TechTonic Justice
@techtonicjustice.bsky.social
For the people AI leaves behind. A multidimensional, community-based effort to strengthen local justice movements + build long-term power. Launched 11/19/24. Founder: @kevindeliban.bsky.social
Launch report: www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/inescapable-ai
Launch report: www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/inescapable-ai
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Today, we’re proud to announce the launch of TechTonic Justice (TTJ).
TechTonic Justice is a multidimensional, community-based effort to strengthen local justice movements and build long-term power among the people and communities that AI is leaving behind.
TechTonic Justice is a multidimensional, community-based effort to strengthen local justice movements and build long-term power among the people and communities that AI is leaving behind.
One year ago, TechTonic Justice began as a bold idea: that legal aid, community organizers, and technologists could come together with low-income communities to resist the harms of AI.
November 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
One year ago, TechTonic Justice began as a bold idea: that legal aid, community organizers, and technologists could come together with low-income communities to resist the harms of AI.
Join our partners at @powerswitchaction.org, @justfutureslaw.bsky.social, @datasociety.bsky.social, @nelp.org, @techequity.bsky.social, CoWorker.org, Gig Workers Rising, and Warehouse Worker Resource Center for a cross-issue panel on AI surveillance and what you can do to stop it!💪
November 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Join our partners at @powerswitchaction.org, @justfutureslaw.bsky.social, @datasociety.bsky.social, @nelp.org, @techequity.bsky.social, CoWorker.org, Gig Workers Rising, and Warehouse Worker Resource Center for a cross-issue panel on AI surveillance and what you can do to stop it!💪
Powerful people routinely use AI to make life harder for people who don’t have as much power, particularly low-income folks, immigrants, and communities of color. Here, we see right-wing Wisconsin legislators using AI to justify racist “English-only” policies. 1/
Wisconsin lawmakers push to make English state's official language
MADISON, Wis. (WKBT) -- Wisconsin lawmakers are moving forward with legislation that would designate English as the state's official language, a move that could place Wisconsin among more than 30
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November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Powerful people routinely use AI to make life harder for people who don’t have as much power, particularly low-income folks, immigrants, and communities of color. Here, we see right-wing Wisconsin legislators using AI to justify racist “English-only” policies. 1/
SNAP update: On October 29th, two courts ordered the USDA to release funding from the SNAP contingency fund to ensure that 42 million people do not go hungry despite attempts by President Trump to force families, children, disabled people, and veterans into food insecurity. 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
SNAP update: On October 29th, two courts ordered the USDA to release funding from the SNAP contingency fund to ensure that 42 million people do not go hungry despite attempts by President Trump to force families, children, disabled people, and veterans into food insecurity. 🧵
Spooky Season & AI Decision Making Algorithms have one thing in common: STRANGE HAPPENINGS!👻 AI Decision Making algorithms do not go bump in the night, they decide how we live, learn, work and survive. Watch our full video here: tinyurl.com/247ebbhn 🧵1/2
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October 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Spooky Season & AI Decision Making Algorithms have one thing in common: STRANGE HAPPENINGS!👻 AI Decision Making algorithms do not go bump in the night, they decide how we live, learn, work and survive. Watch our full video here: tinyurl.com/247ebbhn 🧵1/2
It’s spooky season and something strange is in the air. Have you been denied an apartment, a job, or benefits? AI is often behind these decisions🔎 But we've uncovered some clues to help us identify AI. Check out our latest instagram reel to learn more!🕵️ tinyurl.com/2h64vvyj
October 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
It’s spooky season and something strange is in the air. Have you been denied an apartment, a job, or benefits? AI is often behind these decisions🔎 But we've uncovered some clues to help us identify AI. Check out our latest instagram reel to learn more!🕵️ tinyurl.com/2h64vvyj
⚠️New from our Benefits Tech Advocacy Hub (BTAH) partners at @upturn.org: Calculated Need, exposes how states are outsourcing critical Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) to opaque, profit-driven algorithms.
Read it here: www.upturn.org/work/calcula...
Read it here: www.upturn.org/work/calcula...
Calculated Need: Algorithms and the Fight for Medicaid Home Care
Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.
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October 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
⚠️New from our Benefits Tech Advocacy Hub (BTAH) partners at @upturn.org: Calculated Need, exposes how states are outsourcing critical Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) to opaque, profit-driven algorithms.
