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Aaron Shapiro @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

GM reported $800M from subscriptions and digital services, with a 70% margin. @mcforelle.bsky.social and I got the angles covered on the impacts of subscriptionization estsjournal.org/index.php/es... (finance.yahoo.com/news/gm-quie... )

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View of Driving into a Paywall: The Subscriptionization of Consumer Vehicles | Engaging Science, Technology, and Society

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

No one needs this crap. Invest in public transportation and good jobs. That’s the futures we need. Not this dystopia!

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

In case you missed it, there is a huge union election happening at USC, where about 75% of the faculty work outside the tenure track and our employer is fighting bitterly to stop worker democracy. Listen for ole ryan's sake

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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop

The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

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Britt Paris @hellobrittparis.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

My book Radical Infrastructure came out last week! It goes deep into the political and economic roots of technological infrastructure to explain hype around various technical projects, and counters it with cases of people pushing back. Download OA: www.ucpress.edu/books/radica...

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Radical Infrastructure by Britt Paris - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 09/04/2026

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

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UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers

A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

How long until this reduces the prep time we're allotted for each class? How long until it's used as a reason to increase class sizes because we are no longer grading? I worry that admin will use this to overload faculty with classes whether we use it or not.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

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karina ripley @kaareeenah.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

we're hosting a town hall on restoring collective bargaining for public sector workers in virginia! ANY AND ALL encouraged to attend! Sat Feb 21, 2-4pm Charlottesville's a Union Town: Collective Bargaining For All Town Hall. Take action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/charlo...

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Charlottesville's a Union Town: Collective Bargaining For All Town Hall

Public Sector Collective Bargaining builds stronger connections between public service workers and the communities we serve. Right now, our university presidents and legislators are trying to divide u...

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Joshua Earle, Ph.D. @cyborgapologist.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Hey #Charlottesville #cville folx. This weekend, Sat Feb 21 from 2-3:30 (with social time afterwards) UCW is hosting a town hall about collective bargaining and keeping UVA honest. Flyer below with an RSVP QR code with more information. Let your folx (esp other unionized folx) know! Tags incoming.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 17/02/2026

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

AI does not enhance “efficiency.” AI is a permission structure for a totalizing regime of austerity and labor immiseration.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/02/2026

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 10/02/2026

*my biggest and most exhausted sigh* "As AI Enters the Operating Room, Reports Arise of Botched Surgeries and Misidentified Body Parts" www.reuters.com/investigatio...

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At least 10 people were injured between late 2021 and November 2025, according to the reports. Most allegedly involved errors in which the TruDi Navigation System misinformed surgeons about the location of their instruments while they were using them inside patients’ heads during operations.

Cerebrospinal fluid reportedly leaked from one patient’s nose. In another reported case, a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients each allegedly suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured.

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In May 2023, Dean was using TruDi in another sinuplasty operation when patient Donna Fernihough’s carotid artery allegedly “blew.” Blood “was spraying all over” – even landing on an Acclarent representative who was observing the surgery, according to a lawsuit Fernihough filed in U.S. District Court in Fort Worth against Acclarent and several manufacturers. One of Fernihough’s carotid arteries was damaged. She suffered a stroke the day of the surgery, according to her suit.

Acclarent “knew or should have known that the purported artificial intelligence caused or exacerbated the tendency of the integrated navigation system product to be inconsistent, inaccurate, and unreliable,” the suit alleges.

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The FDA requires clinical trials for new drugs, but medical devices face different screening. Most AI-enabled devices coming to market aren’t required to be tested on patients, according to FDA rules. Instead, makers satisfy FDA rules by citing previously authorized devices that had no AI-related capabilities, says Dr. Alexander Everhart, an instructor at Washington University’s medical school in St. Louis and an expert on medical device regulation.

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MC Forelle @mcforelle.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Staff are as crucial to the university as faculty and students are! That's why our union, @ucwva.bsky.social , is and always will be wall-to-wall

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I’ve found it fascinating to watch over the past few years, as all humanities + social science disciplines have been forced to grapple with the politics of technology, so many are reinventing arguments media studies and STS have been making for decades :)

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 29/01/2026

I was in a meeting recently where someone was wondering aloud about why sociology has faced more political scrutiny than econ and psych. And I think it's that sociology centers the social (i.e., systemic) causes of human outcomes, thus directly challenging the individualism on which fascism thrives.

The state’s creation of the new textbook is the latest battle in Florida’s ongoing campaign to assert control over university curricula. State leaders have taken special pains to discredit the field of sociology, which the American Sociological Association defines as “the study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior.”

In 2023, the Florida Legislature passed Senate Bill 266, prohibiting general education courses from including topics that “distort significant historical events,” teach “identity politics” or are “based on theories that systemic racism, sexism, oppression, and privilege are inherent in the institutions of the United States and were created to maintain social, political, and economic inequities.”

