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Natalia Luka @nataliyan.bsky.social · Sep 4

Fantastic opp to be a defining voice on tech policy!

Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · Sep 4

📢2026 Fellowship applications are OPEN!📢
If you are someone looking to inform technology policy through rigorous original reporting or policy analyses, we want to hear from you!
Apply here: airtable.com/appIrc1F9M5d...

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Natalia Luka @nataliyan.bsky.social · Aug 26

All links in my syllabus: drive.google.com/file/d/1xquO...

Natalia Luka @nataliyan.bsky.social · Aug 26

New additions this year:

Paper by @hankhplee.bsky.social + @msftresearch.bsky.social. TLDR; higher confidence in AI = less critical thinking

Burns Trust report by @amzn4climate.bsky.social. TLDR; companies aren't honest about emissions

Essay by @mustafasuleymanai.bsky.social. TLDR; AI isn't human

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Natalia Luka @nataliyan.bsky.social · Aug 26

📝 🎓 ✨ New year. New semester. New syllabus for my undergraduate seminar (AI & Society) at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social 📝 🎓 ✨

Link here: drive.google.com/file/d/1xquO...

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Natalia Luka @nataliyan.bsky.social · Aug 18

(2) Take the Mic: How Worker Voice Shapes Workplace Technology, a report by @techequity.us

Rigorously researched but fully accessible to all audiences. Cases and practical resources from workers around the U.S.

techequity.us/2025/07/29/t...

Take the Mic: How Worker Voice Shapes Workplace Technology - TechEquity Collaborative

When workplaces consider using new technologies, how often are the workers themselves involved in the process? Not often enough.

techequity.us

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Natalia Luka @nataliyan.bsky.social · Aug 18

Two amazing resources on worker voice and AI that you should know about:

(1) ILO’s Global Case study of AI and algorithmic management by @vdoellgast.bsky.social and team

The single best compendium of international law and union cases I’ve seen on this topic

www.ilo.org/sites/defaul...

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Natalia Luka @nataliyan.bsky.social · Aug 6

For those at ASA (American Sociological Association) this year, come check out my paper session on:

✨ Responsible Generative AI Use by Product Managers. Sunday, Aug 10th, 8-9:30am

Paper link: arxiv.org/pdf/2501.16531

And comment with anything else I can’t miss!

@asanews.bsky.social

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Natalia Luka @nataliyan.bsky.social · Jul 28

If you’re at Academy of Management tomorrow, come hear Genevieve Smith present on our paper covering genAI use by product managers—
journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5...

Responsible Generative AI Use by Product Managers: Recoupling Ethical Principles and Practices | Academy of Management Proceedings

Since 2022, generative AI (genAI) has rapidly become integrated into workplaces. Though organizations have made commitments to use this technology “responsibly”, how organizations and their employees ...

journals.aom.org

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AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 22

The 90+ organizations supporting a People's AI Action Plan all have concrete, actionable ideas for an AI agenda that furthers the interests of everyday people and challenges the tech billionaire agenda we’ll see from the White House. Learn more about them: peoplesaiaction.com

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Natalia Luka @nataliyan.bsky.social · Jul 22

Proud of @techactions.bsky.social for being among the first signatories to the People’s AI Action Plan— we need a tech agenda that puts the interests of workers and ordinary people first

Collective Action in Tech @techactions.bsky.social · Jul 22

The Trump administration’s forthcoming AI action plan will inevitably center industry interests & lead to the unrestrained, unaccountable roll-out of AI into every part of our lives. We’re among the 90+ orgs demanding an AI policy agenda that puts the interests of people first. peoplesaiaction.com

People's AI Action Plan

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Natalia Luka @nataliyan.bsky.social · Jul 21

📣 Exceptional resource alert from
@ucblaborcenter.bsky.social: a database of U.S. union bargaining provisions related to workplace tech. laborcenter.berkeley.edu/negotiating-...

Workers need a voice in how tech is utilized in the workplace— and here are 175 blueprints for what that looks like

UC Berkeley Labor Center (@ucblaborcenter.bsky.social)

The Labor Center conducts research and education on issues related to labor and employment. Our trainings serve to educate a diverse new generation of labor leaders. We also engage UC Berkeley student...

