blm 🍉 - nearly done grad studenting in science, technology, and society (sts) for a more feminist and (hopefully) decolonial world of computer sciences
if capitalism worked we'd have Big Bathroom financially supporting initiatives for trans folks to organize for gender-neutral bathrooms on campuses and stuff
CS Ed Colleagues, TODAY (Feb 7th) is the last day to submit your abstracts to #RESPECT2025!
Abstracts (75–100 words) may be submitted today in EasyChair until midnight AoE.
Full papers will be due on Feb 18th, 2025. Details: https://t.co/frpG6V6IBN
🚨 Newly released photos from the apartment of Suchir Balaji, anOpenAI whistleblower found dead in his apartment on November 26, 2023.
The SFPD ruled it a suicide in 14 minutes. Take a look at the photos and decide yourself — suicide or murder?
Warning: Graphic 🧵1/
FYI you can listen to Davis' Are Prisons Obsolete, @DrSamiSchalk's Disability Politics, CLR James' Black Jacobins, Robinson's Black Marxism, Césaire's Discourse on Colonialism, Ahmed's Queer Phenomenology, and a bunch of bell hooks' audio books on spot¡fy
I like to think there are old pigeons that go “back in my day…” and complain about how pigeons used to face each other when they talked because branches were never as straight as power lines and now young pigeons are afraid of making eye contact.
A Mississippi state senator has filed a bill called the “Contraception Begins at Erection Act,” which would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo”
https://t.co/4xu1wYWioZ
Annie Altman isn’t your picture-perfect victim — she’s been a sex worker, eccentric, and doesn’t fit society’s mold.
But her allegations against her brother, Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, should demand our attention as he gains power in AI and government.
Warning: graphic 🧵1/
BREAKING: Multiple injuries reported at the New York Times and Anti Defamation League as staff members trip over themselves to defend an overtly Nazi salute
We've reached the stage of the pandemic where employers wield the burden of COVID as a punitive measure against employees working in hubs of viral transmission.
It's like punishing construction workers for getting lung cancer after working with asbestos without protection.
when the us pres¡dent elect says they want to annex Canada, he wants to go to Canada the same way folks go to a learning annex for new skills. Except he just wants to learn blackface from Trudeau.