For #FollowFriday some folks I appreciate who post on issues related to tech & society: @hypervisible.blacksky.app @wolven.blacksky.app @toniasutherland.bsky.social @drtanksley.bsky.social @meredithmeredith.bsky.social @olivia.science @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @danhon.com

DoctorSyntax@doctorsyntax.bsky.social · 2w ago

As discussed, it’s #FollowFriday, so follow @rexparker.bsky.social @davidwondrich.bsky.social @reelquinn.bsky.social @histoftech.bsky.social @sethcotlar.bsky.social @aselrod.bsky.social Also re Friday: see my TL for “Add a letter, ruin a novel”

Hell yes it is a great framework stop making @toniasutherland.bsky.social increasingly relevant, world.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

A good framework for understanding stuff like this can be found in this book. www.ucpress.edu/books/resurr...

“The installation, unveiled in February 2024, allows guests to ask Douglass questions through an iPad. Using a closed database of Douglass’s autobiographies and speeches, the artificial intelligence generates responses based solely on Douglass’s recorded words.”

Massachusetts museums use AI to bring history to life - The Boston Globe

As the 250th anniversary approaches, museums and historical tours around Massachusetts have evolved to incorporate modern technology like artificial intelligence in their tourism.

bostonglobe.com

A good framework for understanding stuff like this can be found in this book. www.ucpress.edu/books/resurr...

Resurrecting the Black Body by Tonia Sutherland - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

ucpress.edu

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

"Being a single mother is hard enough [let alone] being a single mother and having a spouse in prison.” Mass incarceration has a ripple effect, causing trauma for the entire family.

I’m Free, but I’m in Prison

The Economic Impacts on Mothers of Having an Incarcerated Co-parent

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What could go wrong.

Google’s Smart Glasses Can Create Fake Photos on the Fly

Who needs real memories anymore?

gizmodo.com

There are a lot of competing—but aligned—interests. Keeping the files quiet, oil, armageddon. Big men avenging their sense of injustice. Rubio in Cuba. Bibi’s Greater plan. AI companies deploying tech in the military. A holy war for Evangelicals. Everyone is trying to get what they want out of this.

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

newrepublic.com

Journalism job alert: @wired.com is hiring an experienced politics writer. I might be biased, but WIRED is doing some of the best political coverage out there. This is your chance to join our amazing newsroom! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

Senior Correspondent, Politics

WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...

condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com

The ayatollah that came into power in 1979 died nearly 40 years ago.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Mullin: We are not wanting regime change, but the person that's leading this effort is the ayatollah. Remember in 1979, when he came to power, he was saying that he wanted to be a nuclear Iran

It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: www.anildash.com/2026/02/18/t...

How did we end up threatening our kids’ lives with AI? - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

anildash.com

The blockade on Cuba is unconscionable.

The website for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is completely scrubbed and gone! They didn't even leave a legacy statement.

The first three articles: • harmony bench & Kate Elswit on motion data, consent, and embodied archives • Orla Delaney on feminism, silence, and Ireland’s abortion archive as political infrastructure • @ranjodhdhaliwal.com on scale — and why small, local AI might matter most

The issue gathers scholarly, curatorial, and critical work across digital humanities, critical AI & data studies, artistic research, feminist and decolonial theory, examining the entanglements between AI imaginaries, machine learning, and archival theory, practice, and power.

Edited by @ktmac.bsky.social, myself, @toniasutherland.bsky.social, Caroline Bassett, Eun Seo Jo & @louravn.bsky.social Ravn, this issue brings together one of the first collective efforts to articulate an archival turn in AI research.

✨ We’re excited to share the first articles from AI & ARCHIVES — a special issue of the new journal Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society (Cambridge University Press). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My friend and one of the co-authors of Read This When Things Fall Apart, Stevie Wilson, will be released from prison in less than a week. Stevie has done tremendous work as an incarcerated organizer and has plans to continue doing important work on the outside. Let's help him make a new start.

Donate to Support Stevie Wilson's New Beginning, organized by Danielle Squillante

Our beloved comrade and friend Stevie Wilson is FINALLY coming home from pri… Danielle Squillante needs your support for Support Stevie Wilson's New Beginning

gofundme.com

thegrio.com/2026/01/04/d...

Dr. Janell Green Smith, a midwife who advocated for Black maternal health, dies of childbirth complications

Dr. Janell Green Smith, a South Carolina midwife and advocate for Black maternal health, has died due to complications during childbirth.

thegrio.com

Seeing lots of folks incorporating "critical university studies" lessons into their spring classes. For what it's worth, my 2022 Redesigning the Academy class site is totally open, and I've got a bunch of relevant (open) Arena channels, too... [1/2] redesigningacademy.wordsinspace.net/spring2022/

Applications now open for Web Archiving School fellows, instructors, and teaching assistants. Apply here: www.archivingtheblackweb.org/apply/

Dr Janell Green Smith, CNM a respected midwife, scholar, and advocate has died from complications related to childbirth. She leaves a husband and newborn that need the support of her village. If you are able, please consider joing me in donating. www.gofundme.com/f/dr-janell-...

Donate to Honoring Dr. Janell Green Smith, CNM, organized by Nichole Wardlaw

Dr Janell Green Smith, CNM a respected midwife, scholar, and advocate has died fr… Nichole Wardlaw needs your support for Honoring Dr. Janell Green Smith, CNM

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You don’t have to want kids or even enjoy being around them. But it’s also worth unpacking why kids simply existing, learning, or having unmet needs reads as “annoying,” “unlikeable,” or “bad behavior.” This collective discomfort with noise, need, & vulnerability is why many ADULTS are struggling.

The death toll from the attack on Venezuela is now at 80, per Venezuelan officials. That includes civilians. Every article about the attack, or how the US somehow claims it will run the country, should mention the fact that, you know, people died, including civilians. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Live Updates: As Venezuela Projects Defiance, Rubio Says U.S. Will Use ‘Leverage’ to Advance Its Interests

nytimes.com

A major use-case for AI is reality destabilization.

Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This video, viewed millions of times on TikTok, Facebook and X, claims to show Venezuelans taking to the street to thank the US for detaining Maduro. But the video is a combination of four AI-generated clips and was first posted on TikTok by a user who frequently shares AI videos. It's not real.

If you vote BY MAIL, the rules have changed. Please SHARE. youtube.com/watch?v=4F8F...

USPS changing its postmark process

YouTube video by NBC10 Boston

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“Fueled partly by American tech companies, governments around the globe are racing to deploy generative A.I. systems and training in schools and universities.”

Tech Giants Are Racing to Embed A.I. in Schools Around the Globe

nytimes.com

"AI is inevitable." (To use to harass people.)

Trooper sues Washington State Patrol over AI deepfake video, harassment

The lawsuit claims a pattern of discrimination and harassment, including a deepfake AI video depicting the trooper kissing another coworker.

fox13seattle.com

I really think we are just not at all prepared for the tsunami of social harm that "AI" is about to dump on us.

Fryda Wolff@frydawolff.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Lovely. “I am an actress. He has used AI to falsely impersonate me [by] sending voice messages to people using my voice and likeness in an effort to destroy my reputation and disturb the peace,” Law stated in her filing.