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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 16/09/2026

An #openairprison from cradle to grave ... "Electric-shock gloves used on students in Nebraska are the latest sign of how policing, surveillance, and military technology have entered American schools." www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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Electric Shocks for Kids and the Push to Militarize Schools

Electric-shock gloves used on students in Nebraska are the latest sign of how policing, surveillance, and military technology have entered American schools.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.

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Mathias @klangable.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

MIT released the final report from its Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training in August 2026. It’s calling for a fundamental rethink of college education web.mit.edu/files/AI-Com...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Besides being deeply cynical, Chomsky’s supposed pragmatism has not stood the test of time...We may have manufactured consent once upon a time, but America has long since transitioned to a post-manufacturing economy." Very harsh but worthwhile read. strangematters.coop/noam-chomsky...

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Chomsky After Epstein - Strange Matters

Noam Chomsky – friend of Epstein, defender of dictatorships – was no model anti-imperialist. Can we do better?

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Mathias @klangable.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Reading Steven Thrasher’s excellent “The Overseer Class: A manifesto” feels like a great way to prep for the semester & an important reminder of what we must be www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

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The Overseer Class

The author of the critically acclaimed The Viral Underclass (one of Kirkus Reviews best books of 2022) is back with The Overseer Class, which explores what ...

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Mathias @klangable.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

On Surveillance numbing open.substack.com/pub/surviell...

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Mathias @klangable.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Sleepwalking through surveillance open.substack.com/pub/surviell...

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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

New! We worked with the Public Interest Research Group to test a bunch of LLM-driven toys ahead of the Christmas. That sexual talking teddy bear wasn't a one-off; it turns out disturbing behavior is deeply built into these toys across the board.

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AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points, tests show

New research from Public Interest Research Group and tests conducted by NBC News found that a wide range of AI toys have loose guardrails.

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Mathias @klangable.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Is there a fancy German word for that panicked feeling of looking for the phone that is in your hand or pocket & playing the music you are listening to?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Remember that guy who argued with me for half a day that poor people in food deserts would be fine just using Walmart delivery? Anyway.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

just going to reiterate this. if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...

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If Immigrants Don’t Have Due Process, No One Has Due Process

How do you prove you’re a citizen?

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

This piece from @jvl.bsky.social is one of the most important insightful I have read since January 20th 2025.

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How to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident Movement

AOC, solidarity, and people power.

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Mathias @klangable.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Scan the online brochures of companies who sell workplace monitoring tech and you’d think the average American worker was a renegade poised to take their employer down at the next opportunity www.wired.com/story/your-b...

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Your Boss Wants You Back in the Office. This Surveillance Tech Could Be Waiting for You

Warehouse-style employee tracking tech has expanded into job after job. Now, as millions are called back to the workplace, it’s finally coming for the American office worker.

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Greenland considers new law stating "parties, including local and youth sections, are not allowed to receive contributions from foreign or anonymous donors". This law is considered out of necessity now, but the principle is good and should apply widely (also 🇺🇸) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Greenland plans to ban foreign political funding over Trump-led election fears

Bill to rule out interference from abroad expected to pass this week as country prepares for polls before 6 April

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/02/2025

Incredible to see a president tanking the world’s economy simply because he doesn’t understand it and is too dedicated to belligerent posturing to learn

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

No they don’t. Canada and Mexico want none of this. They want the president of the United States to respect and abide by the trade treaty he negotiated with them - and not make up bogus pretexts for plunging us all into a gratuitous no win economic debacle.

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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Robots Are Recovering Dumped Explosives From the Baltic Sea - www.wired.com/story/these-... "In the face of seabeds becoming valuable real estate and corroding bombs polluting the oceans, teams are turning to technology to clean up this dangerous and expensive problem." good to clean up, bad to mine

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These Robots Are Recovering Dumped Explosives From the Baltic Sea

In the face of seabeds becoming valuable real estate and corroding bombs polluting the oceans, teams are turning to technology to clean up this dangerous and expensive problem.

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Mathias @klangable.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

“Something that should be said more often is that the reason authoritarians are authoritarians is that they’re unpopular.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Fighting for justice doesn’t have to be a big dramatic act. It can be small | Rebecca Solnit

But it’s important to not limit our sense of what resistance looks like

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

It will never not be insane to me that a *GOP* president can happily *repeat* that he "likes" the world's worst, most totalitarian, most crazy & anti-American dictator, without any domestic political consequences for him from his own party, the opposition, or the media. Never.

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Mathias @klangable.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

But we lose something when handwriting disappears. We lose measurable cognitive skills, and we also lose the pleasure of using our hands and a writing implement in a process that for thousands of years has allowed humans to make our thoughts visible to one another.

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Signature moves: are we losing the ability to write by hand?

We are far more likely to use our hands to type or swipe than pick up a pen. But in the process we are in danger of losing cognitive skills, sensory experience – and a connection to history

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Mathias @klangable.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

What I didn’t expect, and don’t think I could have foreseen, is how incredibly cringe it would all be. I have been prepared for evil, for greed, for cruelty, for injustice – but I did not anticipate that the people in power would also be such huge losers.

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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl

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Geert-Jan van Bussel @gjvanbussel.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

@daniel-solove.bsky.social's blog: 'The Tyranny of Algorithms' discusses problems of predictive algorithms in (health) insurance, social media, credit, sentencing, education, and employment, impressing the need for an Algorithmic Accountability Act. 🧪 #AcademicSky teachprivacy.com/the-tyranny-...

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The Tyranny of Algorithms

We live today increasingly under the tyranny of algorithms. They rule over us. They shape what we say and how we interact with each other. They shape

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Mathias @klangable.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The history of race and real estate in the United States is proof that homeownership is neither a reliable source of wealth nor a vehicle for Black liberation www.publicbooks.org/the-poverty-...

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The Poverty of Homeownership

On both sides of the color line, to own one’s home remains synonymous with freedom—even as real estate has repeatedly been proven a relentless driver of inequality.

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Mathias @klangable.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

New aca-hero! John Hodgson Wrote a 166 Page Footnote. It has its own chapters, footnotes, diagrams, full-page plates, tables, and index. diplograph.net/notes/typogr...

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John Hodgson Wrote a 166 Page Footnote – Diplograph

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Manny Voices @itsdrlittle.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Nikki Giovanni's "Allowables" is one that has always stuck with me. RIP to one of the greatest.

Text of Allowables
By: Nikki Giovanni

I killed a spider
Not a murderous brown recluse
Nor even a black widow
And if the truth were told this
Was only a small
Sort of papery spider
Who should have run
When I picked up the book
But she didn’t
And she scared me
And I smashed her
I don’t think
I’m allowed
To kill something
Because I am
Frightened

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magivanga.com @magivanga.com · 09/12/2024

Today's #MondayQuote will feature Ludwig Wittgenstein and one of his most memorable dictums. It's something that many scientists and philosophers know intuitively, although very rarely acknowledge explicitly. #philosophy #edusky #academicsky #philsci

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 07/12/2024

Some politicians and pundits are pushing the idea that immigrants are more likely to commit crimes. Not only is that claim false, the opposite is true.

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Debunking the Myth of the ‘Migrant Crime Wave’

Data does not support claims that the United States is experiencing a surge in crime caused by immigrants.

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