What Can Systems Thinkers Learn from Tech Governance Bianca Wylie and Su Lynn Myat in discussion about the connections and relationship between tech governance and systems thinking.

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My Avengers Endgame is @katmabu.bsky.social x @adoaboutthings.bsky.social x @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social x @opeiulocal153.bsky.social 🫡

Activision Blizzard’s Platform and Technology Workers Form Union with Communications Workers of America Today, nearly 400 video game workers within Blizzard’s Platform & Technology department have voted strongly in favor of union representation with CWA.

Today, nearly 400 workers with Blizzard's Platform & Technology department have formed a union with @cwaunion.bsky.social!

“We are forming a union to hold leadership accountable and to ensure that we can focus on building amazing experiences for the gaming community.” 💪

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The workers of Kickstarter United, one of the tech industry’s first unions, are on STRIKE.

They‘re not calling for a boycott yet; if you want to support them, they’ve got specific asks outlined below.

Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment The AAUP and partners sued to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons.

Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

They were single issue voters in wanting to say the R-slur. They’re still supremely unfunny because if you aren’t funny without the R-slur, you are definitely not going to be funny with it

I think a very underrated reason why they hate the migration off of X is that now there are less libs for them to own as if saying the R-slur that’s rampant on there is owning the libs.

This is by no means the most important thing but why does AI have the guy looking like Joe Biden?

Speaker card for Andrew Do

Joining us at Civic Spark is @adoaboutthings.bsky.social!

Andrew presented at our 9th Hacknight. Now almost a decade later, it’s a real pleasure to have him back on the stage!

Andrew is a designer and researcher at Nava PBC and a former co-organizer of Civic Tech Toronto.

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IRS’s Direct File wasn't open source while it was being developed. But somebody just made it public!

SESAME WORKER W!!!! @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social

At a Blowout Party for Unsung Republican Heavyweights, the Men Were Drunk—and Anxious A journey into the Republican soul in 2023.

This was one of the fun gonzo journalism pieces I remember reading on car dealers where the guy just snuck into their convention? slate.com/news-and-pol...

Rich tech leaders are sharing their ideas about how political decisions should be made. Vass Bednar, executive director of McMaster University’s master of public policy in digital society, has to wonder: Is a Canadian version of DOGE in our future? thewalrus.ca/are-a-handful-of...

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So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base!

and they want to do it ...

... in *a few months*

I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ...

... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here

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Elon Musk started aligning with Donald Trump even before he won. Now Canada’s tech industry is following a similar playbook Canada's tech leaders are leaning toward a right-wing agenda that appears to mimic what is happening south of the border.

In Canada, we pay a lot of attention to what happens south of the border.

But as we watch Elon Musk wreak havoc through the US government, we shouldn’t ignore how our own tech elite is embracing a similar politics — and calling for a DOGE of their own. They can’t be allowed to succeed.

SESAME STREET WORKERS ARE UNIONIZING!!! ✊

This morning, workers at the nonprofit behind Sesame Street delivered their letter asking for voluntary recognition to management!

Read all about it: www.opeiulocal153.org/news/employe...

You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to