Read it here: www.upturn.org/work/calcula...
Read it here: www.upturn.org/work/calcula...
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THANK YOU to the experts who taught us that AI isn’t new, and we have the power to keep it accountable:
@ainowinstitute.bsky.social
@techtonicjustice.bsky.social
@reclaimphila.bsky.social
@amistadlaw.bsky.social
@abolitionistlawcenter.org
@18millionrising.bsky.social
@phillydsa.bsky.social
@ainowinstitute.bsky.social
@techtonicjustice.bsky.social
@reclaimphila.bsky.social
@amistadlaw.bsky.social
@abolitionistlawcenter.org
@18millionrising.bsky.social
@phillydsa.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
THANK YOU to the experts who taught us that AI isn’t new, and we have the power to keep it accountable:
@ainowinstitute.bsky.social
@techtonicjustice.bsky.social
@reclaimphila.bsky.social
@amistadlaw.bsky.social
@abolitionistlawcenter.org
@18millionrising.bsky.social
@phillydsa.bsky.social
@ainowinstitute.bsky.social
@techtonicjustice.bsky.social
@reclaimphila.bsky.social
@amistadlaw.bsky.social
@abolitionistlawcenter.org
@18millionrising.bsky.social
@phillydsa.bsky.social
For all the technologists want to use their skills to advance the cause of justice—join our small, mighty, and growing team to fight the harms that use of AI is causing low-income communities!
$120-$150k, 👌 benefits, remote.
And, you’ll quickly have legions of adoring fans in the advocacy world.
$120-$150k, 👌 benefits, remote.
And, you’ll quickly have legions of adoring fans in the advocacy world.
Technologist (Medicaid and other public benefit systems) at TechTonic Justice, Inc.
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October 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
For all the technologists want to use their skills to advance the cause of justice—join our small, mighty, and growing team to fight the harms that use of AI is causing low-income communities!
$120-$150k, 👌 benefits, remote.
And, you’ll quickly have legions of adoring fans in the advocacy world.
$120-$150k, 👌 benefits, remote.
And, you’ll quickly have legions of adoring fans in the advocacy world.
Our teammate @clarenceokoh.bsky.social co-authored this wonderful essay about a fellowship program that the @noticecoalition.bsky.social created to imagine and enact freedom from the violence that AI is wreaking on marginalized communities, particulary Black youth. Read + share!
“No Data about Us without Us”: An Afrofuturist Reflection on Digital Liberation
Here, Chelsea Barabas and Clarence Okoh (a 2022 Just Tech Fellow) reflect on the work of the No Data about Us without Us Fellowship (NDAUWU), a program of the NOTICE Coalition: No Tech Criminalization...
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October 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Our teammate @clarenceokoh.bsky.social co-authored this wonderful essay about a fellowship program that the @noticecoalition.bsky.social created to imagine and enact freedom from the violence that AI is wreaking on marginalized communities, particulary Black youth. Read + share!
AI systems are often used to determine public benefits—but they have been proven to cut off eligible people, deny needed services, and falsely accuse people of fraud. These injustices can’t be made better by having a human simply review and approve the AI: keeping a “human in the loop” isn’t enough.
September 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
AI systems are often used to determine public benefits—but they have been proven to cut off eligible people, deny needed services, and falsely accuse people of fraud. These injustices can’t be made better by having a human simply review and approve the AI: keeping a “human in the loop” isn’t enough.
New job for a technologist w/ extensive experience working on Medicaid (preferred), SNAP, or Unemployment Insurance.
They will support advocates to reduce harms to Medicaid recipients intensified by the recent reconciliation bill + also support TTJ’s other advocacy.
10/20 deadline. $120K-$150K.
They will support advocates to reduce harms to Medicaid recipients intensified by the recent reconciliation bill + also support TTJ’s other advocacy.
10/20 deadline. $120K-$150K.
Technologist (Medicaid and other public benefit systems) at TechTonic Justice, Inc.
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September 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
New job for a technologist w/ extensive experience working on Medicaid (preferred), SNAP, or Unemployment Insurance.
They will support advocates to reduce harms to Medicaid recipients intensified by the recent reconciliation bill + also support TTJ’s other advocacy.
10/20 deadline. $120K-$150K.
