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US workers’ share of the pie dwindles
Bureau of Labor Statistics releases latest estimate of how much labor receives of national income, showing bleak decline
“We have an incredibly corrupt corporate governance structure,” said Dean Baker, a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy research.
“CEOs in the US get paid way more than their counterparts in other wealthy countries.”
He cited other contributing factors,
such as the fallen corporate tax …

🪧 Labor and Climate Must Unite. That’s Easier Said Than Done.
#politics…

Labor and Climate Must Unite. That’s Easier Said Than Done.
The idea that the labor and climate movements must unite for a Green New Deal is more popular than ever. To get it done, we'll need to take the threat of job loss seriously, finding and uplifting commonalities between climate goals and worker self-interest.

https://sanjosespotlight.com/will-san-jose-city-council-lose-its-labor-majority-election-2024/

Will San Jose council lose its labor majority? - San José Spotlight
Progressive and labor friendly politicians have enjoyed a majority on the San Jose City Council for the past two years, but the November elections may flip the balance.

#Windkraftausbau in MV: Ein bürokratischer Alptraum? In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern verhindern lange #Genehmigungsverfahren den Bau von #Windkraftanlagen, während ein

"Klima-Labor": Wie ein Amt den Windkraft-Ausbau in MV verhindert
Deutschlandweit sind gut 30 sogenannte Untätigkeitsklagen wegen verschleppter Genehmigungen für den Bau von Windkraftanlagen bekannt. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern sticht mit 19 Klagen hervor. Im Gespräch mit ntv.de schildert ein Betroffener die systematische Blockade der Behörden.

President Biden says ‘union labor and American steel’ will be used to rebuild Baltimore bridge https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/apr/05/biden-israel-weapons-baltimore-visit-updates?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Othe…

Belgium-based Robovision, which offers AI-based no-code computer vision tools to businesses, raised a $42M Series A co-led by Astanor Ventures and Target Global (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/05/robovision-computer-vision-belgium/

Belgian computer vision startup Robovision eyes U.S. expansion to address labor shortages | TechCrunch
Robovision has raised $42M to industrialize deep learning tools and make them more accessible to businesses that are not tech companies at their core.

All this highlights the increasing divergence between the UK and the US when it comes to labor rights. Under the Biden Administration, @NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo has promulgated a rule that grants a union *automatic* recognition if the boss does anything to interfere with a union election:
…

✊🏾 Seven Lessons from Starbucks Workers’ Historic Victory
#labor

Seven Lessons from Starbucks Workers’ Historic Victory
The entire labor movement should wake up and pay attention to the lessons from Starbucks workers’ victory this week.

Biden wants union labor to rebuild the Baltimore bridge. That could touch off a fight (Franco Ordoñez/NPR)
https://npr.org/2024/04/05/1243143015/biden-baltimore-bridge-funding
http://www.memeorandum.com/240406/p19#a240406p19

Interest in policy interventions to protect journalism is exploding, but industry gatherings keep failing to include journalism labor advocates as strikes grow (Matt Pearce)
https://mattdpearce.substack.com/p/journalisms-visionary-leaders-and
<…

Journalism's visionary leaders and the voices missing from the room
Somebody is missing from the upcoming International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin, Texas.

It's amazing how often a series about "new ideas" lands on putting eighteen-year-olds into forced labor.

Same story.
Left: WaPo headline
Right: NYT headline
The Times is correct on this one, as the Post admits grudgingly in the second paragraph of its story, which goes on to read like an editorial for cutting social security.

Six homeless people die every day on the streets of Los Angeles. Without cops enforcing private property rights we could solve this problem practically tomorrow. These people are killed by police just as surely as the people they gun down. This is in addition to the millions whose lives are shortened and immiserated by being forced to sell their labor to survive. These people are also killed by police.

