Dr. Lynn Dombrowski
@lynndombrowski.bsky.social
designer; researcher; professor.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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Very excited to share this workshop I'm helping to host on August 19: "From Tech Lash To Tech Fash: Strategic reflections on a decade of collective organizing in computing"
tech-organizing-reflections.github.io
tech-organizing-reflections.github.io
July 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Very excited to share this workshop I'm helping to host on August 19: "From Tech Lash To Tech Fash: Strategic reflections on a decade of collective organizing in computing"
tech-organizing-reflections.github.io
tech-organizing-reflections.github.io
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The Silicon Valley Consensus: a persistent but fragile pattern for overbuilding, overvaluing, and overinvesting in tech to enrich networks of capitalists & advance their (reactionary) political projects. 1st iteration focuses on AI capex, first half today. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/the-silico...
The Silicon Valley Consensus & AI Capex (Part 1)
On overbuilding AI infrastructure and its energy supply
thetechbubble.substack.com
March 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The Silicon Valley Consensus: a persistent but fragile pattern for overbuilding, overvaluing, and overinvesting in tech to enrich networks of capitalists & advance their (reactionary) political projects. 1st iteration focuses on AI capex, first half today. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/the-silico...
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"downsizes" is a weak way of saying "forced to cancel dozens of programs, which jeopardizes future STEM careers of talented undergrads" @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF downsizes summer research program for undergraduates
Many participants are from groups underrepresented in science
www.science.org
March 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
"downsizes" is a weak way of saying "forced to cancel dozens of programs, which jeopardizes future STEM careers of talented undergrads" @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
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just gonna be the thousandth person to remind you all that segregationists start the open bigotry with people they feel they can target most easily but do not end there
Wow—Trump is firing and banning all trans people from the military, per DoD memo.
“Military service by members and applicants for military service who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria is incompatible with military service.”
Part of memo:
“Military service by members and applicants for military service who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria is incompatible with military service.”
Part of memo:
February 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
just gonna be the thousandth person to remind you all that segregationists start the open bigotry with people they feel they can target most easily but do not end there
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JFC. The US Economic Policy Uncertainty Index is at its highest level since 2000, higher than during the Financial Crisis, higher than during COVID
February 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
JFC. The US Economic Policy Uncertainty Index is at its highest level since 2000, higher than during the Financial Crisis, higher than during COVID
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It's a very good time to be part of a union. Getting a much more full-throated defense of diversity scholars like myself from them than from anywhere else. 👀
February 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
It's a very good time to be part of a union. Getting a much more full-throated defense of diversity scholars like myself from them than from anywhere else. 👀
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To be clear: Even greater damage will be done by the loss of federal government productivity. The workers who are losing their jobs were worth more than they were being paid! We are all poorer when roads, planes, and food are unsafe, when parks are closed, etc.
February 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
To be clear: Even greater damage will be done by the loss of federal government productivity. The workers who are losing their jobs were worth more than they were being paid! We are all poorer when roads, planes, and food are unsafe, when parks are closed, etc.
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It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.
February 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.
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As we all near the end of the first month of the Fourth Reich, think about this today. Take the time you need for you. Catch your breath. Just remember to join back in when you can. 🩵💙🩵💙
February 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
As we all near the end of the first month of the Fourth Reich, think about this today. Take the time you need for you. Catch your breath. Just remember to join back in when you can. 🩵💙🩵💙
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New blog post up, this one more for my non-academic readers who are wondering what is going on with all this NSF freeze business.
www.kateringland.com/what-does-re...
www.kateringland.com/what-does-re...
What the Heck Is ‘Research’ Anyway?
Buckle up for a behind-the-scenes tour—complete with snark, existential dread, and hopefully some clarity on why real-world science matters more than ever.
www.kateringland.com
January 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
New blog post up, this one more for my non-academic readers who are wondering what is going on with all this NSF freeze business.
www.kateringland.com/what-does-re...
www.kateringland.com/what-does-re...
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I swear if this DeepSeek thing turns into “this is why we need more of ppl’s work and data for FREE so we can compete with CHINA” BS, instead of what it needs to be, a reveal of how pointless and inept the tech and its peddlers are and have always been, i’m gonna be so pissed.
January 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I swear if this DeepSeek thing turns into “this is why we need more of ppl’s work and data for FREE so we can compete with CHINA” BS, instead of what it needs to be, a reveal of how pointless and inept the tech and its peddlers are and have always been, i’m gonna be so pissed.
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I don’t have a definitive source on this yet but it looks like NSF review panels have been canceled.
Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security.
This is absolutely an act of sabotage.
Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security.
This is absolutely an act of sabotage.
January 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I don’t have a definitive source on this yet but it looks like NSF review panels have been canceled.
Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security.
This is absolutely an act of sabotage.
Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security.
This is absolutely an act of sabotage.
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Cancellation of federal grants, with alt text
January 28, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Cancellation of federal grants, with alt text
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Did you notice the necklace Justice Ketanji Brown was wearing today? It's made of COWRIE shells, which had a special significance for Africans:
Cowries were used as charms for protection, and historians speculate they were brought to America as talismans to resist enslavement.
Seems appropriate!
Cowries were used as charms for protection, and historians speculate they were brought to America as talismans to resist enslavement.
Seems appropriate!
January 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Did you notice the necklace Justice Ketanji Brown was wearing today? It's made of COWRIE shells, which had a special significance for Africans:
Cowries were used as charms for protection, and historians speculate they were brought to America as talismans to resist enslavement.
Seems appropriate!
Cowries were used as charms for protection, and historians speculate they were brought to America as talismans to resist enslavement.
