You might have heard that our member Dr. Iván Chaar López, a border-surveillance researcher & American studies professor at University of Texas Austin, received a near-unanimous recommendation from faculty and outstanding external support letters but was still denied tenure without explanation.

Prof Denied Tenure: Academic Freedom at UT Being Dismantled

Border-surveillance researcher Iván Chaar López received a near-unanimous recommendation from faculty and outstanding external support letters. Still, he was denied tenure without explanation.

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“I didn’t sign up to help kill people.” More tech workers are confronting the military uses of their own labor, from Microsoft to Google to Cisco to Palantir. Read "AI’s Rise is Being Fueled by the Sprawling U.S. Military State" https://inthesetimes.com/article/ai-military-tech-workers-palantir

The FIFA World Cup might be over for the time being, but the implemented increased surveillance practices won't. Read in-depth investigation from Ranking Digital Rights: "No Fair Play: Mapping the 2026 World Cup Surveillance Stack" rankingdigitalrights.org/2026/07/14/n... #worldcup #surveillance

No Fair Play: Mapping the 2026 World Cup Surveillance Stack - Ranking Digital Rights

A new report by Ranking Digital Rights shines a light on the role of technology companies in building the surveillance stack of the 2026 World Cup.

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Work in the AI economy is deliberately organized through an "outsourcing maze," writes the Weizenbaum Institute’s Sana Ahmad, enabling global capital to extract value from workers via layered intermediaries.

Labor Power and the Role of Subcontracting in the AI Economy

Public discourse on artificial intelligence has begun to pull back the curtain on the systematic failures of global labor supply chains, writes Sana Ahmad.

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“As AI threatens their livelihoods, software engineers are increasingly organizing and banding together.” Featuring @wwwrise.bsky.social @alphabetworkersunion.org @wapotechguild.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Chasing new skills, going back to basics and pushing for collective action: how software engineers are adapting to AI

Software engineering was one of the best-paying professions in the US in 2022, but the advent of AI has disrupted it, leading to several layoffs and underemployment

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With the World Cup final taking place this weekend, this is great time to read up on AI/Tech workers in football or soccer. @techpolicypress.bsky.social just published an analysis essay "Soccer's Tech Revolution Has a Labor Chain" www.techpolicy.press/soccers-tech...

Soccer's Tech Revolution Has a Labor Chain

AI has transformed the game into monetized data, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Tatiana Dias.

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From CalMatters @calmatters.org "Kaiser nurses say technology is making their jobs — and patient care — worse" calmatters.org/economy/tech...

Kaiser nurses say technology is making their jobs — and patient care — worse

Call center nurses at Kaiser Permanente said workplace surveillance tools and AI prioritize speed and cost savings over quality and safety.

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Across Big Tech, workers are organizing against the use of their labor in war, surveillance, and occupation through campaigns like No Azure for Apartheid, @notechforapartheid.bsky.social, Bridge to Humanity, and @purgepalantir.bsky.social.

AI’s Rise is Being Fueled by the Sprawling U.S. Military State

Can an increasingly precarious tech workforce be a site of antiwar resistance?

inthesetimes.com

The MIT Data + Feminism Lab is hiring a one year postdoc! We are working with Andrea Parker (GA Tech) and Brooke Foucault-Welles (Northeastern) on a project related to youth as co-designers of civic technologies to support neighborhood community wellness. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

Postdoctoral Associate

MIT - Postdoctoral Associate - Cambridge MA 02139

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The Institue for Local Self-Reliance @ilsr.bsky.social recently launched the newest season of podcast Building Local Power, “The Data Centers Are Coming,” taking us to active places in the cross-country battle over data centers in our local communities. share.transistor.fm/s/73566538

Introducing "The Data Centers Are Coming" | Building Local Power | Episode

Welcome to the newest season of Building Local Power, The Data Centers Are Coming, where we take a trip across the country to some of the hot spots for data center fights. Big Tech is racing for AI do...

