Useful Renumeration: A work-focused positive potential vision of the future, in stark contrast to anything Curtis Yarvin might have to say.
The workplace
2025-04-02
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: 📚 Finished reading The Great Post Office Scandal by Nick Wallis.
2025-01-12: This seems like it should be illegal. From today’s Observer: A new payment system brought in …
2025-01-09: From 404 Media: Meta’s HR team is deleting internal employee criticism of new board member, …
2024-12-22
Proud to be a blockhead: Doctorow covers several important concepts, including that of vocational awe: ‘People make art because it matters to them, and this trait makes workers terribly exploitable’.
2024-12-19
More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators diagnosed with severe PTSD: Spending hours a day looking at the worst humanity has to offer is damaging to one’s health.
2024-12-19: Moderating Facebook is giving their less privileged workers PTSD
2024-10-20
Get Me Out Of Data Hell: The day Nikhil Suresh’s software engineering work pushed him so far into the pain zone that he has to quit there and then.
2024-10-19
The Shareholder Supremacy: One of the many original sins of modern-day capitalism was when we decided companies should focus on pleasing their shareholders rather than their customers.
The Other Bubble: Why “Software as a Service” (SaaS) products - especially the enterprise-oriented offerings - often end up being so awful.
2024-10-15
The Art of Working Loudly: Don’t hold back from talking about what you’re working on.
2024-10-14
TikTok plans mass job cuts on UK moderation and safety teams: To be replaced by a mix of offshore workers that they can treat and pay a lot worse alongside cost-cutting ‘automation’ it sounds like.
2024-10-10
In pursuit of the Engineering Analyst: On the (fairly new) role of the analytics engineer.
New enforcement agency will protect workers’ rights as part of ‘watershed’ bill: Big fan of anything that shifts the balance of employer:employee power away from the total dominance of the former.
2024-09-28: 📽️ Watched Hidden Figures.
2024-09-28
The True Story of “Hidden Figures,” the Forgotten Women Who Helped Win the Space Race: Not all 1960s NASA brainiacs were bespectacled White men.
2024-09-27
Elon Musk says he wants free speech, but his track record suggests otherwise: Elon Musk is only really a ‘free speech absolutist’ when it comes to his own speech.
2024-08-14: 📚 Finished reading Starting & Running a Business All-in-One For Dummies by Colin Barrow.