Seems appropriate!
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I got a lot of whataboutism defenses of TikTok along the lines of "what about Musk and Zuckerberg?"
So let's just dispense with that. I tore into them this week as well.
www.salon.com/2025/01/17/t...
So let's just dispense with that. I tore into them this week as well.
www.salon.com/2025/01/17/t...
The tech billionaire war on "woke" is really a war on workers
Mark Zuckerberg wants "masculine energy" and "aggression" at the office — sounds like a toxic workplace
www.salon.com
January 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I got a lot of whataboutism defenses of TikTok along the lines of "what about Musk and Zuckerberg?"
So let's just dispense with that. I tore into them this week as well.
www.salon.com/2025/01/17/t...
So let's just dispense with that. I tore into them this week as well.
www.salon.com/2025/01/17/t...
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I will never stop being mad about how the media has treated the anti-trans movement as a group of ordinary people with legitimate concerns rather than the obvious frothing bigots they are.
ABC White House correspondent just released ANOTHER anti-trans EO expected that we did not cover in our piece this morning:
A federal ban on funding to programs that acknowledge and affirm transgender people.
A federal ban on funding to programs that acknowledge and affirm transgender people.
January 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I will never stop being mad about how the media has treated the anti-trans movement as a group of ordinary people with legitimate concerns rather than the obvious frothing bigots they are.
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Congratulations to my colleague, Josiah Hester, for earning the PECASE Award, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding early-career scientists
www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-up...
www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-up...
President Biden Honors Nearly 400 Federally Funded Early-Career Scientists | OSTP | The White House
Today, President Biden awarded nearly 400 scientists and engineers the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outst...
www.whitehouse.gov
January 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Congratulations to my colleague, Josiah Hester, for earning the PECASE Award, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding early-career scientists
www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-up...
www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-up...
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Thanks so much to @histoftech.bsky.social for putting together this critical, entirely virtual, and much needed conference on AI’s historical relationship to power, labor, and the environment. Catch you bright and early on Friday, December 6!
Rethinking the Inevitability of AI
Rethinking the Inevitability of AI
uva.theopenscholar.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Thanks so much to @histoftech.bsky.social for putting together this critical, entirely virtual, and much needed conference on AI’s historical relationship to power, labor, and the environment. Catch you bright and early on Friday, December 6!
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📢 NEW Paper!
@siree.sh, Lucy Suchman, and I examine a corpus of 7,000 US Military grant solicitations to ask what the world’s largest military wants with to do with AI, by looking at what it seeks to fund. #STS
📄: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.17840
We find…
@siree.sh, Lucy Suchman, and I examine a corpus of 7,000 US Military grant solicitations to ask what the world’s largest military wants with to do with AI, by looking at what it seeks to fund. #STS
📄: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.17840
We find…
December 9, 2024 at 2:18 PM
📢 NEW Paper!
@siree.sh, Lucy Suchman, and I examine a corpus of 7,000 US Military grant solicitations to ask what the world’s largest military wants with to do with AI, by looking at what it seeks to fund. #STS
📄: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.17840
We find…
@siree.sh, Lucy Suchman, and I examine a corpus of 7,000 US Military grant solicitations to ask what the world’s largest military wants with to do with AI, by looking at what it seeks to fund. #STS
📄: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.17840
We find…
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Every corner of the world has gig work platforms that mistreat workers. Every industry, from food delivery to nursing, wants to gigify its workforce. Then they don't have to be treated like employees and the corporation does not have to abide by labor laws. labourreview.org/deep-organis...
Deep Organising is the Path Forward
In much of Asia, gig work is highly individualised, and algorithmic management fragments the labour process, diminishing workers' structural power. Couriers and riders often work gruelling hours, driv...
labourreview.org
December 9, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Every corner of the world has gig work platforms that mistreat workers. Every industry, from food delivery to nursing, wants to gigify its workforce. Then they don't have to be treated like employees and the corporation does not have to abide by labor laws. labourreview.org/deep-organis...
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In my line of work, I use this line of questions to figure out which one it is:
1. What's your strategy for growing revenue?
2. What's your leading indicator for whether that strategy is working?
3. What customer behavior drives that metric?
The place where they get stuck gives me my answer.
1. What's your strategy for growing revenue?
2. What's your leading indicator for whether that strategy is working?
3. What customer behavior drives that metric?
The place where they get stuck gives me my answer.
it’s become so that one of my key questions about a company is whether the culture is focused on making money by providing something users will pay for, or just extracting money from users, independent of value to them
December 9, 2024 at 4:09 AM
In my line of work, I use this line of questions to figure out which one it is:
1. What's your strategy for growing revenue?
2. What's your leading indicator for whether that strategy is working?
3. What customer behavior drives that metric?
The place where they get stuck gives me my answer.
1. What's your strategy for growing revenue?
2. What's your leading indicator for whether that strategy is working?
3. What customer behavior drives that metric?
The place where they get stuck gives me my answer.
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Students should study the humanities not because it makes them better workers but because it rips you open and breaks your brain and changes everything you thought you knew. I *promise* you this. I *promise* it has this ability, no matter how smart you think you are. I have seen it countless times.
Hearing the president of KU say that the way the humanities can protect itself - a question asked by a humanities professor of Spanish - is that her field should direct its public voice to how the Spanish language can impact AI versus the third study of an obscure play…. Just sigh.
December 5, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Students should study the humanities not because it makes them better workers but because it rips you open and breaks your brain and changes everything you thought you knew. I *promise* you this. I *promise* it has this ability, no matter how smart you think you are. I have seen it countless times.