RESTORE THE NSF, NEH and NIH

Emily Gorcenski@emily.gorcen.ski · 7h ago

Things the Dem Congress should do on day 1: - restore USAID - investigate DOGE - pass guardrails against civilian data misuse - revoke the AUMF - revoke unilateral Presidential tariff authority - public hearings investigating ICE

the next U.S. Senator of Texas has a favorite drag queen, *the* Alyssa Edwards

Among all the other things in texas (including first and foremost bodily autonomy - abortion rights, trans rights) ... please free your universities. Fire everyone involved with this repression cycle.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 15h ago

I am jaw-dropped. Democrats are leading in enough seats at the moment to flip the Texas state Senate.

The absolute shellacking Republicans are taking makes the prior two years of capitulation by so many powerful people and organizations look even more pathetic

HELL YES IT DID

The States Project@statesprojectus.bsky.social · 17h ago

VICTORY: The North Carolina House has flipped for the first time in 16 years! Congratulations to the lawmakers in this new majority who will head to Raleigh to continue their work to improve the lives of all North Carolinians!

THAT'S RIGHT

Keith Edwards@keithedwards.bsky.social · 17h ago

BREAKING NEWS: DEMOCRATS WIN CONTROL OF THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Imagine spending $500M dollars and getting this 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

This is truly the absolute worst of the scam ecosystem. There’s a great book on this : Scam: Inside Southeast Asia's Cybercrime Compounds by Ivan Franceschini, Ling Li, and Mark Bo (Verso, July 2025).

Donovan Schaefer@feelingtheory.bsky.social · 22h ago

Unbelievably tragic story, putting a human face on what so many authors are experiencing with the tide of scam emails cascading into our inboxes.

So one of the things that needs to happen post election and in the run up ton2028 is this...dismantle the fake structure of morality these religious groups have constructed in order to gain power while harboring pedophiles. Their campaign against immorality is a shield.

how long before the tech companies quietly change their maps back

So good to see @alicetiara.bsky.social pop up on my TV in an MS NOW video about slopaganda by the great @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social. I'm so tired of seeing the real experts getting ignored by journalists in favor of other journalists or ex-tech industry people. We need more Alice!

This was such a great talk - thanks to @ipk.bsky.social for inviting me to talk with Philipp!

Institute for Public Knowledge@ipk.bsky.social · 2d ago

Tonight at IPK: Philipp Brandt discusses his book, Inside Data Science: Hackers and the Making of a New Profession, with @alicetiara.bsky.social.

The Vivid Tale of Velvet Vale: My thoughts on responses to an AI agent joining a mailing list for a prominent research association and applying them to academic writing and publishing. HT @alicetiara.bsky.social @aoir.bsky.social scholarintheloop.substack.com/p/the-vivid-...

The Vivid Tale of Velvet Vale

My thoughts on responses to an AI agent joining a mailing list for a prominent research association and applying them to academic writing and publishing.

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This is a great paper. We had the amazing @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social speak at CITAP & his work asks very basic questions about Black Americans and politics that polsci somehow 🤔 never asked. The methods are always rock solid & the answers always illuminating.

Perspectives on Politics@poppublicsphere.bsky.social · 2w ago

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! The #Politics of #Black #Classification: Sociopolitical Cues & Racial Perception By Lauren D. Davenport, @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social & @hrendleman.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The hugest congrats to @sjjphd.bsky.social for becoming PRESIDENT OF @icahdq.bsky.social !!!!!! I am so proud to see my friends and colleagues moving into leadership in our professional associations - it's just a joy, especially when they're as awesome as Sarah. SO well deserved!!

Join IPK and the AI in Society Working Group on November 2 for a talk with Philipp Brandt. He will discuss his book, Inside Data Science: Hackers and the Making of a New Profession, with @alicetiara.bsky.social. ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...

The manosphere starts with fitness content and ends with white nationalism. Dr. Alice Marwick explains how the pipeline works, and how grievance culture became a billion-dollar business model. Listen at the link in bio. #manosphere #onlineradicalization

I talked to @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social about the manosphere: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... tune in for my Thoughts on Feminism!

