Margaret R. Eby

a fantastic reminder that history always has an insight into the crises we see as unprecedented! Rapid uptake of new technologies is no guarantee of long-term impact.

Looking forward to this exciting gathering happening in just a few weeks- if you're in the bay area, please join us! registration is free!

BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.

Biohackers and wellness influencers are pushing nicotine as part of their ‘stacks’ As smoking rates fall in the U.S., startups and influencers are pushing the purported cognitive and health benefits of indulging in nicotine.

Apparently "tech companies like Palantir now stock vending machines with nicotine pouches from brands Lucy and Sesh in the hopes of boosting their workers’ productivity." It's giving Nazi Germany on methamphetamine!

I received notification of yet another death at an ICE facility, meaning 38 people have died in custody since Trump returned to office.

ICE is failing to ensure the health and safety of the people it is responsible for.

We need immediate oversight of this entire operation.

🆕 NEW from Hastings Center Bioethics Forum: A moving essay honoring Alex Pretti’s moral courage — and the true cost of caring. 🕊️💙
authors: @maqc.bsky.social, Connie M. Ulrich, PhD, RN, Mary D. Naylor, PhD, RN

📖: https://bit.ly/4qFmKot

#Bioethics #Minneapolis #ImmigrationEnforcement #AlexPretti

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

About Epstein, Edge, eugenics, and finding my name in the Epstein files.

www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

The New Artificial Intelligentsia | Los Angeles Review of Books In the fifth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Ruha Benjamin explores how AI evangelists wrap their self-interest in a cloak of humanistic concern.

"The artificial intelligentsia is dragging us into an archaic future where intelligence is quantified, fixed, and ranked, and smartness is fetishized." Ruha Benjamin explores AI evangelists. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-new-artificial-intelligentsia

These parallels highlight the timelessness of eugenic logics, and the cruelty they inflict on even their most willing adherents– the looksmaxxers of today with their steroids, double jaw surgery, and length lengthening procedures are falling into their own traps.

Vaught also helpfully supplied illustrations of a “genuine” and an “unreliable” husband, with instructions for young women to be mindful of such characteristics when choosing a partner.

Phrenologists like L.A. Vaught argued that gendered and personality traits could be inferred from certain facial features- here’s an illustration from his 1902 “Practical Character Reader” contrasting a “masculine” and “feminine” head & face.

This (disturbing, fascinating) article highlights bizarre trends in performing race and gender in the TikTok era. It’s hard not to see these trends as the most recent iteration of early 1900s eugenics, particularly where they intersect with surging racism, transphobia, and misogyny.

Unsurprising but always horrific to read of how powerful eugenicists are steering investment/research/public interest towards reproductive dystopias.

“Medical harm is not just a matter of individual failure but is built into the very architecture of American medicine.”

Three researchers on how eugenic ideas linger in medical education: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/medical-education-yale-university-american-eugenics-society-legacies/

Today marks one year since the tragic loss of Michael Burawoy, ISA President (2010-2014).

In his memory, we have compiled an e-book based on the commemorative online session held last February, preserving the messages, stories, and photos contributed by participants.

It's been one year since we lost Michael Burawoy, a tremendous scholar, teacher and mentor. Taking time today to revisit his work and remember his contagious optimism even in the darkest of times- onwards and upwards!

JAMA "Author Disclosure of Use of AI in Submissions to 13 JAMA Network Journals." The graph shows "All AI use" and "AI use other than language" from Sept 2023 to Oct 2025. "All AI use" generally increased, while "AI use other than language" remained stable.

Declared artificial intelligence (#AI) use in JAMA Network submissions rose from 1.7% to nearly 6% in 27 months, most frequently for language refinement and more often reported in manuscripts from non–English-speaking countries.

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New bursts of ICE activity as Minnesota surge spreads beyond Minneapolis, St. Paul As the Department of Homeland Security undertakes stepped-up immigration enforcement in Minnesota, arrests and other confrontations have been popping up in more locations.

The Minnesota Star Tribune is following reports of individual ICE incidents as we learn of them. Find updates here. Tips can be emailed to whistleblower@startribune.com.

surging eugenic logics go hand in hand with increasing ableism- heartbreaking to read of this regression.