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

This story is shameful and enraging. SFU was warned about this contractor many, many times. Will they finally give these workers the respect they deserve and bring them into direct employment?

This story is shameful and enraging. SFU was warned about this contractor many, many times. Will they finally give these workers the respect they deserve and bring them into direct employment?

Momo with the important questions

They got people fired for saying this was gonna happen. They called them antisemitic. No one ever learns fucking anything.

From this month's edition of The Onion.

See the reason why you don’t do this is because now we all gotta wonder if Apple’s commitment to privacy will hold up when the guy whose ass you just kissed starts demanding you break it

Hey Canada! GardaWorld, one of the security vendors at the "Alligator Alcatraz" concentration camp, is Canadian! And the-oceans-meet has had a brilliant idea:

This is not sustainable. www.tiktok.com/@brutamerica...

In Ireland, the Government has been urged to embed AI as a 'core component' of the education system after a study suggested that matching OECD levels of digital innovation could create 14,000 jobs and add €1.8 billion to GDP. Who funded the study? Google. 🤔 www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

NEW RESEARCH ALERT 🚨 TechEquity just published “Take the Mic: How Worker Voice Shapes Workplace Technology,” which explores different models of worker voice and why it matters.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

For the disaffected tech worker in your life: The case for sabotage open.substack.com/pub/collecti...

How Liberalism Sabotages Itself www.offmessage.net/p/how-libera...

Leaked documents confirm that Microsoft is providing millions of dollars worth of cloud computing and AI surveillance tools to coordinate airstrikes which have killed over 50,000 Palestinians so far. Microsoft employees demand an end to ties with the Israeli military. Eko.org/microsoft

Looking forward to publication of this book on countering digital capitalism, which includes an interview with me on the @workersobservatory.bsky.social and research on Digital Worker Inquiry with @karengregory.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Garbage in, garbage out. Nothing has changed since I wrote in my book about the dangers of acting like algorithms trained on biased datasets by biased owners are objective authorities.

WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Proofs are in! Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry will be published by @commonnotions.bsky.social‬ this fall. It describes/theorizes/circulates experiences of research that feeds into labour organizing within & against digital capitalism. www.commonnotions.org/notes-toward...

We turned in the final copy edits for our new book @commonnotions.bsky.social Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, out in November Capacitor Collective = @enda-b.bsky.social, Julie Chen, Alessandro Delfanti, Brian Dolber, @gleemie.bsky.social & me. Thanks to all our contributors/interlocutors!

The Trump regime is big mad at the ICEBlock app they very much don't want people downloading. So be sure to (not) download it and (don't) tell all your friends to download it. (available for iOs only).

Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030. Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

between this and www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/t... indicating 75% of the power for that new datacentre being from burning natural gas...

"Activists w Greenpeace, No Space for Bezos, and a UK-based group called Everyone Hates Elon have all been making their displeasure known this week, with a large banner unfurled in St Mark’s Square reading, 'If you can rent Venice for your wedding, you can pay more tax.'" gizmodo.com/jeff-bezos-w...

Venetians preparing for Bezos’ wedding in their city. #venice #taxtherich #venezia #bezos

That’s why the Global Trade Union Alliance of Content Moderators is calling on tech companies to adopt mental health protections for the workers who shield internet users from disturbing and harmful material. time.com/7295662/ai-w... @uniglobalunion.org @billyperrigo.bsky.social

Some students walk in to the classroom and change your way of seeing the world. Joseph was one of them: an immensely talented filmmaker who we were so lucky to have in our very first Communication and Social Change MA cohort.

Yesterday I served as an examiner for this dissertation, a magisterial history of the late IWW centring around the life of organizer Fred Thompson. The Wobblies weren't perfect, but it was inspiring to read about their commitment to militant democracy, direct action, and revolution.

More trade shouldn’t mean less protection. Let’s build Canada with better infrastructure—not weaker labour standards. Read @lanapayne.bsky.social's op-ed. www.unifor.org/news/all-new...

Amazon Teases Next James Bond Will Face Off Against Threat Of Collective Bargaining theonion.com/amazon-...

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Amid the unfolding cataclysm that is the world right now, a tiny bit of good news. The Handbook of Digital Labour landed on our doorstep this week and its publication is special for a few reasons. Much gratitude to @jackqiu.bsky.social‬ Shinjoung Yeo & Richard Maxwell for their editorial work.

A wealth tax could raise nearly $.5 Trillion for Canada over 10 years new research by @1alexhemingway.bsky.social‬ shows. It could provide urgently needed public investment in Canada’s physical & social infrastructure and even the playing field for working-class Canadians. bcpolicy.ca/wealth-tax

What infuriates me so much about this new operation is that it is literally punishing people for following the rules and showing up to their court hearings. It is so toxic to the basic concept of following the rules. It is an operation designed by people who hate the concept of the rule of law.

People are saying this new plan is a concentration camp, but it's more like the Warsaw Ghetto. Like, literally, like the Nazi establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto. From the forced displacement to the rationing of food and supplies.