Matthew ColeOriginally published at Tribune As tech companies accelerate their relentless drive to capture and control the flow of information across the globe, capitalism is entering a new phase. AI platforms like Palantir, Open AI and Anthropic are buying up swathes of land for data storage, deepening the automation of everyday life and the destruction of […]
When fast-fashionistas scrolling through Shein’s website came across a shirt seemingly modeled by Luigi Mangione, the alleged shooter of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, confusion, outrage, and maybe a little bit of swooning ensued. Mangione’s low-resolution doppelgänger had all the hallmarks of generative artificial intelligence—odd textures, strange lighting, and unnatural fingers. Researchers at BBC Verify found […]
Executive director of New York Taxi Workers Alliance Bhairavi Desai speaks as Uber drivers participate in a rally outside of the Uber headquarters on January 5, 2023 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images) Originally published by Jacobin. There are as many ways to steal wages as there are to pay them. […]
The original post on Brave New Europe. The gig economy is often talked about as ‘the future of work’, but if we look at history we find that its wage model – paying per output, rather than per hour – actually goes back hundreds of years. In the 19th century, this was called ‘piece wages’, […]
Originally published in Jacobin With the support of the GMB union, British workers at Amazon’s Coventry fulfilment center have turned a wildcat strike into a fight for a collective bargaining agreement. On a mid-April morning, hundreds of workers from Amazon’s Browns Lane fulfillment center in Coventry, England, formed a picket outside of the warehouse before […]
