Tim Newman
Labor + Tech | Currently @techequity.bsky.social | Formerly Coworker(.)org, Coworker Solidarity Fund, Change(.)org, International Labor Rights Forum
- Reposted by Tim NewmanThe Labor Movement is calling on @governor.ca.gov to side with working people, not Big Tech billionaires. calmatters.org/economy/tech...
- Reposted by Tim NewmanIf only there were a way to prevent RSV. Oh wait, there's a vaccine. Heart Attack, Stroke Risk Rises After Serious RSV, Study Says www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
- Reposted by Tim Newman@governor.ca.gov, listen to working people. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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- Cannot emphasize enough how fantastic and important this paper is. Huge congrats to Anuli! And you better believe I’ll be taking every opportunity to say more about how great this work is on February 17th! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- Reposted by Tim NewmanNEW: NEW: HHS is working on an AI tool to analyze VAERS—a database of vaccine injury claims to which anyone can make submissions—and "generate hypotheses." This is from @emilymullin.bsky.social:
- Women in tech and finance face gender discrimination through automated decisionmaking systems used in hiring. The solution? “re-skilling female workers not currently in technical roles” 🤬🙄❓
- Why focus on reskilling workers impacted by tech-facilitated discrimination in hiring across an industry? “Reskilling those affected by these job losses could save companies from making redundancy payments totalling as much as £757m, the report found.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...
- “women in tech leave their roles each year for reasons including lack of advancement, lack of recognition and inadequate pay.” So naturally, you address that by “upskilling staff” www.theguardian.com/business/202...
- Importantly, in the clip, he’s not just talking about “avatars” like chatbots, but “agentic AI” in which algorithmic systems could play a gate keeping or decision making role. He also touts emotion detection, which is one of the top AI use cases that has real momentum to ban b/c it’s so problematic.
- Reposted by Tim Newmanmultiple trump-created crises converging with deadly results.
- "Tech, once viewed as prestigious & safe, has become tumultuous, w some economists warning of a looming recession in jobs. While tech companies continue to invest billions into AI, they’re slashing jobs while touting AI-forward strategies & leaner orgs." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
- "Leaders are overhyping capabilities & efficiencies of AI as they cut head counts & leave staff to pick up the slack... People are less likely to take bold stances, 'terrified' of taking big risks & cautious about voicing concerns, especially related to AI" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
- “The immigrant drivers who received cancellation notices and those affected by ICE enforcement operations have begun shifting to gig economy jobs with Uber, Lyft and DoorDash in the Central Valley.” calmatters.org/economy/2026...
- “Google breached its own policies that barred use of AI for weapons or surveillance in 2024 by helping an Israeli military contractor analyze drone video footage, a former Google employee alleged in a confidential federal whistleblower complaint” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
- This documentary rocks. Watch this weekend and then see in the streets! festival.sundance.org/program/film...
- Reposted by Tim NewmanNot to age myself, but a message for my fellow elder millennials: I got a blood test that confirmed I no longer have measles immunity based on my childhood MMR vax (other M & R held up!). Just got another shot. Might be worth considering if you are also curious!
- Sure, snowcrete is on everyone’s mind in the nation’s Capitol now, but we all know that the true test of its cultural staying power is whether it inspires costumes at DC’s High Heel Race in October.
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- I keep coming back to Beltrán’s Cruelty as Citizenship so frequently because it has so much to offer us right now, including perspective on how white people actively supporting multiracial democracy amplifies the desire of other white people to enact racialized violence against migrants.
- Once again recommending "Cruelty as Citizenship: How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy" by Cristina Beltrán, which is available open access thanks to @uminnpress.bsky.social: manifold.umn.edu/projects/cru...
- Now why is Janeese Lewis George in it? She was out there communicating with the public throughout Bowser’s failure of leadership. Bring out the 🎻 for the Ed Board’s rich friends when it is neighbors doing mutual aid that shoveled the snow & showed how we will fix Bowser’s mess under Mayor George.
- Reposted by Tim NewmanContinuing President Trump’s deployment of National Guard and active-duty Marine personnel to U.S. cities for the next year could cost the nation over $1 billion, according to an estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
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- This mayor is a fool. It is neighbors help neighbors out here on these streets. Especially after her complete failure this week. Here are neighbors stepping up: www.popville.com/2026/01/migh... National Guard go home. ICE out. FREE DC. @freedcproject.bsky.social
- I hope folks realize that Palantir is part of an AI supply chain in which it contracts with even lesser known companies that provide data annotation services to make the massive data sets collected from us usable for AI systems that Palantir provides to its clients. www.barrons.com/articles/inn...
- “Innodata teams work directly w/in Palantir's development & deployment workflow, processing complex data modalities - including video, imagery, documents & multimodal sensor data - w the scale, precision & security standards required for customer use cases” investor.innodata.com/news/news-de...
- Also lol - what a difference a year and a half makes…
- The segment of the AI supply chain that employs globally dispersed data workers to enhance datasets to make them usable & profitable to AI companies is often shadowy & obscured. We created the Data Work Landscape microsite to help shed a light on this part of the industry. dataworklandscape.org
- Make America Get TB and Measles Again www.ktvu.com/news/tb-outb...
