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Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️

@maggy.kia.net

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Former refugee. Abolitionist. Old-school net.person. UW MA Cultural Studies. UCSD PhD (in progress) Comm/STS. Surveillance, unbelonging & mediation of displacement. Unprecedentedness and crisis. Critical Data, AI, DH, maps, archives. She/They/Any

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Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · Sep 4

Final reading list for my AI course follows, week by week. UC summer sessions are 5 weeks, compressed from the 10 week regular quarter (already short). So, teaching Comm/Media undergrads an upper division class on this, during the summer of the constantly moving AI needle was… a challenge. Still:

Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · Jun 4

Pinned 🧵 -- a Critical AI reading list I'm building in conjuction with a course I'm teaching this summer. I'll be adding to this during the summer, both scholarly works and non-academic public writings, beginning with the Brian Merchant article in the post below:

Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · May 16

I'm building a list of sources, in the meantime. @bcmerchant.bsky.social's "Blood in the Machine" is in my Top 5. I'm happy to take other suggestions, and I'll be publishing the reading list. 4/4

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Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · 18h

You look happy, Jeremy. :)

Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · 18h

Hi!! It's mind-boggling how long it's been. But it's also really cool. Who would have thought at the time that we'd still be out here 30ish years later?

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Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · 19h

Aww, gosh, thanks! <3

Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · 19h

Those loan people have been calling me from a different number 3x daily since July. You have my sympathy.

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Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · 19h

If you were driving home with me from the salon the other day, this is what you got. (The hair color went dark for autumn and I'm suuuuuper happy with it.)

Selfie of brunette woman in a car wearing sunglasses.

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Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · 19h

Also, men who miss having a secretary (whom they can fuck. and/or who is a robot.)

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1d

if pep boys said that now the pep boys could call you up and talk sexy to you you wouldn't think that pep boys was doing really well, as a company

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d

NEW: Huntington Beach, California passed an anti-voting resolution using false data from an election conspiracy group to stoke baseless fears about election integrity, underscoring how anti-voting groups' efforts are tightening voting rules even at the state and local level.

California City Passes Anti-Voting Measure Based on Election Conspiracy Group’s False Data

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

This shit about “Bari Weiss is a feminist girlboss” is actually the logical conclusion of allowing DEI to be a substitute for actual structural change to end white supremacy and patriarchy

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 2d

Endurance sports are a great way to get in touch with your body as different parts fall off and roll down the street like a hubcap

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Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · 3d

The only stress relief that still seems to work a little bit.

Jigsaw puzzle pieces scattered across a black tabletop with other objects at the periphery.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 3d

According to the media outlets owned by billionaires who made their money by convincing business executives to license their computer software, which normal people discuss on web sites owned by the car billionaire and a billionaire whose claim to fame is that he gets away with stealing ideas,

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Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · 4d

I AM NOT OKAY ABOUT THIS

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 4d

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
people.com/diane-keaton...

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

people.com

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 6d

The fact that this coming 9 days before the largest peaceful protest in modern American history is absolutely intentional. We will not back down. Trump and Miller can lie, smear, and threaten all they want. They will lose. No Kings, No Kings, No Kings. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · 6d

This is so good, not only as a review but also as political and media commentary on the version of the Left the feds would like people to believe they're up against.

Erasing the 1960s

One Battle After Another, Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

open.substack.com

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 9d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 12d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9d

does it bode well when a federal judge schedules a hearing at 7PM on a sunday night

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 9d

BREAKING: Judge Karin Immergut has scheduled a hearing for 7p PT/10p PT tonight on the new TRO request, which includes California and argues that "[t]his Court should issue a second TRO to prevent circumvention of the first TRO." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · 10d

"I have no idea if Bratton is cultivating a "bad boy of AI orthodoxy" image as a kind of online brand or if this is just his personality."

I know I'm not supposed to laugh, but this was hilarious to me.

Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 10d

Wrote more about Benjamin Bratton's paranoid imagination of a media studies cabal holding back AI progress in Europe. mail.cyberneticforests.com/is-the-media...

Is the Media Studies Cabal in the Room With Us Right Now?

I read The Stack in 2020 as a grad student in ANU's Applied Cybernetics program. I give it credit for directing my attention to the interaction between layers of digital and physical infrastructures. ...

mail.cyberneticforests.com

Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · 11d

I haven't been on here all day, but every note I see about this is worse than the last. WTF.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 13d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 12d

did a bot conduct this survey

The Independent @the-independent.com · 13d

Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

www.independent.co.uk

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 13d

a figure walking away.

The Benefits of Walking Away

1. Makes bad things disappear quickly
2. Gives everyone optimal view of your back
3. Answers guestion, "I wonder what would happen if I just walked away"

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Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net · 13d

Yes please

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13d

“The new tech will track 29 body parts of each player as they move across the court — although which specific body parts and exactly how they will be tracked, AWS did not say.”

Granular tracking of Black athletes’ “body parts” and the likely betting markets is a bit too on the nose for this moment

Amazon says its AI will let NBA fans track brand-new stats

The NBA is using AWS’s AI to bring fans brand-new stats this new basketball season.

www.theverge.com

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 14d

we should stop letting the police departments in supposedly progressive cities use poor communities as policy labs for dangerous technology designed to incarcerate as many of those people as possible

New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 14d

NEW: The NYPD plans to gain real-time access to nearly 18,000 cameras across 119 NYCHA developments, officials testified at an emergency City Council hearing.
nysfocus.com/2025/10/01/n...

NYPD Plans Massive Expansion of Real-Time Surveillance in NYCHA…

The City Council held an emergency hearing on the NYPD's use of a free internet program to gain real-time access to public housing cameras, in response to…

nysfocus.com

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