Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON

Two heroes of the hour in UK politics areBaroness Beeban Kidron and Lord Ed Vaizey who voice the utter madness of the idea that ditching copyright - specifically ceding it to Big Tech AI - is fair, workable or good economically or culturally. AI can't be used to steal.
#copyrightlaw #copyright #AI

AI won't steal your job, it'll make it interesting | Julia Hobsbawm The future of work is more uncertain than at any point in a century, writes Julia Hobsbawm, highlighting that, according to the World Economic Forum, about a quarter of jobs will change by 2028. But…

“The history of work and jobs is littered with disruption, change, and we live today as much with the relics of old ways of working as we do the moulds of new forms we are creating,” argues @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social | iai.tv/articles/ai-...

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#AI #techsky

Albanese backs working from home Says Dutton 'out of touch' for pushing workers back to office.

THE FLEX WORK STRATEGY WORKED - (take note Monsieur Farage) : at a national level being against common sense will not work. Congratulations @AlboMP for putting this policy at the heart of your campaign.
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Five years ago today Italy became the first country in Europe to lock down. Find out what happened to Italy's world of work in the United State of Work report out tomorrow
workathon.io/usw/index.html

What I loved was three different women working the aisles and tills in the supermarket (OK, @waitrose ) shyly wishing me and a girl friend Happy International Women's Day: like it was lovely to hear themselves say it and mean it and be heard. That was lovely.

Go Big or Go Home, they say. Announced today. workathon.io/doc/WORKATHO...

Popular culture should be separate from politics but the medium has been the message for so long. Can Deep Mind resurrect Macluhan just for a day?

YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas Is communication no longer human? | Nolen Gertz vs Julia Hobsbawm

Fury! Sharing this apparently elegant debate I did with @ethicistforhire.bsky.social but the quiet fury between us was undeniable. I think you can only apply esoteric philosophy so far in the debate about whether The Global South needs the internet or not.
youtu.be/bfW9QYf5M7Q?si… via @YouTube

"the sprint to “delete” U.S.A.I.D. on grounds of waste and ideological bias also sent its own bigger message: that soft power, properly understood, is not really power at all, only a shackle restricting the exercise of the harder and more old-fashioned kind." - David Wallace-Wells @nytimes.com

Good piece!

What did you do when the world stopped working like it ever had in March 2020? And how is it changing now for all of us, 5 years on? Get your free download ordered of The United State of Work, published by WORKATHON on 19 March 2025 workathon.io/usw/

An amazing week here in New York where we found a very *very* warm reception indeed for WORKATHON. People want to connect and meet the challenges of work in a community, a network, and they also want data, research, ideas. We're just getting started and it's - so American - "super exciting"

Incredible, really, to have the President of the nation which has led the world of work for a century spend his first fortnight going to war with his own federal workforce and undertaking a bonfire of DEI in its entirely, even going so far as to blame "it" for the tragic DC plane crash

Netflix Italian drama about riot police, Public Disorder

I hope they might be called Absolutely Anytime because that's my daughter's band - they are great in concert and I should know as I go a lot! #motherofthedrummer

New York State of Mind. It's cold. But not that cold. Nevertheless it's my Babushka look.

Here amongst the gleaming spires to give a talk @orieloxford.bsky.social. I have to say I love Oxford. It has a studious hush, a lovely light. Have written some of my books here in the beautiful quarters of another college which offered it up as a bit of a writing sanctuary.

My mother's care home with a high Jewish population: I arrive to find them all huddled around watching hostage release coverage @skynewss.bsky.social

Women’s claims of sexual abuse must be heard – unless they’re about master storyteller Neil Gaiman, apparently | Marina Hyde It’s easy to process allegations against textbook scumbags like Harvey Weinstein. When it is beloved authors and ‘allies’, less so, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

This column by Marina Hyde nails it or should I say Neils it. I took part in the original @tortoisemedia.bsky.social podcast which kicked off this story www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yes

YouTube video by Julia Hobsbawm THE UNITED STATE OF WORK - 10 January 2025

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"the media organisations, bureaucracies, universities and government-funded NGOs that traditionally delimited public conversation." - Peter Thiel in the FT. Am I the only one to long for a fervent believer in scary stuff who can write eloquently?

Today @thetimes.com asked for my take on work predictions for 2025 and used this matchy matchy photo...An expert’s view on the future of work in 2025

www.thetimes.com/article/e31c...

A cartoon I did for @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social in 2024

Hard at work on this paper - out on 6 March to coincide fifth anniversary of first lockdown - NEW DATA + @rorysutherland.bsky.social @davidmcwecon.bsky.social
@benpageresearch.bsky.social
Vicky Price, Melis Abacioglu +
more in association #workathon
#thenowhereoffice

Hard at work on this paper - out on 6 March to coincide fifth anniversary of first lockdown - NEW DATA + @rorysutherland.bsky.social @davidmcwecon.bsky.social
@benpageresearch.bsky.social
Vicky Price, Melis Abacioglu +
more in association #workathon
#thenowhereoffice

Work on New Year's Day in cafes in urban areas much complicated by platform economy : physically there's the same amount of staff, same space, just fitting in lots of additional delivery and pickup: the unintended consequences of an internet society number 2025. Happy New Year

I finish the year with a word I think I made up: Workdemic - to describe the multiple effects generated both by Covid-19 and the generative AI on every generation at work. @theneweuropean.bsky.social asked me to write about it in relation to the UK and I did. www.theneweuropean.co.uk/julia-hobsba...