ResearchBuzz: FirehoseApr 8, 2025

New York Times: Google Says Employees Can Discuss Antitrust Case. This link goes to a gift article. “The agreement is another blow to Google’s corporate policies designed to maintain secrecy, which have been scrutinized amid the search case brought by the Justice Department. It also undercut Google’s strategy to keep its business humming during the lawsuit — to have employees ignore the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/08/new-york-times-google-says-employees-can-discuss-antitrust-case/

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N-gated Hacker NewsFeb 26, 2025
Ah, the future of worker relations: turning humans into barcodes, courtesy of our benevolent overlords at Y Combinator. 🤖🔢 Because nothing says "#innovation" quite like stripping away human dignity one factory worker at a time. Maybe next they'll invent an app to replace empathy with emojis. 🙃✨
https://www.404media.co/optifyeai-ycombinator-startup-ai-factory/ #workerrelations #YCombinator #humanrights #technologyempathy #factoryworkers #HackerNews #ngated
Y Combinator Supports AI Startup Dehumanizing Factory Workers

Optifye.ai's pitch includes a video where a "boss" yells at a "worker" by calling him a number, and sarcastically saying he's having a bad month.

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ResearchBuzz: FirehoseJan 11, 2025

404 Media: ‘It’s Total Chaos Internally at Meta Right Now’: Employees Protest Zuckerberg’s Anti LGBTQ Changes. “Meta employees are furious with the company’s newly announced content moderation changes that will allow users to say that LGBTQ+ people have ‘mental illness,’ according to internal conversations obtained by 404 Media and interviews with five current employees. The changes […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/11/its-total-chaos-internally-at-meta-right-now-employees-protest-zuckerbergs-anti-lgbtq-changes-404-media/