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The Register: Maryland man pleads guilty to outsourcing US govt work to North Korean dev in China . “A Maryland man has pleaded guilty to fraud after landing a job with a contractor working on US government software, and then outsourcing the work to a self-described North Korean developer in China. Minh Phuong Ngoc Vong is a Vietnamese-born naturalized US citizen. He recently pleaded guilty […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/02/the-register-maryland-man-pleads-guilty-to-outsourcing-us-govt-work-to-north-korean-dev-in-china/

The Verge: Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI. “Duolingo will “gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle,” according to an all-hands email sent by cofounder and CEO Luis von Ahn announcing that the company will be ‘AI-first.’ The email was posted on Duolingo’s LinkedIn account.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/30/the-verge-duolingo-will-replace-contract-workers-with-ai/

Anyone know any contract jobs for part time entry level Typescript backend programming roles?

3 to 6 months should be fine, but more interested in building up experience and potentially a portfolio while I get paid. I've been learning typescript for a friend who I just had a heated argument with (he has been a sexist ass the past few weeks) and not sure about the contract job he promised me after these two projects.

I've been mostly coding backend projects that use postswagger, express, and sequelize. Will complete these two projects and add them to my github repo, but interested in starting to do contract roles.

I am also interested in golang, but mostly entry level. I do have a lot of projects that use golang, but not sure I am good enough to code in it for a job. I do plan on learning c# properly in 3 months after I start working and making real money.

#ContractWorkers #techworkers #programming #backend #looking4work

The Conversation: Africa’s data workers are being exploited by foreign tech firms – 4 ways to protect them. “Since 2015, we have been studying the central role of African data workers in building and maintaining artificial intelligence (AI) systems, acting as ‘data janitors’. Our research found that companies rarely acknowledge the use of human workers in AI value chains, thus they […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/01/the-conversation-africas-data-workers-are-being-exploited-by-foreign-tech-firms-4-ways-to-protect-them/

The Register: Mental toll: Scale AI, Outlier sued by humans paid to steer AI away from our darkest depths . “Scale AI, which labels training data for machine-learning models, was sued this month, alongside labor platform Outlier, for allegedly failing to protect the mental health of contractors hired to protect people from harmful interactions with AI models.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/26/mental-toll-scale-ai-outlier-sued-by-humans-paid-to-steer-ai-away-from-our-darkest-depths-the-register/

Le Monde: Understaffed and overworked: Behind the scenes at France’s major museums. “Since 2023, France’s biggest museum has outsourced 90 reception and security positions to Musea. The difference in employment terms for Musea’s carefully disguised staff and those who work directly for the Louvre is significant: all perform the same tasks, but the Louvre employees are paid an hourly wage of […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/12/le-monde-understaffed-and-overworked-behind-the-scenes-at-frances-major-museums/

Does anyone have any info on notedsource.io? I've been spammed on LinkedIn, and I've gone through their site, sign-up, etc. and still can't figure out exactly what they do. I thought it was a place like upwork for academics, but so far it just seems like a startup trying to compete with #researchgate--a bunch of academics and nobody else. Not sure I understand how to use the service or what it's really for.

Any info is appreciated, because it's a little mysterious to me, right now.

#notedsource #research #jobs #information #advice #website #app #gigwork #contractworkers

Reuters: Google should be forced to bargain with contractor’s union, US labor agency says. “Alphabet’s Google is facing a second complaint from a U.S. labor board claiming that it is the employer of contract workers and must bargain with their union, the agency said on Monday.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/07/reuters-google-should-be-forced-to-bargain-with-contractors-union-us-labor-agency-says/

The Conversation: How gig platforms like Fiverr are reshaping the video game development industry. “In a recent study, we investigated what game development looks like on Fiverr. We reviewed a number of seller profiles to see what services were available, how much they cost and who was making them. Through this work, we learned that gig economy game development varies greatly from the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/07/the-conversation-how-gig-platforms-like-fiverr-are-reshaping-the-video-game-development-industry/

Ars Technica: Tech worker movements grow as threats of RTO, AI loom. “It feels like tech workers have caught very few breaks over the past several years, between ongoing mass layoffs, stagnating wages amid inflation, AI supposedly coming for jobs, and unpopular orders to return to office that, for many, threaten to disrupt work-life balance. But in 2024, a potentially critical mass of tech […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2024/12/29/ars-technica-tech-worker-movements-grow-as-threats-of-rto-ai-loom/

https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/corporation-contract-workers-strike-for-second-consecutive-day/article67446449.ece

#India: #ContractWorkers on #strike, not paid in full for months, retired employees not getting #pensions for over a year

#union #unions #strikes #Coimbatore #FullTimeEmployee #Privatization #Neoliberalism #ClassWar #Capitalism #Exploitation #AbuseOfPower #Corruption

This is the Alphabet Workers Union-CWA’s second election victory, though the union is not yet recognized by the National Labor Relations Board.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgwdzz/youtube-music-workers-just-unanimously-won-a-union-vote
#YouTube #Google #contractworkers #communicationsworkersofamerica #Union #election #alphabet #YouTubeMusic

Claim Journal News: McDonald’s Beats Back Challenge to Settlement With U.S. Labor Agency https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2022/04/22/310048.htm #NationalLaborRelationsBoard #workerdemonstrations #contractworkers #labororganizing #NationalNews #franchisees #Settlement #McDonalds

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