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Nature @nature.com · Jul 10

A key US Senate committee has indicated that it will reject the huge budget cuts that President Donald Trump proposed for some science agencies, including the US National Science Foundation and NASA.

go.nature.com/40H0XST

US senators poised to reject Trump’s proposed massive science cuts

Committee gives first hint that policymakers might preserve, rather than slash, funding for US National Science Foundation and other agencies.

go.nature.com

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Natalia Luka @nataliyan.bsky.social · Jul 10

Love seeing efforts like this to support academics impacted by NSF cuts 👏

Social Science Research Council @ssrc.org · Jul 10

In recent months the NSF has significantly reduced research funding. We're partnering with @sloanfoundation.bsky.social to launch a Research Rescue Fund, a citizen-led initiative to rescue societally valuable economics research.

Learn more: www.ssrc.org/programs/eco...

Economic Research Rescue Fund - Emergency grants available to economics-related research projects that have had NSF funding terminated

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Natalia Luka @nataliyan.bsky.social · Jul 8

When vast resources are funneled into one elite stratum, we risk underinvesting in the next generation of engineers and product teams. Nothing is sustainable about that (4/4)

Natalia Luka @nataliyan.bsky.social · Jul 8

We’re witnessing a seismic shift in Silicon Valley compensation: nine‑figure packages for a select few, funded by deep pockets and a fierce arms race for talent. Meanwhile, thousands of equally skilled engineers are facing layoffs as companies scramble to balance those towering costs (3/4)

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Natalia Luka @nataliyan.bsky.social · Jul 8

When I commented “it doesn't make sense for engineers, no matter how experienced and with great credentials, to make NBA players' salaries,” I was pointing to a critical misalignment in tech today (2/4)

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Natalia Luka @nataliyan.bsky.social · Jul 8

I spoke with @amandahoover.bsky.social at @businessinsider.com about the cost pressures that AI competition is putting on other operations at Big Tech companies. (1/4)

www.businessinsider.com/silicon-vall...

Inside Big Tech's big salary divide: 'I feel like we're all going to get fired'

From Meta to Microsoft, generative AI is accelerating Big Tech's salary divide.

www.businessinsider.com

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yando @yando-games.bsky.social · Jul 1

fellow nonfiction writers! if you're not currently saving EVERY SINGLE web page/web news story you cite to the Wayback Machine YOU SHOULD BE!!

no more dead links in footnotes!

no more dead links in bibliographies!

never ever forget how fragile the internet is—save internet history!

Internet Archive @archive.org · Jul 1

This October, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is projected to hit a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived.

We’ll be commemorating this historic achievement on October 22 with a global celebration ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/07/01/w...

Want to take part? 🧵 #Wayback1T

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Collective Action in Tech @techactions.bsky.social · Jun 26

Bay Area friends, Gig Workers Rising is organizing a protest against surveillance pricing for platform-based drivers on July 1st in San Francisco ✊ 🚗

Surveillance pricing gives drivers NO transparency into how their hard work is valued. It's time for this practice to stop!

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Natalia Luka @nataliyan.bsky.social · Jun 26

Content moderators are the backbone of the Internet and AI. No such thing as ethics without the ethical treatment of those who make it all possible

UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · Jun 19

🚨 TIME exclusive: Content moderators shield us from the darkest parts of the internet—but suffer PTSD, burnout & trauma.

A global union alliance says: enough. Meta, TikTok, OpenAI, Google & more must adopt 8 safety protocols now.

#TechWorkersRising

Exclusive: Global Safety Rules Aim to Protect AI’s Most Traumatized Workers

Outsourced workers review graphic content used to train AI. A global union is now pushing for baseline mental health protections.

time.com

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Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · Jun 25

I spent the week talking to UPS Teamsters from around the country about what it’s like to deliver hundreds of packages in a heatwave, in trucks that still aren’t air conditioned, in a country without federal workplace protections for heat newrepublic.com/article/1972...

Yellow Teamsters-branded thermometer showing a temperature around 125F

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · Jun 19

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Natalia Luka @nataliyan.bsky.social · Jun 17

@techactions.bsky.social is back!!! We're posting again and updating our archive and doing a big overhaul of the website. Sign-up below and stay tuned for more 👇

Collective Action in Tech @techactions.bsky.social · Jun 17

⚡ We're migrating our email list to Substack– and relaunching the site with a new and improved look ⚡ Check it out and stay tuned for weekly posts, new essays, an archive update, and much more to come!

Welcome to the Collective Action in Tech newsletter!

Why we’re migrating our mailing list to a newsletter, and what you can expect in the coming weeks 👀

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Natalia Luka @nataliyan.bsky.social · Jun 17

Brilliant project mapping the network of contracting firms that make the hidden labor of AI possible— transparency is a critical first step

TechEquity @techequity.bsky.social · Jun 17

To highlight the workers who make AI possible, we must shine a light on this shadowy industry—

which is exactly what TechEquity has done: dataworklandscape.org?utm_medium=s...

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