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Kairos @kairosfellows.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Today, we published a new report. “Google’s Eco-failures” goes deep into the appendices of Google’s environmental report to bring you the truth about their skyrocketing emissions and speculative investments. Read more here: noclimateresultsfound.com/report/

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Steph Jordan (they/she) @stephjordan.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

We have had some incredible local wins but now it is time to face the Goliaths. Please help write letters to Michigan higher ups. Easy and one click at this link (and you can edit to your concerns if you wish!) actionnetwork.org/letters/stop... @stopthedata.bsky.social

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Stop the Hydro Park Data Center

We need to be loud about out opposition to the data center! There is so much not to like: the impact to the water, air, and land, the health effects to surrounding communities, the tax money, the war ...

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Steph Jordan (they/she) @stephjordan.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Reports coming in that ~200 people and 40+ public comments today at the Ypsilanti Township Board Meeting against Los Alamos! We are just getting started. Have you met this town?!! We are going to Stop the Data Center @stopthedata.bsky.social

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Stopthedatacenter @stopthedata.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

This is THE thing to do about the data center!! See you Tuesday!

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Steph Jordan (they/she) @stephjordan.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Underlying ICE raids is a surveillance system they are trying to expand in my backyard here in Ypsi. The US is fielding wild stories of detainment right now, informed in part by a racist AI. Friends everywhere: help us stop the expansion @stopthedata.bsky.social

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Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Excited to give a new talk at @labortechresearchnetwork.org this Friday 6/13, 11am ET on Zoom. I'll discuss trans capitalism, funding models behind trans tech, and the unhinged saga of a doomed trans banking app. Info on how to attend: labortechresearchnetwork.org/speaker-series

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 09/06/2025

Everyone's security plans and situations will always be different. But the first step to a better online world is looking at your community and figuring out what's needed and how to get everyone else on board.

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Building a Community Privacy Plan

Everyone's security plans and situations will always be different, which is why we often say that security and privacy are a state of mind, not a purchase. But the first step is always taking a look a...

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Steph Jordan (they/she) @stephjordan.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Friends, Los Alamos and UoM are trying to build a war machine on my cross street here in southeast Michigan. I need your help!! We are early and this is possible to stop! We need all hands on deck @stopthedata.bsky.social

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 08/05/2025

Actions by residents to block toxic data centers!

2. ADVOCATE TO SLOW OR STOP DATA CENTER DEVELO
Communities can challenge individual data center projects, as well as local and state policies and regulations that govern data center buildout more broadly. Here are some strategies groups are currently using.
TACTIC
WHAT IS IT?
Zoning Reform
Requiring data centers to be approved on a case-by-case basis involving public hearings, instead of being granted "by-right approvals" that allow companies to develop with minimal oversight.
Tax Policy Reform
Limiting the tax breaks and related corporate subsidies that city, county,
and state governments use to entice data center investment.
Transparency
Measures
Requiring data centers operators to end secret deals and to disclose costs and resource usage, including:

• Energy and water consumption

• Emissions from back-up diesel generators

• New infrastructure needed (transmission lines, roads, substations)

• Cost impacts on utility consumers

• Sales tax and property tax exemptions received
Renewable Energy
Requirements
Restricting and regulating data centers' energy use, including introducing policies for renewable energy requirements.

Utility Reform
Requiring data center companies to cover the costs of electricity grid expansions and other utility infrastructure that their increased energy use causes. This can be done by designating data center companies as a special "customer class" or "rate class" with utility companies, to prevent the costs from being spread across all consumers. Communities are also exploring other utility reform tactics to oppose cost increases for everyday people and prevent electricity grid instability.
Vote Down Data
Center Proposals
(often via
Zoning Approval
Processes)
Pressuring local officials to vote against data center proposals, especially in processes to zone or rezone land for these developments. Zoning approvals are often the biggest opportunity to stop data center develop-ment. It's critical to move quickly, as companies often wait until…

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Steph Jordan (they/she) @stephjordan.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Today I submitted to the registrar the last grades of my career as an academic. I feel so lucky I get to say that I achieved my childhood dream: I became a professor. And, now I will keep going, beyond my childhood imagination ✨

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 06/05/2025

A strong federal consumer data privacy law would help us address online harms, protect children, support journalism, protect access to health care, foster digital justice, limit private data collection to train generative AI, limit foreign government surveillance, and strengthen competition.

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EFF to Congress: Here’s What A Strong Privacy Law Looks Like

Enacting strong federal consumer data privacy laws is among EFF’s highest priorities. For decades, EFF has advocated for federal privacy law that is concrete, ambitious, and fully protective of all Am...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11/04/2025

There it is.

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Steph Jordan (they/she) @stephjordan.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

So... once they dismantle all centers of excellence and make the internet the only shiny direction, how do we build resilience against their impending technostate?

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Steph Jordan (they/she) @stephjordan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Sandra Harding paved the way for someone like me to dream the way that I do. It has been an absolute honor to have spent time thinking and laughing with such a singular thinker (and fellow Jersey kid!) dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/f...

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Farewell to Sandra Harding

We were sorry to learn of the death of philosopher Sandra Harding on March 6, 2025 at the age of 89. She was Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at the University of California, Los Angeles. H…

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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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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

If you're a caregiver (and/or teacher or school leader) concerned about surveillance technologies in schools, I maintain the Against School Surveillance Technologies Library. The library has journalism, peer-reviewed research, and other resources on the problems of surveillance technologies.

