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The original sin of tech boosters and critics is an undue focus on what a technology *does*, rather than who it does it *to* and who it does it *for*. When it comes to technology's effect on our daily lives, the social arrangements matter much more than the feature-sets. 1/ 
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This is the premise behind my idea of the #ShittyTechnologyAdoptionCurve: if you want to do something horrible to people with technology, you must first inflict it on people without social power. 3/
In @Bruces' @Locusmag review of my novel Walkaway, he describes the book as "advancing and demolishing potential political arguments that have never been made by anybody but [me]."
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That is a fair cop. I spend a lot of time worrying about esoteric risks that no one else seems to care about.
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When it comes to tech in the workplace, we pay too much attention to what the tech does, at the expense of a critical analysis of who the tech does it TO, and who the tech does it FOR.
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Take warehouse automation: stuff needs to get from A to B, and moving stuff is hard, dangerous work. In theory, warehouse automation is a critical part of making our world more humane and better for workers.
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One of the Biden admin's most important pieces of legislation is the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (#PROAct), which reverses decades of union-busting policies and laws that have led to widening inequality, wage stagnation, and working poverty across America.
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It's the first pro-worker law since 1935's NLRA, and it restores many of the rights to organize unions and create serious penalties for employers who break the law to prevent their workers from unionizing (today, employers break labor laws with impunity).
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For a great, plain-language breakdown of its contours, check out this breakdown by @GrimKim, @TeenVogue's labor reporter. Note that the law bans many of the dirtiest tricks used by Amazon to defeat the union drive in its Bessemer, Alabama warehouse.
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Faced with remote learning, educators had to figure out what to do about high-stakes testing: a pedagogically bankrupt adversarial practice of measuring students' educational outcomes by testing their performance in a circumstance that they will never face in the real world.
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It was an opportunity to rethink assessment and education. Instead, it was reinvented with the help of #DisciplinaryTechnology grifters from the "remote invigilation" industry, who peddled spyware that claimed to be able to fight cheating by taking over students' computers.
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In a crowded field of awful companies, one stands out as the worst: @proctorio, which uses digital phrenology to monitor students' faces while they take tests, setting them up for punishment for looking away while thinking, going to the bathroom, or throwing up from anxiety.
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