"It's a very silly book about a giant robot hotel, but it's also essentially a power fantasy about low-level service workers getting to punch out their boss with a robot and redefining their relationship to labor by flying off into space. Basically, it's high literature." https://mastodon.cl…

Technically also possible by swindling other billionaires.
Or even by broad shallow swindling of the upper middle class (Buffett’s trick.)
One can argue that those are just secondary abuse of labor. https://mindly.social/@ahumanbeinz/112390780633684289

RickNobodyBeinz (@ahumanbeinz@mindly.social)
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I recognize my hatred (yes, at this point it's hatred) towards "Generative AI" is making me biased and giving me tunnel vision, and I don't want that.
So, here's a question that perhaps might help me reduce my bias:
Is there *any use* of Generative AI that is:
a) respectful of labor (that is, not meant to ever replace workers)
AND
b) actually beneficial to humanity as a whole (as opposed to company bottom lines)
?
Boosts appreciated,…

Tens of Thousands of Workers in Florida Have Just Lost Their Labor Unions. More Is Coming | Portside
https://portside.org/2024-02-16/tens-thousands-workers-florida-have-just-lost-their-labor-unions-more-coming…

Tens of Thousands of Workers in Florida Have Just Lost Their Labor Unions. More Is Coming
In St. Johns County, on the Atlantic shore of Northeast Florida, more than 55% of public school teachers paid their union dues this last year. Despite that, nearly 3,500 teachers are facing the threat of having their union representation revoked. At the same time, in Southwest Florida, only 16% of law enforcement officers of the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office paid union dues last year. Their union is under absolutely no threat of being decertified.

Erste genomeditierte Babys: Forscher setzt umstrittene Arbeit fort
Vom Gefängnis zurück ins Labor: He Jiankui, der Forscher, der weltweit für Schlagzeilen sorgte, will Genom-Editing bei menschlichen Embryonen fortsetzen.

Amazing to see the #ILO finally taking #Uyghur forced #labor seriously. Knowing what I do about the organization, this is a huge shift and one that, I imagine, only happened due to the dedicated work of academics and acti…

Updated ILO Forced Labor Guidelines Directly Target Uyghur Forced Labor
Executive Summary: For first time since establishing its forced labor taskforce in 2001, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has issued authoritative and comprehensive guidance on operationalizing the research and measurement of forced labor, updating its more provisional guidelines from 2012. The new ILO Handbook adds a substantial new section on state-imposed forced labor, squarely targeting Beijing’s forced labor in Xinjiang …

Europäische KI-Spezialisten: Von Google zu Apple
Apple baute laut einem Bericht der Financial Times ein "geheimes europäisches KI-Labor" in Zürich auf. Dort sollen Sprachmodelle und andere Produkte entstehen.

Gen Z: I don’t dream of labor.
Gen AI: My dreams are labor*.
*not labor at all, mostly stolen from actual labor, to replace actual labor with shit

Can't believe that today 105 years ago they invented labor. Happy birthday labor!!

Evaluating Large Language Models for Structured Science Summarization in the Open Research Knowledge Graph
Vladyslav Nechakhin, Jennifer D'Souza, Steffen Eger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02105

Evaluating Large Language Models for Structured Science Summarization in the Open Research Knowledge Graph
Structured science summaries or research contributions using properties or dimensions beyond traditional keywords enhances science findability. Current methods, such as those used by the Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG), involve manually curating properties to describe research papers' contributions in a structured manner, but this is labor-intensive and inconsistent between the domain expert human curators. We propose using Large Language Models (LLMs) to automatically suggest these proper…

Interest in policy interventions to protect journalism is exploding, but industry gatherings keep failing to include journalism labor advocates as strikes grow (Matt Pearce)
https://mattdpearce.substack.com/p/journalisms-visionary-leaders-and
<…

Journalism's visionary leaders and the voices missing from the room
Somebody is missing from the upcoming International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin, Texas.

Not everyone is impressed with the announcement that the Australian government is funding quantum computing development. #auspol https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/04/30/labor

Labor reduces transparency to the quantum level in deal with US firm
The deal to invest $940 million in a Californian quantum computer company is marked by plenty of secrecy and no clarity on the case for the spending.

