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Also in the Weekly News Roundup from @uclairle.bsky.social: Is AI creating a "job apocalypse"? Not yet, says @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social formerly of BLS. But weak hiring for entry level jobs *might* reflect impact of AI. siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

And what actions should scientists take? “This destruction will take place most easily in an atmosphere of worn-out apathy and helplessness, so give them the opposite. Make it hard for these people, because if they get their way it’s for sure that they want to make it very, very hard on you.”

Of course, if you’re in a state with public sector bargaining rights, build a majority and assert those rights. But you can start acting like a union with or without formal recognition.

Declarations of domestic policy delivered via the State Dept is key here. The federal gov’t is intent on turning the levers of international banking, collective security against its domestic enemies. Text of the speeches on the here: www.state.gov/releases/off...

Remarks at the Opening of the Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism - United States Department of StateDEPUTY SECRETARY LANDAU:  Thank you.  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the State Department.  It’s an honor and a privilege to have you here.  For those of us who grew up in the 1970s, the topic that ...www.state.gov

Over 125 organizations including ACLU and CHIRLA oppose the “Combatting Organized Retail Crime Act” for giving DHS “sweeping new authority to collect, analyze, and share Americans’ personal data without meaningful civil liberties safeguards, adequate oversight”

Looks fascinating! I’ve done simulations in my labor history classes, but nothing this elaborate. Am just at the early stages of putting something together for the fall because assigning traditional papers is not gonna work.

"We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt streaked hands, those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone, and we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead in the soft hands of a precious few."