Workers of the World Wide Web
A podcast about tech workers and the tech they work on, from United Tech & Allied Workers, the UK’s first trade union for tech.
Workers of the World Wide Web
Ideological Looseness
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Episode 2
Data centres in the shed, using AI to talk to the other side, a messy bill, some bad eggs, and a lil bit of self-crit. Shireen Asaw, Eleanor Payne and Edwin Dorley are your committee du jour.
The motion: "should managers join trade unions?" (submit your motions to this committee at wwww@utaw.tech)
Further Reading:
- Cory Doctorow's For The Win & Enshitification.
- Data centres in the shed: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rpy7envr5o
- AI avatars of dead relatives: https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/black-mirror-becomes-reality-new-app-lets-users-talk-to-ai-avatars-of-deceased-loved-ones-3283056/
- What’s really going on with AI and jobs?: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/what-the-hell-is-going-on-with-ai
- The Employment Rights Bill: https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3737
- Sir Keir Starmer involved in road collision with cyclist: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54701336
Look the audio quality sucks, we’re going to get some microphones once we’ve done a couple of episodes to see if this has any staying power, relax.
Unused titles for this episode:
- “Parasocial relationship with my AI Grandma”
- “AI Early Man”
- “Streeting is Seeded”
- “If you can’t spot the centrist in the room, it’s you”