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Workers' stories about how management, executives and clients are using AI, and how it's impacting them. A @bcmerchant.bsky.social reporting project, edited by Mike Pearl. Submit your story here: AIkilledmyjob@pm.me. Tweets by MP, unless signed.
Jack Dorsey is copying the 2023 leadership framework:
- overhire
- lay everyone off
- pretend it's because of AI productivity gains
- stock go up
The layoff victims were some of the most productive, AI-pilled people in the company, but it didn't save them, because that's not what it was about.
The left is not "missing out" on AI. It's winning the argument. Americans worry about AI and dislike tech CEOs. They're mobilizing against data centers. They support regulation, even refusal.
Calls for the left to embrace AI are an effort to change the terms of the debate in Silicon Valley's favor.
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Stop taking jobs humans want
A punch-in on the AI generated image showing a man who looks like his eyes have been sewn shut
Sam Neill’s character in Event Horizon (1995), smiling despite having had his eyes sewn shut
Last week, hundreds of creative workers amassed at a public hearing for an AI transparency bill to testify how AI was corroding their lives. Days later, Disney cut a deal with OpenAI, and Trump moved to stamp out state AI laws.
On art and labor in the age of AI and American authoritarianism:
Cell phones, cars, and houses should all cost exactly $12,500
Is this what a Google results page told you when you searched something about the feasibility of starting kids on Tolkien very young?
The job “Being Hitch (from the Eponymous 2005 Movie)” is safe for now
This reminds me of classes in like 1995 where I was taught how to use Altavista to find a random Geocities page about George Washington Carver written by ????. In retrospect I’m so glad classroom time was devoted to this
I gave my students a very impassioned plea against using AI for their work at the beginning of this semester. Now some of their major assignments are coming in, and not only is their work coming up clean on every AI detector, it's also very good stuff. There's hope out there.
No I mean, now having heard it I’m 10,000% in agreement
Jesus Christ
The other possible winners:
AI has not gotten even close to annihilating the profession of radiology as predicted.
If you’re in medical imaging and you have a story about how it *has* degraded your work life, please email aikilledmyjob@pm.me
much to consider
the president is about to get booted from the vampire diaries fanfic community
One study found that “AI coding tools actually made software developers slower, despite expectations to the contrary, because they had to spend time checking for and correcting errors made by the AI”
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Epstein
Aw man come on, nooo lol
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"AI tools are being used to produce 'workslop'—content that appears polished but lacks real substance, offloading cognitive labor onto coworkers." 🤦♂️ hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
Humble request for @gavinnewsom.bsky.social: Please take a little break from vetoing pro-worker legislation
If there's anything I believe from Elon Musk's self-mythmaking, it's that he read Foundation and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He may have read none of the other books he's claimed to have read, but those? Zero reason to doubt it
Three things explain this. First, while models beat humans on benchmarks, the standardized tests designed to measure AI performance, they struggle to replicate this performance in hospital conditions. Most tools can only diagnose abnormalities that are common in training data, and models often don’t work as well outside of their test conditions. Second, attempts to give models more tasks have run into legal hurdles: regulators and medical insurers so far are reluctant to approve or cover fully autonomous radiology models. Third, even when they do diagnose accurately, models replace only a small share of a radiologist’s job. Human radiologists spend a minority of their time on diagnostics and the majority on other activities, like talking to patients and fellow clinicians.
Only people can do jobs, period.
Medical workers involved in diagnostics: you are not the problem! This technology is bad!
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Lynch saw things in a weird way. Look at what he did with early digital video in Inland Empire. It's possible he *might* have done something with AI that no one else could have ever thought of, because he's David Lynch and the rest of us aren't. Unfortunately he's dead, and slop is still slop
This is happening because there's a famous quote about AI being good that's attributed to Lynch. I think a rule one could take from this is that it's ghoulish to use a recently dead person as a mascot because you have a hunch they would agree with you. Lot's of potential applications for this...
"The Trump administration agency that manages the government’s real estate holdings, procurement and technology services is partnering with Elon Musk’s xAI [...] federal agencies will now have access to Grok 4 and Grok 4 Fast."
Very cool!
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Saddam looking laid back with a cigar during his 1979 Baathist purge meeting
