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<p>🦊</p><p>I am downright delighted to announce that my latest book, YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION, has a brand new look. I really love it, and I hope you do too.</p><p>Here’s a look at what’s changed and—maybe more importantly—what’s stayed the same:</p><p><a href="https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/refresh-a-new-look-for-you-deserve-a-tech-union/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/refresh-a-new-look-for-you-deserve-a-tech-union/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/refres</span><span class="invisible">h-a-new-look-for-you-deserve-a-tech-union/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/ydatubook/" rel="tag">#YDATUbook</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/blogging/" rel="tag">#blogging</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/techlabor/" rel="tag">#TechLabor</a> <a href="/tags/unions/" rel="tag">#unions</a> <a href="/tags/techunions/" rel="tag">#TechUnions</a> <a href="/tags/1u/" rel="tag">#1u</a></p>

<p>Nike Says Its Factory Workers Earn Nearly Double the Minimum Wage. At This Cambodian Factory, 1% Made That Much.<br>—</p><p>Nike has made an expansive effort to convince consumers, investors and others that it is improving the lives of factory workers who make its products, not exploiting them. A rare view of wages at one Cambodian factory tests this claim.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-wages-clothing-factory-cambodia?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/nike-wages-clothing-factory-cambodia?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/nik</span><span class="invisible">e-wages-clothing-factory-cambodia?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/nike/" rel="tag">#Nike</a> <a href="/tags/cambodia/" rel="tag">#Cambodia</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/work/" rel="tag">#Work</a> <a href="/tags/abuse/" rel="tag">#Abuse</a> <a href="/tags/exploitation/" rel="tag">#Exploitation</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a></p>

<p>A top official in the Department of Labor this week informed all staff members that they could face criminal charges if they speak to journalists, former employees or others about agency business.</p><p>“This message will serve as your only warning,” the memo stated.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/us-department-labor-leak-criminal-charges-threat?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/us-department-labor-leak-criminal-charges-threat?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/us-</span><span class="invisible">department-labor-leak-criminal-charges-threat?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/legal/" rel="tag">#Legal</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#Press</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#Media</a></p>

<p>&quot;Duolingo will “gradually stop using contractors to do work that Al can handle,” according to an all-hands email sent by co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn announcing that the company will be “AI-first.”&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/657594/duolingo-ai-first-replace-contract-workers" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theverge.com/news/657594/duolingo-ai-first-replace-contract-workers"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theverge.com/news/657594/d</span><span class="invisible">uolingo-ai-first-replace-contract-workers</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#workers</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/jobs/" rel="tag">#jobs</a></p>

<p>Former employees of a Nike clothing factory in Cambodia said they sometimes saw two or three people taken to an onsite clinic in a day. One described how he carried workers who were too weak to walk.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-factory-cambodia-fainting?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/nike-factory-cambodia-fainting?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/nik</span><span class="invisible">e-factory-cambodia-fainting?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/nike/" rel="tag">#Nike</a> <a href="/tags/cambodia/" rel="tag">#Cambodia</a> <a href="/tags/factory/" rel="tag">#Factory</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/work/" rel="tag">#Work</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a></p>

<p>A close look at Nike’s massive supply chain offers a case study in the possible ripple effects of the escalating global trade war and shows how vulnerable factory workers could get squeezed.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-trump-tariffs-impact-workers-prices?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/nike-trump-tariffs-impact-workers-prices?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/nik</span><span class="invisible">e-trump-tariffs-impact-workers-prices?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/tariffs/" rel="tag">#Tariffs</a> <a href="/tags/nike/" rel="tag">#Nike</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#Workers</a> <a href="/tags/trade/" rel="tag">#Trade</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a></p>

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<p>&quot;As cost unfortunately seems to have been a too predominant evaluation factor when organizing this, what you end up having is lower quality.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-08/klarna-turns-from-ai-to-real-person-customer-service" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-08/klarna-turns-from-ai-to-real-person-customer-service"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bloomberg.com/news/article</span><span class="invisible">s/2025-05-08/klarna-turns-from-ai-to-real-person-customer-service</span></a></p><p>Archived link: <a href="https://archive.is/wNUL6" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>archive.is/wNUL6</a></p><p>Via <a href="https://macaw.social/@jay/114489949358429781" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="macaw.social/@jay/114489949358429781"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">macaw.social/@jay/114489949358</span><span class="invisible">429781</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/jobs/" rel="tag">#jobs</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/remotework/" rel="tag">#RemoteWork</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>

