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Julián Posada

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💼 Assistant Professor @Yale.edu 📖 Author of “Platform Extractivism” (UC Press, 2026) 🎓 Research on #AI + #Data + #Work + #Platforms 🌐 posada.website

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Julián Posada @posada.website · 28/09/2026
With #PlatformExtractivism out October 20, here’s a preview: two maps of average client and worker web traffic, 2018–2023. Venezuela stands out. The book explores why it became a data work hub, focusing on working conditions, territory, and epistemology. 🔗 More Info: www.ucpress.edu/books/platfo...
Two grayscale world maps show average client and worker web traffic across 20 platforms, 2018–2023. Darker shading indicates higher traffic shares; the lightest shade indicates no data.

Top map, client traffic: United States 34.6%; Netherlands and United Kingdom 9.8% each; Canada 5.2%; Russia and India 4.9% each; Belize 4.1%; Brazil 2.7%; France 2.5%; Philippines 2.4%.

Bottom map, worker traffic: United States 22.9%; India 12%; Brazil 8.6%; Philippines 8.5%; Venezuela and Kenya 6.2% each; Albania 5.8%; Colombia 4.2%; Nigeria 2.6%; Morocco 2.1%.

Source: Julián Posada, Platform Extractivism, University of California Press, 2026.
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DISCO Network @disconetwork.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
UPCOMING EVENT: Join us for Refuse, Resist, Repair: Making Critical Moves in the Times of AI! 📅 Friday, October 9 at 2 - 3:30 PM ET 🎤 Jenny Davis, Julián Posada, Apryl Williams, & Rua Williams in conversation with Catherine Knight Steele 📍 Zoom 🔗 Register: events.umich.edu/event/149368
Refuse, Resist, Repair: Making Critical Moves in the Times of AI poster with an abstract arrangement rectangles in yellow and magenta and a magenta perspective grid.
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Viewing @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social with students to learn about eugenics, the ideology and political economy of AI, and how we exert our agency to shape the future > More AI literacy that socializes students into GenAI customers. The documentary is now available to watch - and teach! - in full:
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Ghost in the Machine | What is Artificial Intelligence? | Full Documentary
YouTube video by PBS Documentaries
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404 Media @404media.co · 14/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.
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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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Julián Posada @posada.website · 09/09/2026
Today, I will be delivering the first keynote at the 9th Conference of the International Network on Digital Labor, hosted at the International Labour Organization. The talk will be broadcast live on the United Nations Web TV channel at 14:30 CEST (8:30 AM EDT): webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1a...
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Data work and territory: The Latin American experience
Behind today's artificial intelligence systems lies a vast and often invisible workforce responsible for generating, annotating and curating the data on which these systems depend. In this keynote, Ju...
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 03/09/2026
AI companies are paying highly educated workers to teach machines the judgment they spent years developing — even when those systems could eventually replace them restofworld.org/2026/ai-training-jo…
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I refused to train the AI that could replace me
AI companies are paying highly educated workers to teach machines the judgment they spent years developing — even when those systems could eventually replace them.
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Yes we all think this is stupid but we, the ppl brushing our teeth, are not the customers The customers are the investors who in ~1yr will be enticed to fund Dyson's smart dental AI spinoff, featuring models trained on "the world's largest real time floss dataset" gizmodo.com/dysons-smart...
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Dyson’s Smart Toothbrush Uses a Camera to Floss Your Teeth
Yes, you can watch the camera feed from an app.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Canada hires away nearly 50 US scholars File under: brain drain; academic freedom www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w...
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Canada Hires U.S. Scholars From Harvard and Other Top Universities (Gift Article)
A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 27/08/2026
Julián Posada, a professor at Yale University, speaks about AI data work that is outsourced to Venezuela. The workers, some of whom are paid as little as 50 cents per hour, “would not know who the employers were or what even the AI they were helping develop is.”
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Julián Posada @posada.website · 27/08/2026
I talked with Nermeen Shaikh on Democracy Now! about data work in Venezuela and the experiences of workers and their families. Some of the findings in #PlatformExtractivism, out Oct 20 with @ucpress.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zlb...
