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...

From LaborTech member Alex Rosenblat! During my kid’s surgery, I was denied a copy of my consent form — then sent to a ghost office themarkup.org/hello-world/...

🚨 Our next Speaker Series event: Matt Scherer will join us to discuss "Algorithmic Decision System Legislation in the United States: Power, policy, and poison pills." 08/21 @ 12:00 (ET US) cdt.org/staff/matt-s... To RSVP/get Zoom info, email Angelica (angelica.martinez.ochoa @ gmail)

As Britain experiences one of its worst droughts in decades, its leaders suggest people get rid of old data to reduce stress on data centers. www.404media.co/uk-asks-peop...

Learn more about the Labor Tech Research Network! Winifred Poster (Director), Stephanie Jordan (board member), and Karina Ripley (Lead Organizer) appeared on Up Next @ Work to talk about the network's history, building a subfield, and the power of refusal. wrkdefined.com/podcast/up-n...

Job: Principal Researcher – Sociotechnical Systems – Microsoft Research jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

Kenya's Digital First Responders: The Hidden Workforce Powering Global Tech cued.uic.edu/wp-content/u...

Survey: Have You Experienced Generative AI Scams or Fraud? mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/f/AI-Fraud&t...

Voiceover Artists Weigh the 'Faustian Bargain' of Lending Their Talents to AI www.404media.co/voiceover-ar...

Phase two of military AI has arrived www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/15/1...

Big Tech is building AI in the desert. The water may not last restofworld.org/2025/gulf-ai...

‘Toxic’ Laundry, Melting Aprons: Mauser Strike Hits Two Months labornotes.org/2025/08/maus...

🚨 New post over at the LaborTech Blog! On Policing: Would Graeber Say that Policing Is a Bullshit Job? By Stephanie Guirand medium.com/@labortechre...

Uber’s Festering Sexual Assault Problem www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/b...

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

Podcast: Spotify Is Publishing AI Tracks of Dead Artists www.404media.co/email/c391b5...

Living Next To Tesla Diner Is 'Absolute Hell,' Neighbors Say www.404media.co/living-next-...

Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops www.404media.co/home-depot-a...

A CBP Agent Wore Meta Smart Glasses to an Immigration Raid in Los Angeles www.404media.co/a-cbp-agent-...

Hybrid workshop where you can hear from Lucy Suchman, HCI legend and organizer with Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, the amazing Joan Greenbaum with Computer People for Peace, and other awesome organizers from #notechforapartheid and other tech-ademia organizing efforts

Grad students working on labor 👀 Check out this call for submissions for the @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social Eric Wolf Prize. The recipient will receive a $250 and an invitation to develop the paper for publication in AWR @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social saw.americananthro.org/pub/2025-wol...

Fenway concession workers on strike

Data Centers Aren't the Future of American Prosperity- @tamigraph.bsky.social & @mwoluchem.bsky.social bust the myths of data centers: they don't massively increase jobs, they don't increase clean energy investment, and they don't benefit local communities! OH SNAP datasociety.net/library/data...

Coping with Climate Crises on the Job labornotes.org/2025/07/copi...

Police racism and criminalisation across Europe increasingly fuelled by digital 'prediction' and profiling systems www.statewatch.org/news/2025/ju...

🚨 Our next Speaker Series event is TOMORROW, July 24 @ 10am (ET US) Hemangini Gupta will join us to discuss "Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India" To RSVP/get Zoom info, email Angelica (angelica.martinez.ochoa @ gmail)

Event: Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms (WOIP) Report Launch For more info: digilabour.com.br/worker-owned... Registration: digilabour-br.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule www.wired.com/story/silico...