My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently."
Microsoft: LOL
Let's please also acknowledge the work of @sarahlamdan, who's been documenting this phenomenon for years — and who wrote a whole book about it!
”Reductionist views which subscribe to and perpetuate misleadingly binary constructs of sex play into misogynistic right-wing politics which harm us all… this is not a theoretical debate, it impacts lived realities and the liveability of our lives.”
Feminist scholars demand trans equality.
"Realtime warfare communicates, decides + resolves events w/in the same moment... For distant audiences, war arrives as image + update. For us, for me, it begins with a rupture in space-time, an extended lag, an excruciating wait for news. It begins with a phone call. One that does not go through."
This! And those who turn to it do so because they are terrified about keeping up, while Profs are increasingly overworked, and welfare services threadbare. If university is tickbox skills and corporate profit, rather than education for a robust democracy, AI works. Not otherwise.
And remember Eliza Raine - Anne Lister’s school girlfriend - if you want an early 19th century interracial romance!
oh, I fear I may have
This while as @taylorlorenz.bsky.social has reported, actual chaplains are being AI surveilled and their social care work Taylorised.
Karen has no criminal record. She is a grandmother who spent eight years working as an admin assistant at a primary school before her retirement. “I don’t even have parking tickets in the background anywhere,” she says. “I am not a dangerous criminal. I didn’t enter the country illegally and I had everything I needed to be there.” So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? A possible answer began to emerge over the weeks she was incarcerated. As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,” Karen says.
Border Patrol is operating as bounty hunters.
Agents are apparently getting paid for each person they put in detention. Even if those people are grandmothers traveling on valid tourist visas.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Is the screen-based bureaucratic management tasks (attendance, record keeping, email torrents, form filling, reimbursement labyrinths, inane video training boxticking, multiplication of online platforms and teaching materials) demanded by Uk university making us dumber and exhausted?
Yes.
Vol. 88 (50th Anniversary)
Pt. II: ‘Archives as Worldmaking’ special issue
Introduction by editors @jakehodder.bsky.social and @snehakrishnan.bsky.social
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.018
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Our special issue "Genocide is a feminist issue" is now available here: tandfonline.com/toc/cgpc20/3...
@snehakrishnan.bsky.social
Thanks so much to excellent line up of guests sharing expertise on ethics in their field, ranging from AI, the far-right, elites, imperialism, archives.. @meghanetinsley.bsky.social Pere Ayling @snehakrishnan.bsky.social @saraababneh.bsky.social Denis Newman-Griffis Bethany Fox & Anita Franklin.
Screenshot of a paper abstract in TIBG by Jessica McLean, Louise Reid, Karen P. Y. Lai, Markus Roos Breines & Sneha Krishnan (2026) entitled: 'Geographies of Responsibility, Care and Repair in Digital Worlds of AI: Introduction to the Themed Intervention' with a red banner at the top. The presence of AI in everyday life has dramatically increased and intensified in the last few years. From playing a role in teaching and research activities within educational institutions, to becoming a ubiquitous feature in search engines and in all manner of apps, AI is now omnipresent. While geographers have long examined the role of AI in various ways, in this Themed Intervention we highlight often overlooked dimensions of responsibility, care and repair in the mobilisation and impacts of AI. This Themed Intervention questions the genealogy of AI and its creators' duty of care towards the real-life impacts of its operationalisation, how AI might be (responsibly) governed to reduce these impacts and how responsibility is or should be devolved across different actors (e.g., individualistic or collective responsibilities). We acknowledge that despite its potential for positive ends, AI has already caused damage to people, societies, environments and therefore question whether repair (of the people–AI relation, of AI consequences) is possible, what form this can or should take as well as how the faults of AI can be corrected. By exploring care, the contributors share concern with caring for and of AI, including its current impacts and futures, with each contribution ruminating on how caring relations are configured. We argue that if we focus on dimensions of care and repair when critically evaluating the discursive and material realities of AI, issues relating to responsibility are impossible to ignore.
In their introduction to the collection, Jess McLean, Louise Reid, @karenpylai.bsky.social, Markus Breines & @snehakrishnan.bsky.social reflect on the increasing presence of AI in everyday life.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
London friends I’m speaking at the LSE Thursday morning at 11 AM in CBG G.01 www.lse.ac.uk/geography-an...
I left Twitter, blinked, and that whole world is suddenly here. Hello people. I mostly post about girlhood, domestic cultures, and my cat. This is cat.
okay let’s ask this again: narrative podcasts (rather than one-off episodes on different topics), not comedy, ***not murders***. any suggestions??
Haha you’re right.
Wait what am I missing? I need the ☕️
If you weren’t at @lalehkhalili.bsky.social’s keynote on Palestine, watch. If you were one of those of us in the room, watch again. Including the final film short, Larissa Sansour’s 2008 Palestinian Space Exodus
So all of a sudden RGS-IBG is next week! Please come join @snehakrishnan.bsky.social and I in our 'Geographies of (non)reproduction' session on the Friday morning!
Our RGS-IBG 2024 session is sponsored by the Geographies of Children, Youth & Families Research Group! Thanks so much to them for sponsorship. Deadline for your abstracts is 2 weeks today (16th Feb)! Please send to me or @snehakrishnan.bsky.social
(emails in the doc linked in original tweet!)
RGS-IBG 2024 Call for session submissions!
@snehakrishnan.bsky.social & I are organising a session called 'Geographies of (non)reproduction'
Please send your submissions (emails in doc) by Friday 16th Feb! Any qs, please reach out :)
See link for session details:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Gender Place and Culture is calling for feminist scholars from #Palestine and elsewhere to write short intervention pieces on the ongoing genocide genderplaceandculture.wordpress.com/2023/12/21/c...
Screenshot of MS Teams call with five round table participants.
Our all star round table with Tracy Assing, Lara Choksey, and @snehakrishnan.bsky.social explored and unsettled the intimacies that queer ecology informs between literature and science as well as many other interdisciplinary fields and practices.
I received this morning an urgent appeal about the growing anti-Palestinian violence in the West Bank, from my friend, Yigal Bronner, and David Shulman, both Israeli Indologists, translators and peace activists. Major points below…
If you are an academic or student in the UK being targeted bc of your support for #Palestine liberation, you may find useful this explainer on the rights & responsibilities of staff & students re: #academicfreedom, freedom of expression t.co/4oaquR26Ov
Meanwhile, settlers in another part of the world make their feelings clear.
Nell asks you to stay as cosy as she is. Take care 💜