Traitor Joe’s sure has been doing a lot of recalls lately. Maybe if they valued labor, they wouldn’t have so much contaminated food?
They should spend less money trying to sue the NLRB out of existence and more money making their products safe.
https://…

Wir hatten im @… ein interessantes Gespräch über den Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act #UFLPA mit einer Delegation aus den #USA, bestehend aus Fachleuten aus d…

Nice overview about LLMs for data annotation including paper references of papers with open source code & data.
Zhen Tan et al, Large Language Models for Data Annotation: A Survey, https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13446

> Taken together, PACER and PRESS would save Pennsylvania ratepayers $252 million over the next five years, create 14,500 jobs, and once again position Pennsylvania as a leader in the energy industry.
Go Governor Shapiro!!
https://triblive.com…

Gov. Josh Shapiro: My commonsense plan for a new era of energy leadership in Pa.
Pennsylvania’s energy industry has long created good-paying jobs and ensured consumers have reliable, affordable power. The coal mines and oil fields of Northeastern and Western Pennsylvania fueled the Industrial Revolution, which powered the middle class and led to the creation of the American labor movement. When fascism threatened freedom overseas,

I recognize my hatred (yes, at this point it's hatred) towards "Generative AI" is making me biased and giving me tunnel vision, and I don't want that.
So, here's a question that perhaps might help me reduce my bias:
Is there *any use* of Generative AI that is:
a) respectful of labor (that is, not meant to ever replace workers)
AND
b) actually beneficial to humanity as a whole (as opposed to company bottom lines)
?
Boosts appreciated,…

Amazon pays $1.9 million to workers in Saudi Arabia harmed by labor abuses - ICIJ
https://www.icij.org/investigations/trafficking-inc/amazon-pays-1-9-million-to-workers-in-saudi-arabia-harmed-by-labor-a…

Amazon pays $1.9 million to workers in Saudi Arabia harmed by labor abuses - ICIJ
Payments come after the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and its media partners exposed exploitation of Asian migrant workers who labored at Amazon’s Saudi operations.

Worth saying again that Benjamin Netanyahu came to power in 1996 after encouraging the assassination of liberal Yitzhak Rabin.
That was, in effect, a rightwing coup.
Netanyahu is a modern fascist and working with him isn’t in American interests.
https://www.

Labor chief Michaeli: Rabin was assassinated with Netanyahu’s cooperation
Speaking ahead of anniversary of ex-PM's killing, minister singles out Likud leader and Ben Gvir for roles in incitement; Likud sources: She’s desperate to cross Knesset threshold

Honestly, I’d actually find it more honest if companies were up-front about the labor pool they use for their “automation”.
It’s not a robotaxi; it’s a chauffeur service staffed by low-wage laborers. https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112205278707780086

Thomas 🔭✨ (@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)
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US #labor #productivity has enjoyed a period of renewed growth over the past year,
interrupting a nearly twenty-year decline:
⭐️the 2.7 percent productivity growth in 2023 outpaces the 1.5 percent annual average since 2004,
🔥and it nearly matches the 2.9 percent pace seen during the country’s last pr…

In Brief: The Recent Rise in US Labor Productivity • The Aspen Institute Economic Strategy Group
BRIEFLY US labor productivity has enjoyed a period of renewed growth over the past year, interrupting a nearly twenty-year decline: the 2.7 percent productivity growth in 2023 outpaces the 1.5 percent annual average since 2004, and it nearly matches the 2.9 percent pace seen during the country’s last productivity surge in the 1990s. While the ...

A profile of MIT labor economist David Autor, an unlikely AI optimist who says AI may help restore "the middle-skill, middle-class heart of the US labor market" (Steve Lohr/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.…

How One Tech Skeptic Decided AI Might Benefit the Middle Class
David Autor, an M.I.T. economist and tech contrarian, argues that A.I. is fundamentally different from past waves of computerization.

Immigration Rage Drowns Out the US Labor Market’s Need for Workers
#RealEstate #UrbanPlanning #Bloomberg #CityLab

Enhancing Weakly Supervised 3D Medical Image Segmentation through Probabilistic-aware Learning
Zhaoxin Fan, Runmin Jiang, Junhao Wu, Xin Huang, Tianyang Wang, Heng Huang, Min Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02566

Enhancing Weakly Supervised 3D Medical Image Segmentation through Probabilistic-aware Learning
3D medical image segmentation is a challenging task with crucial implications for disease diagnosis and treatment planning. Recent advances in deep learning have significantly enhanced fully supervised medical image segmentation. However, this approach heavily relies on labor-intensive and time-consuming fully annotated ground-truth labels, particularly for 3D volumes. To overcome this limitation, we propose a novel probabilistic-aware weakly supervised learning pipeline, specifically designed …

You know what's kind? Answer: any labor union

So I posted a direct link to an article (I just searched for a site that had a copy of the CNN article that wasn’t VIA Apple News which not everyone has access to.
I think he thinks that’s “stealing it”!?! LOL
It’s a CNN article, my dude. Here’s the actual CNN link for good measure rather than stealing via Apple (I know, Apple pays to distribute these articles, so I’m just mocking him at this point.)