They will support advocates to reduce harms to Medicaid recipients intensified by the recent reconciliation bill + also support TTJ’s other advocacy.
10/20 deadline. $120K-$150K.
It’s NYC Climate Week! 🌎 Our partners @ainowinstitute.bsky.social, The Maybe, Common Wealth, and the Climate and Community Institute are co-hosting a livestream on September 24, 2pm PT | 5pm ET about the impacts of the AI data center boom. (1/2)
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Hearing a lot about AI and data center expansion? That it's happening quickly, behind closed doors, putting huge demands on strained energy grids, leading to rising utility costs, reversing climate progress, and draining water from communities?
Hearing a lot about AI and data center expansion? That it's happening quickly, behind closed doors, putting huge demands on strained energy grids, leading to rising utility costs, reversing climate progress, and draining water from communities?
September 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
It’s NYC Climate Week! 🌎 Our partners @ainowinstitute.bsky.social, The Maybe, Common Wealth, and the Climate and Community Institute are co-hosting a livestream on September 24, 2pm PT | 5pm ET about the impacts of the AI data center boom. (1/2)
Big Tech is building huge data centers in the South that increase energy prices and exacerbate environmental harms. We are attending @mediajustice.bsky.social LIVE launch of their new Report + Toolkit to hear from frontline advocates and how we can fight back!
Register HERE: bit.ly/DataCentersSouth
Register HERE: bit.ly/DataCentersSouth
September 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Big Tech is building huge data centers in the South that increase energy prices and exacerbate environmental harms. We are attending @mediajustice.bsky.social LIVE launch of their new Report + Toolkit to hear from frontline advocates and how we can fight back!
Register HERE: bit.ly/DataCentersSouth
Register HERE: bit.ly/DataCentersSouth
New Digital Manager job posting to build out our communications work w/ a focus on community engagement + organizing. Remote, 5+ years experience req’d, pays $75-$95K, great benefits, flexible schedule. Preference for person in the US South. Full details + application process below. Please share!
Digital Manager (for Organizing and Communications), fully remote, U.S. South preferred
TechTonic Justice is now hiring for the position of Digital Manager (for Organizing and Communications), fully remote, U.S. South preferred in Los Angeles. Apply today.
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August 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
New Digital Manager job posting to build out our communications work w/ a focus on community engagement + organizing. Remote, 5+ years experience req’d, pays $75-$95K, great benefits, flexible schedule. Preference for person in the US South. Full details + application process below. Please share!
New resource from us: a critic's guide to deciding if AI is right for your organization. It's a punchy 5 pages of the right questions to ask before hopping on the AI hype train. /1
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Decision Guide for Considering AI Use — TechTonic Justice
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August 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
New resource from us: a critic's guide to deciding if AI is right for your organization. It's a punchy 5 pages of the right questions to ask before hopping on the AI hype train. /1
www.techtonicjustice.org/resources/de...
www.techtonicjustice.org/resources/de...
#Medicaid & #Medicare turn 60 today, weeks after Trump’s Reconciliation Bill cut $1,000,000,000,000 from federal healthcare spending - defunding Medicaid and cutting health care for around 17 million people. On top of Medicaid access being continuously threatened by life-altering AI decisions. (1/4)
July 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
#Medicaid & #Medicare turn 60 today, weeks after Trump’s Reconciliation Bill cut $1,000,000,000,000 from federal healthcare spending - defunding Medicaid and cutting health care for around 17 million people. On top of Medicaid access being continuously threatened by life-altering AI decisions. (1/4)
Today is the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), without it, people with disabilities would not have equal access in all areas of public life. In 2025, the fight for accessibility is disrupted by the invisible hand of AI decisions. This is why TechTonic Justice was born.
July 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Today is the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), without it, people with disabilities would not have equal access in all areas of public life. In 2025, the fight for accessibility is disrupted by the invisible hand of AI decisions. This is why TechTonic Justice was born.
The advancement of AI must deliver first and foremost for the people; we can't afford to let Big Tech and Big Oil lobbyists write the rules. That's why we need a People’s AI Action Plan that puts the needs of everyday Americans over corporate profits. peoplesaiaction.com
People's AI Action Plan
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July 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The advancement of AI must deliver first and foremost for the people; we can't afford to let Big Tech and Big Oil lobbyists write the rules. That's why we need a People’s AI Action Plan that puts the needs of everyday Americans over corporate profits. peoplesaiaction.com
Reminder that we have three openings now: one paid, part-time internship for a Digital Content Creator (deadline this Friday) and two permanent full-time positions for an Experienced Attorney and Operations Manager (deadline 7/1). Details in thread.
