Thread by @WellsLucasSanto

On #fuckthealgorithm, @g8enjamin: "resisting the algorithm is really resisting the *use* of algorithms" #FAccT22

On the use of #fuckthealgorithm, folks using it "viewed the algorithm as this local of complex sociotechnical issues, not trying to compress it into a technical object" #FAccT22

spectacular tracing of algorithmic resistance with this hashtag by @g8enjamin

Really cool paper right now on Tech Worker Organizing that made use of a "Collective Action in Tech" archive, built by tech workers, union organizers, and sociologists! To do a landscape analysis of different tech worker actions -- very groovy. @FAccT22

The point to Jane McAlevey's "No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power" to look at various methods of organizing to see what makes an action successful, citing an example with workers protesting the creation of a Muslim registry, which worked. #FAccT22

This Tech Worker Organizing paper is from Boag, Suresh, Lepe, and D'Ignazio. Motivation for the paper is that lots of literature focuses on the actual audits, datasheets, or model cards, but less attention on what has worked to get companies to incorporate them. #FAccT22

Limitations / where they see the work going from here: the archive of collective action overrepresents white collar tech work (vs warehouse workers, for example), is from the outside in, and doesn't describe long-term outcomes of actions. #FAccT22 Some great work though!