!!!NOW #HIRING!!! - Postdoc: design for societal impact apply.interfolio.com/187187 - Codesign specialist apply.interfolio.com/187163 - Lecturer in design apply.interfolio.com/187186 Join the Keller Center at @princeton.edu & keep #tech #design centered in societal responsibility! #academicsky

According to a new Gallup poll, women are driving the increasing opposition to data centers. This aligns with what D&S's @anthrotechana.bsky.social is seeing in her research on PA's data center industry, she tells @19thnews.org. 19thnews.org/2026/05/wome...

Report Shows ‘Bossware’ Is Spying on Workers and Sharing Their Data. Verge article: “Meta and Google get data from the app your boss uses to track you” Workplace monitoring tools are apparently sharing information even further than workers may realize. www.theverge.com/policy/93529...

New video out now! Watch our panel titled ""Against Surveillance & Spectacle: Building Global Resistance to Tech-Mediated Oppression," featuring @vashetc.bsky.social , Kim Fernandes, & Cheng-Hsiu (Shin) Yang in conversation w/ @remiyergeau.bsky.social youtu.be/GXEjOPdpfa0?...

New piece out with @jonathanzong.com where we look at how accessible infrastructure has been continually coopted by technological advancements, and both people with disabilities and everyone else now must compete for use of these spaces.

In a new series on Points, @rwjf.org futurist-in-residence (& D&S affiliate) Joan Mukogosi is exploring what the intertwining of care & AI might mean for the future of digital health. That future is ours to shape, and these essays offer inspiration for building it. datasociety.net/points/reima...

Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

As agentic AI rapidly transforms internet infrastructure, how do we ensure disabled people's needs are not displaced? In a new article by me and @frank.computer, we argue that accessibility must not be treated as an incidental benefit of rapid AI expansion. Read below:

Spread the word: "The Luddite Lab Resource Hub provides resources for unions, labor organizations, and worker-organizers fighting AI and automation at work. The lab provides strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of new technology through case studies, primers, and a resource library."

Academia is in a toxic love triangle with the military and Big Tech, and their love language is money. I spoke with @davidthewid.bsky.social about this triangle - how academia may unwittingly advance AI warfare, how we got into this mess in the first place, and how we get out of it. Listen here 👇

Had a great time talking with one of the best out there @samleecole.bsky.social for @404media.co about everything from historical security technology and struggles with laying cooperative Internet fiber to how AI slop has come to inundate education—and how to combat it. + lol our faces here.

"By organizing, they are insisting that people closest to AI’s development should have a voice in its direction. Listening to them is not just a matter of workplace fairness. It is essential to our ability to govern AI" Ft @js-tan.bsky.social @nataliyan.bsky.social @emilymazo.bsky.social research!

Also in the special issue: "AI as a War Issue, War as a Workers’ Issue" www.aaup.org/issue/spring...

The anti-data center movement isn’t just about limiting local development—it represents a new front in the fight against tech-enabled authoritarianism. Where else can people push back on job-eating algorithms, distorting deep fakes, and autonomous drone strikes? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New issue of the @aaup.org Academe magazine -- AI in the Corporate University -- looks incredible. Important pieces by @dmgreene.bsky.social @hellobrittparis.bsky.social @heavyredaction.bsky.social @heavyredaction.bsky.social @tisjune.bsky.social and many others. www.aaup.org/academe

New article alert! "Transit workers offer instead visions of a labor future centered on dignity, safety, and democratic control over technological change" Check out "Futures of transit work Contesting Devaluation and Neoliberal Automation in Bus Transit" by Hunter Akridge & Sarah E. Fox

Our North Star Data Center toolkit identifies the affirmative policies to protect communities and equips organizers with policy pathways to stop, slow, and restrict the rapid expansion of AI data centers. Explore it here: datacenters.ainowinstitute.org

Join @dairinstitute.bsky.social and workers on the front line of resisting AI as we release the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a new resource for fighting AI at work. 9 AM PT / Noon ET / 4 PM GMT on Wednesday, May 20 www.eventbrite.com/e/launching-...

The data center rebellion is just the start, or it should be. Rather than impeding AI governance, this is where good, truly democratic AI governance begins. A look at who's fighting data centers, why, and how a working class resistance can lay the groundwork for a better AI politics:

This is a problematic take. 1. This author draws on personal LLM experiences, such as tutoring as a PhD holder. Actual studies that show mixed results for LLMs as tutors in, say, CS education, including cognitive offloading and students not building relationships with other people.

At Rutgers we’re putting forward contract language for decision-making ability around tech to protect our data/material + guard against discriminatory uses of tech. NJ’s future depends on Rutgers’ teaching, research, and service to promote real social + practical skills + outputs, NOT AI slop.

May 7! Join author @hellobrittparis.bsky.social for a discussion of her book “Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up” with Mizue Aizeki, exec director of the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience, and D&S's @anthrotechana.bsky.social. datasociety.net/events/what-...