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"Platform Extractivism": Inside Venezuela's Hidden Workforce Training AI Algorithms for Pennies
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Mechanical Turk may be shutting down, but AI will always depend on data workers whose knowledge trains and tunes models. AI runs on extracted cultural skills and knowledge, and culture is always changing. Less the end of an era, but the end of an early prototype.
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I focus quite a bit on MTurk in the book I'm writing about ImageNet. Modern "AI" wouldn't exist if it weren't for MTurk, and, moreover, the blueprint ImageNet created for data labor.
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The Internet is Crack Podcast @theinternetiscrack.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
AI isn’t just code. There are people behind it. Dr. Julian Posada @posada.website explores the social side of AI and the people behind the systems. Our full conversation examines the often unseen workers helping build today’s AI. 🎧 youtu.be/QQsm0T4HLvI #AI #AIWorkers
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I think a lot of people don’t understand that the academic freedom that we have — which we have fought for — is not the freedom to say every asinine racist & sexist thing that you think.
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beth semel @bethmsemel.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
excited to see my article on "talking lures" in mental healthcare AI officially out in print in this issue!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026
If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.
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Coraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Got a new google scholar notification, so I go check and find this very cool poem by Wang Jibing 王计兵, the recent Lu Xun prize winner, prefacing a PhD thesis on women migrant workers and the gig economy PhD students in all disciplines: more poems in theses please, we love to see them! ✨💫
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Julián Posada @posada.website · 31/07/2026
We’re hiring at @yale.edu! The American Studies Program seeks an open-rank faculty member in U.S. Cultural History and Cultural Studies, starting July 1, 2027. Apply by Oct. 15, 2026 for full consideration: apply.interfolio.com/188467
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 20/07/2026
UT President interfering with faculty tenure. Just the latest egregious example of administrator overreach and political capitulation. Non-paywall follows.
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UT border surveillance scholar was a shoo-in for tenure. UT denied him.
American Studies scholar Iván Chaar López fears UT’s unexplained tenure denial violated his academic freedom amid scrutiny of controversial fields.
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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
“Duguid was inundated with messages from people sharing their anger about automated AI-driven recruitment processes that they believe screen out older candidates. Following their advice, Duguid’s “newly botoxed CV” no longer displays her age” www.ft.com/content/b4bc...
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Ageism: the silent but deadly threat to your retirement
For Gen X, financial planning needs to involve career planning
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Pleased to support Mayor Mamdani's PIT Crew initiative. Done right, digital government saves people time and money. Done wrong, it can be costly, useless, or discriminatory. How a city interacts with its people shouldn't be outsourced. It should be local and accountable. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
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Mayor Mamdani Launches "Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crew" to Rapidly Build Digital Solutions to Public Problems
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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
It's not OK to wear smart glasses around other people. It's not cool. It's creepy, disrespectful. It pollutes the public sphere with the oppression of surveillance. It puts the onus on non-Glassholes; that's not asking for consent. www.vogue.com/article/do-s...
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Do Smart Glasses Have a Surveillance Problem?
Big Tech is investing in fashion’s cultural legitimacy to make AI smart glasses socially acceptable, but consumers view them as synonymous with surveillance. Is removing the camera the key to adoption...
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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Great paper by a 🌟 group ( @posada.website) that shows the "annotation pipeline as a site of epistemic contestation" & how 'ground truth' is "a sociotechnical artifact manufactured through a sequence of deliberate & often invisible choices," including labor conditions dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
The Consensus Trap: Dissecting Subjectivity and the "Ground Truth" Illusion in Data Annotation

