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Kristin Miller

@kristin-miller.bsky.social
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PhD in Urban Sociology and Film & Digital Media * Image-maker, writer, media nerd * Semi-feral * Los Angeles * she/they kristinmiller.org

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 16/07/2026
“A.I. Movies” www.tiktok.com/@americanbar...
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Sora: dead Atlas: dead "adult mode": dead Abilene expansion: dead OpenAI IPO: dead Tell me again about "inevitability"
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The ChatGPT browser is already dead
ChatGPT Atlas didn’t even last a year.
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Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
When you owe a university money: We're going to boot your car, repossess your diploma, and retroactively fail you on the swim test When a university owes you money: Sorry, what is money? We think there's a person on the 6th floor who handles that but they're out until January.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/05/2026
a lot (most?) people understand racism as “being a meanie” and if you aren’t a meanie then you can’t be racist, even if you believe in, say, the biological inferiority of entire groups of people based on phenotype
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/05/2026
it is part of why “you’re the racist for calling me racist” is legible. what they’re saying is, “you are the mean one for insulting me and even noticing race to begin with”
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.
Rule:
The use of AI is prohibited for aid in conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising,
translating, or editing any work submitted for credit. AI use is prohibited for any use for
any purpose in any exam situation. Students may not upload course
materials—including assignments, readings, slides, class recordings, or other class
content—into generative AI systems. AI can be used for research on papers ONLY for the
limited purpose of identifying sources, such as cases, statutes, or secondary sources.
Students are responsible for the accuracy of their research and all other aspects of their
submitted work. Citations to sources that do not exist will raise a presumption of
prohibited AI use
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
AI is the lynchpin of the whole political project. It’s the container for the parallel governance they have promised each other. I truly think that they are surprised that people don’t like it…and that they can’t yet wholesale punish everyone for not liking them.
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Kristin Miller @kristin-miller.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
We’ve got until 5/22 to submit comments. Let them have it 🧱
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
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Kristin Miller @kristin-miller.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I lived in the Bay Area during the Glasshole incursion. We got rid of them, it’s totally possible — though these are more insidious because less visible. I’m starting by unfollowing any account doing branded collabs with Meta glasses.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026
this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Do you want the Tank Girl future? Because this is how we get the Tank Girl future and last time I checked none of you are sentient mutant kangaroos.
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
the biggest tech companies in the world are endorsing a new bill that would shove AI onto kids in school www.404media.co/literacy-in-...
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OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund ‘AI Literacy’ in Schools
A new bill introduced by Senators Adam Schiff and Mike Rounds would award grants to the National Science Foundation—which has endured massive funding cuts under the Trump Administration for science re...
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404 Media @404media.co · 04/05/2026
People are physically destroying AI and surveillance infrastructure. This week, we talk to @bcmerchant.bsky.social about the Luddites, who are notoriously misunderstood and fought for worker protections against automation during the Industrial Revolution. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z4k...
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Madeleine Baker @madeleineebaker.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Solidarity with workers at the University of Chicago Press, who have formed the first union at one of the oldest and most distinguished academic publishers in the U.S.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/05/2026
IT’S TIME Dear California gov candidates, 🚨 There are 61 candidates in this race. SIXTY ONE! That’s how we hand the general election to TWO Republicans. If you’re still in single digits, the window’s closed. If you care about the Democratic Party, do the right thing. Drop out. Be loud about it.
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Of course Dawkins’ first move is to feminize his AI companion as “Claudia.” It gets more embarrassing from there.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 23/04/2026
🧵 We tend to think the internet is permanent, but VANISHING CULTURE—the new 📚 from Internet Archive—starts with a simple reality: our digital record is far more fragile than we think 🕳️ 📖 Read for free: archive.org/details/vani... 🛒 Purchase in print: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/deta... ⬇️
Book cover titled “Vanishing Culture” on a teal background. Pixel-art style graphics show a VHS tape, open book, film reel, chain link, and vinyl record dissolving into digital fragments. At the bottom, a cursor icon points to the word “SAVE,” alongside an archive-style building icon, evoking digital preservation.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/04/2026
New @stand.earth: Microsoft's 3 new gas data centres will - Increase Microsoft's emissions 160% - Have higher emissions than power sectors of each of Greece, Ireland, Sri Lanka, NZ etc... - Have higher emissions than pwr sector of 15 lowest-emitting countries combined stand.earth/press-releas...
a chart showing 3 msft gas data centres vs countriesa chart showing 3 msft gas data centres vs countries
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Kristin Miller @kristin-miller.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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Kristin Miller @kristin-miller.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Hostile sexism, you don’t say.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
No shade to the OP for admitting this, but it shocks me that people my age don’t know this. You fundamentally cannot understand how the world functions, how power works, if you don’t know history.
