For those that have taken on learning and studying a different language, if you decided to work with a tutor, I’m curious to hear about your experience. What was your intention? Did tutoring help or did you learn through a classroom setting? If you’ve done both, which one was more effective for you?

come do something weird in the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social! Our residency call for the 26/27 academic year is live and the theme is Creative Misuse. 1) Read the full prompt (drive.google.com/file/d/16zB-...). 2) Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I’m at my mom’s house, checking in on her. I took a walk and saw two trans inclusive Pride flags on her block here in Biddeford, ME. It’s hard to be far from friends tonight on Pride, but it helped to learn community is near—just one of the ways these flags work. Thanks to everyone who flies them.

New episode: pca.st/episode/2ae7...

Monstrosities, with Rania Masri, Simon Enoch, Adam Wilkins, Lauren Stephens Smith, Sophie Toupin, Vijay Kolinjivadi, and Christiane Bailey

This episode is a recording of an event that took place at Concordia Univeristy: So an AI Data Centre is coming to your community? Don't panic! A roundtable on strategies for building community…

pca.st

spotted in the wild - artifacts of three dying communication systems

Other law enforcement agencies “continue to buy commercial geolocation data.”

ATF cancels phone tracking contract after lawmakers raise concerns

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has canceled its contract for a surveillance tool that allows warrantless tracking of mobile devices.

apnews.com

The librarian in me is always sharing resources, lol. I wanted to alert those of you who aren't aware to the IDNYC Identification Card: www.nyc.gov/site/idnyc/i... It's free and children are also eligible. I recently helped a teenager access the ID and we did it in a couple of hours on a Thursday.

There's a lot you can do to fight the harmful impacts of large-scale generative AI (this is why we compiled The Resist List after all). Maybe refusal isn't what you're going to do. Okay. Find your piece of the work, and go do that. airesistlist.org

The AI Resist List

A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.

airesistlist.org

As public awareness and resistance ramp up, I'm regularly reminded that researchers have been addressing the environmental, geopolitical, and political-economic impacts of data centers for *a very long time*; legislators, journalists, et al just haven't noticed!

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · last yr.

So much think-piecing and op-ed'ing about data centers. I wish folks knew that some scholars have been studying these things — as real estate, as geopolitical battlegrounds, as ecological disasters — for a decade+. Mél Hogan, Alix Johnson, Ingrid Burrington, Jen Holt, Patrick Brodie, et al

New York, 1970. Gay Liberation Front Protest.

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

Join us tomorrow!

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Handing off emergency medical services to the bullshit generator? What could go wrong!? On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 livestream, join me and @alexhanna.bsky.social for a deep dive on the issues with automated ER tools. Monday, June 29, noon PT twitch.tv/dair_institute

I spent a year under investigation by a professional society in part for tweets about my rapist (that another man was certain were about him) You all have no idea how dangerous things are for survivors of gender discrimination and sexual misconduct, even when we have not named our abuser

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 6mo ago

I got into it with that account the day it came out, and was told that they personally would have showered victims with support and so victims worrying about not having enough support are obviously just irrational tools.

We are living in the zombie apocalypse 🫣(I mean, we’ve been, but eeesh) 😩

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9mo ago

“Rather than relying on an implant or a patient's own body fat to add volume to hips or augment breasts, alloClae — which can cost as much as $100,000 per procedure — uses donor fat from a cadaver as a first-of-its-kind body filler.”

I referenced Anjali Nath's work in my redaction project a few years ago. I see that her book — A Thousand Paper Cuts: US Empire and the Bureaucratic Life of War — is out this month!

A Thousand Paper Cuts: US Empire and the Bureaucratic Life of War

dukeupress.edu

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 3y ago

I've been working with the amazing folks at LibraryStack for the past several months on this open-access booklet about "reparative redaction" - or, aesthetic practices that deploy redaction as a protective or reparative technique (that's little me on the cover :) It's coming out tomorrow, I think! 🤗

Horrifying. This didn’t have to happen. History books should be filled with the names of the enablers. We should construct plaques with them in the cemeteries.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 9mo ago

RFK Jr. is going to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It will take a few years before the deaths and disabilities ramp up to a level that even the most vile Republican cannot tolerate. RFK Jr. will be long gone and unaccountable, as our babies die from preventable illness.

Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.

Chicago News Bot@chicagonewsbot.bertshouse.social.ap.brid.gy · 9mo ago

Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation' https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/

Better questions: Has misogyny failed women? Has gendered violence failed women? Has chronically unequal pay failed women? Has inadequate childcare failed women? Has the end of SNAP failed women? Has transphobia failed women?Has inadequate healthcare failed women?

Absolute catnip for media studies / fan studies folks!

Sean@stholeary.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I found it. The Bari Weiss/CBS News town hall promo for feminism does indeed use a 1964 photo of Beatles fans.

For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care. www.transyouthemergencyproject.org

Trans Youth Emergency Project: Supporting Families of Trans Youth

Supporting families of trans youth nationwide through the logistical and financial burdens of navigating bans on gender-affirming care.

transyouthemergencyproject.org

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 9mo ago

1. The federal government has just attempted to enact a national trans youth care ban. A new HHS rule would shutter most gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide. It violates multiple laws and the constitution, and will likely go into effect in a few months. Our latest story here:

ICYMI: How can journalism create hope and shift narratives? The last of @lewispants.bsky.social's column on movement journalism offers some clarity: objectivejournalism.org/2025/12/move...

Movement journalism can transform narratives

When we accept that we are powerless, we foreclose our own radical potential. Stories can change that.

objectivejournalism.org

it's incredibly lovely to see that CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY is on the year-end list for @publicbooks.bsky.social not once but TWICE!! thank you to @njdames.bsky.social and @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy!! and among such amazing books!!! www.publicbooks.org/public-picks...

Public Picks 2025 - Public Books

What were the books of 2025 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us? For this, the 13th-annual edition of Public Picks, section editors for Global Black

publicbooks.org

4 Republicans voting against is significant. There's leverage there. Somewhere. There's concern that this isn't a winning move in swing districts. Echoes of the Virginia election.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 9mo ago

Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms. 3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers. 4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against. It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power. Story to come.

"Wherever the agents appear, even when they lean idly, chatting, we see the cold threat of violence and the fragility of freedom. And in the brave crowds who gather to confront them, scrambling their illusion of total control, we see the power of solidarity..." hammerandhope.org/article/ice-...

War at Home

A record of ICE’s assault on immigrants and the people’s resistance.

hammerandhope.org

More or less done with the reading list for History of the Database. You could take a lot of different approaches, but this is the one I went with.