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/3mmddjgiah22l"We say freedom of speech, but hate speech turns into bullets. Hate speech kills." -Imam Taha of the Islamic Center of San Diego speaking at UCSD's vigil for our martyrs of this week's shooting21 May 2026 02:07 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmddjgiah22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mmb6oe6xgc2zSomeone tell the City of San Diego whose Portland Loo at the corner of Park & Market is kept in an unusable state by the luxury building management company next door tasked with managing it with absolutely no incentive to do so. [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 May 2026 05:35 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmb6oe6xgc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mm7rfg5akk2lPlease also consider giving to the other families who lost their loved ones, such as https://goodbricks.org/campaign/icsd.org/official-icsd-victim---family-support-fund [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 May 2026 16:04 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm7rfg5akk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mm6bvetuxk2mPlease consider donating to support the family of Amin, the security guard at the Islamic Center who alerted teachers quickly of a shooter and died putting himself between the shooters and others. launchgood.com/Amin [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 May 2026 01:54 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm6bvetuxk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mm6bsyxa622mFor those following the murders at our Islamic Center of San Diego, please read a statement from community organization PANA. The news coverage is unrelenting and because Muslim families are mourning, the police and politician narrative fills the space https://www.panasd.org/statement-from-partnership-for-new-americans-pana-in-response-to-the-attack-on-the-islamic-center-of-san-diego/19 May 2026 01:53 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm6bsyxa622mhttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mlpgu6a6f22lSan Diego is spending at least 6 million dollars on encampment sweeps, there's no evidence it helps connect anyone to housing or services + police get overtime not included in 7 mill for supervising sweeps. A cruel subsidy in the millions to downtown tourism, real estate. https://pca.st/episode/f8ddffea-5df5-4260-b642-a95c658848b313 May 2026 04:13 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlpgu6a6f22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mkywmpbaj22kRhythm Nation caused a resonant frequency that caused magnetic head spinning disk hard drives to crash! That's what the academics call materiality of the digital and what everyone calls fun! [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 May 2026 05:24 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkywmpbaj22khttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mkyvatpgd222Everything depends on the content of said bill. Does it include resources to organize a union, get workplace protections around unsafe or unfair AI use in your contracts, and learn how to stop using AI when it will make your code unsafe or your writing and relationships dull? [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 May 2026 05:00 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkyvatpgd222https://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mkwnmmtje22wI talked to my students a few months ago about how it's hard for them to see all the tech that has been canceled or rolled back, especially a social movement wins are often not publicized or taught. This is so important! [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 May 2026 07:38 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkwnmmtje22whttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mkwlvrmgoc2kFirst Amazon closed its just walk out shops powered by AI and off-site surveillance workers. Now Walmart, dollar general, and others are rolling back self-check out basically because it makes theft too easy. Experimental tech doesn't only move "forward." https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/walmart-axes-self-checkouts-and-switches-to-traditional-lanes-but-not-because-of-customer-service/ar-AA223LQZ03 May 2026 07:07 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkwlvrmgoc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mkv5hmmv5s2gWe will have breakout groups, including one on worker education then and now, in conversation with Hakken's 1983 piece on liberation pedagogies for workers. I would love non-academics in the room, and happy to send a link to the article PDF on dm req https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/002205748316500108 [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 May 2026 17:16 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkv5hmmv5s2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mkq2mrdzak2aThis is a problematic take. 1. This author draws on personal LLM experiences, such as tutoring as a PhD holder. Actual studies that show mixed results for LLMs as tutors in, say, CS education, including cognitive offloading and students not building relationships with other people. [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Apr 2026 16:42 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkq2mrdzak2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/gleemie.bsky.social/post/3mko3zs54bc2dWhile City Council was filled with thousands of people asking for the Flock contract to be dropped, SDPD signed a contract (same month!) with Flock for Nova, the Palantir-like data fusion software without bringing it to the public. https://www.axios.com/local/san-diego/2026/04/29/san-diego-police-flock-nova-surveillance-technology-contract-review29 Apr 2026 22:02 +0000at://did:plc:snaxo4dhow6layarg7gqyuzz/app.bsky.feed.post/3mko3zs54bc2dhttps://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/3mju6gl752c2l