Veena Dubal

nytimes.comHow Mark Zuckerberg Pushed Meta to Shield Him From California’s Proposed Wealth TaxThe billionaire told Meta’s board that he planned to list his Silicon Valley home for sale. The company remade its stock structure to help him pay the tax if voters pass it.

This is insane. “The filings pull back the curtain, in vivid detail, on how billionaires like Mr. Zuckerberg — whose net worth stands at $247 billion — are navigating the risk posed by California’s proposed tax. “ www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/t...

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Academe

@academemagazine.bsky.social

New in #Academe, @aaup.org General Counsel @veenadubal.bsky.social situates the attacks on immigrant students and scholars within the frames of the civil rights movement and the model-minority myth. www.aaup.org/issue/fall-2...

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AI Now Institute

@ainowinstitute.bsky.social

On Mon.10/19, tune in for a discussion about building worker power in the era of AI, featuring: ▪ Bhairavi Desai, @nytwa.bsky.social ▪ Lorena Gonzalez, @californialabor.bsky.social ▪ Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social ▪ Jasmine Sun @jasmine.bsky.social ▪ Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social

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Tim Newman

@tnewmsblues.bsky.social

If you thought you already loved Workday enough! "Another feature available in beta to Workday HCM (Human Capital Management) users is Work Intelligence, which takes a page from gig-economy task-based algorithms that define pay." Cc @veenadubal.bsky.social www.techtarget.com/it-strategy/...

techtarget.comWorkday expands agentic AI automation for HR teams | TechTargetAs low-level work becomes more automated, Workday adds generative AI automations to give HR staff more advanced tools to plan and staff their organizations.

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AI Now Institute

@ainowinstitute.bsky.social

JUST ANNOUNCED: Veena Dubal (@veenadubal.bsky.social), Professor of Law at UC Irvine, will join The People’s AI Assembly! Get tickets or watch the livestream on Monday, October 19th: bit.ly/ai-assembly

It’s really hard to have kids and a job. Even a flexible job w/just cause protections & economic security. I genuinely don’t know how people make it through - and this is such low hanging fruit to fix. Socialized childcare; 4 day work weeks. Wild that we don’t.

ETUCE European Trade Union Committee for Education

For those of you who knew John Crew, remember him with me today on the 4th anniversary of his death. I have not met a better person or friend in my lifetime. I miss you, dear John.

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Students and education workers across France are mobilising for better-funded public education. Teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms, school infrastructure and education reforms are at the heart of the movement. Read more from SNES-FSU: t.ly/WaNgD

t.lyYoung People and Education Staff in France Fight for More ResourcesThe trade union federation and social partner for education in Europe Education International - Europe

dhs.govDHS Proposes Fees for Foreign Student Work Program to Protect American Jobs | Homeland SecurityThe United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a proposed rule that, if finalized, would implement new fees for F-1 nonimmigrant students seeking to participate in Optional Practica...

This administration doesn’t want any immigrant graduate students to stay post graduation: “The proposed rule would establish a $70,000 fee per F-1 nonimmigrant student for initial OPT and a $30,000 fee per F-1 nonimmigrant student for any subsequent OPT www.dhs.gov/news/2026/10...

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Erin Okuno

@thiserin.bsky.social

"Librarians are defenders of democracy. We’re defenders of the freedom to read. We’re protectors of patron privacy. Libraries are one of the few places in this surveillance economy that are not trying to collect and sell your data." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

nytimes.comForget the Shushing. Librarians Have a Whole Lot to Say. (Gift Article)We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.

““Me sometimes think me went in on wrong thing. Instead of cookie, maybe me should have studied business management, like Matt. Me would still have job. But then me would have to fire everyone. And me would never do that. B/c me Cookie Monster, not actual monster.”

caseygrants.orgMarguerite Casey Foundation

I think the most upsetting thing about the Cornell rape is how surprised people are. US fraternity culture, as I know it & have experienced it, persistently produces different forms and kinds of gender based violence. This feels so disgustingly familiar.

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LPE Blog

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Replying to @lpeblog.bsky.social

A huge congrats to our editorial board member @veenadubal.bsky.social on being named a 2026 Freedom Scholar. 🎉

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Knight First Amendment Institute

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“People around me were scared that they were going to be the next Mahmoud Khalil.” @veenadubal.bsky.social, General Counsel of @aaup.org, recalls the fear faculty and students felt when their free speech was threatened on campus. Watch the full interview: youtu.be/5VBJJKjwjFM

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Governor Newsom Press Office

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>> @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom on the Trump Administration’s AI meeting and the claim that the industry can self-regulate: “What I heard in Washington DC yesterday is bullshit and that should scare the hell out of everybody.”

