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Ryan Randall @www.ryanpatrickrandall.com · 12h

"You deserve a union." (Industry modifiers optional and encouraged!)

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You Deserve a Tech Union — Ethan Marcotte

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 23/09/2026

i read this in john gaius’s voice

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 21/09/2026

i just became the ha ha sickos meme

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Every chatbot prompt box says "check answers for accuracy." But increasingly, "humans in the loop" refuse to do that. Instead, they become complicit in the AI industry's project of destroying the provenance of information. But you are person, and it is an app. It can't take responsibility for you.

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Assigning agency to AI means surrendering your own

Claude is not a colleague, collaborator, or sentient being. It is a SaaS product.

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 16/09/2026

LABOR SICKOS* OF NEW YORK: the authors of AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY are doing an event *tonight* in Brooklyn. RSVP link is below, stop by if you can! events.ticketleap.com/tickets/powe... * affectionate #nyc #1u #labor #TechLabor

Event poster for a live podcast episode of WORKING CLASS HISTORY, featuring JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine. September 16 at 7pm ET, taking place at Powerhouse Arena, Brooklyn.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 08/09/2026

somehow did not own a copy of this and I've now fixed this problem

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 07/09/2026

I’m still so proud of this little book. If you read it, I hope it’s useful to you. And I’ve said it before, but if you’d like a copy but don’t feel you can swing the purchase right now—shipping costs, how your budget’s looking this month, whatever—just send me an email. We’ll figure it out. ❤️‍🔥

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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Labo(u)r Day is a good time to remind folks about YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION by @ethanmarcotte.com — collective organizing and worker power is maybe *especially* important for these industries that shape all of our lives, especially now. ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-de...

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 27/08/2026

@dame.is okay so how do i opt out of this, short of deleting my entire account

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Daisy Pitkin @daisy-pitkin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Not one cent to Starbucks until workers get a contract! Pass it on!

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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

therapist: have you ever considered that you might have perfectionist tendencies me: no therapist: why is that me: because if I were a perfectionist I'd be the best at it

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Shout out to @davistint (on instagram), who made these incredible hand-printed signs after seeing posts about our fight for AI protections last week! union journalists 🤝 local chicago artists NO AI USE

A light blue sign with lines alternating blue and red ink reading:

“Chicago deserves authentic journalism not artificial content”

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 26/08/2026

grim reaper’s fucking UP this week

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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

New from me with Jane Slaughter: United Auto Workers members are voting by mail ballot for their top officers, for the second time in the union’s 91 years. Ballots went out August 21 and are due back by October 5. labornotes.org/2026/08/uaw-...

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UAW Members Voting for International Officers

United Auto Workers members are voting by mail ballot for their top officers, for the second time in the union’s 91 years. Ballots went out August 21 and are due back by October 5. The contest will de...

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 26/08/2026

I can fix her

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 26/08/2026

good morning ONLY to organized labor

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Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I want to add that Dolly wrote this song less than a decade after eugenicist Harry M. Caudill's Night Comes to the Cumberlands was published, pathologizing Appalachia during the country's "War on poverty." That "Despite your contempt, the things I love are worth loving" part runs DEEP.

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 25/08/2026

all rise for the international anthem of workers of the world www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbxU...

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Dolly Parton - 9 To 5 (Official Video)

YouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO

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Scott Andrew @scottandrew.com · 24/08/2026

Folks, I’m rebuilding my music email list. To entice you, subscribers get a free copy of my new song “The Muse (The Work Is The Wage).” Recorded in Seattle in Pearl Jam’s studio by Shawn Simmons (The Head And The Heart, Hey Marseilles). I hope you’ll check it out! scottandrew.music

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Scott Andrew | Singer-songwriter

Scott Andrew | Singer-songwriter | Americana-flavored acoustic pop

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 24/08/2026

good morning ONLY to organized labor

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 24/08/2026

i was out of town this weekend, and immediately upon returning to boston i was greeted by what i can only describe as AN OMEN

A seagull defiantly stands atop a “Don’t Walk” traffic signal.

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Elly @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

😂 this does seem to be the new agreement With alt text

The IBM “A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE” slide, but instead of the real second part of the line (“therefore a computer must never make a management decision”), it says: “THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST ALWAYS DO THE HACKING HAHA WHAT ARe they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha
"oops it's alive" Imao”

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

CHEKHOV'S GOT A GUN CHEKHOV'S GOT A GUN WHAT WILL THE CLIMAX BEEEEE WHEN WE HIT ACT THREEEEEEE

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ceej @ceej.online · 20/08/2026

they put up a dada center just outside of town and life has been unbearable ever since. thing looks like a fucking fish

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mandy brown @aworkinglibrary.com · 19/08/2026

People are like, you can’t refuse LLMs forever, someday you’ll have to use them. But listen, motherfuckers, I have been refusing to drive a car for the entirety of the twenty-first century. I am *practiced.* Refusing AI is easy mode.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 19/08/2026

Been reading some strident arguments for LLM usage from fairly high-profile writers this week, and I keep thinking about this post I wrote a few months ago. I cannot imagine publicly carrying water for a military contractor, simply because you like the emails it helps you write.

