I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

“Workers pushed out of the U.S. get rehired cheaper in India: The winner of this structural shift isn't the returning workers, nor local Indian talent. It's the U.S. Big Tech firms reabsorbing the same engineers into their Global Capability Centers (GCCs).” www.teamblind.com/blog/workers...

On the @convergencemag.com podcast, D&S's @cariatida.bsky.social & @aihathing.bsky.social talk about how AI adoption is hollowing out workers' rights and exacerbating inequalities — and how to build a future that prioritizes workers over the industry’s bottom line. convergencemag.com/podcast/ai-v...

NYC friends what are you doing on Thursday April 30? How about joining me and @alexhanna.bsky.social for our first ever live taping of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000? www.eventbrite.com/e/mystery-ai...

📣 New! @cariatida.bsky.social, @aihathing.bsky.social & Sanjay Pinto argue for understanding the sprint to create the "AI-first economy" not as the logical march of progress, but as a series of deliberate economic decisions that risk harming workers in ways old & new. datasociety.net/library/last...

The Bulletin made a short video presentation to accompany the article. It's great especially if you want to see me gesticulating wildly at every word I say (My parents used to call me Magnus Pyke when I was a child, and that clearly hasn't gone away) www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn8_...

Our hidden gem of the week details how tech doesn’t just “augment” work; it reshapes power, squeezing workers while boosting employer control. By @aihathing.bsky.social & @cariatida.bsky.social in @datasociety.bsky.social https://buff.ly/3EcmDOs

A decade ago I was like “I can’t help workers organize if I don’t understand tech” and read lots of data and society research to teach myself about it. Then I met the good people there and they helped even more. Today, I am humbled and honored to join the board. What a life!

In Voxeurop, Hubert Guillaud looks at the findings of @aihathing.bsky.social & @cariatida.bsky.social's recent primer on generative AI and labor. "AI means that workers are being reduced to the sum of their data,” he writes. voxeurop.eu/en/artificia...

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The MAGA-version of Uber has arrived: no insurance or vetting for drivers, a race-to-the-bottom for fares, no taxes paid, and $100m in fines. “Empower is trying to out-Uber Uber,” said Katie Wells, a labor expert and a co-author of the book “Disrupting D.C." www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/t...

@aihathing.bsky.social & @cariatida.bsky.social have a new @datasociety.bsky.social must-read! "The labor impact of genAI spans a vast landscape of workforces, processes & geographies, even as AI co.s [say] that genAI merely enhances efficiency & automates drudgery" datasociety.net/library/gene...

Excited to share new primer written w/ @aihathing.bsky.social on genAI & labor: genAI doesn't exist outside of industries' economic conditions, inequalities & power dynamics, and often are extensions of banal extractive trajectories we're already well familiar with. datasociety.net/library/gene...

We spent months digging into the booming AI influencer industry. People are brazenly stealing content from human models and adult content creators and Instagram does not give a damn www.404media.co/inside-the-b...

Awful. OpenAI (and other AI cos) are making a hard push for getting AI into K-12 schools, which they see as a burgeoning market. Most teachers I've spoken to, meanwhile, say AI is terrible. Outside of computer class, there should be no gen AI in K12 schools, period. techcrunch.com/2024/11/20/o...

Infinite Growth Forever: global-tetrahedron.com

Outsourcing decision making to AI isn’t much better than flipping a coin or throwing dice, Judith Donath tells @kashhill.bsky.social. “At some point there was a human source for the ideas there. But it’s been turned into chum.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...