Reposted by Viet!Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this: 254181574790
Reposted by Viet!Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...fnl.mit.eduHow We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter 8432200
Reposted by Viet!berserk du soleil @aetataureate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026day 1 of my #artober list is FROG. i made this using tiled.art which is a really cool browser tool. 272
Viet! @vntrinh13.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I had a lot of fun chopping it up with @bjmendelson.com over Flock, data privacy, and our civil liberties. Now available as a podcast! share.transistor.fm/s/e6b6a803share.transistor.fmEveryone Is Being Watched All The Time | Stupid Sexy PrivacyThis week on Privacy Tips, Ohio State University professor, Dr. Viet Trinh, joins BJ to talk about Flock Safety cameras, how everyone is basically under surveillance all the time by the police thanks ... 041
Reposted by Viet!BJ Mendelson ❌👑 @bjmendelson.com · 01/10/2026Everyone is being watched by the police all the time now: share.transistor.fm/s/e6b6a803share.transistor.fmEveryone Is Being Watched All The Time | Stupid Sexy PrivacyThis week on Privacy Tips, Ohio State University professor, Dr. Viet Trinh, joins BJ to talk about Flock Safety cameras, how everyone is basically under surveillance all the time by the police thanks ... 011
Reposted by Viet!Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026Lot of words when the term “stalking” already exists.tampabay.com2 Pinellas deputies arrested for tracking people they were interested in, sheriff saysOne deputy queried a license plate reader database 300 times to track a woman, Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said. 141343336
Reposted by Viet!berserk du soleil @aetataureate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026my #lifeSkillsJam zine is live now. it is and will always be completely free. you don't need an itchio account or anything else in order to download the PDF. aeta.itch.io/making-doaeta.itch.ioMaking Do: a life skills zine by aetaStuff you can do, fold, cut up, tape together, paint, tie, hang, store, mix, use, reheat, and make your own 3119
Reposted by Viet!Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 01/10/2026modern day retelling of prometheus but he gives mankind the knowledge of deep frying 2524712
Reposted by Viet!Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Academic here, yeah I know it’s September still! 535885
Reposted by Viet!King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'm afraid we've been bamboozled. 2272
Reposted by Viet!King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I would call them pandiplomats but I recognize protocol isn't black and white. 1212
Reposted by Viet!Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A photograph of a Japanese American women standing next to the post office at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp in Wyoming. Caption "Harada 9/25/1943 in front of Post Office." The photograph was taken by Yoshio Okumoto on September 25, 1943. 🗃 #skystorians #OTD 0214
Viet! @vntrinh13.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Free throw, partially because I won an iPad by hitting free throws as part of a college basketball game’s halftime entertainment. 020
Viet! @vntrinh13.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Famously, the Allies dissolved the German government and propped up two new puppet governments. Infamously, virtually every serious antifascist today agrees that the Allies shoulda gotten even tougher because too many ex-Nazis scored positions of power in the new puppet governments. 1121
Viet! @vntrinh13.bsky.social · 16/09/2026TIL that a pet-related sport called “dog diving” exists and it is exactly as fun as it sounds. I watched it with my cats and they enjoyed it too. 020
Reposted by Viet!Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026One of the important hills I'll die on is that the digital rights space needs more historians because so we understand that many of the problems we're facing stem from pre-digital ways of organizing society and need holistic fixes that don't get bogged down in the high-tech boogeyman of the week. 24720
Reposted by Viet!Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026Universities discourage printing/hard copy while actively avoiding investment in serious, structural decarbonization, like fixing aging, energy inefficient buildings; and while investing heavily in provisioning environmentally-destructive AI to students "for free." 2252
Reposted by Viet!Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026This is a little mean but I also think the idea that “AI must be taught in college” is an older generation projecting their own tech incompetency and anxiety onto a younger one. It sounds interchangeable from saying “TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat should be taught in college,“ which is just lame. 210019
Reposted by Viet!Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026Unfortunately, I don’t buy the idea that AI competency is an ”essential skill” that “must be taught” in college. College is about learning how to learn and that is best done with books and paper. You can figure out AI after college if you want! 4989
Reposted by Viet!Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026Colleges could subsidize books for students rather than paying for premium versions of ChatGPT 6409101
Reposted by Viet!Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026Has anyone considered orienting college education around the practice of sitting together and discussing real books, read on paper? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...nytimes.comUniversities Sound Warnings About A.I. Even as They Embrace ItAs A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students. 317028
Reposted by Viet!Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026Not a typo. Four thousand.futurism.comPolice Investigator Accused of Making Over 4,000 Illegal Flock Camera SearchesAn employee for the Albany County Sheriff's Office was caught conducting over 4,000 unauthorized queries on five people. 12650225