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A court struck down Donald Trump’s $100,000 H-1B fee. But many foreign workers say years of shifting immigration rules have already pushed them to consider Canada, the U.K., and the Gulf https://restofworld.org/2026/us-tech-immigration-bottleneck-h1b-talent-drain/?utm_campaign=row-social

America’s immigrant tech workers are paying an uncertainty tax

A court struck down Donald Trump’s $100,000 H-1B fee. But many foreign workers say years of shifting immigration rules have already pushed them to consider Canada, the U.K., and the Gulf.

restofworld.org

On July 6, Monday 14:00-15:30 CET, LaborTech member Norma Möllers @normamoellers.bsky.social is giving an online lecture “A Materialist Critique of Technofascism” with @ecpr.bsky.social the ECPR Research Network on Digital Authoritarianism. ecpr.eu/news/news/de...

Online Lecture: “A Materialist Critique of Technofascism" by Norma Möllers

European Consortium for Political Research

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"Nearly one in four people in the U.S. now participate in some form of gig or freelance work." inequality.org/article/big-...

Big Tech Built a Gig Economy That Works Against Us

Surveillance pricing is squeezing workers dependent on the gig economy — especially Black workers. Algorithmic transparency is the first step to fighting back.

inequality.org

Amazon Is Spewing a Record Breaking Amount of Pollution to Power Its AI Data Centers "AI buildout has fueled an unprecedented leap in the company’s emissions, a black mark on a corporation that pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 not even a year ago." bsky.app/profile/futu...

Futurism@futurism.com · last mo.

The company once pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040.

“Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI, Using It to Make Every Decision, Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives, and Even Asking It Who to Fire” @futurism.com futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI, Using It to Make Every Decision, Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives, and Even Asking It Who to Fire

AI-obsessed executives and managers are creating a distinct new type of toxic work environment for the slop era, workers told us.

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From @politico.com: “Meta asks California lawmakers for shield from child harm penalties” www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

Big Tech doesn't want you to know about the real intelligence behind AI. And they definitely don’t want you to know how these workers are paid and treated. That’s why we gathered 5 stories from these workers, drawn from our own work and public reporting. https://ow.ly/4svz50ZijTw

Big Tech doesn't want you to know about these workers behind AI... - TechEquity Collaborative

To understand the impact of the structures behind AI, we gathered 5 stories from data workers, drawn from our work and public reporting.

ow.ly

The argument that we should be preparing students for this workforce - instead of, say, joining with students to organize against AI slop-infused workplaces - is just so ridiculous.

jon christian@jonchristian.net · last mo.

NEW: Workers say their bosses are becoming obsessed with AI and essentially turning the entire workplace into an exercise in AI psychosis -- making absurd pivots, communicating only in AI slop, and even asking ChatGPT who to fire futurism.com/artificial-i...

Check out the resource list from the Manufactured Threat webinar docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Manufactured Threat - Resources

RESOURCES FOR ORGANIZERS Resources for Those Being Targeted Center for Constitutional Rights: If An Agent Knocks provides advice to activists likely to be targeted by the FBI or other federal agents ...

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MediaJustice@mediajustice.bsky.social · last mo.

Our communities have been turning up the HEAT against #DataCenters & police wasted no time labeling organizers “anti-tech, violent extremists.” Join us & 4 EXPERTS (listed below⬇️) THIS WEDS at 6PM ET | 3PM PT to break down how federal agencies are criminalizing our people. bit.ly/manufacturedthreat

WEDNESDAY: Check out the TechEquity Data Work Landscape Team as they share a demo of the site and talk to the @labortechresearchnetwork.org about the research process, along with trends and insights in the AI data work field. @tnewmsblues.bsky.social

@alltechishuman.bsky.social has put out their fourth annual Responsible Tech Summer Reading List 2026! alltechishuman.org/all-tech-is-... Share with us which ones you will be putting on your personal list 🤓 #reading #book

Responsible Tech Summer Reading List 2026 — All Tech Is Human

All Tech Is Human is thrilled to release our 4th annual Responsible Tech Summer Reading List! For our reading list, we aim to curate a mix of books that touch on key topic areas of the Responsible Tec...

