Annie McClanahan
@anniemcc.bsky.social
Vulgar Marxist, Kentucky proud, fuck work. She/her
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Amazing expose, a must-read. "In any given work day, Asia would assume “three to five different personas” simultaneously...He was paid per message, a flat rate of $0.05 per...He also had to type at least 40 words a minute, and keep up with a dashboard displaying the total number of messages sent."
“The work was emotionally exhausting, with chat users confiding intimate details about their real-life relationships, as well as their own emotional trauma, falsely believing they were talking to an unfeeling AI chatbot.”
AI "Companion Bots" Actually Run by Exploited Kenyans, Worker Claims
A new testimony from a remote worker in Kenya details the grueling and exploitative work behind romantic AI chatbots.
futurism.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Amazing expose, a must-read. "In any given work day, Asia would assume “three to five different personas” simultaneously...He was paid per message, a flat rate of $0.05 per...He also had to type at least 40 words a minute, and keep up with a dashboard displaying the total number of messages sent."
This is a wonderful list of great pieces!
I’ve summed up and contextualized all of these critical AI pieces & more in one place — “From AGI to Workslop: What I Read About AI in 2025.” mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-i-read-...
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This is a wonderful list of great pieces!
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Weird situation. AI adoption in the work world is stagnating, while higher-ed institutions are rushing to embrace it so that students will be prepared for…the work world?
“we estimate employment-weighted share of Americans using AI at work has fallen by a percentage point & now sits at 11%. Adoption has fallen sharply at the largest businesses, those employing +250 people. 3 yrs into the genAI wave, demand looks surprisingly flimsy” www.economist.com/finance-and-...
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
www.economist.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Weird situation. AI adoption in the work world is stagnating, while higher-ed institutions are rushing to embrace it so that students will be prepared for…the work world?
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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!
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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!
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This book is so good and important.
Currently reading “Ed-Tech” by Annie McClanahan & Louise McCune, who see in an anecdote of a dead professor’s course materials used for online teaching a symbol of the broad project of deskilling that’s only accelerated with AI 🔥
@anniemcc.bsky.social
Currently reading “Ed-Tech” by Annie McClanahan & Louise McCune, who see in an anecdote of a dead professor’s course materials used for online teaching a symbol of the broad project of deskilling that’s only accelerated with AI 🔥
@anniemcc.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This book is so good and important.
Currently reading “Ed-Tech” by Annie McClanahan & Louise McCune, who see in an anecdote of a dead professor’s course materials used for online teaching a symbol of the broad project of deskilling that’s only accelerated with AI 🔥
@anniemcc.bsky.social
Currently reading “Ed-Tech” by Annie McClanahan & Louise McCune, who see in an anecdote of a dead professor’s course materials used for online teaching a symbol of the broad project of deskilling that’s only accelerated with AI 🔥
@anniemcc.bsky.social
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everyone is talking about getting copies of University Keywords (or other JHU Press books) for all their friends, students, and comrades for the holidays, especially when it is 40% off with the code HHOL25.
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
everyone is talking about getting copies of University Keywords (or other JHU Press books) for all their friends, students, and comrades for the holidays, especially when it is 40% off with the code HHOL25.
LA Times asks "The UC faculty just won a big court victory over Trump. But why didn’t UC join their lawsuit?"--WHY INDEED? archive.is/P5zjD
archive.is
November 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
LA Times asks "The UC faculty just won a big court victory over Trump. But why didn’t UC join their lawsuit?"--WHY INDEED? archive.is/P5zjD
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Sarah Brouillette (@sarahbrouillette.bsky.social) reviews Madeline Lane-McKinley's (@lalouverouge.bsky.social) Solidarity With Children, from @haymarketbooks.org—a deft Marxist-feminist, abolitionist call to liberate children from the status of parental property.
proteanmag.com/2025/11/19/h...
proteanmag.com/2025/11/19/h...
Horizons of Youth Liberation • Protean Magazine
Sarah Brouillette reviews Madeline Lane-McKinley's newest book Solidarity With Children, out this month from Haymarket Books.
proteanmag.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Sarah Brouillette (@sarahbrouillette.bsky.social) reviews Madeline Lane-McKinley's (@lalouverouge.bsky.social) Solidarity With Children, from @haymarketbooks.org—a deft Marxist-feminist, abolitionist call to liberate children from the status of parental property.
proteanmag.com/2025/11/19/h...
proteanmag.com/2025/11/19/h...
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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
by Larry Summers
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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
by Larry Summers
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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.)
(No leadership or administrators were harmed in actually standing up to the Feds. because they didn’t.)
November 17, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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.)
(No leadership or administrators were harmed in actually standing up to the Feds. because they didn’t.)
Impt thread re: UC's ongoing efforts to persuade faculty that we are management
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…
But then this…
November 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Impt thread re: UC's ongoing efforts to persuade faculty that we are management
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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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.
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 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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.
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
Interview with me about service sector stuff in advance of my book release next year! truthout.org/articles/imp...
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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.
This is capitulation to Trump's demand letter & anti-diversity agenda.
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
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.
This is capitulation to Trump's demand letter & anti-diversity agenda.
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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
This article presents the end of the PPFP as a done deal, but it’s not—until the chancellors’ meeting this afternoon.
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...
chuffed.org/project/1562...
November 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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...
chuffed.org/project/1562...
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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
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!
This is a great essay--a must-read for anyone concerned about the use of AI as deskilling, automation, labor techno-discipline, etc.
Wrote a thing on the hot summer of uni AI adoption for @defector.com
A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social
A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social
Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector
If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...
defector.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
This is a great essay--a must-read for anyone concerned about the use of AI as deskilling, automation, labor techno-discipline, etc.
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The entire AI industry is just GPU purchases and data center construction. That’s it. No productivity multipliers. No AGI. No singularity.
"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)
www.ft.com/content/e93e...
(note: Entergy is the fossil fuel company supplying Meta)
September 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The entire AI industry is just GPU purchases and data center construction. That’s it. No productivity multipliers. No AGI. No singularity.
SO THRILLED TO FINALLY BE ABLE TO ANNOUNCE THIS!
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.
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
SO THRILLED TO FINALLY BE ABLE TO ANNOUNCE THIS!
Wall to wall action TOMORROW at UC Regents meeting!
September 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Wall to wall action TOMORROW at UC Regents meeting!
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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.
September 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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.
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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
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.
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lol this is a throwback to the golden age of bad articles
This lady's brain is soup
September 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
lol this is a throwback to the golden age of bad articles