I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

Soldiers positioned at voting locations is not legal behavior. These are Mississippi National Guard troops at a DC ballot dropbox yesterday. We demand the governors of Mississippi, Florida, and Georgia get your soldiers OUT NOW.

DC folks: Come to Politics & Prose tonight (Wharf location)! I'll be in conversation with @js-tan.bsky.social and Clarissa Redwine about their excellent new book, Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry. politics-prose.com/tan-redwine-...

JS Tan & Clarissa Redwine — Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry - with Dave Karpf — at the Wharf

JS Tan is getting his PhD at MIT and formerly worked in tech. His work has been featured in The New York Times, MIT Technology Review, Dissent, Jacobin, Foreign Policy, The Baffler, and The Guardian, among other outlets.

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Looking forward to being in Asheville on October 22 for Pisgah Legal Services' annual Justice Forum. I'll be speaking about the deepening crisis of housing insecurity and working homelessness, both in Western North Carolina and across the country. Register here: www.pisgahlegal.org/2026-justice...

dc, as the waymo debates unfold, take note...

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d ago

“Technology like this could serve as a force multiplier and, in the future, could potentially have applications on our streets and greenways…”

A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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@katiejwells.bsky.social was saying we should view “self-driving” cars as roving, urban data centers. They sure have the surveillance part down! Is this what we want for our communities?

WIRED@wired.com · last wk.

Self-driving cars from Waymo, Zoox, and Tesla are studded with cameras and sensors. Some of them are pointing at riders. www.wired.com/story/when-t...

NEW: Amazon will refund thousands of Prime members in Wards 7 and 8 for secretly excluding them from full delivery services. The exclusions have now been lifted, and Amazon will also be required to change its practices. No corporation is too big to be held accountable for deceiving DC residents.

want to hear more about doordash's assault on home rule? or on its attempts to derail mamdani? join us tonight. freedcproject.org/event-list/s...

Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · last wk.

DoorDash walked into a buzzsaw of criticism and boycotts in D.C. this summer when it backed a Republican bill that would restrict when city lawmakers can impose new taxes and fees. The delivery company is now walking back that bill: www.washingtonsun.com/metro/doorda...

Looking forward to this conversation and lucky to be doing it. Silicon Valley vs. Home Rule.

AI Now Institute@ainowinstitute.bsky.social · last wk.

Tomorrow (10/1), join AI Now's @katiejwells.bsky.social and Declan Cullen for a conversation about the impact of app-based delivery apps and the gig economy on DC. Hosted by @freedcproject.bsky.social & @claudiajonesschool.bsky.social. Register here: freedcproject.org/event-list/s...

"Algorithmic wages & prices are symptoms of a political economy built on the continuous conversion of movement, delay, fatigue, debt, location, browsing, hunger, punctuality, & desperation into commercial leverage." @veenadubal.bsky.social @katiejwells.bsky.social dissentmagazine.org/article/algo...

Life Under the Algorithm - Dissent Magazine

Algorithmic wages and prices don’t just squeeze workers in the present. They make them predictably poor into the future.

dissentmagazine.org

In a groundbreaking new legal paper, Sandeep Vaheesan argues companies that systematically violate labor, consumer, copyright, environmental, and other laws to undercut rivals are engaging in an unfair method of competition...

not. to. be. missed.

New York City Policy Forum@nycpolicyforum.bsky.social · 3w ago

We're pleased to share that @ambakak.bsky.social co-ED of @ainowinstitute.bsky.social will join @hellodcwp.bsky.social Commissioner @saalevine.bsky.social to discuss local AI governance with writer @edwardongwesojr.com next week. RSVP at governing-ai-for-nyc-workers-and-consumers.eventbrite.com

While the news & white papers breathlessly cover the idea of a threat of a future AI bioweapon, an Ebola outbreak is escalating, having killed nearly 4,000 people so far. The Trump admin has diminished US support to control it w/travel bans, an eroded CDC & a hobbled WHO www.who.int/emergencies/...

Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus - Democratic Republic of the Congo

Since the last Disease Outbreak News was published on 11 September 2026, the Bundibugyo virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has expanded further, with two additional health zones af...

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This story brought me back to Kara, one of the mothers in my book, There Is No Place for Us. She was homeless with her four kids while driving for DoorDash. They had to pee in bottles so bathroom stops wouldn't make her late. After gas, she earned $6.50 an hour—75 cents less than the minimum wage.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2w ago

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

“Y’all are going to need a bigger hospital.” Already burdened by petrochemical plants, Louisiana is facing a wave of gas-powered AI data centers—and their pollution. Dorothy Slater, an oncology nurse, writes for @dissentmag.bsky.social about nursing her patients at the frontier of AI buildout.

Death by Data Centers - Dissent Magazine

I’m an oncology nurse in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. My patients and I breathe the same polluted air, and we can’t afford the toxic exposure from the gas-fired plants set to power the state’s proposed A...

dissentmagazine.org

A 36-year-old Costa Rican man whose family says he complained of not receiving proper care for his diabetes is the third detainee in less than six months to die at a U.S.

