Reposted by Ana BrandusescuRine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Not to take away from celebrating Carson, but she's a "former professor" here in large part because the university shut down her department and cancelled its classes. What pride does the institution claim now—years later—when austerity is forcing other scholars out? What does that 'pride' do? 1890323
Reposted by Ana BrandusescuIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 25/09/2026We have a new campus cat She is so cute 😻 71215
Reposted by Ana BrandusescuCatherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...fnl.mit.eduHow We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter 8436202
Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Critical (AI) studies are apolitical by design. 240
Reposted by Ana Brandusescublair @blairaf.com · 04/09/2026Announcing non-binding agreements with industry and telling Indigenous & rural communities with concerns about local infrastructure projects "we're the government you can trust us" is probably not a wise approach and is certainly not grounded in strong historical self-awareness 14722
Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026If you're in Montreal on September 16, ditch ALL IN and go to ALL OUT 111
Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I can't wait to finish writing my dissertation 🫠 0100
Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 19/08/2026"A federal docket shows the Foundation retained Littler Mendelson, the firm Starbucks used against its baristas, to face its employees’ union."medium.comThe Wikimedia Foundation Hired the Union Busters Its Own Encyclopedia Warned AboutA federal docket shows the Foundation retained Littler Mendelson, the firm Starbucks used against its baristas, to face its employees’… 051
Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Those who know me well, know how much Wikipedia means to me. I was disheartened to learn about their leadership consulting with the biggest union busting firm in the US. If you have a Wikipedia account, please sign this petition: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...en.wikipedia.orgWikipedia:Wiki Workers United solidarity - Wikipedia 1115
Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 19/08/2026"Lobbying, advertising, think tanks, supportive research, campaign donations, and personal relationships. This $63 billion gamble, regardless of its success on the global stage, will empower this industry to exert its influence over our government for decades." 040
Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 19/08/2026"When these private companies take their government subsidies and massive government contracts and invest billions of dollars in the Canadian arms trade, they’ll also be bankrolling long-term political support for the industry."therover.caInside CANSEC: the Military Trade Show Where our Government Spends Billions on Tanks, Guns, and Drones – The RoverThere were over 300 companies at the show this year, all trying to cash in on Canada’s newly lucrative war business. Almost all were peddling the same fantasy: mass surveillance, automated weapons, an... 171
Reposted by Ana Brandusescublair @blairaf.com · 18/08/2026There's no such thing as rogue AI, whenever you see this term the subject is actually rogue AI developers www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...wsj.comHow AI Models From OpenAI and Anthropic Went RogueWatch to learn how an AI agent escaped “sandboxed” environments and hacked a separate company—leading to calls for regulation. 48732199
Reposted by Ana BrandusescuOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/ 5763072015
Reposted by Ana BrandusescuOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 02/08/2026If useful, here's my attempt to process my feelings about how I feel sadly kinda — or rather very — sick from all this AI fascist nonsense as an academic. 😶🌫️ I'd be pleased if even one person finds something useful because there's something to be said for processing this all together, so, um, enjoy?olivia.scienceAnxietyReasoning (and crying) my way through fascist AI-induced anxiety. 28343106
Reposted by Ana BrandusescuPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026🔴 For the past year @lucasamin.bsky.social and I have been investigating Palantir in the UK What we found was a company with unrivalled political access, selling a product many data experts in the NHS don’t use, and don’t rate Please read and share democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-just-a...democracyforsale.substack.com"It's just a waste of time": inside Palantir's £330m NHS failureOur new investigation reveals the problems with Palantir’s NHS tech - and the unrivalled political access that fuelled the firm’s march into the British state 321073711
Reposted by Ana BrandusescuJeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 14/07/2026“'They’re becoming further and further reliant on American tech companies to consolidate and make value out of all these massive data sets... [Palantir will] offer services relatively cheap up front, and then [they] get that organization or government hooked,' Doctor said" theijf.org/article/defe...theijf.orgDefence department to buy Palantir software for $7.4 million each yearGovernment says it ‘inadvertently omitted’ to announce contract with controversial American tech company 22317
