And as a painful coda to Scott Farquahar’s #npc shenanigans shared earlier by @emmadavidson, here’s the other half (apparently the less warm one) firing 150 workers by video.

Sparkly new futurey jobs? No sign.

https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/114949668927182961

#underwork

Australian AI, from the #NPC all the way down thanks to @emmadavidson.

Shorter: don’t forget trains, something something digital embassies, stock options, teachers, automated screening, don’t think about Robodebt, ok jobs are a problem but they’ll be lost offshore anyway, and then we’ll have more jobs, and we can win at data centres, we won’t even need water because we can just use power, ok creative jobs, that’s a problem, but new jobs! we can still win this bike race.

#winning

https://aus.social/@emmadavidson/114939835473760741