Microsoft, Google say their data centers create thousands of jobs. Their permit filings say otherwise restofworld.org/2025/data-ce...

A First Look at Labor's AI Values: An Analysis of Recent Statements about Technology by Unions and other Worker Organizations laborcenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...

Join us next week! We’ll be in conversation with organizers and researchers who have been at the forefront of digital rights mobilization. Register: utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

THIS WEDNESDAY NOV 12TH 8:30AM ET: Feminist AI - Frameworks, Practices, Refusals Join us for what promises to be a great transnational feminist dialogue around feminist approaches to AI. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The majority of UMD faculty are nontenure researchers on federal funding. Hundreds of our public servants are threatened by MAGA science cuts. We're asking our bosses for simple things to keep people whole or provide dignified exits. If you work at UMD or have worked with us, please sign and share

“I Deliver Parcels in Beijing”: Chinese literary sensation reaches U.S. restofworld.org/2025/hu-anya...

Congratulations to @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social! More exciting research coming in our book series for MIT Press!

HELLO me + @mcforelle.bsky.social + @carolinejack.bsky.social are co-editing a collected volume on TECH/MONEY! do you want yell about technology but also about finance and business models and stuff? do you have sooo many receipts? we want your proposals! find the CFP here: oddletters.com/tech-money/

Job: Policy Attorney or Senior Policy Advisor--Just Futures Law recruitcrm.io/apply/176105...

From the Workplace to ICE: Stop the AI Surveillance Pipeline Now! zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Gilroy workers have started to package pots of marigolds to sell for #DiaDeLosMuertos altars. The pots weigh about 15 lbs. This is the busy season for these flowers and workers are laboring long hours. While flower prices have gone up, farm worker wages did not.

Congratulations to LaborTech Members Hector Beltrán and Hemangini Gupta!

A new brief by @datasociety.bsky.social @powerswitchaction.org and Coworker exposes how “privacy-preserving” technologies can actually enable more worker surveillance. datasociety.net/library/the-...

United Videogame Workers-CWA Statement on Proposed Electronic Arts Buyout cwa-union.org/news/release...

Event: New Orleans Says No To Racist Surveillance Tech mediajustice.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Ghost Workers in the AI Machine cwa-union.org/ghost-worker...

Hustle and Gig might have gotten optioned. But Side Hustle Safety Net got me into a premiere! Super excited to see gig work on the big screen in Aziz Ansari’s Good Fortune! @ucpress.bsky.social @ipk.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @asaskat.bsky.social @labortechresearchnetwork.org

Event: Workshop by the Association for Union Democracy: Democratic Rights for Union Members: Free Speech Workshop uniondemocracy.org/democratic-r...

Report: Artificial Intelligence: Principles to Protect Workers aflcio.org/reports/work...

‘Silent Plastic Women’: Representations of Gender in China’s AI Industry brill.com/view/journal...

How Silicon Valley is using religious language to talk about AI apnews.com/article/arti...

How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/01/1...

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

The Current Landscape of Tech and Work Policy in the U.S.: A Guide to Key Laws, Bills, and Concepts laborcenter.berkeley.edu/tech-and-wor...

Why I left Silicon Valley: Chinese tech workers talk about returning home restofworld.org/2025/chinese...

AI data centers are sending the cost of electricity skyrocketing www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Lawyers blamed "IT issues, personal and family emergencies, their own poor judgment and carelessness, and demands from their firms and the industry to be more productive and take on more casework. But most often, they simply blame their assistants." www.404media.co/18-lawyers-c...

Silicon Valley community college district buys workforce housing sanjosespotlight.com/silicon-vall...

Union Busting is (Morally) Disgusting lpeproject.org/blog/union-b...

A First Look at Labor’s AI Values: An analysis of recent statements about technology by unions and other worker organizations laborcenter.berkeley.edu/a-first-look...

Latin American musicians say AI is stealing their streams restofworld.org/2025/ai-musi...

Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says AI has already replaced 4,000 jobs www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article...

State of the Unions: California Labor in 2024 irle.ucla.edu/wp-content/u...

Google’s still not giving us the full picture on AI energy use www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/28/1...

China built hundreds of AI data centers to catch the AI boom. Now many stand unused. www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/26/1...

Just days after President Donald Trump announced the U.S. government had secured a 10% stake in Intel, the Santa Clara-based company revealed that it was cutting nearly 200 jobs in California www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/28/e...

The United Campus Workers of UVA faculty committee objects to the current presidential search committee, demanding a more representative and transparent process www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

The State of Independent Technology Research 2025: Power in Numbers independenttechresearch.org/citr-report-...

Event! The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South mediajustice.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

CBP Had Access to More than 80,000 Flock AI Cameras Nationwide www.404media.co/email/1925e5...

In person event: Stacy Davis Gates, President of Chicago Teachers Union Weds, Sept 10 To register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

UVA's wall-to wall union, UCWVA at UVA has joined the Faculty Senate, Student Council, Wahoos4UVA, Emeritus faculty, and others in expressing No Confidence in the Board of Visitors. ucwva.org/who-we-are/u...

Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contracts. The protest encampment started today, and it’s the biggest escalation of the protests at Microsoft so far www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

New post on my Substack about why the dichotomy between "democracy" and "technocracy" is a false one that is premised on a definition of "democracy" as public input as opposed to expert input. computingandsociety.substack.com/p/democracy-.... Thread below.

CFP: Media Industries and AI: Critical Research on Emerging Trends docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

On TikTok Live, workers stream video of themselves doing manual labor, providing glimpses of the human effort that powers our world. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/m...

Check out the syllabus: archive.org/details/publ...

Online course: AI Without Bosses--Starting Aug 28! cpe.newschool.edu/search/publi...