Professor, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker. @local6741.bsky.social & @cucfa.org These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.https://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mu747r7ys225“[What] got my family members clean were methadone services, and that’s what this opioid settlement money should be used for” ... criminalization does little to help people struggling with drug addiction...policing “would punish the poor and the working class, who are victims” of the opioid epidemic [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Aug 2026 05:07 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu747r7ys225https://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mtypyghiik2yThis feels like people unlucky enough to be targeted by Palantir risk algorithms and a state in violation of laws. Palantir like AI is about modeling and guessing, not knowing. [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Aug 2026 16:12 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtypyghiik2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mtxigjw3hs2l"Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia combined use 30+ intermediary companies for data work, ranging from outsourcing companies to crowdwork platforms...and **influence working conditions** thru pricing pressures, tight deadlines & by shifting contracts between vendors" Powerful thread 👇🏼 [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Aug 2026 04:24 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtxigjw3hs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mtx6pc6psc2l"In 2025, WV's Legislature required the flagship university to establish a center on 'civics, culture and statesmanship' devoted to teaching conservative ideas and traditions. Lawmakers appropriated $3 mill for the effort. The result? Just 1 student enrolled." https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2026/08/20/who-really-politicized-higher-education-opinion https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2026/08/20/who-really-politicized-higher-education-opinion?link_id=12&can_id=f527bbf0fba3259edf1528bbd700837a&source=email-aaup-this-week-for-august-17-4&email_referrer=email_3371853&email_subject=aaup-this-week-for-august-24&&26 Aug 2026 01:30 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtx6pc6psc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mtx6e74jxc2cMechanical Turk may be shutting down, but AI will always depend on data workers whose knowledge trains and tunes models. AI runs on extracted cultural skills and knowledge, and culture is always changing. Less the end of an era, but the end of an early prototype. [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Aug 2026 01:24 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtx6e74jxc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mtp47cczyc2wSame energy growing with our indivisible groups in San Diego area. It took some time for the connections between oligarchy ai and surveillance to gel. I remember the moment an older organizer realized that 9/11 sold her a bad bill of goods with security and terror justifications for surveillance. [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Aug 2026 20:24 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtp47cczyc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3msi3r3rywc2qScott Galloway's proposals for programs to help young men are easily reframed as socialist universalist programs like mandatory service (job guarantees), affordable+high quality higher and trades education, and paying care workers more so the job is more attractive. Scott, fund DSA candidates!07 Aug 2026 08:02 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3msi3r3rywc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mrtxq24h5c2tLLM delusion hits Sam? [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jul 2026 07:57 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrtxq24h5c2thttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mrtxo4eqic2tSubsidy for capitalists with White House call "for a radical shift in the way that the federal government pays for science, with a massive move of $200 bill away from funding research and basic science...toward individuals and more directly applied AI projects, including...private tech companies." [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jul 2026 07:56 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrtxo4eqic2thttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mraq5kd5qk2b@utaustin.bsky.social, where merit and peer review don't matter. "Academic freedom is not under duress—it’s being dismantled" Ivan Chaar Lopez on being denied tenure despite strong department and referee support https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty/tenure/2026/07/22/prof-denied-tenure-academic-freedom-ut-being-dismantled Academic Freedom letter to sign 👇22 Jul 2026 16:21 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mraq5kd5qk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mqrmcvxan22a35 civilians in Iran killed in latest attacks, Al Jazeera reports, and CNN does not have a story on their headlines. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/7/16/iran-war-live-sirens-in-bahrain-kuwait-us-disables-iranian-oil-tanker16 Jul 2026 16:02 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqrmcvxan22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mq2ywtzzlk2vHow long do you have to wait to know that they won't overturn it because computer perception VAR? [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Jul 2026 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq2ywtzzlk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mpzfuipmsc2pThis affects all federal grants, not just for science! Local government folks where you at? [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Jul 2026 01:03 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpzfuipmsc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mpsqagcxt22aFord, Commonwealth Bank, and IBM all start rehiring people after realizing AI can't replace them on quality: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/01/employers-who-laid-off-workers-for-ai-are-reversing-their-decisions.html “If we don’t continue to invest in entry-level hires, what happens in three-five years?..There’s no pipeline; the well simply dries up" IBM HR chief04 Jul 2026 09:20 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpsqagcxt22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mpmixbsatc2hAs someone who is tall and had all kinds of people trying to gender correct me growing up, these oopsies are not because of "normalizing trans." These people were always gender policing and now they are doing it with doxxing, law, and invasive surveillance. Trans rights free all of us. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Jul 2026 21:53 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpmixbsatc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mplnxd6pwc2dIs POTUS and the right gonna come for defunding law schools next so they don't have to contend with another group of experts they have not totally bent? [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Jul 2026 13:50 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mplnxd6pwc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mpljjk7ll22uCan we just have gender agnostic sports maybe using height or weight classes if essential to fairness somehow? This is all a huge waste of time and pain. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Jul 2026 12:31 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpljjk7ll22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mpliaz6hj22wNuanced and deep piece on the contest between different understandings of Jewish identity, ethics, and communal life at stake in the Lander Goldman election. More than just AIPAC. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Jul 2026 12:08 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpliaz6hj22whttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mplh42nehs2wPost-racial apartheid through citizenship and nation "The ban on civil marriage inside Israel’s borders is not usually cited, even by critics, as an example of its apartheid system of rule. But the ban persists because it is the ideal way to conceal segregation under the veneer of equal treatment." 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