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Annie McClanahan
@anniemcc.bsky.social
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Vulgar Marxist, Kentucky proud, fuck work. She/her
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper?

by Larry Summers
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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ubiquity75.xyz
The UCFA/UCLAFA/AAUP victory is on the front page of today’s LA Times.

(No leadership or administrators were harmed in actually standing up to the Feds. because they didn’t.)
Photo of the Sunday Edition paper of the LA Times. Headline reads: “Judge blocks Trump’s move to fine UCLA”
November 17, 2025 at 1:54 AM
anniemcc.bsky.social
Impt thread re: UC's ongoing efforts to persuade faculty that we are management
ubiquity75.xyz Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 3d
I received an email from senior leadership yesterday advising about an upcoming labor action from organized staff at my university. Typical all-employee blast with no means to respond, one-sided anti-union rhetoric.

But then this…
November 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
anniemcc.bsky.social
WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN!!!!

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
Judge Orders Trump Not to Threaten University of California’s Funding
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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princetonupress.bsky.social
How does service work change how we build worker power? Check out this @truthout.org interview with @anniemcc.bsky.social, author of Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work.
November 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
anniemcc.bsky.social
Interview with me about service sector stuff in advance of my book release next year! truthout.org/articles/imp...
Impending Strike in Las Vegas Exposes Labor Abuses in Service Sector Nationwide
Service work now dominates the economy. That changes how we build worker power, scholar Annie McClanahan says.
truthout.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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veenadubal.bsky.social
The President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is one of the most coveted & prestigious positions for UC graduates. It gives a hiring incentive to campuses who hire recipients for a tenure track position. What a DAMN travesty.

This is capitulation to Trump's demand letter & anti-diversity agenda.
tessahill.bsky.social Tessa Hill @tessahill.bsky.social · 13d
A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program
Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.
www.insidehighered.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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miriamposner.com
This article presents the end of the PPFP as a done deal, but it’s not—until the chancellors’ meeting this afternoon.
UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program
Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.
www.insidehighered.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
anniemcc.bsky.social
Folks may remember the video of Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, arrested while protecting students from cops as the UCI Free Palestine encampment was raided. She is still fighting a legal battle and needs support--please donate if you can and spread the campaign!
chuffed.org/project/1562...
November 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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ucmarxistinstitute.bsky.social
Applications are open for MIR Summer Seminar 2026 on the theme of Marxist Internationalism! See the call for applications: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Open to all non-faculty University of California affiliates (undergrads, grads, staff, lecturers). App deadline Jan. 16. Please share!
Summer Seminar 2026 announcement
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2026 MATERIALIST INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH SUMMER SEMINAR: “MARXIST INTERNATIONALISMS” The 2026 Materialist Institute for Research (MIR) Summer Seminar will run August 6-11 at Sa...
docs.google.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:52 AM
anniemcc.bsky.social
This is a great essay--a must-read for anyone concerned about the use of AI as deskilling, automation, labor techno-discipline, etc.
October 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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jraden.bsky.social
The entire AI industry is just GPU purchases and data center construction. That’s it. No productivity multipliers. No AGI. No singularity.
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Sep 23
"The FT sought to categorise the expected positive benefits of the technology. Most of the anticipated benefits, such as increased productivity, were vaguely stated and harder to categorise than the risks"

www.ft.com/content/e93e...

(note: Entergy is the fossil fuel company supplying Meta)
Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://www.ft.com/tour. https://www.ft.com/content/e93e56df-dd9b-40c1-b77a-dba1ca01e473 While non-tech companies are upbeat about AI, their filings suggest less clear upsides. During an earnings call in February, Coca-Cola was excited about the technology — even though the key use was in the production of a TV commercial.  The FT sought to categorise the expected positive benefits of the technology. Most of the anticipated benefits, such as increased productivity, were vaguely stated and harder to categorise than the risks. Companies anticipated being able to optimise workflows through automation, and hope to achieve market differentiation through their use of AI. Some hoped to be able to use the technology to improve the personalisation of their products. Filings do reveal that the companies able to give clear AI upsides include those that serve the rising AI-driven data centre boom. Energy companies First Solar and Entergy cited AI as a demand driver. Freeport-McMoran, which has a stockpile of copper, stated that “data centres and artificial intelligence developments” would support the metal’s price. The company also said the technology can help with material characterisation and mineral extraction. Equipment manufacturer Caterpillar reported that its energy business was benefiting from supporting “data centre growth related to cloud computing and generative artificial intelligence”.
September 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
anniemcc.bsky.social
SO THRILLED TO FINALLY BE ABLE TO ANNOUNCE THIS!
aaup.org AAUP @aaup.org · Sep 16
BREAKING:

