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@cellllla.bsky.social
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She/her | Postdoc @ UVA DTD | Previously: CMU HCII, Data & Society, UCI Informatics, Big Cartel Workers Union. Views are my own. cella.io

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 livestream, we’re so excited to chat with authors of the new book, Against Tech Oligarchy! @js-tan.bsky.social and Clarissa Redwine will join me and @alexhanna.bsky.social to chat about tech industry labor: Mon, Oct 5, noon Pacific twitch.tv/dair_institute
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dair_institute - Twitch
Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). — dair_institute streams live on Twitch! Check out their videos, sign up to chat, and join their community.
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Ana @anthrotechana.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Read the new story I wrote with @livgar.bsky.social for Anthropology News | Cc: @americananthro.bsky.social @datasociety.bsky.social www.anthropology-news.org/articles/pen...
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Pennsylvania, Data Centers, and Challenging Myths of America and Anthropology - Anthropology News
As the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of its independence, members of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oct 7: Join "Muskism" coauthor @quinnslobodian.com & "Against Tech Oligarchy" coauthors @js-tan.bsky.social & Clarissa Redwine to discuss the structural forces shaping tech power, and what we can learn from the tech worker movement, with D&S's @aihathing.bsky.social. datasociety.net/news-events/...
Graphic promoting an online book talk titled “Power and Resistance in the Age of Tech Oligarchy.” The event features authors Clarissa Redwine, JS Tan, and Quinn Slobodian, moderated by Aiha Nguyen, and takes place October 7, 2026, at 2 PM ET. The graphic includes images of the two featured books, Against Tech Oligarchy and Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, along with black-and-white portraits of the speakers.
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Cella @cellllla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Right back at you @costasamaras.com. It was such a pleasure to work with you and @strubell.bsky.social in putting this event together!
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Emma Strubell @strubell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
CMU Miami will be built from the ground up as a politically conservative institution, a response to the lack of "viewpoint diversity" (representation of conservative viewpoints) in higher ed that the ("center") right has been complaining about for years.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 03/10/2026
Thank you to Dr. @cellllla.bsky.social for leading the Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit today! Thank you to @strubell.bsky.social, Amy Grone, & the other co-organizers, as well as the speakers, the elected representatives, and to the community members for joining. Video should be up soon.
Nina and Cella speaking on stage Maia Woluchem speaking on stage Library with people talking Five panelists in chairs with me standing
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Rep. Summer Lee @repsummerlee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today I joined organizers, researchers, workers, and community leaders at the Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit @cmu.edu to talk about what AI innovations should look like in Pennsylvania. Leading means ensuring AI actually improves life for all of us, not just CEOs and oligarchs.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 02/10/2026
Speaking now at our Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit: @repsummerlee.bsky.social
Congresswoman Summer Lee speaking at a podium
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 02/10/2026
Join us online tomorrow for this summit, led by Dr. @cellllla.bsky.social. We’ll have keynotes from Maia Woluchem, State Sen. Muth, Rep. @repsummerlee.bsky.social, & others. On my panel we’ll have @paulijllo.bsky.social, @tamigraph.bsky.social, @strubell.bsky.social, Sacoby Wilson & Udit Gupta.
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
D&S's @mwoluchem.bsky.social describes her team’s research on Pennsylvania’s industrial lineage, the mythmaking that builds on it, and the pushback that defines this moment. “We learned that it takes a lot of work to make an AI factory seem inevitable,” she says. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPgA...
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[Video] The AI Factory: Data Centers, Power, and Resistance in Late Industrial Pennsylvania
YouTube video by Data & Society Research Institute
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DISCO Network @disconetwork.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Event recording now available! Watch our panel "Feeling the Future: Asian/Americanist Takes on Techno-Empire, Chinamaxxing, & the 'American Century of Humiliation,'" featuring Brian J. Chen, Julie Chu, Jasmine Ehrhardt, & Paul Kim in conversation with Lisa Nakamura. youtu.be/-KMu9dJEKlg?...
