Erin McElroy

Grammarly Offering Manuscript Reviews by AI Versions of Recently Deceased Professors The Grammarly "Expert Review" feature uses AI to provide feedback on papers using the name and work of real professors, dead or alive.

Daily reminder that calling ai dead labor and stolen labor is literal.

UT to consolidate gender and ethnic studies programs into one new department Affected departments include those that focus on African and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican American Studies, Women and Gender Studies and American Studies.

This is a travesty. African and African Diaspora Studies at UT Austin has been one of the best programs in the country. And for historical context, this is explicitly about reversing the gains of student movements in the 60s and 70s.

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ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

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Props to the developers behind ICE Map, cataloguing all known ICE incidents www.icemap.dev

New issue of ESTS out, including an interesting article by Luis Felipe R. Murillo and Erin McElroy @erinmcel.bsky.social on possibilities for creating “'political software' aligned with the goals of housing action research" estsjournal.org/index.php/es...

Conflicting info about whether Pretti was murdered by ICE or CBP makes it clear that ICE is not single "rogue agency"

ICE, CBP and ALL policing & borders must be abolished. This isn't just one agency; its an entire infrastructure of carceral control, illegalization & criminalization, and fascism.

There is no "immigration problem"

There is no migrant problem

There is no problem with illegals

There is no border crisis

Only a problem of the border and the machinery of death that upholds it.

DHS Shooting Victim in Minneapolis Was a ‘Sweet’ and ‘Principled Person’ Zeteo spoke with two doctors who worked with Alex Pretti, a nurse who is the latest victim of Trump’s violent invasion of Minnesota.

New: Alex Pretti, the man killed by the Trump-Vance mob of agents was an outdoorsmen, a mountain biker, an ICU nurse who "would go out of his way to help," say Veterans Affairs colleagues.

Cheerful. Funny. Gentle.

And still, per sources, Trump officials are urging staff to call him a "terrorist."

ICE Agents Fatally Shoot Observer in Minneapolis - UNICORN RIOT ICE fatally shot a woman acting as an observer to their immigration actions in Minneapolis.

NEW: ICE Agents Fatally Shoot Observer in Minneapolis

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Disciplining Through Landlord Technologies: Why the Carceral Logics of Tenant Surveillance Require Abolition Facial recognition and other surveillance systems are increasingly being deployed in low-income housing across the United States, adding new scopic regimes into an already carceral propertied landsca...

Excited to have this out in the world

“Disciplining Through Landlord Technologies: Why the Carceral Logics of Tenant Surveillance Require Abolition”

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‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead Exclusive: group behind notorious Florida immigration detention center created bid for reconstruction deal Trump administration insiders and well-connected Republican businesses have been jostling to dominate pending humanitarian aid and reconstruction logistics in the shattered Gaza Strip, according to sources and documents reviewed by the Guardian. With three-quarters of Gaza’s structures damaged or destroyed by two years of Israeli strikes, the rebuilding effort to come – estimated at $70bn by the United Nations – could be a rich prize for companies that specialize in construction, demolition, transportation and logistics. Continue reading...

‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead

Thanks so much for having me on! If was such a fun and rich conversation! @dukepress.bsky.social

Join us as we “reflect on what bringing abolitionist and ant- imperial geographies together in post-socialist contexts can do. Just as global capital connections mapped the Siliconizing moment, other connections scaffold the very possibilities of unbecoming Silicon Valley.”

Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?

I would say this because I edited it but @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social's piece on tech bros founding their own for-profit cities really is unmissable reading www.ft.com/content/b127...

Launching the Genesis Mission By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

Advancing techno-fascism, the EO edition.

Don’t give up. Don’t give in. Let’s be inspired together on December 7!

This Is What Genocide Looks Like When Silicon Valley Writes the Brochure Corporate, tech oligarchs are providing the infrastructure for and profiting off genocide in Gaza. But accountability is closer than you think.

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In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together "Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.

My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."

Wednesday, October 29 Political Technology: Silicon Traps and Cartographic Contradictions By UC San Diego Design Lab Design@Large is a UC San Diego course powered by The Design Lab that is open to the public. Wednesday, October 29 · 4 - 5pm PDT About Political Technology: Silicon Traps and Cartographic Contradictions In this talk, McElroy will explore the hopes and struggles of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project-- a data visualization, counter-cartography, and digital media collective that produces tools, maps, reports, murals, zines, oral histories, and more to further the work of housing and spatial justice. While the collective emerged to design research that could be mobilized to combat gentrification and racial banishment resulting from Siliconization, it nevertheless has continually been forced to navigate the contradictions and complexities inherent in mobilizing data, digitality, and software to organize against Silicon Valley-instigated geographies of dispossession. As we have found, even attempts to create “open” technology and mapping projects often end up reproducing Silicon Valley dynamics. In this talk McElroy discusses the technological and technocultural tensions, visions, and ecosystems inherent in navigating these spaces in today’s techno/racial capitalist conjuncture, historicizing these struggles within a longer arc of attempts to craft anticapitalist and anti-imperial politically grounded technology projects.

