Reposted by Linda HuberKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 07/10/2026More like Baumol’s Cost Miracle Cure amirite 0173
Reposted by Linda HuberVictor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A major structural hazard with extreme media ownership concentration is that oligarchs impose their ideological agendas--which almost always skew to the far right--on everyone. This capture of core info and communication infrastructures must be dismantled if we're to have any semblance of democracy. 6364152
Reposted by Linda HuberJacob Malcom @jacob-malcom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026One of the most frustrating things of this, like so many of the other actions of this administration, is that it will be very hard to make the causal connection between these cuts and the harms that result because the knowledge was never discovered or assembled… 27410
Linda Huber @puellaludens.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Most of my PhD was funded via NSF SBE grants. These cuts are another compounding nail in the coffin for knowledge production in the US, alongside rising college tuition, visa restrictions, adjunctification, and AI slop… 031
Linda Huber @puellaludens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Livestream for this important event is live now! mediaservices.cmu.edu/media/Commun...mediaservices.cmu.eduCommunity-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit - Carnegie Mellon University 010
Reposted by Linda HuberProPublica @propublica.org · 02/10/2026When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied. You have a right to see this file. (Published May 2023)propublica.orgHealth Insurance Claim Denied? See What Insurers Said Behind the ScenesLearn how to request your health insurance claim file, which can include details about what your insurer is saying about you and your case. 9936456
Reposted by Linda HuberCecilia Rikap @ceciliarikap.bsky.social · 01/10/2026What a tremendous honour to see my book "The Rulers. Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud" by @versobooks.bsky.social reviewed at @nybooks.com by @bentarnoff.com as "the most comprehensive picture yet of how our new sovereigns acquire and exercise power." Links below 👇 1136
Reposted by Linda Hubermichael veale @michae.lv · 01/10/2026The proposed social media ban, the EU KIDS Act, is perhaps the most chaotic law I have ever read! New paper: Are EU Kidding Me? Notes from a Poorly Drafted Social Media Ban. files.michae.lv/papers/veale_areEUkiddingme.pdf In the spirit of the proposal I have stayed offline and read no takes. 38758
Reposted by Linda HuberAI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“We learned nothing from social media,” said Nataliya Kosmyna, a visiting researcher at Google with a doctorate in human-computer interactions….Kosmyna believes based on her brain research that AI, like alcohol, should be restricted to ages 21 and over” 1124
Reposted by Linda HuberPhiladelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 01/10/2026They are some of the first in the Philly area to experience firsthand what it’s like to live near the massive facilities. Some of their neighbors have sold their homes to the data center developers.inquirer.comWhat’s it like living in the shadow of an AI data center? These Vineland residents know. 12511
Reposted by Linda HuberElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 01/10/2026Today we’re launching Opt Out October, our guide for opting out of certain features and finding alternatives to products made by big tech companies. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...eff.orgHappy Opt Out October! Let’s Find Real Alternatives to the Tech GiantsOver the years, the major tech companies have found all sorts of ways to embed themselves into our lives. We often use their software, their AI tools, their social media, and their operating systems 6318167
Reposted by Linda HuberKean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Our special issue on #TechOligarchy has just come out in @sciasculture.bsky.social! Our first issue has 13 articles in on lots of different topics by lots of different authors - go check it out! www.tandfonline.com/toc/csac20/3...tandfonline.comScience as CultureTech Oligarchy Forum - Part 1. Volume 35, Issue 3 of Science as Culture 13212
Reposted by Linda HuberAstra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.” 282160854
Reposted by Linda HuberTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain. 52531662
Reposted by Linda HuberAI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Registration for The People's AI Assembly is live! On Oct 19 with @moreperfectunion.bsky.social, we’re bringing together leading organizers, cultural figures, and policy leaders shaping the frontlines of AI. It’s time to build a tech movement for us! Join us in NYC: bit.ly/ai-assembly 066
Reposted by Linda HuberPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 25/09/2026thisisyungmea.com/the-zine-rev...thisisyungmea.comThe Zine Revival Is Happening in Cairo, Not BrooklynOnce distinctly old school, zines are making a comeback across the region, from Cairo to Beirut and everywhere in-between. 27724
Reposted by Linda HuberZack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 25/09/2026Interesting nugget in the AP's morning wire, in which it recommends using an ad-blocker (always a great idea) to avoid tracking on health/healthcare-related websites, which track people's activity and location and share with third-parties. apnews.com/newsletter/m... 35723