8 more days to submit an abstract to our 4s panel, "Taking Back Technopower: STS and strategic interventions in the fight against technofascism." Looking forward to an engaging conversation centered on the (totally small, very easy) q: "how do we win?" Apply by 4/30: www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...

Thank you to the 500+ movement leaders who joined us last weekend for #TakeBackTech III! 🥳 We all left with sharper analysis, deeper relationships, and a clearer sense of what this movement is capable of. The tech oligarchy has made their choice. Take Back Tech is how we make ours.

OMW back from #TakeBackTech and am newly inspired by the range of creative and highly active orgs and people who are fighting AI, tech fascism, and data centers in their towns. I do not regret to inform you, following Femi Taiwo, that we will win. @mediajustice.bsky.social @conmijente.bsky.social

Tomorrow! @ainowinstitute.bsky.social's Data Center Policy in Practice training series kicks off w "The AI Industry, Data Center Buildout, and How to Take Power Back." Register to explore practical policy pathways to stop, slow, & restrict the rapid expansion of data centers: bit.ly/policy-in-pr...

This comes, notably, after Meta's announcement that it will lay off 8,000 workers next month.

One more week!

Excited for this!!! @livgar.bsky.social and I will be presenting highlights from our PA fieldwork!

Was great to work on this with @mwoluchem.bsky.social with helpful feedback from PA advocacy groups CCJ and PACET!

PNW folks, please consider joining us at PDX 350 for an in-person art-making workshop. @dylnbkr.bsky.social and I will lead this event, designed to prompt us to imagine alternative technofutures and be in community at such difficult times. Registration/Info: www.eventbrite.com/e/dair-data-...

three more weeks to submit abstracts to our 4S open panel, that articulate STS-flavoured responses to the most important question of our times: "how do we win?"

On March 10, 2020, I started a thread on another site about how what we already knew to be true about digital surveillance in the workplace at the time may accelerate and evolve as the pandemic hit. Here's an attempt to recreate that thread for the archives.

PA Sen. McCormick’s wife works for who now? @mwoluchem.bsky.social and @livgar.bsky.social of @datasociety.bsky.social joined us for episode 74 of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000. They discuss their recent piece “Pennsylvania Is Perfect” for @newintermag.bsky.social. newint.org/science-and-...

Enormously looking forward to this event on April 21 at 6:30pm ET (online!) with the amazing @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social talking about their new book, The AI Con. Register here: virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Are you near Princeton and want to talk about futures of (data) work? Come through next week! I'll be sharing about struggles over work and AI with our UCSD Labor Center. anthropology.princeton.edu/events/futur...

I am so excited to announce I will be holding my PhD defense this Thursday at 10 AM CDT! I’ll be discussing my work on “recomputing” e-waste with some reflections on my PhD journey. If you’d like to attend online dm or email me for a link!

Here's the link to the free pdf of my new book The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet. Access is so important and I'm grateful that the press is platforming it as one file that is easy to download. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...

On 4/15: “This virtual roundtable brings together Indigenous land defenders, scholar-activists, and grassroots organizers to examine how the rapid expansion of AI + cloud infrastructure is driving new waves of fossil fuel dependence, mineral extraction, land dispossession + environmental injustice”

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

New in-person workshop incoming, this time co-hosted with @datasociety.bsky.social in Portland, OR! Saturday, April 11, 1pm-3pm at 350 PDX. For tickets and more info, head over to Eventbrite ⬇️ www.eventbrite.com/e/dair-data-...

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

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

🎧On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000...🎧 @mwoluchem.bsky.social and @livgar.bsky.social of @datasociety.bsky.social join @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social to dig into the reality of data center construction. Tune in live: Monday, March 9, noon PT, twitch.tv/dair_institute

Thank you to @newint.bsky.social and @deccamuldowney.bsky.social for letting us write about Pennsylvania, its planned AI futures, and how people are pushing back. Read online and find in print! The entire March issue is about the humans behind the AI empire machine.

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-...

Event: Against Surveillance & Spectacle: Building Global Resistance to Tech-Mediated Oppression www.disconetwork.org/disco-events...

New commentary by @cellllla.bsky.social, @perhaxis.bsky.social and myself: "The tech worker movement and the rise of the tech oligarchy". www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

CHI26 workshop “Crip HCI: Cyborg Perspectives on Disability Justice” invites self-identified fellow cyborgs to consider what the field of HCI might gain from a deeper engagement with cyborg perspectives on disability justice, “crip HCI”, and better AT. Submissions due Feb 12. t1dsign.org/chi-2026

🎆re:verb is back in 2026 with our first new episode of the year!🎉 This episode hits very close to home for Calvin & Alex: E106: CMU Coup? (w/ @caevans.bsky.social & @seeshespeak.bsky.social) www.reverbcast.com/podcasts/202...