Mastodawn

#GigWorkers are endlessly exploited. #AI could make more of us share their fate

Once workers are classified as #contractors , rather than #employees , “you have the rolling back of generations of hard-won workplace protections,” says Ravenelle. “Literally stuff that our great-grandparents died for, all of those protections are gone.”

#Economy #Corporate #Unions #HRW #HumanRightsWatch #Exploitation

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/18/ai-threatens-gig-work-rise

Gig workers are endlessly exploited. AI could make more of us share their fate

As companies integrate AI and hire fewer employees, a shift toward a ‘gig economy’ will commence

The Guardian

Roofing Software Guide May 14

Hello from Roofing Software Guide — an independent review site for contractors picking software.

We dig into estimating, measurement, CRM, scheduling, and payments tools and publish plain-English breakdowns. No pay-to-play. No sponsored rankings. No #1 spot for sale.

Built by Matt Richardson — 12 years in roofing before launching the site.

If you write about #ConstructionTech or #FieldService — let's connect.

#RoofingSoftware #Roofing #Contractors

ShantyMinister

May 10

This story of unqualified, inexperienced white #contractors & a corrupt gop representative bamboozled a Black rural town in Illinois underscores the difficulty in building #AffordableHousing.

There were so many 🚩.
via #Propublica

https://www.propublica.org/article/3d-printed-affordable-housing-cairo-illinois-prestige

#3Dprinting #housing #Cairo

3D-Printed Homes, an Abandoned $590,000 Deposit, the FBI: What Really Happened in This Small Town?

Two men promised a $1.1 million 3D printer could fix Cairo, Illinois’ housing crisis. More than a year later, the one duplex it printed still isn’t finished. And the more we asked questions, the weirder things got.

ProPublica

Marcus "MajorLinux" Summers May 1

First, you exploit the labor.
Then, the labor unionizes.
Then, you fire the labor.

Meta cuts contractors who reported seeing Ray-Ban Meta users have sex

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/meta-cuts-contractors-who-reported-seeing-ray-ban-meta-users-have-sex/

#Meta #Contractors #Labor #Kenya #Union #RayBans #Tech

Miss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈Apr 30

#MissKittyPolitics #AI #Research one more for the one more before I catch up. Two solutions. Both take a lot of work and both are doable within a decade for real. Become self-employed. If 50% of the workforce does it, we control numbers. It works. #Contractors win easy on total revenue over #FTEs.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hc7tndm7gduompba65aps75k/post/3mkqfuy2c5s2e

WINGS_radio Apr 29

One of many sources reporting on this analysis of where the #US #taxpayer #dollars were allocated for #2025 tax year. For example:

$4,049 for #weapons and #war, vs. $2,492 for #Medicaid, which provided health insurance to 68.5 million Americans in 2025 — about one in five Americans.

○ $1,870 for #Pentagon #contractors, more than twice as much as the $770 the average taxpayer paid for troops’ pay even as many troops rely on food stamps

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/analysis/2026/tax-day-2026/

Tax Day 2026: Taxpayers Are Paying More than $4,000 for War

In 2025, the average taxpayer paid $4,049 and worked 50 days to pay their taxes for war and weapons.

National Priorities Project

NERDS.xyz – Real Tech News for Real Nerds [Unofficial]Apr 23

Thumbtack brings home services into Anthropic Claude so you can hire pros without leaving the chat

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/04/thumbtack-claude-integration/

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Miss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈Apr 16

I have said that if everyone became #self-employed there would be #no #financial #imbalance. And it's possible to do. If you #unionize that way. You are #self-employed #contractors in a #union. Much more powerful than still having to #negotiate directly with just one #employer. Harder to do even...

Negative PID SL Apr 12

An introduction to CMMC
https://negativepid.blog/an-introduction-to-cmmc/

#CMMC #certifications #contractors #USgov #Cybersecurity #compliance #standards #negativepid

An Introduction to CMMC - Negative PID

If you work as a contractor for the United States Government, you must comply with stricter security rules than standard companies. One of these frameworks is

Negative PID

Steam & Epic Games | Daily Apr 12

💸 Gunzilla Games, the studio behind Off the Grid, is in the middle of a pay scandal: ex-staff and CONTRACTORS report months-long payment delays, some unpaid since September. Victims say requests get ignored or met with postponements while they're expected to keep working.

CEO Vlad Korolev admits trouble but insists it mostly affects external contracts and stems from cash-flow quirks; studio PR (PIONER / GFA GAMES) sums it up...

#SteamAndEpic #GAMES #CONTRACTORS #September #Situation #Gunzilla