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United Tech & Allied Workers, organising across UK & NI | The first union for tech workers, by tech workers | A branch of CWU | 📧 contact@utaw.tech
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Article here by @mickeycarroll.bsky.social news.sky.com/story/we-wou...
'We wouldn't let our children on the app': TikTok moderators warn users may be at risk after redundancies
In August, TikTok said it was making redundancies in order to "concentrate operations in fewer locations" and develop the use of AI in moderation, in part to protect human workers from seeing harmful ...
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September 19, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Nik's thesis is fascinating - tech leaders don't lead, buying software as a means of putting the responsibility for their company's future on someone else's back, allowing them to do specious TED talks and as little work as possible.
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Everyone, even grifters, would actually prefer clear and unambiguous wins of the sort you’d get from solving the problems above. The preferred way to defeat your political opponents and other companies is force-of-arms, not grifting. If you’re the one person that gets their projects delivered on-time, at high-quality, without the need to lie, then you’ll have a great career. The issue? Society does not systematically produce nearly enough people who can do this. In their absence we select people who are either deliberately lying or so vapid that they really do think they’re incredible despite all evidence to the contrary. None of this helps them ship software, but it does make it easier to accept awards on stages and maybe get a TED talk one day, fantasies of which put them in danger of orgasm. They do not have the ability to address the hard problems, because they cannot even perceive the problems accurately.
July 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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The AI jobs crisis is not the sudden displacement of millions of workers in one fell swoop—instead, it’s evident in the attrition in creative industries, the declining income of freelance artists, writers, and illustrators, and in corporations’ inclination to simply hire fewer human workers.
May 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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"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."
April 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM