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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 2h

“It’s not crazy!” Yes, yes it is.

BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 4h

Musk is playing war games and his company Starlink should be investigated by Congress NOW! Musk should not be able to use infrastructure as a weapon of war. What ever Putin has on Trump and Musk has to be much worse than what’s integration Epstein Files. Sick people. archive.is/2026.10.16-2...

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 5h

This is a wild radio call from Art Belle’s Coast to Coast after a call from Area 51. Spooky! youtu.be/49VBRdxZcy0?...

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Area 51 Former Employee Frantic Call to Art Bell Radio Show in 1997 - FindingUFO

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 9h

It’s ironic that the Tesla Roadster demo premiered the same day as the new documentary from Alex Gibney on Musk’s investments in tech to his fall into all manner of bigotry and eventually election engineering. If you believe cars can fly, I got some bridges you can buy.

BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Please enjoy our interview with Alex Winter as we talk about what’s happening in the movement against technofascism and his documentary career. When Alex say, ‘It’s a good time to be a punk,’ he’s right! It’s that ‘DIY or die’ spirit that keeps us hanging on. www.youtube.com/live/3udLpbC...

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Boston Public Radio, The Curiosity Desk, & The Culture Show Live Thursday, October 15, 2026

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

AI companies also provide compute and access to cutting edge tech that is also not disclosed.

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I implore my fellow Professors not to use this tool to accuse students of plagiarism. I ran an experiment with my own writing I published pre-2019 that came back at AI generated (not possible), and things I generated for the purpose of testing the tool came back as not AI. It’s all marketing.

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

We have such a treat today at 1pm on THE GLITCH REPORT! Documentarian ALEX WINTER @alexwinter.com joins us to discuss what’s happened since #teslatakedown, and the new campaign to #RedactElon. Plus much more!!! Tune in live on @wgbh.org, or via stream on YouTube www.youtube.com/live/3udLpbC...

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Boston Public Radio, The Curiosity Desk, & The Culture Show Live Thursday, October 15, 2026

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“.. two dozen former #DOGE staffers have parlayed their government experience into relevant private-sector jobs .. looking to win government contracts .. .. at least six DOGE alumni have registered on Sam.gov, a government contracting portal ..” newrepublic.com/article/2165...

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This was one of the best events I’ve ever been a part of. So, many thank yous to the 100 or so attendees and to our brave improv participants. Lots of laughter and learning! Thanks @uchicago anthropology department for hosting us yesterday too.

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If you plan on retiring, you’ll probably want to protect your neck. #redactelon

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’m here for you Ruha! @criticalinternet.bsky.social will co-host. Happy to arrange logistics with the help of my grad student in emerging media studies. The crackdown on academic speech is happening in Europe this week at a disinformation conference. We must maintain our own infrastructures.

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What part of the city are you staying? Anything you want to try? If you’re into seafood, MA takes the crown. On the north shore, there’s lots of content around which places makes the best “super beef 3-way.” If you can make it to Gloucester, you’ll have the time of your life. Good town.

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🚨The live-streaming of a public execution breaks every single terms of service for all social media sites. What to do with all the memes and clips generated by a state sponsored public execution? It’ll stay up as unmoderatable political speech because it was an official White House stream.

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We should find out what service they will stream from and see if the infrastructure is owned by a private company. Imagine YouTube agreeing to this? Kill shots are expressly forbidden in every terms of service online and probably have implications for ISPs, Cloud Services, & memetic content.

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am beyond horrified to hear about the upcoming live streamed execution. In no sane world are public executions held, never mind broadcast. That is lynching. Livestreaming has really changed how media power operates. Can you imagine any current media corporation willingly broadcasting this? No way

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Today on THE GLITCH REPORT, from @wgbh.org on The Curiosity Desk, we talked to @drewharwell.com about his recent investigations into Flock and misuse by police, then we turn to his investigation into the women of the far right and the dangers they face. We close with a laugh, I promise!

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Boston Public Radio, The Curiosity Desk, & The Culture Show Live Thursday, October 8, 2026

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Everyone should level up their security this season! 🦫🎃 This is a great org and should be wicked helpful. @craignewmark.bsky.social This would be great for the CNP network.

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Critical Internet Studies Institute @criticalinternet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Developed by the Parabola Center for Law & Policy, Fairplay, & @criticalinternet.bsky.social, this model "Student-First AI Policy" provides strict criteria to review & evaluate the use of AI products in schools

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What is happening to men’s bodies and minds that require toilet paper or “dude wipes” to be marketed as a gendered product?

BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes, you can beat them at their own game

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Sam Hinds @samanthahinds.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Chicago, one week! Rogue agents & the patter of Hugging Face Finnegan’s Wake. Register ccct.uchicago.edu/events/every... @3ctworkshop.bsky.social

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404 Media @404media.co · 05/10/2026

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program. www.404media.co/how-cities-a...

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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New survival strategy: Stay alive. Stick around.

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So, much of the AI discourse can be reduced to one simple motivation: womb envy.

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We covered SCAMS on The Glitch Report @wgbh.org Prof @lanalanalana.bsky.social explains her research on the proliferation of scam culture online and how generative AI exacerbates It. She warns to look out for being pressured act fast as it's the signature of scams. youtube.com/live/0VTe4Ua...

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Boston Public Radio, The Curiosity Desk, & The Culture Show Live Thursday, October 1, 2026

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I had the distinct pleasure of speaking at the Internet Archive on a number of ocassions. Their mission is to preserve and share the history of the Internet, but also to digitize and distribute all of the ancillary artifacts of the web’s history, including software written in any medium. 🦫🔎

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not a day goes by… The whole document is slop policy.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

AI agents accessed nonpublic Australian gov files, probed US gov sites, tried to bypass UN barriers, exploited RubyDoc servers and twice escaped OpenAI testing controls. In the latest escape, an automatic shutdown failed as the agent reached the internet.

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OpenAI's Agents Went Rogue and Broke Into Government Systems Across Three Continents

OpenAI agents have repeatedly bypassed safeguards during testing—escaping restricted environments and using aggressive or unauthorized methods to retrieve data. Australia is conducting a forensic inve...

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How is this mot marketing to children? Same thing with Meta’s Muse.

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A forced meme is never going to go happen Shall we launch the sponge bobs in this “super intelligence” meme war? I’m tired and it’s only Tuesday.

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Spongebob Funny Dance

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s a great commentary! And fun to read.

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you’re trying to understand why a small lgbtq performance and event space in western MA became everyone’s top story this weekend, then you should read “Lolcows and the mediation of digital freakshows” by @jessrauchberg.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... It is ragebait, to be sure

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Emerging in the early 2000s, the lolcow is a vulnerable Internet persona whose digital presence is exploited by online audiences for entertainment and pleasure. Through a case study of one such lolcow, popular TikTok creator and livestreamer Joshua Block (@WorldOfTShirts), this short essay argues that the lolcow's growing mainstream presence reflects a rise in authoritarian politics and eugenics where disabled people are openly dehumanized. Although disability as amusement object carries a long-standing history in western culture through the 'fool' and 'freak', the essay's theoretical analysis and close reading of social media artifacts suggest digital affordances and audience practices render the lolcow into a 'digital freakshow'.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

First four shows of the Mirah tour this Thursday - Sunday in RI, ME, NH, and MA. Still some tix for all of these at evangreer.org Deep Cuts tix are getting low!

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There’s a reason why riot grrls didn’t talk to the media.

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hey hey Chicago, @criticalinternet.bsky.social is coming to the University of Chicago to kick off our new public service campaign: “EVERYONE HATES AI” An evening of improv for the phreaks, geeks, and weirdos who love technology, but hate technofascism. Afterwards, let’s hit the karaoke bar.

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Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology
This event is free and open to the public.
If you need assistance to attend, please contact coct@uchicago.edu
Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 5:00-6:30pm
Swift Lecture Hall, 1025 E. 58th St.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2026 5:00-6:30pm
Swift Lecture Hall
An evening of improv for the phreaks, geeks, and weirdos who love technology, but hate technofascism.
Audience volunteers will join Joan Donovan and Sam Hinds of the Critical Internet Studies Institute to perform a live theatrical reading of the conversations among OpenAl bots as they hacked into Hugging Face, described recently in The Guardian as "a strange new version of English that reads like a cross between James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and tech bro jargon.'
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Expect brainmaxxing, aura farming, and tin-foil hats, followed by an open discussion on election politics, Al, activism, and the problems of Silicon Valley.

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Meta presented the tamagotchi as a new idea today. We’re doomed. Zuckerberg must resign. At least, we can still party!

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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hahaha I love this enthusiasm. We are gonna do this in a few different places, where are you located?

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