For those in San Diego tomorrow! Political Technology: Silicon Traps and Cartographic Contradictions

Wednesday, October 29 · 4 - 5pm PDT

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Dozens of Northern California immigrants abruptly summoned to ICE office for weekend check-ins Several dozen people reported to the Stockton office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Saturday afternoon after receiving summons, immigrant advocates said.

BREAKING: Dozens of Northern California immigrants abruptly summoned to ICE office for weekend check-ins www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Technofascist Fever Dreams. Talk at the Tenley-Friendship Neighborhood Library Oct 9th 3-4:30pm

For those in DC!

Join the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies on Wed, Oct. 8 at 4 p.m. for the launch of Technocreep and the Politics of Things Unseen—a feminist take on why our ties to tech often feel “creepy.”

go.umd.edu/technocreep

This explains a lot. For a moment, I wondered why they'd do something as ridiculous as drop agents on the roof of the apartment building from helicopters, but of course, they did it for this footage. The same reason they were marching in formation downtown and snatched a family in Millennium Park.

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

Covers of Bangkok after Dark, Speculative Relations, Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, The Politics of Care Work, Beautiful Mystery, Unfurl, The Dream of a Common Movement, and Becoming Trustworthy White Allies, arranged in a 4x4 grid.

Catch authors @burrata.bsky.social, @pepepierce.bsky.social, @nassimparvin.bsky.social, @erinmcel.bsky.social , & @emmaamador.bsky.social at events in October!
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To be clear: 1.) This is NOT an annual fee. It's a one-time fee that applies only to the petition. 2.) Those who already hold H-1B visas and are currently outside of the country right now will NOT be charged $100,000 to re-enter. H-1B visa holders can leave and re-enter the country to the same extent as they normally would; whatever ability they have to do that is not impacted by yesterday's proclamation. 3.) This applies only to new visas, not renewals, and not current visa holders. It will first apply in the next upcoming lottery cycle. 4:16 PM • 9/20/25 • 397K Views

And now this is the first statement from a named White House official, hours before the proclamation is set to go into effect.

Despite saying “to be clear,” her first tweet in this thread contained an FAQ posted yesterday which contains NONE of the information she lists below.

J.S. Citizenshit and Immigratior Services September 20, 2025 Memorandum TO: Associate Directors, Deputy Associate Directors, Program Office Chiefs FROM: JOSEPH B Digitaly signed by JOSEPH B EDLOW Joseph B. Edlow EDLOW Date: 2025.09.20 Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services **00 SUBJECT: Proclamation, Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers, H-IB On September 19, 2025, the President issued a Proclamation, Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers, to address systemic abuse of H-1B nonimmigrant visas. Pursuant to sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1182(f) and 1185(a), the entry into the United States of aliens as nonimmigrants to perform services in a specialty occupation under section 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b), is restricted, except for those aliens whose petitions are accompanied or supplemented by a payment of $100,000. This guidance applies to H-IB employment-based petitions filed after 12:01 AM ET on September 21, 2025.| This proclamation only applies prospectively to petitions that have not yet been filed. The proclamation does not apply to aliens who: are the beneficiaries of petitions that were filed prior to the effective date of the proclamation, are the beneficiaries of currently approved petitions, or are in possession of validly issued H-1B non-immigrant visas. All officers of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services shall ensure that their decisions are consistent with this guidance. The proclamation does not impact the ability of any current visa holder to travel to or rom the United States. cc: David V. Roy, Chief Counsel (A) FOUO, For Official Use Only

NEW: Hours before a new entry ban is supposed to go into effect, the federal government officially acknowledges for the first time that the restrictions do NOT apply to people who currently have H-1B visas.

Link: www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

What happens when your landlord turns your home into a surveillance zone? From facial recognition cameras to automated fines, tenants are finding their daily lives policed in new ways.
Hear Erin McElroy on Against the Grain unpack the rise of “landlord tech.”
Full interview → kpfa.org
#KPFA #BayArea

US Army Finally Fields IVAS Goggles After Years of Delay The US Army is finally fielding its Integrated Visual Augmentation System goggles after years of technical issues and delays.

Anduril found another cash soaked sucker for their war fantasies. Microsoft failed for years and wasted tons of money on IVAS only for the kits to crap out in the field. Leave it to zuck to jump into another metaverse.
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