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Jasmine Lu @xjasminelu.bsky.social · 16d

✨I'm on the faculty job market! ✨

I’m a University of Chicago Computer Science PhD Candidate building more sustainable computing ecosystems 💻🌱

I develop computational approaches for reducing, reusing, and recycling e-waste (I like to call it recomputing e-waste)

read more: jasminelu.site
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On the left 'recomputing e-waste' with 'recycling, repairing, reusing, reducing' below it. On the right, a large lifecycle graph with mining, manufacturing, using, recycling, and discarding labeled. Green arrows coming out of and going back into the using node labeled repairing and reusing, with four images of projects alongside. An arrow for reducing from using to landfills with a project image. And finally, a label of full stack recycling with several arrows coming out and returning.

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Cella (is on the job market) @cellllla.bsky.social · 1d

✨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

Cella M. Sum –

cella.io

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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · Sep 8

a bit tangential but I've been pretty interested in "misuse" as a category as well, especially given how LLMs have been marketed as "relevant in any context"/"general use"

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Cella (is on the job market) @cellllla.bsky.social · Aug 28

What can #CSCW learn from tech workers who have been involved in collective action and unionization about how to make transformative change within our field?

My new #CSCW2025 paper with Mona Wang, Anna Konvicka, and Sarah Fox seeks to answer this question.

Pre-print: arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12579

Screenshot of the CSCW 2025 paper "The Future of Tech Labor: How Workers are Organizing and Transforming the Computing Industry"

CELLA M. SUM, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
ANNA KONVICKA, Princeton University, USA
MONA WANG, Princeton University, USA
SARAH E. FOX, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Abstract: The tech industry’s shifting landscape and the growing precarity of its labor force have spurred unionization efforts among tech workers. These workers turn to collective action to improve their working conditions and to protest unethical practices within their workplaces. To better understand this movement, we interviewed 44 U.S.-based tech worker-organizers to examine their motivations, strategies, challenges, and future visions for labor organizing. These workers included engineers, product managers, customer support specialists, QA analysts, logistics workers, gig workers, and union staff organizers. Our findings reveal that, contrary to popular narratives of prestige and privilege within the tech industry, tech workers face fragmented and unstable work environments which contribute to their disempowerment and hinder their organizing efforts. Despite these difficulties, organizers are laying the groundwork for a more resilient tech worker movement through community building and expanding political consciousness. By situating these dynamics within broader structural and ideological forces, we identify ways for the CSCW community to build solidarity with
tech workers who are materially transforming our field through their organizing efforts.

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Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · Jul 25

Hybrid workshop where you can hear from Lucy Suchman, HCI legend and organizer with Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, the amazing Joan Greenbaum with Computer People for Peace, and other awesome organizers from #notechforapartheid and other tech-ademia organizing efforts

Linda Huber @puellaludens.bsky.social · Jul 23

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

a simple, dark green flier with a bold, white text header:
From Tech Lash To Tech Fash: Strategic reflections on a decade of collective organizing in computing

The flier includes the following text and details:
Hybrid Workshop @ Aarhus - Tuesday August 19, 8:30–11:30 am EST / 2:30–5:30 pm CEST
Computing is a field plagued with presentism, oriented towards the new in ways that limit our design and research practices - as well as our capacity to understand and collectively respond to emerging crises. To improve our sensemaking and strategizing about today's crises, this workshop explores what Tamara Kneese has deemed the last decade's shift from "techlash" to "tech fash". What have we learned from the era of misinformation and bias, of "surveillance capitalism" and tech worker organizing that can inform our struggle against the increasing power of a techno-fascist oligarchy? We will also look towards previous generations of computing professionals and activists, who likewise sought to address the harms of emerging automated systems and the complicity of computing within violent, imperialist projects. This workshop will create space for participants to explore these questions collectively, bridging past and present moments in an effort to devise strategies moving forward.

