NYT Tech Guild
NYT Tech Guild  ·  2 months ago
We fought hard for this contract because we love our jobs. And now, thanks to our members and support from our siblings at #NYGuild, #NewsGuild, CODE-CWA, CWA District 1, the New York City Central Labor Council, New York State AFL-CIO and all of YOU, we have a historic deal.

#NYTimes#NYT#NYTGames#GuildBuilds#SolidarityStreak#BreakMyStreak#UnionStrong#UnionMadeNYC#Strike#Union#Unions #Tech#Election#Election2024#Labor#CollectiveBargaining#Contract#NewsGuild#CWA#Solidarity

JW Prince of CPH
JW Prince of CPH  ·  3 months ago
"When you have a boss for an app, your real boss gets an accountability sink, a convenient scapegoat that can be blamed for your misery.

The fact that this makes you worse at your job, that it loses your boss money, is no guarantee that you will be spared. Rich people make great marks, and they can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. Markets won't solve this one – but worker power can..." - @pluralistic

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113548349587821374 #business #ai#tech #regulation

JW Prince of CPH
JW Prince of CPH  ·  4 months ago
"Humans in the loop experience "a diminished sense of control, responsibility, and moral agency." That means that they feel less able to override an algorithm – and they feel less morally culpable when they sit by and let the algorithm do its thing..."

This technology is fundamentally harmful, even if some useful applications can be found. Like how certain deadly venoms have medicinal applications.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113396440337744404#AI#tech #business @pluralistic

JL Johnson :veri_mast:
JL Johnson :veri_mast:  ·  4 months ago
One of the reasons I still listen to @TWiT after all these years is to pick up on “nuggets.” Like this: TIL (via @pluralistic) a nonprofit called Calyx uses a provision in FCC spectrum licensing agreements to resell unlimited mobile bandwidth on the cheap, and with privacy built in. Hot damn! https://calyxinstitute.org/membership/internet #internet#tech #nonprofit#TIL#TodayILearned
Pachacutec
Pachacutec  ·  5 months ago
Has anyone seen any good discussion or analysis of the potential long term impact the Israeli pager explosives attack may have generally on mass consumer confidence, not only in Israeli tech, but in consumer tech generally?

How on the nose is it to demonstrate so cleanly that the tech you buy is not trustworthy, harms people, is designed to exploit you, and may even. . . kill you? cc @pluralistic

#privacy#tech #ai#Israel#Terrorism#Fascism#Democracy #labor #gaza

Pachacutec
Pachacutec  ·  5 months ago
@pluralistic This video essay touches on some of what I have been wondering about.

The channel is mostly China propaganda but the analysis of western espionage and potential impacts is not wrong, and at least reflect what China, the largest trade partner for most of the wold's countries, will be saying about Western tech globally.

#tech#IT #geopolitics#Israel #terrorism #gaza#china #imperialism #politics #economics

https://youtu.be/CGnVF55Eu0o?si=0OMlPEaaeuF_qu1z

Pachacutec
Pachacutec  ·  5 months ago
Has anyone seen any good discussion or analysis of the potential long term impact the Israeli pager explosives attack may have generally on mass consumer confidence, not only in Israeli tech, but in consumer tech generally?

How on the nose is it to demonstrate so cleanly that the tech you buy is not trustworthy, harms people, is designed to exploit you, and may even. . . kill you? cc @pluralistic

#privacy#tech #ai#Israel#Terrorism#Fascism#Democracy #labor #gaza

JW Prince of CPH
JW Prince of CPH  ·  7 months ago
This is the kind of #enshittification that should get even @pluralistic to raise his eyebrows, Zimmerfield style 😳

Just so we're clear: You can take a 20-year old mouse, plug it into your current computer & it works. These things already last forever; I've never seen one expire. What #Logitech wants to do is END this, putting a locking mechanism in your mouse that you have to pay them to not trigger.

If this isn't illegal, it needs to be.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/logitech-has-an-idea-for-a-forever-mouse-thatrequires-a-subscription/ #business#tech

JW Prince of CPH
JW Prince of CPH  ·  7 months ago
"Imagine if Walmart – one of the biggest book-retailers in America – had a policy that said that you could only shelve the books you bought at Walmart on shelves that you also bought at Walmart. Now imagine that Walmart successfully argued that measuring the books you bought from them and using those measurements to create your own compatible book-case violated their IP rights!..." - @pluralistic

https://mastodon.social/@dblume/112874246535619110#IP #business#tech

JW Prince of CPH
JW Prince of CPH  ·  7 months ago
"The platforms have rigged things so that you must have an account with them in order to function, but they also want to have the unilateral right to kick people off their systems. The combination of these demands represents more power than any company should have, and Big Tech has repeatedly demonstrated its unfitness to wield this kind of power..." @pluralistic

https://dice.camp/@pteryx/112831326650512796#cloud #crowdstrike#tech #business