CNV Library just received a new copy after I requested one Excited to start reading "... the Capacitor Collective has conducted eleven illuminating interviews with platform workers and organizers whose efforts ... imagines new ways to produce knowledge with and for the movement." #booksky

Common Notions gift guide - for all the loved ones who know that labor creates all wealth @veronicagago.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social @enda-b.bsky.social @gleemie.bsky.social

We will be launching Notes Toward a Digital Workers' Inquiry in Toronto on Feb 12! Thanks to the Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education & the Digital Labour research Group at U of T for organizing: www.tickettailor.com/events/panit...

Some lovely words from Nick Dyer-Witheford for Notes Toward a Digital Workers' Inquiry, co-authored w/ Julie Chen, Alessandro Delfanti, Brian Dolber, @gleemie.bsky.social & @tamigraph.bsky.social, & published by @commonnotions.bsky.social. Get it at: buff.ly/9Li5A3U (DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE for 25% off)

"This brilliant text explains and exemplifies the practice of 'Workers Inquiry' as applied to Big Tech. Critical, self-reflexive, partisan, rich in radical analysis..." —Nick Dyer-Witheford, co-author of CYBERNETIC CIRCULATION COMPLEX (@versobooks.bsky.social)

Inside the Labour Struggle at Massy Books via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

#AcademicSky vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...

If you want to do research that is ethically committed and makes labor movements stronger, this is a collection of reflections from those who have been there and done that.

WE WON! After 42 days of striking we have a tentative agreement in hand that protects our existing 4 day work week, establishes a minimum salary, and adds protections against AI replacing jobs at our workplace!

"This essential book articulates and embodies ethical knowledge production amidst the rising tide of tech authoritarianism...It is an inspiring and critical corrective to the proliferation of apolitical research on Big Tech." —@veenadubal.bsky.social ⚡️ buff.ly/eFJqFWQ

I’ll be in conversation with Sana Ahmad next Monday, November 17 at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social about our new @commonnotions.bsky.social book on digital workers’ inquiry and my forthcoming @datasociety.bsky.social report on climate action in and against the tech industry

Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today! Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount

Capacitor Collective = @julieychen.bsky.social, @enda-b.bsky.social, Alessandro Delfanti, Brian Dolber, @gleemie.bsky.social and myself. Thanks to folks we interviewed including @krystalkauffman.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @katejsim.bsky.social and to @veenadubal.bsky.social for the blurb

I guess I got early access by preordering and now having read my copy, I can attest that this is good! Check it out!

🚨 Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry is out! We’ve collected stories, struggles, and strategies from the tech sector’s labour movement—even as digital platforms reshape work and tech billionaires side w Trump. Get it at: buff.ly/9Li5A3U (DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE for 25% off)

CBC News put together an excellent story on yesterday's memorial for Kulbir Kaila at SFU Burnaby, with words from her family. Please take a few minutes to watch and share. Justice for Kulbir. Never again. SFU must end the contracting out of low wage work NOW. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

What policy looks like in a country that cares about cultural work: www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

Join Contract Worker Justice next week to honour Kulbir Kaila, a beloved CUPE 3338 cleaner who passed away on the job. Speakers include her family, CUPE 3338 reps, & MLA Rohini Arora. Dignity, safety & direct employment for ALL SFU workers! ✊🏽 👉 RSVP: t.co/m4Dt3snC5h

On Oct 14th (tomorrow!), the Lewis for Leader Campaign is hosting our first National Mass Organizing call—and you’re invited! Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @anjaliappadurai.bsky.social, Adel Iskandar, Nastaran Yadollahi & others to hear how you can get involved. lewisforleader.ca/organizercall

For SFU people, on the hill this Thursday.

Tickets for US World Cup in 1994 Cheapest: $25 Most expensive: $475 Tickets for US World Cup in 2026 Cheapest: $1,815 Most expensive: $48,000 Gotta hate dynamic pricing santaclaranews.org/2025/10/13/2...