RSVP by Aug 12 https://tech-organizing-reflections.github.io/

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Linda Huber @puellaludens.bsky.social · Jul 23

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

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Jordan Taylor @jordant.bsky.social · May 14

🏳️‍🌈🎨💻📢 Happy to share our workshop study on queer artists’ experiences critically engaging with GenAI

Looking forward to presenting this work at #FAccT2025 and you can read a pre-print here:
arxiv.org/abs/2503.09805

Academic paper titled un-straightening generative ai: how queer artists surface and challenge the normativity of generative ai models

The piece is written by Jordan Taylor, Joel Mire, Franchesca Spektor, Alicia DeVrio, Maarten Sap, Haiyi Zhu, and Sarah Fox.

As an image titled 24 attempts at intimacy showing 24 ai generated images with the word intimacy, none of which seems to include same gender couples

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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · Apr 27

+ some related work from the team at #ICLR2025 !!

Myra Cheng @myra.bsky.social · Apr 27

New ICLR blogpost! 🎉 We argue that understanding the impact of anthropomorphic AI is critical to understanding the impact of AI.

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Myra Cheng @myra.bsky.social · Apr 27

New ICLR blogpost! 🎉 We argue that understanding the impact of anthropomorphic AI is critical to understanding the impact of AI.

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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · Apr 27

Presenting this at #CHI2025 tomorrow, Monday, April 28 in the "Expressive Machines" (lol 🤷‍♀️) session at 4:44 p.m. in Annex Hall F206

Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · Mar 6

How can we better think and talk about human-like qualities attributed to language technologies like LLMs? In our #CHI2025 paper, we taxonomize how text outputs from cases of user interactions with language technologies can contribute to anthropomorphism. arxiv.org/abs/2502.09870 1/n

Image of the first page of the CHI 2025 paper titled "A Taxonomy of Linguistic Expressions That Contribute To Anthropomorphism of Language Technologies" by authors Alicia DeVrio, Myra Cheng, Lisa Egede, Alexandra Olteanu, & Su Lin Blodgett

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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · Mar 9

Yes, I’ll be there — would love to chat and hear more about your work!!

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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · Mar 6

& Check out more of our related work from this summer in this great bsky thread: n/n

Alexandra Olteanu @aolteanu.bsky.social · Mar 5

Our FATE MTL team has been working on a series of projects on anthropomorphic AI systems for which we recently put out a few pre-prints I’m excited about. While working on these we tried to think carefully not only about key research questions but also how we study and write about these systems

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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · Mar 6

This paper comes out of a great summer at MSR FATE. Thanks to my coauthors @myra.bsky.social @lisaegede.bsky.social @aolteanu.bsky.social Su Lin Blodgett and our reviewers. Check out the whole paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.09870 4/n

A Taxonomy of Linguistic Expressions That Contribute To Anthropomorphism of Language Technologies

Recent attention to anthropomorphism -- the attribution of human-like qualities to non-human objects or entities -- of language technologies like LLMs has sparked renewed discussions about potential n...

arxiv.org

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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · Mar 6

Especially important are challenges around the nature of language & tensions involved in shifting conceptions of human-likeness of technology. Check out Section 5.2 of the paper for more on this related to standard language ideology & risks of dehumanizing humans. arxiv.org/abs/2502.09870 3/n

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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · Mar 6

Recent discussions have considered when anthropomorphism might be inappropriate. We encourage use of our taxonomy for more targeted identification and mitigation of harmful impacts stemming from anthropomorphism of language technologies. arxiv.org/abs/2502.09870 2/n

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Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · Mar 6

How can we better think and talk about human-like qualities attributed to language technologies like LLMs? In our #CHI2025 paper, we taxonomize how text outputs from cases of user interactions with language technologies can contribute to anthropomorphism. arxiv.org/abs/2502.09870 1/n

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · Feb 2

Thoughts on what’s happening now, as technopolitics becomes politics and AI — as a technical and ideological system — is poised to become the government. mail.cyberneticforests.com/a-fork-in-th...