Freddy Reiber
@rankandfreddy.bsky.social
PhD student at Boston University. Studying the use of technology in collective action and political economy and tech.
Interested in any and all sociological questions relating to Politics, Culture, Meaning, and Tech.
Marxist or something.
Interested in any and all sociological questions relating to Politics, Culture, Meaning, and Tech.
Marxist or something.
Why is BU's course registration page using the language "shopping cart"? Education is not a product that you pick off the shelf, it is a process of growth of learning, of being challenged, not something to be consumed and discarded.
December 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Why is BU's course registration page using the language "shopping cart"? Education is not a product that you pick off the shelf, it is a process of growth of learning, of being challenged, not something to be consumed and discarded.
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Want to support baristas on strike?
✅ DON'T BUY STARBUCKS products anywhere (and tell everyone you know to do the same!)
✅ Sign our No Contract No Coffee pledge, & find a picket line near you: nocontractnocoffee.org
✅ Donate to our strike fund: sbworkersunited.org
✅ DON'T BUY STARBUCKS products anywhere (and tell everyone you know to do the same!)
✅ Sign our No Contract No Coffee pledge, & find a picket line near you: nocontractnocoffee.org
✅ Donate to our strike fund: sbworkersunited.org
No Contract, No Coffee | Starbucks Workers United
Starbucks baristas brewing change. Join the movement for fair contracts, better wages, and worker protections.
nocontractnocoffee.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Want to support baristas on strike?
✅ DON'T BUY STARBUCKS products anywhere (and tell everyone you know to do the same!)
✅ Sign our No Contract No Coffee pledge, & find a picket line near you: nocontractnocoffee.org
✅ Donate to our strike fund: sbworkersunited.org
✅ DON'T BUY STARBUCKS products anywhere (and tell everyone you know to do the same!)
✅ Sign our No Contract No Coffee pledge, & find a picket line near you: nocontractnocoffee.org
✅ Donate to our strike fund: sbworkersunited.org
Gotta shout out Working-Mass's fantastic coverage of the Global Sumud Flotilla!
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The Stumo Brothers of Western Mass: On Mission Sailing with the Global Sumud Flotilla - Working Mass
By: Reid Jackson SHEFFIELD, MA – Adnaan and Torleif Stumo are two brothers from a town in the westernmost corner of Massachusetts. On October 8th, 2025, they were in the epicenter of Israel’s violatio...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Gotta shout out Working-Mass's fantastic coverage of the Global Sumud Flotilla!
working-mass.com/2025/11/15/t...
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Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today!
Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount
Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount
November 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today!
Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount
Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount
Shout to my comrades Dan and Henry for their fantastic new piece of organizing tech for leftist campaigns!
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Winning Online: 5 Digital Tactics That Powered Connolly and Zohran To Victory - Working Mass
Digital organizers from the Catherine Connolly campaign give insights into the tech tools that helped drive Connolly and Zohran to victory. By Dan Albright and Henry De Groot In the last two weeks, tw...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Shout to my comrades Dan and Henry for their fantastic new piece of organizing tech for leftist campaigns!
working-mass.com/2025/11/06/t...
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Gotta shout out my own (and fantastic editor Travis's) work!
@kickstarterunited.org rallied on Thursday outside the offices of Littler Mendelson, America’s largest union-busting firm.
They launched their fourth week on strike defending a 4-day, 32-hour workweek and fighting to raise the wages for the lowest-paid workers. working-mass.com/2025/10/25/k...
They launched their fourth week on strike defending a 4-day, 32-hour workweek and fighting to raise the wages for the lowest-paid workers. working-mass.com/2025/10/25/k...
Kickstarter Workers Rally in Boston to Launch Fourth Strike Week - Working Mass
By: Frederick Reiber Boston, MA – Kickstarter Union (OPEIU Local 153) workers rallied on Thursday outside the 100 Oliver Street offices of Littler Mendelson, America’s largest union-busting firm, to l...
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October 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Gotta shout out my own (and fantastic editor Travis's) work!
Kick-starter is on strike! Come out and support tech workers taking direct action!!
Hope to see you all there.
actionnetwork.org/events/kicks...
Hope to see you all there.
actionnetwork.org/events/kicks...
