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Emily Mazo

@emilymazo.bsky.social
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PhD candidate @ Columbia Sociology. Former software engineer. Studying tech work and labor organizing in the tech industry 🔨 UAW 2710

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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Find @js-tan.bsky.social and I in the Ideas Letter today, on the two emerging flanks of the tech worker labor movement: the AI labs, and everyone else. www.theideasletter.org/essay/syndic...
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Syndicalist Valley
The tech-worker movement that emerged in the 2010s has been transformed by layoffs, higher interest rates, and the enormous investment flowing into AI, which have eroded the bargaining power of…
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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I blog now consideredharmful.beehiiv.com/p/considered...
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Considered Harmful
Occasional works in progress from a dissertation on the tech worker labor process
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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Happy pub day to Against Tech Oligarchy!!! If you're in NYC, I highly recommend going to one of the tour events this week, both for the high-level discussion of the book and for the vibe/crowd of extremely cool tech worker organizers you'll find there
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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you’re in NYC, don’t miss this! greenlightbookstore.com/event/2026-0...
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Against Tech Oligarchy: The Trial of Jeff Bezos
Brooklyn independent bookstore
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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
So at the level of code, I'm thinking of snake case vs. camel case, good indentation, "DRY". Silly ones, often broken, like "don't deploy on friday afternoon." Loads of higher level ones like pull requests requiring a code review before deployment. Are these the kinds of things that qualify?
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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I can think of many that I'd qualify as "best practices" that are socially enforced by code review/architecture review, but because SWE is fundamentally a job about automating things, often they are codified into linters or other things that check code against style guides.
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I'm very excited to see the launch of @yangtzeriverr.bsky.social's interactive project on mapping the data workers who power the different data labeling platforms for AI. www.ai-materiality-map.org/data-workers See cntr.brown.edu/news/2026-08... for more on the project (and the series!)
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dal-map
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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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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Get excited for (and preorder!) the hottest/most important book of year! againsttecholigarchy.com
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Against Tech Oligarchy
Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry. By JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine.
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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
New @swcolumbia.bsky.social card conversation talking point- telling the university to eat shit is professional development
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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Not but I'm happy to send you a work in progress! I'll dm you
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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Hi! Yes, this is my dissertation work!
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I cannot say this loudly enough: we need everyone to know what is happening at Delaney Hall. 300 detainees inside are on Day 7 of a hunger and labor strike as of today. ICE is beating, gassing, tasing and assaulting protestors outside every night, and it is getting worse.
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Hannah Pullen-Blasnik @hpullenblasnik.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
My first solo-authored article is out in City & Community! I find that areas with one more residential development permit have 2.7% more low-level arrests in the following year, controlling for crime, calls for service, area demographics, and year effects. doi.org/10.1177/1535...
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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
don't even get me STARTED on the IBM 704
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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
reading Joan Greenbaum's Division of Labor in the Computer Field (1976) and seeing every pattern I'm seeing in tech companies today, but on the IBM 360 instead of claude code monthlyreviewarchives.org/index.php/mr...
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Division of Labor in the Computer Field | Monthly Review
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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
It’s very interesting to compare to all of the research on metrics in journalism from the 2010s- Cristin and Petre and many others!
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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
To a huge extent! Including internally-public leaderboards of how often workers use AI tools or how many tokens they use. Most companies are incorporating this into perf reviews in the form of “just don’t be an outlier, and no one will question it,” but this implicit pressure is sometimes explicit
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NYT Tech Guild @nytguildtech.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Tell NYT to do the right thing and give Rich the remote accommodation he needs: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
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Tell The New York Times to stop being heartless and let Rich Quan work at home
Rich Quan, an engineer at The New York Times and a member of the Tech Guild, is a certified caregiver for his 96-year-old father, who is in the end stage of Alzheimer’s Disease. He provides vitally im...
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NYT Tech Guild @nytguildtech.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Today, NYT celebrates their successes from the past year, but we are witnessing a major failure of leadership: @nytimes.com mgmt is denying one of our members, Rich Quan, permission to continue working remote, even as a certified caregiver for his 96-year-old father, who suffers from Alzheimer's.