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Kristin Miller @kristin-miller.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Nightmare f̶u̶e̶l̶ huel
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California Faculty Association @cfaunited.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
🙌 FACULTY WIN: 21 CSU Long Beach Lecturers Become Tenure-Line Faculty After 10-Year Fight ow.ly/nJoZ50YGIeM
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 09/04/2026
Sam Altman has a new plan to make money from generative AI: he wants intelligence to be treated like water or electricity — and we’ll all have to pay him for it. His chatbots are degrading people’s ability to retain information and think critically. Now he wants to sell smarts back to us.
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Make ‘em dumb, sell ‘em smarts
Sam Altman wants intelligence to be a utility that you pay him for
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 05/04/2026
Like fossil fuel executives, AI titans have long insisted that their technology is inevitable. That, too, seems not to be true. bit.ly/4sjj24B
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The AI Boom Is a Climate Bust
It’s not just the massive amounts of water and energy data centers require—AI is also spreading climate misinformation across the Internet.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 31/03/2026
When i say that opposition to data centers and "generative AI" can be a winning issue for Democrats, i mean it. You tie it to resource theft and billionaires doing whatever the hell they want to whoever they want, and people will lock tf *in*. Because they're already there.
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Oklahoma city council members welcomed a Google data center. Now they face a recall.
Residents in communities across the U.S. are taking a radical step to oppose the AI building boom.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 31/03/2026
Remote assistance workers can "take temporary control of the vehicle."
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Tesla Admits Its Robotaxis Are Being Driven Remotely
Tesla revealed that its human operators do, in fact, temporarily take control of its robotaxis if necessary, unlike Waymo.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 31/03/2026
BREAKING Trump’s executive order directing federal agencies to stop funding NPR and PBS is “unlawful and unenforceable,” a federal judge ruled. Doc buff.ly/WcnQN4A
The President may, of course, engage in his own expressive conduct, including criticizing the views, reporting, or programming of NPR, PBS, or any other news outlet with whom he disagrees. The government may also fund its own speech and may fund government programs
that promote specific perspectives on issues of public importance, and it may decide which views or perspectives to convey—and which not to convey—in any such government speech or program. And it may impose limits on federal grants to ensure that they are deployed to further
the legitimate purposes of the program and may pick and choose among applicants based on legitimate criteria. But the First Amendment draws a line, which the government may not cross, at efforts to use government power—including the power of the purse—“to punish or suppress disfavored expression” by others.
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Kristin Miller @kristin-miller.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Autotheory for lost girls: loved getting to be part of this deeply thoughtful, haunted, sad, funny, and incisive panel on Yellowjackets at SCMS. Added an extra layer to be in Chicago where I last lived when I was the same age as the characters, fast approaching the cliff of 2001.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/03/2026
“It is not that AI is taking our jobs per se, but that AI is being prioritized over many of our jobs.”
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Faculty Push Back Against OpenAI Deals
As higher ed institutions pay tech companies millions to provide students and faculty access to custom AI-powered tools, some faculty in Colorado and California are pushing back.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/03/2026
Louder for the people in the back. www.theverge.com/report/90181...
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Kristin Miller @kristin-miller.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Stoked to be part of this great panel at SCMS about Yellowjackets, co-organized by @jbcole-kurz.bsky.social Last session on Sunday if you’re in town.
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The latest AI doc has incredible access to CEOs like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, but doesn't interrogate their grandiose claims or press them about the tech's perils, instead shifting responsibility to the public. Read @milesklee.bsky.social' review: www.wired.com/story/a-new-...
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The Latest AI Documentary Asks: Just How Scared Should We Be?
“The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist” seeks the middle ground on a polarizing technology—and ends up letting tech execs like Sam Altman off the hook.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 26/03/2026
It’s infuriating, but also just so depressing. *No one* in charge of any part of our educational infrastructure seems to understand why it’s important for people to…read things that are difficult.
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities
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