KICKSTARTER ON STRIKE RALLY: BOSTON
Kickstarter United (OPEIU Local 153) is the union of designers, support specialists, product managers, engineers, and more who power Kickstarter. We fought to form this union to strengthen Kickstarter...
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October 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Kick-starter is on strike! Come out and support tech workers taking direct action!!
Hope to see you all there.
actionnetwork.org/events/kicks...
Hope to see you all there.
actionnetwork.org/events/kicks...
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"This is a victory for every single one of us... we mounted a pressure that could not be ignored."
MIT refused Trump. Rather than the act of one individual university president, grad workers and other organizers applied pressure to make it happen.
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MIT refused Trump. Rather than the act of one individual university president, grad workers and other organizers applied pressure to make it happen.
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MIT Refuses to Sign Trump Compact Following Pressure from Grad Workers' Union and Other Groups - Working Mass
By: Frederick Reiber CAMBRIDGE, MA – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s students, workers, and union comrades gathered outside of the university’s Lobby 7 on Friday, October 10th to protest...
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October 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"This is a victory for every single one of us... we mounted a pressure that could not be ignored."
MIT refused Trump. Rather than the act of one individual university president, grad workers and other organizers applied pressure to make it happen.
working-mass.com/2025/10/17/m...
MIT refused Trump. Rather than the act of one individual university president, grad workers and other organizers applied pressure to make it happen.
working-mass.com/2025/10/17/m...
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✨I’m on the academic job market ✨
I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻💻💪🏽💥
I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action
More info: cella.io
I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻💻💪🏽💥
I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action
More info: cella.io
Cella M. Sum –
cella.io
October 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
✨I’m on the academic job market ✨
I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻💻💪🏽💥
I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action
More info: cella.io
I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻💻💪🏽💥
I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action
More info: cella.io
What a grim reality.
Lyft sending me an email urging me to "take action" and send an automatically generated text message to Brandon Johnson urging them not to increase taxes on Rideshare companies.
Perhaps it is time for "death of the user"
Lyft sending me an email urging me to "take action" and send an automatically generated text message to Brandon Johnson urging them not to increase taxes on Rideshare companies.
Perhaps it is time for "death of the user"
October 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
What a grim reality.
Lyft sending me an email urging me to "take action" and send an automatically generated text message to Brandon Johnson urging them not to increase taxes on Rideshare companies.
Perhaps it is time for "death of the user"
Lyft sending me an email urging me to "take action" and send an automatically generated text message to Brandon Johnson urging them not to increase taxes on Rideshare companies.
Perhaps it is time for "death of the user"
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On Wednesday, Sept 17, Davis Square workers voted to join Starbucks Workers United. One week later, on Thursday the 25th, Starbucks announced the imminent closure of hundreds of stores nationwide. By the 27th, the store had permanently closed.
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Starbucks Workers in Davis Square Join SBWU; Company Closes Store One Week Later - Working Mass
By: Terence Cawley SOMERVILLE, MA – The last few weeks have been tumultuous for the workers at the Starbucks store in the Davis Square neighborhood. On Wednesday, September 17, workers voted to join S...
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October 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
On Wednesday, Sept 17, Davis Square workers voted to join Starbucks Workers United. One week later, on Thursday the 25th, Starbucks announced the imminent closure of hundreds of stores nationwide. By the 27th, the store had permanently closed.
working-mass.com/2025/10/03/s...
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Giving another shout-out to Ta-Nehisi Coates. This is a really well done article by a man who has continuously gone up in my book as an artistic and intellectual voice worth following.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
www.vanityfair.com
September 18, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Giving another shout-out to Ta-Nehisi Coates. This is a really well done article by a man who has continuously gone up in my book as an artistic and intellectual voice worth following.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
What happened to Ritchie Torres?
YouTube video by Zeteo
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September 18, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Currently sitting through a Boston University (my university) official seminar on AI and its effect on careers. Not only is this panel full of nothing-balls, with a full wide range of management word-vomit including: empathy, distribution, and literate.
September 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Currently sitting through a Boston University (my university) official seminar on AI and its effect on careers. Not only is this panel full of nothing-balls, with a full wide range of management word-vomit including: empathy, distribution, and literate.
There are two labor and tech writers in Boston? And they both have the name Freddy?!?
"Behind [Zohran's campaign was also] a piece of infrastructure that translated viral attention into material turnout: Solidarity Tech, a CRM designed by organizers for organizers and rooted in the organizing methods of the labor movement."
