🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

It's almost like some kind of organization of programers should exist, like every other skilled trade, to fight for work's rights and ownership of the products they produce 🤔 We could call it something like, I dunno, a union or whatever? 🤷‍♂️

This is not neo-Luddism, do not associate it with us at all please and thank you!!

Has anyone on here noted how much the cover of Abundance (2025) resembles Fossil Future (2022), by fossil fuel industry advocate and "for-profit think tank" Center for Industrial Progress operator Alex Epstein

New report out today! We tried to get service manuals and spare parts for products ... like what is required by Right to Repair laws. These companies be like ... what manual?

If you want excellent reading on big tech and AI, start here. Brian Merchant Karen Hao @emilymbender.bsky.social Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا)

I never want to hear OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, or Meta talk about AI as a "democratizing" force ever again. The 10-year ban on state AI laws may be dead, but don't forget what Silicon Valley tried to do — not least because they're likely to try again soon.

The response to this piece has been incredible. It quickly became one of my 3 most-read pieces, and I've been hearing more stories from workers ever since. Thanks to all who've read, shared, and reached out. May also have a couple new scoops to share before too long.

If *you* have dealt with AI in your workplace—if your boss is forcing it on you or your team, if it's causing your freelance work to dry up, if a manager is threatening to replace you with it, or even if it's made your life wonderful!—I want to hear about it: [email protected]

Nothing short of Medicare for All and a new New Deal will be enough to reverse the damage that Trump and Congress just did

Cannot believe that ICE money is going to be real

The debt, deportation, and death bill has passed. Congress further decimates care work to fund violence work. ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.

Brian Merchant This is a helpful formulation, constructing democratization claims with antidemocratic behavior. It’s actually puzzling that we haven’t seen that articulated so straightforwardly before!

Tax cuts for billionaires are permanent in the big Republican bill. Tax cuts on tips expire in 2028.

Was happy to sit for this a+ short doc on Silicon Valley's efforts to concentrate power and exempt its AI products from regulation, along with the great Sarah Myers West, ruchowdh.bsky.social, and others

“As readers of this newsletter know, it often will not matter whether AI or automation tools work well or at all—they nonetheless can be used to justify more expansive dragnets to scoop up, administer, and weaponize our data and more aggressive intrusions into our daily lives.”