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Excited to share more about the AI supply chain mapping research we’re doing at @techequity.bsky.social with the brilliant folks at @labortechresearchnetwork.org on July 1st! Dataworklandscape.org

Data Work Landscape

Tech companies in the AI industry are powered by workers who develop, train, test, and maintain AI systems. We’re shining a light on this shadowy industry.

dataworklandscape.org

Labor Tech Research Network@labortechresearchnetwork.org · last mo.

🗓️ Online Speaker Event "Data Work Landscape 2.0" on July 1 at 12:30pm EDT, featuring the creators of the Data Work Landscape @techequity.bsky.social: Swati Chintala, Danya Sherbini, and Tim Newman. Members, check email for Zoom link / Non-members, RSVP to Angelica angelica.martinez.ochoa@gmail.com

🗓️ Online Speaker Event "Data Work Landscape 2.0" on July 1 at 12:30pm EDT, featuring the creators of the Data Work Landscape @techequity.bsky.social: Swati Chintala, Danya Sherbini, and Tim Newman. Members, check email for Zoom link / Non-members, RSVP to Angelica angelica.martinez.ochoa@gmail.com

Excited to share that we are now inviting proposals for our upcoming Critical AI Studies? conference at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social on Oct. 9&10, 2026. Please see the full CfP here: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Submissions are due July 31, 2026. For questions DM me or @owenleonard.bsky.social.

Highlighting today's Wired coverage of the internal leak at Meta that exposed data from its controversial program tracking workers' keystrokes to train AI models.

WIRED@wired.com · last mo.

Meta has responded to reports about the suspension of its Model Compatibility Initiative (MCI) after employees’ data were leaked internally.

“The World Cup will put football’s data and AI on the largest stage there is,” @grohmannrafael.bsky.social said. “The football we watch runs on their work as much as on the players. None of it would exist without the workforce behind it.” restofworld.org/2026/fifa-wo...

The AI-powered World Cup runs on thousands of data workers

Human annotators in Brazil, Cambodia, and the Philippines are tracking every movement in the football tournament for teams, broadcasters, and the betting industry.

restofworld.org

World Cup is in full effect, but do you know that behind all its AI-powered innovations are data workers in countries including India, Cambodia, and the Philippines, who are essential for the many AI tools in play?

Rest of World@restofworld.org · last mo.

The FIFA World Cup’s advanced AI tools rely on thousands of data workers manually logging match actions to fuel the sports betting industry https://restofworld.org/2026/fifa-world-cup-ai-data-workers/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1782232049

Tune in on Wednesday, June 24th, at 6pm ET / 5pm CT / 3pm PT for “Manufactured Threat: Criminalizing Data Center Resistance” hosted by MediaJustice. mediajustice.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Manufactured Threat: Criminalizing Data Center Resistance. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Communities across the country are asking the right questions about rapid data center expansion. About public health. About water and power. About who pays the tax breaks. About whether anyone is in c...

mediajustice.zoom.us

MediaJustice@mediajustice.bsky.social · last mo.

Our communities have been turning up the HEAT against #DataCenters & police wasted no time labeling organizers “anti-tech, violent extremists.” Join us & 4 EXPERTS (listed below⬇️) THIS WEDS at 6PM ET | 3PM PT to break down how federal agencies are criminalizing our people. bit.ly/manufacturedthreat

‼️Circuit Breakers CFP due July 15‼️ click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u001.SE...

Circuit Breakers 26 💣 Session Idea Form

The tech worker movement is growing and so are the number of experienced organizers on the shop floor who have lessons and learnings to share. The organizers of the Circuit Breakers tech labor confere...

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Tech Workers Coalition@techworkerscoalition.org · 2mo ago

BIG NEWS ❤️‍🔥!! Circuit Breakers, our annual tech labor conference, is looking for session and workshop proposals. This event centers rank and file organizing. Workers are the experts who bring management to the table and win big. twcl.ink/cb26-cfp