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.
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Flock lied about a Texas sheriff who searched Flock to track down a woman for an abortion. Flock asserted the woman was never under criminal investigation. Court documents showed Flock misled the public for months, accusing journalists of lying. #shutdownflock #whattheflock
Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime
Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.
www.404media.co
November 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Flock lied about a Texas sheriff who searched Flock to track down a woman for an abortion. Flock asserted the woman was never under criminal investigation. Court documents showed Flock misled the public for months, accusing journalists of lying. #shutdownflock #whattheflock
Hearing SDPD say if people don't want their plates shared widely they can shop elsewhere is sbad faith when it is only a kpbs investigation that reveals the mall, Lowe's, and Home Depot sharing data.
San Diego County police agencies access many private license plate readers with minimal oversight
Dozens of businesses and homeowners associations around San Diego allow law enforcement to search through data from their license plate readers, including Home Depot, Lowe's, and local malls.
www.kpbs.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Hearing SDPD say if people don't want their plates shared widely they can shop elsewhere is sbad faith when it is only a kpbs investigation that reveals the mall, Lowe's, and Home Depot sharing data.
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
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incredible things are happening on x, the every-scam app
November 23, 2025 at 6:26 AM
incredible things are happening on x, the every-scam app
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It's the way that Twitter's new location feature exposed the fact that most of the "Japanese nationalists" on Twitter were from Europe and that most of the big MAGA propaganda accounts were from Russia/India/Bangladesh so Elon shut that shit down literally just hours later lmaooo
November 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
It's the way that Twitter's new location feature exposed the fact that most of the "Japanese nationalists" on Twitter were from Europe and that most of the big MAGA propaganda accounts were from Russia/India/Bangladesh so Elon shut that shit down literally just hours later lmaooo
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Amelia Acker: "Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty...: from magnetic tape + timesharing computer models from the 1950s,... to file structures + virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 yrs" — open access!
Archiving Machines
Archiving Machines advances our understanding of memory, information, and data by charting the struggle between the computing technologies that archive data ...
mitpress.mit.edu
November 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Amelia Acker: "Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty...: from magnetic tape + timesharing computer models from the 1950s,... to file structures + virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 yrs" — open access!
the feeling when someone thinks they've helped you but you find out they unknowingly gave you a chatgpt hallucination #aiproblems
November 23, 2025 at 6:31 AM
the feeling when someone thinks they've helped you but you find out they unknowingly gave you a chatgpt hallucination #aiproblems
Why is UC still negotiating when a judge blocked Trump's extortion and censorship?
https//www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-11-21/uc-faculty-just-won-big-court-victory-over-trump-but-why-didnt-uc-itself-join-the-case
https//www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-11-21/uc-faculty-just-won-big-court-victory-over-trump-but-why-didnt-uc-itself-join-the-case
Commentary: The UC faculty just won a big court victory over Trump. But why didn't UC join their lawsuit?
The UC faculty went to court to fight Trump's funding cutoffs and won. Why has the university system tried to negotiate instead?
www.latimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Why is UC still negotiating when a judge blocked Trump's extortion and censorship?
https//www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-11-21/uc-faculty-just-won-big-court-victory-over-trump-but-why-didnt-uc-itself-join-the-case
https//www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-11-21/uc-faculty-just-won-big-court-victory-over-trump-but-why-didnt-uc-itself-join-the-case
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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⚡️ buff.ly/eFJqFWQ
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).