Reposted by Viet!berserk du soleil @aetataureate.bsky.social · 13/09/2026sunday goals #catsOfBluesky 2205
Reposted by Viet!Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Add: There is no way, none, that using AI is in line with UMASS's carbon neutral goals. None. 0134
Reposted by Viet!Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 11/09/2026Tenure-line faculty ARE expensive. But so is a contract with Anthropic, OpenAi, Google, and Microsoft. Some of the services that those companies provide are worth it for universities to purchase (email, word processing, etc.), but I don't see the ROI on paying for a proprietary version of ChatGPT. 410916
Reposted by Viet!Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 11/09/2026“we're a bunch of raw materials that don't…mean to be made into any product! Don't mean -- Don't mean to end up being bought by some clients of the University, be they the government, be they industry, be they organized labor, be they anyone! We're human beings!” 2164
Reposted by Viet!melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 11/09/2026too many people in my life with TBIs and burn pit toxins, lucky to be alive at all. still paying on student loans because we had to fund forever wars instead of college. surely there could’ve been a different vision than stealing the future. 192
Reposted by Viet!Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Look diesel going up to six bucks a gallon isn't ideal but it would only be a big deal if we were a huge country where the vast majority of our consumer goods, commodities, building materials, and food were transported almost entirely by vehicles that run on it 17971134
Reposted by Viet!Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026“Telling people that they need to compromise on privacy is a polite way of framing a nonconsensual takeover; calling a community opposition movement ‘terroristic,’ however, gives the game away.”newyorker.comFlock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No ExitThe company, which has a hundred and thirty thousand cameras monitoring the streets of the U.S., frames privacy as a worthwhile trade-off for safety and security, echoing the language of the post-9/11... 6359162
Reposted by Viet!Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026***Postdoc Opportunity*** Columbia University has authorized a search for a two-year post-doc position in Asian American history through its Ethnic Studies center. @karl-jacoby.bsky.social is chairing the committee and can answer any questions. More info: apply.interfolio.com/192621.apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 1711
Reposted by Viet!Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”futurism.comIt Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the PhilippinesDuring a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers. 620221416714
Reposted by Viet!Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026at this point: carbon removal is, at best, essentially a research project. renewable expansion is a policy project 452658536
Reposted by Viet!k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026I am fascinated that so many YouTube ai ads specifically target people over 40. “Are you over 40? Get certified in ai within a month!” And when age is not specified, the markers of age are implied. (It’s hilarious what ai imagines 40 looks like!) 241
Reposted by Viet!berserk du soleil @aetataureate.bsky.social · 04/09/2026He Cannot Be Trusted With Space on the Yarn Shelf. mistakes were made 161
Reposted by Viet!berserk du soleil @aetataureate.bsky.social · 04/09/2026i cleared an area on my yarn shelf for the littlest cat, who is also the biggest mischief thief rapscallion. he just tried to pick up a skein of yarn in his teeth to carry it away to his lair or whatever 171
Reposted by Viet!Tim 🏒 🎃 @tim.ink · 05/09/2026An underrated part of being in a relationship is that you can sing both parts to Wake Me Up Inside 4916
Reposted by Viet!johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Good. It's a start. Too many school & college administrators can't see through the AI marketing hype. It's way past time to slow down — to stop — and think things through in partnership with teachers, professors, and education researchers. 49834
Reposted by Viet!Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026fun part if you ask me: higher ed institutions in secular democracies are the closest approximation of a 'marketplace of ideas' as you are likely to find this side of a global revolution and a lot of people who claim to like that idea do not seem to love its results 251756361
Reposted by Viet!Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I'm optimistic the explosion of Flock outrage helps people see that opposing surveillance infrastructure unites practically all movements and requires solidarity--immigrant rights, abolition, reproductive justice, protest rights, labor, racial justice, the fight against gendered violence, etc. 412428
Reposted by Viet!berserk du soleil @aetataureate.bsky.social · 01/09/2026We just watched the "Star Trek Voyager" two parter where they're in WW2. Stepdad Greg told me he gives an automatic half star bonus for killing Nazis. This is now his favorite "Voyager" story. 041
Reposted by Viet!berserk du soleil @aetataureate.bsky.social · 02/09/2026spike in GTA6 preorders as people realize they can use it to taper off their AI relationships 031
Reposted by Viet!berserk du soleil @aetataureate.bsky.social · 29/08/2026they're in two different movie posters and i love them both 041
Viet! @vntrinh13.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Just remembered that the Clark doctors’ doll-based experiments were a cornerstone of the SCOTUS arguments that dismantled Jim Crow’s legal foundations in 1954. 020
Reposted by Viet!The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026💫 some personal NEWS: my article for @theverge.com is currently a finalist for an Online Journalism Award, along with the rest of this incredible series put together by @mfortki.bsky.social ! you can read it here: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...awards.journalists.orgThe future of being trans - Online Journalism AwardsRead More 610417
