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Marisa Elena Duarte

@mwhitehorse.bsky.social
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Indigenous studies, information studies, justice studies, professor at School of Social Transformation, yoem hamut, xicanx. "En el país de los ciegos el tuerto es rey."

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 1h
Job: Cultural Heritage Informatics, AI/Digital Transformation, and Critical Technology Studies jobs.sjsu.edu/en-us/job/56...
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San José State University - Details - Assistant Professor - School of Information - Cultural Heritage Informatics, AI/Digital Transformation, and Critical Technology Studies
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What a thrill to get to interview Keoni Mahelona of Te Hiku Media for Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000! www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis... Keoni, @alexhanna.bsky.social and I had a wonderful conversation about technosolutionism and colonialism in language technology.
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Nature @nature.com · 30/09/2026
The overuse of certain names has revealed the scale of fake experts on academic publishing platforms, say researchers. go.nature.com/3ThOxAJ
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Elena, Aris, Marcus: AI-generated ‘ghosts’ are polluting the scientific literature
The overuse of certain names has revealed the scale of fake experts on academic publishing platforms, say researchers.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/09/2026
Man Confident He Would’ve Been Brave Enough To Send Thumbs Down Emoji In Cornell Group Chat
Man Confident He Would’ve Been Brave Enough To Send Thumbs Down Emoji In Cornell Group Chat
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 30/09/2026
Reddit says it is ending support for RSS feeds on November 13 because the feeds are a target for abuse by AI bots and is ending its public API access in March (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 28/09/2026
What a shock…I have been barred from Peter Thiel’s Nashville Antichrist lectures despite buying a ticket. Was it something I said? As the world’s foremost expert on Thiel’s Antichrist obsession, I take great umbrage. This aggression will be answered.
The Nashville Antichrist
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Marked as Not Going
The host of the event marked you as not going. We hope you can join next time.
Your ticket has been refunded, and you have been removed from the guest list. Thank you.
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
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Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 24/09/2026
Sources: Anthropic asks shareholders to approve a Palantir-style structure granting its seven co-founders 50.1% of voting power if three retain minimum stakes (The Information) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am thrilled to announce that the American Studies Program at Boston University will be accepting new PhD Students for the 27/28 academic year. These are fully funded, unionized, 5-year positions, with 4 semesters of guaranteed dissertation fellowship in years 4 & 5.

Application Deadline: December 15, 2026
The American Studies Program at Boston University is a nationally recognized leader in the interdisciplinary field of American Studies. Our students and faculty study the disparate yet interconnected cultures of colonial North America and the United States as seen in the ideas and actions of its people, and as expressed in a range of forms, especially culture, the arts, media, literature, and institutions - often seen through a global or transnational lens. Formerly known as the American & New England Studies Program, we maintain active collaborations with many cultural institutions in the region, especially in the Boston Area. Our large PhD program has produced tenure-track protessors, public historians, museum curators, and directors at major universities, museums, and other cultural and historical institutions.
Funding Opportunities
PhD students receive full funding for up to five years (12 months a year) under a collective bargaining agreement. During this time, they take courses, teach in their fields and disciplines of interest, and develop and write dissertations. The fellowship package guarantees four semesters of dissertation fellowship in years 4 and 5, with no service obligations Additional funding is available from Boston University for travel to conferences, for archival research, and for internships.
Current students have recently received outside fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Huntington Library, the Smithsonian Institution, the Beinecke Library, the Corning Museum of Glass, the New Bedford Whaling Museum, and the American Historical Association.
Graduate Student Association
The Program's own independent Graduate Student Association (GSA) is comprised of elected PhD students who sponsor events and programs for developing professional skills, while representing our students' interests to the governing faculty.
A list of affiliate faculty, available also on the program’s webpage
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One of the basic points in Mills' The Racial Contract (originally published in 1997!) was that, if nothing else, White Supremacy deserves to be taken seriously as one of the great motivating ideologies of modernity and it's bizarre that political philosophers are so disinclined to treat it as such.
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Marisa Elena Duarte @mwhitehorse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Big Tech Is Trampling Native Treaty Rights to Build Data Centers
Tribal consultation isn’t optional, but the corporations building data centers in New Mexico are acting like it is.
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jess reia • 何杰茜 @jhereia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We are hiring! ✨ Come work with me at @uvadatascience.bsky.social! We are recruiting an Open Rank Tenured/Tenure Track Prof of Data Science with a background in social science, legal, policy, STEM or humanities disciplines to join our Data and Society area. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/191214
This is a screenshot of the UVA School of Data Science website portraying the school building in the background against a blue sky and trees. The texts reads: Jobs at the School of Data Science. Join Our Team.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bloomberg reports that officials directly involved in an internal Pentagon investigation found that Peter Thiel’s Palantir Maven Smart System played a significant role in the February 28 U.S. strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 18/09/2026
The @aaup.org is offering a webinar on FOIA for better tech shared governance on Monday 21 September, led by @hellobrittparis.bsky.social and @jedbrown.org . Check your email for AAUP for signup!
