The chilling effects on university campuses are real, as I've noted too: tinyurl.com/2s36b3f7.
However, student mobilizations have been strong this year against ICE, for sanctuary campuses, and for mutual aid to assist vulnerable populations. The work might not be as mediagenic, but it's vibrant.
We argue that #disinformation operates by activating existing cultural prejudices, which is a conclusion that complicates debunking or prebunking solutions.
1. Use this to see which candidates is on the take from AI companies in the upcoming midterms. aimoneywatch.org
2. Organize against them.
3. Don’t vote for them.
The night before the start of the Fall 2025 semester, facilities workers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill quietly boarded up a pro-Palestine mural. The mural, created by art students...
Leading the Future is spending $125 million to defeat AI safeguards. See which candidates Big Tech is backing — and which are being attacked for supporting AI regulation.
We trace false narratives of refugees as threats to both privileged #Eurowhite populations and vulnerable #Roma people. In both cases, disinformation serves as an extension of larger hybrid and information warfare efforts by Russia.
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New Pub Alert: “Activating Prejudice: Refugee Disinformation as Information Warfare in Russia’s War on Ukraine” (w/ Julie Terebekov & @alicetiara.bsky.social). #openaccess #disinformation #refugees
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Happy #pride month, #LGBTQ research style:
Check out this article by @torinmonahan.bsky.social, Maral Erol, and Jill A Fisher on how LGBTQ+ #academic couples navigate experiences of visibility in #highered
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Sex & Sexualities Journal
“What they're not saying is that ALPRs are also frequently used for extremely low-level investigations, such as verifying whether a student lives within a particular school zone…police have even used this tech to conduct employment background checks and investigations into loud music complaints.”
Big Ol’ Mush
the pipeline from a facile understanding of "what if we afford nonhuman actors agency in sociotechnical systems analysis" to "the computer can think and it's my girlfriend" is such a thing to behold
Surveillance in the Majority World @surveillancemw.bsky.social
Job Opportunity: Newsletter Editor surveillance-majority-world.net/2026/05/06/j...