SHEZA MUNIR, University of Toronto
BENJAMIN MAH, University of Toronto
KRISHA KALSI, University of Toronto
SHIVANI KAPANIA, Carnegie Mellon University
JULIAN POSADA, Yale University
EDITH LAW, University of Waterloo
DING WANG, Google Research
SYED ISHTIAQUE AHMED, University of Toronto

In machine learning, "ground truth" refers to the assumed correct labels used to train and evaluate models. However, the foundational "ground truth" paradigm rests on a positivistic fallacy that treats human disagreement as technical noise rather than a vital sociotechnical signal. This systematic literature review analyzes research published between 2020 and 2025 across seven premier venues: ACL, AIES, CHI, CSCW, EAAMO, FAccT, and NeurIPS, investigating the mechanisms in data annotation practices that facilitate this "consensus trap". Our reflexive thematic analysis of 346 papers reveals that systemic failures in positional legibility, combined with the recent architectural shift toward human-as-verifier models, specifically thereliance on model-mediated annotations, introduce deep-seated anchoring bias and effectively remove human voices from theloop. We further demonstrate how geographic hegemony imposes Western norms as universal benchmarks, often enforced by the performative alignment of precarious data workers who prioritize requester compliance over honest subjectivity to avoid economic penalties. Critiquing the "noisy sensor" fallacy, where statistical models misdiagnose pluralism as error, we argue for reclaiming disagreement as a high-fidelity signal essential for building culturally competent models. To address these systemic tensions, we propose a roadmap for pluralistic annotation infrastructures that shift the objective from discovering a singular "right" answer to mapping the diversity of human experience.
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Julián Posada @posada.website · 28/06/2026
“Broken Bones, Lawsuits, and NDAs: Inside the Worker Safety Concerns at Stargate Data Center” via Time Magazine time.com/article/2026...
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Broken Bones, Lawsuits, and NDAs: Inside the Worker Safety Concerns at Stargate Data Center
A TIME investigation—drawing on government reports, court documents, 911 calls, and worker interviews—uncovers safety concerns at the flagship site of the $500 billion AI infrastructure project.
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The Latino Newsletter @thelatinonewsletter.org · 25/06/2026
How to Help Venezuela After the Earthquakes
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How to Help Venezuela After the Earthquakes
With the news that two massive earthquakes struck Venezuela on Wednesday, we decided to feature a video by contributor Carlos Egaña on how you can support from the United States.
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UNICEF USA @unicefusa.org · 25/06/2026
Local UNICEF teams are on the ground working to deliver urgent, lifesaving support to children and families after powerful, back-to-back earthquakes hit northern #Venezuela on Wednesday. Here's what you need to know, including how to help:
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Venezuela Earthquakes: Children Need Help Now
UNICEF is providing emergency support for children and families affected by a pair of deadly earthquakes in northern Venezuela.
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Julián Posada @posada.website · 18/06/2026
From @ucpress.bsky.social: Increase in Scams Targeting Authors. I received many of these emails already. Don't fall for it! www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/i...
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Increase in Scams Targeting Authors
With the rise of AI-powered scams, we've witnessed a surge of scammers specifically targeting book authors. Here's what you need to be on the lookout for as an author.
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 10/06/2026
For $7 an hour, virtual assistants in the Philippines are using AI to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives, fueling a "thought leadership" content mill restofworld.org/2026/virtual-assist…
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The Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn’s “thought leadership” content mill
For $7 an hour, virtual assistants use AI tools to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives.
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blair @blairaf.com · 04/06/2026
My overall impression is the gov realizes they have to regulate, but are nervous about scaring investment away. The result is a non-committal scaffold for maybe-stronger-regulation-later that creates uncertainty for both concerned citizens & businesses looking for clear signal of regulatory intent
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blair @blairaf.com · 04/06/2026
Lots to digest here but one piece that sticks out is the proposed regulatory framework is mostly voluntary and opaque. Hinges on voluntary certification and selective safety partnerships & evaluations behind closed doors without clear public oversight mechanisms www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...
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Prime Minister Carney launches AI for All: Canada’s new national artificial intelligence strategy
Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, launched AI for All, Canada’s new national AI strategy. Over the next five years, this strategy will introduce new legislation, investments, and programs that e...
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
NEW: A @wired.com analysis of Meta's app for its smart glasses found that the company has been adding code for face recognition since January, while saying that it is still "thinking through" whether to deploy it. @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/meta-s...
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Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 31/05/2026
“Now, humans are directly guiding robots through expensive rigs that let them control the robots’ movements. Data collected using robot arms offer richer insights into motor skills and object manipulation. Encord charges clients up to $1,000 per hour for training data.”
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The robot puppeteers of Silicon Valley teaching humanoids how to make your morning coffee
As Californian companies race to manufacture and deploy thousands of humanoid robots in the coming year, another new class of worker has been born
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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The Farmers Who Fought a Data Centre—and Won - Macleans.ca
Alberta wants to profit from the AI boom by building dozens of power—and water—hungry data centres. The neighbours have other ideas.
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Julián Posada @posada.website · 25/05/2026
𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐨 𝐗𝐈𝐕'𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥, 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐬, offers a timely and critical reflection on the societal risks posed by artificial intelligence. It's arguments resonate with many of the findings and arguments in our field of research, including several points I make in 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎 𝑬𝒙𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒎🧵1/5
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
"Technology is not simply a tool. When it becomes the standard by which everything is judged, it begins to dictate what matters and what can be discarded, reducing creation to an object of exploitation and human beings to mere cogs in a system driven toward ever greater efficiency." - Pope Leo (92)
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
"We must avoid the 'Babel syndrome,' the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance."