Costa Rican man complained of lack of care for diabetes before his death in ICE custody, family says

A 36-year-old Costa Rican man whose family says he complained of not receiving proper care for his diabetes is the third detainee in less than six months to die at a U.S.

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📆 see you there.

AI Now Institute@ainowinstitute.bsky.social · 2w ago

Registration for The People's AI Assembly is live! On Oct 19 with @moreperfectunion.bsky.social, we’re bringing together leading organizers, cultural figures, and policy leaders shaping the frontlines of AI. It’s time to build a tech movement for us! Join us in NYC: bit.ly/ai-assembly

Last night, Seattle became the 1st US city to ban algorithmic pricing for groceries. It's the strongest ban yet & I couldn't be prouder to have helped a wee bit. A year ago, I was putting together PPTs to guide volunteers through a messy experiment. Never did I think we'd have a ban 12 months later.

AI Now Institute@ainowinstitute.bsky.social · 2mo ago

At the Seattle City Council, @katiejwells.bsky.social explained what happens to fair pricing when retailers adopt AI-powered algorithms. She shared why it is so hard to document this practice and highlighted @moreperfectunion.bsky.social’s grocery pricing investigation, which did just that.

A Venezuelan DoorDash driver shot by an ICE officer in Austin, Texas, said he is now in detention but still has the bullet in his back. https://www.washingtonsun.com/immigration/ice-agent-shooting-austin-texas

Venezuelan DoorDash Driver Recounts Being Shot by an ICE Officer

“I was telling him it hurt a lot, that I couldn't move,” Wilber Rafael Garces Perez said during a press conference from detention.

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DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.

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ICE arrests surge in New Bedford area; immigrants warned to stay home - The New Bedford Light

Gov. Maura Healey called on ICE to release more information after at least 10 arrests Monday and more Tuesday morning. Mayor Jon Mitchell criticized ICE “overreach.”

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NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3w ago

Stay tuned for more on this from mainstream reporting hopefully later today, but Bob's got the gist of it; last week, it appears that ICE began disappearing people from the Online Detainee Locator System the moment they get a final order of removal. Yes, this is as deeply screwed up as it sounds.

Last week, Ohio State students violated the university’s absurd ban on chalking to protest having a weapons manufacturer as the official sponsor of our athletic department. Faculty from @osuaaup.bsky.social were there to support students’ rights to free speech, which is plainly under attack.

Protestors chalk on campus against Ohio State’s partnership with Anduril and the university chalk ban

Colors covered the Thompson statue and bricks around it after protestors chalked phrases like “Democracy now,” “F*** Anduril” and “Divest now” to protest against the university’s partnership with Andu...

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How can NYC protect New Yorkers as AI reshapes the economy? Reserve your seat for our talk with @hellodcwp.bsky.social, Commissioner @saalevine.bsky.social, and writer @edwardongwesojr.com Sept. 30 3:30–5 PM Co-sponsored by the CUNY Law Burns Program, @cplusc.bsky.social, @rooseveltinstitute.org

Governing AI for Workers and Consumers: NYC's Public Approach

Dive into what NYC can do to advance affordability for working families during the rise of AI and corporate consolidation.

governing-ai-for-nyc-workers-and-consumers.eventbrite.com

AI is the largest theft of labor in history, but the case doesn't go far enough -- AI steals not only from journalists and researchers but from authors throughout history, from policymakers and legal writers, from photographers and artists in every medium.

Elisabeth R. Anker@libankerdc.bsky.social · 3w ago

AI training is the largest theft of labor in history

NEW @businessweektr.bsky.social investigation: Crafting America’s Favorite Countertops Is Killing Workers www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... Artificial stone manufacturers want Congress to shut down silicosis lawsuits seeking billions. Confidential company records undermine industry's safety claims

‘Death Sentences:’ Crafting America’s Favorite Countertops Is Killing Workers

Hundreds of workers who’ve contracted silicosis are suing the artificial stone industry for billions. While California weighs a ban on fabricating the product, the manufacturers’ defenders in Congress...

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“The system learns from the injuries it helps to create.” You really must read this. It’s disgusting to realise there are people hellbent now on making this the reality for all of us. (Not “all” of us. Just the 99% whose toil is siphoned to the parasitic rich.) dissentmagazine.org/article/algo...

Life Under the Algorithm - Dissent Magazine

Algorithmic wages and prices don’t just squeeze workers in the present. They make them predictably poor into the future.

dissentmagazine.org

"Her wage has been adjusted toward what she is predicted to accept. The price of necessities has been adjusted toward what she is predicted to tolerate. The result is not simply precarity, but an iterative constraint." @veenadubal.bsky.social & @katiejwells.bsky.social for @dissentmag.bsky.social

Elena, a nurse, signs up for a shift at a base rate of $35/hour. The next day it's $33/hour. There's no explanation, no one to ask why. AI Now's @katiejwells.bsky.social & @veenadubal.bsky.social tell Elena's story, showing how algorithmic wages & prices are reshaping our lives: bit.ly/46Qp4kR

Life Under the Algorithm - Dissent Magazine

Algorithmic wages and prices don’t just squeeze workers in the present. They make them predictably poor into the future.

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