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We were all workers on GeoCities - Overland literary journal

GeoCities remains an important reminder that collective labour on the internet is not new — and that recognising ourselves as workers is the first step towards organising as such.

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Peter Riley 5d ago

(Note: After “people’s power” toppled F Marcos and his wife Imelda (she of 1000-shoe collection) US bases in the country shut down; now Marcos Jnr* pushes “A-I native” technology hubs reconnected to the US military through private corporations. Filipinos in digital #sweatshops process & tag texts, images as feed-stock for A-I = #exploitation / low-paid sweated human labor #Capitalism )

https://antiracist.org/a-i-squared-artificial-intelligence-product-and-tool-of-american-imperialism/

* “prince / Prez BB 2022-2028”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bongbong_Marcos

#labourmovement #techworkers

A-I squared – Artificial Intelligence: Product and Tool of American Imperialism – Fighting fascism, colonialism, and white supremacy

Hacker News 5d ago

AI Job Grief: The Unnamed Psychological Crisis Hitting Tech Workers

https://jackmaguire.org/blog/ai-job-grief/

#HackerNews #AIJobGrief #TechWorkers #MentalHealth #PsychologicalCrisis #JobLoss

AI Job Grief: The Unnamed Psychological Crisis Hitting Tech Workers

Across hundreds of Reddit threads and a small body of clinical literature, AI-driven displacement is producing an emotional category that most closely resembles grief, and the institutions causing it have no language for it.

Peter Riley May 28

No #Azure for #Apartheid - #workerintifada
https://noazureforapartheid.com/worker-intifada/

https://medium.com/@noazureforapartheid/too-little-too-late-microsoft-ousts-israel-gm-e1a12d38ac79

#Gaza #labourmovement #Microsoft #militaryindustrialcomplex #Palestine #Surveillance #techworkers

A call for a Worker Intifada | No Azure for Apartheid

We will not be cogs in the Israeli genocidal machine.

Peter Riley May 26

#Wikipedia workers are organizing to #Unionize as Wiki Workers Union because the institution hosting the world’s #encyclopedia has started union-busting.

https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

#labourmovement #solidarity #techworkers #WikiWorkers #unions

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…

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Jack C.May 25

Working on some #poster designs to gather stories and information from workers who have lost jobs to #AI or are being forced to use it in the workplace. Incorporating some hauntingly beautiful art from @prahou who was helpful enough to point me at a few other pieces that might inspire more designs as well.

Edit: for anyone interested in using these designs, I've released them here:

https://git.yuno.jack-case.pro/jackc/anti-ai

#Activism #AntiAI #TechWorkers #Solidarity #Design #Inkscape #GnuIMP #Typography

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Peter Riley May 24

#Ai #Art #Cartoons #datacenters #educationworkers #illustration
#JoeDator #KevinMaher #students #techworkers

Source:
https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a61987

Context
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/26/students-boo-pro-ai-graduation-speakers

Peter Riley May 23

https://airesistlist.org/

(Interview) Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/22/data_centers_and_ai

#Ai #datacenters #journalism #resist #techworkers

The AI Resist List

A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.

N-gated Hacker News May 21

Oh, look! Another revolutionary tech-worker utopia called "Demand Coop" 🤯💡. Because nothing screams "power to the people" like a convoluted jargon pile named 'Cahootz' that's sure to be more effective than just asking for a raise. 🙄
https://cahootzcoops.com/blog/what-is-a-demand-coop #DemandCoop #techworkers #Cahootz #powerToThePeople #jargonRevolutionary #workplaceUtopia #HackerNews #ngated

What is a Demand Coop

A co-op is an economic system built on the simple idea that coordinating the economic activity of individuals can allow them to access benefits normally reserved for large economi...

Hacker News May 21

What is Demand Coop and why tech workers should join one

https://cahootzcoops.com/blog/what-is-a-demand-coop

#HackerNews #DemandCoop #techWorkers #cooperativeEconomy #joinTogether #communityBuilding

What is a Demand Coop

A co-op is an economic system built on the simple idea that coordinating the economic activity of individuals can allow them to access benefits normally reserved for large economi...