WE WON! After 42 days of striking we have a tentative agreement in hand that protects our existing 4 day work week, establishes a minimum salary, and adds protections against AI replacing jobs at our workplace!

My Avengers Endgame is @katmabu.bsky.social x @adoaboutthings.bsky.social x @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social x @opeiulocal153.bsky.social 🫡

Today, nearly 400 workers with Blizzard's Platform & Technology department have formed a union with @cwaunion.bsky.social! “We are forming a union to hold leadership accountable and to ensure that we can focus on building amazing experiences for the gaming community.” 💪

The workers of Kickstarter United, one of the tech industry’s first unions, are on STRIKE. They‘re not calling for a boycott yet; if you want to support them, they’ve got specific asks outlined below.

Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

Joining us at Civic Spark is @adoaboutthings.bsky.social! Andrew presented at our 9th Hacknight. Now almost a decade later, it’s a real pleasure to have him back on the stage! Andrew is a designer and researcher at Nava PBC and a former co-organizer of Civic Tech Toronto. 🎟️ civic-spark.com

IRS’s Direct File wasn't open source while it was being developed. But somebody just made it public!

SESAME WORKER W!!!! @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social

Rich tech leaders are sharing their ideas about how political decisions should be made. Vass Bednar, executive director of McMaster University’s master of public policy in digital society, has to wonder: Is a Canadian version of DOGE in our future? thewalrus.ca/are-a-handful-of...

So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base! and they want to do it ... ... in *a few months* I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ... ... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here 1/9

In Canada, we pay a lot of attention to what happens south of the border. But as we watch Elon Musk wreak havoc through the US government, we shouldn’t ignore how our own tech elite is embracing a similar politics — and calling for a DOGE of their own. They can’t be allowed to succeed.

SESAME STREET WORKERS ARE UNIONIZING!!! ✊ This morning, workers at the nonprofit behind Sesame Street delivered their letter asking for voluntary recognition to management! Read all about it: www.opeiulocal153.org/news/employe...

You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to