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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/07/2026

How maddening it must be to invest billions in Amazon warehouse automation, only to have to slow down or (gasp!) stop the machines so the workers who serve as "humans in the loop" can stop to pee! Isn't there some way we can make that *their* problem, not ours? pluralistic.net/2024/05/06/o... 5/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/07/2026

With AI, the fact that you need to pee - or get paid - *does* become your problem, rather than your boss's. 6/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/07/2026

After the majority of your colleagues have been fired ("because AI will do their jobs"), you become painfully aware that there are plenty of people who need your job, who will happily step in to take it if you complain too much about your bladder or your paycheck. 7/

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