🦋 A Great Labor Explosion: Will Auto Workers Unionize in Trump Country?
#labor…

A Great Labor Explosion: Will Auto Workers Unionize in Trump Country?
Workers at a Volkwagon factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, are now voting on whether to join the United Auto Workers (UAW). Is this the restart of a unionized nation?

The #NYTimesStrike asks:
Can a Tech Giant Be Woke?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/busines…

Can a Tech Giant Be Woke?
Microsoft, once again a juggernaut thanks to artificial intelligence, wants to be seen as an ethical employer. Is there a catch?

Improving Socratic Question Generation using Data Augmentation and Preference Optimization
Nischal Ashok Kumar, Andrew Lan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00199

Improving Socratic Question Generation using Data Augmentation and Preference Optimization
The Socratic method is a way of guiding students toward solving a problem independently without directly revealing the solution to the problem. Although this method has been shown to significantly improve student learning outcomes, it remains a complex labor-intensive task for instructors. Large language models (LLMs) can be used to augment human effort by automatically generating Socratic questions for students. However, existing methods that involve prompting these LLMs sometimes produce inva…

On-the-Go Tree Detection and Geometric Traits Estimation with Ground Mobile Robots in Fruit Tree Groves
Dimitrios Chatziparaschis, Hanzhe Teng, Yipeng Wang, Pamodya Peiris, Elia Scudiero, Konstantinos Karydis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02516

On-the-Go Tree Detection and Geometric Traits Estimation with Ground Mobile Robots in Fruit Tree Groves
By-tree information gathering is an essential task in precision agriculture achieved by ground mobile sensors, but it can be time- and labor-intensive. In this paper we present an algorithmic framework to perform real-time and on-the-go detection of trees and key geometric characteristics (namely, width and height) with wheeled mobile robots in the field. Our method is based on the fusion of 2D domain-specific data (normalized difference vegetation index [NDVI] acquired via a red-green-near-inf…

Today offered yet more evidence that🔸 Biden’s rejection of the Republicans’ supply-side economics🔸
-- in favor of investing in ordinary Americans
-- is paying off with #high #growth, #low

April 5, 2024
Today offered yet more evidence that Biden’s rejection of the Republicans’ supply-side economics in favor of investing in ordinary Americans is paying off with high growth, low unemployment, and strong wages. Today’s jobs report from the U.S. Department of Labor for the month of March showed higher job growth than analysts anticipated. Instead of the 214,000 jobs expected, the U.S. added 303,000. The government also revised its estimate of job growth in January and February upward by a co…

Senator takes aim at Amazon's labor practices with federal quota bill
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/02/senator-takes-aim-at-amazons-labor-practices-with-federal-quota-bill.html

The problem is not, as this story suggests, "high prices."
The problem is shamefully low pay in the United States.
Too many people are working multiple jobs at tipped-wage starvation scale ($2.13 US) while corporations reap the benefits of their labor.
https://…

Here's the plot for my collapse fiction novel:
The USD collapses after a critical mass of countries dump dollar reserves in protest of brutal US proxy wars, and is replaced by the Chinese Yuan as the global reserve currency.
Rather than a grand civil war, the US fractures into a number of regional govts. Saudi Arabia takes over AZ and NM for alfalfa production. Mexico takes the southern halves of CA and TX. The rest of the country becomes cheap labor for Japanese and European…

Oh no, look what self-driving truck AI has done to truck drivers
(Self-driving cars/trucks are almost completely a scam and just part of the ongoing AI hype.)

"The world’s garment workers are on the front lines of climate impacts"
#FastFashion #Textiles #Clothes #Garments

The world’s garment workers are on the frontlines of climate impacts
Fast fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Its global workforce is paying the price.

