The RAM shortage could get even worse if Samsung labor protests cut production
… If the union and management can’t come to an agreement, the union is planning an 18-day strike beginning on May 21st. …
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Labor and worker’s rights in tech
Labor If the myth of tech over the past decade has been one of constant innovation, algorithmic scale, and new products and devices that “simply work,” the truth is that all of those illusions were made possible by the obfuscation of labor: the contract content moderators who sanitize the feeds of … …
How Iran out-shitposted the White House
… The Minab strike was one of the first bombings on February 28th. When authentic footage of the Minab strike circulated on X, users accused the videos of being AI. Drone footage in Minab showed rows and rows of graves being dug for the victims killed in the strike, many of whom were schoolchildren. …
The attacks on Sam Altman are a warning for the AI world
… Protesters have targeted AI companies directly with tactics like hunger strikes. …
The DoorDash problem and the great AI browser fight
… If you’ve been at all thinking about how AI will interact with labor, well, here it is — Perplexity says explicitly that “software is becoming labor” to justify its agents accessing Amazon’s site in violation of Amazon’s terms of service. …
How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet
… They were like, “We need a labor peace here, “ and the National Labor Relations Act is a compromise. …
Rivian makes the iconic American car — but that may not be enough
… If they do, Scaringe is confident Rivian won’t get snowed under. “If the Chinese companies decide to produce domestically in the United States, those advantages disappear,” he argues. “The cost of labor for a Chinese company operating in the United States and the cost of labor for a US company oper… …
Ronan Farrow on Sam Altman’s “unconstrained” relationship with the truth
… Even though they think that they’re building a digital God that will somehow either eliminate all labor or create more labor, or something will happen. …
Microsoft AI chief on why it’s ‘dangerous’ to call AI ‘alive’
… And it’s an established definition in the literature, in labor market economics, for many, many decades. …
That UL logo is more complicated than it looks
… The company started a long time ago as Underwriters Laboratories. …
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