<p>For Silicon Valley, AI isn’t just about replacing some jobs. It’s about replacing all of them</p><p>&quot;...I recently found myself at a dinner in an upstairs room at a restaurant in San Francisco hosted by a venture capital firm. The after-dinner speaker was a tech veteran who, having sold his AI company for hundreds of millions of dollars, has now turned his hand to investing. He had a simple message for the assembled startup founders: the money you can make in AI isn’t limited to the paltry market sizes of previous technology waves. You can replace the world’s workers – which means you can capture their salaries. All of them....&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/12/for-silicon-valley-ai-isnt-just-about-replacing-some-jobs-its-about-replacing-all-of-them" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/12/for-silicon-valley-ai-isnt-just-about-replacing-some-jobs-its-about-replacing-all-of-them"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/commentisf</span><span class="invisible">ree/2025/may/12/for-silicon-valley-ai-isnt-just-about-replacing-some-jobs-its-about-replacing-all-of-them</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/aipocalypse/" rel="tag">#aipocalypse</a> <a href="/tags/capitalism/" rel="tag">#capitalism</a> <a href="/tags/jobs/" rel="tag">#jobs</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a></p>

<p>oh my yes <a href="https://detroithistorical.pastperfectonline.com/archive/DC6A8DF1-B6EB-4BFE-9CC7-774147737354#gallery" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="detroithistorical.pastperfectonline.com/archive/DC6A8DF1-B6EB-4BFE-9CC7-774147737354#gallery"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">detroithistorical.pastperfecto</span><span class="invisible">nline.com/archive/DC6A8DF1-B6EB-4BFE-9CC7-774147737354#gallery</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/techlabor/" rel="tag">#TechLabor</a> <a href="/tags/laborhistory/" rel="tag">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="/tags/1u/" rel="tag">#1u</a></p>

<p>The exodus of corrections officers from federal prisons to ICE comes amid shortages of critical supplies, from food to personal hygiene items, for both staff and inmates.</p><p>It threatens to make the already grim conditions in these prisons even worse.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-bop-federal-prisons-corrections-officers?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/ice-bop-federal-prisons-corrections-officers?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ice</span><span class="invisible">-bop-federal-prisons-corrections-officers?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/prison/" rel="tag">#Prison</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/union/" rel="tag">#Union</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a></p>

<p>Trump Has Promised to Build More Ships. He May Deport the Workers Who Help Make Them.<br>—</p><p>President-elect Donald Trump has promised to increase the pace of U.S. military shipbuilding. But his pledge to also clamp down on immigration could make it hard for shipyards already facing workforce shortages.</p><p><a href="https://propub.li/3W0kw6k" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>propub.li/3W0kw6k</a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/military/" rel="tag">#Military</a> <a href="/tags/navy/" rel="tag">#Navy</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#DonaldTrump</a></p>

<p>Nike Repeatedly Raised Concerns About Repression in Cambodia. It Expanded Its Factory Workforce There Anyway.<br>—</p><p>Nike’s continued growth in Cambodia underscores the level of political and labor repression the company has been willing to tolerate in countries that provide inexpensive labor.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-employment-cambodia-labor-rights?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/nike-employment-cambodia-labor-rights?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/nik</span><span class="invisible">e-employment-cambodia-labor-rights?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/nike/" rel="tag">#Nike</a> <a href="/tags/cambodia/" rel="tag">#Cambodia</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/factory/" rel="tag">#Factory</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a> <a href="/tags/laborrights/" rel="tag">#LaborRights</a></p>

<p>&quot;Chief information and technology officers surveyed for BI indicated that on average they expect a net 3% of their workforce to be cut, according to a report published Thursday.</p><p>[...]</p><p>Nearly a quarter of the 93 respondents predict a steeper decline of between 5% and 10% of total headcount.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wall-street-job-losses-may-071500049.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="finance.yahoo.com/news/wall-street-job-losses-may-071500049.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">finance.yahoo.com/news/wall-st</span><span class="invisible">reet-job-losses-may-071500049.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/workersrights/" rel="tag">#WorkersRights</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>

<p>When the Casners signed the deed for their new child care center, their dreams felt within reach. But even a $600K loan wasn’t enough. They borrowed $200K from their retirement, and it took another 10 months for their doors to open.</p><p>Here’s why.</p><p><a href="https://propub.li/4j8yNbg" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>propub.li/4j8yNbg</a><br><a href="/tags/illinois/" rel="tag">#Illinois</a> <a href="/tags/childcare/" rel="tag">#ChildCare</a> <a href="/tags/parenting/" rel="tag">#Parenting</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a></p>

<p>Red State Voters Approved Progressive Measures. GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to Undermine Them.<br>—</p><p>In the wake of ballot measures that increased abortion access and improved sick leave for workers, a coordinated effort is unfolding across the country to restrict direct democracy — and shift power to partisan legislatures.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/red-state-ballot-initiatives-gop-republicans-florida-missouri?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/red-state-ballot-initiatives-gop-republicans-florida-missouri?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/red</span><span class="invisible">-state-ballot-initiatives-gop-republicans-florida-missouri?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/gop/" rel="tag">#GOP</a> <a href="/tags/republican/" rel="tag">#Republican</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#Democracy</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/abortion/" rel="tag">#Abortion</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a></p>