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Feeling the Future: Asian/Americanist Takes on Techno-Empire
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Open Society Foundations @open-society.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In 2022, @js-tan.bsky.social & Clarissa Redwine, tech workers turned union organizers, were working 14-hour days organizing a strike at Elon Musk’s newly purchased, workforce-slashed Twitter, calling every employee they could still reach. In the end, just one of the organizing committee was left.
Can Tech Workers Take on the Oligarchs?In 2022, Tan and Redwine, both tech workers turned union organizers, were working 14-hour days trying to organize a strike at Elon Musk's newly purchased, workforce-slashed Twitter. They called every employee they could still reach. In the end, just one member of the organizing committee was left.
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Cella @cellllla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We're excited to welcome @repsummerlee.bsky.social as a keynote speaker! There's still time to RSVP at communityaisummit.org
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 26/09/2026
Join us online or in person on Friday for this Community-Centered AI and Infrastructure summit, led by Dr. @cellllla.bsky.social. Featuring keynotes by PA State Sen. Muth, @datasociety.bsky.social’s Maia Woluchem, & others. I’ll moderate a panel on the environmental impacts of AI. All are welcome!
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Livia Garofalo @livgar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
After two years of work, the AI factory is out! We spent months in Pennsylvania understanding how the "AI race " is landing on communities and how they are fighting back.
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Madeleine Daepp @mdaepp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As a proud product of Central PA, I've seen data center fears build intensely and authentically in my hometown over the last year. Now, a wonderful new report from the brilliant folks at @datasociety.bsky.social documents these concerns in social and historical context. Important work!
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
With deep roots in Pittsburgh, D&S's Joan Mukogosi has seen the failed promises of big industries firsthand. Now, amid the push for data centers, residents must ask: “Who will this ‘infrastructure of the future’ actually benefit?” she writes in @triblive.bsky.social. triblive.com/opinion/joan...
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Joan Mukogosi: Data centers are not inevitable
Every so often, my mom tells me about what it was like growing up in Southwestern Pennsylvania in the early ’70s. She recalls how the panoramic view of the city that greets everyone who drives t...
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
📣 New! While AI boosters are selling their vision of PA as an “AI factory,” our research shows that local communities are drawing very different lessons from their state’s industrial past, and have their own visions for its future. 1/5 datasociety.net/research-lib...
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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am SO DELIGHTED to announce that our brand new report: The AI Factory: Data Centers, Power, and Resistance in Late Industrial Pennsylvania is out today. datasociety.net/research-lib... TechCrunch has the scoop: techcrunch.com/2026/09/22/e...
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Everyone can find a reason to dislike data center construction | TechCrunch
Inside two years of fraught AI data center debates in Pennsylvania.
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Ana @anthrotechana.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What an incredible lineup!
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Maia Woluchem @mwoluchem.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is such an important event - an opportunity for so many different actors to engage on what AI Infrastructure means moving forward in Pennsylvania. Please come join us!
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So excited for this timely event on community responses to data centers in Pennsylvania! Congrats to Cella and the other organizers on pulling so many stakeholders and threads together
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Cella @cellllla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Panels will focus on community organizing around data centers and environmental impacts of AI, featuring @tamigraph.bsky.social, @paulijllo.bsky.social, Sacoby Wilson, Udit Gupta, and reps from @pastandsup.bsky.social, @maketheroadpa.bsky.social, No Data Centers in Philly Coalition, and Protect PT!
Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit Panel 1: Community Organizing around data centers featuring Frank Arcoleo, Lancaster Stands Up, Make the Road Pennslyvania, No Data Centers in Philly Coalition, and Lauren Posey, Protect PT
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Cella @cellllla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The amazing @mwoluchem.bsky.social will deliver the summit's opening keynote, "Examining the AI Factory," based on her team's ethnographic fieldwork on data center and AI infrastructure development in PA. We are also excited to announce that @senatormuth.com will deliver our closing keynote!
