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Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D.
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Assistant Professor of Teaching; Art, Justice, and Digital Media & Core Faculty in Creative Technologies @ UCSC | Research in Voice Recognition, Assistive Technologies, Emergency Infrastructures | Co-founder of 5️⃣ & 9️⃣
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Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. @drs.bsky.social · Nov 24
I’m researching emergency infrastructures in 8 US cities (NY, Miami, SF, LA, Chicago, Detroit, NOLA, and ATL). If you or someone you know has any suggestions on connecting with dispatchers, supervisors, organizers, and technologists working on crisis management, please feel free to connect me. 🙏🏽
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 3h
AI is a lack of consent machine

And this is just gross. This is disturbingly and utterly gross

And the number of people who are basically facilitating digital sexual coercion is disgusting
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h
“At a meeting in April, xAI staff lawyer Lily Lim told employees that they would need to submit their biometric data to train the AI companion to be more human-like in its interactions with customers, according to a recording of the meeting review by the Journal.”
xAI used employee biometric data to train Elon Musk’s AI girlfriend
Project Skippy?
www.theverge.com
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 16h
Historic victory for Democratic Socialism and, frankly, the good of the country.
Zohran Mamdani elected mayor of New York City in historic win
Democratic nominee beats Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa, becoming city’s first Muslim mayor
www.theguardian.com
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 15h
California passes proposition 50, which will mean multiple anti-LGBTQ+ Republican congress people will likely lose their seat.

A continual bloodbath for anti-LGBTQ+ Republicans tonight.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d
“I'm not saying these are glasses for creeps, but I can't help but feel like one while wearing them.”

Reader, they are for creeps.
I Can't Help Feeling Like a Creep Wearing Meta's New Gen 2 Glasses
Meta's new display-less smart glasses are quite good, but the vibes are off.
www.wired.com
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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You! @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 4d
If only every single critical "AI" researcher had warned about the likelihood of this danger for machine learning-based systems for the past decade or so and if only an acronym like "GIGO" had existed for decades Prior.

Oh If Only 😐

"Too much social media gives AI chatbots ‘brain rot’"
Too much social media gives AI chatbots ‘brain rot’
Large language models fed low-quality data skip steps in their reasoning process.
go.nature.com
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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 5d
With #Sinners back in theaters today, thought I'd reshare the article I wrote about the Choctaw Vampire Hunters and why that moment didn't NEED to be centered more even tho we would all love to see more of their story.

redpopnews.com/sinners-give...

#redpopnews
Sinners Gives Us Vampires, Music, and a Moment of Indigenous Power We Can’t Ignore
Set in 1932 Mississippi, Sinners is a haunting, atmospheric tale rooted in the music, spirituality, kinship, and resilience of Black Southern communities. But Coogler threads a deeper, more violent cu...
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 5d
Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...
• Professors should never put a student's words or work into an AI software without their consent. • Professors should also be transparent about their Al usage with grading, curriculum building, and any other way they might use it in their teaching. • If a professor does use Al chatbots in the classroom, they should explain their reasoning behind this decision and how its usage will help students meet learning outcomes. • Professors should additionally respect a student's choice to refuse Al. To do this, it would be ideal that they have assignments that students can choose from that do
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 5d
“The Coalition for Action in Higher Education and AAUP Local 6741 are delighted to announce: ‘Mapping Anti-Palestinian Discrimination, Harassment, and Misinformation in U.S. Higher Education.’ This series of five webinars takes place from October to December.”
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d
For New Yorkers who work the night shift, it can be nearly impossible to participate in political life of our city.

So tonight we’re bringing this campaign to them — starting with taxi drivers waiting at LaGuardia.
Zohran with his hand on his chest leaning into the passenger side window of a taxi, talking with the driver. Zohran extending his hand to shake hands with a taxi driver through the window. An airport worker showing Zohran something on his phone, both are smiling.
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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 5d
So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t...

It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article.

