A controversial parking ramp project in Philadelphia's Grays Ferry neighborhood left three construction workers dead after a catastrophic collapse. At the vigil, we heard from Shawmar Pitts, an organizer from Philly Thrive, about the history of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) project.

Using secure messaging services for all communications and considering what content you post on social media are just two easy ways to build an online space that feels as free and safe as speaking with those closest to us in the offline world. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

“The wish that women’s care work be waged seems to have come true, albeit in a funhouse-mirror form: legions of women now work in low-paid roles caring for other peoples’ families, while the vast majority still take care of their own families for free.” www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Want to use AI to assess people’s medical care needs? Then @eff.org thinks you ought to be transparent about the data you’re using. www.courthousenews.com/digital-advo...

In Beneath the Wage, @anniemcc.bsky.social retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated. Out now (2 June UK pub). Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Sociology

In @newint.bsky.social, D&S's @mwoluchem.bsky.social and @livgar.bsky.social write about their work tracing the impacts of, and resistance to, the AI industry's development push in Pennsylvania — and introduce us to some of the people living in the thick of it. newint.org/science-and-...

Join us Friday, 2-4PM for @aydelottefound.bsky.social's panel - How to Stop a Data Center - online and @swarthmorecollege.bsky.social! Panelists from @datasociety.bsky.social, @kairosfellows.bsky.social, @peoplestechproject.bsky.social, and Philly Thrive. RSVP for zoom link: bit.ly/stopdatacenters

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

A new book by Molly Crabapple documents the rise and fall of a revolutionary Jewish party that fought against Zionism and for ‘solidarity across difference’

Along with passing legislation banning cooperation with ICE, Pittsburgh City Council also passed a resolution to disclose all surveillance technology the city is currently using against citizens.

New online: @sarahljaffe.bsky.social interviews Kathi Weeks about her new book. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

The government wouldn't give us a list of data centres seeking power in Ontario. So, we built one ourselves. What @rorywh.bsky.social and I found: at least 15 projects drawing a combined 2,202 MW: more electricity than 2 million homes. #OnPoli for @nationalobserver.com 🧵

Available to watch! If you missed our co-hosted even on "Hope and refusal in an era of criminalized care: Responses to Pirate Care", you can now watch the video recording of the event here: youtu.be/RSyFwmpad1w

My favorite comment on the FT story

This is why the phrase comes up in so many of the things I've written about AI. AI does three main things: 1) dismantle the institutions necessary for democratic society to thrive 2) transfer wealth upwards 3) create the permission structure for (1) and (2)

Well when you put it like that, I’m sold. (from @xiandivyne.bsky.social)

I'm going to be doing this webinar on AI and insurance tomorrow with two incredible scholars. It's going to be a great discussion. Come along! dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/co-opt...

As one of the authors of this thought I’d share a bit about how we got here and how you can do what we’ve done at you institution. Over the two years I’ve been at the University of Edinburgh I’ve grown increasingly concerned by fellow academics uncritically using LLMs, especially OpenAIs’s ChatGPT.

Approximately 950 non-tenure track faculty at New York University walked off the job on Monday, after their union and the university failed to reach agreement on raises and better job security. www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/23/n...

Having closely monitored the situation, I say that this is the best summary of prediction markets I've seen to date:

yesss thank you for coming Elsie! Shout out to @aydelottefound.bsky.social for sponsoring 🙏 #artagainstAI

"Finance, paranoïa et radicalisation de la valeur" - Fabian Muniesa - Multitudes - 101 - 2026 shs.cairn.info/tap-1e50d8y7...

Emily Tucker, the Executive Director of @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social, remains stellar and GOATed. medium.com/center-on-pr...

The go-to phrasing I saw was "rich people's yacht money" and all the headlines make sense. "Increased public welfare could be devastating to rich people's yacht money." "High unemployment is an encouraging sign for the health of rich people's yacht money."

Editorial from our student newspaper: "In its tireless support for AI, the University has essentially endorsed shortcuts and the outsourcing of academic thinking"

Recall how much "how will you pay for that" hand wringing came from conservatives, centrists, and media folks when it involved student debt relief. www.npr.org/2022/09/27/1...

📢🚨 Webinar training 💻 30+ cities across the U.S. have canceled or paused their contracts with Flock as communities rise up to fight back against ICE surveillance - YOUR city can be next! Join us for a training on how to launch a campaign to end ALPR contracts near you! fftf.link/flockno

You really should preorder @miriamposner.com's Seeing Like a Supply Chain. Out this fall and so so good. The sort of software studies project we need rn.

interested in questions of tech, labor, and worker futures? on April 10 in Princeton i'm hosting an outstanding lineup of panelists at "the future of (data) work," where speakers will discuss the ethnographic, archival, and participatory action research they've conducted with data + tech workers

@margaret.bsky.social thank you for this absolutely wonderful episode! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... I'm wondering if you would consider sharing any of the resources you read for this, I'm writing ~ a thing~ on burial societies and the history of mutual aid and would love to keep building 🤓

Higher ed workers must come together as a united front to defend higher education as a public good. HELU has been organizing since 2021 and is growing. Come to the Open House to find your place within our organization. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Check out this new global database: Worker Mobilizations around AI in Arts, Culture, and Media The tracker currently maps 107 unions, associations, collectives, and coalitions across +25 countries. creativelabourcriticalfutures.ca/resource-fil...

Interested in working at DAIR? We're hiring a communications lead, who we needed yesterday. Is that you? Please apply. Is that people you know? Please share the job ad with them so that they apply.

If you support LPL and want to help us, please spread the word! We are looking for some early-career person to join us for a summer of research. Full details >> short.lucyparsonslabs.com/lpl2026apps

Join us for BD&S 2026 Colloquium, Panel 4: Governing Digital Infrastructures: Platforms, AI, and the Public Interest (Mar 18 | 15:00–16:30 GMT / 11:00 AM–12:30 PM EST) uky.zoom.us/j/83382671765 #DataGovernance #STS

And again: "For years, the work of African data labellers has been more or less “ghost work,” the unseen, hidden labor that lets American tech companies build their products." www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?” www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

In a truly democratic society, the people would decide together where our money goes, what we produce, where we apply our labor, and who and what we serve. Workers don't want a war economy.

🚨 Calling all tech workers! Join us hear from tech workers that are fighting back, our strategy, and learn how to join our partner campaigns fighting authoritarianism: Purge Palantir and QuitGPT. 📅 March 12, 2026 ⏰ 4pm PT / 7pm ET 🔗 register at bit.ly/techquitGPT

Last Wednesday, US tech companies gathered at the White House to sign a nonbinding, unenforceable pledge to offset data center energy costs. But energy bills are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the costs of hyperscale data centers people see in their backyards, writes Jenna Ruddock.

hi STS people! are you engaged in political struggle against fascism? do you have things to share: strategic reflections, organizing artefacts, etc.? do you have thoughts about how we will win? if so, you should submit something to our open panel at 4S this year! www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...

Tried power mapping with my big lecture class and was pleased with the way it went. The assignment is here if you're interested in the logistics of it. docs.google.com/presentation...

Tomorrow morning!

Tech workers are speaking up! Lisa Kresge's research found three "main buckets" of provisions in tech-related union contracts: Decision-making power & governance; Worker protections & employer obligations; & Technology itself & how it will be used. Panel discussion: techequity.us/2026/02/24/t...

This is missing "China"....

"War doesn't operate with surgical precision. It doesn't remove one figure & install another. It shifts power to those most capable of wielding force. It weakens civil society faster than it builds alternatives. It deepens grievances that last generations" -Mahbod Seraji truthout.org/articles/thi...

That is why we are hosting a free online class for educators (and everyone who wants to attend) on the bombing of MOVE and the “On a MOVE” curriculum project in Philadelphia. Learn more and register below. www.zinnedproject.org/news/on-a-mo...

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin