If you have so much work to do that you feel you need AI in order to get it all done: you don't. You need a union.

Shout out to rural organizers winning data center fights in your communities. You are protecting your health and the the lives of people you might never meet.

Inside Climate News@insideclimatenews.org · last wk.

A data-center boom in Pennsylvania will likely drive more fracking. Advocates say the state should mandate more distance between natural-gas development and homes, schools, hospitals and bodies of water.

Reminds me of how I started writing a piece about translating while caregiving while taking care of my small niece (and feeling like as my niece was learning how language worked, I was just forgetting all the words) Anyways, I never finished writing it for obvious reasons...

Rachel Cordasco@rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 2w ago

I've thoroughly enjoyed reading these essays about writing while trying to make a living and juggling all of the things that come with life, but I was disappointed that not one of these essays was about writing while being a primary caregiver...

She “also revealed her hand in developing one of the collective’s most iconic poster campaigns — ‘The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist’… The prjct was born from her time in a residency house [w] married male artists who brought their younger affair partners along as… unpaid studio assistants.”

Joyce Kozloff Reveals Herself as Guerrilla Girls Founding Member

After decades of anonymity, the feminist artist and activist disclosed in an interview that she is the woman behind the mask of “Liubov Popova.”

hyperallergic.com

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

Joyce Kozloff, Collateral Damage, at DC Moore

Less than a week after ICE agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the Portland Press Herald is reporting that ICE agents shot and killed a 26-year-old man from Colombia today:

Live updates: Man killed in Biddeford ICE-involved shooting ID’ed as 26-year-old from Colombia

Witnesses described seeing one person being shot in the head.

pressherald.com

This is happening during The World Cup. I have seen far less coverage of this than I have previous upticks in ICE activity. Really missing @lataco.bsky.social and @eltragon.bsky.social Daily Memo right now :(

Eileen Clancy 🧿@clancyny.bsky.social · last mo.

Gift link! Immigrant Arrests Surge to 10,000 in 5 Days as ICE Clamps Down By Hamed Aleaziz The agency has doubled its daily arrest numbers without the fanfare of last year’s large urban operations, sowing fear in immigrant communities.

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

Teach your kids to "use your words" and "name your feelings" and they will very calmly and eloquently explain exactly how they were feeling when they punched their younger sibling in the face.

never thought I'd be saying this but the pope is 🔥

Min Hyoung Song@minsong.bsky.social · 3mo ago

OTOH: “Even today, colonialism assumes new forms. It no longer dominates only bodies, but appropriates data, transforming personal lives into exploitable information.” (Par178)

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

The_Lady_Red@theladyred.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

This week's immigration numbers: 145,000 U.S. citizen children with a detained parent. 5 suicides in ICE custody in 2026 alone. An $18,000 proposed deportation fine. Here's what each figure actually means. 🧵

A young teen organized a march yesterday against two proposed AI data centers in Vancouver, which is facing water restrictions & housing crisis. The first project will be at former Hootsuite headquarters. Hootsuite is also facing opposition for a pilot ICE contract. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Protesters rally against planned AI data centres in Vancouver | CBC News

Hundreds of people marched through Vancouver on Saturday to protest two planned AI data centres in the city, raising concerns about the amount of water and energy such facilities can use as the region...

cbc.ca

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

My friend and comrade Alex Colston has been violently detained again by the Israeli state. Please call to push for his release. Free them all, from the river to the sea.

Did you miss the launch of our new imprint Class Compositions? Watch it on Red May's Youtube channel! @charmainechua.bsky.social, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social, Kieran Knutson, and Peter Linebaugh discuss "Class Compositions in a Time of Fascism" with @americanwork47.bsky.social as moderator.

Class Compositions in a Time of Fascism

YouTube video by Red May TV

youtube.com

Spanberger has been such a disappointment even for my low expectations

Qasim Rashid, Esq.@qasimrashid.com · 3mo ago

BREAKING: VA Gov Abigail Spanberger just vetoed a bill that would ban ICE from making warrantless arrests inside of courthouses. VA Dems have the House, the Senate, and the Governorship. They have all the power and still under a Corporate Centrist Democrat, align with fascist ideology.

