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  • Four Union Strategies to Fight on A.I.

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  • For the same reason we don't use tractors in union organizing, we also don't use AI.

  • Four Union Strategies to Fight on A.I.

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  • because your coworkers are more likely not leftist and talking about ideological points doesn't bring them on your side. The workplace is not an internet leftist theory chat.

  • Four Union Strategies to Fight on A.I.

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  • software, beyond Excel, doesn't really help with unionizing in any meaningful way. Why would you think of applying AI would do something?

  • Four Union Strategies to Fight on A.I.

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  • That's contradictory with the direct experience of most workers, where AI is something forced upon them by managers and that creates more problem than it solves. The minority using agentic AI is also probably harder to organize, so better relate to the majority that is discontent than the minority that is vibe-coding.

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    Four Union Strategies to Fight on A.I.

    labornotes.org /2026/03/four-union-strategies-fight-ai
  • Technology @lemmy.zip
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    Four Union Strategies to Fight on A.I.

    labornotes.org /2026/03/four-union-strategies-fight-ai
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    Four Union Strategies to Fight on A.I.

    labornotes.org /2026/03/four-union-strategies-fight-ai
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Four Union Strategies to Fight on A.I.

    labornotes.org /2026/03/four-union-strategies-fight-ai

  • The Red Herring Has Fangs - Digital sovereignty as nationalist camouflage

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  • yeah, and now they understood it's an existential threat and they are moving away. Real money is pouring to switch as fast as possible. Not saying it's good or done properly or serving the people of Europe, but the politicians have finally began to freak out about this stuff, also because it's a lot of money to be made.

  • The Red Herring Has Fangs - Digital sovereignty as nationalist camouflage

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  • You just discovered Marxists' way of writing. If they concerned themselves with specific contexts rather than general rules, we would have Communism by now. Instead we have a lot of analysis.

    Jokes aside, I think this article should be framed as a response to the recent European discourse (and piles of money) about ditching US infrastructure, which is generating several articles like this one.

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    The Red Herring Has Fangs - Digital sovereignty as nationalist camouflage

    disjunctionsmag.com /articles/fanged-red-herring/
  • Technology @lemmy.zip
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    The Red Herring Has Fangs - Digital sovereignty as nationalist camouflage

    disjunctionsmag.com /articles/fanged-red-herring/
  • technology @hexbear.net
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    The Red Herring Has Fangs - Digital sovereignty as nationalist camouflage

    disjunctionsmag.com /articles/fanged-red-herring/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    The Red Herring Has Fangs - Digital sovereignty as nationalist camouflage

    disjunctionsmag.com /articles/fanged-red-herring/
  • Technology @lemmy.zip
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    Moltbook was peak AI theater

    www.technologyreview.com /2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/
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    Moltbook was peak AI theater

    www.technologyreview.com /2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/
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    Moltbook was peak AI theater

    www.technologyreview.com /2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Moltbook was peak AI theater

    www.technologyreview.com /2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/
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    Corporate Targets for Tech Worker Activism Against ICE

    techworkerscoalition.org /blog/2026/02/22/corporate-targets-for-tech-worker-activism-against-ice/
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    Corporate Targets for Tech Worker Activism Against ICE

    techworkerscoalition.org /blog/2026/02/22/corporate-targets-for-tech-worker-activism-against-ice/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Corporate Targets for Tech Worker Activism Against ICE

    techworkerscoalition.org /blog/2026/02/22/corporate-targets-for-tech-worker-activism-against-ice/
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    the watchers: how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds

    vmfunc.re /blog/persona/
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    the watchers: how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds

    vmfunc.re /blog/persona/
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    Tesla calls police on IG Metall rep at Giga Berlin works council meeting before critical vote

    electrek.co /2026/02/11/tesla-calls-police-ig-metall-rep-at-giga-berlin-works-council-meeting-before-critical-vote/
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    Tesla calls police on IG Metall rep at Giga Berlin works council meeting before critical vote

    electrek.co /2026/02/11/tesla-calls-police-ig-metall-rep-at-giga-berlin-works-council-meeting-before-critical-vote/
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    Tesla calls police on IG Metall rep at Giga Berlin works council meeting before critical vote

    electrek.co /2026/02/11/tesla-calls-police-ig-metall-rep-at-giga-berlin-works-council-meeting-before-critical-vote/

  • Googlers Demand: Worker Safety & ICE Contract Transparency

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  • quitting doesn't halt the baby-grinding machine. Big tech can only be stopped from the inside. I even know some people getting hired there exclusively to cause trouble. You should respect their commitment rather than anything else.

