City of San Diego's Privacy Advisory Board votes unanimously to "cease' Flock Automated License Plate Reader Technology. PAB's report: www.sandiego.gov/sites/defaul... The final decision is with City Council. Be heard by leaving a comment for Public Safety Committee. How to in thread 🧵

Capacitor Collective = @julieychen.bsky.social, @enda-b.bsky.social, Alessandro Delfanti, Brian Dolber, @gleemie.bsky.social and myself. Thanks to folks we interviewed including @krystalkauffman.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @katejsim.bsky.social and to @veenadubal.bsky.social for the blurb

It is based on 6+ years of work on the relationship btw knowledge production + organizing across the digital supply chain. We interviewed workers @turkopticon.bsky.social @techworkerscoalition.org Rideshare Drivers United, Amazon Worker Solidarity, + more about their uses + critiques of research

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

We are excited to announce the winner of the Eric Wolf Prize for the Best Graduate Paper (2025). The winner is: Yanping Ni "China’s Dust Archives: Black Lung, Testimonial Surplus, and the Ghosts of Reform."

Congratulations to Winner of 2025 SAW Book Prize Hector Beltran's Code Work: Hacking Across US-Mexico Techno Borderlands, Princeton University Press, 2023. Honorable Mention Hemangini Gupta’s Experimental Times: Start-up Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India, U of California Press, 2024.

Congratulations to the winner of 2025 @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social Book Prize Hector Beltran's @teflonbeltran.bsky.social Code Work: Hacking Across US-Mexico Techno Borderlands! @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Organized Communities Against Deportations has launched a new mutual aid fund to support immigrant families in Chicago impacted by ICE raids Link to donate: donorbox.org/mutualaid2025

UC faculty and the @aaup.org demand the end of mandatory surveillance software use across the UC system. The future belongs to people, not to big brother! www.science.org/content/arti...

Mark Benioff of Salesforce says that Trump should send the National Guard to San Francisco because he needs more cops for his trade show. www.latimes.com/california/s... Old bullshit, fascist supercharged.

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

New at PB: Each day this week, we’re publishing a series on the cybernetic border, which contributions from Iván Chaar López, @philippseuferling.bsky.social, @kalindivora.bsky.social, and @gleemie.bsky.social.

A short read on why a wide range of people have a stake in shutting down mass surveillance and overcoming the politics of fear and othering.

New at PB: Last in our series on Iván Chaar López’s book "The Cybernetic Border," Lilly Irani (@gleemie.bsky.social) warns that no one is safe under the cybernetic border, as data grows and the definition of "intruder" shifts.

“We need to understand border enforcement & borders as ensembles mixing the social & technical in the management of inclusion and exclusion.” New at PB: Iván Chaar López introduces a series that responds to "The Cybernetic Border" (@dukepress.bsky.social).

Silverio Villegas Gonzalez www.reuters.com/world/us/chi...

Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Portland Frog isn't just a meaningless shit post. It creates a new association of meaning between antifa and cute. It is semiotic combat. Such tactics work on televisual and photo print media too, not just the Internet. What makes it internet is the networked frog fan culture.

Dear Google, when I click Chrome Listen to this Page, I just want the AI to read the damn words in robot voice written by the author. I don't want your ai podcast chatter chopping up the authors words into a morning coffee chat. To think this feature coulda been tax dollars funding a library

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

News coverage: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

Hollowing out of the democratic party by @philiprocco.bsky.social pretty much contextualizes so much of my experience of policy and organizing around technology, work, and surveillance issues. Organizations organizations organizations jacobin.com/2025/08/demo...

New book alert!📘 Our book on workers talking about their experiences of workers inquiry research, and working with academic workers to build power! with the Capacitor Collective

BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

UC should not give personally identifiable information to federal gov, says @aaup.org. Where they already have, they need to implement harm reduction measures immediately. www.aaup.org/sites/defaul... This echoes the call San Diego Faculty Association made to our Chancellor and UCOP 2 weeks ago.

This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like

A coalition of higher ed unions jointly filed a lawsuit against the Trump admin for the threats to the University of California including @uaw4811.bsky.social @afscme3299.bsky.social @uptecwa.bsky.social @ucaft.bsky.social @teamsterslocal2010.bsky.social @aaup.org @aft.org @uaw.org and CUCFA.

