AI-driven efficiency metrics can serve as a smokescreen for deeper structural problems — such as chronic understaffing, disinvestment in public services, and intensifying labor extraction — by presenting AI adoption as a technical solution to fundamental political and economic challenges. [...] Within the healthcare sector, insurers have employed genAI to speed up claims denials, while hospital administrators have done the same to generate appeals to those denials. [...] In other words, AI-driven efficiency may simply be a means for many workers to run as fast as they can to stay in the same place.
The belief that "AI sets us free" from labor is ahistorical and ignorant to the systems that yoke us to corporate labor in the first place. The conditions that make labor so precarious are the only conditions that could make a massive shroud of bullshit seem appealing in comparison. You think you're running faster but that's just the treadmill being ripped out from underneath you.
One last time for my audio obituary of CBS News Radio.
I’m sad personally but also worried generally about what the silencing of yet another journalism voice means for America.
A personal history of CBS News Radio
Turkish activist Omar Aslan known as the “Turkish John Wick” said he was beaten in five separate assaults by 27 Israeli soldiers after being detained aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla attempting to break the siege on Gaza.
“Six people beat me because I look like Keanu Reeves” Aslan said adding “I could not endure the beatings for even one day while innocent people in Gaza have suffered this for years.”
“The only thing that makes me cry is that thousands in Gaza were waiting for this humanitarian aid. We did everything we could. I am sorry.”
#Flotilla #Gaza #Genocide #Israel #Pirates #Kidnapping #FreedomFlotilla #Torture #Palestine #Turkey
Politics can see complicated, but there are a few universal truths that can make things a lot easier:
- The guys trying to ban/burn books are the bad guys. 100% of the time.
- The guys trying to restrict voting are the bad guys. 100% of the time.
If you're in America...well, that's really all you should need to vote in any general election. Study up for the primaries, of course.
Quite the legacy Trump has created for himself, being a Nazi traitor that tear gassed children. - The Radical Centrist
#USpol
“There is no national standard governing the use of tear gas and pepper spray, leaving federal immigration officers with more latitude to deploy the weapons than some local police departments have.” - Pro Publica
At least 79 children have been harmed by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s deportation campaign. Charles Mauldin, a civil rights activist tear-gassed as a teenager at Selma, warns them to get mental health support.
Deported flotilla activists say they were assaulted by Israeli guards, including being:
* tased in the face
* injected with unknown sedatives
* water-tortured & having ribs broken
* dragged along the ground with bound hands & feet
* forced to strip naked & run while guards were laughing
"They laughed all the time. Super sadistic. They took off my shirt, took pictures. Mistreated us all night long."
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators urged Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a May 23 letter to release a previously approved $400 million aid package for #Ukraine that has been delayed for months.
EU ‘appalled’ (again) by Israel, this time over Ben-Gvir’s Gaza flotilla humiliation, but continues doing nothing
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