"The point of AI isn't to make workers more productive, it's to make them weaker when they bargain with their bosses."
https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/some-animals/#are-more-equal-than-others
#AI #enshittification #techjobs #techworkers #JoinAUnion #ClassWar
It’s been a minute since I have actually seen Craig in my feed. I feel good but overwhelmed and getting stuff done, just not the right stuff…
But as your unofficial #InfoSec Shop Steward it’s time to stop working for the man, pick up the things that lift you, hobbies, family, friends, or if you’re like me, the trees.
#unionize #techworkers now✊
https://mstdn.ca/@CraigWeekend/114440720109202517
For years, North Korea has been secretly placing young IT workers inside Western companies. With AI, their schemes are now more devious—and effective—than ever.
https://www.wired.com/story/north-korea-stole-your-tech-job-ai-interviews/ #NorthKorea #Tech #IT #TechWorkers #Cybersecurity #Security #Hacking #AI
The fancy AI company, and every post on your bosses LinkedIn, is telling them that AI GIVES at least 30% of productivity boost. It doesn't matter the specifics.. It doesn't matter your opinion about it. They will push AI because, in their minds, they see profit potential. Also, they think that the competition is doing the same.
It's all about capitalists ambition and fear making pression in the weakest spot. The tech workers will be squeezed.
DeepMind London staff (~300) seek union talks. Key drivers: Google ditching its AI weapons/surveillance pledge and concerns over military contracts. Some staff already resigned feeling misled. #AIethics #Google #TechWorkers
😸 Looks like Google deleted its "no evil AI" pledge faster than your browser history! Now 300 DeepMind UK researchers are forming a union to remind Big Tech that AI safety isn't just a cute checkbox to toggle off. How ironic - AI researchers need human solidarity to keep AI ethical! #AIethics #TechWorkers
If you’re a Booking worker, and you think layoffs suck, come join tomorrow for the second and *final* info session organized by the Tech Workers Coalition for Booking workers on how to resist layoffs ✊
Friday 25 April, 13:00-14:00 CEST
Get the session link: https://techwerkers.nl/en/events/2025-04-25/
And you know what’s fun? (Read: not!)
If Booking CEO Glenn D. Fogel were to get fired for no reason, they’d get $111,026,960
And as a regular worker? What do you get??
At the same time as it’s making billions in profits, Booking is planning to lay off masses of workers at its Amsterdam offices.
Why?
Supposedly because … “organizational agility” 🤔
Do you know how much money Booking*com made in 2024? No??
$5.88 billion.
Yes, that’s **BILLION**.
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
Tech workers are leaving notes in robot taxis seeking workers and lovers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/12/waymo-handwritten-notes-jobs-ads/
#HackerNews #TechWorkers #RobotTaxis #LoveNotes #JobSearch #Waymo
"As tech workers, we have a moral responsibility to resist complicity and the militarization of our work before it’s too late."
Emma Jackson, who's been at Google for over 20 years, on the sickening realization that Google has turned into a genocide supporting arms contractor
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/google-employee-speaks-out-war-contracting/
A must-read piece from a tech worker at Google, arguing for a worker-led “AI arms embargo”: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/google-employee-speaks-out-war-contracting/
What sort of workplace action can you do without getting fired? (Or, well before getting fired?)
A guide from @techwerkers on legal protections for workplace action 🇵🇸 within Dutch law, prepared by an actual official Dutch labour lawyer :blue_elf_nail_care:
Includes:
Can I refuse to perform certain tasks with an appeal to conscientious objection?
Can I strike when I don’t agree with the activities of my employer because of conscientious objection?
Can I denounce my employer publicly or with other colleagues because of immoral activities based on conscientious objection?
Tech Workers Coalition is where tech workers come together to build collective power at work!
Do you want to learn more? Get involved? Join the onboarding call 😀
Tuesday 15 April at 5:00 pm (today!)
Register to get the link: https://bit.ly/twc101-apr2025A
By the way if you're interested in getting started with workplace organizing in tech, the tech workers coalition has a basic guide to get you going: https://techwerkers.nl/en/resources/organize/
Soooo what can you do once you've decided that you're going to do all you can to stop genocide in Palestine? Ibraheem suggests:
1) Organize
"You must join the other workers who are raising their voices against their employer for their support of this genocide."
This is where my clear tech workers bias shows. This shit has been prevalent in transportation, retail, chain restaurants, factory work, anywhere they have high turnover or hire and fire large groups of people regularly. I had Neighbor’s kids answer weird personality questions with the camera on to judge their fit for a role. That was for an analyst role at a large financial institution before this recent AI takeover!
