I live by Columbia. Tonight I went for a walk & saw 10+ blocks rapidly barricaded, dozens of police vehicles flying by, large groups of NYPD in riot gear gathering.
I study protest in E Europe. What I saw tonight was some of the most wildly disproportionate policing I've seen
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Amidst police violence at Columbia, CUNY and UCLA, the news that my friend Paul Auster has died. In 1968 he was one of the Columbia student occupiers, fleetingly captured by British filmmaker Peter Whitehead in a documentary called The Fall

'your trusted logistics partner composing the perfect notes to the tunes of efficiency and global trade' 🎷

As a timely May Day treat, Internet Archive now hosts a collection of videos from our October 2022 Tech Workers Coalition teach-in, which brought together multiple generations of organizers from across the tech industry archive.org/details/twc

HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY! Counting Feminicide is out in the world as of today! Stay tuned - the open access link is coming up shortly and everyone should be able to read it for free.

#dataloss

Very excited to host Alex Campolo from the @ALGOSOC_ERC tomorrow University of Copenhagen Research ! He even brought the ☀️ to Copenhagen ! Everyone welcome

✨Join us in two weeks, when Nick Seaver discusses his new book 'Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation’ as part of the #CriticalAI Seminar series.

🗓️The talk is online from 4-5:30 PM (CET) and open for everyone - sign up here: rb.gy/tvn3ao

My students and I have created and are expanding the Wikipedia article on 2024 UCLA Gaza Solidarity Encampment and we are populating a CC licensed media repository (while thinking about our gaze, narratives...) <3 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_UCLA…

We at the Surveillance Studies Network and Surveillance & Society condemn the arrest and slander or our colleague, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian. We need courageous critical scholarship in the face of #surveillance , oppression, and violence.

Our open letter: tinyurl.com/mk5y5vyx

The open-access version should be out soon (though it is easy to locate online already), so here is a short (but slowly unfolding over the next few days) thread detailing what this book is about. (1/n)

Join us on Zoom tomorrow, 30 April 5pm London Time for AI & ETHNICITY:
How do ethnic, racial, and colonial histories inform the historical and contemporary practices of AI? Lectures by Kalindi Vora @[email protected] & Edward Jones-Imhotep hosted by Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal
and me.
Links: eventbrite.com/e/master-class…

🚨 Dr. Jennifer Guiliano and I are excited to share the April 2024 issue of Reviews in Digital Humanities, a special issue on African digital humanities, edited by Leah Junck @junckleah and James Yékú James Babátúndé Yékú. #ReviewsInDH reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v5-n4

If you’re in Cambridge pls visit the Issam Kourbaj exhibition Kettle's Yard Urgent Archive. It is a haunting, touching - and v tactile - exhibition. “Our exile grows a day longer and a day closer is our return” (2024) For everyone who is facing displacement and loss through war

Do not miss this one! 👇

🎙️The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan
Unsustainable, with Matthew Archer

Conversation with a good friend i met at Tel Aviv university nearly two decades ago: he reminds me how our education was based on thinkers who came out of WWII: Arendt, Benjamin, Levinas... and how the readings we were invited to do were all about exposing their contemporary

Thank you Nadja Schaetz for bringing this amazing posture scandal and its data losses to my attention ! From The New York Times interview w Beth Linker about her new book on (the politics of) slouching.

nytimes.com/2024/04/26/sci…

You know what helps quite a bit in situations like these? A strong faculty union

Distinguished financial historian Caroline Fohlin subjected to violent arrest Emory University

Ah, power mapping. They say we don't teach useful stuff :)