Professor of Law, University of CA, Irvine School of Law • Technology & Society • Work Law • Precarity General Counsel AAUP Sam's sister ❤️ Personal Account, Views My Ownhttps://bsky.app/profile/veenadubal.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/veenadubal.bsky.social/post/3mlyrsangk22y“From what I..observed from the people who push generative A.I..they do not understand that artists find the labor fulfillingThere are so many..decisions that are made..many of which are pulled from an artist’s real life..An A.I. model has not..experienced anything.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/style/ucf-commencement-ai-booed-gloria-caulfield.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share16 May 2026 21:23 +0000at://did:plc:eb5hgr7fciaeovnvr7qlja53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlyrsangk22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/veenadubal.bsky.social/post/3mlvtfn7npc2e“Indonesia will cut the caps on the ​commissions that ride-hailing companies take from drivers ‌for each trip to 8% from 20%, President Prabowo Subianto said on Friday in Jakarta.” https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/indonesia-cut-ride-hailing-companies-maximum-commission-taken-drivers-8-2026-05-01/15 May 2026 17:14 +0000at://did:plc:eb5hgr7fciaeovnvr7qlja53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvtfn7npc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/veenadubal.bsky.social/post/3mlt6oz4kdc2dSo one way to prevent yourself from eating Oreos everyday is to just eat all of them at once and get it over with.14 May 2026 15:58 +0000at://did:plc:eb5hgr7fciaeovnvr7qlja53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlt6oz4kdc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/veenadubal.bsky.social/post/3mlrw32fv6k2k“The union contends UC is misrepresenting who would receive the raises & by how much, …& rising healthcare costs would erode any wage gains. It also says UC has not responded to its requests to open up discussions on how to help members struggling with housing.” https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-05-13/uc-afscme-strike-hospitals-campuses-dining14 May 2026 03:51 +0000at://did:plc:eb5hgr7fciaeovnvr7qlja53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlrw32fv6k2khttps://bsky.app/profile/veenadubal.bsky.social/post/3mlpikqvid22s“Alabama House Bill 580 (HB580), sponsored by Rep. Troy Stubbs (R-Wetumpka), shifts faculty senates to an advisory role and expands the authority of university boards over curriculum and tenure decisions, granting them final decision-making authority.” https://www.theplainsman.com/article/2026/04/gov-kay-ivey-signs-law-that-could-change-college-tenure13 May 2026 04:44 +0000at://did:plc:eb5hgr7fciaeovnvr7qlja53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlpikqvid22shttps://bsky.app/profile/veenadubal.bsky.social/post/3mloxc4zde22d"Data shows that ‘the US has experienced a remarkably sharp drop in institutional autonomy ...The decline [is] driven by ‘an unprecedented array of coercive federal executive measures that amplified & fueled state-level pressures on autonomous universities’. https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/academic-freedom-slides-globally-as-it-takes-a-nosedive-in-the-us/4023335.article12 May 2026 23:35 +0000at://did:plc:eb5hgr7fciaeovnvr7qlja53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mloxc4zde22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/veenadubal.bsky.social/post/3mlov2c6rfk22"A hiring startup [MERCOR] that supplies workers to train artificial intelligence models for OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta has misclassified more than 30,000 workers as independent contractors to avoid paying payroll taxes and benefits" https://www.law360.com/employment-authority/articles/2475907?12 May 2026 22:54 +0000at://did:plc:eb5hgr7fciaeovnvr7qlja53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlov2c6rfk22https://bsky.app/profile/veenadubal.bsky.social/post/3mlongarsds2hHe died in the cold. The cruelty & idiocy know no bounds: “With no reason to detain him, the agents addressed the mistake by leaving the disabled man, still wearing jail-issue orange canvas shoes, in a darkened parking lot without informing anyone, even his family.” https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/05/12/nyregion/buffalo-refugee-nurul-amin.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share12 May 2026 20:38 +0000at://did:plc:eb5hgr7fciaeovnvr7qlja53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlongarsds2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/veenadubal.bsky.social/post/3mlomsvt5ts2fNo one needs this crap. Invest in public transportation and good jobs. That’s the futures we need. Not this dystopia! [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 May 2026 20:27 +0000at://did:plc:eb5hgr7fciaeovnvr7qlja53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlomsvt5ts2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/veenadubal.bsky.social/post/3mllklwwelc2dI noted to my 14yo that he did not give me a Mother’s Day card or note, and at first he said he thought Mother’s Day was today (Monday). Then he asked me if I could remind him later. 🙄😩😂. Do I laugh or cry.11 May 2026 15:09 +0000at://did:plc:eb5hgr7fciaeovnvr7qlja53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mllklwwelc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/veenadubal.bsky.social/post/3mlj5v5wptk2tHappy Mother’s Day to all the caretakers out there. And to those who have lost their children—including my own mother—may you find moments of peace in their memory. 