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ashiquealit.bsky.social
Ph.D. student in the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. Affiliation: Socio-technical Resistance and Ethical Technologies (STREET) Lab. Research: Tech-mediated resistance + {labour, caste, social movements}
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A very valuable meeting point in academic journey. Team 'platform without borders' Thank you @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social, @grohmannrafael.bsky.social, @andretwp.bsky.social & Denise Kasparian for putting this together.

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Brilliant people at the Platforms without borders workshop in London #Space4 #platforms thank you @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social for the wonderful hosting and @grohmannrafael.bsky.social @linzhang.bsky.social Denise Kasparian @marcsteinberg.bsky.social

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Union’s Care: They have designs for alternative socio-technical infrastructure & can regenerate the market, community & the city when in crisis. Happy to share our #CHI2025 paper! "Generative Politics and Labour Markets: Unions and Collective Life in a City in Crisis" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Hello Toronto, Join us for the talk by prof. Aakash Gautam on community-based design projects. March 21, 11.00am-1.00pm, Faculty of Information, UofT

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We mourn the sudden loss of Michael Burawoy--eminent scholar, mentor, and friend to the labor movement. oaklandside.org/2025/02/05/s...

submitted 110 days ago • 2 comments

24-01-1925 SENEGAL: Beginning of a 4-day strike in the Dakar-Niger Railways for a wage increase benefiting both African and European workers.

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Like bots, deepfakes are part of the online landscape. Here's our primer on deepfakes. What they are, how they are made, and why they threaten democratic societies. deepfakestracker.org/deepfakes-fa... #medialiteracy

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"For Project Maven, Google hired hundreds of gig-economy workers to solve numerous CAPTCHAs at an incredibly low cost (roughly $1/hour). The results of these completed CAPTCHAs were then used to develop a classification program for the use of US Military drone applications" Workers had no idea

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Gig workers in Delhi suffer immensely from heightened air pollution, crossing even 1000 AQI. We conducted a health camp in Delhi for the gig & outdoor workers. Indian Govt should act to protect workers from climate crisis as well as make corporate platforms accountable.

submitted 179 days ago • 1 comment

Here is the official account of STREET Lab, UofT. @streetlab-uoft.bsky.social

submitted 180 days ago • 0 comments

The city has become unlivable.

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Here is our CSCW paper that examines how the entry of on-demand ridesourcing digital labour platforms (OR-DLPs) like Uber have reshaped labor geography & worker resistance dynamics. We explore how a traditional trade union in Kolkata, India, navigated this shift. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

submitted 193 days ago • 1 comment

Hello! I've been working on a starter pack for labour and technology scholars on Bluesky. 🤖💪📘 I started with a bunch of folks from @labortech.bsky.social and have been expanding outwards. Reply or send a message to me directly if you'd like to be added or removed. go.bsky.app/UMaa7T3

submitted 216 days ago • 21 comments

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Global air temperatures reached a new high on July 3, surpassing the record set in 2016 and tied in 2022, according to multiple recent analyses. Since then, global air temperatures have continued climbing. https://nyti.ms/3rEGuzs

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