In re: to recent news about the Meta data center, Sheila Tahir and I are sharing our zine, "Ghosts in the Cloud: A Southern Gothic Approach to Studying AI Infrastructure" based on a trip to the hypderscaler construction site in spring 2026.

I have a new ACM COMPASS publication co-authored with my SwampNet team (Monique Verdin, Jenna Mae, and Ozone 504) on building community-based communication infrastructures for climate justice! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Staying with Friction: Designing Community-Based Communication Infrastructures under Climate Disruption | Proceedings of the 2026 ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies

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It’s Earth Week! In this new series, members of our research network explore how communities have addressed the unequal power dynamics between tech production and deployment, and how tech impacts people’s everyday lives and the environment around them. datasociety.net/points/the-c...