Poster for Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit Keynote Speaker: Maia Woluchem of Data & Society, Opening Keynote: Examining the AI Factory
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Cella @cellllla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Please join us at Carnegie Mellon University and online on October 2nd, 2026 for the Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit, a statewide convening to consider the opportunities, challenges, and governance of AI infrastructure development in Pennsylvania. RSVP here: communityaisummit.org
Flyer for the Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit on Friday October 2, 2026 from 9-5pm at Mellon Institute Auditorium, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Join residents, community organizations, policymakers, researchers, technologists, energy experts, and advocates from across Pennslyvania for a public convening. Organized by CMU, Data & Society, PA Climate Equity Table, and Center for Coalfield Justice, with support from the Block Center.
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Maia Woluchem @mwoluchem.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
After 18 months following Pennsylvania's march towards data centers, we're so excited to launch "The AI Factory" at #ClimateWeekNYC, alongside our friends at @pulitzercenter.org, @texastribune.org, and @foodandwater.bsky.social. This process was so full of heart, and we can't wait to share more.
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JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
To celebrate the launch of our book about class struggle in Silicon Valley and the fight AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY, Clarissa and I are organizing a book club with: @techworkerscoalition.org @organizeworkers.bsky.social @demsocialists.bsky.social @education.dsausa.org RSVP at tinyurl.com/ato-914
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 01/09/2026
Pennsylvania is reexamining what to do about data centers. I talked with the @nytimes.com about it. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/c...
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Pennsylvania’s A.I. Gold Rush Meets Second Thoughts (Gift Article)
Amid a backlash, Gov. Josh Shapiro is pumping the brakes on enormous data centers. But in a region scarred by the collapse of the steel industry, some welcome billions in construction.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 30/08/2026
Former Post-Gazette strikers wanted to return to their newsroom. Instead, they built one they control. @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social speaks with the worker-owners of the @pittsburghprogress.bsky.social about determining their own future.
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Former Strikers Start Cooperative News Organization
Following firings from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, workers and community members came together to create the Pittsburgh Progress.
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Cella @cellllla.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Wow dream team!
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JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My book AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY, out Sept 15, is available for pre-order at againsttecholigarchy.com. It chronicles the rise of tech workers' activism, how they courageously came together to challenge the industry's most powerful bosses, and how their movement changed Silicon Valley forever. 1/
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jen liu @uilnej.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
In re: to recent news about the Meta data center, Sheila Tahir and I are sharing our zine, "Ghosts in the Cloud: A Southern Gothic Approach to Studying AI Infrastructure" based on a trip to the hypderscaler construction site in spring 2026.
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Livia Garofalo @livgar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Thank you @melhogan.bsky.social for having me and @cellllla.bsky.social in wonderful company to talk about the research in PA we are doing with @mwoluchem.bsky.social and @anthrotechana.bsky.social at @datasociety.bsky.social!
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This episode recaps some of the highlights from this amazing set of speakers: aydelotte.swarthmore.edu/publications...
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Just Tech: Take Back Tech Workshop Series - How to Stop a Data Center - Aydelotte
Across the U.S. data centers are being constructed at an unprecedented pace, raising concerns about the environmental impacts, energy costs, and the social benefits of A.I. technologies relative to th...
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
What a great, fun conversation this was! It’s not often the case that you get to do a podcast with IRL friends who are also experts in your field. There’s some pretty mind blowing insights esp from @cassiusa.bsky.social highly recommend!
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
As part of our series “Reimagining the Future of Digital Health,” @puellaludens.bsky.social considers what historical and contemporary practices of mutual aid can teach us about how to develop skills for the collective governance of healthcare at a grassroots level. datasociety.net/points/lesso...
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Disjunctions Magazine @disjunctionsmag.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
ISSUE 02 — INFRASTRUCTURES We are looking for contributions to our second issue. Send us your pitches! disjunctionsmag.com/call/
Call for submissions — issue 02.
