Reposted by Septima P. SnarkTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5hIt’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work. 191033173
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19hI absolutely believe you will see more stories about the kookie left and radical socialists in the coming weeks. And a lot of attention on various kinds of unruly women. 115222
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20h I just said in my discussion at the IWPR event on women’s economic policy: asking “why am I hearing this and why I am hearing this now” is good praxis for the moment. 229754
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I don’t know anything about the lesbian bar you’ve all been picking on but I do know the stats on lesbian bars are depressing and that seems more important. www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/rise-...smithsonianmag.comThe Rise and Fall of America's Lesbian BarsOnly 15 nightlife spaces dedicated to queer and gay women remain in the United States 12912182
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026And it isn’t that they couldn’t figure out a middle ground — it’s that there isn’t one. It’s hard work getting normal people who haven’t signed up for a degree program or similar to rework their entire understanding of themselves just so they can program an ai agent to do a task. 517412
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The week’s dinners. <— laughs in woman. 757417
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I can’t say strongly enough that these are not realistic scenarios for the people I observed and, based on data about family lives, almost anyone else we might consider normal and/or not rich. 2985976
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc... 2253383828
Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026Right? AI is a non-consent theft machine built on stolen labor of creators, whose work is fed in, and the global south workers, who train the models. To hear, it is also stealing the unpublished work of those that feed their work into their models isn't surprising. AI is a practice of ethics evasion 0112
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There is nothing you can do to convince me to put my unpublished work into this. My biggest worry is reviewers or editors disrespecting my intellectual property. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...nytimes.comDid Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work. 213533
Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026Ethics displacement-or I think of it as Ethics Evasion- is what we need to be centering in many discussions about AI. 071
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Claude appears to be engaging in academic dishonesty, which could be fireable for a human researcher. But one of AI’s major functions is ethics displacement, a shield that allows cheaters and other bad players to escape accountability. 717574
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkPrison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 27/09/2026Midterms are around the corner, and the way local law enforcement collaborates with ICE is on the ballot. New guide by @boltsmag.org outlines the races across the U.S. that could reshape Trump's deportation agenda👇boltsmag.orgThe 25 Sheriff and Prosecutor Races Set to Shape Criminal Justice and ICE CollaborationVoters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states. 09567
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is a thread about erasure of women's expertise and work in this area. As often happens, erasure comes together with overexposure. >> 313338
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Even if you don't take linguistics & computational linguistics as technical expertise (as Adam points out we should, thank you Adam), Dr. @timnitgebru.blacksky.app has a PhD from Stanford's AI lab, on top of BS & MS degrees from Stanford in EE, and worked as an engineer at Apple. >> 1697
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.theguardian.comICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious. 10885509
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkApoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...nytimes.com‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control. 381371566
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026People were like no, using genAI doesn't deskill you. And then *all* the CEO's started announcing that not only is deskilling the explicit goal, but then they brag that they don't know how to toast a poptart 21333228
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkCatherine 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 6357166
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026imagine telling people that you prefer the output of a computer to experiencing the wonder of another human's imagination like you're announcing that you are an anti-social asshole with bad taste, just to be clear 12685155
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Sheriffs & DAs have huge powers over criminal justice, e.g.: often deciding how much local assistance ICE gets. So I worked all year on whittling down the thousands (!) of these races happening in 2026 to find the ones that matter most. NEW TODAY: Learn about the 25 most pivotal November races.boltsmag.orgThe 25 Sheriff and Prosecutor Races Set to Shape Criminal Justice and ICE Collaboration - BoltsVoters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states. 181025564
Reposted by Septima P. Snarkunraveled @unraveledpress.com · 25/09/2026Good morning from the ICE facility in Broadview, IL. As ICE vehicles trickle in and out of the lot, a small group of Chicagoland locals are holding a prayer service for those impacted by deportation efforts. The area around the facility is open, contrasting prior months of "protest zones." 4435128
Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026This. This. This. Especially the ones that say they care about marginalized communities. 0226
Reposted by Septima P. Snark🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 121121545138
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say 6336751438
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkDr. Twyla Baker @indigenia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Millionaires and billionaires ain’t gonna save us; if they were, they would’ve done it already. The ones who will help, are going to be regular people. You and me. People with good hearts. Showing up in a million and a billion little ways. 03610
Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026Yes. And This is what I mean when I say that white supremacy + ableism is the foundation of these AI models. There is an assumption of Black inferiority in AI that is then “caught” by AI surveillance tools or even folks trolling Black people for AI usage. 13010
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“The customer is always wrong, now” is a great way to capture how specialize finance has ruined everything from our favorite store to your political process. Margins are now the only customer. The only voter. We have but one real way to exert power over any of it anymore. 4582147
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkGarnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 24/09/2026Overton is Trump's nominee to be the next head of the FDA. She just said Trump's mandate for her, if confirmed, is to "go fast." As a reminder, the FDA is currently conducting a "review" of the abortion drug mifepristone. Overton has called abortion pills "dangerous."autonomynews.coFDA Pick Called Abortion Pills ‘Dangerous,’ Texas Abortion Funds Head Back to Court: August 24 News RoundupPlus, a former federal prosecutor said she was fired for pursuing cases against people who blockaded abortion clinics. 213769
Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026Eugenics=white supremacy + ableism That may feel obvious, but we need to understand that within those who talk about better humans is someone who believes in the inherent superiority of whiteness in learning, thinking & behavior. They've now captured the government & tech to institute their beliefs 26628
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkDeborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Toni Morrison on book banning: “[Banning] stuck me as a purist yet elementary kind of censorship designed to appease adults rather than educate children. Amputate the problem, band-aid the solution.” 0238
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkDeborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Again? How utterly boring!! The Toni Morrison estate just grows and grows as puny people, with puny minds, drunk on the illusion of their power, give readers continued reason to keep buying this book, which broadens their horizons, expands their consciousness, and secures its legacy and longevity. 1286
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026I'm gonna do a recap of this week when I get a breather because the hype DDOS strikes daily 🙄 As for the whole CRISPR Dario "discovery" announcement: 213243
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026did the AI executive write thi—oh yes, yes, that's exactly who 629546
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026The man is literally prosecuting a sitting US congresswoman for doing her job in trying to inspect a detention center carrying out a monstrous and unpopular policy, like, what do you mean let him save face? 425641
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026“Let Donald Trump save face” is how you got January 6 *and* why faced no consequences for doing it. 521623323
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It is breathtaking. Like many things these days it is hard, but necessary, to figure what is a continuity and what is a rupture. EdTech has always been a private sector parasite feeding off the public sector. The rupture is AI EdTech is experimenting on the rich instead of the poor. 8488138
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkAustin American-Statesman @statesman.com · 23/09/2026Austin-area students walked out of class on Tuesday to protest the shooting of Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez by federal immigration officers. www.statesman.com/news/educati... 018061
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkDiana Parker-Kafka @dianaparker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026They want dead Black babies and we will still not see this admin and the words ‘white supremacist’ together in the msm 262
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026This month's @motherjones.com cover is astounding. Reposted with alt text: 131101400
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026The outright refusal to treat white supremacy as an ideology which motivates action and treat it as generally objectionable is what allows this strategy to be viable for Elon Musk. 2532441055
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a 2006 sex crime in New York. 431558248
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkAthena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Justice for Nolan Wells. 32912
Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026I'm up early to work out before I head to campus and teach. Just realized my tights are on backwards! lucky I workout at home. #BlackSkyFitnessstatic.klipy.comThe Rascals Kid: Crush It!Alt: The Rascals Kid: Crush It! 080
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026imagine if the WH press corp had banded together 18 fucking months ago 1315509802
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkAndrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.wbur.orgMass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court recordsJoseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect... 10460321974
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Catching up on the news at the of the day is traumatic. 1646127
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkNick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...wsj.comExclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against ParamountThe California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs. 24741321665
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkJonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_... 4827851157
Reposted by Septima P. SnarkGabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 21/09/20269th Cir. holds that it violated due process to deny bond hearings for asylum seekers who entered without admission/parole, were screened for expedited removal, and who were found to have a credible fear of persecution or torture. Thuraissigiam does not apply. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op... 315444