iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 19/09/2026

AI generated posters report from Somerville Fluff Fest. Guys it's bleak out there. Not as many as I feared but... Ugh.

Freddy Reiber @rankandfreddy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Recently read Alyssa Battisoni's "Ideology at Work? Rethinking Reproduction" and found a great example to leverage her critique of ideological critiques in Kate Crawford's Atlas of AI.

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Freddy Reiber @rankandfreddy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Not to brag or anything but their Reiber citation seems pretty cool epic.org/whos-got-the...

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Who’s Got the Power? Restoring Worker Power in the Age of Algorithmic Unionbusting

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 19/03/2026

ICE has been hacked! And you can explore the data, which includes every DHS contract, in this convenient new tool micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts

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DHS Contracts Explorer

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 18/03/2026

if you're sick of AI, and you live in Michigan, please sign up for the Michigan Democratic Party TODAY. there's an opportunity to vote out one of the pro-AI UM regents, and bring in a regent who shares our antipathy toward the UM-LANL datacenter.

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Michigan Democratic Party - Free Membership Sign-up Form

The Michigan Democratic Party is holding their Spring Convention on April 19th, 2026 in Detroit. At this convention, party members will vote in a primary-style endorsement vote for crucial roles, incl...

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 16/03/2026

Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia was released on bond Monday after more than a year in ICE detention.

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Ben Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com · 21/06/2025

Everyone should subscribe to Long Haul. Beautifully made magazine of worker writing. Feels like the spiritual successor to Viewpoint longhaulmag.com

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Freddy Reiber @rankandfreddy.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

"I am trying to uninstall Instagram more often" -From an interview

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Freddy Reiber @rankandfreddy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Joel Ross does not miss. open.spotify.com/album/52H41d...

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Gospel Music

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Freddy Reiber @rankandfreddy.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I really wish the T would stop lying with these "trains every 6 to 8 minutes" claims. Just be honest and put it on a 30 minute schedule so I don't have to stand and waste 25 minutes.

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Freddy Reiber @rankandfreddy.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

One of my undergrad advisees, "If have been on my phone for too long and I go on my laptop it feels like I have been reading a book."

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Freddy Reiber @rankandfreddy.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Why is BU's course registration page using the language "shopping cart"? Education is not a product that you pick off the shelf, it is a process of growth of learning, of being challenged, not something to be consumed and discarded.

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 20/11/2025

Want to support baristas on strike? ✅ DON'T BUY STARBUCKS products anywhere (and tell everyone you know to do the same!) ✅ Sign our No Contract No Coffee pledge, & find a picket line near you: nocontractnocoffee.org ✅ Donate to our strike fund: sbworkersunited.org

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No Contract, No Coffee | Starbucks Workers United

Starbucks baristas brewing change. Join the movement for fair contracts, better wages, and worker protections.

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today! Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount

Cover of Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry by the Capacitor Collective

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Freddy Reiber @rankandfreddy.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Gotta shout out my own (and fantastic editor Travis's) work!

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Working Mass @dsaworkingmass.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

"This is a victory for every single one of us... we mounted a pressure that could not be ignored." MIT refused Trump. Rather than the act of one individual university president, grad workers and other organizers applied pressure to make it happen. working-mass.com/2025/10/17/m...

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MIT Refuses to Sign Trump Compact Following Pressure from Grad Workers' Union and Other Groups - Working Mass

By: Frederick Reiber CAMBRIDGE, MA – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s students, workers, and union comrades gathered outside of the university’s Lobby 7 on Friday, October 10th to protest...

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Cella @cellllla.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

✨I’m on the academic job market ✨ I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻‍💻💪🏽💥 I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action More info: cella.io

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Cella M. Sum –

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Freddy Reiber @rankandfreddy.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

What a grim reality. Lyft sending me an email urging me to "take action" and send an automatically generated text message to Brandon Johnson urging them not to increase taxes on Rideshare companies. Perhaps it is time for "death of the user"

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Working Mass @dsaworkingmass.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

On Wednesday, Sept 17, Davis Square workers voted to join Starbucks Workers United. One week later, on Thursday the 25th, Starbucks announced the imminent closure of hundreds of stores nationwide. By the 27th, the store had permanently closed. working-mass.com/2025/10/03/s...

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Starbucks Workers in Davis Square Join SBWU; Company Closes Store One Week Later - Working Mass

By: Terence Cawley SOMERVILLE, MA – The last few weeks have been tumultuous for the workers at the Starbucks store in the Davis Square neighborhood. On Wednesday, September 17, workers voted to join S...

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Freddy Reiber @rankandfreddy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Giving another shout-out to Ta-Nehisi Coates. This is a really well done article by a man who has continuously gone up in my book as an artistic and intellectual voice worth following. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

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Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

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Freddy Reiber @rankandfreddy.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Currently sitting through a Boston University (my university) official seminar on AI and its effect on careers. Not only is this panel full of nothing-balls, with a full wide range of management word-vomit including: empathy, distribution, and literate.

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Freddy Reiber @rankandfreddy.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

There are two labor and tech writers in Boston? And they both have the name Freddy?!?

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Freddy Reiber @rankandfreddy.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Fun lunchtime video if your head is spinning after a long week of work before an academic deadline! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exuj...

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Doctor Who and the Israel Disaster

YouTube video by verilybitchie

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Freddy Reiber @rankandfreddy.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I was recently doom scrolling Reddit a bit and came across a particularly interesting subreddit - r/economicCollapse. While its stated purpose is "articles and discussion relating to economic collapse" it really seems like its a bunch of people who are actively rooting for an economic collapse.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business

With Substack's latest launch, writers are actually ceding control of the billing relationship to Apple, which now owns and controls the subscription.
These transactions, subscriptions, and customers will no longer be accessible in their Stripe account.

Most importantly, that means that if writers choose to leave Substack, they won't be able to port their paid subscriptions over to another platform like they could previously. This predatory platform lock-in is incredibly dangerous for writers. It strips away data and control, while locking them into the platform.

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Freddy Reiber @rankandfreddy.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Don't have any commentary here other than this is a fantastic video essay on the importance of black villains. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2dG...

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Why Black Villains Matter

YouTube video by F.D Signifier

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Freddy Reiber @rankandfreddy.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Capital is value in motion, with rentiers extracting through that motion. Good god we need a revolution in tech. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBI_...

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I Needed My Paycheck Early. Then I Got Cheated by These Apps.

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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Working Mass @dsaworkingmass.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

OUT NOW: Hamilton Tenants Association Faces Terrible Landlord with Rally in Arlington "Tenants sent letters and raised demands. At every turn, Hamilton Company provided as much silence as when repairs were needed or rent was due." Read into the fight: working-mass.com/2025/08/19/h...

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Hamilton Tenants Association Faces Terrible Landlord With Rally in Arlington - Working Mass

By: Travis Wayne ARLINGTON, MA – On Saturday, August 2, 2025, the Hamilton Tenants Association made a bold move: rallying directly and publicly against their landlord right outside their home. It wa...

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Freddy Reiber @rankandfreddy.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Maybe a hot take, but I think these chairs are post-Fordism incarnate.

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Freddy Reiber @rankandfreddy.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Perhaps the most frustrating thing in this genocide is how even if Israels full occupation is stopped, the absolutely fascist psychopaths responsible for the butchering of Palestinian voices will never face justice. “One day, everyone will have always been against this”

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Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera staff killed by Israel in Gaza

Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

This story is pretty wild. Sources suggest Microsoft execs in US are concerned Israel-based employees, some of whom are reservists or veterans of the IDF’s Unit 8200 (aka eavesdropping unit), were not “fully transparent” about IDF’s use of Microsoft products in recent review

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Microsoft investigates Israeli military’s use of Azure cloud storage

Concerns that tech company’s Israel-based staff may have concealed key details of work follow Guardian investigation

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Freddy Reiber @rankandfreddy.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Maybe it's time for "everything is dialectical/historical materialism" book. Was recently reviewing some 1980s journals on old homes and found this gem. The Mansard roof became a thing because of taxes!

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Freddy Reiber @rankandfreddy.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I was recently watching the new Ezra Klein show, and can't help thinking about how he positions himself. He has no problem having Yoram Hazony, a full blown psychopath on his show, but when was the last time he had a labor leader or a Palestinian? Oh wait, the answer was never.

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Freddy Reiber @rankandfreddy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

"Every time we want to change society to benefit average people, we have to deal with ultrawealthy crybabies. We’re held hostage by those who already have it all. It doesn’t have to be like this." - jacobin.com/2025/07/ultr...

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Freddy Reiber @rankandfreddy.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

The postdoc is the pits for romantic relationships -Me and my drunk postdoc friend, 2025

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Freddy Reiber @rankandfreddy.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Another in the long list of lives lost to a settler colonial project and genocide backed by my tax dollars. "Accountability for settlers who commit acts of violence against Palestinians is rare." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Wave of condemnation after killing of Palestinian activist in West Bank

Israeli soldiers raid mourning tent after death of Awdah Hathaleen, who helped make Oscar-winning No Other Land

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Freddy Reiber @rankandfreddy.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Amidst a hiring freeze, PhD admission pauses, and the refusal to pay workers a living wage, BU has decided to provide students with its own gen-AI tool. 🤮🤮🤮

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Oh I forgot to post the baseball cards of the striking workers they were handing out. Genius.

On the back “SUPPORT THE STRIKE. DON’T BUY FOOD OR DRINK”

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