemitism on campus. One of them is Judith Butler. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
🧵 The summer of 2025 has been AI's "cruel summer"—wrongful deaths, dangerous therapy chatbots, medical misinformation, facial recognition failures. These aren't isolated glitches but predictable harms from systems deployed without adequate oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The choice is between proactive responsibility and reactive crisis management. ELSI showed the former is possible; the power of AI demands that we translate these lessons into practice. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@alondra.bsky.social on the need for addressing the Ethical, Legal & Social issues (ELSI) in AI through "institutional commitment: stable funding, a robust community of multidisciplinary researchers, empirical research & iterative refinement as new challenges" arise. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
“The current AI ethics and AI safety landscape, though expanding rapidly and even beginning to converge, remains fragmented and unequal to the scale of the challenge compared to what ELSI research programs helped to achieve in genomics.” A model for AI ethics: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
millennials are band directors now and I think that’s terrific
the media rush to canonize charlie kirk is legitimately maybe one of the weirdest things of this nature i have ever seen in my life
blocklist here. Feel free to add screenshots if you think I should check anyone out to add them.
I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.
i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is
We are not served by calling the politics of blaming mass shootings on trans people "doing politics the right way" We are not served by calling the politics of saying that campus shootings are the cost of doing business "doing politics the right way" That shit is doing politics the wrong way
No better evidence that "The Cathedral" is fake than allegedly liberal journalists tripping over their dicks to praise, as a champion of free discourse and expression, a guy who made one of his central accomplishments a blacklist of professors
Liberals are doing the right’s job for it. By lionizing Charlie Kirk and refusing to acknowledge his real political project, they’re giving power to the right’s completely predictable effort to use his death to forward their goal of an authoritarian, fascist state.
“The memo — in the form of fresh guidelines on how to talk to and evaluate answers from Apple’s upcoming new artificial intelligence model — appeared to have been retooled following Trump’s return to the White House…” The topics include “diversity,” “elections,” and “vaccines.”
Remember that you don’t have to post your first reaction and Bluesky is forever even if you delete
👇 bsky.app/profile/hype...
Someone noted this in a quote skeet: the other goal is to turn workers into robots, micromanaging them down to the path they take. Valuable seconds are lost if you take a few steps in the wrong direction!
Amazon’s goal is to transform all public and private space into the Amazon warehouse, and it’s never been more clear.
According to reports, “Amazon is simultaneously working on two models: one for its own drivers to assist with deliveries, and a sleeker version with color display for customers to order.” Anyway, today in luxury surveillance.
Two models of Amazon smart glasses—one for hip consumers who can order products on the go, and one for wage workers, whose efficiency and whereabouts will be tracked continuously. One is a luxury item, one will be mandatory. Both ensure nonstop surveillance. Both are extractive. Both are handcuffs.
I understand that it has to be removed because of theft and that it's on a listed building, but pretty petty of the Royal Courts of Justice to completely cover up the Banksy, thereby stopping anybody seeing the art in its intended context for the moment it is there.
Protests against Trump erupt inside D.C. restaurant as people chant to his face: “FREE D.C.! FREE PALESTINE! TRUMP IS THE H*TLER OF OUR TIME!” (via Sam Waldenberg / CNN)