Labor Tech Research Network
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We are an interdisciplinary group of over 700 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism. Posts by @kaareeenah.bsky.social
North Star Data Center Policy Toolkit: State and Local Policy Interventions to Stop Rampant AI Data Center Expansion
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North Star Data Center Policy Toolkit: State and Local Policy Interventions
NORTH STAR DATA CENTER POLICY TOOLKIT State and Local Policy Interventions to Stop Rampant AI Data Center Expansion Draft: December 2025 Table of Contents Acknowledgements 3 Endorsements...
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February 5, 2026 at 1:20 AM
North Star Data Center Policy Toolkit: State and Local Policy Interventions to Stop Rampant AI Data Center Expansion
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Digital Platforms and Digital Labor in East Asia and Beyond.pdf
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February 5, 2026 at 1:18 AM
Google helped Israeli military contractor with AI, whistleblower alleges
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Google helped Israeli military contractor with AI, whistleblower alleges
A whistleblower complaint filed with the SEC claims that Google breached its own ethics rules to help an Israeli contractor apply AI to drone surveillance video.
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February 4, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Google helped Israeli military contractor with AI, whistleblower alleges
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Event: Against Surveillance & Spectacle: Building Global Resistance to Tech-Mediated Oppression
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Against Surveillance & Spectacle: Building Global Resistance to Tech-Mediated Oppression — DISCO Network
What does it mean to be in community? This panel brings together activists, scholars, and writers to explore connections between critical social issues—health justice, discrimination, technofascism, a...
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February 4, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Event: Against Surveillance & Spectacle: Building Global Resistance to Tech-Mediated Oppression
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Join us on January 27th, 12-1 pm PST to hear directly about how tech workers are choosing to speak up, lessons they’ve learned in the process, and ways in which you can spark that voice in other colleagues.
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Worker Voice: How Tech Workers Are Speaking Up At Work & Beyond - TechEquity Collaborative
Join us to hear directly about how tech workers are choosing to speak up in their workplaces and the lessons they've learned from doing so.
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January 21, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Join us on January 27th, 12-1 pm PST to hear directly about how tech workers are choosing to speak up, lessons they’ve learned in the process, and ways in which you can spark that voice in other colleagues.
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Opportunity for students: UC Berkeley Labor Center Summer Internship
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Labor Summer Internship
Labor Summer is a full-time, PAID, intensive eight-week educational internship program. Students learn from and work with labor and community organizations in Northern and Central California, applying...
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January 21, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Opportunity for students: UC Berkeley Labor Center Summer Internship
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Nassim Parvin @nassimparvin.bsky.social will speak about "Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen" at this upcoming @labortechresearchnetwork.org event on Jan. 23:
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January 15, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Nassim Parvin @nassimparvin.bsky.social will speak about "Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen" at this upcoming @labortechresearchnetwork.org event on Jan. 23:
Information and registration: labortechresearchnetwork.org/speaker-series
Information and registration: labortechresearchnetwork.org/speaker-series
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Hello, we’re Ghost in the Machine, a landmark documentary that’s mandatory viewing for anyone thinking about or using AI.
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be premiering at #SundanceFilmFestival next month. We hope you’ll join us in person or online, and follow along here.
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be premiering at #SundanceFilmFestival next month. We hope you’ll join us in person or online, and follow along here.
December 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Hello, we’re Ghost in the Machine, a landmark documentary that’s mandatory viewing for anyone thinking about or using AI.
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be premiering at #SundanceFilmFestival next month. We hope you’ll join us in person or online, and follow along here.
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be premiering at #SundanceFilmFestival next month. We hope you’ll join us in person or online, and follow along here.
“Everyone is so panicked”: Entry-level tech workers describe the AI-fueled jobpocalypse
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“Everyone is so panicked”: Entry-level tech workers describe the AI-fueled jobpocalypse
Engineering graduates face shrinking opportunities and rising pressure to upskill beyond their curriculum.
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December 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
“Everyone is so panicked”: Entry-level tech workers describe the AI-fueled jobpocalypse
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Call for Papers: Karl Marx and Max Weber on the Topic of Machines Dominating Labour
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Call for Papers: Karl Marx and Max Weber on the Topic of Machines Dominating Labour
Part of the Joint Conference 2026 (JC2026) The 2nd RC20 Regional Conference on Comparative SociologyThe 1st RC56 Regional Conference on Historical SociologyThe 5th RC33 Regional Conference on Social S...
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December 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Call for Papers: Karl Marx and Max Weber on the Topic of Machines Dominating Labour
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Starting now! There's still time to join us 💫
Come join us **this Thurs, Dec 11** for our end-of-year showcase!
Meet our award winners and other LaborTech members! Participate in our monthly book club! Attend a session on the new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers' Inquiry!
Contact Karina (email on flyer) for Zoom links :)
Meet our award winners and other LaborTech members! Participate in our monthly book club! Attend a session on the new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers' Inquiry!
Contact Karina (email on flyer) for Zoom links :)
December 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Starting now! There's still time to join us 💫
Come join us **this Thurs, Dec 11** for our end-of-year showcase!
Meet our award winners and other LaborTech members! Participate in our monthly book club! Attend a session on the new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers' Inquiry!
Contact Karina (email on flyer) for Zoom links :)
Meet our award winners and other LaborTech members! Participate in our monthly book club! Attend a session on the new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers' Inquiry!
Contact Karina (email on flyer) for Zoom links :)
December 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Come join us **this Thurs, Dec 11** for our end-of-year showcase!
Meet our award winners and other LaborTech members! Participate in our monthly book club! Attend a session on the new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers' Inquiry!
Contact Karina (email on flyer) for Zoom links :)
Meet our award winners and other LaborTech members! Participate in our monthly book club! Attend a session on the new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers' Inquiry!
Contact Karina (email on flyer) for Zoom links :)
Event: Revisiting The Innovation Delusion — Conversation with Andrew Russell
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Revisiting The Innovation Delusion — Conversation with Andrew Russell
While conducting Repair Café workshops in Bangalore (India), we’ve realized that maintenance goes hand in hand with repair. Yet we often overlook and undervalue the essential role that maintenance pla...
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December 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Event: Revisiting The Innovation Delusion — Conversation with Andrew Russell
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Event: From Project Blue to Stargate: The Southwest Resists Data Centers
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: From Project Blue to Stargate: The Southwest Resists Data Centers. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
From enormous landgrabs, to mass amounts of water and energy use, and endless pollution, data centers like Project Blue and Stargate represent the most dangerous and extractive AI infrastructure proje...
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December 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Event: From Project Blue to Stargate: The Southwest Resists Data Centers
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Microsoft, Google say their data centers create thousands of jobs. Their permit filings say otherwise
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Microsoft, Google say their data centers create thousands of jobs. Their permit filings say otherwise
Chile and tech giants promise economy-wide impact but permits show fewer onsite jobs after construction.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Microsoft, Google say their data centers create thousands of jobs. Their permit filings say otherwise
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A First Look at Labor's AI Values: An Analysis of Recent Statements about Technology by Unions and other Worker Organizations
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November 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
A First Look at Labor's AI Values: An Analysis of Recent Statements about Technology by Unions and other Worker Organizations
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Join us next week!
We’ll be in conversation with organizers and researchers who have been at the forefront of digital rights mobilization.
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We’ll be in conversation with organizers and researchers who have been at the forefront of digital rights mobilization.
Register: utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Join us next week!
We’ll be in conversation with organizers and researchers who have been at the forefront of digital rights mobilization.
Register: utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We’ll be in conversation with organizers and researchers who have been at the forefront of digital rights mobilization.
Register: utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/regi...