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   tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Thursday, 12-Mar-2026 04:19:50 JST tante

   Spend the day talking to workers council members about "AI". And it's kinda wild hearing their stories from the wild: Management is 100% in fantasy "AI" can do everything land and makes huge plans for how to use "AI" to cut workers when real projects that supposedly can do 50% of a specific task end up being able to do 8%. And they still go live. It's fucking bonkers. CEO's are really not okay.

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     tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Thursday, 12-Mar-2026 04:20:53 JST tante

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     But it was super fun to lead them through a "this is how you can force reasonable evaluation on 'AI' projects which kills most of them" framework and see how they felt empowered and able to actually do their job again.

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     tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Thursday, 12-Mar-2026 04:21:24 JST tante

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     But: If you have any chance to speak to unions/workers from different domains and organizations do so.
     It's fascinating how
     a) different organizations are and operate
     b) they all end up with the same handful of structural problems

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     tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Thursday, 12-Mar-2026 04:21:25 JST tante

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     Which was really fucked up to see: These folks actually want to protect their organizations from burning a lot of resources on bullshit instead of fixing actual problems that help the workers _and_ the organization. And they have to actively fight management who got their brains ruined on linkedin.

     Christine Lemmer-Webber and Paul Cantrell repeated this.