This is understatement. Read the article, it's incredible. #precarity

More families in Southeast Asia sinking into debt

Across Southeast Asia, households are taking on debt just to cover basic needs. Analysts warn that the region's growing dependence on borrowing risks triggering wider financial stress and long term economic harm.
https://www.dw.com/en/more-families-in-southeast-asia-sinking-into-debt/a-76430757

Valeria Guarneros-Meza reflects on her work alongside Barnsley's Educational Learning Support Hub, and highlights the multi-layered ways that precarity stifles community organisations. She argues that solidarity between different social groups is key for overcoming its debilitating effects.

https://interregnum.ghost.io/barnsley-my-story-unpacking-precarity-in-times-of-austerity-racism-poor-working-conditions/

#precarity #Barnsley #barnsleynorth #labour #work #uk #migrants #England #community #Organize #CommunityDevelopment #communityorganizing #migrantworkers #migrantlabor

https://interregnum.ghost.io/left-book-club-industrial-workers-of-the-world-interregnum-online-event-the-precarious-migrant-worker/?ref=interregnum-newsletter

#Capitalism #interregnum #iww #leftbookclub #migrantworkers #precarity

"Invisible labellers’ toil has allowed self-driving cars to recognise pedestrians and chatbots to speak in natural-sounding sentences.

For a generative artificial intelligence system to learn how to write an autopsy report, human workers must sort and annotate thousands of crime scene images.

The precarious work of training AI, which generally pays just a few dollars, has sparked a movement for better wages and conditions stretching from Kenya to Colombia.

“You have to spend your whole day looking at dead bodies and crime scenes… Mental health support was not provided,” Kenyan national Ephantus Kanyugi told AFP.

Labellers “need to spend time with these images, zoom into the wounds of dead people” to outline them so they can be fed into the AI, the 30-year-old added.

Kanyugi, who has worked on image labelling since 2018, is the vice-president of the Data Labelers Association (DLA), an 800-strong labour group based in Nairobi.

The DLA plans to unveil a code of conduct this month aimed at major labelling platforms, calling for improved conditions for workers."

https://www.dawn.com/news/1949310

#AI #GenerativeAI #AITraining #DataLabeling #Precarity #Kenya

Pluralistic: "Flexible labor" is a euphemism for "derisking capital" (10 Nov 2025)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/10/zero-sum-zero-hours/

https://www.opb.org/article/2025/10/31/portland-housing-director-on-leave/

He has pushed for funding outside companies to oversee housing projects, like the Atlanta-based PadSplit, a company that allows property owners to rent out a house by room, rather than altogether. Wilson included $500,000 in this year’s budget to go toward a pilot project to create a “home-sharing” program similar to PadSplit.

The company, which has been accused of having poor accountability measures for its landlords, was the focus of a city-funded trip to Atlanta this summer, which Wilson and Hisserich attended.

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PadSplit is predatory garbage which will absolutely harm working class people experiencing precarity. It will increase destitution and homelessness so that landlords can “10x” their income. Wilson should be embarrassed.

#pdx #portlandOregon #portland #orpol #housing #affordablehousing #predatory #padsplit #precarity #classwar #keithWilson #landlords