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

9-9-6 was a Chinese term invented mostly to show how depressing and lifeless work culture was; watching softbrained AI guys adopt it as an ideal is ... well, entirely predictable

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

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Jessie Sholl @jessie-sholl.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Honestly nothing feels different here today at all. There are still ICE raids all over, they're still letting people out at Whipple into the cold with nothing, and like you said, people still need food and rent money.

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mediumvillain @mediumvillain.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

just gonna throw out a quick reminder that in America police kill a yearly average of 3 civilians per day, routinely in situations very similar to these ICE killings, and decades of explicit support for police impunity by US politicians is why ICE feels theyre able to get away with this right now

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 25/01/2026

i hate living in the second act of CABARET. i miss living in the first act of CABARET

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

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mina @memina.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

don’t listen. It’s a lie. solidarity has saved untold lives. it will save us all if we let it

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Excellent read. "You can’t reform a concentration camp regime. You have to dismantle it and replace it. We have a thousand ways to do it. And most U.S. citizens—particularly white ones—have the freedom to act, for now, with far less risk than the many people currently targeted."

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Indivisible Charlottesville @indivisiblecville.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Charlottesville people, here is a concrete action that you can take that will have a direct positive impact on someone (and their family) now, and will help more people in the future. Give what you are able.

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MC Forelle @mcforelle.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Incredible thread of academia in/against fascism, read the whole thing

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

This is powerful footage because of what it depicts, but also because of the way the arrest interrupts our expectations of the on-the-street interview; which makes the arrest more shocking both for its brazenness and the way it impacts the viewer.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.

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A Criminal Empire

The United States launches a conquest and occupation of Venezuela to extract its oil wealth. The neocon dream is the America First dream

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

In a healthy democracy, there would bipartisan Articles of Impeachment on the floor of the House by tonight But we are neither a healthy democracy nor, I would argue—given the end of our separation of powers and our rule of law—a democracy at all anymore

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

The president unilaterally decided to attack a sovereign nation and kidnap its leader, and now he says he's just going to run that county himself for a while too. Call your representatives now and demand they impeach him.

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MC Forelle @mcforelle.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

If you are among the faculty, staff, or students are UVA who are as incensed about this as I am, come join the UCWVA so and be part of the organized effort to build worker power and push back against this takeover. We can win this fight, but only if we stand united www.cbs19news.com/news/report-...

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Report: Beardsley top candidate to be new UVA president

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- Scott Beardsley, the dean of UVA's Darden School of Business since 2015, has emerged as the top pick to become the university's 10th president, according

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Absolutely embarrassing for everyone involved at UVA. Just, on the most basic level, does he not have friends?

Screenshot of an email to me from the University of Virginia which reads: Introducing Scott C.Beardsley,
the Tenth President of the University.
3:28 PM.

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Here’s the thing: Any internal candidate who wanted to serve well would have asked to delay. Why burden yourself with that baggage? Darden students — put revealed preference to work: what did you just learn about this leader?

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Just learned that the newly-named president of UVA is currently chairing the search for the university’s next provost. Now that he has accepted the presidency, will he continue to chair the search committee for the provost?

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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The UNC system just released its final policy on mandatory syllabi disclosure, stating that syllabi are university (not faculty) IP and certain course info must be posted on new, publicly searchable databases before every semester. A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

do you remember 13 years ago today? remember thinking surely this would be the last straw, that something would change? i remember weeping at my desk thinking about the wrapped presents waiting under so many christmas trees for six year olds who would never come home.

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Wait. As a faculty member I'm part of the elite now?? Ha! Ha! Bow down before m-- What? Oh, we're part of the "cultural elite." What's the difference? It doesn't come with any of the money and power? Ah, well. Nevermind. Still nice, I guess.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Condolences to the students at OU who *were* working hard, doing the course work and earning good grades long before the administration there decreed that you only need to say "as the Bible teaches" and be done with it. I'm sorry your university hates you and hope you can transfer somewhere good.

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Daryn Henry @jamesdarynhenry.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Faculty Senate of #UVA has voted to call for the resignation of Rector and Vice-Rector @abigailspanberger.com

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

"JPMorgan on Monday said building AI infrastructure will cost more than $5tn" Crazy idea: Why not, rather than spending $5 TRILLION dollars to pay for data centers to create fake brains, just pay actual human beings with real brains that same $5 trillion?

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I am not going to let Schumer and 8 center-right Democrats bring me down. We won on Tuesday. We're gonna keep winning. Just keep telling the stories of what the Trump administration is doing and how it's making lives so much harder, about the corruption, the incompetence, the violence.

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