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- We’re getting one step closer to Miller out of the White House. Keep it up!
- Reposted by Tim NewmanHoly moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
- (CNN) - The fast-growing measles outbreak in South Carolina is now the largest in the United States since the disease was declared eliminated in this country more than two decades ago. @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/h...
- Governors launched a Working Group on AI & the Future of Work that will culminate in the publication of a Roadmap for Governors on AI & the Future of Work to be delivered to incoming NGA members and incumbents in November 2026. And they are partnering with… McKinsey. www.nga.org/news/press-r...
- On the day that the Administration executed a nurse in the streets of Minneapolis, a number of tech CEOs are celebrating the latest vanity project.
- Sam Altman really said this…
- OpenAI’s Sam Altman: “President Trump is a very strong leader, and I hope he will rise to this moment and unite the country.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/b...
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- True, except these stores served the purpose of data collection to refine Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology, which is now used in other venues and will now be inflicted upon the company’s fulfillment center workers. In other words, luxury surveillance! www.aboutamazon.com/news/company...
- Fascinating new paper! "the public tends to view AI as labor-replacing and this perception—independent of actual outcomes—can decrease democratic legitimacy and political engagement in shaping AI’s future" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- "Public narratives about AI—and particularly its perceived threat to employment—may generate political consequences before economic ones materialize." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- "Our findings are a warning signal at a time when democratic legitimacy is declining in many established democracies and when democratic influence on the development of artificial intelligence is critical." phys.org/news/2026-01...
- "Starbucks announced the rapid rollout of a tool called 'automated counting' that... aimed to replace hand-counts of some products with automated ones that are faster and more accurate... But the app frequently miscounts and mislabels items" www.reuters.com/legal/legali...
- Interesting detail that supports what we know about how AI profits from precarity and organized abandonment. Employees at an AI company discussed approaching libraries including NY Public Library or “a new library that is chronically underfunded” to get access to authors’ work to train their AI.
- @prisonculture.bsky.social might be interested, if you haven’t seen this already!
- OpenAI’s Sam Altman: “President Trump is a very strong leader, and I hope he will rise to this moment and unite the country.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/b...
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- Join us on January 27th, 12-1 pm PST to hear directly about how tech workers are choosing to speak up, lessons they’ve learned in the process, and ways in which you can spark that voice in other colleagues. techequity.us/event/worker...
- “This is a militia that kills, a militia that enters into the homes of people, signing their own permission slips. It is clear they are not welcome in Milan, without a doubt.” - the mayor of Milan
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- “The benefits of technological advancements don’t automatically trickle down. But the direction new tech takes is within our control… Now is the time to fight back. Working people need to harness our power and choose for ourselves how AI is deployed in our communities.” substack.com/home/post/p-...
- We need to be in motion on several fronts right now. Below is an opportunity for tomorrow (Tuesday Jan 27) to be in conversation with folks doing workplace organizing in tech. Join us!
- Join us on January 27th, 12-1 pm PST to hear directly about how tech workers are choosing to speak up, lessons they’ve learned in the process, and ways in which you can spark that voice in other colleagues. techequity.us/event/worker...
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- Reposted by Tim NewmanWe're horrified & outraged: Immigration agents have once again committed cold-blooded murder of a public observer who posed no threat to them. This time, they've executed a fellow nurse, Alex Pretti. We demand justice and accountability. Abolish ICE, now! bit.ly/4big77u
- Reposted by Tim NewmanEugenics.
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- "The study—based on interviews with nearly 14,000 workers across 19 countries—found that while regular AI usage jumped among workers by 13% in 2025, confidence in the tech’s use plummeted by 18%... 63% report fatigue driven by stress and heavy workloads" finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-adop...
- Worth noting though that the study above is from the staffing agency ManpowerGroup which has its own agenda.
- Reposted by Tim NewmanIn 2016, filmmakers wrote an open letter to “defend the rights of individuals to use video as a means of criticizing unjust police activity.” As this awards season intersects with another wave of citizen recording of law enforcement, will we see filmmakers use their platform to defend this right?
- Excellent new resource via @cornellilr.bsky.social: “Across industries, as [AI] systems become embedded in everyday operations, worker voice becomes essential to ensuring that technological change strengthens rather than erodes rights at work.” www.ilr.cornell.edu/carow/post/h...
- “worker involvement must extend well beyond traditional ‘notice & comment’ approaches, which are too weak when AI systems fundamentally reorganize work. Instead, it argues for binding governance rights that give workers a meaningful role in shaping tech decisions” www.ilr.cornell.edu/carow/post/h...
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View full threadThe 2016 letter: www.documentary.org/advocacy/sta... And to add to the question above, will filmmakers and artistes granted the opportunity for a televised platform in particular use the moment to defend to right of people to record law enforcement activity in our current moment?
- Because I am an awards nerd… cc @rilaws.bsky.social @kateyrich.bsky.social @beccamford.bsky.social @seanfennessey.bsky.social @akdobbins.bsky.social @akstanwyck.bsky.social
