Marisa Elena Duarte
@mwhitehorse.bsky.social
Indigenous studies, information studies, justice studies, professor at School of Social Transformation, yoem hamut, xicanx. "En el país de los ciegos el tuerto es rey."
Sept 22 in NYC! Join us and the @pulitzercenter.org during #ClimateWeekNYC as we talk data centers w Data & Society's @mwoluchem.bsky.social; @texastribune.org's Alejandra Martinez; @foodandwater.bsky.social's Ginny Marcille-Kerslake, and more. www.eventbrite.com/e/how-data-c...
How Data Center Fights Are Renewing Local Power Across the U.S.
This is an in-person event happening as part of NYC Climate Week.
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The Trump administration this week quietly released an update to a major survey on civil rights in schools that was scrubbed of all data related to nonbinary students or bullying based on gender identity. https://to.pbs.org/4gLoWrn
Trump administration scrubs gender-based bullying data from school civil rights survey
The Trump administration this week quietly released an update to a major survey on civil rights in schools that was scrubbed of all data related to nonbinary students or bullying based on gender identity.
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It’s been 150 years since the Battle of the Little Bighorn, one of the most famous and enduring events in U.S history. While Native Americans were victorious, the battle reshaped the government’s policy toward Indigenous people and still resonates so deeply for many today. https://to.pbs.org/4wND62e
How the Battle of the Little Bighorn reshaped U.S. policy toward Native Americans
It’s been 150 years since the Battle of the Little Bighorn, one of the most famous and enduring events in American history. While Native Americans were victorious, the battle reshaped the government’s...
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An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense. go.nature.com/4ycEbk8
Revealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIH
An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defence.
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ASU has hired Scheufele. Which reminds me of the labor ahead, for feminists and others who see the need for stronger institutional accountability for individuals who violate civil rights standards through sexual harassment, even as we are keenly aware of Trump's multi-year destruction of Title IX.
Faith Kearns, Ph.D.@fkearns.bsky.social · last wk.This is brutal to read captimes.com/news/educati...
A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency could make it harder for the public to learn about and comment on proposed AI data centers that have sparked backlash in communities across the United States and transformed the midterm election landscape. https://to.pbs.org/4xE0gIL
EPA proposal could leave the public in the dark on data center plans
A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency could make it harder for the public to learn about and comment on proposed AI data centers that have sparked backlash in communities across the United Sta...
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why WOULDN'T you ask for (university of chicago) college credits while taking over the US government?! @telliotter.bsky.social with the scoop:
DOGE Affiliate Asked for College Credits for Participating in Takeover
According to new documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, an undergraduate working with DOGE requested that his work for HUD count towards his University of Chicago degree.
wired.com
Identity Verification Is Broken. The 153 Million Driver’s Licenses Now for Sale Are Proof gizmodo.com/identity-ver...
Identity Verification Is Broken. The 153 Million Driver’s Licenses Now for Sale Are Proof
A massive trove of driver’s license scans allegedly stolen from an identity verification company shows the danger of creating honey pots of our most sensitive documents for malicious actors to exploit...
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NEW ICE wants to build a nationwide database of voters, their voting history and, potentially, their party affiliations too. ....and it's willing to pay someone up to $5M to do it www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...
ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database
As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.
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So much recent press coverage of Loudon County, Data Center Central. I'd like to point out @lifewinning.com's research on this region from a decade ago! creativetimereports.org/2014/05/20/i... www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Why Amazon's Data Centers Are Hidden in Spy Country
The company powers much of the Internet, but its cloud facilities are difficult to find.
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Book launch for 'AI, Infrastructures and Sustainability' on Wed 2nd; register for the livestream spui25.nl/programma/ai... with eds Anne Mollen & Fieke Jansen and authors Patrick Brodie, Gerwin van Schie & myself. The book is open access & downloadable from link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Spain’s PM Pedro Sánchez confirms our initial assertion that it was Russia, Israel, and US (far right networks) targeting Spain. Russia and Israel are targeting Spain due to its position on the genocide in Gaza or Putin's invasion of Ukraine. US is a proxy acting for both.
Armed Federal Agents Are Now Blockading Tribal Police To Protect Private Contractors as They Bulldoze Through a Sacred Reservation www.themarysue.com/armed-federa...
Armed federal agents are now blockading tribal police to protect private contractors as they bulldoze through a sacred reservation
Armed federal agents are now blockading tribal police to protect private contractors as they bulldoze through a sacred reservation
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As the US govt attempts to control scientific research through the flow of researchers, threats to intl scholars harm individual research and redound across fields. The best response, says @natematias.bsky.social: institutions standing together against intimidation. blog.ucs.org/guest-commen...