Dr. Alice Marwick: The Manosphere, Feminism, Misandry, Misogyny

Podcast Episode · Critically Speaking · October 13 · 41m

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🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 4w ago

Archive of @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Stuart Hall is now live. Includes looking at his impact on the history of communication theory, culminating in the architecture of contemporary AI models www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Archive link: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

These are absolutely horrible. All the incidents with descriptions are terrifying and heartbreaking. I just keep thinking: what if this happened to me? What if this happened to someone I love? Why is this happening to anyone? (I'm a naturalized citizen.)

ProPublica@propublica.org · 4w ago

12/ We spent months compiling every case we could find of immigration agents detaining Americans. We did it because the government hasn't. And now, we're sharing every one of those cases with you. Explore our database: propub.li/4egbSK2

If current proposals advance, Pennsylvania could see 66 new data centers built, on top of the 71 currently active. But as our hidden gem of the week shows, communities are pushing back. By @mwoluchem.bsky.social et al. at @datasociety.bsky.social buff.ly/aMa3tph

A must-listen conversation between @gilduran.com @alicetiara.bsky.social with @justinhendrix.bsky.social +MAD Board Member Jerry Weinstein @tummler.bsky.social with a great question at about 46:00. Plus Durán calls out mainstream media failure to challenge the techno-fascists pca.st/episode/723a...

Gil Durán Maps the Rise of the 'Nerd Reich'

On September 23, Tech Policy Press hosted an event at Betaworks in New York City with Gil Durán, the author of The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy, the New York Times…

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D&S's @mwoluchem.bsky.social describes her team’s research on Pennsylvania’s industrial lineage, the mythmaking that builds on it, and the pushback that defines this moment. “We learned that it takes a lot of work to make an AI factory seem inevitable,” she says. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPgA...

[Video] The AI Factory: Data Centers, Power, and Resistance in Late Industrial Pennsylvania

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For a live, sold-out recording of the @techpolicypress.bsky.social podcast, "The Nerd Reich" author @gilduran.com and D&S Director of Research @alicetiara.bsky.social talk about technology, ideology, and power. Listen now! www.techpolicy.press/gil-durn-map...

Gil Durán Maps the Rise of the 'Nerd Reich'

Justin Hendrix and Alice Marwick in conversation with Gil Durán, author of the new book The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.

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In personal news … socialmediacollective.org/2026/09/23/s...

The Social Media Collective Comes to a Close

It is with both celebration and sadness that we announce that the Social Media Collective, our research team of critical, humanistic social sciences at Microsoft Research’s New England lab, is comi…

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This is nifty and more interesting than reading a meta-analysis... but maybe, JUST maybe, quant studies of disinformation prevalence aren't what we actually needed to combat it? 🤔

Sacha Altay@sachaltay.bsky.social · last mo.

With Claude I did a systematic literature review of misinformation prevalence, exposure, and concentration. There is a companion website that allows you to play with the data and signal me if an estimate is wrong or missing: altay-research.github.io/misinfo-prev...

"part of a time honored tradition in which companies launch an AI product, claim that it is AI, only for it to be later learned that human beings are doing some or all of the work" Yup sounds right

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · last mo.

New from 404 Media: Meta announced Muse, its AI agent that can book restaurants for you. We've seen internal Meta messages showing Meta is actually testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers. In those tests its not AI, it's just a person www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...

I'll be there!! Come say hi!!!

rigo@chicanocyborg.bsky.social · last mo.

This event is the culmination of 6 months of work in partnership with the @pulitzercenter.org team leading up to #ClimateWeekNYC

📣 New! While AI boosters are selling their vision of PA as an “AI factory,” our research shows that local communities are drawing very different lessons from their state’s industrial past, and have their own visions for its future. 1/5 datasociety.net/research-lib...

I am SO DELIGHTED to announce that our brand new report: The AI Factory: Data Centers, Power, and Resistance in Late Industrial Pennsylvania is out today. datasociety.net/research-lib... TechCrunch has the scoop: techcrunch.com/2026/09/22/e...

Everyone can find a reason to dislike data center construction | TechCrunch

Inside two years of fraught AI data center debates in Pennsylvania.

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