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Janet Vertesi @cyberlyra.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
!!!NOW #HIRING!!! - Postdoc: design for societal impact apply.interfolio.com/187187 - Codesign specialist apply.interfolio.com/187163 - Lecturer in design apply.interfolio.com/187186 Join the Keller Center at @princeton.edu & keep #tech #design centered in societal responsibility! #academicsky
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
According to a new Gallup poll, women are driving the increasing opposition to data centers. This aligns with what D&S's @anthrotechana.bsky.social is seeing in her research on PA's data center industry, she tells @19thnews.org. 19thnews.org/2026/05/wome...
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Americans overwhelmingly oppose data centers. Women most of all.
New polling shows women have stronger concerns than men over the implications of the massive and costly complexes used to power AI.
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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · 31/05/2026
Report Shows ‘Bossware’ Is Spying on Workers and Sharing Their Data. Verge article: “Meta and Google get data from the app your boss uses to track you” Workplace monitoring tools are apparently sharing information even further than workers may realize. www.theverge.com/policy/93529...
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Meta and Google get data from the app your boss uses to track you
Workers are often even more vulnerable than consumers, the researchers say.
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DISCO Network @disconetwork.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
New video out now! Watch our panel titled ""Against Surveillance & Spectacle: Building Global Resistance to Tech-Mediated Oppression," featuring @vashetc.bsky.social , Kim Fernandes, & Cheng-Hsiu (Shin) Yang in conversation w/ @remiyergeau.bsky.social youtu.be/GXEjOPdpfa0?...
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Against Surveillance & Spectacle: Building Global Resistance to Tech-Mediated Oppression
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Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁ @frank.computer · 20/05/2026
New piece out with @jonathanzong.com where we look at how accessible infrastructure has been continually coopted by technological advancements, and both people with disabilities and everyone else now must compete for use of these spaces.
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
In a new series on Points, @rwjf.org futurist-in-residence (& D&S affiliate) Joan Mukogosi is exploring what the intertwining of care & AI might mean for the future of digital health. That future is ours to shape, and these essays offer inspiration for building it. datasociety.net/points/reima...
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org
Screenshot of the Luddite Lab website. The word Luddite Lab is in the top left corner. The tables in the top read: Case Studies, Primers, Resource Library, Contact Us, and About. The text below reads: “The Luddite Lab Resource Hub provides resources for unions, labor organizations, and worker-organizers fighting AI and automation at work. The lab provides strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of new technology through case studies, primers, and a resource library.” Below, there are five cards: Case Studies (Stories from worker organizers resisting AI), Primers (Applied research insights into AI, automation, and the future of work), Resource Library (Additional resources from partners), Contact Us (Ways to connect with the Luddite Lab team), and About (About the Luddite Lab project and team)
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jonathan zong @jonathanzong.com · 20/05/2026
As agentic AI rapidly transforms internet infrastructure, how do we ensure disabled people's needs are not displaced? In a new article by me and @frank.computer, we argue that accessibility must not be treated as an incidental benefit of rapid AI expansion. Read below:
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Spread the word: "The Luddite Lab Resource Hub provides resources for unions, labor organizations, and worker-organizers fighting AI and automation at work. The lab provides strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of new technology through case studies, primers, and a resource library."
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Luddite Lab
Research and case studies.
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Alix Dunn @alixdunn.com · 15/05/2026
Academia is in a toxic love triangle with the military and Big Tech, and their love language is money. I spoke with @davidthewid.bsky.social about this triangle - how academia may unwittingly advance AI warfare, how we got into this mess in the first place, and how we get out of it. Listen here 👇
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Computer Says Kill: The Toxic Love Triangle of Big Tech, Big War & Big Science w/ David Gray Widder
Academia, Big Tech, and the military are caught in a sordid love triangle — and their love language is money.
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Britt Paris @hellobrittparis.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Had a great time talking with one of the best out there @samleecole.bsky.social for @404media.co about everything from historical security technology and struggles with laying cooperative Internet fiber to how AI slop has come to inundate education—and how to combat it. + lol our faces here.
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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
"By organizing, they are insisting that people closest to AI’s development should have a voice in its direction. Listening to them is not just a matter of workplace fairness. It is essential to our ability to govern AI" Ft @js-tan.bsky.social @nataliyan.bsky.social @emilymazo.bsky.social research!
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