Protecting Science from Government Intimidation
In an era where people can easily publish ideas and find an audience online, how much damage can a travel and immigration policy actually do to the integrity of science and industry? Lots.
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NEW (& no paywall): One of Flock's biggest selling points is its private search network—but how does it actually work? And how does an ordinary city end up sharing its data with, say, 2,000+ other agencies? I FOIA'ed Flock customers from around the country to find out: www.wired.com/story/how-an...
How an Atlanta Suburb Ended Up Sharing Flock Data With More Than 2,000 Organizations
Alpharetta, Georgia, cops share data with thousands of Flock users, ranging from federal agencies to a fish and wildlife commission. The reasons why show how vast—and invasive—the network has become.
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NEW: gas power in development in the US explicitly for data centers have nearly doubled in less than a year, soaring from 97GW at the end of 2025 to more than 189GW mid-2026, according to shocking new figures from @globalenergymon.bsky.social that's up from just 4 GW in 2024:
Data Centers Are Driving an Alarming Gas Power Expansion in the US
There’s no clearer sign of the data center boom than rampant gas projects that have been proposed or that are already under construction.
wired.com
You can now push your plain-English text into blatant Claude-speak, deliberately inserting LLMisms into your writing. Great for people who like to add the bot logo to their handle. (This itself is a small LM, tbc). programasweights.com/claudish
English ↔ Claudish — the over-engineered translator
A bidirectional English and Claudish translator powered by compiled 0.6B neural programs.
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While Target has stayed silent on ICE’s ongoing operations in MN, its own hometown.,communities across the country are fighting back, shopping local not Target for back to school This is our ad in the NYT today.
Thank you for everything. 💚💚💚 Tomorrow, there will be more of us.
What a beautiful teepee cover, whose memory was kept alive by family and community for a century. Glad to see it’s returning home.
Teepee cover stolen 100 years ago finally being repatriated to Sask. | CBC News
A teepee cover was stolen from Kawacatoose First Nation in 1926 and housed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., for a century. It will now finally return to the original owner's descend...
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I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+
“The report raised concerns about the enormous amounts of energy and water these facilities can consume, as well as their potential impacts on air quality, cultural resources, and noise and light pollution.”
Cherokee Nation Bans Hyperscale Data Center Projects on Tribal-Owned Lands
The tribe cited concerns over energy, water use, and the relatively small number of permanent jobs these massive facilities create.
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DHS is using administrative subpoenas to identify online critics and access Americans' private data without a judicial warrant, write @brennancenter.org's @emileayoub.bsky.social and @hannahajames.bsky.social. What Congress can do:
No Warrant, No Problem: Administrative Subpoena Powers and an Outdated Fourth Amendment Doctrine
Numerous federal agencies possess statutory authority to obtain sensitive data without advance judicial approval or probable cause of illegal activity.
justsecurity.org
🚨 Fresh investigation off @grist.org's Indigenous Affairs desk: The climate movement gave this Texas tribe millions and a global platform. No one checked its story. grist.org/indigenous/t...
The climate movement gave this Texas tribe millions and a global platform. No one checked its story.
How the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe turned family lore into money, media, and a place at the United Nations.
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Turnitin has long used its end user licence agreement to use students' work for product devt. Now it's trying to update it to use essays for AI devt too! Prime example of academic content assetization - turning student IP into a source of value codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/a...
AI and the amplification of academic content assetization
Photo by Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash A new AI-driven digital learning platform launched by Arizona State University has set off alarm bells among academics for its exploitation of scholarly work. AS…
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Ian Linkletter@linkletter.org · last mo.I found them! They are linked on Berkeley's website here classrooms.berkeley.edu/news/clarifi... h/t @other95.bsky.social Direct link to Turnitin's explanations of the proposed changes: view-su2.highspot.com/viewer/40018...
News from Oklahoma: Cherokee Nation has banned hyperscale data centers, following the Seminole Nation, which banned data centers on its lands in March. The Muscogee Nation is currently investigating data center impacts. The Kickapoo Tribe also opposes data centers. tulsaflyer.org/2026/08/10/g...
Cherokee Nation bans hyperscale data centers on tribally owned, trust lands
The Cherokee Nation issued a ban on hyperscale data center development for tribally owned and trust land on Wednesday.
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The Justice Department is requesting that the NAACP's Clean Air Act citizen enforcement against an xAI data center be dismissed for national security reasons. @energylawprof.bsky.social explains how this novel strategy exemplifies how security claims are reshaping energy permitting.
Powering Data Centers and the Permitting Problem
The Justice Department’s bid to nix a Clean Air Act suit against xAI’s turbines shows how security claims reshape energy permitting.
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