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Notices by Mandy Brown (aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social)

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    Mandy Brown (aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 03:09:18 JST Mandy Brown Mandy Brown

    The “culture of fear” noted here is something that I’m seeing across all big tech, and it’s suicidal: frightened workers either quit or comply. They don’t take risks, they don’t create anything new, and they don’t ship. Nothing good will come of this. https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/709144/microsoft-layoffs-2025-ai-notepad

    In conversation about 9 days ago from mstdn.social permalink

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      Microsoft’s constant layoffs risk creating a culture of fear
      from Tom Warren
      AI investments at Microsoft are reshaping the company.
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    Mandy Brown (aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 03:08:47 JST Mandy Brown Mandy Brown

    “What you have is, in essence, a very grassroots and cheap approach to launder misinformation to the public.” https://www.404media.co/googles-ai-is-destroying-search-the-internet-and-your-brain/

    In conversation about 9 days ago from mstdn.social permalink

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      Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
      from @emanuelmaiberg
      Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.
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    Mandy Brown (aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 09:03:21 JST Mandy Brown Mandy Brown

    The most important thing to understand about the huge federal layoffs—which the Supreme Court just cleared the way to continue—is that they are a strategic attack on equality in *all* workplaces: https://unbreaking.org/issues/equality-at-work-decimating-the-federal-workforce/

    In conversation about 24 days ago from mstdn.social permalink

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      Equality at Work — Unbreaking
      How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
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    Mandy Brown (aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jun-2025 00:55:12 JST Mandy Brown Mandy Brown

    So, there’s LOT happening right now, but A Working Library is 17 years old today and I’m going to be insufferable and say a few things about what it’s like to have a blog that’s nearly old enough to vote. Mute accordingly.

    In conversation about 2 months ago from mstdn.social permalink
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    Mandy Brown (aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jun-2025 00:55:11 JST Mandy Brown Mandy Brown
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    I wrote this two years ago, about what it’s like to keep coming back: “A practice is built on the movement of return.” https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/fifteen-or-one-third

    In conversation about 2 months ago from mstdn.social permalink

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      Fifteen, or one-third
      from Mandy Brown
      Happy birthday, A Working Library.
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    Mandy Brown (aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jun-2025 00:55:10 JST Mandy Brown Mandy Brown
    in reply to

    I (unknowingly) planted a seed in that piece, with the phrase “coming home” itself returning in a piece from last fall. https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/coming-home

    In conversation about 2 months ago from mstdn.social permalink

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      Coming home
      from Mandy Brown
      Into the gap.
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    Mandy Brown (aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jun-2025 00:55:09 JST Mandy Brown Mandy Brown
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    That’s been so much of this work, and part of what I think is so lovely about blogging as a mode of writing: it’s a way of sowing, tending, reaping ideas and language over time.

    In conversation about 2 months ago from mstdn.social permalink
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    Mandy Brown (aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jun-2025 00:55:08 JST Mandy Brown Mandy Brown
    in reply to

    And language here is key: I’m not just writing to communicate information. Language is an art, and I’m grateful to have been able to practice it with such thoughtful and attentive readers over these many years.

    In conversation about 2 months ago from mstdn.social permalink
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    Mandy Brown (aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jun-2025 00:55:07 JST Mandy Brown Mandy Brown
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    One of the many distressing things about all the AI nonsense is that it commodifies language, it demeans the beautiful gift of the written word, language made solid, sharp, dangerous.

    In conversation about 2 months ago from mstdn.social permalink
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    Mandy Brown (aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jun-2025 00:54:01 JST Mandy Brown Mandy Brown

    You should read every “here’s how AI will change your job” in the context of who has the power to change the conditions of work, and how that power is exercised. And remember that major changes to working conditions come about in one of two ways: as negotiation, and as coercion.

    In conversation about 2 months ago from mstdn.social permalink
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    Mandy Brown (aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jun-2025 00:27:50 JST Mandy Brown Mandy Brown

    The thing that keeps coming up as I talk to people about AI in their workplaces is how *dehumanizing* it is. It’s dehumanizing to ask a machine to do something, and then have to correct it over and over; it’s dehumanizing to be told to read something that involved little to no human effort to make.

