Join us this Saturday👇🏼

@datasociety.bsky.social

DAIR + Data & Society Present: Imagining Possible Futures, Portland Imagine alternative technofutures with the Distributed AI Research Institute and Data & Society in this free, in-person art-making workshop.

PNW folks, please consider joining us at PDX 350 for an in-person art-making workshop.

@dylnbkr.bsky.social and I will lead this event, designed to prompt us to imagine alternative technofutures and be in community at such difficult times.

Registration/Info: www.eventbrite.com/e/dair-data-...

Toxic Roots of the Silicon Forest: People, Power, and Pollution in the Semiconductor Industry Portland Jobs with Justice and CHIPS Communities United invite you to join us on June 3-4, 2026, for Toxic Roots of the Silicon Forest: People, Power, and Pollution in the Semiconductor Industry. F...

Looking forward to this! actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...

PA Sen. McCormick’s wife works for who now? @mwoluchem.bsky.social and @livgar.bsky.social of @datasociety.bsky.social joined us for episode 74 of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000. They discuss their recent piece “Pennsylvania Is Perfect” for @newintermag.bsky.social.

newint.org/science-and-...

Insanity

A screenshot of an Android app. Text: ▲ Nearby Glasses Smart Glasses are probably nearby Device: Unknown RSSI: -42 dBm Reason: Meta Company ID (0x058E) Company: Meta Platforms, Inc. This app notifies you when smart glasses are nearby. It uses company identificators in the Bluetooth data sent out by these. Therefore, there likely are false positives (e.g. from VR headsets). Hence, please proceed with caution when approaching a person nearby wearing glasses. They might just be regular glasses, despite this app's warning. Debug Log [19:08:40] Unknown (-50 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:40] Unknown (-50 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:41] Unknown (-34 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:42] Unknown (-34 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:42] Unknown (-34 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:42] Unknown (-57 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:43] Unknown (-40 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:43] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:43] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:44] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:44] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:44] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:45] Unknown (-40 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:45] Unknown (-63 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E)

I made an app.
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby.

I hope it's useful for someone.

Nearby Glasses's open source, free and rather simple
github.com/yjeanrenaud/...

It's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making

So proud of @anthrotechana.bsky.social for organizing this incredible workshop with @dairfutures.bsky.social x @datasociety.bsky.social ! If you're in Portland or on the West Coast, register now!

Anyway, AI is a managerial technology that came out of fields where researchers act more like managers than researchers and this is not a coincidence. It’s fundamentally related to why certain people jumped at the chance to try to build certain kinds of systems that devalued (other people’s) work.

Join us if you are in the area 👇

So happy to bring this event to Oregon with @dylnbkr.bsky.social 🥹

A promotional image for the workshop. Imagining Possible Futures Portland Saturday, April 11, 2026 1pm-3pm 3639 N Mississippi Ave Portland, OR

New in-person workshop incoming, this time co-hosted with @datasociety.bsky.social in Portland, OR!

Saturday, April 11, 1pm-3pm at 350 PDX. For tickets and more info, head over to Eventbrite ⬇️

www.eventbrite.com/e/dair-data-...

“In order for me to write poetry that isn't political,

I must listen to the birds.

And in order to hear the birds,

The warplanes must be silent.”

—Marwan Makhoul, from Verses The Poems Forgot With Me

I agree 😭😭😭

Black fluffy dog sleeping on a blanket on the floor

Mood

A painting of a bird beside the text "this shit just makes me sad"

Google Higher Ed Faculty AI Fellowship - Google for Education Apply for the Faculty AI Fellowship to shape the future of AI in higher ed. Lead institutional transformation and join a global community of pioneers.

Having developed a means of capturing K-12 teachers with its Google-certified educator program, Google sets its sights on higher ed w/ its faculty AI fellowship, where you can "[b]ecome an Ambassador, guiding your peers and the academic community through the evolving landscape of higher education."

Holy shit, he just came up with a dystopia more dystopian than anything I've ever read or seen.

Digital humanities grad students & faculty always want to offload the data cleaning drudgery on some undergrad research assistant, until they eventually come to realize that's the part of the process where the stack of qualitative assumptions comes from.

The core issues---studying how to build reliable language technology, how to use computers to been understand how language works, how to evaluate language technology, and how to reason about how language technology sits in its social context---all remain.

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Parabéns!!

I’m calling it the Rebeca Andrade solution 🇧🇷🤭

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My lovely colleagues @mwoluchem.bsky.social and @livgar.bsky.social will be chatting with @alexhanna.bsky.social and Emily Bender today! So so exciting!

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

Well that’s great @proton.me . Congratulations.

Truly impressive.

This cover is gorgeous

I missed it during the aaa but won’t miss it at 4S

Oregon bill to move gas tax referendum heads to governor’s desk • Oregon Capital Chronicle The Oregon House passed a bill that would move the date Oregonians can vote on a controversial 2025 transportation law from November to May.

Update: Gov. Tina Kotek late Monday signed Senate Bill 1599 into law, clearing the way for the gas tax referendum to take place on the May primary. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/03/02/o...

Just a random reminder that over 50 members of Congress collectively own millions of dollars in defense contractor stocks.

They stand to personally profit from wars that enrich these contractors.

Make no mistake, this is legalized corruption.

Watch how they vote this week.