dr dana calacci
@dana.witchy.business
asst prof at penn state, workers/AI/surveillance. she/her 🏳️⚧️
as algorithms increasingly determine individual workers' pay, independent reports like this that reveal the impact on workers are crucial. amazing work led by @powerswitchaction.org and GWR that I was VERY happy to help with and contribute to!
Imagine going to work each day not knowing how much you’ll get paid. If you’re an Uber driver, you face that grim scenario every day.
Our new report based on a survey of 2,500 drivers paints a bleak picture of what it's like to work at the whim of AI.
www.powerswitchaction.org/resources/ub...
Our new report based on a survey of 2,500 drivers paints a bleak picture of what it's like to work at the whim of AI.
www.powerswitchaction.org/resources/ub...
Uber's Inequality Machine
Data on How AI-Driven Pay is Harming Workers and What We Can Do to Push Back
www.powerswitchaction.org
June 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
as algorithms increasingly determine individual workers' pay, independent reports like this that reveal the impact on workers are crucial. amazing work led by @powerswitchaction.org and GWR that I was VERY happy to help with and contribute to!
language in the gender EOs sneakily frames having ID inconsistent with your birth sex as fraud. it now might be enforced for visa holders attempting to enter the US www.erininthemorning.com/p/marco-rubi...
Marco Rubio May Have Just Banned Trans Foreigners Seeking Visas From US Entry
A new state department cable, meant to target transgender athletes, indicates a potential broader application to all transgender visas, which it states must contain "sex at birth."
www.erininthemorning.com
April 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
language in the gender EOs sneakily frames having ID inconsistent with your birth sex as fraud. it now might be enforced for visa holders attempting to enter the US www.erininthemorning.com/p/marco-rubi...
happy to see more and more eyes on workplace tracking tech as it makes its way to the creative class. keep eyes out for algorithmic pay schemes in new industries as this tech spreads www.wired.com/story/your-b...
Your Boss Wants You Back in the Office. This Surveillance Tech Could Be Waiting for You
Warehouse-style employee tracking tech has expanded into job after job. Now, as millions are called back to the workplace, it’s finally coming for the American office worker.
www.wired.com
March 4, 2025 at 3:15 AM
happy to see more and more eyes on workplace tracking tech as it makes its way to the creative class. keep eyes out for algorithmic pay schemes in new industries as this tech spreads www.wired.com/story/your-b...
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NGL Being a trans person rn is rough. Find ways to materially support trans folks please your reskeets are not enough
Hate for hate's sake.
Iowa Lawmakers Pass Bill to Eliminate Transgender Civil Rights Protections www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u...
Iowa Lawmakers Pass Bill to Eliminate Transgender Civil Rights Protections www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u...
Iowa Lawmakers Pass Bill to Eliminate Transgender Civil Rights Protections
If signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds, the Republican-backed measure would eliminate state civil rights protections for transgender Iowans.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
NGL Being a trans person rn is rough. Find ways to materially support trans folks please your reskeets are not enough
i am SO TIRED of not-rigorous evaluations of LLMs
February 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
i am SO TIRED of not-rigorous evaluations of LLMs
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I think what’s going on here that these people are trying to find some true binary relating to biological sex. Genital morphology won’t do it. Sex chromosomes don’t do it. So they’ve retreated to gamete size. I think the use of large and small cell is also a hedge in this direction, not prudishness.
January 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I think what’s going on here that these people are trying to find some true binary relating to biological sex. Genital morphology won’t do it. Sex chromosomes don’t do it. So they’ve retreated to gamete size. I think the use of large and small cell is also a hedge in this direction, not prudishness.
senior faculty in my dept just emailed a dean asking if allowing non-binary gender in a survey was “using federal funds to promote gender ideology”, we are so cooked
January 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
senior faculty in my dept just emailed a dean asking if allowing non-binary gender in a survey was “using federal funds to promote gender ideology”, we are so cooked
being in the university pharmacy waiting room in january feels like being in the “sick room” at the doctors office as a kid
January 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
being in the university pharmacy waiting room in january feels like being in the “sick room” at the doctors office as a kid
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The Teamsters will launch the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history beginning at 6 a.m. EST on Thurs., Dec. 19. The nationwide action follows Amazon’s repeated refusal to follow the law and bargain with the thousands of Amazon workers who organized with the Teamsters.
Let's fucking go! 🔥
Let's fucking go! 🔥
December 19, 2024 at 1:42 AM
The Teamsters will launch the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history beginning at 6 a.m. EST on Thurs., Dec. 19. The nationwide action follows Amazon’s repeated refusal to follow the law and bargain with the thousands of Amazon workers who organized with the Teamsters.
Let's fucking go! 🔥
Let's fucking go! 🔥
can someone explain to me how bsky is meaningfully decentralized???
December 17, 2024 at 7:37 PM
can someone explain to me how bsky is meaningfully decentralized???
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COLE: COOP, THEY CAUGHT THE CEO SHOOTER. HIS NAME WAS TONY SPAGHETTI, REAL BOY NEXT DOOR. ABS LIKE ADONIS. POLITICAL IDEAS OF A FUTON. PERHAPS THE IDEAL MAN
December 10, 2024 at 5:10 AM
COLE: COOP, THEY CAUGHT THE CEO SHOOTER. HIS NAME WAS TONY SPAGHETTI, REAL BOY NEXT DOOR. ABS LIKE ADONIS. POLITICAL IDEAS OF A FUTON. PERHAPS THE IDEAL MAN
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Consider too that the handwringing about children is always followed by the ending of adult care, de facto or otherwise.
