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From September 20, 2024:
Expert who coined presenteeism term says employers who force staff back are dinosaurs ↗︎
↳ I’m not sure they’ll care, they are frequently called worse. The added benefit (for them, duh) is they destroy our mental health and the planet by forcing us into open plans. — added 6:00am on 20/09/24 ❧
Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water — AI data centers also raise power and water bills for nearby residents ↗︎
↳ *Planet killers* that just string together human authors existing sentences in pseudo random order. Cool. — added 5:30am on 20/09/24 ❧
From September 19, 2024:
Bright unintended electromagnetic radiation from second ↗︎
↳ I’m sure Elon and his sick cronies will care about this… — added 6:05pm on 19/09/24 ❧
‘The bear at the door’ ↗︎
↳ A deeply rotten industry. Head to toe. — added 7:13am on 19/09/24 ❧
Mozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December ↗︎
↳ Mozilla (corp) is really increasingly a garbage fire. Which is terrible for the internet. — added 5:27am on 19/09/24 ❧
Increasing minimum wage does not reduce jobs ↗︎
↳ It’s almost like this lie is perpetuated by capitalists to exploit your labour. — added 5:24am on 19/09/24 ❧
Israel detonates Hezbollah walkie-talkies a day after pager attack ↗︎
↳ In what way are these genocidal lunatics different from Russia? Oh they’re the “right kind of white” according to the US. Imperialism incarnate. — added 5:15am on 19/09/24 ❧
From September 18, 2024:
The Australian tenants who are charged to pay their rent ↗︎
↳ Rent seeking from renters - approved by the ALP (professional landlords first, MPs second), as usual. — added 7:26am on 18/09/24 ❧
From September 17, 2024:
Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week ↗︎
↳ They want workers to be miserable and backed into a corner. The “job market” only serves the capitalist. — added 6:06pm on 17/09/24 ❧
Our future: The AI panopticon ↙︎ — posted 17/09/24, tagged as AI futures, surveillance capitalism, billionaires, despotism.
Do you ever find yourself thinking that the billionaire capitalist class, bloated on the extracted value from wage-slaves, say things just to get a rise out of people? You’d be wrong...
Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure “citizens will be on their best behaviour” ↗︎
↳ They aren’t trying to hide it from you - they are saying it loud and clear. You will be a wage slave and you will be grateful. — added 9:21am on 17/09/24 ❧
Donald Trump Rushes to Fundraise Off Apparent Assassination Attempt ↗︎
↳ “But, we have to get over it. We have to move forward.” - Trump, about a school shooting, but here of course the money signs flash. — added 7:17am on 17/09/24 ❧
OpenAI is reportedly going all-in as a for-profit company ↗︎
↳ They aren’t ‘profitable’ as-is. Quite the opposite. And of course, the open in OpenAI stands for open to cash money, not open technology. — added 6:52am on 17/09/24 ❧
From September 16, 2024:
On burnout ↙︎ — posted 16/09/24, tagged as work, burnout, capitalism, exploitation.
Today I have been contemplating burnout...
PwC to start tracking working locations of all UK employees ↗︎
↳ The consulting firms like PwC, Deloitte, and so on are often the progenitors of intensification of micromanagement - I’m surprised this wasn’t already happening. — added 6:31am on 16/09/24 ❧