Today, we joined a broad coalition of unions in suing the Trump administration over their unilateral termination of federal research grants to UCLA and other ongoing federal funding threats: www.latimes.com/california/s...

UC nurses are joining faculty workers to sue the Trump administration and stop its illegal attack on gender-affirming care and ICE deportations at our universities and hospitals. This lawsuit is about protecting our patients’ rights and standing up for care, not cruelty.

Workers of the UC stand together to protect people, not just money. Join your UC Faculty Association or union!

Really excited about Sarah T. Hamid this Saturday in San Diego, speaking about research the EFF has done to understand what is working and not working with surveillance organizing around the country! Join us!

California closer to bond measure to fund our own science and health reaearch. Ty @uaw4811.bsky.social! Yes to this! But it should not fund a UC that also submits to federal prohibitions on politically targeted research. https//www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/us/california-scientific-research-bond.html

Stephen Miler is open about what's coming: a federal law enforcement crackdown on its political opponents

I would suggest one small change to how we frame this and that is to use “murder” instead of “euthanize”. he suggested homeless people be given “involuntarily lethal injection, or something. just kill them.” which is an incitement to murder. he still has his job I believe.

Action alert! 🚨 Tell the Regents and UC that you do not want them to capitulate to Trump's demands. Submit a public comment today. LA Times reported on the demands today. See thread below. cucfa.org/sos-coalitio...

Why the UC should sue the Trump administration rather than capitulate to its demands, attacking academic freedom and freedom to provide medical care in ways doctors find suitable. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

In Columbia Heights D.C., memorial signs are going up for residents abducted by the state. (📸 Igor Bobic)

Signatures needed! Uber and Lyft drivers are on the precipice of a wage theft settlement and need to push CA AG Bonta to represent what Uber/Lyft really stole, not just a token amount. Please sign and share this petition. www.drivers-united.org/wage-theft-s...

Join Tenant Councils of San Diego in front of City Heights Library on Sept. 27 at 10 a.m. for a targeted canvass of tenants confronting landlord theft! RSVP at bit.ly/chcanvass.

Join TCSD and our friends at Arif & @dollar-lunch-club.bsky.social 8 a.m. on October 4th for a garden work day and a lunch-n-learn where TCSD will talk about tenants' power to change their circumstances through tenant councils! See you at the Peace Resource Center!

We're so excited that @eff.org's Sarah T. Hamid, a founder of Portland's Carceral Tech Resistance Network, will keynote the @sandiegotrust.bsky.social conference. Lorena Gonzales had to step back due to unforeseen circumstances (don't worry, it is a nice thing) Newbies and old hands welcome!

In April, the AAUP & our Harvard chapter sued the Trump admin for demanding that Harvard censor speech & restructure core operations or else face $8.7 billion in funding cuts. We hope this decision clarifies to Harvard’s administration that bargaining w/ tyrannical authoritarians is unacceptable.

Observing that news legible as humanitarian atrocity gets massively reposted but news of a council of unions representing more 100k+ workers passing a resolution to stop weapons sales to Israel and condemning an attack on Chris Smalls got few likes or reposts. Is it tech? is it cultural training?

The @sdiclaborcouncil.bsky.social "calls for Recognition of Genocide in Gaza, Condemns the Abduction and Assault of Chris Smalls, and Demands an End to U.S. Weapons Transfers to Israel” This reso was passed through democratic democratic vote of union reps https//www.instagram.com/p/DN6bUKIElxK/

Palestinian professor Omar Harb dies of starvation from the famine Israel has imposed on Gaza as another weapon if mass destruction. www.middleeasteye.net/news/promine...

a friend and I went downtown this evening to scream in the streets with thousands of our neighbors. @theonion.com was also at the protest this evening and they were pulling no punches

The occupying force of Israel is ethnically cleansing with bombs and forcedvm evacuations while bustling neighborhoods, killing children (as usual) in Gaza City Shame www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

UC workers, alums, community members, please send Governor Newsom and your state legislators encouraging them to sue the federal government like Harvard did and release the feds' demand letter so Californians know what is at stake. It takes 2 minutes: actionnetwork.org/letters/uc-s...

AAUP-HARVARD, AAUP, & UAW WON THE HARVARD CASE!!!! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...