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> AI is helping students be more independent, but the isolation could be career poison https://themarkup.org/artificial-intelligence/2025/07/16/ai-is-helping-students-be-more-independent-but-the-isolation-could-be-career-poison
Translation: Students can get all they need from the #AISlop machine, except the "soft skills" like actually talking to people, networking, and communicating with humans. But hey, it's the wave of the future.
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
NEW: The labor and wage theft dispute between New York home care workers and the Chinese-American Planning Council is boiling over at a critical time, as New York City elects a new mayor and federal Medicaid funding is on the chopping block.
“This has truly destroyed our lives,” one retired worker said. “The pain is indescribable.”
#Deregulation, and #UnionBusting do not appeal to me. I will not be voting for these #Democrats either. If we have #abundance then #billionaires can pay their taxes, and #corporations can adhere to #regulations
> #Democrat.s are embracing the #abundanceMovement, which promises to rein in Big #Government, Big #Labor and other #leftWing staples, saying they impede #housing, public transit and #greenenergy projects
No ok.
Source @thetimothysnyder@threads.net: https://snyder.substack.com/p/concentration-camp-labor
h/t @paula_rhodes@threads.net
#USpol #labor #labour #slavery #HumanTrafficking #ConcentrationCamp
Union jobs provide economic and class advancement over generations. That's why billionaires and their Republican minions are so desperate to kill them.
#Unions #Labor #SupportLabor #TaxObsceneWealth #PayYourFairShare #VoteBlue #WGA #UAW #UPS #SAGAFTRA #OnStrike #SupportUnions #USPol
My #union, #CWA 9404, is having a strike school this evening. Our contract expired yesterday and we're still in bargaining. Consider making a contribution to our #strike fund. I hope it's not necessary, but we want to be ready.
#SanFrancisco #BayArea #labor #UnionStrong
https://www.gofundme.com/f/cwa-9404-strike-fund-support-seiu-1021-staff
not #boy or #girl - assigned at #birth a #lifetime of #debt and menial #labor in service of the #capitalist #oligarchy
https://t.me/tonhochannel/4826
"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.)
From The #Resistance #Garden on #BlueSky:
"#Liberatory #economics will necessarily include creating ways to #subsist that don't rely on #extracting #resources and #labor from elsewhere, not simply #distributing #imperial spoils more equitably."
"As Amazon pushes us harder, it creates organizing opportunities. People have already begun to fight back."
https://labornotes.org/2025/06/amazon-workers-defy-dictates-automation
No, You Aren’t Hallucinating, the Corporate Plan for AI is Dangerous
https://socialistproject.ca/2025/06/no-you-arent-hallucinating-corporate-plan-for-ai-dangerous/
#tech #ethics #ai #chatgpt #tiktok #geopolitics #labor
@humanities
@socialsciences
#education #technofascism #techbros
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon
#union #work #socialism #america #mexico #africa @watch_union
@ucl @unionsolidaires @UnicornRiot
> "Why We Have Fewer Friends Than Our Grandparents (And It's Not What You Think). Our drive for efficiency destroyed the "inefficient" moments where real relationships form—and we're paying the price in unprecedented isolation." by Phil McKinney
https://www.philmckinney.com/why-we-have-fewer-friends-than-our-grandparents-and-its-not-what-you-think/
Bottom line: Drive to efficiency and just get shit done. Then again, at least for me, I don't go to work to make friends (they are my coworkers, not friends, big difference).
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 …
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
Another day and another man having the sads. Dude, if my wife was the one making bank, believe me, I'd be happy to stay home and run the house. Dude, you got nothing to worry; it will not fall off.
> My wife's new higher salary has made me depressed and less confident. What can I do? VICKY REYNAL answers
https://archive.ph/HjdbM
