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Thomas W
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> Tech workers can avoid the fate of the factory, warehouse and delivery workers their bosses literally work to death – but only by unionizing.
Tech workers are workers, and they once held the line against enshittification, refusing to break the things they'd built for their bosses in meaningless all-nighters motivated by vocational awe. Long after tech bosses were able to buy all their competitors, capture their regulators, and expand IP law to neutralize the threat of innovative, interoperable products like alternative app stores, ad-blockers and jailbreaking kits, tech workers held the line. There've been half a million US tech layoff since 2023. Tech workers' scarcity-derived power has been vaporized. Tech workers can avoid the fate of the factory, warehouse and delivery workers their bosses literally work to death – but only by unionizing. In other words, the workers in re-shored factories and tech workers need the same thing. They are class allies – and tech bosses are their class enemies. This is class war.
April 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Life update! Angie and I moved to Fruita in July. We're working, mountain biking, and getting into rafting. And we bought a house! Stop and say hi if you find yourself in western Colorado. I'm soon resuming my email updates, so message me if you need to be added to the "Tiny Letter" mailing list.
April 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Is the bsky Android app broken or am I doing something wrong?
Login screen for the Android app showing an error message
November 17, 2023 at 7:48 PM