The intro is up!!!!! Cannot wait for this book, no matter how many versions I’ve already read: dukeupress.edu/how-we-write-n…
Congrats, quad Jennifer C. Nash !!

The passing of the ASA Sociology Resolution for Justice in Palestine, calling for an immediate & permanent ceasefire in Gaza and supporting academic freedom, including for those speaking out against Zionist occupation, is a historic moment.

You can read our press release here:

Happy to share this review I wrote of the iconic Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman's new book. Her scholarship has been so influential to my thinking for nearly a decade now.
hyperallergic.com/912600/the-ant…

a typical workday for low-paid african workers training AI, involves “watching murder and beheadings, child abuse and rape, pornography and bestiality, often for more than 8 hours a day,' their letter to biden reads. they say they make less than $2/hour
wired.com/story/low-paid…

The NYPD wrote 467 summonses for jaywalking last year. 92% went to Black or Latinx people. Just blatant racism. If you ask the NYPD to enforce a law, they will do so in a racist fashion, without fail. nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/05/22/on-…

If I owe you an email, imagine what I owe myself

just FYI wewatchwatchers Dr. Sarah T. Roberts [email protected] Safiya Umoja Noble Ruha Benjamin Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا) Yeshi Abeba Birhane Jathan Sadowski Edward Ongweso Jr Meredith Whittaker Paris Marx Mary L. Gray Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK

Open letter to Pres Biden from tech workers in Kenya during Pres Ruto's state visit to US
foxglove.org.uk/open-letter-to…

NEW: In an internal Meta threat assessment I obtained, WhatsApp engineers warned users are vulnerable to government spying that unmasks who's talking to who. Employees later speculated Israel may be exploiting this to target and kill across the Gaza Strip theintercept.com/2024/05/22/wha…

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I am beyond thrilled to share that DATA BY DESIGN: AN INTERACTIVE HISTORY OF DATA VISUALIZATION, 1789-1900 is now open for community review at dataxdesign.io. It's the work of 15+ people across 5 institutions, 2 continents, 2 babies, and a global pandemic. A🧵but first:

So excited to read and teach with this project, now in open review! Congrats to Lauren Klein | @laurenfklein.bsky.social and the whole team! Dataxdesign.io

If you only read one Washington Post article, this should be it. It names billionaire founders and CEOs who were in a WhatsApp conversation with Mayor Eric Adams about changing US perceptions of the current genocide.

It gets deep. Look at the names.

To anyone who doesn’t believe that blocking celebrities is wildly effective, watch this.
#blockout2024
#BlockCelebrities
#FreePalestine ✊🇵🇸🪁

And the graduation cap comes from the tradition of placing a Quran on the head of the newly minted scholar - the tassel was the Quran’s bookmark. It was “to symbolize the primacy of Scripture over the intellect.”
Can I get a Mashallah. :)

baytalfann.com/post/graduatio…

“It’s a real over-response on the part of the university and a lack of understanding of the rights of employees to free expression, to assembly, and to association…If [UT Austin] did this, they can do anything.”

Fired f/resisting being pushed by officer kut.org/crime-justice/…

This is your regular reminder that most communications on Telegram are not end-to-end encrypted. Channels and groups are never end-to-end encrypted and 1-on-1 messages are only end-to-end when explicitly enabled.

UPDATE: disinformation about Signal spread by Telegram's founder & allies is reaching high-risk dissidents and activist communities.

People are scared.

Amoral & cynical way to push users to a competing-but-less-secure product.
x.com/jsrailton/stat…

This DisInfo campaign against Signal is sooo stupid that the extent is actually overwhelming. Flood-the-zone effort.

The comment in the third screenshot is kind of perfect as a TL;DR

everything I hear and read about UCLA last week is totally surreal and terrifying lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/may/…

New: UT Austin’s Faculty Council voted in a meeting this morning on a resolution defending the First Amendment right to free speech on campus and a call for amnesty for pro-Palestinian protesters

The motion failed, with 24 voting no, 21 voting yes and 4 abstaining. More below: