Lilly Irani
@gleemie.bsky.social
Professor, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker. These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.
In awe of how many public dollars are spent on police salaries to pay for time they spend organizing members of the public towards their own particular will, while the rest of us have to run the treadmill of informed citizenship and figuring out how to participate in democracy on our own time.
November 13, 2025 at 5:22 AM
In awe of how many public dollars are spent on police salaries to pay for time they spend organizing members of the public towards their own particular will, while the rest of us have to run the treadmill of informed citizenship and figuring out how to participate in democracy on our own time.
If you want to do research that is ethically committed and makes labor movements stronger, this is a collection of reflections from those who have been there and done that.
"This essential book articulates and embodies ethical knowledge production amidst the rising tide of tech authoritarianism...It is an inspiring and critical corrective to the proliferation of apolitical research on Big Tech." —@veenadubal.bsky.social
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November 13, 2025 at 2:29 AM
If you want to do research that is ethically committed and makes labor movements stronger, this is a collection of reflections from those who have been there and done that.
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City of San Diego's Privacy Advisory Board votes unanimously to "cease' Flock Automated License Plate Reader Technology. PAB's report: www.sandiego.gov/sites/defaul...
The final decision is with City Council. Be heard by leaving a comment for Public Safety Committee. How to in thread 🧵
The final decision is with City Council. Be heard by leaving a comment for Public Safety Committee. How to in thread 🧵
www.sandiego.gov
November 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
City of San Diego's Privacy Advisory Board votes unanimously to "cease' Flock Automated License Plate Reader Technology. PAB's report: www.sandiego.gov/sites/defaul...
The final decision is with City Council. Be heard by leaving a comment for Public Safety Committee. How to in thread 🧵
The final decision is with City Council. Be heard by leaving a comment for Public Safety Committee. How to in thread 🧵
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Capacitor Collective = @julieychen.bsky.social, @enda-b.bsky.social, Alessandro Delfanti, Brian Dolber, @gleemie.bsky.social and myself. Thanks to folks we interviewed including @krystalkauffman.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @katejsim.bsky.social and to @veenadubal.bsky.social for the blurb
November 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Capacitor Collective = @julieychen.bsky.social, @enda-b.bsky.social, Alessandro Delfanti, Brian Dolber, @gleemie.bsky.social and myself. Thanks to folks we interviewed including @krystalkauffman.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @katejsim.bsky.social and to @veenadubal.bsky.social for the blurb
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It is based on 6+ years of work on the relationship btw knowledge production + organizing across the digital supply chain. We interviewed workers @turkopticon.bsky.social @techworkerscoalition.org Rideshare Drivers United, Amazon Worker Solidarity, + more about their uses + critiques of research
November 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
It is based on 6+ years of work on the relationship btw knowledge production + organizing across the digital supply chain. We interviewed workers @turkopticon.bsky.social @techworkerscoalition.org Rideshare Drivers United, Amazon Worker Solidarity, + more about their uses + critiques of research
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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
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We are excited to announce the winner of the Eric Wolf Prize for the Best Graduate Paper (2025).
The winner is: Yanping Ni "China’s Dust Archives: Black Lung, Testimonial Surplus, and the Ghosts of Reform."
The winner is: Yanping Ni "China’s Dust Archives: Black Lung, Testimonial Surplus, and the Ghosts of Reform."
October 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
We are excited to announce the winner of the Eric Wolf Prize for the Best Graduate Paper (2025).
The winner is: Yanping Ni "China’s Dust Archives: Black Lung, Testimonial Surplus, and the Ghosts of Reform."
The winner is: Yanping Ni "China’s Dust Archives: Black Lung, Testimonial Surplus, and the Ghosts of Reform."
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Congratulations to Winner of 2025 SAW Book Prize
Hector Beltran's Code Work: Hacking Across US-Mexico Techno Borderlands, Princeton University Press, 2023.
