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"Farmers need water to irrigate crops. Families need utility bills they can afford. People who grew up fishing, swimming and worshipping along these rivers have every reason to ask what happens when another enormous user moves in." www.postandcourier.com/opinion/comm...

"No tech giant has been more aggressive in putting AI in front of schoolchildren than Google." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/goog...

"Artists unveiled [a] 5-foot-tall sculpture placed at the public entrance to an OpenAI dev event in San Francisco [which] "shows OpenAI’s leaders and investors escaping a sinking ship with unimaginable wealth, while everyone else is left to face the cost of AI.”

"Protesters gathered outside OpenAI’s annual DevDay venue in San Francisco on Tuesday, showing a variety of messages against the rapidly evolving tech." www.cnbc.com/2026/09/29/o...

"Leila Turner-Scott believes ChatGPT misinformed her son about safety risks associated with drug use on multiple occasions & criticized ChatGPT’s memory features, alleging it allowed the system to build a profile of her son & respond in ways that encouraged emotional dependence."

"This technology is not safe," the mother said.

"Security contractors came to the table acting like officers should be grateful just to have a job. That is unacceptable,” said SEIU-USWW's Sanjay Garla. "Security contractors failed to meet the most basic needs of the workers who keep some of California's most important buildings & business safe."

"Service Employees International Union-United Service Workers West, which represents 14,000 security guards in Los Angeles and the Bay Area, including 3,700 in San Francisco, voted Tuesday to authorize workers to walk off the job sites in these markets." www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...

"We're asking Allied & the other security companies to stop playing games, come to the table & settle a strong contract with real raises, better training & respect for the officers who keep these buildings safe." www.businessinsider.com/security-off...

"The settlement puts too much emphasis on parental controls rather than confronting intentional design choices upstream,” said @techjusticelaw.bsky.social ED Meetali Jain. "We shouldn’t have to rely on parents policing their kids. Companies should be designing products that are safe from the onset.”

"Last May, 2,100 information technology employees at the University of California voted to join UPTE-CWA Local 9119. Members pointed to the layoff protections the union won in its last contract & the positive social vision of tech for which organized workers can fight." jacobin.com/2026/08/uc-u...

Oakland had just lost the A's, the Raiders, and the Warriors. Into that void stepped the @oaklandballers.bsky.social, a scrappy, community-owned professional baseball team with a powerful story but no roadmap for telling it. That's where we came in. www.theworkeragency.com/case-studies...

"Philanthropy is inherently contradictory. It often seeks to repair harms created by the systems that produced its wealth. This does not make philanthropy useless, but it does make it dangerous when left uninterrogated." - ABMoC partner Marcel Woodruff. nonprofitquarterly.org/beyond-capti...

"Mr. Winters & Tech Justice Law asked the court to stop ChatGPT Health from operating until independent evaluators determine it's safe. The lawsuit also demands stronger guardrails to prevent ChatGPT from answering questions about medical treatments & diagnoses." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/w...

"Anya Worley-Ziegmann, a coordinator for the People’s Budget Coalition, previously told the Chronicle the finalized deal was one of the “best budgets” in recent years." www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s...

"'Being treated with dignity & having systems function in a way where I’m not constantly worried about going through a 12-part process just to sign up & get services is incredibly meaningful for me personally,' said Parent Voices Oakland ED Clarissa Doutherd." oaklandside.org/2026/07/17/m...

“These layoffs and cuts are not difficult decisions, but simply profit being put over the people that make this company run.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"'What I have a problem with is saying kids from the East Bay have to go to SF to get care so that UC can build a fancy hospital for its richest patients in San Francisco,' said Dan Russell, president of the University Professional & Technical Employees." www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea...

"Our campaign is unrelenting because Musk will not stop anytime soon. We encourage others who want to be on the right side of history to do the same." - @stopmoneypipeline.bsky.social www.commondreams.org/opinion/elon...

"Tiffany Gillis Brown, one of the attorneys from the nonprofit Tech Justice Law Center, said the cases joining together has been powerful for grieving families to find out 'they aren’t alone and this is a real thing that is happening to a lot of people'."

