The State Department has said they have revoked visas of more than 300 students. They have been terrorizing hundreds and aim to terrorize hundreds, if not thousands more. Faculty on here: how are you protecting your international students? Are you connecting with local immigration defense groups? How are you protecting them from being snatched off the street? https://www.axios.com/2025/03/27/trump-palestinian-hamas-purge-colleges-protests
More praise for THE AI CON: "A powerful and timely deep dive into what the AI hype cycle is REALLY about, why it’s bound to crash, and what we can all do to protect ourselves from it. An absolute must-read!" - Karla Ortiz Out on May 13, but you can preorder now!
THE AI CON
THE AI CON
How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
'a key benefit for the army will be the tool’s ability to rapidly process large quantities of surveillance material in order to “answer questions” about specific individuals...' '“AI amplifies power,” an intelligence source who has closely followed the [IOF] development of language models.. “It allows operations [utilizing] the data of far more people, enabling population control."' Why do we need surveillance studies when Unit 8200 just tweets it out? https://www.972mag.com/israeli-intelligence-chatgpt-8200-surveillance-ai/
Kirkus calls THE AI CON "a refreshingly contrarian take on AI and the clouds of hyperbole surrounding it."
Kirkus Reviews
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The bots probably aren’t going to kill you, but they’re probably not going to save you, either.
 @Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
Starting a podcast called Too Many Tech Bros, which has the same premise of Sooo Many White Guys, but we talk about tech and AI
Pre-order alert, cover, and website reveal for our book, THE AI CON! (with @Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)) It's out for release on May 13, 2025!
THE AI CON
THE AI CON
How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
New open-access paper by Ellen Berrey, Nathan Kim, Kristen Bass, and me over at Socius -- We analyzed over 16,000 news articles using a machine-assisted system, yielding a dataset of 5,553 higher ed protest events, and university and police responses. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23780231241297447
When Elon bought Twitter, we saw an immense migration from that platform to here. When Trump got elected, I've seen nothing but increases to BlueSky. The Fediverse really missed a window.
AI and Fascism go hand-in-hand. New newsletter post.
The AI/Fascism Nexus
The AI/Fascism Nexus By Alex Oops, we did it again. I can't say that I'm terribly surprised, as Harris ran a center right campaign and tossed a mig...
New preprint! Ellen Berrey, Kristen Bass, Nathan Kim, and I present some trends from our new dataset of higher ed protests from 2012 to 2018 in the US and Canada. Some initial findings... 1. Higher ed protests concern university governance, anti-racism, and labor. 2. US protests are often national in nature, but take local instantiations, esp. wrt to racist police violence. 3. Canadian protests focus on public tuition and anti-austerity measures by provinces.
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