By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/04/2026So undervalued that Trump thinks that you can simply stand up new factories in response to tariffs, and that "training" will somehow allow people to go to work making things that haven't been produced onshore in a generation. 57/ 1262
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/04/2026And of course, the people who value process knowledge the *least* are the AI bros who think you can replace skilled workers with a chatbot trained on the things they *say* and *write down*, as though that somehow captured everything they *know*. eof/ 2547
david--p.bsky.social @david--p.bsky.social · 08/04/2026The government of Canada stood up a new pay system and fired all the pay clerks while centralizing pay in a community with nobody with experience. Read up on the Phoenix pay debacle (still ongoing). Tens of thousands of public service pay problems that are multiple years overdue. 151
Andy Cameron @andcam.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Reminded here once again of the old Upton Sinclair adage about it being difficult to get a someone to understand something when their salary depends on them not understanding it. 0153
