Tech workers: if you, like me, have ever wondered about how automation will impact your work, you should probably pay close attention to how “artificial intelligence” figures into the WGA strike. https://www.wgacontract2023.org/strike-hub
Strike Hub

Writers are facing the most comprehensive assault on compensation and working conditions that they have seen in a generation. Find out why writers are calling the WGA an existential fight for the future of the profession and get links to all things strike-related here.

“It isn’t ‘AI’ that has worked to eliminate writers’ rooms and it isn’t ‘streaming’ that’s shifted the revenue shared with writers and other artists to pennies on the dollar. It’s companies that have done that, often exploiting the loopholes in their labor and royalty contracts that allow them to do so.”

new @tim just dropped, and it is GOOD https://amazonchronicles.ghost.io/alexa-will-not-replace-us/

“Alexa Will Not Replace Us”

The Writers Guild of America is on strike, bringing movie and television production to a halt. This affects media companies across the board, but one of them is Amazon, which is not exactly like other media companies. It's primarily a retailer as well as a technology and infrastructure company. However,

Amazon Chronicles
@beep @tim I got to "A good mantra is that fears about technology are almost always fears about capitalism. This is no exception." and HOLLERED
@kissane @tim ERIN I YELLED
@beep @kissane Fred from Scooby-Doo pulls off the ghost mask from AI to reveal that the villain was capitalism all along