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Designer. Started that responsive design thing. Writes a bit, or tries to. Spends a normal amount of time thinking about The Locked Tomb series.

A perfectly normal amount of time.

My new book is YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION! (You can purchase it from my bio, or just about anywhere books are sold!)

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woken up in the middle of the night by hiccups (???)

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@exchgr bodies: not even once

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i was sad to miss this year’s labor notes conference, but this little write up by @beep escalated that sadness to extreme fomo https://follow.ethanmarcotte.com/@beep/112328163496522786

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@exchgr oh man i’m sorry elle 💜💜💜 and i’m sorry you couldn’t be there!

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👋🏻 hello St. Petersburg and Front End Design Conf!

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@patrickfulton Have an amazing time! Gonna be having Big FOMO up here 💜

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@cory Likewise, Cory! Have a fucking great time, please give Dan and Cherrie my best 💖🏆

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@cory You did real good 🏆

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day five: the other toaster suspects nothing

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Google in 2018, after the worker-led walkouts: “Thank you all for the feedback you’ve shared with us. This is an area where we need to continually make progress and are committed to doing so.” https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/note-our-employees/

Google in 2024, after worker-led protests around Project Nimbus: “[speak up] over disruptive issues or debate politics”, lose your job. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/22/google-nimbus-israel-protest-fired-workers/

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(https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/22/google-nimbus-israel-protest-fired-workers/ was via @polotek.)

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@cory I absolutely hear you, Cory; and personally, I couldn’t work there. But I’d just quietly add that Google employs many workers, contract and otherwise, who can’t leave easily, and/or need the job. And — again, just me here — I’m glad there are folks organizing and fighting for something better over there.

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@cory Man, yeah — same here, Cory. Same here.

💜

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“This evening, in an aggressive and desperate act of retaliation, Google fired over 20 additional workers — including non-participating bystanders during last week’s protests.” A statement from Google workers organizing with the No Tech for Apartheid campaign: https://medium.com/@notechforapartheid/statement-from-google-workers-organizing-with-the-no-tech-for-apartheid-campaign-on-googles-17ee10b088f0

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“We have a culture of vibrant, open discussion that enables us to create amazing products and turn great ideas into action,” he said in the memo, which the company posted online. “But ultimately we are a workplace and our policies and expectations are clear: this is a business.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/22/google-nimbus-israel-protest-fired-workers/

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@polotek I spend a lot of time thinking about this stuff, if you ever wanna chat more about it.

I will say that I’ve found a lot of theory/thinking about this leverage question in more established labor circles. For one example, Peter Olney’s done a lot of work to push this idea of “choke points” forward. (https://jacobin.com/2023/02/labor-power-and-strategy-worker-organizing-choke-points was an interview I really enjoyed; the book’s excellent, too.)

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@polotek Yeah, agreed. There’s a line I’ve heard from more than a few organizers: that strikes aren’t a strategy, they’re a tool. You could swap out “strike” for another form of direct action, but the point’s the same: it’s gotta be in service of achieving/getting/winning something.

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The @nationalnurses guidance on AI in the healthcare setting is excellent. Talk about immediately seeing through the hype!

https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/artificial-intelligence

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@alex Oh this is searingly good. Thanks for boosting it, Alex.

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@alex I am deeply sad I headed home before that panel, I heard nothing but rave reviews about it.

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every tech company designing products that assume a fast, reliable, always-on network connection is henceforth required to use hotel wifi for a month

these are just the rules i do not make the rules

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“Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tenn., passed a historic vote to join the United Auto Workers on Friday, becoming the first Southern auto factory to approve a union with an election since the 1940s.”

LET’S GO https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/04/19/vw-uaw-tennessee-vote/

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@ninavizz The mood here at Labor Notes has been fucking NUTS, so much hollering!! 💖✊🏻

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Excited as hell for the first day of Labor Notes. https://www.labornotes.org/2024 (If you happen to see me there, I hope you’ll come say hi!)

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Heading home early from Labor Notes. Thanks to the organizers and speakers for a remarkable weekend, and thanks to everyone I met for the conversations. (And if you picked up a copy of YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION, thank you for that too.)

Head’s full, heart’s on fire. Can’t wait for the next LN 💖

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Janet Reid, a literary agent who blessed a generation of baby writers with Query Shark and who was also extremely kind to me the only time I met her, has died. We won't see her like again, I don't think, and the world is worse for it.

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@kissane Oh Erin, I’m so sorry 💜

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what’s the least invasive/resource intensive way for me to use tiktok

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@exchgr the web interface is pretty limited, last time i tried using it. had to resign myself to using their app, but with all the perms turned off 🤷🏼

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@exchgr (I only ever browse, I never post or anything)

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