jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 5hThis is a page turner. I thought I already knew a lot of what would be in @gilduran.com’s book, but it’s still giving me chills. bookshop.org/p/books/the-... 060
Reposted by jennifer katesGreenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA 118115684218
Reposted by jennifer katesKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/10/2026V v good new @earthjustice.org report on the genuinely nutty numbers behind the data centre fossil fuel boom in the US This new update shows emissions from off-grid gas plants for data centres are WAY worse than previously estimated earthjustice.org/feature/data... 112063
jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Heavy again today thinking about what it means to know what we do now about Botstein and Chomsky. But appreciative of this serious weighing. archive.is/2026.06.05-1... 000
Reposted by jennifer katesNPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALan.prOver 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwideResearchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. 6820001201
Reposted by jennifer katesDan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The Inquirer reported that the Philly School District is juking enrollment stats, including this quote from a principal: "They’re doing this so we don’t lose the funding." That statement is almost certainly wrong. 274
jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This invocation from Walter Benjamin ❤️🔥 @astra.bsky.social @naomiaklein.bsky.social 000
Reposted by jennifer katesEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comForget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M BenderThe risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals 13972416
jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Save the Academy, bring back Atwater Kent (the Philadelphia History Museum), and fund our schools. 010
jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 27/09/2026May I see - and help bring about - the day when this city better values learning, discovery, and its history 130
jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 26/09/2026And ordered these to come today for my son, dedicated to trying to make him read corn maze folk horror this fall 😏 000
jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Maybe also “Daffodil Days” bookshop.org/p/books/the-...bookshop.orgThe Daffodil Days: A NovelA stunningly inventive and poignant historical novel that follows Sylvia Plath through the final year of her life, told through the eyes of the people who knew her during her time in the English count... 130
Reposted by jennifer katesAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Great piece from @pemalevy.bsky.social and @ariberman.bsky.social on the Redemption-Era evils the Roberts Court has resurrected www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comJim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past. 8628207
Reposted by jennifer katesAtrios @eschatonblog.com · 24/09/2026Oh no we told the computer to do a hack and it did it is it god 68314
Reposted by jennifer katesLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.” 1970232261
jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 23/09/2026*Additional amenities: possible hyperscale data center next door 000
Reposted by jennifer katesdamniel spookradski @self.agency · 23/09/2026it's not enough that they stole all the web's content, they're also stealing all the web's traffic so that they can serve ads on what they stole and profit from it 228390
jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Imagine if your city fixed broken sidewalks 010
Reposted by jennifer katesDan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It is, in fact, pathetic. 162
jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 19/09/2026My husband. “I think it’s pathetic,” said Daniel Urevick Ackelsburg. “We need institutions to stand up for core American values, and unfortunately this is just another example of one failing to do so.” www.pennlive.com/news/2026/09...pennlive.comUPMC settles fight with Trump Administration over gender care for minorsThe hospital system had already suspended most gender care services for patients under 19; today's announcement ends the administration's legal pursuit. 4274
Reposted by jennifer katesMatt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 17/09/202680% of AI news at this point consists of a company announcing “we wrote a computer virus” then there’s something about the apocalypse or regulation, then the next news story is like “we wrote another computer virus.” 161192241
jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 16/09/2026You are way luckier than me if you have never seen the video for Galway Girl. 020
jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 16/09/2026How many falling apart schools could we have modernized? 1264
jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 14/09/2026They want to pave the way for mass data center expansion, and big tech dominance over our lives But the future is not inevitable - join us today. 03915
Reposted by jennifer katesPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Public opinion is dynamic. It exists to BE SHAPED. And it is ONLY a resource. It does nothing on its own. 236861
Reposted by jennifer katesCitations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social · 12/08/2026In Ep 241, "The Disempowering Politics of 'Inevitability' Part 1: Data Centers and LLM as 'The Future'," we breakdown the "inevitability" line AI companies use to bulldoze over democracy and how "inevitability" arguments have been used to sell everything from Manifest Destiny to "free trade deals".soundcloud.comEp 241: The Disempowering Politics of 'Inevitability' Part 1: Data Centers and LLM as 'The Future'In this episode we breakdown the popular "inevitability" argument "AI" companies are using to bulldoze over democracy and how the "inevitability" line has been used to sell everything from Manifest De 24115
jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Just catching up - moved by this hazlitt.net/longreads/la...hazlitt.netLay It Down | HazlittPeople love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore. 130
jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It’s our air, our lives, and our city — we should decide 🦅 Two potential data center sites have already been identified in Philly—but the city has no rules to protect communities. We're rallying on 9/14 to demand City Council press PAUSE on data center development. Join us at philly.my/sep14rally 19536
Reposted by jennifer katesWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026How is ICE making record arrests? I found the answer in Pa. coal country, where cops lured by a promise of federal $$$ have embraced ICE's 287(g) and are throwing up checkpoints, raiding job sites, arresting 100s, and terrorizing their communities My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/penn...inquirer.comIn Pa. coal country, local police join with ICE to bring arrests, fear | Will BunchPa.'s Schuylkill County is the new face of Trump's mass deportation, as local cops lured by federal cash bust scores of migrants. 6517951047
jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Literally imagining the follow up to “Their job isn’t politics. That’s my job” 050
jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 11/09/2026My disappointment that when I opened the link that it wasn’t a Chotiner interview knows no bounds 1150
Reposted by jennifer katesRobyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 10/09/2026“Don’t people work hard enough and suffer too much not to deserve, in their short lives, to encounter beautiful and well made things?” 0187
Reposted by jennifer katesCarly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026the erosion of formal rights, boldly but never solely targeting noncitizens, has been 30 years in the making 0135
Reposted by jennifer katesP is for Pirate 🌈✨️⚔️ @p4pirate.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This essay is beautiful and worthwhile. I'm glad I took time out of my morning to read it. 193
jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Thank you. This was so disturbing I keep thinking about it. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...nytimes.comIslamophobia’s Rise in Texas: ‘I Won’t Rest Until Every Muslim Is Gone’ (Gift Article)Muslim communities have been growing for decades, particularly around Dallas. Now, conservatives want to roll up the welcome mat. 011
Reposted by jennifer katesMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 04/09/2026Technology being everywhere doesn’t mean it belongs everywhere. The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not only inevitable, but necessary. We don't see it that way. This week, we announced a moratorium on generative AI for public school students in 2-K to 8th grade. 9361591087
jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 03/09/2026🌘youtu.beHarvest MoonYouTube video by Cassandra Wilson - Topic 000
Reposted by jennifer katesPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026For years, people have asked @tanuja.bsky.social and me how we built and sustained Understory, our spiritual and emotional support group for activists. So we made a toolkit to help others build spaces of their own.organizingmythoughts.orgThe Understory ToolkitCreating spaces of reflection, belonging, and collective care 513168