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Kate Sim

@katejsim.bsky.social

COSPR - children's online safety and privacy research cospr.net Building worker power against militarism in tech @techworkerscoalition.org @notechforapartheid.bsky.social

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Tama Leaver@tamaleaver.bsky.social · last mo.

It was a pleasure part of @aljazeera.com's @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social episode this week discussing the Australia's teen social media ban and the global pushes to replicate it, alongside child rights research superstar @katejsim.bsky.social. The ban story starts at 13.45: ▶️ youtu.be/EFYO-JmbN_k

How xenophobia went viral in South Africa | The Listening Post

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

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The Listening Post@ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · last mo.

This week: • South Africa’s anti-migrant movement - built online, amplified by mainstream media • Post-earthquake in Venezuela, officials are tightening their grip on information • Govts say social media bans will protect children - critics say they solve the wrong problem ▶️ youtu.be/EFYO-JmbN_k

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Nearly half of American families with young kids live in a "child care desert," according to a new report. The Center for American Progress says there's a dramatic shortage of licensed day care providers. On top of that, the cost of childcare has soared in recent years.

Nearly half of families live in a "child care desert"

46% of children ages 6 and younger live where there are more than three kids per licensed child care slot.

axios.com

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Retirement accounts could soon be gambling on prediction markets. Three firms have filed applications with the SEC to offer "event contracts" for retirement accounts, similar to prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi. Retirement savings could then be bet on future events.

Prediction markets could soon be available in your retirement account

Bitwise, Roundhill and GraniteShares have filed applications with the SEC to offer event contracts as exchange-traded funds.

cnbc.com

Kate Sim@katejsim.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"Nowhere is it written that a multinational conglomerate with a market cap of roughly four trillion dollars is fated to command our public schools, or to grant fellowships to the leaders of those schools, or to monetize the inefficient children who attend them."

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 4mo ago

One in five student interactions with generative A.I. “involved cheating, self-harm, bullying, and other problematic behaviors,” according to a report published by Education Week. Why is the technology being adopted by schools? newyorkermag.visitlink.me/vC5MJK

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 4mo ago

BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores. The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act. Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility

A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

thewesternedge.media

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 5mo ago

The number of child labor violations has risen fivefold in the last 10 years, but Republicans across the US are continuing to propose and pass legislation that rolls back protections or regulations for workers under the age of 18.

A graph that shows the rising violations of child labor laws in the US since 2015, increasing from under 2,000 per fiscal year to 6,000 in 2025.
Kate Sim@katejsim.bsky.social · 5mo ago

At a time when the right is using racialized/gendered anxieties to attack migrants/workers, the liberal response to claim moral purity by removing chavez' name while refusing to fight for the dignity of workers that dolores huerta and other survivors put before their healing is performative at best

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 5mo ago

An investigation by The New York Times found extensive evidence that Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers co-founder, groomed and sexually abused young girls who worked in the movement.

Labor Tech Research Network@labortechresearchnetwork.org · 5mo ago

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 www.youtube.com/@alt.coopera...

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...

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Kate Sim@katejsim.bsky.social · 5mo ago

So excited to see this out in the world! @tomasgna.bsky.social historicizes the tensions between scale, compliance/trust, and governance/regulation that characterize the project of T&S ⬇️

Tomás G.@tomasgna.bsky.social · 5mo ago

my (first!) article, “From the virtual community to ‘Trust and Safety’: eBay (1995–2007) and the rise of platform governance” is out on Big Data & Society! it is a history of content moderation at eBay, where they coined the term Trust and Safety 🌐 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Article abstract: Early enthusiasts imagined a cyberspace free from centralized control. Today, Internet platforms surveil and regulate user activity through systematic governance mechanisms, including content moderation. This article examines how centralized control became the taken-for-granted solution to platform challenges, a shift that abandoned the dream of self-governance. By analyzing the rise of “Trust and Safety” at eBay between 1995 and 2007, I show that platform governance emerged to align eBay with corporate pressures as it transitioned from a startup to a public, multinational corporation. Trust and Safety at eBay came to designate a department, a discipline, and a philosophical approach to questions concerning the governance of users, synthesizing two competing visions: Pierre Omidyar's cyberlibertarian ideal of community self-governance through mutual surveillance, and Meg Whitman's corporate vision of a centrally regulated “well-lit marketplace.” Drawing on internal and external company documents, I demonstrate how Trust and Safety provided a moral justification for centralized governance by framing corporate vigilance as user protection, making control of users compatible with the “community” ethos of early Internet culture. As an early commercial platform, eBay acted as a laboratory for platform governance, where the visions and practices of Trust and Safety were developed and then exported to other major platforms.
Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 5mo ago

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

theguardian.com

Paul Duane 🥔@paulduane.bsky.social · last yr.

The key paragraph from @naomiaklein.bsky.social & @astra.bsky.social's powerful piece describing the urgency of our present moment. They are right, and we better move quickly.

To move forward with focus, we must first understand this simple fact: we are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world – on its beauty, on its people, on our children, on other species. The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6mo ago

Behind the scenes, “Meta was divided on whether protecting kids should take precedence over user growth and engagement. For years, the company only incrementally rolled out restrictive safety features, even as its own staff detailed the risks its platforms posed to children.”

How Meta Executives Talked About Child Safety Behind the Scenes

For years, employees acknowledged a problem with potential child groomers, but prioritized growth over fixes.

theatlantic.com