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Join Contract Worker Justice next week to honour Kulbir Kaila, a beloved CUPE 3338 cleaner who passed away on the job. Speakers include her family, CUPE 3338 reps, & MLA Rohini Arora. Dignity, safety & direct employment for ALL SFU workers! ✊🏽 👉 RSVP: t.co/m4Dt3snC5h

With grocery giants ripping off Canadians, it’s time for a bold alternative: public grocery stores. Food analyst Aaron Vansintjan explains how a publicly-run grocery option could solve the crisis of skyrocketing food costs. youtu.be/RPuEhQl8Cxo

Our book is out next month! In a long essay on digital worker inquiry and 11 interviews w/ organizers all along the digital value chain, we consider the relationship between research and organizing within and against digital capitalism.

In case you forgot, Uber has a data labeling business in which it provides a platform to other businesses to outsource annotation, translation and editing tasks to independent contractors. It just bought another data labeling startup. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The ACSJ interest group of the ICA has now joined this bright place and abandoned what we felt was no longer a good environment for research into social justice and activism. Let’s make this site a lively forum for exchange together. ACSJ members and friends - please follow us here

Is Kneecap banned from Canada or not? NDP urges answer in high-profile case www.msn.com/en-ca/news/p...

Another piece on the death of Kulbir Kaila while working for cleaning service contractor Best at SFU. Please circulate. We need this contractor off of our campuses NOW the-peak.ca/2025/09/sfu-...

The people at this ostrich farm are the same gang that opposed M-103, co-opted yellow vests, push UN / WEF conspiracies, opposed lockdowns, face masks and vaccines, occupied Ottawa, harassed people at drag story time events etc It’s all the same far-right influencers and content creators every time

WTF. If this is true I will also sue Gasparro for denying us @kneecapceol.bsky.social

Thrilled to see this out in the wild, co-authored w/ @ppopiel.bsky.social @sydneyforde.bsky.social @theine.bsky.social, with terrific editorial support @theconversation.com @democracyeditor.bsky.social from start to finish. theconversation.com/a-paramount-...

Read this piece on the role of external consultants in restructuring Canadian universities. SFU has been using them since 2021/2022 and they are likely behind decisions to cut some of our most progressive public-facing programs in recent years. nationalpost.com/feature/how-...

Carney’s Liberals are cowards. But we knew that already.

"Glorifies terrorist organizations?" Like the people who fought for Irish independence?

While Kneecap’s rise to prominence has clearly troubled the Liberal party, Vince Gasparro’s claim that the band glorifies terrorist organizations is an obvious smokescreen meant to divert the public’s attention from the band’s steadfast support of the Palestinian people. @enda-b.bsky.social writes.

Canadian Jewish News: Irish band Kneecap barred from entering Canada "The decision to prohibit the band from entering Canada was welcomed by Jewish advocacy groups which have been lobbying the federal government for months on the issue. B’nai Brith Canada also thanked the government for the move"

Had tickets and was so looking forward to this show. This is an absolute fucking outrage and puts Canada on the EXACT SAME level with our boot-licking, dissent-cancelling neighbours to the south. Solidarity to @kneecapceol.bsky.social and FREE PALESTINE ✊✊✊🇵🇸🇮🇪 🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪

#Trump's 'fine people' on the radical right are the one's doing the killings.

$200 billion worth of data center projects are being built in the South, according to a new report from @mediajustice.bsky.social. To keep up with the massive amounts of energy these centers consume, projects like gas pipelines and coal plants are also growing. mediajustice.org/wp-content/u...

We’re having a party to launch BC Policy Solutions! Gather for conversation, connection and celebration to support evidence-based economic and social change in our province. Join us! Oct. 16, 5:30 - 8 PM Heritage Hall, 3102 Main St, Vancouver Light refreshments RSVP party.bcpolicy.ca

The White House’s official X account has a long thread in which they’ve posted pictures of people arrested during the feds’ occupation of the city. Every single person in the thread is a person of color.

Check out @bbiunion.bsky.social @americanwork47.bsky.social and myself chatting about workers' inquiry and class composition in the café sector on the @librarypunk.bsky.social podcast