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A Value Critique of AI & Tech Worker Opposition
(techworkerscoalition.org)
This has nothing to do with personal consumption. Consumer politics are not going to do anything about AI
Tell you are not serious without saying it directly: nitpick on tools preferences when there are fascists in power killing people in the streets.
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Architectures of Change - Introduction to Practical Political Organizing
(architecturesofchange.xyz)
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Architectures of Change - Introduction to Practical Political Organizing
(architecturesofchange.xyz)
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Architectures of Change - Introduction to Practical Political Organizing
(architecturesofchange.xyz)
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Architectures of Change - Introduction to Practical Political Organizing
(architecturesofchange.xyz)
Everything made by humans can be destroyed by humans. No social system is forever. The rest is just skill issue.
It's Germany, they have labor rights that they want to uphold. This is a so-called "warning strike", to signal that there will be collective legal action if they get fired without abundant severance pay.
Basically TikTok doesn't want to negotiate with the union and the union is showing that there's support for collective legal action instead of a 1-on-1 dismissals that would cost the company way less. The company has an interest in negotiating because it's quite sure to lose the legal battle.
Here "replace" doesn't mean "being able to do the same job". It means you get fired. Automation in most fields never even tried to get close to a level of quality comparable to what a human can do, but it was enough to displace a majority of workers.
The author is a machine learning engineer, so he's perfectly aware of the limits of whatever is called AI. The point is to make those limits irrelevant by lowering the expected level of quality, as it happened with textile, food, and so on.
There's plenty of neo-nazis in the Free Software movement. It's "Free Software", not "Free People"
Pitting different types of workers against each other automatically promotes you to a scab. Purism and sectarianism are much more harmful to labor organizing than union busting.
I'm a union organizer in tech. My downvote was the 8th, not the 1st. I was busy doing a call with striking riders in Greece. Keep up the good work, scab.
Quit this bullshit. A lot of tech workers working remotely are contractors, precarious workers. Content moderators, data labelers, and the likes are not paid 6 figures and they are not privileged. Most of the workforce of these companies are not white, rich dudebros. Stuff like this adds insult to injury.
most cursed take of the day. This is a terrible system that turns workers in self-entrepreneurs, where most struggle and a few get a lot of money.
luck is not gonna help. Only action and organizing can save us. Join a union too.
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