The Mothership
@mothership2024.bsky.social
Life on Earth as though women and children mattered. Labor rights/ digital rights/ gender justice. Host, The Mothership. Day job: Intl Center for Research on Women. We are in the #Femisphere. On medium.com/@bamaathreya
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In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”
October 3, 2026 at 12:00 PM
In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”
This week: "In the epicenter of all our efforts to regulate and content moderate an end to online violence sit a very small handful of sadistic men, champions of violent pornography but quite happy to suppress speech when it calls attention to their own crimes."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump AI deal rebrands ‘artificial intelligence’ as ‘superintelligence’
The US president announces vague ‘morally binding’ AI agreement among tech CEOs for ‘tremendous self-policing’
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2026 at 12:36 PM
This week: "In the epicenter of all our efforts to regulate and content moderate an end to online violence sit a very small handful of sadistic men, champions of violent pornography but quite happy to suppress speech when it calls attention to their own crimes."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
This 👇
Reading proofs from book & remembering what I wrote in 2015:
"I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.”
"I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.”
October 1, 2026 at 11:11 AM
This 👇
Read this whole thread, and also @theguardian.com article on this horrible report 🧵1/3
Today I was made aware of the most laughable and dangerous white paper I have ever fucking seen published by this Government!
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Before I link to the paper we will be going through it together because you need to understand why this was published and how to dispute it because maga.
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Before I link to the paper we will be going through it together because you need to understand why this was published and how to dispute it because maga.
September 13, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Read this whole thread, and also @theguardian.com article on this horrible report 🧵1/3
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Want an example of successful pushback on "AI" (surveillance) ed tech? This story is uplifting and amazing. @ifeoma.bsky.social is absolutely amazing. Thank you @alixdunn.com and @themaybe.org for this episode.
www.themaybe.org/podcast/meet...
www.themaybe.org/podcast/meet...
Meet the Mom Winning Against AI in Schools w/ Ifeoma Ozoma
In New Mexico, kids are required to read aloud to an AI avatar named Amira—and it records their voices without consent. Ifeoma Ozoma fights back.
www.themaybe.org
September 11, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Want an example of successful pushback on "AI" (surveillance) ed tech? This story is uplifting and amazing. @ifeoma.bsky.social is absolutely amazing. Thank you @alixdunn.com and @themaybe.org for this episode.
www.themaybe.org/podcast/meet...
www.themaybe.org/podcast/meet...
The same people building the data centers are behind the destruction of lifesaving data sets. Why?
themothership2025.substack.com/p/why-are-we...
themothership2025.substack.com/p/why-are-we...
Why Are We Building Data Centers and Destroying Data?
Library stock photo Dreamstime
themothership2025.substack.com
September 11, 2026 at 9:47 PM
The same people building the data centers are behind the destruction of lifesaving data sets. Why?
themothership2025.substack.com/p/why-are-we...
themothership2025.substack.com/p/why-are-we...
Backlash against data centers - good. But not yet enough outrage over the destruction of actual, credible data.
themothership2025.substack.com/p/why-are-we...
themothership2025.substack.com/p/why-are-we...
Why Are We Building Data Centers and Destroying Data?
Library stock photo Dreamstime
themothership2025.substack.com
September 11, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Backlash against data centers - good. But not yet enough outrage over the destruction of actual, credible data.
themothership2025.substack.com/p/why-are-we...
themothership2025.substack.com/p/why-are-we...
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NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period.
The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
www.propublica.org
September 9, 2026 at 12:00 PM
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period.
The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
Do we support ensuring aging billionaires continue to accumulate wealth, or do we invest in our future?
www.earlyopportunities.org/blog/a-wake-...
www.earlyopportunities.org/blog/a-wake-...
A Wake-up Call for the Country — Early Opportunities
As a nation, we can do so much better for young children and families By Joan Lombardi, PhD I walked into my first Head Start classroom in 1972 . It was from that program, those families, and that...
www.earlyopportunities.org
September 3, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Do we support ensuring aging billionaires continue to accumulate wealth, or do we invest in our future?
www.earlyopportunities.org/blog/a-wake-...
www.earlyopportunities.org/blog/a-wake-...
Guess what- investing in child survival actually grows economies (as if keeping children alive weren't reward enough!) So why is the Trump regime so committed to killing children?
www.unicef.org/reports/chil...
www.unicef.org/reports/chil...
The Child Survival Dividend
How saving children's lives generates compounding returns for economic prosperity, global security and our shared humanity
www.unicef.org
September 3, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Guess what- investing in child survival actually grows economies (as if keeping children alive weren't reward enough!) So why is the Trump regime so committed to killing children?
www.unicef.org/reports/chil...
www.unicef.org/reports/chil...
Hope + strategy + lots and lots of hard work. Showing up all the time. This is how good people make good change.
rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/in-miss...
rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/in-miss...
In Mississippi, Advocates Fight for Childcare Despite Austerity
Matt Williams of Mississippi Low-Income Child Care Initiative explains how Mississippi advocates are fighting austerity to expand childcare subsidies and build support for public investment.
rooseveltinstitute.org
September 2, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Hope + strategy + lots and lots of hard work. Showing up all the time. This is how good people make good change.
rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/in-miss...
rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/in-miss...