Unter Druck gesetzt - Corona-Forscher darf nicht mehr in sein Labor #News #Nachrichten

Oft sind es viele kleine Schritte an vielen kleinen Orten, die die Welt verbessern. In dieser Öko-Trenn-#Toilette von #Finizio an der #RummelsburgerBucht in

I am not a fan of having everything I create on every platform which I don’t completely own being auto-opt-in for them to monetize my labor for LLM (fake-#AI) training.
https://front-end.social/@benschwarz/1

benschwarz (@benschwarz@front-end.social)
Attached: 1 image Huggingface "BigCode" AI project did a shitty thing where they indexed public code from GitHub, making it an OPT-OUT experience. You can see if your account is included and request removal (along with 1,800+ other disappointed souls) here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigcode/in-the-stack I had 81 repositories included, and while my more important work is private, I am still sending eye-daggers towards huggingface's general direction. You can do it too! Or just opt-out,…

Wish you a united and happy Labor Day! May the fight for bread and roses commence.

Lots of great links and thinking on video generative AI, chatbots, games and more in @… 's newsletter today https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-52-latent-ghosts-fiddling…

TITAA #52: Latent Ghosts Fiddling
Video Gen Fun - Image Gen Alts - NPC Labor - Embedding Vis - Dune Ornithopters - Game AI Reports

U.S. fines manufacturer for employing kids to operate heavy machinery - The Washington Post
https://www.

Tennessee company fined $300,000 for hiring kids to run heavy machinery
Tuff Torq also must set aside $1.5 million in profits for the 10 underage workers, the Labor Department announced.

Sources: some US lawmakers are pushing for an import ban on goods sold on Temu, saying the company hasn't done enough to stop suppliers from using forced labor (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/u-

U.S. Lawmakers Demand Temu Shipment Ban Over Forced Labor Concerns
A number of U.S. lawmakers are pushing for a ban on imports of goods sold on Temu, the fast-growing shopping site known for selling bargain products shipped from China, saying it hasn’t done enough to prevent its suppliers from using forced labor, two people with knowledge of the conversations ...

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.06310 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Labor Space: A Unifying Representation of the Labor Market via Large Language Models
The labor market is a complex ecosystem comprising diverse, interconnected entities, such as industries, occupations, skills, and firms. Due to the lack of a systematic method to map these heterogeneous entities together, each entity has been analyzed in isolation or only through pairwise relationships, inhibiting comprehensive understanding of the whole ecosystem. Here, we introduce $\textit{Labor Space}$, a vector-space embedding of heterogeneous labor market entities, derived through applyin…

"All this is quite fortunate for Altman. And this is an element of the rise of AI that I don’t see discussed enough: His omnipotent AI is struggling to be born at an extremely convenient moment. There’s a tight labor market, high employment, and companies are very eager to embrace technological tools to either replace human workers or wield as leverage against them. Read through that Times piece, and you hear company after company hungry to slash labor costs with AI — if only they could…

AI really is smoke and mirrors
Just not in *exactly* the way you might think.

Russia's Demographic Dilemma: Labor Shortage and Economic Impact: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/21/russias-demographic-dilemma.html

Jiankui hat angeblich drei Labore in China eingerichtet, unter anderem in Peking und Wuhan, und will sowohl nationale als auch internationale Regeln einhalten.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-9672027?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mas…

Members of Conference of Presidents (umbrella group of Jewish organizations), including Reform movement & Jewish Labor Committee, slam COP's statement criticizing Sen Schumer's speech on Gaza. http://www.jewishlabor.org/

In a letter to the US Labor Department, Google says the US could lose out on valuable AI and tech talent if some of its immigration policies are not modernized (Emilia David/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/1/24146053/google-ai-talent-i…

Google urges US to update immigration rules to attract more AI talent
Google says the Department of Labor should consider updating Schedule A, a list of jobs considered scarce that expedites immigration, to include AI.

Union members strike at Gannett's Desert Sun, calling for a fair labor contract and saying they've been denied regular cost-of-living raises for three years (@tdsnewsguild)
https://twitter.com/tdsnewsguild/status/1763581208070607034

Desert Sun NewsGuild is on strike! (@TDSNewsGuild) on X
It's official: As of 7 a.m. today, @TDSNewsGuild is now on strike!!! Taking this step is not easy. But after being denied any sort of regular cost of living raises for the last three years, we decided it's time to deny @Gannett our labor until a fair contract is reached!

Around the country, #Republicans are pushing to make this legal so that companies can exploit more kids without risking fines or penalties.
https://www.

