Action Network petition: Cancel ChatGPT Edu. Invest in Humans. In February 2025, the California State University system announced a $17 million contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu to all faculty, staff, and students on its 22 CSU campuses as part of a larger “AI-Empowered University” initiative. This is the largest contract ever established between a university system and an artificial intelligence company. Despite the name, ChatGPT Edu is not educational technology. It is a general-purpose chatbot that is not designed, trained, or optimized for education. Beyond its privacy and security features, ChatGPT Edu is identical to the free online version of ChatGPT. ChatGPT Edu does not use reliable peer-reviewed sources to answer students' questions and is indifferent to whether its answers are correct. Experts argue that ChatGPT Edu is harmful to academic working conditions, diminishes the quality of teaching and learning, introduces new forms of discrimination, and is dangerous to students' mental health. Recent polling shows that CSU students share these concerns, with the majority of students expressing that they are worried about the negative impacts of generative AI on human creativity and the environment.

Cal State University’s deal with OpenAI — providing ChatGPT to all faculty, students, and staff — will expire in June 2026. Amid the prospect of layoffs in the CSU, we’re asking the chancellor not to renew this costly and demoralizing contract.

Link below and anyone can sign:

Extraordinary photo and photojournalist.

Imagine being attacked on all sides and still having the presence of mind to try to save evidence of the oppressive encounter.

Howard ZInn Book Fair 2025. Fight Supremacy: Actions Against Authoritarianism. Sun., December 7, 10am-6pm. Mission Campus, City College of San Francisco. Black text on yellow background with graphic of flag held by hand

If you're in the SF bay area, HowardZinn.org will be at the Howard Zinn Bookfair @howardzinnbookfair.bsky.social Dec. 7. This free event brings together "authors, readers, organizers, and community members to debate and discuss strategies for a better world.” www.zinnbookfair.org

Congrats to CTCRE fellows Dan Kabella, PhD and Anthony DiMario, PhD! At the 4S conference, they received the 2025 Making & Doing Award for their multimedia and multisensory exploration of the pharmaceutical industry and community archives.

This Friday at 12PST!

Thanks to everyone who’s held me in tenderness through the blur. In this slow return to clarity, I carry your presence with deep gratitude 🤓

These glasses. It’s wild how the body heals itself layer by layer. After a retinal rupture, I’m now preparing for cataract surgery. Vision is slowly finding its way back. The retina is so fragile: where sight begins, maybe even the soul. The body’s quiet repair feels nothing short of miraculous.

From simulated kitchen labs to opioid marketing jingles and harm reduction artifacts, visitors are invited to question dominant narratives and engage new ways of sensing crisis and imagining response.

#4sSeattle25 #HarmReduction #PharmaArchives #MultisensoryExhibition #OIDA #OCCA #OpioidCrisis

Drawing from rare corporate documents and grassroots harm reduction archives, this interactive experience uncovers the entanglements of Big Pharma, regulatory failure, and community care.

Step inside an immersive exhibition that reimagines the opioid overdose crisis through sound, touch, scent, and story.

Coming Soon: A Multisensory Exploration of Pharmaceutical Industry and Harm Reduction Archives in the Context of Crisis

Opening September 4th | Seattle, Washington (4S M&D)

I don’t have a boat but live in SF Bay area. Let us know if you need anything!

@4sweb.bsky.social

@4sweb.bsky.social

Can you handle the flavor of industry secrets? Stay tuned. Thurs, September 4 | 10 - 4pm

#4sSeattle25 #MakingAndDoing #EmbodiedCritique #PublicScholarship #ArchivalInterventions #CriticalMaking #STS #DrugPolicy #OpioidOverdoseCrisis #FeelThinkDo #IndustrySecrets #SensoryStudies

We’re bringing the archive out of the page and into the body and slowly dissolving the line between object and experience, harm and desire.

Sneak peek: Making something strange, sweet, and a little unsettling for #4sSeattle25.

This critique that melts on your tongue. Using 3D forms and flavor, we’re turning archival documents into an embodied experience by inviting new ways to understand opioid industry violence and marketing.

When you hear someone advocating for acceleration, ask: accelerating toward what? Today’s techno-accelerationists want us to rush forward into a political order that explicitly favors their interests, writes D&S’s @jakemetcalf.bsky.social‬. www.techpolicy.press/trump-20-run...

Excellent ruling from Judge Young.
This is a #NoKings ruling ❌👑.

So, what happens next?

Summary: it can be appealed by Trump DOJ to the 1st Circuit, and to the Supreme Court.

And some chance, but decently unlikely, that the (corrupt) SCOTUS would then overturn this and kill the grants again. 1/

I’m so proud of our students in the SF Bridge Program at UCSF and SFSU. You’ve had to navigate the rigorous demands of academia & the emotional weight of watching institutions meant to support you falter. And still—you showed up with care, brilliance, and strength. I’m honored to witness your paths.

hi there— Wanted to share some powerful trans activism happening here, targeting the private prison giant GEO Group. We’ve got a hearing coming up on June 11 at 5pm in SF—help us spread the word!

hi there— Wanted to share some powerful trans activism happening here, targeting the private prison giant GEO Group. We’ve got a hearing coming up on June 11 at 5pm in SF—help us spread the word!

hi there— Wanted to share some powerful trans activism happening here, targeting the private prison giant GEO Group. We’ve got a hearing coming up on June 11 at 5pm in SF—help us spread the word!

hi there— Wanted to share some powerful trans activism happening here, targeting the private prison giant GEO Group. We’ve got a hearing coming up on June 11 at 5pm in SF—help us spread the word!

hi there— Wanted to share some powerful trans activism happening here, targeting the private prison giant GEO Group. We’ve got a hearing coming up on June 11 at 5pm in SF—help us spread the word!

In Toxic Detention Investigating the alleged contaminated water crisis at the Northwest Detention Center.

Suicides, forced labor, and “brown and possibly contaminated” water: Rico Moore with @themarginus.bsky.social unmasks how ICE contractor The GEO Group built a toxic, billion-dollar empire on incarcerating migrants.

Hi Marti! Wanted to share some powerful trans activism happening here, targeting the private prison giant GEO Group. We’ve got a hearing coming up on June 11 at 5pm in SF—help us spread the word!

Abolish GEO Group
repost @jerseynoah

📣Public Hearing: June 11 • 5PM |repost @jersey noah

“This is not to condemn those who remain. There is value in continued presence, in bearing witness, in working for reform from within. But there comes a point when presence itself becomes an endorsement, when working within the system becomes indistinguishable from working for it.”