June 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Reminder that we have three openings now: one paid, part-time internship for a Digital Content Creator (deadline this Friday) and two permanent full-time positions for an Experienced Attorney and Operations Manager (deadline 7/1). Details in thread.
AI is central to the conservative agenda to destroy government capacity and public benefit programs, but its role is hidden. Here, we’ve got destructive policy being justified by the deluded notion that AI and related technology will make it less inaccurate and harmful.
This past Sunday, my colleague Trevor + I published this OpEd in the NYTimes about imminent cuts to Medicaid. Up to 14 million people will lose insurance bc of penalties that punish working ppl, parents, + disabled ppl for not jumping through more hoops made of red tape. AI will make the cuts worse.
Opinion | We Saw Medicaid Work Requirements Up Close. You Don’t Want This Chaos.
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June 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
AI is central to the conservative agenda to destroy government capacity and public benefit programs, but its role is hidden. Here, we’ve got destructive policy being justified by the deluded notion that AI and related technology will make it less inaccurate and harmful.
Our latest newsletter has 3 job announcements (attorney, ops manager, paid social media intern) + updates. Get the latest on presentations, a NYTimes OpEd, a Tech Policy Press essay, + the reconciliation bill pending in the U.S. Senate that will snatch health care + food from tens of millions of ppl
TechTonic Justice: New York Times and New Jobs
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June 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Our latest newsletter has 3 job announcements (attorney, ops manager, paid social media intern) + updates. Get the latest on presentations, a NYTimes OpEd, a Tech Policy Press essay, + the reconciliation bill pending in the U.S. Senate that will snatch health care + food from tens of millions of ppl
Come join us TODAY (Tuesday) at 12:30 pacific / 3:30 eastern to talk about AI and the ways people with power--government officials, landlords, employers, and others--use it in ways that harm low-income people and how TechTonic Justice is fighting back. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../W...
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June 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Come join us TODAY (Tuesday) at 12:30 pacific / 3:30 eastern to talk about AI and the ways people with power--government officials, landlords, employers, and others--use it in ways that harm low-income people and how TechTonic Justice is fighting back. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../W...
AI is the most destructive way for conservatives to cut Medicaid + other benefit programs. Now, it’ll play a role in the effort to impose requirements on Medicaid recipients to report work or lose insurance. We cover that within a bigger-picture look at these termination traps in this NYT OpEd.
In this NYT OpEd, we recount first-hand the devastation that Medicaid work requirements—cuts by another name—caused when Arkansas tried them. We were legal aid attorneys helping as many people as possible keep insurance. Nobody serious about governing should invite these problems to their states /1
Opinion | We Saw Medicaid Work Requirements Up Close. You Don’t Want This Chaos.
www.nytimes.com
June 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
AI is the most destructive way for conservatives to cut Medicaid + other benefit programs. Now, it’ll play a role in the effort to impose requirements on Medicaid recipients to report work or lose insurance. We cover that within a bigger-picture look at these termination traps in this NYT OpEd.
This great series of essays explains this moment of collusion between Big Tech + authoritarian forces that threatens democracy. Our president @kevindeliban.bsky.social’s essay is the fourth in the thread + explains how AI is stripping people of the stability needed to participate in democracy.
1/ I want to express my thanks to all the authors convened by @datasociety.bsky.social for the special series we kicked off this week on @techpolicypress.bsky.social. The first was the scene-setter from @megyoung0.bsky.social and @jakemetcalf.bsky.social on tech power and the crisis of democracy:
Tech Power and the Crisis of Democracy | TechPolicy.Press
Announcing a new series, Jacob Metcalf and Meg Young examine how a small group of tech billionaires is pushing an anti-democratic agenda.
www.techpolicy.press
June 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This great series of essays explains this moment of collusion between Big Tech + authoritarian forces that threatens democracy. Our president @kevindeliban.bsky.social’s essay is the fourth in the thread + explains how AI is stripping people of the stability needed to participate in democracy.