Chelsea Thompto
@cthompto@tldr.nettime.org  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

An email landed in my inbox today promoting a faculty retreat for my college with a large time slot on "AI for productivity". I responded in part with:

"I say this without exaggeration: There is no way to adopt generic AI tools (like LLMs) at an institutional level in a way that is ethical."

I hate that universities are often so willfully ignorant when it comes to adopting new technologies. As if they are somehow separate from the moral, ethical, and political implications of their development and use when they are in fact central to it.

#AI #criticalAI #futures #resist #academia #academicchatter #labor
Voting is Your POWER
@digyoursoul@universeodon.com  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

ICYMI: 9,000 Philadelphia city workers are on strike for the first time in 40 years as they fight for better pay, benefits, and more.

These workers provide essential services for their communities day in and day out. Philadelphia doesn’t run without them.

Solidarity!

#unions #unionstrong #union #Solidarity #labor #workers #power #philadelphia

https://bsky.app/profile/rbreich.bsky.social/post/3ltanmtwld324
David August
@davidaugust@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

No ok.

Source @thetimothysnyder@threads.net: https://snyder.sub stack.com/p/concentration-camp-labor

h/t @paula_rhodes@threads.net

#USpol #labor #labour #slavery#HumanTrafficking#ConcentrationCamp

Concentration Camp Labor Cannot Become Normal TIMOTHY SNYDER JUL 04, 2025 With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States. Concentration camps are sites of tempting slave labor. Among many other aims, the Soviets used concentration camp labor to build canals and work mines. The Nazi German concentration camp systemfollowed a capitalist version of the same logic: it drew in businesses with the prospect of inexpensive labor. We know this and have no excuse not to act.
Concentration Camp Labor Cannot Become Normal TIMOTHY SNYDER JUL 04, 2025 With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States. Concentration camps are sites of tempting slave labor. Among many other aims, the Soviets used concentration camp labor to build canals and work mines. The Nazi German concentration camp systemfollowed a capitalist version of the same logic: it drew in businesses with the prospect of inexpensive labor. We know this and have no excuse not to act.
Concentration Camp Labor Cannot Become Normal TIMOTHY SNYDER JUL 04, 2025 With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States. Concentration camps are sites of tempting slave labor. Among many other aims, the Soviets used concentration camp labor to build canals and work mines. The Nazi German concentration camp systemfollowed a capitalist version of the same logic: it drew in businesses with the prospect of inexpensive labor. We know this and have no excuse not to act.
Stefan Bohacek
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"If you let workers believe that AI will soon replace them, they are going to try as much as they can to hold on to their jobs, do everything the boss says and behave so that they are not going to be fired."

https://restofworld.org/2025/tiktok-moderators-turkey/

(CW for brief references to the types of internet content moderators have to deal with.)

#news #technology#TechNews #labor #unions#AI
Mx. Kit O'Connell — Hire me!
@oconnell@federate.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

I just created a short reel/video about the one-day #strike yesterday at Austin's #vegan deli, Rebel Cheese. Workers accused the business of laying off 5 employees after they began organizing a union.

You can view it for FREE on my Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/video-strike-at-132918738

#Austin#Texas #union #labor #workers #activism #protest #politics#USpol #news #local