J R Leach This is a tale of dystopic woe. A bureaucratic nightmare. A glimpse into the Kafkaesque sinkhole lurking at the heart of our automated society. It began one bright morning in late spring when I noticed my current account’s balance was a little off-kilter—much lower than it should be. But I’d just been …
Henrik cover the latest in Flashback Friday this October 6, 2023.
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The Fight For Fifteen, Fight For 15 Movement and variations thereof started in 2012, campaigning for a $15 per hour minimum wage. Little has been heard of it recently, and, one would have thought, with the inflation caused by the lockdowns and the Biden Administration’s insane policies (foreign as well as domestic) it would now […]
The CEO of IBM said that the company has about 26,000 back office workers who do not interface with the public and that he could see 30% of those workers replaced by AI over the next five years. IBM currently employs about 260,000 workers and continues to hire for software development and customer-facing roles.
by Thomas Klikauer and Meg Young Most people in the so-called advanced world lives, as it seems, part of their daily existence with the Internet, smart phones, smart TVs, email, Twitter, YouTube, logging in to a company’s website where we are employed to be remote-controlled, etc. Yet, outside of work and sometimes even while being online for work, plenty of[Read More...]
This is not a commercial. But if you happen to find yourself in Abu Dhabi at this moment, and are planning to take a flight back home to Delhi, you might be advised to try Etihad Airways, especially in these pandemic times. To check in via their ‘Fit to Fly’ application, just stand in front of the monitor, remove your[Read More...]
There was a fascinating report from Brookings last week about the political implications of automation.
John Oliver: "The truth is, from employers' point of view, a big selling point for automation is that it increases productivity and it maximizes profits. And, for displaced workers, that has caused immense main throughout history-- and not just in factories. For instance, in the 90s, as voice recognition technology improved, phone company operators were rightly worried for their jobs... A job automated is not necessarily a job lost. Frequently, machines don;'t replace jobs so much as tasks...
Meta-political activist Angelo John Gage joins Henrik to talk about Trumps complete collapse, Andrew Yang's Universal Basic Income (UBI) policy and the YangGang memes. We also talk about Tucker Carlson's recent attackers, Media Matters and why they are seeking to take him off the air and get sponsors from abandoning his show.
