Title: Taking Back Technopower: STS and strategic interventions for the fight against technofascism
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The current moment is characterized by resurgent struggles against technofascism. These struggles include community resistance against data centers, strategic actions against tech companies complicit in genocidal violence, and organizing efforts across many sectors against the proliferation of AI in the workplace. This open panel gathers people engaged in these sites of struggle to collectively consider the following question: how can STS approaches advance these struggles against fascist technopower, and work towards constructing more liberatory futures?
In addressing this question, we seek to surface the incipient militant potential of STS, often submerged under scholarship that muddies strategic analysis and disarms political action through the register of subversive critique. Through close attention to relationality and sociality, STS may help build solidarities while unsettling the sedimented categories that impede movement building (Breymen et al, 2017). By incorporating materialist, political economic accounts of technology, STS may help push beyond the boundaries of "ethical tech” by revealing the imbrications of economic and financial processes with technoscience (Birch, 2013). And as a roving, interdisciplinary field attuned to embodied and situated practices (Haraway, 1988), an STS lens may help ensure that analyses are constantly attentive to the lively contingencies of on-the-ground struggles.
We seek to explore theories born through political struggle, and examples of how STS theory informs praxis. Submissions may include, but are not limited to: strategic reflections from organizers and activists; historical accounts that can inform future organizing and activism; or the analysis of organizing artefacts (e.g., propaganda, slogans, campaigns) and their role in advancing political struggle. We will facilitate this panel as an open discussion among folks situated across different sites of struggle, aiming to provide a space for advancing the struggle against technofascism through the development of relationships, theories, and strategic insights.
hi STS people! are you engaged in political struggle against fascism? do you have things to share: strategic reflections, organizing artefacts, etc.? do you have thoughts about how we will win? if so, you should submit something to our open panel at 4S this year! www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...
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Your turn to power map!
Your turn to power map! 1 Make a copy of this presentation. (One copy per group.) Shortcut to this slide: bit.ly/djspowermap
Tried power mapping with my big lecture class and was pleased with the way it went. The assignment is here if you're interested in the logistics of it. docs.google.com/presentation...
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Tomorrow morning!
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How tech workers are speaking up at work and beyond—A worker voice event recap - TechEquity Collaborative
Across the country, tech workers are collaborating and speaking up for themselves and our collective well-being. This is what they learned.
Tech workers are speaking up! Lisa Kresge's research found three "main buckets" of provisions in tech-related union contracts: Decision-making power & governance; Worker protections & employer obligations; & Technology itself & how it will be used. Panel discussion: techequity.us/2026/02/24/t...
03.03.2026 16:02
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This is missing "China"....
03.03.2026 20:37
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This Is Not a Regime Change War. Iran Is Being Pushed Toward State Collapse.
The US and Israel have killed Ayatollah Khamenei, but they seem to have no plan for what comes next.
"War doesn't operate with surgical precision. It doesn't remove one figure & install another. It shifts power to those most capable of wielding force. It weakens civil society faster than it builds alternatives. It deepens grievances that last generations"
-Mahbod Seraji
truthout.org/articles/thi...
04.03.2026 01:30
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“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin
28.02.2026 21:44
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A judge just tossed out Columbia University's disciplinary actions against 22 students over the 2024 Hamilton Hall occupation, finding the school relied on sealed arrest records and held individuals responsible for group actions, violating its own rules.
iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/Documen...
28.02.2026 03:00
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There should be a sea of banners reading "PEDOPHILE"
25.02.2026 02:09
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"There are many ways to create work: through lowering interest rates to spur investment (Keynesians), industrial policy or jobs programs (New Dealers), tax breaks or deregulation (neoliberals)... these are reformist reforms. They perpetuate the work-based society rather than moving us beyond it."
23.02.2026 16:42
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People, go to Knowledge Commons instead! It's free too, but importantly it's open and non-commercial. As a basic example of what you can do with it, here's my page there hcommons.org/members/airm...
23.02.2026 08:00
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Join us 3/3 for this workshop as we teach you how to examine critically the socio-environmental consequences of data centers, identify misleading statistics and media narratives, and investigate the real local impacts of data centers: actionnetwork.org/events/data-...
22.02.2026 21:38
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If all the billionaires betting this country's economic future on AI weren't the guy from the "I don't wanna cure cancer, I wanna turn people into dinosaurs" meme, then yeah, it'd be a lot easier to be interested in what is, in the abstract, kind of a cool technology
18.02.2026 12:41
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while anthropic secretly buys and destroys millions of books in hidden warehouses, let it be known that human staff at @archive.org carefully scan physical media by hand as always and there's literally a daily livestream because the process is so wonderful to watch!!!
02.02.2026 18:07
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ohhh wait you guys weren't talking about american idol
02.02.2026 22:50
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thought this review, on knowing your enemies and/from your comrades, was extremely good.
18.02.2026 02:57
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TOMORROW! I'm helping to coordinate this panel on geneaologies of big data, and truly excited for this line-up of speakers: Bolun Zhang, Lucy Suchman, Os Keyes and Sun-ha Hong. Hope to see you there 🤓
17.02.2026 20:02
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when i hear techie people say everyone should just be self-hosting the digital services they need instead of using centralized platforms, i think of crypto enthusiasts saying everyone needs their own wallet they must personally protect or they lose all they money
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Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
New story up on the Homeland Security Department’s new tactic: flood social media companies with subpoenas to unmask anonymous accounts that criticize ICE or monitor the movements of ICE agents.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
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back of the envelope math here but this is enough to build an apartment for like 20% of the entire homeless population in the country
14.02.2026 04:05
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Want to organize against ICE on your campus? Join us Sunday, February 15, at 7pm ET on Zoom for a “Schools: Drop ICE Mass Call” with @sunrisemvmt, @aaupnational, @ydsa_official, @aftunion, and @ueunion. Register here: www.mobilize.us/highereducat...
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Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace as 1,200 employees call on the company to cut ties
The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A community takes down a data center, QuitGPT, and the 5 worst Super Bowl AI ads.
At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures.
Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:
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PSA: @kathrwn.bsky.social is a generational graphic designer
12.02.2026 21:02
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Speaker spotlight: Sun-ha Hong examines uncertainty, doubt, myth, and (dis)belief around AI and data-driven technologies. Panel 2 (Feb 18) uky.zoom.us/j/86848639105
#AI #STS
12.02.2026 16:30
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About that AI Bowl: Reception of AI ads ‘sharply negative’ as brand beefs, misinformation brewed
Meanwhile, a viral Alexander Skarsgård video was rumored to be for AI hardware, and while the video is real, OpenAI said it wasn’t made by them.
15 of the 66 commercials aired during the Super Bowl were either for AI companies or were made with AI.
The overall reception was “sharply negative"...nearly 50% of mentions were negative and “far more critical than the broader ad sentiment during the event.”
www.marketingbrew.com/stories/2026...
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The job market was already dependent on health care for most of its growth, but the pattern is even more dramatic after today's revisions. Private-sector employment would have fallen outright last year if it weren't for health care. #NumbersDay
11.02.2026 16:53
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