<p>"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.”"</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>
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<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&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/nike-trump-tariffs-impact-workers-prices?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&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&utm_medium=social&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>
<p><a href="/tags/fedify/" rel="tag">#Fedify</a> 1.6 is approaching with three major enhancements: RFC 9421 HTTP Message Signatures support with double-knocking for seamless backward compatibility, a new builder pattern for better code organization in large applications, and native <a href="/tags/cloudflare/" rel="tag">#Cloudflare</a> <a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#Workers</a> support for serverless deployments. These additions strengthen Fedify's standards compliance while expanding deployment flexibility across different environments. Stay tuned for the official release! 🚀</p><p><a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#ActivityPub</a> <a href="/tags/fedidev/" rel="tag">#fedidev</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/rfc9421/" rel="tag">#RFC9421</a> <a href="/tags/cloudflareworkers/" rel="tag">#CloudflareWorkers</a></p>
<p>[<a href="/tags/mexicocity/" rel="tag">#MexicoCity</a>, <a href="/tags/mexico/" rel="tag">#Mexico</a>]</p><p>Following the attempted murder of a <a href="/tags/trans/" rel="tag">#trans</a> <a href="/tags/woman/" rel="tag">#woman</a>. <a href="/tags/cops/" rel="tag">#Cops</a> just let the alleged perp go. So <a href="/tags/actionists/" rel="tag">#actionists</a> from the <a href="/tags/mexican/" rel="tag">#Mexican</a> <a href="/tags/sex/" rel="tag">#sex</a> <a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#workers</a> <a href="/tags/union/" rel="tag">#union</a> stormed the <a href="/tags/judicial/" rel="tag">#judicial</a> <a href="/tags/building/" rel="tag">#building</a>.</p><p>Via Ghost of Durruti</p>
<p>"As technologists, we are workers first. We cannot individually stop the machine of capitalism from exploiting our labor, and, while this tide will shift, many of us are too romanced by the technofuturist dream of [Large Language Models] — despite widespread, multidisciplinary criticism of the technology and disastrous consequences in its application so far — to easily reconsider our adoption of it."</p><p><a href="https://henry.codes/writing/economics-and-labor-rights-in-ai-skepticism/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="henry.codes/writing/economics-and-labor-rights-in-ai-skepticism/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">henry.codes/writing/economics-</span><span class="invisible">and-labor-rights-in-ai-skepticism/</span></a></p><p>via <span class="h-card"><a href="https://front-end.social/@henry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>henry</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#workers</a> <a href="/tags/workersrights/" rel="tag">#WorkersRights</a> <a href="/tags/essay/" rel="tag">#essay</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</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&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-firings-doge-fraud-law-job-performance?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&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&utm_medium=social&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>How Dems Come Back: Be Real; FIGHT <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> & His <a href="/tags/maga/" rel="tag">#MAGA</a> Mobsters - I debated Jonathan Larsen on <a href="/tags/substack/" rel="tag">#Substack</a>! </p><p>Check it out!! Then Subscribe!! </p><p><a href="https://www.blueamp.co/p/cliff-v-jonathan-fight-ordebate-about" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.blueamp.co/p/cliff-v-jonathan-fight-ordebate-about"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.blueamp.co/p/cliff-v-jonat</span><span class="invisible">han-fight-ordebate-about</span></a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#america</a> <a href="/tags/unitedstates/" rel="tag">#unitedstates</a> <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#democracy</a> <a href="/tags/sherrodbrown/" rel="tag">#sherrodbrown</a> <a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#workers</a> <a href="/tags/workingclass/" rel="tag">#workingclass</a> <a href="/tags/economy/" rel="tag">#economy</a></p>
<p>Meanwhile in Ireland, a cultural Basic Income (focussed on artists) has moved from pilot to sustained policy, with the confirmation of an ongoing programme of awarding 2,000 artists €18k per annum.</p><p>Interestingly the cost of the programme was less than the benefits to the Irish economy, and the artists in receipt of funds were able to switch earnings from non-art activities to work related to their art practice.</p><p>A more general lesson here for UBI?</p><p><a href="/tags/ubi/" rel="tag">#UBI</a> <a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#workers</a> <br><a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ireland-basic-income-artists-program-permanent-1234756981/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ireland-basic-income-artists-program-permanent-1234756981/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.artnews.com/art-news/news/</span><span class="invisible">ireland-basic-income-artists-program-permanent-1234756981/</span></a></p>
<p>In 1992, Cicih Sukaesih led fellow Indonesian factory workers in a strike, part of a movement that led Nike to create its first code of conduct.</p><p>She's proud of the example she set. But she described her work as incomplete, as problems remain, including chronically low wages.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-factory-workers-rights-indonesia-advocate?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/nike-factory-workers-rights-indonesia-advocate?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/nik</span><span class="invisible">e-factory-workers-rights-indonesia-advocate?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&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/indonesia/" rel="tag">#Indonesia</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/union/" rel="tag">#Union</a> <a href="/tags/strike/" rel="tag">#Strike</a> <a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#Workers</a> <a href="/tags/advocacy/" rel="tag">#Advocacy</a> <a href="/tags/humanrights/" rel="tag">#HumanRights</a></p>
<p>RE: <a href="https://hachyderm.io/@jzb/115904367311777942" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="hachyderm.io/@jzb/115904367311777942"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hachyderm.io/@jzb/115904367311</span><span class="invisible">777942</span></a></p><p>Interesting perspective!</p><p>"Imagine if AI/LLM tools were not shareholder catnip, but a grassroots movement of tooling that workers were sharing with each other to work less.</p><p>[...]</p><p>CEOs would be screaming bloody murder. There’d be an overnight industry in AI-detection tools and immediate bans on AI in the workplace."</p><p><a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#workers</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/workersrights/" rel="tag">#WorkersRights</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a></p>
<p>"It’s one thing when a taxi is replaced by an Uber or a Lyft. It’s another thing when the jobs just go completely overseas."</p><p><a href="https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymos-controlled-workers-philippines" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymos-controlled-workers-philippines"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">futurism.com/advanced-transpor</span><span class="invisible">t/waymos-controlled-workers-philippines</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/waymo/" rel="tag">#waymo</a> <a href="/tags/automation/" rel="tag">#automation</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#workers</a></p>
<p>为了这一点点提升，折腾 (</p><p><a href="/tags/misskey/" rel="tag">#misskey</a> <a href="/tags/objectstorage/" rel="tag">#objectstorage</a> <a href="/tags/s3/" rel="tag">#s3</a> <a href="/tags/cdn/" rel="tag">#cdn</a> <a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#workers</a> <a href="/tags/saas/" rel="tag">#saas</a></p>