Honorable Mention
Hemangini Gupta’s Experimental Times: Start-up Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India, U of California Press, 2024.
Hector Beltran's Code Work: Hacking Across US-Mexico Techno Borderlands, Princeton University Press, 2023.
Honorable Mention
Hemangini Gupta’s Experimental Times: Start-up Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India, U of California Press, 2024.
October 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Congratulations to Winner of 2025 SAW Book Prize
Hector Beltran's Code Work: Hacking Across US-Mexico Techno Borderlands, Princeton University Press, 2023.
Honorable Mention
Hemangini Gupta’s Experimental Times: Start-up Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India, U of California Press, 2024.
Hector Beltran's Code Work: Hacking Across US-Mexico Techno Borderlands, Princeton University Press, 2023.
Honorable Mention
Hemangini Gupta’s Experimental Times: Start-up Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India, U of California Press, 2024.
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Congratulations to the winner of 2025 @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social Book Prize
Hector Beltran's
@teflonbeltran.bsky.social
Code Work: Hacking Across US-Mexico Techno Borderlands!
@princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Hector Beltran's
@teflonbeltran.bsky.social
Code Work: Hacking Across US-Mexico Techno Borderlands!
@princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Code Work
How Mexican and Latinx hackers apply concepts from coding to their lived experiences
press.princeton.edu
October 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Congratulations to the winner of 2025 @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social Book Prize
Hector Beltran's
@teflonbeltran.bsky.social
Code Work: Hacking Across US-Mexico Techno Borderlands!
@princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Hector Beltran's
@teflonbeltran.bsky.social
Code Work: Hacking Across US-Mexico Techno Borderlands!
@princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Organized Communities Against Deportations has launched a new mutual aid fund to support immigrant families in Chicago impacted by ICE raids
Link to donate: donorbox.org/mutualaid2025
Link to donate: donorbox.org/mutualaid2025
October 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Organized Communities Against Deportations has launched a new mutual aid fund to support immigrant families in Chicago impacted by ICE raids
Link to donate: donorbox.org/mutualaid2025
Link to donate: donorbox.org/mutualaid2025
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UC faculty and the @aaup.org demand the end of mandatory surveillance software use across the UC system. The future belongs to people, not to big brother!
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
University of California faculty push back against Big Brother cybersecurity mandate
School officials defend software as bulwark against ransomware, but professors fear potential surveillance of their devices
www.science.org
October 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
UC faculty and the @aaup.org demand the end of mandatory surveillance software use across the UC system. The future belongs to people, not to big brother!
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Mark Benioff of Salesforce says that Trump should send the National Guard to San Francisco because he needs more cops for his trade show.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Old bullshit, fascist supercharged.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Old bullshit, fascist supercharged.
Tech billionaire Marc Benioff says Trump should deploy National Guard to San Francisco
Salesforce Chief Executive Marc Benioff says President Trump is doing a great job and ought to deploy the National Guard to deal with crime in San Francisco.
www.latimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Mark Benioff of Salesforce says that Trump should send the National Guard to San Francisco because he needs more cops for his trade show.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Old bullshit, fascist supercharged.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Old bullshit, fascist supercharged.
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wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
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New at PB: Each day this week, we’re publishing a series on the cybernetic border, which contributions from Iván Chaar López, @philippseuferling.bsky.social, @kalindivora.bsky.social, and @gleemie.bsky.social.
Borders Are War by Other Means - Public Books
The border today is and is made through sociotechnical arrangements centering data in the regulation of racial difference.
www.publicbooks.org
October 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
New at PB: Each day this week, we’re publishing a series on the cybernetic border, which contributions from Iván Chaar López, @philippseuferling.bsky.social, @kalindivora.bsky.social, and @gleemie.bsky.social.
A short read on why a wide range of people have a stake in shutting down mass surveillance and overcoming the politics of fear and othering.
