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Your boss wants to use surveillance data to cut your wages https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/06/empiricism-washing/ @pluralistic

Combine monopoly, weak privacy law, weak competition law, and digitization, and you don't just make surveillance pricing possible – at that point, it's practically inevitable.

A robot in an old-fashioned frock coat. In one hand, he holds a giant magnifying glass. On the other stands a child laborer - a coal miner from the 1910s, squinting at the camera. Terrifying energy beams streak out of the robot's eyes into the glass and at the child. The background is an extremely dark, very roughed-up US 00 bill.

The Jungle. By Upton Sinclair.

It’s Chicago, almost to the start of the 20th century, and you’re a brand new Lithuanian immigrant trying to support a new wife, child, and relatives by working in the stockyards, but the system is structured to wear you down, trap you in poverty, and when things are worst, replace you with new immigrants.

4 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈

CW: anti-semitism

@bookstodon

Book cover featuring a sepia photo of stockyards

The calls for a nationwide shut down are growing louder, spoken by more and more people. January 30 NO WORK NO SCHOOL NO SHOPPING https://www.instagram.com/p/DT9ULZQjFUU/

hey folks we have a board members meeting tomorrow

so it's time again to remind you that if you want to spend ALL OF 2026 ABSOLUTELY GLORYING IN LABOR MOVEMENT HISTORY, EVERY SINGLE DAY then you should sign up now

join the Pacific Northwest Association

and get your calendar

you can also order calendars in bulk

annoy the boss by posting one in every break room

https://pnlha.org/join/

‘We, the staff who produce the work that has earned ProPublica a place at the forefront of journalism, have raised concerns for more than two years, but management has largely ignored us. We are now calling on you, as stewards of our beloved institution, to direct senior leadership to change course and avoid further damage to the company’s reputation by agreeing to our reasonable proposals.’

https://www.propublicaguild.org/updates/to-the-propublica-board-we-need-a-fair-contract-now

Just saw this chilling report by @alex of @dair describing Amazon's wage theft and surveillance of its workers:

https://www.dair-institute.org/projects/driven-down/

Sounds exactly like the reverse centaurs that @pluralistic warned us about, such as here:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/