the Executive Order overriding AI regulations from the states will make Americans vulnerable to technological harm. On Austin's @kvue.bsky.social this week: www.kvue.com/article/tech...

The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact

25% of U.S. data workers at AI companies (valued at 5 trillion+ dollars) are paid so little they have to rely on public assistance programs like SNAP. #AICorporateWelfare via the new report from @techequity.bsky.social and CWA: techequity.us/2025/09/30/g...

man, it's not looking good for the billionaires. All the public speaking students who used to recite the Wolf of Wall Street monologue are now picking Fight Club.

the conversation between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, two friends who fundamentally disagree, is a remarkable read. Ta-Nehisi's clarity has been carrying me after weeks of feeling defeated by the techno-political moment. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

first day of the semester and in the words of Kerri Colby: I'm here to wake it up!

*presses play on Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight*

"How to live? Be soft, get by, go slow, open up, find others, try to be kind, funny if you have it in you. Get things done, think justly, create, learn your corner as best you can." Lisa Henderson, Every Queer Thing We Know

Headlines say AI is replacing workers, but beneath the headlines is a more sinister truth—they're being reorganized, outsourced, and devalued to make automation possible. @samshorey.bsky.social lays it all out in the latest #FiresideStacks 🔥 www.firesidestacks.com/p/patchwork-...

Out now in the AI Hype special issue in Digital Journalism, "Automating Essential Work:" 📰 10 years of news stories 📈 tech company execs become sources when the industry shifts from traditional automation to robots 👷🏻‍♀️ 0 quotes from on-the-ground workers doi.org/10.1080/2167...

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

NEW 📰: AI automation is making government jobs more stressful & error-prone, hurting workers & constituents. @samshorey.bsky.social offers a scan of the existing landscape of AI implementation from across the country & the true impact on workers & efficiency. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

This hands unchecked power to tech firms aligned with Trump, silencing local oversight and boosting political manipulation. This will impact our elections and explode the amount of misinformation reaching Americans.

The current version of the One Big Beautiful Bill still includes a provision that prohibits any state from regulating AI for the next ten years if they want access to the $500 million allocated for AI infrastructure.

every one of us is all we need 💛

this interview with Ocean Vuong pulled and pulled at my heart-strings. And the comments section too (a rarity) sharing in the loneliness and grief of class mobility. whew. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/m...

Sen. Schatz (D-Hawaii) is the first senator to go hard on AI training data and intellectual property, saying what we're really talking about is training AIs on all of human achievement up to now — spitting out "what appears to be knowledge" without compensation for the humans who generated it.

My students taking the final exam after enduring a semester of in-class critical engagement activities:

Imagine if projector salespeople told you projectors were great in the classroom not because they let everybody see an image better but rather because now every course could be about projectors, because projectors are the future and the time to opt out of talking about projectors all day has passed.

📑 teaching tip: On the final exam, include a question that asks "What is one piece of advice you would give a future student about how to succeed in this class?" (All answers get full credit, unless they're rude). Then compile the most actionable responses into a doc for students next semester.

The future of AI shouldn’t be left in the hands of tech billionaires and corporations. Workers must have a real voice in how AI is deployed. Explore more on why we need a pro-worker agenda for AI that includes real safeguards and worker-centered policies. #restoringdemocracy

The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

No matter how cool the videos look, the important thing about this robot "poised to move into our homes so it can help with the daily chores" is actually 10+ paragraphs into the article: It is controlled by a Norwegian guy in the basement!

I spend so much time trying to get people riled up about terrible "AI" so we can work on different, non-terrible ways to build "AI," & also be informed enough about "AI" to be able to call our reps or stand up in town halls & council meetings & talk about why shitty "AI" shouldn't be woven into govt

The labor movement will not stand by and let Elon Musk and DOGE gut the essential services that working people rely on without a fight. Join AFL-CIO President @lizshuler.bsky.social, labor leaders, and allies TONIGHT for a webinar on how we stop their power grab: actionnetwork.org/events/mar13...

Years of constant AI hype + deliberate use of the umbrella term AI to refer to wholly unrelated applications such as text generation and values-based decision making (the main point of "AI Snake Oil") has confused the public enough that replacing civil servants with AI seems at least plausible. 1/2

1/ I suspect we are days away from hearing Elon is "using AI" to “streamline” benefits programs. You should know why fully automating decisions about who gets critical assistance is a terrible idea that will have disastrous consequences. A 🧵 based on work I’ve done with the great @awhf.bsky.social

Robots are widely marketed as "time-saving" devices. This efficiency-based perspective makes sense for managers in workplaces, but what about our choices at home? I've learned a lot researching with this interdisciplinary team! Here is a preview of our project (graphic by @wolfchirp.bsky.social):

📙 currently reading: Buy Now by Emily West. The smartest observer of consumer culture bringing her point-of-view to tech! She flips the typical critique of digital surveillance (as hidden from users), arguing that companies like Amazon have actually branded "surveillance as service."

📙 currently reading: The Fight for Privacy by @daniellecitron.bsky.social and it would be a fabulous addition to any undergrad syllabus — a discussion of digital privacy through the lens of relationships, dating apps, and love.

academics freaking out about this are acting like they haven't been telling grad students for two decades that to succeed in academia they should never actually read an article, but rather skim and "just read the first sentence in each paragraph, the abstract and discussion." 🙄

I was setting a deadline with a research team and our senior collaborator asked us how much time we would need to accomplish our tasks AND keep the joy in our work. 🤯 game-changing question!

lot of negativity towards AI lately, but consider : are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No. *but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no. *but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no. maybe you're not being negative *enough*

As a scholar, my research interests lie at the intersection of Critical Technology Studies and this:

10/ We presented ‘Patchwork: The Hidden, Human Labor of AI Integration’ at CSCW. It’s about the ingenuity and efforts of essential workers who adopted AI technologies that were widely hyped as solving the problems of the pandemic. dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

It’s been a big year! But in this phase of my professor-life, I find myself constantly getting caught up in the climb (🧗🏻‍♀️ ← me, climbing / hanging on by a thread) and forgetting to appreciate the peaks. Here is a thread to record and celebrate some of those moments: