They don't seem to be able to do the minimum decent things.

@support.bsky.team why have you suspended
@drfeda.bsky.social yet again? We see what you're doing to accounts from Gaza, it isn't going unnoticed.

A French coder estimates that using Claude Code will account for 1 tonne of CO2 over a year - 10% of the average French individual carbon footprint.

We have never encountered emissions-intensive software like this, ever before (with the sole exception of Bitcoin)

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Left Hand of the State Britain’s cost of living crisis was created by privatisation, which turned essentials into profit centres — universal basic services offer a way to bring costs down.

Britain’s cost of living crisis was created by privatisation, which turned essentials into profit centres — universal basic services offer a way to bring costs down.

Billie Holiday

RIP Chuck Norris, I loved your guest appearance in Edward Said's Orientalism documentary as the stereotype of American racism

take the L

This 'London School War' - microtargetting of children between 11 and 16 encouraging them to 'jump' other school kids - campaign on TikTok is exactly the kind of thing that could have been avoided by having not sacked 400+ content moderators in London.

'Briggs and his Goldman Sachs colleagues recently said that investment spending on AI made “basically zero” difference in U.S. economic growth last year.'

You don't say.

If you're in the UK, we are that tech union :)

Sure, initially, but then a big PR firm or even tech in a few months.

It's taken 48 hours to agree his next position. Any bets where?

I mean, without getting started on the tired '70s framing, the article itself acknowledges this puts the UK bang in the middle of OECD countries and somewhere not unadjacent to most European countries on fair union legislation.

Britain’s trade-union laws are returning to the 1970s Union bosses intend to use their new freedoms

It's really hard to frame improvements to workers rights as a scary thing, but bless them The Economist will give it a shot. www.economist.com/britain/2026...

Grainy VHS image of Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch with text reading: "...did someone hit rewind? The Tories are trying to curtail your right to strike. Again."

📢 The Tories are trying to amend the Railways Bill to remove workers' right to strike.

They want to IMPOSE minimum service levels on the railway and REPEAL provisions in the Employment Rights Act 2025.

We're lobbying to ensure their ridiculous, anti-worker amendments don't become law.

Yer da uses AI on LinkedIn

A brutal wake up call for those of us who have reached 40 still not owning, let alone seasoning, their own crepe pans.

Businesses such as Microsoft are increasingly nudging their employees to utilize AI to get more done. Others are forcing the issue. One of the biggest firms to take the more aggressive path is Meta Platforms, which at the end of December had 78,865 employees. At a companywide meeting last month, Meta leaders briefed employees on a new performance review and bonus system closely tied to their AI usage, according to a recording of the meeting. For instance, the company’s AI-powered performance tracker, Checkpoint, looks at how many lines of code are generated by software engineers using AI tools, along with over 200 other data points. They include the number of errors or bugs associated with engineers’ code; the amount of code an engineer wrote themselves without AI. Checkpoint is supposed to reduce the time it takes to prepare performance reviews, according to the meeting recording. It uses data from tools employees already use, such as Google Workspace to provide a summary of an employee’s work. “To be clear, this is not an activity tracker—it’s an impact-evidence starter,” said one HR leader during the meeting. Managers then evaluate employees’ impact based on these checkpoint summaries and assign a rating. To help employees accomplish such goals, Meta has expanded their access to AI models made by other firms, such as Google’s Gemini 3 Pro and OpenAI’s GPT-5, alongside Meta’s own Llama models. Employees use such models for coding and other tasks.

Meta now forcing all employees to use AI tools and tying it to employee performance, according to @theinformation.com.

HR said "this is not an activity tracker—it’s an impact-evidence starter"

That's a fun way to rebrand workplace surveillance.

Ah, from a company that is ignoring an upswing of organizing baristas, we have: chatbots

These are just some kids trying to live their lives. They ought not to be hungry like this. Their parents ought to not have to spend all day begging for money for food.

After months of stalling from Apple, the CAC have imposed access arrangements to allow UTAW-CWU officials to meet with staff at the Cambridge Apple Retail Store ahead of their upcoming ballot for union recognition. Inititally Apple had refused reasonable access to the building for union reps, while continuing to use regular staff meetings and one-on-ones with staff to try and discourage them from supporting their union. Apple are now required to give UTAW-CWU officials access to the store for two staff meetings, two days of drop-in surgeries, use of a noticeboard, space for leaflets, use of internal email to share ballot information, and the ability to post materials to staff ahead of the ballot. The ballot will now proceed during a 20-day period starting February. utaw.tech/apple UTAW and CWU logos.

Breaking: Apple required to proceed with recognition ballot after months of attempting to block and union-busting activities.

CAC Decision: www.gov.uk/government/p...

If they really want to force us to use AI whether we like it or not, they'd better work on ensuring it doesn't cause every app it's injected into to crash or otherwise malfunction lol.

We've some of the smartest technologists in the world who focus on public services, and they definitely don't work at Meta.

Starmer’s chief secretary reveals plans to bust ‘the sludge’ in Whitehall Under-performing civil servants will be sacked and taskforces brought in to solve problems, says Darren Jones

Hahaha haven't seen the 'two pizza test' referenced by anyone for quite some time. Makes sense an MP is now spouting it as tried-and-tested doctrine.

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Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale

Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

Sacked TikTok workers in UK launch legal action over ‘union busting’ Moderators accuse social media firm of unfair dismissal after it fired hundreds in UK just before vote to form union

Content moderators deserve more respect from platforms. That's what they ask for first, not pay, not more holidays but respect. Instead, moderators at TikTok were given the axe for unionising.
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‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...

New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...