This Monday, I had the pleasure of co-organizing a People's Consultation on AI event (background: https://www.peoplesaiconsultation.ca/) in Toronto with fellow members of Tech Workers Coalition Canada and members of @techfordemocracy. I had the special privilege of moderating a panel with amazing panelists: Cynthia Khoo, @anabrandusescu, Camila Justino, and Andrew Do. Lots of really engaging discussions and sense of collective solidarity! #PCAI #Canada

Photo credit: Nelson Wu

Abolish patriarchy.
Abolish colonialism.
Abolish imperialism.
Abolish capitalism.

Happy International Women's Day!

My "breakup letter" to Big Tech from last summer has been published in the inaugural issue of the Disjunctions magazine. Half a year later, the decision continues to feel positively transformative. We don't need to remain complicit in genocides, ecological devastations, worker disempowerment, and in building the infrastructure for fascism. We can and must do better.

Read it here: https://disjunctionsmag.com/articles/why-leaving-big-tech/

Slides from my keynote address at FIRE - Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation titled "Emancipatory Information Retrieval: Radically Reorienting Information Retrieval Research to Resist Corporate and Authoritarian Capture of our Information Ecosystems". #FIRE2025

https://bhaskar-mitra.github.io/files/emancipatory-ir-fire2026.pptx