Phenomenal quote from @pluralistic in this post
#labor #union #laborpower
#labor
See tagged statuses in the local bookrastinating.com community
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 #Labor #History Association
and get your calendar
you can also order calendars in bulk
annoy the boss by posting one in every break room
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 #Labor #History Association
and get your calendar
you can also order calendars in bulk
annoy the boss by posting one in every break room
The jobs left open by the deportation of so many immigrants remain unfilled.
I thought for sure that MAGA supporters would have swooped in and taken all those backbreaking, low paying jobs.
Afterall, it was Trump supporters who were complaining that immigrants were stealing their jobs so why aren’t they stepping up?
#MAGA #deportations #immigration #trump #ice #republicans #news #jobs #labor
‘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
#ProPublica #ProPublicaGuild #NewsGuild #journalism #nonprofit #labor
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/
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/
Labor Day: A time when retailers hold large sales and keep workers laboring in spite of the holiday.
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.
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.
Congratulations to Raven Software!
Raven Software gets its union contract with Microsoft three years after voting to organize
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.
...
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:
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.
...
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:
under Taylorism the workers who actually do the work and know it best no longer have a say (opinion) in how that work gets done. Pseudo-scientific principles (scientific management, the astrology of MBAs) dictates all. Computers, from the very first, were intended and designed for this purpose.
riffing on what a lousy person Charles Babbage was and the lousy anti-worker plans he had for the proto-computers he designed. Among other things generative AI is another manifestation of the MBA pseudoscience known as scientific management and exists in a long line of digital technologies stretching all the way back to Babbage's.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #tech #dev #computation #ComputerScience #labor #organizing
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 #OpenSource #RustLang, 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 #gardening, #wildlife, #vegan, or #labor. If it were with a worker #cooperative, even better.
Ha, dreams.
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 #OpenSource #RustLang, 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 #gardening, #wildlife, #vegan, or #labor. If it were with a worker #cooperative, 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
"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
#News #Nike #Cambodia #Labor #Work #Abuse #Exploitation #Business
