Meta pauses employee tracker for AI training amid privacy concerns: Funnily enough its employees were not fans of ‘a tool that tracked staff keystrokes, mouse clicks and content displayed on computer screens in order to collect data for training its AI models’.
The workplace
2026-06-25
2026-04-27
Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They’re the Bad Guys: ‘Right as they picked up the call, one of them asked, “Are you tracking Palantir’s descent into fascism?"’
2026-03-14
What do coders do after AI?: Somewhat depends on whether you like coding as a craft in itself or endure it as a means to an end.
2026-02-21: Companies are trying to force their employees to use generative AI
2026-02-20
2026-02-07: An experiment suggests that using AI 'impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities' when it comes to mastering programming tasks
2026-01-06: FTSE 100 CEOs have already earned more than you probably will all year
2025-11-05: Sarah Wynn-Williams' book 'Careless People' exposes the ethical horrors of how Facebook is run
2025-10-25
AI eats leisure time, makes employees work more, study finds: “their effect has been to make people work more while benefiting less from their labor.”
2025-09-10
The Job Market Is Hell: Masses of people using AI being filtered with AI when applying to rather fewer jobs whose descriptions have been written by AI.
2025-09-04: Finally, some good news: …calling your boss a dickhead is not a sackable offence, a tribunal …
2025-08-26
2025-06-22: Meta are apparently offering AI experts $100 million to come work for them
2025-05-11
‘It’s an illogical job’: Why driving a train isn’t as cushy as it might seem: A lot more training, exams and hours worked than one might have imagined.
2025-04-29: Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk is a somewhat hagiographic telling of his life up until 2023.
2025-04-02
Useful Renumeration: A work-focused positive potential vision of the future, in stark contrast to anything Curtis Yarvin might have to say.
2025-03-26: Florida to replacement immigrant workers with…child labour
2025-03-26
2025-03-18
The future of Amazon coders is the present of Amazon warehouse workers: Big tech will start mistreating its programmers as much as its warehouse workers the minute it can get away with it.
2025-03-16: 📚 Want to read Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams. …exposes both the personal and …
2025-03-14: Revealed: how the UK tech secretary Peter Kyle uses ChatGPT for policy advice. …
2025-03-10: OpenAI reportedly plans to charge up to $20,000 a month for specialized AI ‘agents’ …
2025-03-05: British pharma company GSK uses the US president as an excuse to 'pause' its DEI programs
2025-03-05: The Great Post Office Scandal tells the story of one of biggest miscarriages of justice in the UK's recent history
2025-01-12: This seems like it should be illegal. From today’s Observer: A new payment system brought in …