The State of The Times: Heartless. Red banner with NYT Tech Guild logo
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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Arbitrary and capricious is a beautiful name for a girl ❤️❤️❤️
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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Our bargaining sessions are open to observation by all union members, and we are inviting faculty to observe Friday’s session too! Let me know if you are Columbia or Barnard faculty and you’d like to come. AI is only one of many articles we’ll be bargaining over on 2/27
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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
We are fighting shoulder to shoulder with our faculty and students for a better university, and our union has a unique position on campus to be able to get some of these rules in a legally binding contract
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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
@swcolumbia.bsky.social has just given Columbia our contract proposal on AI- our main demands are that student workers cannot be replaced by AI tools, nor can we be forced to use them in teaching or research (or retaliated against for refusing). Looking forward to their response on Friday 😇
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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
3) I’d argue that the alternate pathway was in the other direction, that it was much more common for people with STEM skills to go into tech industry instead of tech workers join academia
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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
2) does “preserve labor” include % reduction in overall # of software engineering jobs but “software engineer” still exists as a job category? Or does the total number need to be the same?
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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Great discussion, I’d only add that 1) this is all rapidly changing and no two companies are doing the same things- there are no hegemonic management practices re: AI coding tools yet,
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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Oh you’re gonna want to subscribe to this. Clarissa Redwine (an expert organizer who made the Kickstarter United Oral History podcast) worked with many, many Starbucks workers to tell their story here podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
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Haymarket Originals: Heat the Ground Up
History Podcast · Biweekly Series · Haymarket Originals is a new home for audio deep dives, by and for the left—brought to you by Haymarket Books. The second season of Haymarket Originals is HEAT TH...
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Student Workers of Columbia @swcolumbia.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Student Workers of Columbia stand with NYSNA striking nurses! One day longer, one day stronger 🔥 @nynurses.bsky.social
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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Excellent new paper from @js-tan.bsky.social and Kathleen Thelen, on the political economy of the cloud company business model and how it feeds the AI race and techno-nationalism journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
New from @noamscheiber.bsky.social, featuring @emilymazo.bsky.social @js-tan.bsky.social @techworkerscoalition.org @alphabetworkersunion.org & many more: “tech worker activism has continued amid the crackdown, albeit more cautiously” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/b...
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Despite Crackdown on Activism, Tech Employees Are Still Picking Fights
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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
this whole thing smacks of gender. and McCarthyism
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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
For my dissertation, I'm looking to interview early-career tech workers about LLMs in the workplace! The interviews for this research study are confidential. If you are interested in being interviewed, or would like to know more, please fill out this form! forms.gle/xGnQthnM7wNZ...
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Interview Outreach
Hi! Thank you so much for your interest in participating in my study on generative AI tools in the tech workplace. This form is intended to collect your contact information and give you a little more ...
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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
For my dissertation, I'm looking to interview early-career tech workers about LLMs in the workplace! The interviews for this research study are confidential. If you are interested in being interviewed, or would like to know more, please fill out this form! forms.gle/xGnQthnM7wNZ...
forms.gle
Interview Outreach
Hi! Thank you so much for your interest in participating in my study on generative AI tools in the tech workplace. This form is intended to collect your contact information and give you a little more ...
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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
jon stop tweeting out my dissertation findings before I can write the dissertation
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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Baby’s first published academic article! @js-tan.bsky.social and @nataliyan.bsky.social and I analyzed the @techactions.bsky.social archive and find that tech worker labor organizing stands on the shoulders of prior struggle- conflict begets class conflict journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Collective Action in Tech @techactions.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
We've just published the first response to our call for new organizing tactics in the tech sector, by an anonymous software engineer: The Case for Sabotage collectiveactionintech.substack.com/p/the-case-f...
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The case for sabotage
Creative tactics for a tech worker strike
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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
my 2nd week at a big tech company, I ran a table scan on a prod db by accident and took the site down for two minutes. but we didn’t lose any data because no one had write perms on prod! because that is insane! expertise is developed over many years to proactively prevent problems like this
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Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
We are launching a new series at Collective Action in Tech (on our new substack!) on new/creative tactics for organizing and taking collective action in the tech industry. We would love to publish your ideas and experiences! Please submit!
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