Oh good heavens, they really are trying to bring back the company store.

[elizayer@mastodon.social]

It would be great if I could go a day without seeing an article that points to the need to unionize.

I'd rather not think about @beep 's book at all, to be honest.

You Deserve a Tech Union — ethanmarcotte.com

Read this page on ethanmarcotte.com

(ethanmarcotte.com)

[beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com]

@elizayer Oh, lord. And from the companies already renting out shovels, no less.

[beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com]

@elizayer You and me both, honestly.

[elizayer@mastodon.social]

@beep Sigh. Thank you for doing the work I wish you didn't have to do.

[beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com]

@elizayer You too, Elizabeth.

[erikvorhes@typo.social]

@beep @elizayer —

16 tokens, and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
St. Peter, don’t you call me, ’cause I can’t go:
I owe my soul to the Google Play Store.

[2qx@mastodon.social]

@elizayer

The AI sector is buttressing the fossil fuel industry. LLMs are just their newest bottomless fossil fuel sink.

It's all being paid for with petro-backed fiat scrip. They want to pay for results by tonnage and have no regard for safety.
They want scarce housing and retail monopolies. They have to control workers' access to their doctors.

The Coalfield Wars never ended.

[beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com]

@erikvorhes erik

i need you to understand the rueful bark-laugh i just made

[erikvorhes@typo.social]

@beep — I imagine it’s similar to when I realized how few words I’d need to change to have the lyrics fit the situation. What a time to be alive, man.

[thirstybear@agilodon.social]

@elizayer Great as long as you can pay your bills & rent/mortgage with compute tokens as well ‍️

Also see ‘payment by exposure’

[thirstybear@agilodon.social]

@elizayer @beep For UK based folks, check out the TUC's find a Union helper. And remember, it is *illegal* in the UK for employers to stop you from joining, or discriminate against you for being part of a union.

Just a moment...

(www.tuc.org.uk)

[beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com]

@erikvorhes You said it, pal.

[timswan@mastodon.social]

@elizayer A.I. and LLMs exist simply to move even more wealth to the very top, while leaving the plebes jobless and without income.

[lerxst@az.social]

@elizayer I see a "token budget" as part of my compensation, and that's an immediate reject for me.

[erikvorhes@typo.social]

@beep 🫂

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@elizayer You load 16 gigs, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt...

[elizayer@mastodon.social]

@lerxst Hear hear!