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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2d

This is how propaganda works. They slapped an image on this from Los Angeles in 1992 during Rodney King riots.

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Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city. (Mark
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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 5d

Our book is out next month! In a long essay on digital worker inquiry and 11 interviews w/ organizers all along the digital value chain, we consider the relationship between research and organizing within and against digital capitalism.

Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 5d

NOTES TOWARD A DIGITAL WORKERS' INQUIRY by The Capacitor Collective delivers first-hand accounts from the tech sector’s burgeoning labor movement.

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orange graphic with the front cover of the book and the discount code for 25% off: digitalworkers

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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 6d

In case you forgot, Uber has a data labeling business in which it provides a platform to other businesses to outsource annotation, translation and editing tasks to independent contractors.

It just bought another data labeling startup.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Uber Buys Data Labeling Startup in Push to Sell AI Services

Uber Technologies Inc. has bought Belgian startup Segments.ai as the ride-hailing company seeks to expand its nascent data-labeling business.

www.bloomberg.com

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Activism Communication and Social Justice @acsj-ica.bsky.social · Feb 17

The ACSJ interest group of the ICA has now joined this bright place and abandoned what we felt was no longer a good environment for research into social justice and activism. Let’s make this site a lively forum for exchange together. ACSJ members and friends - please follow us here

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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 6d

Is Kneecap banned from Canada or not? NDP urges answer in high-profile case
www.msn.com/en-ca/news/p...

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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 7d

Another piece on the death of Kulbir Kaila while working for cleaning service contractor Best at SFU. Please circulate. We need this contractor off of our campuses NOW
the-peak.ca/2025/09/sfu-...

SFU cleaning worker dies during shift, amplifying long-standing calls to improve working conditions

By: Hannah Fraser, News Editor (writer and interviewer), and Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer (interviewer and translator) Since 2020, Contract Worker Justice (CWJ) @SFU has been leading the push for be…

the-peak.ca

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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 8d

cwa-union.org/ghost-worker...

Ghost Workers in the AI Machine:

U.S. Data Workers Speak Out About Big Tech’s Exploitation

cwa-union.org

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 8d

The people at this ostrich farm are the same gang that opposed M-103, co-opted yellow vests, push UN / WEF conspiracies, opposed lockdowns, face masks and vaccines, occupied Ottawa, harassed people at drag story time events etc

It’s all the same far-right influencers and content creators every time

Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 8d

A 72-year-old woman who lives next to that ostrich farm where a group of convoy people are camping out was doused in gasoline and physically assaulted by a man in a balaclava who may have been trying to light her in fire

She says she survived the attack by kicking the man in the nuts and biting him

RCMP investigate alleged assault of woman who lives beside B.C. ostrich farm

The RCMP are providing round the clock protection for a B.C., resident who lives next to Universal Ostrich Farms (UOF) after a masked man doused the woman in gasoline and punched her in the face.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 9d

WTF. If this is true I will also sue Gasparro for denying us @kneecapceol.bsky.social

Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 9d

Did a Liberal MP go rogue and ban the Irish band Kneecap from our country?

Um, it sure sounds like it.

On The Line Media’s @smohyeddin.bsky.social first exclusively reported this jaw-dropping story:

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Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social · 14d

Thrilled to see this out in the wild, co-authored w/ @ppopiel.bsky.social @sydneyforde.bsky.social @theine.bsky.social, with terrific editorial support @theconversation.com @democracyeditor.bsky.social from start to finish. theconversation.com/a-paramount-...

A Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger could give Trump even more influence over US media – shaping the news and culture Americans watch and stream

The proposed Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery merger would concentrate oversight of two prominent newsrooms – CNN and CBS – under one owner with strong ties to Donald Trump.

theconversation.com

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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 13d

Read this piece on the role of external consultants in restructuring Canadian universities. SFU has been using them since 2021/2022 and they are likely behind decisions to cut some of our most progressive public-facing programs in recent years. nationalpost.com/feature/how-...

How to run a university in Canada? Outsource it to this management consulting firm

Nous Group's template for getting out of the red has been adopted by major schools. Critics call it the corporatization of higher education.

nationalpost.com

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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 14d

Also, let the Irish in: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

Who’s Afraid of Kneecap? | The Tyee

The Liberals have made a big mistake by cancelling the pro-Palestinian Irish band.

thetyee.ca

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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 15d

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 16d

While Kneecap’s rise to prominence has clearly troubled the Liberal party, Vince Gasparro’s claim that the band glorifies terrorist organizations is an obvious smokescreen meant to divert the public’s attention from the band’s steadfast support of the Palestinian people. @enda-b.bsky.social writes.

