Orange poster with a photograph of Sami Schalk with a beautiful smile (gorgeous red lipstick), fashionable glasses, and colorful half donut circle earrings, wearing a yellow top.
Join us for three amazing events on queer crip pleasure, art, and activism with @drsamischalk.bsky.social, our speaker for the prestigious Mandel Lecture in the Humanities.
Of course law enforcement can access Ring footage. Surveillance scholars have been documenting this for years.
"Safari Surveillance: A Reflection on Seeing and Being Seen in Kruger National Park" by Julia Rootenberg.
Love to see this new post in the Surveillance & Society blog, _blink. #surveillance #wildlife #Kruger
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Image of book cover: Watching Women by Stephanie Brown
Steph Brown [@stephjayb.bsky.social] has just won the 2025 Surveillance Studies Book Prize for Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State, 1905–1924. This is an incredible book that everyone should read. Congrats, Steph!!
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Photo of book: The Church Committee Report
Just received this incisive new book about government #surveillance abuses and crimes during the 1970s. Totally prescient for today’s world. @mguariglia.bsky.social iglia.bsky.social & @brianhochman.bsky.social ochman.bsky.social have made a major contribution here!
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Screenshot of Surveillance & Society journal page.
In case you missed it over the holidays, Surveillance & Society published a great new issue. There’s a section on “Global Futures of Digital Confinement,” a dialogue on 25 years after the “surveillant assemblage,” and much more! #surveillance #openaccess
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A group of Home Depot (HD.N) investors is asking the company to review its partnership with surveillance firm Flock Safety and state how its data is used and shared with law enforcement, following reports by an independent media outlet that the vendor's data has…
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I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation
Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures".
Open panel submissions portal is open! ls!
Deadline: 2nd February 2026
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Iran’s Case Should Put an End to Illusions About Digital Sovereignty, by @azadehakbari.bsky.social for @techpolicypress.bsky.social. Important not just for #Iran, but to counter the growing tendency to see #nationalism as a solution to platform #capitalism.
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This looks great! Thanks for sharing and for the nice feedback on my work too.
Wrote about some of the visuals in suffrage newspapers (1910-1914) as surveillance art the aimed at conveying state brutality for Modernism/modernity (@mmodernity.bsky.social). It came out on Print+ over the holiday! 1/
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These new plans are an important reminder that ICE is still getting its infrastructure in place, and they are relying on being able to co-opt state and local law enforcement officers to carry out their agenda.
Fighting the spread of 287(g) agreements is critically important.
Preorder today. “Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance.” #books
"The epistemological exchange that allows AI-generated imagery [...] to operate as a proxy artifact of photographic history endows it with an artificial relationship between truth and representation that is subtly leveraged in disinformation campaigns."
📝 Our Fall 2025 issue of the SKAT Newsletter is out!
See inside for information about SKAT sessions at #ASA2026, a call for award nominations, Q&As with book authors, and more.
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All these edtech and AIed testbeds don't follow the evidence-based "what works" policy model that's dominated education for years. They're *making* AI work in real-world school settings to generate insights for policy and tech. Schools are AI testing labs now.
"Critics of adversarial fashion say because the surveillance state is so complex and wide-reaching, anti-surveillance fashion is more effective at raising awareness than actually changing the status quo." Yes, I'm one of the critics! #surveillance #resistance
Regardless of how many researchers highlight the cultural trends against "AI" data centers, & the increasingly widepread public awareness of the unequal economic & environmental harms of these systems, a lot of tech-pilled ppl will only pay attention once it shows up somewhere like WIRED.
So here:
BREAKING: Amnesty International, S.T.O.P. Lawsuit Reveals NYPD Surveillance Abuses #BanTheScan @amnestyuk.bsky.social
"New York promises to be a sanctuary city, but we’ve created nothing short of a surveillance state." - S.T.O.P. Executive Director Michelle Dahl
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Alongside armored vehicles, local police are getting surveillance technology with help from the federal government. Learn what tech law enforcement have in your area with EFF's Atlas of Surveillance, where we’ve documented thousands of examples: atlasofsurveillance.org/
"If they have this much money, this much ability to peer into everyone’s private lives, it raises some fundamental questions about where American democracy is going." @foxcahn.bsky.social #ICE
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This is one of the best analyses of the total grift and scammery of AI in education I’ve seen, and it is a MUST Read: “Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI - defector.com/higher-eds-r...
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What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...
In my experience, climate committed youth are especially unaware of the impact meat eating has on the planet.
“Food and agriculture contribute one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions – second only to the burning of fossil fuels.”
#vegetarianism
Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Episode 62
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Come to hear @mharrisondupre.bsky.social , @alexhanna.bsky.social and I dismantle the misplaced enthusiasm for chatbots in therapy, stay for the literal word sausages.
Surveillance functions in anticipatory and reactive modalities: 1) to preemptively interrupt pro-Palestinian speech; 2) to punish and terrorize individuals for their expressions of dissent.
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In my latest piece in Surveillance & Society, I investigate #Colombia University’s police crackdown on protesters; #UCLA’s tolerance for terror inflicted by vigilante counterprotesters; and the broader punishment and dismissal of professors voicing criticism of Israel’s war in #Gaza.
Screenshot of Surveillance & Society article: "Silencing Dissent: Surveillance and Police Actions on University Campuses during Pro-Palestinian Protests"
🚨New Publication Alert: “Silencing Dissent: Surveillance and Police Actions on University Campuses during Pro-Palestinian Protests” 🚨
This article explores #surveillance, #violence, and #dissent on university campuses in the United States.
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