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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · 2d

‘Silent Plastic Women’: Representations of Gender in China’s AI Industry

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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · 2d

How Silicon Valley is using religious language to talk about AI

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How Silicon Valley is using religious language to talk about AI

As the rapid, unregulated development of artificial intelligence continues, the language people in Silicon Valley use to describe it is becoming increasingly religious.

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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · 2d

How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart

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How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart

Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · 7d

OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias.

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OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias.

India is OpenAI’s second-largest market, but ChatGPT and Sora reproduce caste stereotypes that harm millions of people.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 8d

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · 8d

The Current Landscape of Tech and Work Policy in the U.S.: A Guide to Key Laws, Bills, and Concepts

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The Current Landscape of Tech and Work Policy in the U.S.: A Guide to Key Laws, Bills, and Concepts

Updated September 2025. An overview of current U.S. public policy that regulates employers’ use of digital workplace technologies.

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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · 8d

Why I left Silicon Valley: Chinese tech workers talk about returning home

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Why I left Silicon Valley: Chinese tech workers talk about returning home

Chinese-origin tech workers are abandoning the American dream and returning home, where state-led incentives and ambition are plentiful.

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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · 8d

AI data centers are sending the cost of electricity skyrocketing

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AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · 8d

Lawyers blamed "IT issues, personal and family emergencies, their own poor judgment and carelessness, and demands from their firms and the industry to be more productive and take on more casework. But most often, they simply blame their assistants."

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18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Explain Why They Did It

Lawyers blame IT, family emergencies, their own poor judgment, their assistants, illness, and more.

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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · 16d

Silicon Valley community college district buys workforce housing

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Silicon Valley community college district buys workforce housing - San José Spotlight

Dozens of Santa Clara County professors and administrative staff will be some of the first to move into affordable apartments reserved for community college employees, thanks to one school district’s ...

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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · 17d

Union Busting is (Morally) Disgusting

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Union Busting is (Morally) Disgusting

As legal protections for labor organizing face existential threats, the American labor movement must confront a deeper challenge: the erosion of social norms that once condemned union-busting as…

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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · 17d

A First Look at Labor’s AI Values: An analysis of recent statements about technology by unions and other worker organizations

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A First Look at Labor’s AI Values: An analysis of recent statements about technology by unions and other worker organizations

A first look at labor’s vision of what the future of AI and digital technologies should look like.

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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · 29d

Latin American musicians say AI is stealing their streams

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Latin American musicians say AI is stealing their streams

Musicians from Chile to Mexico say bots are stealing streams, siphoning income, and shortening the lifespan of songs. Even Bad Bunny isn’t safe.

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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · Sep 8

Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy

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Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy

In the age of automation, human workers are being brought in to fix what artificial intelligence gets wrong.

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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · Sep 8

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says AI has already replaced 4,000 jobs

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says AI has already replaced 4,000 jobs

Salesforce reduced its support staff from 9,000 to 5,000 as AI systems now handle half of customer conversations, according to the San Francisco tech giant’s CEO.

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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · Aug 31

State of the Unions: California Labor in 2024

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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · Aug 31

Google’s still not giving us the full picture on AI energy use

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Google’s still not giving us the full picture on AI energy use

Some individual queries use a small amount of electricity, but AI’s energy demand is still a big deal.

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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · Aug 31

China built hundreds of AI data centers to catch the AI boom. Now many stand unused.

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China built hundreds of AI data centers to catch the AI boom. Now many stand unused.

The country poured billions into AI infrastructure, but the data center gold rush is unraveling as speculative investments collide with weak demand and DeepSeek shifts AI trends.

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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · Aug 29

Just days after President Donald Trump announced the U.S. government had secured a 10% stake in Intel, the Santa Clara-based company revealed that it was cutting nearly 200 jobs in California

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After Trump announcement, Intel among several companies to make Bay Area job cuts

Intel, a biotech firm and a tech logistics company have decided to chop hundreds of Bay Area jobs.

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karina ripley @kaareeenah.bsky.social · Aug 26

The United Campus Workers of UVA faculty committee objects to the current presidential search committee, demanding a more representative and transparent process

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A statement to the presidential search committee from the UCWVA-UVA Chapter

No number of “listening sessions” or other forms of outreach provide constituencies with the access, accountability and real influence that come with serving on the search committee.

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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · Aug 26

The State of Independent Technology Research 2025: Power in Numbers

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The State of Independent Technology Research 2025

A report on the struggle to keep public-interest technology research alive—and the growing Coalition working to protect it.

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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · Aug 26

Event! The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

The South has long been a site of both corporate extraction and fierce political resistance. At a time where Big Tech is rapidly expanding data centers in Black, brown and working class communities th...

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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · Aug 26

CBP Had Access to More than 80,000 Flock AI Cameras Nationwide

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CBP Had Access to More than 80,000 Flock AI Cameras Nationwide

Flock said it has "paused all federal pilots" after police departments said they didn't realize they were sharing access with Customs and Border Patrol.

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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · Aug 26

In person event: Stacy Davis Gates, President of Chicago Teachers Union

Weds, Sept 10

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Stacy Davis Gates in Conversation with Cassondra Curiel and Kampala Taiz-Rancifer at the Alameda Labor Council

On behalf of the Alameda Labor Council (ALC), East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE), and UC Berkeley Labor Center, we’re delighted to invite you to join us for a conversation with Stacy ...

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Joshua Earle, but spookier @cyborgapologist.bsky.social · Aug 20

UVA's wall-to wall union, UCWVA at UVA has joined the Faculty Senate, Student Council, Wahoos4UVA, Emeritus faculty, and others in expressing No Confidence in the Board of Visitors.
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No Confidence in the UVA Board of Visitors – UCWVA

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