This is a lot of the reading list for my current translation project. If you've been looking for a feminist perspective - from the global south - on contemporary forms of exploitation, financialization, and the far right, I have just the book for you! (as soon as I finish translating it, lol)

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Not pictured: End Times Fascism, Taylor & Klein and Expulsions by Saskia Sassen. About a 1/3 way through.

This is a great opportunity to learn from Josh MacPhee about making posters on Thursday 5/21 at 6 pm. You will finish by printing small two-color editions on the Risograph press.https://events.humanitix.com/posters-101-resistance-is-a-language

Posters 101: Resistance is a Language

Learn about “resistance as a language” and use it to create political posters.

events.humanitix.com

I've learned a lot from Trevor Paglen over the years, looking forward to this one!

Verso Books@versobooks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Out now: How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI by Trevor Paglen "For anyone trying to make sense of what’s happening in the current digital and A.I. age, this is an equally readable and rigorous guide." - Cultured

This. "incredible and shameful there isn’t international condemnation of the united states for collective punishment of 10 million people" -- @parismarx.com

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

FT": "Protests erupted overnight in Cuba after the government said it had completely run out of diesel and fuel oil, the energy supplies essential to its power generation." “We have absolutely no fuel [oil] and absolutely no diesel,” said Cuba's energy minister, blaming Trump's" blockade of Cuba

Translated this great piece by @veronicagago.bsky.social on the meaning of the intellectual today, emphasizing the role of the collective knowledge production of struggles, esp. the transfeminist movement today.

A Fragment, a Message in a Bottle, a Toolbox - Journal #163

Verónica Gago decenters intellectuals as individuals in favor of collective intellectual “apparatuses.”

e-flux.com

Please sign in support of colleagues and friends at Essex. "At stake is [...] whether universities will continue to support intellectual projects that question dominant organizational orthodoxies and experiment with alternative ways of understanding economic and social life."

AI produces MORE editorial labor, not less. “[To weed out slop] the journal doubled its deputy editors from 6 to 11 & nearly doubled its sr editors from roughly 30 to 60. All of this is volunteer labor, unpaid academics donating time to maintain scientific quality.“ www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

AI Slop Is Flooding Academic Journals. A Top Journal Measured It

A top management journal measured AI’s impact on submissions and reviews. Submissions rose 42%, writing quality declined and AI reviews proved uninformative to editors.

forbes.com

In Memphis, Tennessee, Elon Musk’s xAI operates over two dozen methane gas-burning turbines without legal permits to power its data centers, Colossus 1 and Colossus 2, polluting the nation’s largest majority-Black city with toxic emissions. The NAACP is suing xAI for violating the Clean Air Act.

“Colossus Failure”: Elon Musk’s Data Centers Face Lawsuit for Polluting Black Neighborhoods in Memphis

As tech companies scramble to build massive new data centers to power artificial intelligence, marginalized communities are bearing the brunt of the environmental harms. In Memphis, Tennessee, Elon Mu...

democracynow.org

Lol of course this is the first thing in my feed after getting home from a match where I burned 800 calories just to get my ass absolutely kicked. Guess I'm doing it wrong!

The Onion@theonion.com · 4mo ago

“All you need to do to win at tennis is run around from left to right inside a tiny square and smack a really soft fuzzy ball with a racket that’s basically as wide as 20 baseball bats,” said the seven-time majors winner

400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming

Lina Mounzer@warghetti.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic

Great news from Maryland. Meanwhile in Virginia, higher education workers are still excluded from collective bargaining legislation.

Dan Greene@dmgreene.bsky.social · 4mo ago

WE DID IT! Our illegal union @uam-umd.bsky.social is a lot less illegal today. 12,000 contingent faculty in MD just won the right to collectively bargain. Life-changing win for teachers and students. Only happened bc thousands of people worked together to beat our bosses in the statehouse.

Like a lot of small businesses in our region, Firestorm has been in financial distress for the last year. Hurricane Helene was our tipping point, but local cost of living increases, inflation, and higher occupancy costs are huge contributors. 1/9

As someone who plays a lot of tennis, I really appreciate good tennis writing, and I also find Sinner absolutely boring to watch