<p>ProPublica reporter Rob Davis began with a simple question: Had Nike truly become a beacon of environmental stewardship and fair labor practices, as it claimed?</p><p>To find the answer, he had to travel across the Pacific Ocean.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-labor-practices-cambodia-column?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/nike-labor-practices-cambodia-column?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/nik</span><span class="invisible">e-labor-practices-cambodia-column?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a><br><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/nike/" rel="tag">#Nike</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/work/" rel="tag">#Work</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a> <a href="/tags/cambodia/" rel="tag">#Cambodia</a></p>

<p>Texas’ understaffed agricultural, restaurant and elder care sectors rely on workers who are undocumented.</p><p>“If you got serious about applying [E-Verify], you would create even worse problems” with labor shortages, said a former GOP state lawmaker. </p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-e-verify-requirements-immigration?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/texas-e-verify-requirements-immigration?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tex</span><span class="invisible">as-e-verify-requirements-immigration?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/gop/" rel="tag">#GOP</a></p>

<p>Washington Governor Orders Team to Study Data Centers’ Impact on Energy Use, Job Creation and Tax Revenue<br>—</p><p>Last year, The Seattle Times and ProPublica reported on how the state created a massive tax break for data centers, encouraging the growth of an industry whose energy use conflicts with a goal for utilities to go carbon neutral by 2030.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/washington-data-centers-study-bob-ferguson?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/washington-data-centers-study-bob-ferguson?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/was</span><span class="invisible">hington-data-centers-study-bob-ferguson?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/washington/" rel="tag">#Washington</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#Data</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#Energy</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#Climate</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/taxes/" rel="tag">#Taxes</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/sustainability/" rel="tag">#Sustainability</a></p>

<p>The Trump Administration Keeps Citing an Untrue Stat as It Targets Federal Workers<br>—</p><p>A “survey of our niche audience for our niche audience” was the source for the claim that only 6% of federal employees are working full time in their offices. The number isn’t true. Why do the Trump administration and elected officials keep relying on it?<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-employees-work-from-home-trump-myth?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/federal-employees-work-from-home-trump-myth?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/fed</span><span class="invisible">eral-employees-work-from-home-trump-myth?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/wfh/" rel="tag">#WFH</a> <a href="/tags/work/" rel="tag">#Work</a></p>

<p>&quot;CEO Marc Benioff said Salesforce, San Francisco’s largest private employer, does not plan to hire engineers this year because of the success of AI agents created and used by the company.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://sfstandard.com/2025/02/27/salesforce-marcbenioff-layoffs-tech-agents/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="sfstandard.com/2025/02/27/salesforce-marcbenioff-layoffs-tech-agents/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sfstandard.com/2025/02/27/sale</span><span class="invisible">sforce-marcbenioff-layoffs-tech-agents/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/salesforce/" rel="tag">#salesforce</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/workersrights/" rel="tag">#WorkersRights</a></p>

<p>Washington Blues: A Government Town Faces a Gloomy Future<br>—</p><p>For years, Washington, D.C., was insulated from many of the economic forces that decimated many older U.S. cities. Now, as Elon Musk’s mass layoffs shake everything from employment to real estate, the region faces the prospect of decline.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/washington-dc-trump-musk-federal-government-cutbacks-gloomy-future?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/washington-dc-trump-musk-federal-government-cutbacks-gloomy-future?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/was</span><span class="invisible">hington-dc-trump-musk-federal-government-cutbacks-gloomy-future?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/washingtondc/" rel="tag">#WashingtonDC</a> <a href="/tags/economy/" rel="tag">#Economy</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a></p>

<p>Emails Reveal Top IRS Lawyer Warned Trump Firings Were a “Fraud” on The Courts<br>—</p><p>The Trump administration cited “performance” failures to justify its mass firing of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the administration had not conducted any such performance assessment.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-firings-doge-fraud-law-job-performance?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-firings-doge-fraud-law-job-performance?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-irs-firings-doge-fraud-law-job-performance?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/irs/" rel="tag">#IRS</a> <a href="/tags/tax/" rel="tag">#Tax</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#Workers</a></p>

<p>&quot;If you let workers believe that AI will soon replace them, they are going to try as much as they can to hold on to their jobs, do everything the boss says and behave so that they are not going to be fired.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://restofworld.org/2025/tiktok-moderators-turkey/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="restofworld.org/2025/tiktok-moderators-turkey/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">restofworld.org/2025/tiktok-mo</span><span class="invisible">derators-turkey/</span></a></p><p>(CW for brief references to the types of internet content moderators have to deal with.)</p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/unions/" rel="tag">#unions</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>

<p>&quot;Being pro-labor and pro-AI is incompatible, as AI devalues the work that actual workers do, making them less valuable to the market and easier to underpay going forward.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.vulture.com/article/ghibli-portrait-chatgpt-ai.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.vulture.com/article/ghibli-portrait-chatgpt-ai.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.vulture.com/article/ghibli</span><span class="invisible">-portrait-chatgpt-ai.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/workersrights/" rel="tag">#WorkersRights</a> <a href="/tags/ghibli/" rel="tag">#ghibli</a> <a href="/tags/studioghibli/" rel="tag">#StudioGhibli</a></p>