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kairosfellows.bsky.social
Today, we published a new report. “Google’s Eco-failures” goes deep into the appendices of Google’s environmental report to bring you the truth about their skyrocketing emissions and speculative investments.

Read more here: noclimateresultsfound.com/report/
July 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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dumplingmenace.bsky.social
hello philadelphia, people who work in philadelphia, even people who want to come to philadelphia for the world cup but don’t like the smell of trash, consider supporting DC33 in their fight for a fair contract!!!!!!!
= The Inquirer SUBSCRIBE > $1 for 6 months Though it is the largest city workers union, it is also the lowest-paid of Philadelphia's four major municipal unions, with members earning about $46,000 a year on average. It is also the only union of the big four in which a majority of its members are Black, The Inquirer previously reported. Call and email Mayor Parker and top City officials to demand they give DC33 workers a fair contract. Calling City officials shows the City you are paying attention and support workers. It also makes it harder for officials to coordinate breaking the strike. Cherelle Parker, Mayor Cherelle.parker@phila.gov Kevin Bethel, Police Commissioner Kevin.bethel@phila.gov 215-686-3357 215-686-3367 Adam Theil, Managing Director Adam.theil@phila.gov 215-686-1300 cell- 215-305-7336 Carlton Williams, Director of Clean and Green Carlton.williams@phila.gov 215-686-5460 Dominick Mireles, Emergency Management Director Dominick.mireles@phila.gov 215-686-2106 215-531-3581 Sinceré Harris, Chief Deputy Mayor Sincere.harris@phila.gov Jazelle Jones, Director of Special Events Jazelle.jones@phila.gov 215-686-3496 FIND YOUR CITY COUNCIL REP: phlcouncil.com
July 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
stephjordan.bsky.social
We have had some incredible local wins but now it is time to face the Goliaths. Please help write letters to Michigan higher ups. Easy and one click at this link (and you can edit to your concerns if you wish!) actionnetwork.org/letters/stop... @stopthedata.bsky.social
Stop the Hydro Park Data Center
We need to be loud about out opposition to the data center! There is so much not to like: the impact to the water, air, and land, the health effects to surrounding communities, the tax money, the war ...
actionnetwork.org
July 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
stephjordan.bsky.social
Reports coming in that ~200 people and 40+ public comments today at the Ypsilanti Township Board Meeting against Los Alamos! We are just getting started. Have you met this town?!! We are going to Stop the Data Center @stopthedata.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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stopthedata.bsky.social
This is THE thing to do about the data center!! See you Tuesday!
June 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
stephjordan.bsky.social
Underlying ICE raids is a surveillance system they are trying to expand in my backyard here in Ypsi. The US is fielding wild stories of detainment right now, informed in part by a racist AI. Friends everywhere: help us stop the expansion @stopthedata.bsky.social
stephjordan.bsky.social Steph Jordan (they/she) @stephjordan.bsky.social · May 27
Friends, Los Alamos and UoM are trying to build a war machine on my cross street here in southeast Michigan. I need your help!! We are early and this is possible to stop! We need all hands on deck @stopthedata.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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haimson.bsky.social
Excited to give a new talk at @labortechresearchnetwork.org this Friday 6/13, 11am ET on Zoom. I'll discuss trans capitalism, funding models behind trans tech, and the unhinged saga of a doomed trans banking app. Info on how to attend: labortechresearchnetwork.org/speaker-series
June 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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eff.org
Everyone's security plans and situations will always be different. But the first step to a better online world is looking at your community and figuring out what's needed and how to get everyone else on board.
Building a Community Privacy Plan
Everyone's security plans and situations will always be different, which is why we often say that security and privacy are a state of mind, not a purchase. But the first step is always taking a look a...
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June 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
stephjordan.bsky.social
Friends, Los Alamos and UoM are trying to build a war machine on my cross street here in southeast Michigan. I need your help!! We are early and this is possible to stop! We need all hands on deck @stopthedata.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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artificialbodies.net
Actions by residents to block toxic data centers!
2. ADVOCATE TO SLOW OR STOP DATA CENTER DEVELO Communities can challenge individual data center projects, as well as local and state policies and regulations that govern data center buildout more broadly. Here are some strategies groups are currently using. TACTIC WHAT IS IT? Zoning Reform Requiring data centers to be approved on a case-by-case basis involving public hearings, instead of being granted "by-right approvals" that allow companies to develop with minimal oversight. Tax Policy Reform Limiting the tax breaks and related corporate subsidies that city, county, and state governments use to entice data center investment. Transparency Measures Requiring data centers operators to end secret deals and to disclose costs and resource usage, including: • Energy and water consumption • Emissions from back-up diesel generators • New infrastructure needed (transmission lines, roads, substations) • Cost impacts on utility consumers • Sales tax and property tax exemptions received Renewable Energy Requirements Restricting and regulating data centers' energy use, including introducing policies for renewable energy requirements. Utility Reform Requiring data center companies to cover the costs of electricity grid expansions and other utility infrastructure that their increased energy use causes. This can be done by designating data center companies as a special "customer class" or "rate class" with utility companies, to prevent the costs from being spread across all consumers. Communities are also exploring other utility reform tactics to oppose cost increases for everyday people and prevent electricity grid instability. Vote Down Data Center Proposals (often via Zoning Approval Processes) Pressuring local officials to vote against data center proposals, especially in processes to zone or rezone land for these developments. Zoning approvals are often the biggest opportunity to stop data center develop-ment. It's critical to move quickly, as companies often wait until…
May 8, 2025 at 3:41 AM
stephjordan.bsky.social
Submit now for the Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org Book, Grad Student Paper and Social Justice Awards! labortechresearchnetwork.org/awards
Labor Tech
Labor Tech Research Network - A collection of leading experts on technology and work with a commitment to feminism, anti-racism, and social justice
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May 9, 2025 at 12:24 AM
stephjordan.bsky.social
Today I submitted to the registrar the last grades of my career as an academic. I feel so lucky I get to say that I achieved my childhood dream: I became a professor. And, now I will keep going, beyond my childhood imagination ✨
May 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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eff.org
A strong federal consumer data privacy law would help us address online harms, protect children, support journalism, protect access to health care, foster digital justice, limit private data collection to train generative AI, limit foreign government surveillance, and strengthen competition.
EFF to Congress: Here’s What A Strong Privacy Law Looks Like
Enacting strong federal consumer data privacy laws is among EFF’s highest priorities. For decades, EFF has advocated for federal privacy law that is concrete, ambitious, and fully protective of all Am...
www.eff.org
May 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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There it is.
tedmccormick.bsky.social Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · Apr 11
Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.
April 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
stephjordan.bsky.social
So... once they dismantle all centers of excellence and make the internet the only shiny direction, how do we build resilience against their impending technostate?
April 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
stephjordan.bsky.social
Sandra Harding paved the way for someone like me to dream the way that I do. It has been an absolute honor to have spent time thinking and laughing with such a singular thinker (and fellow Jersey kid!) dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/f...
Farewell to Sandra Harding
We were sorry to learn of the death of philosopher Sandra Harding on March 6, 2025 at the age of 89. She was Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at the University of California, Los Angeles. H…
dukeupress.wordpress.com
March 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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haimson.bsky.social
TODAY at 3pm! Ann Arbor book launch event with Kishonna Gray and @hibby.bsky.social.