Reposted by Ana Brandusescus. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 13/07/2026The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.thepinknews.comAmnesty removes report that called JK Rowling's centre 'anti-rights'Amnesty International UK has removed a report which labelled JK Rowling's sexual abuse crisis centre Beira's Place as "anti-rights". 1291893652
Reposted by Ana Brandusescutante @tante.cc · 10/07/2026The amount of money that the effective altruists can just spend on all their "research labs" and think tanks to influence (tech) policy is really baffling. 5495
Reposted by Ana BrandusescuEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I have a foolproof way to make sure that your papers contain absolutely no fake references . . . . . read the papers you cite. 201038216
Reposted by Ana BrandusescuJeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 07/07/2026it's all just two sides of the same ol colonial coin bsky.app/profile/core... 132
Reposted by Ana BrandusescuJeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 07/07/2026"digital colonialism" eh, I wonder where I've heard that before www.mediatechdemocracy.com/all-podcasts...mediatechdemocracy.comBig Tech S4E9: The Entrenched Colonialism of Tech, with Jeff Doctor — Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy 141
Reposted by Ana BrandusescuJeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 07/07/2026oh I can't wait to listen to this 1197
Reposted by Ana BrandusescuOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/07/2026New preprint! So honoured to have worked with Ishani Ray on providing vital critique on "AI literacy" & correctives for those interested in understanding why "just use the newest version of an LLM" is nonsense Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/ 1122691
Reposted by Ana BrandusescuOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026can I just say again: lol 1336539
Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 04/07/2026"The US, home to Silicon Valley, billion-dollar aid packages to Israel, & lonely but powerful backing against war crime investigatory bodies like the ICC. This week marks both 250 years of US “independence” and 1000 days of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. The latter milestone is more important." 03916
Reposted by Ana BrandusescuHeather Hill @rollin-academic.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Can Canadian universities quit pushing this scam industry too? Please 02910
Reposted by Ana BrandusescuTeresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026@evansolomon.bsky.social Can the Canadian government please quit pushing this scam industry run by billionaires out to destroy knowledge and the planet? “He seemed to use it more as a digital priest whose primary purpose was to confirm that he was right and everyone else was mistaken.” 07731
Reposted by Ana BrandusescuMél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Listen to our conversation from www.concordia.ca/cuevents/art...concordia.caSo an AI Data Centre is coming to your community? | Events - Concordia University 0137
Reposted by Ana BrandusescuMich Spieler @michspieler.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Quite fitting actually, the strategy definitely needs a check up. How it jumps from "risks of AI are real" to wanting to supercharge adoption while calling upon the holy trinity of literacy, privacy and transparency to save us from the risks, points to some health issues. 011
Reposted by Ana BrandusescuCynthia Khoo @cyn-k.bsky.social · 27/06/2026For more on Canadian tech complicity w/ ICE & Israel, connected back to Canadian genocide of Indigenous peoples, see this brilliant panel that @kristenthomasen.bsky.social organized earlier this year: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NGr... (And which I livetweeted here: bsky.app/profile/cyn-...) #FAccT2026youtube.comTechnical Collaborators: Canada's Tech-Facilitated Complicity with ICE and Beyond - Panel DiscussionYouTube video by Windsor Law 041
Reposted by Ana BrandusescuTeresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Palantir's collaboration with ICE and Thiel's wannabe Sauron fantasy should be enough to make clear that Canada should have nothing to do with this company. Canadian citizens did not vote for a Trump/Maga/Big Tech/Oil Industry corporate welfare model. 0226
Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 28/06/2026It is profoundly dystopian that Canada's PM and the Minister of AI and Innovation unveiled the new national AI strategy at a hospital. 2132
Reposted by Ana BrandusescuLuke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social · 27/06/2026It's really notable how much the tech sector has just tossed aside any pretense of ethical, environmental, social, or personal responsibility over the past five years. Explicable, but still head-spinning #facct2026 #facct26 316548
Reposted by Ana BrandusescuLuke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Alright all, it's that time: if you've ever taught my work, would you be so kind as to DM me with details? I (and my tenure file) appreciate it! 32015
Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 27/06/2026"What does target generation even mean when the settler-colonial policy is one of elimination? And since Israel has been bombing everything, why hype stories about AI targeting? The focus on target generation minimizes the genocidal intent, painting perpetrators as victims, pawns of the machine." 1114
Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Love all of this. A special shout out to the Prothonotary warbler 😍 110