Screenshot of an excerpt from the linked blog post. Excerpt reads, “ And I don’t just mean monetarily. It’s not lost on me that these commercial “AI” platforms improve by learning. Well, “learning” is too anthropomorphic a verb: these large language models analyze user input, and may be trained on the data we feed them. And as I’ve read about the opening days of this pointless, stupid, awful, horrifying war, I couldn’t help but think that the everyday use of these machines is quite literally enhancing them.”

Screenshot of an excerpt from the linked blog post. Excerpt reads, “ None of this is new, of course. Microsoft’s “AI” products were used by Israel’s military to surveil Palestinians; the 2018 Google Walkouts were driven in part by employees protesting Google’s machine learning contributions to drone strikes; during the height of the Vietnam War, tech workers were mobilizing against the industry’s embrace of defense contracts. But today, we cannot meaningfully separate the everyday use of ‘AI’ platforms from their application in death and war. Imagine asking Northrop Grumman to summarize an email for you, or refactoring code with help from Boeing and Raytheon.”

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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Curiously missing from the Anthropic "watermark" is any trace of the work of countless writers, victims of Anthropic's bold theft of our work, without our permission or knowledge.

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 18/08/2026

when my doctor’s office installed an “ai assistant” to answer all incoming phone calls, did their hold times get fractally worse? in this absolutely seething essay i will

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mandy brown @aworkinglibrary.com · 18/08/2026

One of my most often given (and possibly most annoying) bits of counsel is: *talk with your mouth.* But really I don’t think there’s any other way out of this mess we’re in, so I am not going to stop. everythingchanges.us/blog/mouthwo...

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Mouthwords | everything changes

Talk with your face.

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 17/08/2026

I was SO EXCITED when I heard JS and Clarissa were working on this book, because I couldn’t have written *my* book without their literal years of activism and organizing within the tech labor movement. This is going to be an invaluable read, folks. Can’t wait to get my hard copy ❤️

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 15/08/2026

THE COLLEGE STUDENTS HAVE ARRIVED STOP AVOID GROCERY STORES AND MAJOR SHOPPING AREAS STOP THEY ARE NOT YET FAMILIAR WITH THE CONCEPT OF “BEING IN PUBLIC” AND ARE ATTEMPTING TO BUY CEREAL STOP EOM

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Igalia @igalia.com · 12/08/2026

BIG NEWS: Bocoup is now Igalia! The two worker co-ops have agreed to join forces, with several members of Bocoup coming aboard at Igalia, along with the brand assets and web site. More details in our official announcement: www.igalia.com/2026/Joining...

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I decided to click on Acrobat’s ‘generate podcast’ option for an invoice I just opened.

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

workers also planted flags outside the office, one for each laid-off dev. the union sent me a video of all of them, and the number is truly striking. imagine just... ignoring that

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CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Aug 10th 1988 - Zero Cool was in the New York Times for crashing 1,507 computer systems. 📽️📅 Hackers (1995)

3 Screenshots from the movie "Hackers" (1995): First, a young man in a sleeveless shirt sits in a cluttered room, saying "I've got a record. I was Zero Cool." Second, a group of friends gather around a table, one explaining "Zero Cool crashed 1,507 systems in one day. Biggest crash in history." Third, the same group listens as another person adds, "Front page New York Times, August 10, 1988."

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kat claws @kat.meangirls.online · 10/08/2026

The old web is dying, and the new web struggles to be born: now is the time of markdown

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 10/08/2026

that’s a fairly load-bearing “and more,” youtube

Two YouTube thumbnails from the Criterion Collection, both grouped under the category “World War II and more.” The first is titled “Thomas Bangalter's Closet Picks,” the second is titled “Charlie Day's Closet Picks.”

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 10/08/2026

When I was working on my tech unions book, I knew “success” was going to look a lot different—and a lot quieter—than it did for my first two books. A few years on, I can’t tell you how much it means to see it still popping up in new rooms and conversations.

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 09/08/2026

Had a wonderful time at my very first #HTMLday! A small but mighty group, we worked on little side projects, and talked about markup and making. Can’t wait for next year’s.

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