Who’s Afraid of Kneecap? | The Tyee

The Liberals have made a big mistake by cancelling the pro-Palestinian Irish band.

thetyee.ca

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Polly Cryses ☘️🍁🌹 @meeheeheehaha.bsky.social · 15d

Carney’s Liberals are cowards. But we knew that already.

The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 16d

While Kneecap’s rise to prominence has clearly troubled the Liberal party, Vince Gasparro’s claim that the band glorifies terrorist organizations is an obvious smokescreen meant to divert the public’s attention from the band’s steadfast support of the Palestinian people. @enda-b.bsky.social writes.

Who’s Afraid of Kneecap? | The Tyee

The Liberals have made a big mistake by cancelling the pro-Palestinian Irish band.

thetyee.ca

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privateideation.bsky.social @privateideation.bsky.social · 16d

"Glorifies terrorist organizations?" Like the people who fought for Irish independence?

The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 16d

While Kneecap’s rise to prominence has clearly troubled the Liberal party, Vince Gasparro’s claim that the band glorifies terrorist organizations is an obvious smokescreen meant to divert the public’s attention from the band’s steadfast support of the Palestinian people. @enda-b.bsky.social writes.

Who’s Afraid of Kneecap? | The Tyee

The Liberals have made a big mistake by cancelling the pro-Palestinian Irish band.

thetyee.ca

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 16d

While Kneecap’s rise to prominence has clearly troubled the Liberal party, Vince Gasparro’s claim that the band glorifies terrorist organizations is an obvious smokescreen meant to divert the public’s attention from the band’s steadfast support of the Palestinian people. @enda-b.bsky.social writes.

Who’s Afraid of Kneecap? | The Tyee

The Liberals have made a big mistake by cancelling the pro-Palestinian Irish band.

thetyee.ca

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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 16d

thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

Who’s Afraid of Kneecap? | The Tyee

The Liberals have made a big mistake by cancelling the pro-Palestinian Irish band.

thetyee.ca

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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 16d

Hi Alison, do you have a link to share for this quote for an op/ed I'm writing? DM me if so!

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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 19d

bccla.org/2025/09/reve...

Reverse Kneecap Travel Ban - BC Civil Liberties Association

BCCLA condemns the Liberal government’s unfounded, biased, and authoritarian decision to bar Irish-language rap group Kneecap from Canada, preventing them from performing their scheduled shows in Octo...

bccla.org

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 19d

Canadian Jewish News: Irish band Kneecap barred from entering Canada
"The decision to prohibit the band from entering Canada was welcomed by Jewish advocacy groups which have been lobbying the federal government for months on the issue.
B’nai Brith Canada also thanked the government for the move"

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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 19d

And just days after meeting pro-Israel lobby groups which clearly have had Kneecap in their sights for some time now bsky.app/profile/alis...

Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 19d

Vince Gasparro - Sep 16
| joined Prime Minister @MarkJCarney & colleagues in a meeting with
@ClJAinfo and Jewish community federations from across Canada.
The Prime Minister was clear in our key legislative initiatives that will help provide more security for Jewish Canadians.
Graphic of Star of David and Canadian flag.

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Enda Brophy @enda-b.bsky.social · 19d

Had tickets and was so looking forward to this show.

This is an absolute fucking outrage and puts Canada on the EXACT SAME level with our boot-licking, dissent-cancelling neighbours to the south.

Solidarity to @kneecapceol.bsky.social and FREE PALESTINE

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Alex Cosh @alexcosh.bsky.social · 20d

Vince Gasparro, the Parliamentary Secretary for "Combatting Crime," just announced that the Irish band Kneecap are banned from entering Canada, 3 days after he met with Israel lobbyists.

Tweet by Gasparro reading: "On behalf of the Government of Canada I am announcing that on the advice of our officials, we have deemed the group Kneecap ineligible to enter our country.

Our government will not tolerate the advocating of political violence, terrorism or Anti-Semitism and hate more broadly."

Tweet by Gasparro reading: "I joined Prime Minister Mark Carney
& colleagues in a meeting with CIJA and Jewish community federations from across Canada.

The Prime Minister was clear in our key legislative initiatives that will help provide more security for Jewish Canadians."

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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 22d

#Trump's 'fine people' on the radical right are the one's doing the killings.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 27d

$200 billion worth of data center projects are being built in the South, according to a new report from @mediajustice.bsky.social.

To keep up with the massive amounts of energy these centers consume, projects like gas pipelines and coal plants are also growing.

mediajustice.org/wp-content/u...

mediajustice.org

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BC Policy Solutions @bcpolicy.bsky.social · Sep 4

We’re having a party to launch BC Policy Solutions!

Gather for conversation, connection and celebration to support evidence-based economic and social change in our province.

Join us!

Oct. 16, 5:30 - 8 PM
Heritage Hall, 3102 Main St, Vancouver
Light refreshments
RSVP party.bcpolicy.ca

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