Kids as young as 14 were found working at a Tennessee factory that makes lawn mower parts for John Deere and others
Immigrant children as young as 14 were found working amid heavy equipment at a Tennessee firm that makes parts for lawn mowers sold by John Deere and others.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's union comments violated labor laws, NLRB says
https://qz.com/amazon-ceos-anti-union-comments-threatened-employees-an-1851451854

Amazon CEO's anti-union comments 'threatened' employees and violated labor laws, judge rules
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in 2022 that a union would make the company less efficient

Here's the plot for my collapse fiction novel:
The USD collapses after a critical mass of countries dump dollar reserves in protest of brutal US proxy wars, and is replaced by the Chinese Yuan as the global reserve currency.
Rather than a grand civil war, the US fractures into a number of regional govts. Saudi Arabia takes over AZ and NM for alfalfa production. Mexico takes the southern halves of CA and TX. The rest of the country becomes cheap labor for Japanese and European…

Starbucks Stops Opposing Its Baristas' Union (Harold Meyerson/American Prospect)
https://prospect.org/labor/2024-02-27-starbucks-stops-opposing-baristas-union-master-contract/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240227/p101#a240227p101

An NLRB judge finds Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated US labor law with his comments in 2022 suggesting workers would be "less empowered" if they voted in a union (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/01/amazon-ceo

U.S. fines manufacturer for employing kids to operate heavy machinery - The Washington Post
https://www.

Tennessee company fined $300,000 for hiring kids to run heavy machinery
Tuff Torq also must set aside $1.5 million in profits for the 10 underage workers, the Labor Department announced.

#Amazon spent more than $3 million on #anti-#union consultants last year in its continuing effort to keep organized labor out of its delivery network, according to disclosures filed Saturday with the Labor Department.
The Seattle-based…

Amazon Spent $3.1 Million On Anti-Union Consultants In 2023
The company’s labor battles have been a bonanza for a handful of “persuaders” who undermine union organizing efforts.

‼️ Gute Nachricht:
Nach den #Überschwemmungen in #Norddeutschland sind viele davon ausgegangen, dass dadurch viele #Wildbienen ertrunken sind, jedoch:
"

Missgeschick im Labor: Hummelköniginnen überleben sieben Tage unter Wasser
Erst dachten Sabrina Rondeau und Nigel Raine, sie hätten ihr Experiment ruiniert und ihre Versuchstiere gleich mit. Doch die zeigten überraschende Überlebenskünste.

"Australia could reach an ‘ambitious’ emissions cut of up to 75% by 2035, advisers tell Labor"
#Australia #Emissions

Math Multiple Choice Question Generation via Human-Large Language Model Collaboration
Jaewook Lee, Digory Smith, Simon Woodhead, Andrew Lan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00864

Math Multiple Choice Question Generation via Human-Large Language Model Collaboration
Multiple choice questions (MCQs) are a popular method for evaluating students' knowledge due to their efficiency in administration and grading. Crafting high-quality math MCQs is a labor-intensive process that requires educators to formulate precise stems and plausible distractors. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have sparked interest in automating MCQ creation, but challenges persist in ensuring mathematical accuracy and addressing student errors. This paper introduces a protot…

any labor union are marvelous, while the De Beers Group are villains

Russia's Demographic Dilemma: Labor Shortage and Economic Impact: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/21/russias-demographic-dilemma.html

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03166 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

RRWNet: Recursive Refinement Network for Effective Retinal Artery/Vein Segmentation and Classification
The caliber and configuration of retinal blood vessels serve as important biomarkers for various diseases and medical conditions. A thorough analysis of the retinal vasculature requires the segmentation of the blood vessels and their classification into arteries and veins, typically performed on color fundus images obtained by retinography. However, manually performing these tasks is labor-intensive and prone to human error. While several automated methods have been proposed to address this tas…

Members of the iHeart Podcast Union file an unfair labor practice claim against iHeartMedia; the union represents around 100 producers, hosts, and others (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/b…

Podcast Workers File Unfair Labor Practice Charge Against iHeartMedia
Staffers who are unionized with the Writers Guild of America East are alleging that management has engaged in intimidating behavior and encroached on their rights to discuss their working conditions and their union during break periods.