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Against School Surveillance Technologies

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Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Oh no no no Edutech surveillance

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 27/01/2025

Reminder: Generative AI is an environmental disaster, requiring massive energy, minerals, water, and land use www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

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Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact

MIT News explores the environmental and sustainability implications of generative AI technologies and applications.

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Steph Jordan (they/she) @stephjordan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Just fielded a heartbreaking apology from someone who at the time said I was being SO DRAMATIC calling his 1st term eugenics. But now in his 2nd, their ppl are dying too. Fam, in the gorgeous words of @margaret.bsky.social "I Hope We All Make It" docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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I Hope We All Make It

Birds Before the Storm I Hope We All Make It or: reflections on mutual aid and the network of care https://substack.com/home/post/p-152572206 Margaret Killjoy Dec 04, 2024 Not all my friends wa...

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Steph Jordan (they/she) @stephjordan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

If you are queer, dont just delete your accounts. Archive your posts. These are the stories we want to remember these times. Dont let the only remnants of these times be how the Nazis (or ones that said we were being dramatic about Nazis) tell it.

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Steph Jordan (they/she) @stephjordan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

On #longcovid and community (and just staying awake generally), I sobbed listening to this Una Osato interview bc of how resonant this take is to my experience podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

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Una Aya Osato: Human Barometer

Podcast Episode · Living in this Queer Body · 06/21/2022 · 1h 22m

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Steph Jordan (they/she) @stephjordan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Really thinking about long covid's impact on community participation and Beck Levy's hard and very relatable story today 🖤 #ihavelongcovid

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Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

A lot progressive tech is in academia or non profits and convenings are oriented towards expertise, not power bldg. @meredithmeredith.bsky.social warned of critical academia industrial complex: all critique, no power building. Folks trying to change this: laborcenter.ucsd.edu/news-and-eve...

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Conference Information

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Jon Solomon @jon.wprb.com · 22/01/2025

The LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund is offering up to $10,000 for individual artists / arts workers in all disciplines impacted by the wildfires. Funds can be used in any way that alleviates financial hardship. You can apply / learn more here. www.cciarts.org/relief.html I hope it helps.

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:: CCI :: LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund ::

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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 22/01/2025

If you're seeing this, this is your sign to get involved in building something bigger than yourself and fight for a government that serves working people first THURSDAY 1/23: JOIN US FOR ANOTHER MASS CALL Trump's in office. What does that mean and what can we do? Sign up: buff.ly/40GrC2S

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MASS CALL. Trump's back. It's up to us to build the movement that will fight for each other over the next four years. Make meaning of the moment, lay out concrete actions, and chart the path forward. With special guests Adrienne Maree Brown, Greisa Martínez Rosas. On January 23rd. 8pm Eastern, 7pm central, 5pm pacific

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Steph Jordan (they/she) @stephjordan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Their logic is not complex, friends. Does it lead to the production of more white males to carry on the regime? If N, cut it and use those resources elsewhere. They are nazis.

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Steph Jordan (they/she) @stephjordan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The new "believe women" needs to be "believe the oppressed" to tell when someone is a nazi.

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

TikTok’s “whole algorithm is built around the massification of videos…Addictiveness also has consequences in terms of incentivizing people to generate more and more [of a carbon] footprint on an individual basis.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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TikTok’s annual carbon footprint is likely bigger than Greece’s, study finds

Average user generates greenhouse gases equal to driving an extra 123 miles in gasoline-powered car a year, data shows

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Steph Jordan (they/she) @stephjordan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Smart people on Blue Sky, we need an alternative for Instagram. This site is so sensorially overwhelming for my brain so I may not last but I actually do really miss looking at all of your art, travel, ethnographic field sites and culinary endeavors.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Reskeet this until it breaks. Then reskeet it again. We need to flood Congress with phone calls TODAY to make sure they don't slip the dangerous and misguided Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) into a must-pass year end bill. This bill would make kids LESS safe and threatens LGBTQ ppl & human rights.

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Stop KOSA Sneak Attack

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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · 02/12/2024

🚨EVENT!🚨 LaborTech's End-of-Year Showcase! **Happening Thurs, Dec 12-Fri, Dec 13** Come for discussions on how to organize, research, & teach around labor + tech issues, with spotlights on South Asia and Latin America! For more info/to RSVP: bit.ly/4fIoBE2

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LaborTech End-Of-Year Showcase Announcement

*End-Of-Year Showcase* Labor Tech Research Network Come join LaborTech’s virtual End of Year Showcase December 12-13! Help celebrate the work our members have done this year, and the beautiful diver...

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Maybe women are generally better at recognising that it’s not worth it.

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Steph Jordan (they/she) @stephjordan.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

"Implants & Injections: Long-Lived Integrations with the Organic" a coauthored chapter with the brilliant Day Jang out now in Android, Assembled edited by Jaime Banks

Book cover of Android, Assembled edited by Jaime Banks and published by Peter Lang, 2024. Cover Image by Katerina Belikova contains a watercolor painting of a humaniod robot, yellow eyes, red line down the center of its noseless mouthless face, with one eye shot out and a neck of exposed mechanics, wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt. Background is a galaxy of different medium and dark blue hues.

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