New at PB: Last in our series on Iván Chaar López’s book "The Cybernetic Border," Lilly Irani (@gleemie.bsky.social) warns that no one is safe under the cybernetic border, as data grows and the definition of "intruder" shifts.
Imagining Intruders to Imagine a Nation - Public Books
We are in a moment that makes clear that the border—as a regime of enmity—can make intruders of us all.
www.publicbooks.org
October 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
A short read on why a wide range of people have a stake in shutting down mass surveillance and overcoming the politics of fear and othering.
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New at PB: Last in our series on Iván Chaar López’s book "The Cybernetic Border," Lilly Irani (@gleemie.bsky.social) warns that no one is safe under the cybernetic border, as data grows and the definition of "intruder" shifts.
Imagining Intruders to Imagine a Nation - Public Books
We are in a moment that makes clear that the border—as a regime of enmity—can make intruders of us all.
www.publicbooks.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
New at PB: Last in our series on Iván Chaar López’s book "The Cybernetic Border," Lilly Irani (@gleemie.bsky.social) warns that no one is safe under the cybernetic border, as data grows and the definition of "intruder" shifts.
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“We need to understand border enforcement & borders as ensembles mixing the social & technical in the management of inclusion and exclusion.”
New at PB: Iván Chaar López introduces a series that responds to "The Cybernetic Border" (@dukepress.bsky.social).
New at PB: Iván Chaar López introduces a series that responds to "The Cybernetic Border" (@dukepress.bsky.social).
Borders Are War by Other Means - Public Books
The border today is and is made through sociotechnical arrangements centering data in the regulation of racial difference.
www.publicbooks.org
October 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
“We need to understand border enforcement & borders as ensembles mixing the social & technical in the management of inclusion and exclusion.”
New at PB: Iván Chaar López introduces a series that responds to "The Cybernetic Border" (@dukepress.bsky.social).
New at PB: Iván Chaar López introduces a series that responds to "The Cybernetic Border" (@dukepress.bsky.social).
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Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
October 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
Portland Frog isn't just a meaningless shit post. It creates a new association of meaning between antifa and cute. It is semiotic combat. Such tactics work on televisual and photo print media too, not just the Internet. What makes it internet is the networked frog fan culture.
the shitposters are winning www.theverge.com/policy/79849...
October 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Portland Frog isn't just a meaningless shit post. It creates a new association of meaning between antifa and cute. It is semiotic combat. Such tactics work on televisual and photo print media too, not just the Internet. What makes it internet is the networked frog fan culture.
Dear Google, when I click Chrome Listen to this Page, I just want the AI to read the damn words in robot voice written by the author. I don't want your ai podcast chatter chopping up the authors words into a morning coffee chat.
To think this feature coulda been tax dollars funding a library
To think this feature coulda been tax dollars funding a library
October 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Dear Google, when I click Chrome Listen to this Page, I just want the AI to read the damn words in robot voice written by the author. I don't want your ai podcast chatter chopping up the authors words into a morning coffee chat.
To think this feature coulda been tax dollars funding a library
To think this feature coulda been tax dollars funding a library
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Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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May 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
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News coverage: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...
October 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
News coverage: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...
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Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.
October 9, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.
Hollowing out of the democratic party by @philiprocco.bsky.social pretty much contextualizes so much of my experience of policy and organizing around technology, work, and surveillance issues.
Organizations organizations organizations
jacobin.com/2025/08/demo...
Organizations organizations organizations
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How the Democratic Party Was Hollowed Out
Democrats appear incapable of mounting a real opposition to Donald Trump. Their weakness is the result of a decades-long hollowing out of the party, in which organized labor has been displaced by a pa...
jacobin.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Hollowing out of the democratic party by @philiprocco.bsky.social pretty much contextualizes so much of my experience of policy and organizing around technology, work, and surveillance issues.
Organizations organizations organizations
jacobin.com/2025/08/demo...
Organizations organizations organizations
jacobin.com/2025/08/demo...