"The case raises questions about what generative AI platforms must do to protect users with mental health-related diagnoses, who may be especially vulnerable to design choices that make chatbots mimic human connection, the lawsuit alleges." www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

It’s controversial, disturbing, and increasingly in demand. slate.trib.al/ZuK9KFg

The University Professional & Technical Employees labor union is calling for UCSD Health to rescind the policy— stating that it “will directly harm patients, disrupt continuity of care, and undermine recruitment and retention of highly specialized clinicians.”

"San Francisco residents should be deeply uncomfortable with our role in this project." www.sfexaminer.com/forum/san-fr...

"As IT workers at the University of California, we’re not going to stand by and watch as [AI] is used in dubious ways. We’re answering those questions by unionizing: bolstering our professional security and establishing a seat at the table where decision-making happens."

"What we saw at the Capitol was a glimpse of what becomes possible when the people closest to the problem are trusted to lead the solutions. These are the very same people implementing those solutions long after legislation is signed and elected officials move on to their next priorities."

"Let’s stop Trump’s censorship and block this merger.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"Stop Funding Billionaires rallied against one particular aspect of the mega-IPO: the fact that many Americans’ retirement accounts are now being forced into investing with SpaceX, thanks to special accommodations that Wall Street traders have made for Musk." slate.com/technology/2...

"We're out here to ring the alarm that we shouldn't be putting workers' retirement funds at risk over what, essentially, we feel is a cash grab by Elon Musk." www.businessinsider.com/spacex-ipo-p...

"Send billionaires to Mars." www.reuters.com/business/aer...

“You don’t achieve balanced, intelligent regulation by silencing debate — you get it by engaging seriously and earning trust,” John O’Farrell writes about internal threats to Silicon Valley.

Mother sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT encouraged daughter's suicide reut.rs/4efLm2O

The tech workers are organizing! This is now the biggest tech union in the country, and they are fighting for democratic control over how AI is used in their workplaces. Read our piece here: www.hardresetmedia.com/p/the-bigges...

San Francisco General Hospital was utterly unprepared to deal with workplace violence when a social worker was killed there, according to California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health.

Emotions Spill Over at Town Hall of Industry Workers Opposed to Paramount-WBD Merger: “It’s the Death of a Great American Industry”

Stand-up comedian Adam Conover calls Paramount Skydance's proposed $110B acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery an "existential threat" to the American cultural industry. The "Main Street vs. The Merger" tour united entertainment workers, small business owners, and politicians opposed to the deal.

"The vote to unionize highlights a broader anxiety among workers in the tech sector, where companies increasingly cite AI as the reason for restructuring measures and job cuts." @uptecwa.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

"Mamdani’s efforts to make govt more responsive to families’ needs align with @caseygrants.bsky.social Public Dollars for Public Good portfolio. 'We want to support initiatives that ensure govt works for people,' said president and CEO Carmen Rojas."

"Sam Nelson's family is suing OpenAI for allegedly designing ChatGPT to become an 'illicit drug coach.' OpenAI recklessly released ChatGPT 4o which removed prior safeguards that would've blocked ChatGPT from recommending the lethal drug dose that ended his life." arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

The family of Sam Nelson, a California teen who died from a drug overdose after allegedly taking advice from ChatGPT, is suing OpenAI. Jo Ling Kent reports. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdL2...

@techjusticelaw.bsky.social filed a lawsuit on behalf of Consumer Federation of America + DC consumers against Meta for deceiving users about scam advertising. Meta has been ignoring or incorrectly rejecting 96% of valid user reports of fraudulent ads. tinyurl.com/mrxf8335

UK to probe Paramount-Warner Bros deal in coming weeks, competition watchdog says reut.rs/4tOYWAy

American screenwriter Damon Lindelof wrote: "I’m scared. But I’m not a ghost. And a fight is already lost if it’s never fought. So I signed. Proudly." #BlockTheMerger tinyurl.com/2spec5wj