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kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

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Mozilla @mozilla.org · 11/05/2026

16 years ago #MozFest began with a single belief: the people most affected by technology should be the ones who shape it. That's still the mission, and we’re looking for proposals to bring the vision to life. Submit by May 24! Barcelona | Oct 28–30 bit.ly/4eB4YAe

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Are you a UM worker/student and want to hear better takes than the dude below on AI from university of Michigan faculty, students, staff? then join the mass meeting on 10/28 at 7 to stop the UM-Los Alamos data center and its support of nuclear weapons! bit.ly/UMichNoAIMeeting

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Francesca Lameiro @lameiro.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

my employer (u of michigan) sponsors around 400-500 H1B visas a year. these last for an initial period of three years & can then be renewed for three more. there are likely thousands of H1B workers at UM who are now effectively banned from travel, as they're certain to be fired if they leave the US

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 20/09/2025

Those on an H1B cannot return to the US from tomorrow (Sunday) unless paying $100K. This is an out-of-the blue presidential action. We’ll see software engineers stranded abroad. One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 29/08/2025

it's less "AI drives people to kill themselves" and more that "tech companies do it, and are indifferent about it". and, bleakly, some journalists seem determined to convince you that the focal point of this story is a high point of engineering rather than a low point of humanity

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Eric Gilbert @eegilbert.org · 15/09/2025

The School of Information at Michigan is looking for its next John Derby Evans Professor in Information. It's open at the Assistant and Associate levels, and its a broad search: anyone working at the intersection of tech and society can apply. Please share! www.si.umich.edu/people/facul...

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John Derby Evans Professorship in Information (Assistant or Associate Professor) | umsi

The University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position focusing on technology and society.

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Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

If you're eligible, please consider participating in my PhD advisee @lameiro.bsky.social's interview study with online sex workers about non-consensual intimate deepfakes. Quick screening survey: bit.ly/deepfakesint... Please also help spread the word by sharing with potential participants!

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Anne Elias @woodsfern.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

This was in the @annarborobserver.bsky.social Personally, I find that last sentence both ridiculous and chilling. Let @umich.edu #MichiganMedicine know your thoughts on their proposed partnership with the military. @aflcio.org @leounionumich.bsky.social @usu-umich.bsky.social

Michigan Medicine intends to solicit assistance from the Department of Defense's Innovative Readiness Training Program (IRT). The assistance will include partnership with the Air National Guard to perform cybersecurity missions; providing real-world training for its personnel while simultaneously enhancing the cybersecurity posture of communities.

The proposed assistance will take place in Ann Arbor in 2026. Contractors, labor unions, or private individuals who have questions or who wish to voice opposition to military assistance for this project may contact Greg Sieg from Michigan Medicine Information Assurance at 734-936-4900 or
Ask-Cybersecurity@med.umich.edu no later than thirty (30) days after the first publication of this notice.

Persons not filing comments within the time frame noted will be considered to have waived their objections to military assistance for this project.

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nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

New analysis from @davidthewid.bsky.social and me revealing that Big Cloud invests 100x more often and spends hundreds of billions more $$ than other Big Tech on startup investments Why? These investments allow Big Cloud to lock in the entire tech ecosystem -- more in David's thread and our report!

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Laura Kurek @lkurek.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Does your work explore mis/disinformation, scams, hate speech, or other forms of harmful information online? We are convening a CSCW workshop to bring together a global community focused on information disorder. We welcome 2-6 page submissions, due August 1. cscw2025infodisorder.netlify.app

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kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

it’s been such an honor to work on this project and i am so proud of this team! my friendship ended with the NSF, trans technologies are my only friend

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Laura Schwab-Reese @lschwabreese.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

There's a zoom option! Register here: tinyurl.com/TJL25

You're invited to "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want" - a workshop and talk featuring Dr. Alex Hanna.

Workshop: April 2, 2025, 4:30-5:30pm, BCC MP2 (RSVP Required)
Keynote Lecture: April 3, 2025, 4:30-5:30pm with Q&A 5:30-6pm, HCRN 1066 (Honors Hall) or Zoom
Register here: tinyurl.com/TJL25

The Tech Justice Lab invites you to attend a workshop and talk by Dr. Alex Hanna. Dr. Hanna is the Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute, a former AI ethics expert for Google, and a Purdue Aluma. n the workshop and talk, we'll get to engage with Dr. Hanna about her new book, The AI Con (coauthored with Dr. Emily M. Bender), which offers a sharp, witty, and wide-ranging take-down of AI hype across its many forms. Together, we can expose AI hype for what it is: a mask for Big Tech’s drive for profit, with little concern for who it affects.

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Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

TODAY at 3pm! Ann Arbor book launch event with Kishonna Gray and @hibby.bsky.social. www.si.umich.edu/about-umsi/e...

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