👻Spooky Costanza-Chock

#Introduction Hi! I'm Sasha Costanza-Chock (she/they/ella/elle). Researcher & designer, focused on a just transition to a regenerative democratic economy. Research Director, OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (MIT press): design-justice.pubpub.org. Web: schock.cc 🇵🇸🍉📚🎶😻❤️‍🔥🌈🏳️‍⚧️

This year at #MozFest26, I'm honored to be moderating "Pushing through the Concrete," a showcase of visionaries who aren't waiting around to build the worlds we need. Feat. @blackskyweb.xyz's R. Fraser; MakerBay's C. Harada, Thaura.ai's Chihabi bros.; Ushahidi's A. Oduor Lungati; & Prof Min Jiang

MozFest needs your help! If you have a few hours to spare and would love a free ticket to MozFest (and a highly coveted MozFest hoodie to take home!) please sign up to volunteer through this link: airtable.com/appQhxZYJtnK... MozFest will be Oct 28-30 at Reciente Fabra i Coats

I wonder how many of the folks at the @opentechresearch.org conference are actually using open source operating systems. (Inspired by the fireside chat between @schock.cc and @avilarenata.bsky.social.) #OTRSymposium2026

LULA 1️⃣3️⃣

Power Rangers com LULA

Let's gooooo #Lula

There's a general strike that's been called in November, right around the corner, in Spain, for the first time since the feminist movement and labor movement called a general strike in 2018: kpfa.org/area941/epis...

Gracias por abarrotar el acto de hoy en Nou Barris, Barcelona. Casa, vida y futuro para todas y todos este 29N.

Demonstrators want pensions to remain indexed to inflation and the gender pension gap to be eliminated.

Protests sweep Italian cities amid heavy security presence, some violence reported reut.rs/4ibuM68

Dancehall’s interactive, collaborative nature doesn’t treat a work as isolated or even something that is “finished.” Iteration is a part of the creative process that is decided by the next function or party.

The encampments kept getting bigger every day I passed by

As well as France there are massive crowds today in Brazil as they show up for one last rally for Lula before the election tomorrow. We are watching Brazil 💚 Vote Lula.

Plaza Cataluña esta okupada y viene la huelga general. Imágenes: varias fotos de las consignas y escultura rebelde dentro del campamento, y un foto de policía Antimotín

They should invent a kind of law where companies who break it get prosecuted

It's fine. This is fine

O, that the young should stand where their elders sat silent—it stirs my heart like a trumpet. Bravery is a strange inheritance, passed not by blood but by need. Be brave, be strong, for the world is mended by such hands.

This is good. They are conceding that they've become toxic and will need to work harder to hide their money trail

Me, approaching elder, watching the gen z protests in Spain, Italy, France, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, India, etc etc

🚨 TODAY’S THE DAY 📚 After years of work, my new book HYPERSCALE is finally on bookshelves! It chronicles the data center boom just as the backlash is reaching a fever pitch. Get your copy today: hyperscalebook.com

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality keeps issuing permits for data center construction despite governor issuing a halt fractracker.org/2026/10/texa...

Enten: "Trump's net approval rating -- its all time low! -35 points, the worst he has ever been in the Reuters/Ipsos poll. Among independents he's 54 points underwater. NBC -- worst ever. ABC -- worst ever. Ipsos -- worst ever. Pew -- worst ever."

"States are already legally obligated under international law to mitigate all global catastrophic risks." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Not arundhati Roy coining "prompticles" I'm dead 💀💀💀

Lorena Gonzalez: "catastrophic job loss is a political decision" *Drops mic*

What's so hard to understand about the fact that holding AI companies accountable for laws they're breaking NOW is absolutely essential to keeping them from breaking more laws, in worse ways, with bigger consequences, in the FUTURE

Lina Khan spitting fire at the People's AI Assembly rn www.youtube.com/live/JZ7DnHo...

Big AI is spending big against me, because I'm for taking them on.

AI shouldn't be able to fire you, fire a weapon, or deny you healthcare.

Glitchmaxxing

Angel food sound system in Detroit Sounds just as delicious as it looks!

🚨 EXCLUSIVO: a campanha de Flávio pagou R$ 600 mil a uma empresa que tentou vender nos EUA um sistema de IA para manipular eleições. Documentos obtidos pelo Intercept Brasil revelam que a tecnologia oferecida incluía criação de contas falsas, desinformação e técnicas de guerra psicológica.

I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.

Tech boss masks are off, and workers aren’t having it. We speak w/ Clarissa Redwine and @js-tan.bsky.social, authors of Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry, in our latest episode “My Tech Workers Have Unionized”! (w/ @emilymbender.bsky.social)

Depois dos Black Block, vem aí os Six-Packs

“These men are all talk; What is needed is action — action!” - John Brown

NEW and BREAKING @wired.com: Trump White House aides see almost no paths to Republicans keeping control of the House, according to three sources familiar with the situation — and are more focused on trying to save the Senate majority www.wired.com/story/trump-...

WSJ reports that the Trump administration is deploying federal agencies in an effort to denaturalize and deport Representative Ilhan Omar: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

You blew up my bot farms so now I'm shutting off your satellites type shi

A haunted house where every room has a broligarch, pacing the frontier

At least eight people have been killed on the streets by DHS agents since the beginning of Trump’s second term, at least 57 have died in immigration detention, and thousands have been “disappeared” within the shadowy detention network or to places abroad.

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

that’s right