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Lilly Irani

@gleemie.bsky.social

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.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom on Instagram: "Some quick thoughts after class on AI solutions for the university’s political problems." 3,107 likes, 128 comments - tressiemcphd on October 15, 2024: "Some quick thoughts after class on AI solutions for the university’s political problems.".

Mini-lecture on AI, Politics, and Inequality by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social building on @dmgreene.bsky.social, or why are university administrations capitulating to AI? www.instagram.com/tressiemcphd...

20.10.2025 02:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think the massification of the classroom also set up a vacuum of personal teaching relationships that made public higher Ed beyond the community college (which has smaller classes and a teaching only mission) particularly vulnerable

19.10.2025 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social has a great analysis I saw on Instagram that I also teach explaining how austerity in public higher Ed in the us forces schools to do public private partnership deals for resources and to seem "relevant" to elites, drawing on @dmgreene.bsky.social work on libraries

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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors β€œWith fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

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Borders Are War by Other Means - Public Books The border today is and is made through sociotechnical arrangements centering data in the regulation of racial difference.

New at PB: Each day this week, we’re publishing a series on the cybernetic border, which contributions from IvΓ‘n Chaar LΓ³pez, @philippseuferling.bsky.social, @kalindivora.bsky.social, and @gleemie.bsky.social.

16.10.2025 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A short read on why a wide range of people have a stake in shutting down mass surveillance and overcoming the politics of fear and othering.

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Imagining Intruders to Imagine a Nation - Public Books We are in a moment that makes clear that the borderβ€”as a regime of enmityβ€”can make intruders of us all.

New at PB: Last in our series on IvΓ‘n Chaar LΓ³pez’s book "The Cybernetic Border," Lilly Irani (@gleemie.bsky.social) warns that no one is safe under the cybernetic border, as data grows and the definition of "intruder" shifts.

16.10.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Borders Are War by Other Means - Public Books The border today is and is made through sociotechnical arrangements centering data in the regulation of racial difference.

β€œWe need to understand border enforcement & borders as ensembles mixing the social & technical in the management of inclusion and exclusion.”

New at PB: IvΓ‘n Chaar LΓ³pez introduces a series that responds to "The Cybernetic Border" (@dukepress.bsky.social).

13.10.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chicago ICE crackdown's first casualty, a father of two, had built a quiet life in the US An agent shot Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, father of two, during a massive immigration sweep.

Silverio Villegas Gonzalez

www.reuters.com/world/us/chi...

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Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

10.10.2025 08:38 β€” πŸ‘ 110    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 5

Chuffed page is down :(

11.10.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Portland Frog isn't just a meaningless shit post. It creates a new association of meaning between antifa and cute. It is semiotic combat. Such tactics work on televisual and photo print media too, not just the Internet. What makes it internet is the networked frog fan culture.

11.10.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Dear Google, when I click Chrome Listen to this Page, I just want the AI to read the damn words in robot voice written by the author. I don't want your ai podcast chatter chopping up the authors words into a morning coffee chat.

To think this feature coulda been tax dollars funding a library

10.10.2025 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would β€˜kill’ the AI industry Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would β€˜kill’ the AI industry

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News coverage: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

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Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 β€’ S1 E18 β€’ 44 min
Also, we proposed a idea how to do a end run on vote by mail. Concept is based on what Trump proposed. When you vote, you check everyone's citizenship as well as voter ID.
In a vote by mail state, you might be able to check citizenship during voter registration. You can send copies of your passport and your birth certificate in.
How in the world are you going to check our voters?
Voter ID, right? Vote by mail. So that creates a problem for Oregon.
But if federal government new requirement is to check both, and if Oregon can comply with the requirements, what would happen to our election result? I'm talking about the entire federal delegation.
For federal elections, we're talking about only federal elections.
COMMON SENSE
Vascluar

Ep. 18: September to Remember October 6 β€’ S1 E18 β€’ 44 min Also, we proposed a idea how to do a end run on vote by mail. Concept is based on what Trump proposed. When you vote, you check everyone's citizenship as well as voter ID. In a vote by mail state, you might be able to check citizenship during voter registration. You can send copies of your passport and your birth certificate in. How in the world are you going to check our voters? Voter ID, right? Vote by mail. So that creates a problem for Oregon. But if federal government new requirement is to check both, and if Oregon can comply with the requirements, what would happen to our election result? I'm talking about the entire federal delegation. For federal elections, we're talking about only federal elections. COMMON SENSE Vascluar

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 β€’ S1 E18 β€’ 44 min
So entire federal delegation, congressmen and senators could be challenged, could be unseated because you didn't follow federal requirements to elect them. So I said the trade-off is worth it. You know why?
Democrats control two Senate seats out of six congressional seats. We only control one. They control five.
You talk about trade-off, right?
COMMON SENSE
Sanctuany

Ep. 18: September to Remember October 6 β€’ S1 E18 β€’ 44 min So entire federal delegation, congressmen and senators could be challenged, could be unseated because you didn't follow federal requirements to elect them. So I said the trade-off is worth it. You know why? Democrats control two Senate seats out of six congressional seats. We only control one. They control five. You talk about trade-off, right? COMMON SENSE Sanctuany

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

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How the Democratic Party Was Hollowed Out Democrats appear incapable of mounting a real opposition to Donald Trump. Their weakness is the result of a decades-long hollowing out of the party, in which organized labor has been displaced by a pa...

Hollowing out of the democratic party by @philiprocco.bsky.social pretty much contextualizes so much of my experience of policy and organizing around technology, work, and surveillance issues.

Organizations organizations organizations

jacobin.com/2025/08/demo...

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Our book on workers talking about their experiences of workers inquiry research, and working with academic workers to build power! with the Capacitor Collective

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Thank you for these. Insightful, resonant, and well worth sharing with colleagues on our campuses.

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Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...

BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:

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Government civil rights investigations examine institutional civil rights management practices, not individuals. Individuals are not legitimate targets of federal civil rights investigation.

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UC should not give personally identifiable information to federal gov, says @aaup.org. Where they already have, they need to implement harm reduction measures immediately.
www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

This echoes the call San Diego Faculty Association made to our Chancellor and UCOP 2 weeks ago.

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This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like

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A coalition of higher ed unions jointly filed a lawsuit against the Trump admin for the threats to the University of California including @uaw4811.bsky.social @afscme3299.bsky.social @uptecwa.bsky.social @ucaft.bsky.social @teamsterslocal2010.bsky.social @aaup.org @aft.org @uaw.org and CUCFA.

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Today, we joined a broad coalition of unions in suing the Trump administration over their unilateral termination of federal research grants to UCLA and other ongoing federal funding threats: www.latimes.com/california/s...

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UC nurses are joining faculty workers to sue the Trump administration and stop its illegal attack on gender-affirming care and ICE deportations at our universities and hospitals.

This lawsuit is about protecting our patients’ rights and standing up for care, not cruelty.

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Workers of the UC stand together to protect people, not just money.

Join your UC Faculty Association or union!

17.09.2025 05:41 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Really excited about Sarah T. Hamid this Saturday in San Diego, speaking about research the EFF has done to understand what is working and not working with surveillance organizing around the country! Join us!

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also, I'm revising proofs where I cite your work on hiring halls :)

17.09.2025 00:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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California’s $23 Billion Plan to Restore Federal Cuts to Scientific Research

California closer to bond measure to fund our own science and health reaearch. Ty
@uaw4811.bsky.social! Yes to this! But it should not fund a UC that also submits to federal prohibitions on politically targeted research.

https//www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/us/california-scientific-research-bond.html

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@gleemie is following 20 prominent accounts