Our legal priorities: defunding public schools to give more to tech billionaires.
www.thebanner.com/economy/mary...
www.thebanner.com/economy/mary...
Maryland’s tax on digital advertising by tech giants struck down in court
The tax, first approved in 2020, is designed to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for public schools by taxing Big Tech for ads that follow Marylanders around as they peruse social media platforms...
www.thebanner.com
August 29, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Our legal priorities: defunding public schools to give more to tech billionaires.
www.thebanner.com/economy/mary...
www.thebanner.com/economy/mary...
Circulating this article is an act of resistance against epistemic violence. Reading it is a means to empowerment. #femisphere
@techpolicypress.bsky.social @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social
www.techpolicy.press/how-ai-hype-...
@techpolicypress.bsky.social @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social
www.techpolicy.press/how-ai-hype-...
How AI Hype Helps Render Women Invisible
AI images are a new form of structural violence, writes Eugenia Stamboliev—not through what we see, but through whom we do not see.
www.techpolicy.press
August 29, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Circulating this article is an act of resistance against epistemic violence. Reading it is a means to empowerment. #femisphere
@techpolicypress.bsky.social @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social
www.techpolicy.press/how-ai-hype-...
@techpolicypress.bsky.social @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social
www.techpolicy.press/how-ai-hype-...
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Amazon started as a company that sold books; now it's a company that destroys them.
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August 25, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Amazon started as a company that sold books; now it's a company that destroys them.
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We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org).
But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare.
Priorities.
But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare.
Priorities.
August 18, 2026 at 9:15 PM
We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org).
But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare.
Priorities.
But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare.
Priorities.
Myth vs reality: time-saving technologies aren't where we need to invest. It's policy and normative shifts and a commitment to redistribute and reward care and ensure all care workers, paid or unpaid, are represented. #careworkiswork
time.com/article/2026...
time.com/article/2026...
Can AI Free Women from the Mental Load of Caregiving?
Innovation has not brought about women’s liberation, writes Marianne Cooper.
time.com
August 12, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Myth vs reality: time-saving technologies aren't where we need to invest. It's policy and normative shifts and a commitment to redistribute and reward care and ensure all care workers, paid or unpaid, are represented. #careworkiswork
time.com/article/2026...
time.com/article/2026...
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Libraries make us a harder target for authoritarianism. Equal access to info, ideas, and space that doesn’t require a purchase to belong.
Also: using the library means money stays in your community instead of streaming out to Amazon. 📚
What’s checked out on your card right now?
Also: using the library means money stays in your community instead of streaming out to Amazon. 📚
What’s checked out on your card right now?
August 9, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Libraries make us a harder target for authoritarianism. Equal access to info, ideas, and space that doesn’t require a purchase to belong.
Also: using the library means money stays in your community instead of streaming out to Amazon. 📚
What’s checked out on your card right now?
Also: using the library means money stays in your community instead of streaming out to Amazon. 📚
What’s checked out on your card right now?
The US and every country have so many ways to invest in their own futures by investing instead of exploiting. #careisinfrastructure
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/m...
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/m...
The U.S. Relies on Family Caregivers. Millions of Them Are Kids. (Gift Article)
The modern health care system requires the work of caregiving to fall to whoever else lives in a household — even if they’re kids.
www.nytimes.com
August 5, 2026 at 3:39 PM
The US and every country have so many ways to invest in their own futures by investing instead of exploiting. #careisinfrastructure
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/m...
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/m...
Big AI is not going to prioritize our interests nor solve our problems. This is the way - @restofworld.org
restofworld.org/2026/ai-data...
restofworld.org/2026/ai-data...
Fed up with Big Tech, communities turn to data collectives for control
Data collectives and cooperatives, which let creators control the collection and distribution of their data, are emerging as preferred alternatives to big tech companies.
restofworld.org
August 1, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Big AI is not going to prioritize our interests nor solve our problems. This is the way - @restofworld.org
restofworld.org/2026/ai-data...
restofworld.org/2026/ai-data...
Ominous: hidden buyers sucking up the world's rare books and possibly destroying them. Meanwhile billionaires fund campaigns attacking public libraries. Knowledge is power.
"The world's best AI training data is setting on a shelf."
AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain
AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.
trib.al
August 1, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Ominous: hidden buyers sucking up the world's rare books and possibly destroying them. Meanwhile billionaires fund campaigns attacking public libraries. Knowledge is power.
The story I didn't know I needed - h/t @sampizzel.bsky.social
Top corporate execs are lusting after the cost savings AI could provide. Now comes an unwelcome answer to their dreams: OverpAId, a parody project that offers an AI-powered replacement for your company’s CEO.
#CEOpay futurism.com/artificial-i...
#CEOpay futurism.com/artificial-i...
New Site Threatens to Replace CEOs With AI for Tiny Fraction of Their Bloated Salaries
A new site called OverpAId threatens to unleash AI on the money-hungry CEOs currently trying to automate away the working class.
futurism.com
July 27, 2026 at 12:56 PM
The story I didn't know I needed - h/t @sampizzel.bsky.social
