Ruha Benjamin
@ruha9.bsky.social
✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Johanna Fernández, ¡Presente! We're heartbroken to learn of the passing of Professor Fernández. When we hosted a class with her in 2022, she began by saying "Talking with teachers is one of my favorite activities." More here: www.zinnedproject.org/news/johanna... Listen ⬇️ youtu.be/9fTLscjOR8s?...
Johanna Fernández Audiogram
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With great sadness we report that @baruch.cuny.edu @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @historygc.bsky.social Prof. Johanna Fernández passed away on July 30, 2026. We mourn her loss and celebrate her achievements and legacy: blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/history/?p=447
Dr. Johanna Fernández was writing a book on the historical roots of U.S. fascism. An article related to the book is here: manifold.umn.edu/read/ces0701... BTW, George Jackson, in an interview about writing in prison, noted he was working on a detailed study of fascism sweeping the Western world.
On the Historical Roots of U.S. Fascism | On the Historical Roots of U.S. Fascism | Manifold@UMinnPress
The University of Minnesota Press is known for its boundary breaking editorial program in the humanities and social sciences.
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Johanna Fernandez was one of the fiercest voices for justice whether around the world or at CUNY. Her book on the Young Lords was one of the best books ever written on the Black and Latinx Freedom Struggle. She will be dearly missed. Rest in power, my friend.
Bobby Rivera@bobbyrivera21.bsky.social · 5d agoJohanna Fernandez, RIP! 😭💔
The fact that it’s poisoning Black people is not seen as a negative to these folks.
SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year | TechCrunch
SpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.
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A MUST READ: “The stories that universities in the United States told about themselves died (again) in Gaza—in some cases by suicide. By contrast, universities in Gaza may be physically destroyed, but they are still less hollow than many universities around us...” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Archives, Prophecy, and Return: The Phoenix of Gaza
This review essay of The Phoenix of Gaza virtual reality project and exhibit puts Indigenous studies and Palestine studies, as well as scholars of these fields, into citational and historical conve...
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“On governance matters alone, Princeton warrants an AAUP investigation, if not sanction… When faculty don’t have the possibility of weighing in independently on administrative decisions, academic freedom is more likely to be compromised.” 1/2 academeblog.org/2026/07/14/a...
Academic Freedom and the Palestine Exception at Princeton
BY JOAN W. SCOTT Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber has carefully curated his public reputation as a defender of free speech and academic freedom against the wanton attacks by the…
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🗓️ NYC area friends, join me for two events as part of Harlem Week 2026:
Looking forward to our first Refusal Summer Reading Club Meeting this afternoon, and our discussion of @fractalecho.bsky.social's Disabling Intelligences!
I recommend anyone who doesn't understand the backlash to datacenters go spend 24 hours standing outside of xAI's facility in Memphis. No earplugs. No masks. Just you and the air that Elon provides. Also remember: He said they would build a water treatment facility but they aren't.
xAI Colossus Data Center Memphis Tennessee 05/13/2025
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Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2mo agoThis is condescending and, most importantly, completely ignorant of the actual, real and material reasons communities object to data centre developments (primarily: environment and resource concerns, which they genuinely understand very well and can explain with specific, accurate detail)
The AI Question: A Movement Debate, Thurs May 28th 7pm ET. Hosted by @mediajustice.bsky.social and @conmijente.bsky.social, LIVE BROADCAST: streamyard.com/watch/SKsxNh...
We condemn the illegal invasion of Venezuela, and we condemn the fossil fuel corruption that led us here. Young people — once again — are the ones that oil billionaires will feed into the meatgrinder of an unjust, imperialist war.
Starting 2026 off right with @thestorygraph.com's January Pages Challenge and @ruha9.bsky.social ✨ #BookSky
"The question for the Luddites was never simply whether to accept or reject a new machine, but rather who controlled it, how it was deployed, and whose interests it served. . .
Ruha Benjamin@ruha9.bsky.social · 7mo ago“Accepting this story of AI’s inevitability — or that of any technology — is a grave mistake for educators. Not only does it cede tremendous power to tech companies that are unaccountable to teachers, students, or school communities…” 1/2 kappanonline.org/teach-like-a...
“Accepting this story of AI’s inevitability — or that of any technology — is a grave mistake for educators. Not only does it cede tremendous power to tech companies that are unaccountable to teachers, students, or school communities…” 1/2 kappanonline.org/teach-like-a...
Teach like a Luddite - Kappan Online
Embracing new technologies that don’t advance teaching and learning is a mistake. Educators must ask questions — and resist when necessary.
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NEW: Data Centers, the Climate Crisis, and Community Defense How Local Activists are Interrupting Big Tech AI Investments unicornriot.ninja/2025/data-ce...
Data Centers, the Climate Crisis, and Community Defense - UNICORN RIOT
As Trump’s Energy Secretary Chris Wright claims you should “build data centers” if “you want low electricity prices,” more than 200 environmental organizations have joined to “demand a halt to the bui...
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A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵
Israel is still bombing Gaza The press isn't covering it as much but it's still happening
If you’re looking for Palestinian speculative fiction for #ReadPalestine week, I got you: soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...
Read Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading List
The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na…
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Wonderful to see @ruha9.bsky.social and @alexvitale.bsky.social joining @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's transition committees!
Pre-ordered!📕
Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 8mo agoCover Reveal! “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" arrives on August 4, 2026. How extremist tech billionaires are dismantling democracy to crown themselves as kings—and what we can do about it. Please pre-order! ➡️ www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
not one would mind, neither bird nor tree@johnperich.com · 8mo agoTo bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
Sooo many folks I’m excited to work with on Mamdani’s technology transition committee. All hands on deck to bring the Affordability Agenda to life: childcare, housing, transportation. While its easy to get swept up in personality, this is a group focused on peoples real needs. LETS KEEP THE FOCUS.
Pleased to see several familiar names on @wired.com's list of Great Tech Books, including @ashleyshoo.bsky.social, @margaretomara.bsky.social & @ruha9.bsky.social. #histSTM #STS #histtech #BigTech 🗃️📜
Robin Z@firepile.bsky.social · 8mo agoThis is a surprisingly good list of tech books to gift from Wired, including some aged classics and some new work destined to be classics down the line (*cough* @ashleyshoo.bsky.social's book *cough*)
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
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Happy #PublicationDay, @terencekeel.bsky.social!🔍 THE CORONER’S SILENCE, his landmark intervention that uncovers how coroners and other death investigators are complicit in obscuring the violent circumstances of in-custody deaths, is a “searing exposé.” — @ruha9.bsky.social
Imagination is resistance, @ruha9.bsky.social reminds us that, " we need to reject the gospel that says technology is inevitable, that the train has left the station... In an error of automated bullshit, it’s time to become bullshit detectors," #MozFest
Opening up #MozFest, @ruha9.bsky.social asks us "who owns the future?" but also problematizing the notion of ownership. Need to shift the question, expanding the vision of how we imagine new futures.