  • Spotify vs. Anna's Archive

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  • since botting is so easy, probably they used a lot of accounts to access data that, in theory, is somewhat public. I mean, in an ideal world in which engineers have infinite time sure, they would have noticed, but I do investigations on platform apps for work and trust me, they miss a lot of more fundamental stuff.

  • Spotify vs. Anna's Archive

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  • spotify has a whole economy of bots signing up, uploading fake songs listened by other bots and earning lot of money in the process. I know several people living out of this. A little army of scraper bots is definitely not what they should be the most concerned about.

  • Do you have any ideas on how to attract people from centralized platforms to such as lemmy?

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  • don't attract individuals, attract entire groups of people. The idea of moving humans one by one when all of their friends are on centralized platforms will only attract lonely people, who won't be able to promote the platform. The growth will eventually halt.

    Move entire communities that are already connected: specific identities, followers of famous people (which should be onboard with the plan), specific subreddits and so on.

  • Tech Workers Coalition 101 - Onboarding & Overview event Feb 10th

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  • People don't use forums anymore. Union organizing requires big numbers and being comfortable with being visible.

    The URL shortener for sure could be addressed and I invite you to join and contribute to improve that part of the stack. Nonetheless, TWC is not a hacker space or a space for tech experts. You need to use the tools people already use and meet them where they are at. Using niche tools people are not familiar with introduces friction and barriers, that filter out people without tech skills, or without the attention and time to learn a new tool and incorporate it in their routines. Most tech workers are not programmers, remember that. Also people who are too privacy-focused and tech-focused tend to be bad organizers: union organizing implies risks and exposure, and you have to be comfortable with that, while privacy-focused people want to minimize individual risk by staying hidden. For sure privacy of your communication from the employer or the government plays an important role, because it might give sensitive information to your enemy, but if retaining privacy prevents you from having impact, it's pointless to even start.

  • Tech Workers Coalition 101 - Onboarding & Overview event Feb 10th

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  • I'm part of TWC and the organization of this call and I'm Italian. There are different timezones but it's obviously hard to include all of them. Including UTC wouldn't help most people.

    The very fact that there are two events for two distinct timezones doesn't suggest there's an attempt to reach out to a bigger crowd?

  • Tech Workers Coalition 101 - Onboarding & Overview event Feb 10th

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  • Because self-hosting adds complexity and friction, something that impact-oriented organizations might not be able to afford. TWC uses self hosting on more sensitive data anyway, just not on these tools.

  • Tech Workers Coalition 101 - Onboarding & Overview event Feb 10th

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  • The Global chapter of Tech Workers Coalition

  • Tech Workers Coalition 101 - Onboarding & Overview event Feb 10th

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  • The Session A time zone is good for Europeans too. Session B I guess could work for East Asia.

    Why do you see this as USA-only?

  • Why I'm Leaving Big Tech

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  • No union in the world asks rates that high. You've been probably have been served some kind of management union busting material if you have ever seen a number that high. 3% is considered very high already.

    Anyway AWU is not necessarily trying to bargain for higher wages, but they do work on better job security, better working environments, fairness against abuses, sexual harassment and similar stuff, and obviously they support the political work of anti-genocide groups within Google.

    There's always a reason to join a union if you're a worker.

  • Why I'm Leaving Big Tech

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  • I would add exploitation of precarious workers both in the USA, Europe and third-world countries. That said, were you involved in Alphabet Workers Union? If not, why?

  • Why I'm Leaving Big Tech

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  • He's a brown guy immigrated to NA and writing on a Marxist magazine. I don't believe in reducing the personal to the biographical like Americans do, but also I think you can guess the answer to a few of your questions.

  • retirement savings in Germany, how much do I need?

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  • Also consider the form of these savings. Keeping everything in financial assets might be very dangerous on the very long term. The chances of a world war and/or a financial collapse of the West are relatively high and you don't want a hyperinflation crisis to destroy all your savings. It happened in Germany, it is happening again in some parts of the world, it will happen again.