    In conversation about 2 months ago from mstdn.social permalink
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    Mandy Brown (aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Jun-2025 23:05:19 JST Mandy Brown Mandy Brown

    If you were (wisely) offline over the weekend, I wrote about the ideology of AI and why we need to shift our stance in relation to it: https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/toolmen

    In conversation about 2 months ago from mstdn.social permalink

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      Toolmen
      from Mandy Brown
      Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool.
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    Mandy Brown (aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-May-2025 02:24:49 JST Mandy Brown Mandy Brown

    I’ve spent the last year reading, thinking, and talking with workers about AI and I’ve concluded that AI is not a technology—it’s an *ideology*, and it must be engaged with as such. https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/toolmen

    In conversation about 2 months ago from mstdn.social permalink

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      Toolmen
      from Mandy Brown
      Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool.
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    Mandy Brown (aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 06:42:35 JST Mandy Brown Mandy Brown

    “I want to be in dialogue with my website, my work & the people who find it. Not have it be just a space where I publish posts and art, but a *living work itself*. I want to engage with and collaborate with it. I want to inform it and for it to inform me.” https://fromemily.com/website-manifesto/

    In conversation about 3 months ago from mstdn.social permalink

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      Website Manifesto
      from Emily Moran Barwick
      A manifesto for my okay enough website: a living document encouraged to change/evolve/grow.
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    Mandy Brown (aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Apr-2025 21:30:37 JST Mandy Brown Mandy Brown

    Some patterns I’ve observed in the moves and countermoves that workers are making in response to the direct, violent, and unconstitutional attacks on human rights, life-sustaining infrastructure, and work itself: https://everythingchanges.us/blog/keep-moving/

    In conversation about 4 months ago from mstdn.social permalink

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      Keep moving | everything changes
      Skipping, playing, walking, dancing, working in terrible times.
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    Mandy Brown (aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 22:25:44 JST Mandy Brown Mandy Brown

    “Because federal law does not in fact prohibit DEI, Trump is presumably counting on his order having a chilling effect, hoping that institutions self-censor by abandoning the programs out of fear.” https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/03/10/profiles-in-self-censorship-dei/

    In conversation about 5 months ago from mstdn.social permalink

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      Profiles in Self-Censorship |
      from Max Nelson
      The Trump administration’s attack on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in higher education has many college administrators running scared.
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    Mandy Brown (aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 03:27:36 JST Mandy Brown Mandy Brown

    Among other things, targeting 18F sends a clear message that tech workers are being coerced into serving the needs of capital. Even for those who never took it, civic tech work held the promise of escape, the dream of using tech for good. And dreams are dangerous.

    In conversation about 5 months ago from mstdn.social permalink
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    Mandy Brown (aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 05:49:20 JST Mandy Brown Mandy Brown

    Thinking with Le Guin about living with uncertainty: https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/make-life-possible

    In conversation about 6 months ago from mstdn.social permalink

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      Make life possible
      from Mandy Brown
      Five principles for embracing uncertainty.
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    Mandy Brown (aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 07:39:38 JST Mandy Brown Mandy Brown

    All of the nonsense about so-called artificial “intelligence” has the notion of intelligence backwards: becoming intelligent does not make you alive. To be alive is to be intelligent. https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/our-words

    In conversation about 7 months ago from mstdn.social permalink

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      Our words
      from Mandy Brown
      “Beautiful one, give us our need. We give you our words.”
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    Mandy Brown (aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 08:32:22 JST Mandy Brown Mandy Brown

    “What we’re called to ask is why the murder of one man must be described as unspeakable violence, but the systemic denial of life to 100,000 people is an acceptable business practice.” https://www.jphilll.com/p/whats-a-life-worth

    In conversation about 8 months ago from mstdn.social permalink

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      What's a life worth?
      from J. P. Hill
      On the murder of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson
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    Thinking about reading, work, and technology. Co-founded A Book Apart; former VP Product & CEO. Now helping people make space for more humane, sustainable work.

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