Lilly Irani<p>Hi y&#39;all! I&#39;m a writer, researcher, and organizer living on unceded Kumeyaay land. I&#39;m Faculty Director of the <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Labor</span></a> Center at UC San Diego as my day job, where I profess in the <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Communication" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Communication</span></a> dept, the Science Studies <a href="https://social.coop/tags/sts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sts</span></a> program, and the <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Design" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Design</span></a> Lab. I write about <a href="https://social.coop/tags/techworkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>techworkers</span></a> serving capitalism and fighting capitalism. I help build <a href="https://social.coop/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tech</span></a> people want (eg Ride United <a href="https://social.coop/tags/coop" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>coop</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/taxi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>taxi</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/app" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>app</span></a>) and fight the tech we don&#39;t. I helped found AI data worker project <a href="https://social.coop/tags/turkopticon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>turkopticon</span></a>. Former coop kitchen manager.</p>