"Australia could reach an ‘ambitious’ emissions cut of up to 75% by 2035, advisers tell Labor"
#Australia #Emissions

AI has the potential to ease the US meat industry's labor vulnerability by letting robots perform some of the high precision tasks required to butcher meat (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-…

AI Is Helping Automate One of the World’s Most Gruesome Jobs
Advances in computer vision and machine learning allow robots to perform some of the high precision tasks required to butcher beef and chicken.

A Great Labor Explosion: Will Auto Workers Unionize in Trump Country?
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/a-great-labor-explosion-will-auto

A Great Labor Explosion: Will Auto Workers Unionize in Trump Country?
Workers at a Volkwagon factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, are now voting on whether to join the United Auto Workers (UAW). Is this the restart of a unionized nation?

Efficient Data Generation for Source-grounded Information-seeking Dialogs: A Use Case for Meeting Transcripts
Lotem Golany, Filippo Galgani, Maya Mamo, Nimrod Parasol, Omer Vandsburger, Nadav Bar, Ido Dagan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01121

Efficient Data Generation for Source-grounded Information-seeking Dialogs: A Use Case for Meeting Transcripts
Existing methods for creating source-grounded information-seeking dialog datasets are often costly and hard to implement due to their sole reliance on human annotators. We propose combining large language models (LLMs) prompting with human expertise for more efficient and reliable data generation. Instead of the labor-intensive Wizard-of-Oz (WOZ) method, where two annotators generate a dialog from scratch, role-playing agent and user, we use LLM generation to simulate the two roles. Annotators …

Amazon, SpaceX, Starbucks and Trader Joe’s have all responded to allegations that they have violated labor laws with the same bold argument. The National Labor Relations Board, they assert in several ongoing legal proceedings, is unconstitutional.
SpaceX, for example, says that the NLRB is engaging in “an unlawful attempt … to subject Space X to an administrative proceeding whose structure violates Article II, the Fifth Amendment, and the Seventh Amendment of the Constitution of the Uni…

Amazon, SpaceX And Others Are Arguing That The NLRB Is Actually Unconstitutional
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. Amazon, SpaceX, Starbucks and Trader Joe’s have all responded to…

‘No way’: US labor watchdog refuses to bow to SpaceX, Amazon and Starbucks
Jennifer Abruzzo, the NLRB general counsel, accused some of the US’s largest corporations of “jumping on the bandwagon” in mounting legal challenges to the labor watchdog, which has found itself at the center of the ongoing battle between the companies and a wave of unionizing efforts by workers.
Attorneys representing Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Amazon, Trader Joe’s and Starbucks have all argued in recent months …

Journalists at Hearst's San Antonio Express-News and MySA.com say they intend to unionize, becoming the fourth Texas newsroom to announce a union effort in 2024 (Josh Peck/TPR)
https://www.tpr.org/economy-and-labor/2…

San Antonio Express-News, MySA.com journalists announce union; fourth Texas newsroom in 2024
The newsroom joins the San Antonio Report, the Texas Tribune, and Houston Landing in unionization efforts.

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) spending $200M to help Biden win reelection | The Hill
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4531832-labor-union-spending-200m-to-help-biden-win-reelection/

Labor union spending $200M to help Biden win reelection
A top labor union announced Wednesday that it will be spending $200 million to help President Biden win reelection. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) announced a “massive drive” to mobilize working class voters of color in battleground states to back pro-labor candidates, including Biden. The SEIU represents about 2 million members across service industries, including…

Sources: TSMC and Intel suppliers have delayed construction of facilities in Arizona, citing surging construction costs, a labor shortage, and weak local demand (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technolo…

TSMC, Intel suppliers delay U.S. plants on surging costs, labor crunch
At least 5 chemical makers slow expansion as industry awaits CHIPS Act funds

Journalists at Hearst's San Antonio Express-News and MySA.com say they intend to unionize, becoming the fourth Texas newsroom to announce a union effort in 2024 (Josh Peck/TPR)
https://www.tpr.org/economy-and-labor/2…

San Antonio Express-News, MySA.com journalists announce union; fourth Texas newsroom in 2024
The newsroom joins the San Antonio Report, the Texas Tribune, and Houston Landing in unionization efforts.

