NYC Tech Workers Coalition

We are a coalition of workers in & around the tech industry & other friends in NYC This account is run by a rotating group of volunteers. Tweets are their own.

[NYC Tech Workers Coalition @techworkerscony]

🚨 Tech Workers Coalition and Collective Action in Tech are excited to announce the date for Circuit Breakers, our national tech labor conference! This year will be in NYC from Oct. 17-18th. Early bird tickets will be available soon, register for updates!

https://t.co/IsihSsUWUM

[NYC Tech Workers Coalition @techworkerscony]

Private equity

[Jason Schreier @jasonschreier]

BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. https://t.co/suZD0eRvG1

[Jenny Judge @judge_jen]

This is an excellent debunker of AI consciousness by some of the biggest names in consciousness science (@anilkseth @De_dicto and Giulio Tononi)

Don't listen to the techbros. They have no idea what they're talking about where consciousness is concerned.

https://t.co/3VQKHUdIss

[Joseph Cox @josephfcox]

New: the DHS officials who tried to search the man who wiped his GrapheneOS phone lied. They pushed him about having child abuse images. Documents reveal that was a pretext; he wasn't suspected of this at all. He's a Stop Cop City activist https://t.co/zrsME3rBux

[NYC Tech Workers Coalition @techworkerscony]

It is a universally acknowledged truth that all bubbles burst. The only question is if we will hold their promoters accountable.

[Athena Coalition @athenaforall]

Nobody is sure when or if the AI bubble will burst. But its 100% clear that unregulated Silicon Valley and Wall Street corporations have endangered everyone without good reason.

Time to take control and reshape the tech industry, before its too late. Must read by @openmarkets:

[Tech Workers Coalition @techworkersco]

OpenAI later clarified that the device in their offices recording all conversations and interactions to an unknown end was, surprisingly, not one of their own products. Their court filing went on to explain “this is an outrage, spying is our lane.”

[Project for Privacy & Surveillance Accountability @savingprivacy]

The Flock saga is reaching truly chilling levels: when an Illinois college tried to cancel its contract and the company refused to take down its cameras, the college covered them. Then workers in unmarked vehicles repeatedly removed the coverings.
https://t.co/ZcAhs51KmQ

[Lincoln Michel @TheLincoln]

Broke: "LLMs mean we're getting UBI and will never work again!"

Woke: "After you die, Facebook will make your account post advertisements from beyond the grave for eternity."

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Why are so many AI companies run by crooks and financed by Nvidia? I went over one of them that collapsed last week, an AI company called Firmus. It’s not a good sign. Some strong echoes of the late stage subprime crisis.
https://t.co/sW8JXvJhm9

[Tech Workers Coalition @techworkersco]

more reasons to be mad about ai. ai scraper bots are destroying and performing a ddos across the entire internet. these locusts are trashing the commons in every respect. https://t.co/Xm1Df2EpzO

[Athena Coalition @athenaforall]

So let's recap:
- @AMZNforClimate reports show Amazon's emissions have *increased* despite its climate pledge
- The company doesn't know how to reach net-zero emissions
- Execs apparently think we're stupid enough to believe they care about the climate
https://t.co/0E8EPkjKCP

[Tech Workers Coalition @techworkersco]

We are 25 days away from Circuit Breakers 2026 🌠 and we can’t wait to see everyone. Grab your tickets now!

Join us Oct 17-18 in NYC. Learn more at https://t.co/dV1HXMfw74 🎟️

Incredible artwork by @mkupperman 🌀

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

Terms like "fancy autocomplete" were reductive sure but I think were also making the very important corrective point that AI is, as Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor have so eloquently put it, a normal technology, and not The Temporal Instantiation of the Machine God

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

THREAD. Did you know that Minneapolis police deployed 101 personnel to a 7-person vigil held one morning at Renee Good's memorial? The cops generated $1.92 million in overtime cash for themselves.

[Tech Workers Coalition @techworkersco]

You only have a few more weeks before Circuit Breakers 2026 happens! This session, led by organizers from @AlphabetWorkers, will show you how to think about organizing at scale. Come see what you can bring back into your workplace.

https://t.co/dV1HXMfw74 🎟️

[Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @HeidyKhlaaf]

A reminder that Anthropic has a partnership with Palantir, and their unreliable models are actively being used domestically and internationally to in fact, "kill a bunch of people."

[Tech Workers Coalition @techworkersco]

You can’t spell organizer without organize! Part of that process is learning how to be organized in your planning and data 🫡

Come learn with us at Circuit Breakers this year! Grab your conference ticket at https://t.co/dV1HXMfw74 🎟️

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

This is why I find the discourse how AI might start killing us a bit puzzling. AI is already being used to kill people on a mass scale -- that's a problem that deserves the immediate response beyond any hypothetical threat

[Athena Coalition @athenaforall]

Now THIS is a trend we can get behind!

If a worker drives and Amazon-branded van, wears an Amazon-branded vest, and follows a route determined by Amazon, they should be treated as an employee.

Calling them sub-contractors just makes it easier for Amazon to exploit them.

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

"if you’re not worried about police brutality, or floods, or warfare—things that can actually kill you—then you can obsess over the machine-god."

I said what I said.

https://t.co/B3WskcMaTL