John Chadfield

TikTok is getting rid of the London staff who keep you safe from harmful, misleading and illegal content. When did they announce the job cuts? Eight days before those employees were due to vote on unionising.

We’ve signed an open letter with @tuc.org.uk and @cwunews.bsky.social:

Asked about the lack of Palestinian leadership, @yarahawari.bsky.social points out this is by design & a product of military occupation. Yara goes on to highlight how Palestinians are denied the right to determine their own future (whereas the war criminal Tony Blair is involved!)

'We wouldn't let our children on the app': TikTok moderators warn users may be at risk after redundancies In August, TikTok said it was making redundancies in order to "concentrate operations in fewer locations" and develop the use of AI in moderation, in part to protect human workers from seeing harmful ...

Article here by @mickeycarroll.bsky.social news.sky.com/story/we-wou...

Sky News website headline 'We wouldn't let out children on the app': TikTok moderators warn users may be at risk after redundancies, In August, TikTok said it was making redundancies in order to "concentrate operations in fewer locations" and develop the use of..."

TikTok's biggest European market is the UK, something they were gleefully boasting to the press about early this summer but then as soon as a union recognition ballot is scheduled, suddenly it isn't that important and they want to offshore jobs somewhere with cheaper labour and weak unions.

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up 78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit.

Great post about AI coding claims turning out to be yet more bs. mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the...

Lolo is a mother of 5 who I've been in touch with for the past year. Her youngest, Eileen, is suffering with severe malnutrition. Please donate if you can.

*If the quoted skeet is gone, it means Bluesky have deleted Lolo's account for the 91st time.

"Politicians are not commentators, they are paid to take decisions."
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Really hard to engage with this app when Palestinian accounts are so routinely removed for simply asking for help during an active fucking genocide where they watch their kids starve.

I spoke to someone who I can't even tag on here just now BECAUSE HER ACCOUNTS HAVE BEEN DELETED 15 times.

Shame.

Holding up a copy of ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS by Omar El Akkad

One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad is very much worth your time.

Youth pastor voice: You know who else took on a globally important leadership role at the age of 33?

okay as scary as these sound, can everybody please understand that these people have absolutely no privileged knowledge, and - especially in the case of someone like Sal Khan - they often are just management consultants that go from meeting to meeting saying "okay great" and nothing else

< 200 Motaz Today You too friend 12:38 AM V/ Dear molly 8:09 AM Next week i have to pay the rent for the apartment im living in in 8:10 AM So please I need your help dear with that we cant go back to the tents in the streets side 8:10 AM Sure love how much do you need? 8:11 AM V/ Its 1000shikil like 350€ 8:11 AM Because the transfer cost of money to gaza 8:12 AM Became very expensive 8:12 AM It's between 300to 350€ 8:12 AM

Motaz and Fedaa (who both have lost their accounts on here recently) have rent due soon- if you can help chuffed.org/project/save...

hmmm do I want to waste enough water to quench a small village or shall I just write this project plan myself...

100% - plus I think MIT just released a study of generative AI users brain development and it ain't good. Great day for the haters.

"My productivity gains since using copilot are huuuge" said nobody ever.

No internet in Deir al-Balah again. Cut off by occupiers.

Image of a screenshot of news headline, saying, "WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook Forced Consent & Consent Bypass / 16 June 2025 Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this."

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

D-day for the dumbest person in your office today

Four different kinds of stickers with designs for united tech and allied workers, part of the communication workers union

New UTAW stickers just dropped

Yes Palace get in

Through the case study report, "Ask Amina" and "Ask Abdalla" – experimental agents representing a refugee in Chad and a combatant in Sudan – participants will gain insights into how these technologies might transform field operations while navigating complex ethical terrain. The workshop will address critical questions about representation, power dynamics and data rights. Participants will:

this just started and i'm already losing my mind and screaming

Western white folk basically putting an AI avatar on stage and pretending it is a refugee from sudan — literally interacting with it as if it is a “woman that fled to chad from sudan”

just fucking shoot me

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The problem with hiring a global union-busting firm is that the more they use the 'playbook' the more it becomes known,

and then the easier it is to innoculate working people against big businesses telling them that unions are bad for them.

Thames Water £3bn emergency loan is going straight into bosses' bonuses Thames Water executives will pocket millions in bonuses - because its boss thinks that management is the company's 'most precious resource'

Thames Water £3bn emergency loan is going straight into bosses' bonuses

Executives will pocket millions in bonuses - because its boss thinks that him and the rest of senior management are the company's "most precious resource".

Yes, he really said that.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

French? He was from Lots of Different Places.

It's free Palestine at Banners Held High 2025 Wakefield