Please share :)
The Video Game History Expansion Pack – Pitch your story
Today I’m putting my money where my mouth is and launching a new project — a book focused on game history outside of the usual North American perspectives.
crpgbook.wordpress.com
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Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. @drs.bsky.social · 5d
Btw, the students that selected HA LOVE it so much! 🥲😭☺️
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Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. @drs.bsky.social · 5d
I gave my students an option to create a “research lab book” in Hyperlink Academy (HA) and definitely going to use leaflet more actively as a way to connect with community! Working on a complete site redesign and prominently going to feature my HA and my use of leaflet on it!
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Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. @drs.bsky.social · 5d
I STILL think about our dinner in the Mission when you visited SF. Miss you! ☺️ Always such a treat to see your work out in the world. ♥️
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 5d
We have a new timeline up today on our Food Safety page, documenting how individual events continue to chip away at the personnel, regulations, and oversight mechanisms that make up our food safety systems:
unbreaking.org/issues/food-...
Food Safety: Timeline — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
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Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. @drs.bsky.social · 5d
Grateful to have this book in my hands! I will definitely be incorporating it into lesson planning. So wonderful to get to read @blackamazon.bsky.social @akilahhughes.com @latoyap.bsky.social @yeq.bsky.social, AX Mina, Eric Loyer, and more! So many folks I admire in this anthology. 👏🏽
A hand holding a book with an off white cover with the title in large bold sans serif font that reads We Are Civic Media.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 5d
Might anyone know of modern / contemporary artists whose work centers on the sun, light, and the solstice? I'm thinking of Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels, Emily Sheffer's Winter Solstice cyanotype project, etc...
Sun Tunnels - Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Holt’s most recognized artwork, Sun Tunnels (1973–1976), is a large-scale installation in Utah’s Great Basin Desert, a four-hour drive from the UMFA. It consists of four large concrete cylinders, arra...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d
Usha is proof that the sunken place is real
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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 5d
Come work with me!



We've opened the search for a full time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Game Arts at Pratt Institute.



A good match would be an artist, game developer, or educator with an active creative practice in indie games, game studies and theory, playful coding, or art games.
Assistant Professor Digital Arts, Game Arts 2026 (71102)
The Department of Digital Arts at Pratt Institute invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in Game Arts at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning in Fall 2026. The successful ca...
www.schooljobs.com
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 7d
New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo

“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”

“Alright, we just got to verify that”

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
www.404media.co
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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 7d
"But we also lend ourselves to the library — committing our attention, our time, our presence at board meetings, our tax dollars and donations — enlarging the commons and participating in the political project of making an informed society." 💕
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Tega Brain @tega.bsky.social · 7d
Tired of all the slop? I built a browser extension called Slop Evader that only returns search results from before Nov 30, 2022 - the pre-ChatGPT internet. Sure, the info is a couple years old, but at least you know a human wrote it :) chromewebstore.google.com/detail/slop-...
Slop Evader - Chrome Web Store
An extension for avoiding AI slop
chromewebstore.google.com
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Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social · 7d
The excellent You Are Listening To website got a relaunch/reskin/reboot:

youarelistening.to
youarelistening.to – Blending ambient music with city sounds since 2011.youarelistening.to – Blending ambient music with city sounds since 2011.
youarelistening.to
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May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 7d
help spread the word.

also “anarchy” means “absence of hierarchy” not “chaos”, which are truly not the same
jomiles.bsky.social Jo Miles @jomiles.bsky.social · 7d
The Luddites weren't anti-progress. They weren't anti-technology. They were pro worker rights. And it's convenient for the tech barons (in any age) to make us believe those are the same thing.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 7d
In a shocking reality check, @wired.com is not, in fact, bankrolled by “donations from far left organizations.”

We actually rely on an amazing and growing audience of subscribers to support our journalism, so please subscribe to WIRED if you don’t already.
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Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. @drs.bsky.social · 7d
As an educator, this hurts my soul 💔