A historic coalition of national & California labor unions led by the AAUP filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the illegal & coercive use of civil rights laws to attack the University of California system & the rights of their members.
UC employees, not waiting on leaders, sue Trump for 'financial coercion' over UCLA cuts
University of California faculty, students and staff on Tuesday sued President Trump over a $1.2-million penalty against UCLA and federal demands over campus changes. They argued that the actions camp...
www.latimes.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
anniemcc.bsky.social
Wall to wall action TOMORROW at UC Regents meeting!
September 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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miriamposner.com
Tomorrow the UC regents are meeting at UCSF to discuss Trump's extortion attempt. This is a defining moment for the UC system, for public education, and for the university as an institution. We demand no concession, no capitulation, no cuts.
No Concessions, No Capitulation, No Cuts On September 16 at 2pm, we are joining the AAUP and CUCFA for a rally at the William J. Rutter Center at UCSF, 1675 Owens Street, San Francisco, to demand No Concessions, No Capitulation, and No Cuts to our University of California. Please join us!
September 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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zunguzungu.bsky.social
We should be honest abut how "we should just kill them, can we not please just KILL them" lurks barely under the surface of so much respectable discourse on the homeless.
September 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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noamchompers.bsky.social
lol this is a throwback to the golden age of bad articles
librarypunk.bsky.social librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · Sep 10
This lady's brain is soup
September 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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zunguzungu.bsky.social
not today, I guess, but Satan, please, tomorrow?
September 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
anniemcc.bsky.social
I have a book cover!
August 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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charliejane.bsky.social
I keep saying this, but...

...punishing the homeless is how big-city and blue state liberals do fascism.
August 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns
“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
www.advocate.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
anniemcc.bsky.social
Really fucking gross.
aft.org AFT @aft.org · Aug 28
AFT President @rweingarten.bsky.social was included on TIME's list TIME100 AI of 2025!

Read the #TIME100AI story here: time.com/collections/...
August 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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solidarity5ever.bsky.social
This is why you need a union. It doesn't matter if it's illegal if nobody is going to do anything about it. But trust me, if you have a union you ALL can do something about it.
leftistlawyer.com Sheryl Weikal, still saying Free Palestine @leftistlawyer.com · Aug 28
I really need people in this country to move away from "but that's illegal!" or "but that's not allowed!" as their default response.

Laws do not enforce themselves and life has no umpire. Stop waiting for magical referee in the sky to fix everything.
August 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Coalition of UC unions condemns Trump’s attacks on the UC and the California economy.

@ucaft.bsky.social @afscme3299.bsky.social @uaw4811.bsky.social @aaup.org

#HigherEd #AcademicFreedom #UnniversityofCalifornia #HoldTheLine #Trump #HandsOffHigherEd #StandUpUC
On Friday August 8, the Trump administration demanded a $1 billion “settlement” from UCLA after freezing $584 million in federal grants for vital scientific and health research. The proposed $1 billion agreement would be the largest settlement since Trump began extorting universities, and marks the first attempt of the federal government to ransom payment from a public university. These attacks have been waged under the guise of fighting antisemitism and investigating alleged Title VII violations, but we see them for what they are: an attempt to cripple public higher education in the nation’s premier public university system.
August 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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ucaft.bsky.social
The coalition of UC unions condemns Trump’s attacks on the University of California. Read more: ucaft.org/news/the-coa... @calnurses.bsky.social @afscme3299.bsky.social @aaup.org @uaw4811.bsky.social @uptecwa.bsky.social @teamsterslocal2010.bsky.social @ucaftbayarea.bsky.social
University of California Union Coalition logo banner featuring nine union logos arranged horizontally: AFSCME 3299 (green with yellow text), California Nurses Association CNA (red and white), UAW (yellow and blue), CIR (purple with medical caduceus symbol), Teamsters Local 2010 (orange circular logo with steering wheel), UPTE CWA 9119 (blue and white), University Professional & Technical Employees logo with torch symbol, UAW gear logo in black, and UAPD Union of American Physicians and Dentists (blue with medical caduceus).
August 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM