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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/

Artist/writer Molly Crabapple has a book coming out about the Jewish Bund, a secular Jewish labor organization (or organizations) in the early 20th century. If that sounds rather dry, I remember reading some of Molly's social media posts when she was starting to research the Bund, and they were fascinating. Not least because the Bundists seemed to be so far ahead of their time, socially and politically.

Available for pre-order now.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-the-story-of-the-jewish-bund-molly-crabapple/076afcc60cae1ffc

Several of the LLMs have produced inaccuracies which have been uncritically communicated to our customers by CrowdStrikers who failed to exhibit due diligence. Those errors were caught by said customers, and they were embarrassing to us all.
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Now we have an engineer, if you can call him that, working on a project that will introduce more than 30k lines of AI generated code into our codebase, without a single unit test. It will be impossible to do a proper code review on this much code and it will become a maintenance nightmare and possibly a security hazard. I don't need to tell you how much management is cheering on that.

From @brianmerchant@mastodon.social 's latest newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-ai-is-killing-jobs-in-the-tech

A ticking timebomb in the making. It's especially galling that CrowdStrike is doing this, given their epic fail just last year.

A while back I wrote in a post here:

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I've been fed up with my current job for a while, so what the heck, I'll post a request for something approaching my dream job: I'd love to use , perhaps in a terminal and/or with Postgresql, to make good, useful things in a remote environment (I'm in the U.S.) related to the realm of , , , or . If it were with a worker , even better.

Ha, dreams.

"I've long maintained that the threat from AI to workers isn't that AI can do your job – it's that an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job" - @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/07/rah-rah-rasputin/#credulous-dolts

Nike Says Its Factory Workers Earn Nearly Double the Minimum Wage. At This Cambodian Factory, 1% Made That Much.
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Nike has made an expansive effort to convince consumers, investors and others that it is improving the lives of factory workers who make its products, not exploiting them. A rare view of wages at one Cambodian factory tests this claim.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-wages-clothing-factory-cambodia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post