WE DID IT!

Our illegal union @uam-umd.bsky.social is a lot less illegal today. 12,000 contingent faculty in MD just won the right to collectively bargain. Life-changing win for teachers and students. Only happened bc thousands of people worked together to beat our bosses in the statehouse.

Webinar: AI Influencers and the Future of the Creator Economy

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Cities Are Shredding Their AI Surveillance Contracts en Masse Over 30 cities have scrapped their contracts with the AI surveillance company Flock, as concerns over federal overreach grow.

Flock’s cameras are being used to target immigrants, abortion seekers, protestors and abuse survivors. This is why people are mobilizing to get their city to drop Flock contracts

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AI data centres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1°C Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area

AI data centres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1°C

www.newscientist.com/article/2521...

Event: The Tesla effect on labour relations

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A Program Is Now Sending Basic Income Payments to AI-Impacted Workers For now, it’s just 25-50 people receiving $1,000 per month.

A Program Is Now Sending Basic Income Payments to AI-Impacted Workers

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Trump’s new science advisers include 12 technology chiefs — and one academic Sparse academic presence on the US President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology reflects a focus on technology and industry.

Trump’s new science advisers include 12 technology chiefs — and one academic

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Meta Lays Off 700 Employees, While Rewarding Top Executives

Meta Lays Off 700 Employees, While Rewarding Top Executives

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/t...

Employers are using your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you’ll accept Surveillance pricing came for your wallet — now it’s coming for your paycheck, too.

“Experts describe ‘surveillance wages’ as a system in which wages are based not on an employee’s performance or seniority, but on formulas that use their personal data, often collected without employees’ knowledge.”

Site Fight Guide: Stop Data Centers, Free the Robots [LIVING DOC] Data Center Site Fight Guide A Shared Resource for Stopping Data Centers from the Data Center Working Group This live document was created and is maintained by members of the Data Center Working Gro...

Data Center Site Fight Guide: A Shared Resource for Stopping Data Centers from the Data Center Working Group

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Workers around the world are not getting what they want from AI A survey of workers in 60 countries found that a majority of those facing the threat of AI-driven job loss do not trust companies or governments to manage the transition fairly.

Workers around the world are not getting what they want from AI

restofworld.org/2026/workers...

AI as a War Issue, War as a Workers’ Issue The fight against the University of Michigan–Los Alamos data center.

AI as a War Issue, War as a Workers’ Issue

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Farm workers are on their knees for long hours in Merced county spreading out sweet potatoes pieces the tractor dropped.

Farm workers are on their knees for long hours in Merced county spreading out sweet potatoes pieces the tractor dropped. Workers then cover them with dirt and put plastic on top to create the hotbeds. If this isn't done right, the potatoes won't sprout and will rot. #WeFeedYou

Meta to cut back on third-party vendors in favor of AI for content enforcement Meta is beginning a multiyear rollout of more advanced AI systems that will handle content enforcement-related tasks like catching scams and illegal media.

Meta to cut back on third-party vendors in favor of AI for content enforcement

www.cnbc.com/2026/03/19/m...

CFP: AI Supply Chains: Building an interdisciplinary research agenda for AI and labor

International Network on Digital Labour

www.indl.network/indl-9/

The janitors of the internet Adio-Adet Dinika explores the hidden stories of the workers who prop up artificial ‘intelligence’, and their efforts at organized resistance.

The janitors of the internet

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Owner of ICE detention facility sees big opportunity in AI man camps | TechCrunch AI data center developers are increasingly relying on a style of camp popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields.

Owner of ICE detention facility sees big opportunity in AI man camps

techcrunch.com/2026/03/08/o...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: DSI Lecture Series | Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email... The insidious legacy of eugenics lives on in the techno-surveillance, algorithmic authoritarianism, and data-driven discrimination of Big Tech. This talk illuminates the throughline between the 19th c...

Event! Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future

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Targeted: Corporations and the Police Surveillance Economy, w/ Kelly Gates Kelly Gates talk and discussion on her new book Targeted: Corporations and the Police Surveillance Economy

Event! Targeted: Corporations and the Police Surveillance Economy, w/ Kelly Gates

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Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it The company tells Platformer it will let experts opt out of the controversial feature — but how different is it than what every other AI company is doing?

Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it

www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

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.

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Imagine Losing Your Job to the Mere Possibility of AI The technology may not be ready to replace workers, but that isn’t stopping execs from pushing forward anyway.

Imagine Losing Your Job to the Mere Possibility of AI

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

ALT COOPERATIVA Somos ALT Cooperativa, un equipo de diseño, desarrollo y comunicación con perspectiva feminista y de derechos humanos. En este canal compartimos nuestras miradas sobre tecnología, accesibilidad, ident...

New! Living Trans, a video series featuring trans people working in technology and cooperativism, produced by the Argentine co-operative Alternativa Laboral Trans (ALT), in partnership with DigiLabour, funded by the Queer and Trans Research Lab/University of Toronto

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Western AI models “fail spectacularly” in farms and forests abroad Big Tech’s AI tools trained on Western data often can’t recognize local crops, forests, or farming conditions without adaptation to local environments.

Western AI models “fail spectacularly” in farms and forests abroad

restofworld.org/2026/ai-agri...

AI Isn’t Lightening Workloads. It’s Making Them More Intense. The technology is increasing the speed, density and complexity of work rather than reducing it, a new analysis of 164,000 people’s work activity shows.

AI Isn’t Lightening Workloads. It’s Making Them More Intense.

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-i...

Book cover for "Platform Extractivism: Data Work and the People Powering Artificial Intelligence" by Julián Posada. Set against a bright yellow background, three vertical photographic panels at the top depict a crowd with digital bounding boxes over faces, a person coding at a computer, and a dense rack of glowing server cables. The title is in large, bold black text, followed by the red subtitle and the author’s name in blue at the bottom.

With the cover now finalized, I am pleased to announce my forthcoming book: 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐦: 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. Available this October from @ucpress.bsky.social s. 🧵 1/4

🤖💼 Contesting algorithmic workplace regimes in an era of flexible despotism

Join our next #AITalk with Alex J. Wood as he explores how #algorithms shape work, challenge power, and fit into a broader trend of flexible despotism.

📅 9 March | 14:00 - 15:00 CET | 💻 Zoom | ✍️ Register: etui.org/43G

Are ‘Bossware’ Tools Tracking You?

Are ‘Bossware’ Tools Tracking You?

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/b...

Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ Have it your way?

Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’

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