🙏🏾10 May 2026 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:eb5hgr7fciaeovnvr7qlja53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlj5v5wptk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/veenadubal.bsky.social/post/3mlb4rxxkpk2cSign me up, Steyer! “California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer signaled support for the university to divest its indirect multi-billion-dollar investments in weapons manufacturing companies at a press conference in Oakland on Tuesday.” https://www.dailycal.org/news/state/governor-candidate-tom-steyer-backs-uc-divestment-from-weapons/article_e870c083-bf6c-4524-b928-6409452db0ce.html07 May 2026 11:36 +0000at://did:plc:eb5hgr7fciaeovnvr7qlja53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlb4rxxkpk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/veenadubal.bsky.social/post/3ml5j4crdgc2kSo proud of my dear friend & sister!!!! “[Kyra Lilien]…A former fed immigration judge…is suing the Trump admin, claiming she was ousted from her position because she’s an older female Democrat w/a history of advocating for immigrants.”🔥🔥🔥 https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/05/05/concord-immigration-judge-ousted-purge-federal-workers-dont-support-trump/06 May 2026 01:06 +0000at://did:plc:eb5hgr7fciaeovnvr7qlja53/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml5j4crdgc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/veenadubal.bsky.social/post/3ml5bou3xc22zRemarkable to hear Dani MacVicar - the 2026 Sam Dubal Fellowship Recipient at UC Berkeley - deliver a lecture on their research on community crisis care work. Sam wld have been so deeply engaged by it. They spoke about how crisis (naming it) is an attempt to contain the unbearable. That stuck w/me.05 May 2026 22:53 +0000at://did:plc:eb5hgr7fciaeovnvr7qlja53/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml5bou3xc22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/veenadubal.bsky.social/post/3mkslexdmsc23“A “rich face” is stretched taut, often incapable of varied expressions and plumped with filler or implants or a person’s own grafted fat. Once, this face belonged to a villainous class of elites in sci-fi depictions of a dystopian future.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion/plastic-surgery-rich-face.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share01 May 2026 16:47 +0000at://did:plc:eb5hgr7fciaeovnvr7qlja53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkslexdmsc23https://bsky.app/profile/veenadubal.bsky.social/post/3mkmf37hqis2s“The White House abruptly dismissed the entire board overseeing the National Science Foundation, informing each of its 22 seated members in a terse email on Friday that they had been "terminated, effective immediately."” https://www.npr.org/2026/04/28/nx-s1-5801465/national-science-board-trump-firing29 Apr 2026 05:38 +0000at://did:plc:eb5hgr7fciaeovnvr7qlja53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkmf37hqis2shttps://bsky.app/profile/veenadubal.bsky.social/post/3mklfmfm6ns2cI feel like the NYTimes’ little pieces featuring quotes from 12 random people, as though they offered insight into the range of politics in this country, is Thomas Friedman’s writing tick amplified.28 Apr 2026 20:15 +0000at://did:plc:eb5hgr7fciaeovnvr7qlja53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mklfmfm6ns2chttps://bsky.app/profile/veenadubal.bsky.social/post/3mkiw5lknx222The sharing economy, friends!27 Apr 2026 20:33 +0000at://did:plc:eb5hgr7fciaeovnvr7qlja53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkiw5lknx222https://bsky.app/profile/veenadubal.bsky.social/post/3mkigejdtis26“First, xAI contends that building an AI model is a form of protected speech under the First Amendment, and that forcing developers to redesign their systems to avoid disparate outcomes amounts to government-compelled expression.” Incredible. 😣 https://www.hcamag.com/us/news/general/trump-administration-joins-musks-xai-in-bid-to-strike-down-colorados-landmark-ai-hiring-law/57308127 Apr 2026 15:51 +0000at://did:plc:eb5hgr7fciaeovnvr7qlja53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkigejdtis26https://bsky.app/profile/veenadubal.bsky.social/post/3mkce6o7obc2oThey overlooked the Aljube in Lisbon. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/travel/5-european-resistance-museums.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share25 Apr 2026 05:56 +0000at://did:plc:eb5hgr7fciaeovnvr7qlja53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkce6o7obc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/veenadubal.bsky.social/post/3mkcbcfyk3s2oIt was a grotesque & myopic decision to frame a devastating war—with all its civilian casualties and global impacts—in terms of how it will affect Americans who summer in Europe.25 Apr 2026 05:04 +0000at://did:plc:eb5hgr7fciaeovnvr7qlja53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkcbcfyk3s2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/veenadubal.bsky.social/post/3mjwnvyufnk2aNew from me: “When AI-driven algorithms are deployed to set prices “just for you” as a consumer or to determine the best wage “just for you” as a worker, the corporate objective is not your best interest. Not by a long shot.” https://www.governing.com/workforce/ai-shouldnt-be-setting-prices-or-wages-states-need-to-push-back20 Apr 2026 14:18 +0000at://did:plc:eb5hgr7fciaeovnvr7qlja53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjwnvyufnk2a