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MediaJustice @mediajustice.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Chicago, TOMORROW is the day. 🚨 #FightingTechnofascism is happening Saturday, September 19. Join us and @conmijente.bsky.social for an in-person convening on technology, surveillance, political power, and organizing. Last chance to RSVP: bit.ly/fighttechnofascism
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Deb Krol @debkrol.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.azcentral.com/story/news/t...
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California tribes win protections for sacred sites and ceremonies
California tribes would have access to state lands for religious practices and be guaranteed other religious rights in a groundbreaking bill passage.
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WIRED @wired.com · 18/09/2026
Earlier this week, we reported on hackers who ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway and made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, revealing in new detail exactly how Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people. www.wired.com/story/hacker...
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Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works
A hacker collective pulled down a Flock camera and dumped its data. The files included thousands of videos and logs showing that the device captured 1.6 million images of 50,000 vehicles in 21 days.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New from 404 Media: Georgia State has rescinded a job offer given to Samuel Tunick, the activist who allegedly wiped his GrapheneOS phone before DHS could search it. Tunick says the case is "textbook political repression". Now can't study or work at the university www.404media.co/university-r...
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University Rescinds Job Offer to Activist Who Allegedly Wiped Phone Before DHS Could Search It
Samuel Tunick allegedly wiped his GrapheneOS phone before CBP officials could search it, in what has become a high profile civil liberties case. Now Georgia State University has rescinded a job offer ...
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 15/09/2026
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Boston dumps Flock, says it shared data nationwide in violation of contract
City: Flock enabled "nationwide lookup" despite contract requiring it to be disabled.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026
To ppl suggesting Stanford as an "independent Anthropic & OpenAI auditor" “The membrane between academia and industry...is practically nonexistent at Stanford, a school so entangled with tech that it can be hard to tell where the university ends and the businesses begin” nymag.com/intelligence...
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You Are Not a Parrot
And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Call for Abstracts — "Software Libraries: Following the Infrastructures of Code" — exploring software libraries as sociotechnical objects, the political economy and platformization of libraries, libraries as epistemic and normative infrastructures, and creative and critical (re)appropriation!
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CFPs & Events – Computational Culture
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sept 22 in NYC! Join us and the @pulitzercenter.org during #ClimateWeekNYC as we talk data centers w Data & Society's @mwoluchem.bsky.social; @texastribune.org's Alejandra Martinez; @foodandwater.bsky.social's Ginny Marcille-Kerslake, and more. www.eventbrite.com/e/how-data-c...
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How Data Center Fights Are Renewing Local Power Across the U.S.
This is an in-person event happening as part of NYC Climate Week.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 05/09/2026
The Trump administration this week quietly released an update to a major survey on civil rights in schools that was scrubbed of all data related to nonbinary students or bullying based on gender identity. to.pbs.org/4gLoWrn
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Trump administration scrubs gender-based bullying data from school civil rights survey
The Trump administration this week quietly released an update to a major survey on civil rights in schools that was scrubbed of all data related to nonbinary students or bullying based on gender identity.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 04/09/2026
It’s been 150 years since the Battle of the Little Bighorn, one of the most famous and enduring events in U.S history. While Native Americans were victorious, the battle reshaped the government’s policy toward Indigenous people and still resonates so deeply for many today. to.pbs.org/4wND62e
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How the Battle of the Little Bighorn reshaped U.S. policy toward Native Americans
It’s been 150 years since the Battle of the Little Bighorn, one of the most famous and enduring events in American history. While Native Americans were victorious, the battle reshaped the government’s...
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Nature @nature.com · 04/09/2026
An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense. go.nature.com/4ycEbk8
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Revealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIH
An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defence.
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Marisa Elena Duarte @mwhitehorse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
ASU has hired Scheufele. Which reminds me of the labor ahead, for feminists and others who see the need for stronger institutional accountability for individuals who violate civil rights standards through sexual harassment, even as we are keenly aware of Trump's multi-year destruction of Title IX.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 03/09/2026
A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency could make it harder for the public to learn about and comment on proposed AI data centers that have sparked backlash in communities across the United States and transformed the midterm election landscape. to.pbs.org/4xE0gIL
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EPA proposal could leave the public in the dark on data center plans
A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency could make it harder for the public to learn about and comment on proposed AI data centers that have sparked backlash in communities across the United Sta...
