Professor, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker. These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.https://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mju6q34ot22l"Resistance is vital, be it in the form of students mocking administrators, instructors refusing to avoid controversial topics or legal action on the part of professional societies. These acts highlight cracks in the repressive regime and undermine its legitimacy." [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Apr 2026 14:41 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mju6q34ot22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mju6gl752c2lExcellent piece by @torinmonahan.bsky.social on surveillance and censorship on campus post encampment, covering investigations, crowdsourced "complaint and syllabi-exposing systems" and more that make campuses less safe for most. https://www.merip.org/2026/04/censorship-and-surveillance-at-us-universities/19 Apr 2026 14:35 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mju6gl752c2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mju4po2ybc22A breakdown of Palantir's fascist gesture -- be softer on your electeds, recognize "national cultures" so you can make denigrate while peoples without deliberation or human rights, and Silicon Valley needs to give people something more than iPhone apps -- but definitely not housing and health care. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Apr 2026 14:05 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mju4po2ybc22https://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mjf5wma64c24If you can, please donate to support legal fees for these professors. https://chuffed.org/project/legalaidforucsdprofs [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Apr 2026 15:16 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjf5wma64c24https://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mjevoqyuus2mUCSD drags professors into discipline, suspension without pay threats accusing them of participating in encampment two years later. Professor and students see political prosecution and campus that punishment for learning and talking about Palestine https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/04/12/ucsd-professors-face-discipline-in-connection-with-2024-pro-palestinian-protest-encampment/13 Apr 2026 12:49 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjevoqyuus2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mjdyq7u4ec2uIf you can, make a recurring donation to help workers organize, flex power, and strike. "unions are the most accessible, potent, and realistic road to power that most regular people can access," writes @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social www.unionnow.org [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Apr 2026 04:11 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjdyq7u4ec2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3miwu6tgeb22gThere's no excuse for the way this administration treats people, land, and words: “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” There's no excuse to say this about anyone.07 Apr 2026 22:45 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3miwu6tgeb22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3minra7uyhk2kAre you near Princeton and want to talk about futures of (data) work? Come through next week! I'll be sharing about struggles over work and AI with our UCSD Labor Center. https://anthropology.princeton.edu/events/future-data-work04 Apr 2026 07:58 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3minra7uyhk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3minoipqugk2hIsraeli Knesset passes bill to give Palestinians the death penalty for convictions if fatal crimes while the same punishment is not available to Israelis. But Israel is not an apartheid state when mobility, infrastructure land water rights, and now punishments are clearly differentiated by group?!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Apr 2026 07:09 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3minoipqugk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3minmphsjfc2hIsraeli historian Lee Mordechai says his country is committing genocide, as his report documents a wide range of atrocities committed by Israeli forces. He concurs with the statistics of the Gaza Health Ministry. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/blindfolded-palestinian-advertise-Israeli-business04 Apr 2026 06:37 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3minmphsjfc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3minmaakjzs2hWhy LLM prompt AI systems aren't just like a calculator, because calculators didn't offer to do whole activities or compositions for you [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Apr 2026 06:28 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3minmaakjzs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3minlbw5bwk2fAfter the CIA and MI6 first sanctioned and then engineered the coup of Mossadegh to keep profits from Iran's oil, they went on to plan and carry out the assassination of Lumumba to keep access to Congo's uranium. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Apr 2026 06:12 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3minlbw5bwk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3miniifngrc2fActor falls out of window and is injured on the set. Producers don't deny the safety issues leading to IATSE strike but they told the reporter they “don’t negotiate with communists.” Effective fascists have to co-opt communist programs to win, silly https://deadline.com/2026/04/jonathan-majors-falls-through-window-crew-strike-daily-wire-1236773038/04 Apr 2026 05:21 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3miniifngrc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mim3cmxfqs27US/Israel destroy Iran's Pasteur Institute and double tap attacks a civilian bridge in Karaj, killing first responders. "If this is help, please define help for me as you bomb to set our country back and break our people's spirit," a person interviewed said (farsi) https://pca.st/episode/3e6459fc-f651-46d8-aa70-34a0820a80ec?t=16803 Apr 2026 15:53 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mim3cmxfqs27