www.si.umich.edu/about-umsi/e...
March 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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charleswlogan.bsky.social
If you're a caregiver (and/or teacher or school leader) concerned about surveillance technologies in schools, I maintain the Against School Surveillance Technologies Library. The library has journalism, peer-reviewed research, and other resources on the problems of surveillance technologies.
March 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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sioflynn.bsky.social
Oh no no no
Edutech surveillance
March 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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yonahfreemark.com
Reminder: Generative AI is an environmental disaster, requiring massive energy, minerals, water, and land use www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact
MIT News explores the environmental and sustainability implications of generative AI technologies and applications.
news.mit.edu
January 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
stephjordan.bsky.social
Just fielded a heartbreaking apology from someone who at the time said I was being SO DRAMATIC calling his 1st term eugenics. But now in his 2nd, their ppl are dying too. Fam, in the gorgeous words of @margaret.bsky.social "I Hope We All Make It" docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I Hope We All Make It
Birds Before the Storm I Hope We All Make It or: reflections on mutual aid and the network of care https://substack.com/home/post/p-152572206 Margaret Killjoy Dec 04, 2024 Not all my friends wa...
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March 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
stephjordan.bsky.social
If you are queer, dont just delete your accounts. Archive your posts. These are the stories we want to remember these times. Dont let the only remnants of these times be how the Nazis (or ones that said we were being dramatic about Nazis) tell it.
thetransfemininereview.com The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · Dec 20
Do you know how to store data to last decades? Are you overwhelmed by the task of archiving the trans internet?

Introducing TFR’s first guest column, “Archiving Your Trans Microlibrary” by my lovely editor @nobleheroine.bsky.social, a practical guide to the techie side of literary preservation:
Archiving Your Trans Microlibrary, Part One
“On the internet, nothing ever disappears.”
thetransfemininereview.com
March 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
stephjordan.bsky.social
On #longcovid and community (and just staying awake generally), I sobbed listening to this Una Osato interview bc of how resonant this take is to my experience podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
Una Aya Osato: Human Barometer
Podcast Episode · Living in this Queer Body · 06/21/2022 · 1h 22m
podcasts.apple.com
March 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
stephjordan.bsky.social
Really thinking about long covid's impact on community participation and Beck Levy's hard and very relatable story today 🖤 #ihavelongcovid
thesicktimes.org The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · Nov 19
Before COVID-19, Beck Levy was a hardcore punk rock performer. Now, she has severe #LongCOVID and has watched her place in the world creep away from her. This week at The Sick Times, read Beck’s essay about what it feels like when your subculture leaves you behind. bit.ly/3V0KJBv
A stylized green and purple rendering of a photo of Beck Levy performing before COVID-19. The text reads, “THE SICK TIMES: Missing the gig: When your subculture leaves you behind with Long COVID. By Beck Levy.” A black background white white text and purple accents reads, "I thought our deal was fuck the state, we’ll do it our way. I found myself slipping through the subcultural safety net that exists for outcasts who are slipping through the cracks of mass culture and late capitalism. - Beck Levy, Missing the gig: When your subculture leaves you behind with Long COVID."
March 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM