Berkeley Students Make 300,000 Wikipedia Edits to Preserve Queer History Against Trump Their work has already racked up nearly 100 million views.

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The book cover for Data by Design: Visualization and Power from Abolition to the Dawn of Data Science. The title is in large block letters at the top left; a hand-drawn area chart in a black to yellow gradient takes up the right side of the image.

Experimentation. Iteration. Time. These are pretty much the core ingredients of everything related to DATA BY DESIGN, and the cover is no exception. But now it is final and out there on the internet and also right here for you to see!

Preorder at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205618...

From Chile to the Philippines, meet the people pushing back on AI Individuals and communities are resisting the demands and practices of Big Tech's AI infrastructure — such as data centers and digital labor — due to their environmental and social costs.

“Many discussions still approach AI primarily as a digital technology, but in many of these countries, AI is becoming visible through the infrastructures that sustain it: data centers, mineral extraction, energy demand, water-intensive cooling systems, and digital labor chains…”

❤️

Nancy Fraser | After Habermas Jürgen Habermas may be variously described as the moral conscience of postwar Germany, the last great systematic...

Incredible, sharp, critical reflection on Habermas’ legacy from Nancy Fraser. This is the postmortem I’ve been hoping would come and also sums up so much of my relationship to his work

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

"From Tressie McMillan Cottom to Bernardine Evaristo, these Black women writers are shaping literature today—along with the Black-owned bookstores carrying their work."

Yesssss

absolutely. grateful for your ––and Audrey's–– continuing critical work.

Authoritarian EdTech - Eamon Costello, Stephen Gow, 2025 Careful and consentful models of digital education are being replaced by Authoritarian EdTech. The pedagogical choices digital learning now offers, such as how ...

The episode also had me thinking of this article by @eam0.bsky.social and Stephen Gow on Authoritarian EdTech and how it "revolves around the oppressive foreclosure of choice, consent, debate and deliberation".

thanks for sharing, Charles. the podcast also reminded me of @audreywatters.bsky.social post from *nine* years ago: Ed-Tech in a Time of Trump
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prescient as always: "We must rebuild institutions that value humans’ minds and lives and integrity and safety."

“As tech bros shake hands on billion-pound deals and race to stake their claim on the future of AI, it is women and marginalised genders who are left to absorb the real-world fallout.”

As smart devices multiply, so do fears over digital surveillance We are living in a time of extreme self surveillance. We carry with us devices that capture our every location, info about our health, and data about our private lives. This information can be saved, ...

“In his new book Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance, George Washington University law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson warns that digital life is creating a form of self-surveillance far beyond what constitutional law was built to handle.”

On Courage From a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and a former White House senior advisor, a deeply reported collection of stories about how anyone can...

ON COURAGE is the story of how they became dissidents and how we can too.

We wrote this for communities to take action – and hope you’ll read it with your friends, coworkers, book club, anyone who’s witnessed the assaults on democracy and asked: what can we do?

There is so much we can do together.

Lifting up the life of civil rights icon Jesse Jackson. Hard to lay out the range of his work and contributions and how much he inspired. They are leaving us one by one, exhorting us to pick up the mantle with courage & determination. Justice work is a lifelong commitment. Thank you Rev. Jackson.

If you weren't around at the time and never heard what Jackson's oratory was like, this is what it was like.

If you heard it before, you know you want to hear it again.

chills. I remember this vividly. rest in power, Jesse Jackson — and thank you.

NEW: The story of America’s largest national strike for 100 years.

Here are the biggest protests from Jan 30, 2026. And national news still did their best to ignore the scale of what happened yesterday.

Soundtrack courtesy of The Boss 💪

"the economic system, including companies, financial institutions & other economic actors, does not exist for its own sake... [it] exists to ensure that all people can live a good & meaningful life, in a just society & within the ecological limits of the planet"
thank you @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social

Good morning!

Get your day started on the good foot with the one and only genius James Brown.

oh Sue, I’m so sorry. I hope your mum gets good care — and sending much love to you all. x

Sir, – I am energised by Una Mullally’s article calling on the Opposition to act now on the housing crisis through collective organisation (“United left must build a housing movement in 2026,” Opinion, December 15th). It needs no repeating that the Government refuses to treat housing as a true emergency; this is evident in their actions or lack thereof. As Mullally argues, this has produced not apathy but defeat at a grassroots level, suiting those in power very well.

Following the successful campaign to elect our new President, the united left are well positioned to organise a housing movement to counter this defeat. I believe the scale of support for such a movement could extend beyond Irish shores. Having moved to London nine years ago, I left an Ireland buoyed by marriage equality and found community in the London-Irish Abortion Rights Campaign, an organically-formed group which rapidly built an effective structure spanning protest, policy, media, fundraising, legal support – and, crucially, had direct links to active campaign groups back in Ireland.

A large-scale housing movement in Ireland would no doubt see similar satellite groups form here in London and across the globe. Over the past decade, the Irish diaspora have already proven they care deeply for our country through support for abortion rights and successive #HomeToVote campaigns. However, I believe there would be greater support behind a housing movement, as housing not only affects those who stayed but also those of us who left. Many of us want to return but see no viable path to doing so. The belief and energy to fight for a better Ireland exists – and not just from within. What is missing is leadership to harness it. – Yours, etc, SARAH CRONIN RODGER, London.

Sharing a letter published in yesterday's @irishtimes.com, written by my amazing daughter Sarah Cronin Rodger, in support of a housing movement in Ireland.

This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED YouTube video by TED

So today I found out that my TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was TED’s most watched talk of the year.

It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like.

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Thank you very much for such an informative session today!

beautiful by Rebecca Solnit: “The fabric of this country is forever being torn apart by hate & exclusion; it is forever being stitched into new patterns, new connections, new relationships… a quilter's art of bringing the fragments together into a whole”

thinking of Frances Bell & #FemEdTechQuilt

Letter from President

What a wonderful President we have. #translivesmatter #transrightsarehumanrights

brilliant news! 👏👏👏

such a long and terrible journey, Ian. I am *so* happy to hear that it is over. thank you, thank you, on behalf of so many of us, for standing up what was right and never backing down. IAN LINKLETTER 👏👏👏

thank you, Ingrid! I have just ordered a beautiful calendar :)

Postscript to Open Access Week 2025 Two years ago this week Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures, edited by Laura Czerniewicz and myself, was published openly by Open Book Publishers. To our amazement, the publica…

"This work is not easy, it is risky, and there’s no guarantee that those who do it will see its benefits. But it is essential."

I am grateful for those in #HigherEd who stand alongside me. In the work. And now, when the work is trying to leave me behind.
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always standing alongside you, Robin. x