December 8, 2024 at 1:01 PM
Consider too that the handwringing about children is always followed by the ending of adult care, de facto or otherwise.
i love lina khan’s FTC, have given talks there, am friends with some of the staff. this would be like suddenly turning a bestie into a nemesis
Punchbowl's @benbrodydc.bsky.social got a copy of FTC Commissioner Andrew Ferguson's pitch to be chair under Trump:
December 6, 2024 at 11:21 PM
i love lina khan’s FTC, have given talks there, am friends with some of the staff. this would be like suddenly turning a bestie into a nemesis
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Yet another "gender clinic whistleblower" account falls apart as soon as reporters talk to actual patients.
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/03/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/03/m...
‘A head scratcher’: Families push back against claim that Boston clinic for trans children is ‘reckless’ - The Boston Globe
Families who sought treatment for their children at the clinic shared their experiences with the Globe as a counterweight to what they regard as unfounded concerns about youth gender medicine.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 6, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Yet another "gender clinic whistleblower" account falls apart as soon as reporters talk to actual patients.
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/03/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/03/m...
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I heard this is a good place to talk about taxing the rich, breaking up big tech, and ending Washington corruption.
December 4, 2024 at 8:23 PM
I heard this is a good place to talk about taxing the rich, breaking up big tech, and ending Washington corruption.
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Good morning Bluesky.
Here's a helpful starter pack for divorced men named Geoff but one has been murdered. Please help us find the killer.
go.bsky.app/KDY26rh
Here's a helpful starter pack for divorced men named Geoff but one has been murdered. Please help us find the killer.
go.bsky.app/KDY26rh
November 15, 2024 at 9:34 AM
Good morning Bluesky.
Here's a helpful starter pack for divorced men named Geoff but one has been murdered. Please help us find the killer.
go.bsky.app/KDY26rh
Here's a helpful starter pack for divorced men named Geoff but one has been murdered. Please help us find the killer.
go.bsky.app/KDY26rh
this is the kind of content i neeeeeed
"You assholes, you’re the reason that every fucking new car is blinding the shit out of everyone.”
I really like the rhetorical choices made by Nate here.
I really like the rhetorical choices made by Nate here.
In one of the strangest chapters of my life, I spent several months in the trenches of Big Headlight, looking to understand just how and why headlights became brighter than the sun. Answers, graphs, penis sketches—it's all here, on the brand new Ringer site:
www.theringer.com/2024/12/03/t...
www.theringer.com/2024/12/03/t...
December 4, 2024 at 3:50 AM
this is the kind of content i neeeeeed
come on I JUST came out
December 4, 2024 at 2:25 AM
come on I JUST came out
come worry with me with me tomorrow as my rights get decided at the supreme court slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Hidden Danger of the Supreme Court’s New Trans Rights Case
The Supreme Court hears arguments on Wednesday in Skrmetti v. U.S.
slate.com
December 4, 2024 at 2:20 AM
come worry with me with me tomorrow as my rights get decided at the supreme court slate.com/news-and-pol...
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when smash mouth said "my world's on fire, how bout yours" I felt that
December 4, 2024 at 1:26 AM
when smash mouth said "my world's on fire, how bout yours" I felt that
an llm bot that rewrites all news headlines as emoji pasta
December 2, 2024 at 4:14 AM
an llm bot that rewrites all news headlines as emoji pasta
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i think something about tiktok/youtube shorts/ig reels taps into a deep genetic memory of staring into a communal fire
November 25, 2024 at 10:07 PM
i think something about tiktok/youtube shorts/ig reels taps into a deep genetic memory of staring into a communal fire
bringing this paper to my next manicure after my nail tech argued that her phone was listening to her, sorry honey it’s not that simple
Once more, with feeling:
No, your smartphone isn’t listening to you. Because it doesn’t have to.
No, your smartphone isn’t listening to you. Because it doesn’t have to.
Why It Feels Like Your Phone Is Listening to You - Terms of Service with Clare Duffy - Podcast on CNN Audio
It’s a familiar feeling if you spend enough time on the internet: you talk about something in the real world, and then you see that same thing advertised to you online. This uncanny experience has led...
www.cnn.com
November 23, 2024 at 5:55 AM
bringing this paper to my next manicure after my nail tech argued that her phone was listening to her, sorry honey it’s not that simple
mixtapes of social media babyyyy
Starter packs are really a great counterpunch to algorithmic following recommendations. Turns out actual people are better than a snippet of code at suggesting who you might like to follow, and they actually enjoy doing it.
November 23, 2024 at 5:45 AM
mixtapes of social media babyyyy
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@astra.bsky.social: Remember for that a lot of this country's history, labor unions were illegal and people organized and struck anyways.
@keeanga.bsky.social: we need a left that's "habitable and hospitable to regular people" with onramps for regular ppl; calls out democrats focus on joy as "apalling" given the genocide in gaza and evident unawareness of the "extraordinary suffering...in this country"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kza2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kza2...
Where Do We Go From Here? A Post-Election Assessment
YouTube video by Haymarket Books
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2024 at 4:08 AM
@astra.bsky.social: Remember for that a lot of this country's history, labor unions were illegal and people organized and struck anyways.