I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

In addition, Family Search frequently utilizes prison labor to digitize materials they make available so it's just a turducken of exploitation activehistory.ca/blog/2026/04...

Andrea Alarcón and Cheryl Soriano recently published an OA article "The center’s ‘invisible back support’: infrastructuring labor behind virtual assistants in the Philippines" in the Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Jack Dorsey pictures someday having 6,000 direct reports—the entirety of the employees at his company. Do these people understand how anything works?

What does digital capitalism look like beyond Silicon Valley? Andrea Pollio talks to Tinhinan El Kadi about the five years he spent among renegade Chinese entrepreneurs, Kenyan state planners, VC analysts, and engineers in Nairobi's Silicon Savannah, the subject of his new book, 'Silicon Elsewhere'.

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

from @andrewrchow.bsky.social in TIME magazine: "'Everyone’s a Line On a Spreadsheet:' Inside Oracle’s Mass Layoffs and the Workers Fighting Back" #Technology #Work #TechWorkers #TechLabor #TechLayoffs #FutureofWork time.com/article/2026...

I've spent years interviewing data workers who are the lifeblood of the AI industry in places like Kenya & Colombia. Now it's the #4 fastest growing job in the US. AI is coming for your job and not in the way you think. My latest for @moreperfectunion.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aooi...

The Just Tech Fellowship supports rigorous, original, and community-grounded work that addresses pressing questions about how technology shapes society and public life. Apply for the 2027 cohort by June 28: www.ssrc.org/programs/jus...

the public has already paid ransom to corporate welfare when we could have nonprofit low fi local ed tech

Congratulations to Isha Bhallamudi and Anushree Gupta for putting together a series in Platypus, containing 4 posts about gig and platform worker unions in India written by LaborTech members. Series Introduction: blog.castac.org/2025/11/seri...

Palantir “shamelessly used mock-MoMA branding for the logo + as a leitmotif for the entire [AIPcon] event… The conference employed, as a projected stage backdrop for Karp, Abstract Expressionish painting simulations… Flashing above their heads was the tagline THERE IS ONLY THE ARTIST AND THE WORK.”

"What is Big Tech philanthropy funding, who is it empowering, and where in the world are these resources reshaping political realities?" This new report by @noornetwork.bsky.social x @ijsc.bsky.social is a must-read to understand the entanglement of economic and political infrastructures.

It’s been a minute. But here are two pics of me surfing in action. It’s cool to see myself captured. I’m a true beginner, and haven’t been able to go surfing much at all lately. But yay to the tiny progress and the bit of time in ocean. Plus, looking forward to the summer break ☀️🌊

Adding this to my reading list 🤓

Online event later this week with @nsrnicek.bsky.social: "The PERN Salon | Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI with Nick Srnicek" events.humanitix.com/the-pern-sal...

In order to train ChatGPT, OpenAI outsourced labeling of toxic content to workers in Kenya who were reportedly paid less than $2 per hour to trawl through vast quantities of traumatizing text, images, and videos. www.youtube.com/shorts/L_8Z5...

Meet “ASU Atomic,” a subscription platform that claims to offer customized learning modules for fee-paying users. None of the ASU faculty whose course materials were harvested for the module I generated were aware that their image, lectures, lessons, or other teaching materials are being used.

📣 Join us for #CASPR2026 — CASTAC in the Spring! "Labor and Technoscientific Worlds: Historical Encounters and New Directions in the Field" — a roundtable with Kalpana Shankar, David Nemer & Lilly Irani honoring David Hakken. 📅 May 29 | 10:30AM–12:30PM CT 🎟️ Register: caspr2026.eventbrite.com

“Not only did ASU allegedly not communicate to its academic community that their lectures would be spliced up and cannibalized by an AI platform, but the resulting modules are just bad.”

Anyone that's followed the calendar account for a while will probably have seen the events Namnam space in Tokyo put on... queer films, solidarity/ fundraisers for Palestine & other causes, talks & community building. They being kicked out of their venue by their landlords & need to relocate. 👇

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.

Another reminder to get off as many Google services as possible. Check out my guide to get off US tech more widely: disconnect.blog/getting-off-...

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...

And then read @katewagner.wehwalt.net on the ICE detention warehouses as the true fascist architecture amid the news of grand ballrooms and triumphal arches. Logistics, war, carcerality, architecture, and global racial empire go hand in hand. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Please read @charmainechua.bsky.social on the warehouse as not so much a space of storage as it is a switch (turning off and on movement of capital and goods) and a trap (for low wage workers) and, now, a space of literal DHS incarceration. placesjournal.org/article/the-...

📣 New! @cariatida.bsky.social, @aihathing.bsky.social & Sanjay Pinto argue for understanding the sprint to create the "AI-first economy" not as the logical march of progress, but as a series of deliberate economic decisions that risk harming workers in ways old & new. datasociety.net/library/last...

it's officially out! :)

Webinar: AI Influencers and the Future of the Creator Economy camd.northeastern.edu/events/webin...

*breathing into a paper bag*

When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground. For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.

Cool cool love that

A collection of environmental films made by Indigenous filmmakers that I've screened in Ecocinema over the years (shared today for obvious reasons): 1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...

I am so grateful to all of those people who spend their lives struggling for a better world for all of us.

If you've written a book or many or are writing one now, what a cool fucking thing you are doing. I hope you bask in how awesome it is that you had ideas and thoughts and worked on them for years to develop them into words others can understand. Like that's some sorcery shit. Fuck AI, THIS is magic.

CFP — “The Amateur Reconsidered: Media, Labor, Publics” Spectator Special Issue (Volume 46.2 Fall 2026) Essay submissions due December 1, 2025. See images with alt text here and in thread for CFP details. 1/

Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today! Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

It’s been a minute…I’ve been busy learning to surf…but I’m back 🤪

Call for Papers! "Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts"-a special issue of Poetics, coedited with @jticona.bsky.social + Angèle Christin www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pla...

To remove media from historical contexts is a disservice to studying the cultural, economic, and political moments which shape the ways information is shared and interpreted. The study of media means we must feel toward the past before we move forward.

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

🚨 Join us, in collaboration with the BTS Critical Reader and GYOPO, on August 17th in LA to celebrate our first print issue! ✨Stop by for boba, snacks, panels, a dance workshop, and the opportunity to purchase our inaugural issue in print! RSVP now to save your spot: givebutter.com/bangtanremixed

Nice little surprises at Fushimi Inari: i encountered one kitty on my way climbing up Mt Inari, and another kitty on my way down 😻😻

Meet Coco in Kyoto 🐈‍⬛🇯🇵

So happy to wake up early on the sweet Coast to watch this epic match and support Coco 🎾💜✨

i would've done the same thing lmao