Today was a good law day for workers in CA! Not the best, but pretty good. Here's a summary of what AI & Labor related laws that Gov. Newsom signed...and what he vetoed. The Cal Labor Fed & aff unions deserve an enormous amount of credit for these world historic laws! 1/12

VETOED-- SB 903 would have imposed more specific restrictions on AI in psychotherapy, including licensed-professional review of therapeutic decisions and a prohibition on marketing companion chatbots as psychotherapy services 11/12

VETOED-- AB 2656 would have required covered public employers to give unions 45 days’ notice before developing, purchasing, or requiring generative AI to perform work within represented employees’ job classifications. 12/END

SIGNED-- --SB 574: Lawyers remain responsible for AI-assisted work. They may use gen AI as an aid, but cannot delegate the practice of law to it. They must protect confidential information, check outputs, correct errors, and disclose AI use for documents submitted to cts. 9/12

VETOED-- AB 2575 would have expressly protected healthcare workers against retaliation based solely on their professional decision to override—or rely on—clinical AI, and limited an AI developer’s ability to escape liability by blaming a clinician for not overriding it. 10/12

SIGNED-- --SB 503--Developers & healthcare organizations using clinical AI must make reasonable efforts to identify and reduce foreseeable bias. Developers must provide info about the tech’s uses, training data, limitations, & risks; healthcare organizations must monitor it. 7/12

SIGNED-- --AB 2392 — Faculty, unions, & students get a role in developing university AI standards. Requires CSU & the community colleges—and REQEUEST UC—to develop AI purchasing standards & training through a working group 8/12

SIGNED: -AB 1331 — Bathroom privacy--Restricts employer surveillance inside workplace bathrooms and generally lets workers leave monitoring devices outside. But it still permits entry-and-exit checks and certain identification or safety devices. 5/12

SIGNED-- --AB 1979 — AI cannot replace legally required professional judgment. Hospitals, clinics, and physicians’ offices must take reasonable steps to preserve licensed healthcare providers’ ability to exercise independent judgment when AI informs patient care. 6/12

SIGNED: -SB 951 — Disclosure of AI-driven layoffs: like WARN Act -- Employers must disclose when AI or automation is substantially responsible for a covered mass layoff, relocation, or shutdown. The information goes into the existing 60-day advance notice. 3/12

SIGNED: -AB 1883 — Limits on emotion and brain-data surveillance--Generally prohibits employers from using AI surveillance to infer workers’ emotions or collect data from their nervous systems. It targets tools that purport to determine employees’ emotional states. 4/12

SIGNED: --SB 947 — Human review of firing and discipline: firing and discipline. An employer cannot fire or discipline someone based solely on an automated system. 2/12

dissentmagazine.orgLife Under the Algorithm - Dissent MagazineAlgorithmic wages and prices don’t just squeeze workers in the present. They make them predictably poor into the future.

My son who thinks about fishing 24/7 caught 24 lbs of salmon—& filleted it in my kitchen. Everyone on our street is eating salmon, my house smells like salmon, my clothes smell like salmon, & my daughter just ran screaming to her room and slammed the door “salmon for dinner again?!!??!” 🎣🐟

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Data & Society

@datasociety.bsky.social

"Algorithmic wages & prices are symptoms of a political economy built on the continuous conversion of movement, delay, fatigue, debt, location, browsing, hunger, punctuality, & desperation into commercial leverage." @veenadubal.bsky.social @katiejwells.bsky.social dissentmagazine.org/article/algo...

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella)

@kanarinka.bsky.social

MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...

fnl.mit.eduHow We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter

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Maximillian Alvarez

@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

New from me. On August 18, residents living near the Brent Industries facility in Toledo, Ohio, awoke to a series of massive explosions & a towering chemical fire in their backyards. 2 workers died & people are getting sick. I speak w/ residents @therealnews.com therealnews.com/toledo-resid...

therealnews.com'Mushroom cloud of smoke and flames': Toledo residents’ lives upended by deadly Brent Industries explosions“My nine-year-old daughter who can't sleep in her bedroom at night… she isn't the same person. My 19-year-old won't come out of his room some days because his stomach hurts so bad. My 16-year-old has ...

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Brian Goldstone

@brian-goldstone.bsky.social

There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.

nytimes.comLaid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.

18 Sept

This is mind bogglingly insane and utterly infuriating. Some of the most important academic research today is the social science and history that can help us understand how we got here.

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rwcpulse.comSan Mateo County acquires apartment building for educator housingThe purchase of the 74-unit Azara community at 1650 S. Delaware St. in San Mateo marks the first educator workforce housing project for the San Mateo County Office of Education (SMCOE).

17 Sept

“A San Mateo County collaborative effort has acquired an apartment complex for $54.8 million to provide housing for teachers and other education staff..San Mateo marks the first educator workforce housing project for the San Mateo County Office of Education.” www.rwcpulse.com/housing/2026...

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique

@asheeshks.org

16 Sept

More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.

Avery@dyingsignals.love

The amount of money I saw one department paying for several AI services in a school year could cover the University’s pay one price textbook costs for nearly their entire enrolled student body in said department

aaup.orgAAUP Calls on UCLA Chancellor Frenk to Defend, Not Undermine, Academic FreedomThe AAUP calls on UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk to withdraw his public repudiation of a UCLA School of Law symposium and to reaffirm the academic freedom of UCLA faculty.

16 Sept

“The AAUP calls on UCLA Chancellor.. to withdraw his public repudiation of the UCLA School of Law symposium..& to reaffirm the academic freedom of..faculty to organize scholarly events, select speakers…without fear of institutional condemnation.” www.aaup.org/news/aaup-ca...