Reposted by Linda HuberNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do. 421663464
Reposted by Linda HuberGina Neff @ginasue.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Hey @nytimes.com I fixed this for you 0169
Reposted by Linda HuberMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Several people have been asking me when this one was going to be up on the feed. Lauren Goodlad (of @criticalai-journal.bsky.social) and @jeffjarvis.bsky.social really delivered an evening convo to remember at the 2026 Quadrennial Conference on the State of @marktwain.bsky.social Studies.theamericanvandal.comCritical AI & The End of Mass Media (Vandal Live @ Elmira College)with Lauren M.E. Goodlad and Jeff Jarvis 01712
Reposted by Linda HuberHenry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 21/09/2026still rules even if i say so myself www.programmablemutter.com/p/who-really... 04512
Reposted by Linda HuberVerfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 16/09/2026Universities cultivate better citizens, supply democratic competence, anchor civil society – or so the argument goes. JAN-WERNER MÜLLER warns against overclaiming the ties between academia and democracy. verfassungsblog.de/two-democrat... 0178
Reposted by Linda HuberKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually 11897011923
Reposted by Linda HuberJustin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 16/09/2026And not for the purposes of own horn tooting but simply because I strongly believe the argument and think it's important in this day and age: here is something longer that I wrote about everything wrong with the PMC discourse reallifemag.com/nothing-pers...reallifemag.comNothing Personal — Real LifeAttacking the “professional managerial class” is not a form of tech criticism 043
Reposted by Linda HuberVictor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 05/09/2026A piece I wrote for @theprogressivemag.bsky.social magazine earlier this summer is now published online: “How to Fight Media Oligarchy” progressive.org/magazine/how...progressive.orgHow to Fight Media OligarchyEvery billionaire-owned media outlet is a profound threat to our democracy. 23923
Reposted by Linda HuberNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Just got off an organizing call for this day long conference on fighting technofascism that is happening in Chicago on Sept 19. If you are in the area, you don't want to miss this. It's going to be extraordinary, connecting all the dots. givebutter.com/fighting-tec...givebutter.comFighting Technofascism: Power, Surveillance, and ResistanceJoin us in Chicago, IL on September 19th 317662
Reposted by Linda HuberElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 01/09/2026Meta’s $17 billion settlement with 52 state attorneys general doesn’t just affect teens. It requires age assurance for Facebook and Instagram users in nearly every state, and normalizes an invasive system that threatens anonymity online. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...eff.orgMeta's $17 Billion Settlement is a Bad Deal for Teens and All SocialMeta’s settlement with 52 state attorneys general is a bad deal for all internet users, and especially for teens. That’s what we said the day the settlement was announced.In this post, we go through 1019398
Reposted by Linda HuberAdia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 31/08/2026as I've been writing a chapter on the problem of 'security' --yes, this includes social security, health security, human security, etc--is that it too often involves a kind of policing that is not immediately recognized as policing 228180
Reposted by Linda HuberDr. Fim @fim.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Ansel Adams on assignment for IBM - one of my favourite shots. Not the usual landscape but the skill of a woman weaving magnetic core memory. The beat up nails captures total “woman in STEM” vibes. 252936873
Reposted by Linda HuberNathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 30/08/2026Yet another newsroom under worker control! 05614
Reposted by Linda Huberdorian @doriantaylor.com · 22/08/2026every day i imagine a future where computers are boring and people are normal about them 34911
Reposted by Linda HuberAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026cognitive sabotage, you can ban it extra credit to U Chicago for bans on professional AND undergrad programs; smart SLACs are going to market AI free campuses soon chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...chicagomaroon.comSosc Core to Institute AI Ban, Technology-Free Classrooms This FallAll social science Core classes will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students... 16913272
Reposted by Linda HuberBostonJoan 🏳️🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026When we fight against technofascism, we are also fighting for a free communication ecosystem. ‘Free’ as in not a tool of the military to suppress mobilizations against the billionaire class. 084
Reposted by Linda HuberIt's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 21/08/2026"Someone walked up to a roadside camera in Irmo, South Carolina with a can of expanding foam sealant and coated the lens. No hoodie, no laptop — just a hardware store solution to a Flock problem." tech.yahoo.com/cybersecurit...tech.yahoo.comThere’s A New Technique For Disabling Flock Cameras – and It’s Spreading FastIrmo, South Carolina's $403K Flock Safety camera vote sparked public backlash and foam-sealant vandalism as privacy concerns over ALPR data retention grow. 06731