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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________
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Eye of Mysterioso @mysteriphoto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Dune (1965) Frank Herbert
Kaleidoscopic image of Frank Herbert’s Dune
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Tech Policy Press fellow Petra Molnar highlights the AI Resist List: a global database documenting acts of resistance to the AI industry. From legal challenges and worker organizing to artistic interventions, the project seeks to challenge the “scale at all costs” development of AI.
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The World Is Already Resisting AI. Now, There is a List to Prove It.
Petra Molnar spotlights the launch of the AI Resist List, documenting global challenges to AI expansion.
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Theodore Kim @theodore-kim.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
SIGGRAPH goes to #FAccT2026! Congrats to my co-authors @posada.website, @avmenon.bsky.social and @bsky.alexaschor.com We analyzed every SIGGRAPH, ToG, and SIGGRAPH Asia paper from 1974-2024 to see how race is imagined in graphics research. The results were not good. arxiv.org/abs/2605.14835 1/
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The Racial Character of Computer Graphics Research
Computer graphics algorithms for generating photorealistic imagery are widely perceived to be universal, and capable of conjuring anything that a filmmaker or game designer can imagine. However, recen...
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TechEquity @techequity.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Behind every AI answer. Every filtered feed. Every recommendation that knows you a little too well. There are people. Millions of data workers—annotators, content moderators, AI trainers—whose labor makes the AI economy run. techequity.us/ai-supply-ch...
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Tackling the AI supply chain - TechEquity Collaborative
From the USA to Kenya, workers fuel multi-billion-dollar AI systems, but many face precarious employment and low wages.
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Julián Posada @posada.website · 20/05/2026
📣 At ACM FAccT 2026, we will also publish the paper “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘂𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗽: 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 ‘𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵’ 𝗜𝗹𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻,” a collaboration led by Sheza Munir. 🔗 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙚-𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙩: lnkd.in/eSgiy2V8
Screenshot of the first page of an academic paper titled “The Consensus Trap: Dissecting Subjectivity and the ‘Ground Truth’ Illusion in Data Annotation.” The listed authors are Sheza Munir, Benjamin Mah, Krisha Kalsi, Shivani Kapania, Julian Posada, Edith Law, Ding Wang, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed. The abstract argues that treating “ground truth” labels as objectively correct in machine learning can erase human disagreement, reinforce Western norms, and marginalize data annotators. It proposes pluralistic annotation approaches that preserve diverse human perspectives rather than forcing consensus.
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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 16/05/2026
“That’s why the students are booing, I think. They’re experiencing AI in realtime as a forecloser of futures; as the cruel new face of hyper-scaling capitalism, as the prime agent moving a world that’s become a deck stacked against them.” — @bcmerchant.bsky.social really nails it, as usual
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AI as the new avatar of American capitalism
Why "AI populism" is just "populism"
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Alka Menon @avmenon.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Check out our new work! With @theodore-kim.bsky.social @posada.website and Alexa Schor!
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Julián Posada @posada.website · 15/05/2026
🚨 Our new paper, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝, co-authored with @yale.edu colleagues, Theodore Kim, Alexa Schor, and @avmenon.bsky.social, will be published at @facct.bsky.social 2026. 🔗 Read the preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2605.14835
A screenshot containing two figures from an academic paper showing 3D computer graphics renderings. Fig. 2 shows six close-up renderings of fair-skinned human faces and lips. Fig. 3 shows examples of translucent non-human materials used as skin analogies, including a horse bust, a sculpture, a marble slab, two glasses of milk, an architectural column, and a block of soap
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Join @dairinstitute.bsky.social and workers on the front line of resisting AI as we release the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a new resource for fighting AI at work. 9 AM PT / Noon ET / 4 PM GMT on Wednesday, May 20 www.eventbrite.com/e/launching-...
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Launching the Luddite Lab Resource Hub
Join DAIR and workers on the front line of resisting AI as we release the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a new resource for fighting AI at work.
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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
In March, Meta said it would "reduce its reliance on third-party vendors for content enforcement." But cutting its contract with Sama, which led to layoffs in Kenya, looks a lot more like Meta “ending the work… [because] it didn't want workers speaking out" www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Dispute over fate of Kenyan workers who saw Meta AI glasses films
Meta and its subcontractor disagree over why over 1000 Kenya-based workers were made redundant.
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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Amazing work from @posada.website and his team putting on the first International Network of Digital Labor conference in North America. I love a little themed conference and it was so cool to have the scientists and the organizers and the lawyers and the advocates in the same room for a day.
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CITAMS @citams26.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Dr. Julian Posada (Yale University) is sharing the forthcoming publication of his book, 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐦: 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, available this October from the 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐚 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬. 𝐏𝐫𝐞-𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐬𝐨𝐨𝐧!
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 29/04/2026
Just a week before it was due to start, #Zambia has cancelled #RightsCon2026 - leaving thousands of international attendees in limbo. Which of the usual suspects pressured them to do this? charlesmok.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
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Breaking News: Rightscon to be "Postponed" by Host Country Zambia
The largest global meeting on digital rights runs into a wall at the final, last minutes.
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Casilli @casilli.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
🚨D-7 The call for papers for INDL-9 is still open—until April 30, 2026. This time our annual conference will be hosted on Sept 9–11, 2026 at the International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva. www.indl.network/indl-9/ cc. @ubiquity75.xyz @posada.website @milamiceli.bsky.social #ai #work #labor
INDL-9 conference cfp submit until 30 April 2026
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