Financial professionals should be required to handle our retirement money with the utmost care, putting investors’ interests first.
But that type of care comes in degrees, and deciding exactly how far advisers should go has been the center of heated debate for nearly 15 years,
pitting financial industry stakeholders, who argue their existing regulatory framework is enough,
against the U.S. Labor Department, the retirement plan regulator, which says there are gaping holes.

Labor Department Proposes New Fiduciary Rule to Protect Investors
The Labor Department’s latest push for a new fiduciary rule would protect investors’ retirement savings and require financial services providers to change.

Court filing: Amazon claims the NLRB is unconstitutional, after the agency said Amazon illegally retaliated against workers; SpaceX has made a similar claim (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/business/economy/amazon-labor-n…

Amazon Argues National Labor Relations Board Is Unconstitutional
The company made the novel claim, echoing arguments by SpaceX and Trader Joe’s, in a legal filing while fighting a case.

Court filing: Amazon claims the NLRB is unconstitutional, after the agency said Amazon illegally retaliated against workers; SpaceX has made a similar claim (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/business/economy/amazon-labor-n…

Amazon Argues National Labor Relations Board Is Unconstitutional
The company made the novel claim, echoing arguments by SpaceX and Trader Joe’s, in a legal filing while fighting a case.

Tennessee Company Accused of Using Child Labor to Clean Slaughterhouses
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2024-02-21/tennessee-company-accused-of-using-child-labor-to-clean-slaughterhouses…

Amid a market correction in podcasting, the biggest stars still get eight- and nine-figure contracts, while rank-and-file employees push for union protections (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Alex Cooper, Kelce Brothers Are Shopping Their Hit Podcasts
While mega-deals come roaring back, rank-and-file podcasters are seeking basic labor protections

Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’
Upset by the surge in union drives, several of the best-known corporations in the US are seeking to cripple the country’s top labor watchdog, the National Labor Relations Board ( #NLRB ), by having it declared #unconstitutional.
Som…

Amid a market correction in podcasting, the biggest stars still get eight- and nine-figure contracts, while rank-and-file employees push for union protections (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Alex Cooper, Kelce Brothers Are Shopping Their Hit Podcasts
While mega-deals come roaring back, rank-and-file podcasters are seeking basic labor protections

Reddit's S-1 shows how dependent the site is on the unpaid labor of 60K active daily moderators and the whims of its users and subreddits like r/WallStreetBets (Dave Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles

Reddit IPO: Company's Biggest Risk Is Its Reliance on Unpredictable Users
The company’s IPO prospectus makes clear how dependent it is on unpaid labor and the whims of its community.

Donald Trump, the presumed Republican presidential nominee, wants to kneecap the Federal Reserve.
💥This should be a five-alarm fire for anyone who claims to care about inflation.💥

The former president and his advisers keep finding new ways to outdo themselves on bad economic ideas.
Should Trump be granted a second term,
🔸he plans to slash the labor supply by ratcheting down immigration
(including legal, work-authorized immigration).
🔸He wants to devalue…

This should be a 5-alarm fire for anyone who cares about inflation
With the 2024 election approaching, the central bank’s independence is on the line.

North Koreans forced to process seafood that ends up in U.S., investigation reveals | PBS NewsHour
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/north-koreans-forced-to-process-seafood-that-ends-up-in-u-s-investigation-reveal…

North Koreans forced to process seafood that ends up in U.S., investigation reveals
In the interconnected, globalized economy, goods produced in one nation end up on shelves and in stores halfway around the world. Some American companies have recently come under scrutiny for alleged links to forced labor. William Brangham spoke with Ian Urbina, the journalist behind a new investigation documenting the forced labor behind Chinese seafood that ends up on American plates.

Reddit's S-1 shows how dependent the site is on the unpaid labor of 60K active daily moderators and the whims of its users and subreddits like r/WallStreetBets (Dave Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles

Reddit IPO: Company's Biggest Risk Is Its Reliance on Unpredictable Users
The company’s IPO prospectus makes clear how dependent it is on unpaid labor and the whims of its community.

Tim Cook says Apple will "break new ground" on generative AI this year; Apple shareholders reject a request for report into whether Apple is using AI ethically (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Apple (AAPL) Shareholders Reject Request for AI Transparency Report
Apple Inc. shareholders rejected a labor-backed request for an artificial intelligence transparency report, which would have delved into whether the company is using the technology ethically.