Reposted by Linda HuberAAUP @aaup.org · 20/08/2026“Academic workers did not create this crisis. But we intend to fix it by building a system of higher education worthy of this country—affordable & accessible to every qualified student, governed once again by those who teach & learn within it.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP president #academicskyinsidehighered.comWho Really Politicized Higher Education? (opinion)It wasn’t the AAUP. 14724
Reposted by Linda HuberNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 18/08/2026🧵I've been writing about communities taking on big heartless corporations for well over 30 years and I have never seen an issue bring together a coalition as wide, or as deep, as the battle against AI data centres. This quote from a Kentucky farmer who refused millions to sell her land says it all: 71105243
Reposted by Linda Huberalec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 14/08/2026THREAD. As you read chilling stories emerging about the illegal surveillance that Trump's DHS has been doing, recognize that federal law makes it nearly impossible for victims to sue feds for constitutional violations. A minimum part of Democratic platform should call for this. 412954
Reposted by Linda Huberashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 13/08/2026you have to learn to live with the reality that you do not have privacy. especially when you are organizing. especially when you are challenging this regime. there is no place safe to disclose anything that might be construed as illegal by the worst actors.nytimes.comU.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown (Gift Article)The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes. 7481158
Reposted by Linda HuberToy Dragon (it/its) @tiny.toydragon.xyz · 13/08/2026i got inspired to make this shit post, enjoy~ 52919886
Reposted by Linda HuberFrank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 10/08/2026“Maybe you’ve wondered how those autofill suggestions in Gmail can be so omnipresent, so thirsty, while Gmail’s search function operates like a can’t-be-bothered nepo hire forever in the midst of quiet quitting.” www.theringer.com/2026/08/04/t...theringer.comThe End of Google Search—and the Internet—as We Know ItFor years now, Google has been tweaking its search formula to prop up AI and bury actual links. Now it’s rounding into its final form—and changing the internet forever. 045
Reposted by Linda HuberRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Ahhh, Oregonyahoo.comSalem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New Data Center. Company Reps Left, Feeling “Unsafe”.Salem's city council voted unanimously to pursue a data center moratorium after residents - and a guillotine - pushed back on a $5.1 billion AI facility. 14564281667
Reposted by Linda Huberprofessor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 03/08/2026i want there to be more STS-type work on this kind of thing (for all i know, someone is working on it) 3155
Reposted by Linda Hubernathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social · 02/08/2026The SE Michigan pro-Palestine movement, after defeating the local prosecutor and the state AG on multiple occasions, are now facing the FBI and its allegations of "conspiracies to transmit threats across state lines." Please donate to the legal fund here: bit.ly/umlegalfund 157
Linda Huber @puellaludens.bsky.social · 31/07/2026the feminist STS urge to write a rambling auto-ethnographic piece about the experience of using a breast pump 170
Reposted by Linda HuberMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 30/07/2026I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.newrepublic.comICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your CommunityWhile attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that. 51268700
Reposted by Linda HuberHigher Education Labor United (HELU) @higheredlabor.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Higher ed labor, student, and community groups are coming together this fall semester to demand that our campuses Drop Flock! This is part of our ongoing Schools Drop ICE campaign. Learn more in this recent Bulwark article: www.thebulwark.com/p/exclusive-... and at schoolsdropice.com 053
Reposted by Linda Hubern+1 @nplusonemag.com · 20/07/2026"I left feeling a pooling, connective happiness. I went home and realized that I hadn’t looked at my phone for six hours." Sarah Thankam Mathews hangs out with the Luddites, NYC's tech-critical cultural youth front: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...nplusonemag.comGetting Off With the LudditesThey see Big Tech as having eroded commonality: the common good, the social fabric, the institutions of collective interest. Luddism, as they conceive of it, is a communal, spiritual, and political pr... 13213
Reposted by Linda HuberDennis Hogan @dennismhogan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Many faculty have been sounding the alarm about the problems generative AI poses for student learning. Strangely, some higher ed administrations seem have emerged as major AI boosters. Why? As I write in the latest @hedgehogreview.bsky.social it's a labor story: hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-f... 1622884