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jonny

@jonny@neuromatch.social

Digital infrastructure 4 a cooperative internet. social/technological systems & systems neuro with some light dynamical systems & crush on topology on the side.

writin bout the surveillance state n makin some p2p

science/work-oriented alt of @jonny

information is political, science is labor

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Yall as someone who is striking and generally existing on a campus that is crawling with roughly one security guard per picketer from no fewer than 5 private security companies, if they even slightly change the laws so that private security get some form of qualified immunity or ability to use any amount of force we are totally fucked.

jonny,
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I know they already effectively can use force because of, you know, how policing and the justice system work in the US. And there are armed private guards, but i mean anything resembling the ability of cops....

There are So Many and they Explicitly Belong To The Rich For Hire

jonny,
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The cops have had a comparatively mild persistent presence themselves except for the first day where they immediately threatened to arrest me and a bunch of people for appreciating crosswalks next to a parking garage. They have showed up every time a conversation with a driver goes too long or we loiter around every crosswalk in some critical passageways. I think they are mostly letting private security bait encounters and waiting until they can arrest more people as examples

maia, to random
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"Can you host a private website that hackers don't know about?"

i don't know dear stalkerware operator, but maybe you should first make your google slides based internal issue tracker not just publicly accessible

jonny,
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@maia
Everything about this brings me pain

jonny, (edited ) to random
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Today the private security at were getting a little frisky on the picket lines and I think bought UC a few shiny new ULPs and lawsuits. They are increasingly using their bikes as weapons and barriers to legally protected crosswalk appreciation, and literally directed a truck to run me over in the crosswalk. They forget that they are just regular guys

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What is our elected leadership even doing, they sent out an email at 9:30pm saying that all on campus strike events including pickets were cancelled and everyone should go downtown by 10am (aka leave west LA at 8am) to give comment at city council. Uh no we are still picketing loading docks and organizing targeted asks for TAs of large classes to not submit final grades and ignoring this top down order to do a pointless waste of time.

jonny,
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Ordering people to do shit with no input and then wondering why they dont show up is such a shitty strategy istg

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Over and over and over again in organizing contexts from coops, to roomates, to event planning, to all flavors of union organizing, to lab organization, research projects, experiments themselves, musical ensembles... each of them reinvents some form of informational "garden and stream," a way to communicate naturally in series linked to some stable and graph/tree-like set of documents. Optionally intermediated by some governance process where the garden constrains the stream so that it can reshape the garden. Trying to not resolve, but give form and fluidity to the many flavors of this basic relationship is one lens for looking at what ive been doing for the last 10 years or so. Our tools for this are so bad and it has material consequences for our ability to organize, in the many senses of that word.

jonny,
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It sounds easy bc both can be technically expressed as the other relatively easily but the idioms of use are not very compatible at all.

jonny, to random
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it feels so good to be in a place where i feel like i am learning things about organizing instead of searching for or teaching things.

jonny, to random
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at has led a walkout through campus, now occupying Westwood north of Le Conte, one of the main entries to campus, and is holding People's University in the street. Part of a week of planned escalations across from on strike

jonny,
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@tobychev
There is a way through, but it aint gonna be pretty

jonny, (edited ) to Unions
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"Today’s strike at the University of California challenges us to think big about what a labor movement is, and what it should do. [...] Graduate student employees at the University of California, in striking against UC-led police brutality and against their employers’ support for the war in Gaza, are [...] reminding us of the labor’s movement’s best self, when it links workplace issues at home, with civil liberties, with police repression, and with foreign policy and the fates of other working people abroad. That’s what solidarity looks like."

https://lawcha.org/2024/05/30/uc-graduate-workers-and-the-history-of-political-strikes/

#UAW4811 #Union #Unions #Labor

jonny,
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For the record postdocs and academic researchers are also in 4811, not just the grads. We amalgamated 2865 (TAs and grad researchers) and 5810 (postdocs and ARs) last winter

jonny,
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@johnwilsonwsws
As a proud member of a rank and file caucus, this resonates hard

tdverstynen, to random
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This is a terrorist organization and US law enforcement needs to start treating them like one.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-proudboys/

jonny, (edited )
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@tdverstynen
Unfortunately an alliance between brownshirts and law enforcement is a stable and flourishing mode of fascism. gangs like the proud boys both have a ton of law enforcement in their ranks and serve to do their dirty work for them (or provoke situations where the cops need to "restore order"). The cops are not gonna save us on this one, and our only hope is counterorganizing and directly opposing them ourselves.

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How come we stopped calling things "web portal" and why is it also because of platformization and why is it also also a pretty reliable indicator youre on a government website when you see that phrase used

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Yesterday #UAW4811 rank and file successfully picketed unionized maintenance and delivery workers trying to work on water damage in #UCLA's Engineering 4 building. Today that building is shut down due to water damage. THAT is how you strike

jonny,
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Strikes need to be costly to work. I have a billion thoughts about how academic unions in universities have a differently configured plumbing of labor value than the usual retail/industrial workplaces canonical strike tactics are for, but the delivery picket is proving to be an extremely effective way of engaging with its dispersed work site, heterogeneously administered, many-overlapping-unit conditions. It's a really good balance of legal, accessible, costly, and involving other workers.

jonny,
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one of the largest science buildings is now rationing CO2 because we have turned away so many gas deliveries. Maybe the scabs still working will have to stop their experiments anyway

jonny,
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The accessible part is sort of a bunch of senses of accessible mashed together - eg. one could participate in a wheelchair or other mobility aide, and that would actually be even better than someone walking. You could do it without sight or hearing. Its outside and low density so low covid risk. It can be any time of day, and early is good too so in LA if you are sun sensitive you can go before dawn. You dont have to talk to anyone if you dont want to. Its easy to discover: just name a set of places and say "go to one in this time range," and you see it just by walking around. It has a broad and self-selectable range of legal risk (which often trades off with effectiveness) that includes 0. There is some risk of physical injury but that can be scaled by number of people per site, Etc.

Thats not to say its perfect. The part where its most not accessible is that it is in a specific location so travel and public and etc. More. But to highlight them when other concurrent strike tactics are failing at these in important ways.

jonny, to random
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I am finally finding a use case for these language models and wouldnt you know it the use case is spam.

jonny,
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Dear robot please waste a bunch of someone elses time thank you

NicoleCRust, (edited ) to random
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Those trixie admins hid it under flavors. Fixed!!! Rest assured, sanity has been restored to the universe. Whew; close one.

Sleep well tonight, everyone.

https://neuromatch.social/@NicoleCRust/112555253950259224

jonny,
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@NicoleCRust
Ok PHEW i was like no this shall not stand we will restore your dark mode

jonny, to random
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PERB just rejected UC's second motion for injunctive relief to stop the strike, and also issued a complaint that affirms basically the entirety of our ULPs. A complaint is the statement that PERB thinks theres enough evidence that a ULP took place to warrant beginning the hearing process. There has been a lot of concern and softpedaling tactics for fear of PERB enjoining the strike, but looks like they see it pretty favorably. So...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D0VpwqREl_D7RgNd87DPUDnZj9BRRfZF/view

jonny, to random
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As usual with Union organizing, I am at once filled with the high highs of being in the midst of a sea of solidarity, creativity, and bravery all pointed towards a better future and the low lows of being absolutely crushed and betrayed by the majority of my colleagues who see nothing wrong with scabbing through the entirety of a strike.

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