Read now: working-mass.com/2025/09/08/d...
Read now: working-mass.com/2025/09/08/d...
Deep Organizing at Scale: How Solidarity Tech Helped Power Zohran Mamdani’s Volunteer Wave - Working Mass
By: Freddy Oswald From Viral Attention to Volunteer Action Perhaps the most distinct feature of Zohran Mamdani’s primary campaign was his ‘man on the street’ videos. Talking directly to the camera, of...
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September 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
There are two labor and tech writers in Boston? And they both have the name Freddy?!?
Fun lunchtime video if your head is spinning after a long week of work before an academic deadline!
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Doctor Who and the Israel Disaster
YouTube video by verilybitchie
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September 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Fun lunchtime video if your head is spinning after a long week of work before an academic deadline!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exuj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exuj...
I was recently doom scrolling Reddit a bit and came across a particularly interesting subreddit - r/economicCollapse.
While its stated purpose is "articles and discussion relating to economic collapse" it really seems like its a bunch of people who are actively rooting for an economic collapse.
While its stated purpose is "articles and discussion relating to economic collapse" it really seems like its a bunch of people who are actively rooting for an economic collapse.
September 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I was recently doom scrolling Reddit a bit and came across a particularly interesting subreddit - r/economicCollapse.
While its stated purpose is "articles and discussion relating to economic collapse" it really seems like its a bunch of people who are actively rooting for an economic collapse.
While its stated purpose is "articles and discussion relating to economic collapse" it really seems like its a bunch of people who are actively rooting for an economic collapse.
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Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
August 31, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
Don't have any commentary here other than this is a fantastic video essay on the importance of black villains.
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Why Black Villains Matter
YouTube video by F.D Signifier
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August 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Don't have any commentary here other than this is a fantastic video essay on the importance of black villains.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2dG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2dG...
Capital is value in motion, with rentiers extracting through that motion.
Good god we need a revolution in tech.
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Good god we need a revolution in tech.
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I Needed My Paycheck Early. Then I Got Cheated by These Apps.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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August 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Capital is value in motion, with rentiers extracting through that motion.
Good god we need a revolution in tech.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBI_...
Good god we need a revolution in tech.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBI_...
Hey its me!
AI in Court: Politico Workers Take the Boss to Court Over Forced Automation!
"The fight over AI isn’t about resisting technology for its own sake—it’s about resisting who controls it, who benefits, and who bears the cost."
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"The fight over AI isn’t about resisting technology for its own sake—it’s about resisting who controls it, who benefits, and who bears the cost."
working-mass.com/2025/08/21/a...
AI in Court: Politico Workers Take the Boss to Court Over Forced Automation - Working Mass
By: Frederick Reiber SOMERVILLE, MA – From Hollywood writers to Boston dockworkers, labor unions are continuing to fight unethical usage of artificial intelligence. Now, journalists are joining the f...
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August 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Hey its me!
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OUT NOW: Hamilton Tenants Association Faces Terrible Landlord with Rally in Arlington
"Tenants sent letters and raised demands. At every turn, Hamilton Company provided as much silence as when repairs were needed or rent was due."
Read into the fight: working-mass.com/2025/08/19/h...
"Tenants sent letters and raised demands. At every turn, Hamilton Company provided as much silence as when repairs were needed or rent was due."
Read into the fight: working-mass.com/2025/08/19/h...
Hamilton Tenants Association Faces Terrible Landlord With Rally in Arlington - Working Mass
By: Travis Wayne ARLINGTON, MA – On Saturday, August 2, 2025, the Hamilton Tenants Association made a bold move: rallying directly and publicly against their landlord right outside their home. It wa...
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August 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
OUT NOW: Hamilton Tenants Association Faces Terrible Landlord with Rally in Arlington
"Tenants sent letters and raised demands. At every turn, Hamilton Company provided as much silence as when repairs were needed or rent was due."
Read into the fight: working-mass.com/2025/08/19/h...
"Tenants sent letters and raised demands. At every turn, Hamilton Company provided as much silence as when repairs were needed or rent was due."
Read into the fight: working-mass.com/2025/08/19/h...
Maybe a hot take, but I think these chairs are post-Fordism incarnate.
August 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Maybe a hot take, but I think these chairs are post-Fordism incarnate.