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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
why WOULDN'T you ask for (university of chicago) college credits while taking over the US government?! @telliotter.bsky.social with the scoop:
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DOGE Affiliate Asked for College Credits for Participating in Takeover
According to new documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, an undergraduate working with DOGE requested that his work for HUD count towards his University of Chicago degree.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Identity Verification Is Broken. The 153 Million Driver’s Licenses Now for Sale Are Proof gizmodo.com/identity-ver...
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Identity Verification Is Broken. The 153 Million Driver’s Licenses Now for Sale Are Proof
A massive trove of driver’s license scans allegedly stolen from an identity verification company shows the danger of creating honey pots of our most sensitive documents for malicious actors to exploit...
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
NEW ICE wants to build a nationwide database of voters, their voting history and, potentially, their party affiliations too. ....and it's willing to pay someone up to $5M to do it www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...
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ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database
As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
So much recent press coverage of Loudon County, Data Center Central. I'd like to point out @lifewinning.com's research on this region from a decade ago! creativetimereports.org/2014/05/20/i... www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Why Amazon's Data Centers Are Hidden in Spy Country
The company powers much of the Internet, but its cloud facilities are difficult to find.
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Marisa Elena Duarte @mwhitehorse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Meta Hit With Sweeping New Claims That Its AI Glasses Violated the Consent of "Millions" of Bystanders in Searing Lawsuit
A class action lawsuit against Meta was amended yesterday to include a new class of "bystanders," who claim Meta violated their privacy.
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Book launch for 'AI, Infrastructures and Sustainability' on Wed 2nd; register for the livestream spui25.nl/programma/ai... with eds Anne Mollen & Fieke Jansen and authors Patrick Brodie, Gerwin van Schie & myself. The book is open access & downloadable from link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Book cover of ' AI Infrastructures and Sustainability - Expanding Perspectives on Automation, and Communication Media' showing an abstract mineral surface in blues and oranges.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Spain’s PM Pedro Sánchez confirms our initial assertion that it was Russia, Israel, and US (far right networks) targeting Spain. Russia and Israel are targeting Spain due to its position on the genocide in Gaza or Putin's invasion of Ukraine. US is a proxy acting for both.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Armed Federal Agents Are Now Blockading Tribal Police To Protect Private Contractors as They Bulldoze Through a Sacred Reservation www.themarysue.com/armed-federa...
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Armed federal agents are now blockading tribal police to protect private contractors as they bulldoze through a sacred reservation
Armed federal agents are now blockading tribal police to protect private contractors as they bulldoze through a sacred reservation
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
As the US govt attempts to control scientific research through the flow of researchers, threats to intl scholars harm individual research and redound across fields. The best response, says @natematias.bsky.social: institutions standing together against intimidation. blog.ucs.org/guest-commen...
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Protecting Science from Government Intimidation
In an era where people can easily publish ideas and find an audience online, how much damage can a travel and immigration policy actually do to the integrity of science and industry? Lots.
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Marisa Elena Duarte @mwhitehorse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Ottawa announces 64 new research chairs in international talent attraction strategy - University Affairs
Top-tier researchers from 13 countries to join Canadian universities in first wave of appointments.
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Caroline Haskins @carolinehaskins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
NEW (& no paywall): One of Flock's biggest selling points is its private search network—but how does it actually work? And how does an ordinary city end up sharing its data with, say, 2,000+ other agencies? I FOIA'ed Flock customers from around the country to find out: www.wired.com/story/how-an...
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How an Atlanta Suburb Ended Up Sharing Flock Data With More Than 2,000 Organizations
Alpharetta, Georgia, cops share data with thousands of Flock users, ranging from federal agencies to a fish and wildlife commission. The reasons why show how vast—and invasive—the network has become.
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Marisa Elena Duarte @mwhitehorse.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name
Judge hasn't ruled on X Corp’s preliminary injunction, but Operation Bluebird plows ahead...
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 25/08/2026
NEW: gas power in development in the US explicitly for data centers have nearly doubled in less than a year, soaring from 97GW at the end of 2025 to more than 189GW mid-2026, according to shocking new figures from @globalenergymon.bsky.social that's up from just 4 GW in 2024:
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Data Centers Are Driving an Alarming Gas Power Expansion in the US
There’s no clearer sign of the data center boom than rampant gas projects that have been proposed or that are already under construction.
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
You can now push your plain-English text into blatant Claude-speak, deliberately inserting LLMisms into your writing. Great for people who like to add the bot logo to their handle. (This itself is a small LM, tbc). programasweights.com/claudish
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English ↔ Claudish — the over-engineered translator
A bidirectional English and Claudish translator powered by compiled 0.6B neural programs.
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