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"It’s the same playbook Trump has used throughout his thugocracy: pressuring the Federal Reserve, gutting the EPA, extorting universities, muzzling the CDC and NIH, and suing NBC, CBS, and the Wall Street Journal. "

KnowledgeLake, which uses AI and RPA to help organizations automate their work with documents, raised $65M in a majority growth round led by Edison Partners (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/20/kn

KnowledgeLake raises $65M to bring AI-native synthetic labor to midsized enterprises and government agencies - SiliconANGLE
KnowledgeLake raises $65M to bring AI-native synthetic labor to midsized enterprises and government agencies - SiliconANGLE

Elon Musk Just Won His War on Labor Unions | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-08-23/elon-musk-just-won-his-war-labor-unions

Trump-appointed judge tosses White House lawsuit against labor unions (Nick Niedzwiadek/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/23/trump-judge-tosses-white-house-lawsuit-labor-unions-00473399
http://www.memeorandum.com/250724/p30#a250724p30

This fckr needs to disappear. Someone call ICE and put them to good use for a change.
https://newrepublic.com/article/199356/elon-musk-won-war-labor

Elon Musk Just Won His War on Labor Unions
The Fifth Circuit has done the mogul’s bidding and neutered the National Labor Relations Board, in a move that will likely substantially damage workers’ rights.

AFGE | OPM’s New Performance Management Rules Are Illegal, Violate Labor Contracts
https://www.afge.org/article/opms-new-performance-management-rules-are-illegal-violate-labor-contracts/

"Whoever needs to see it, will see it": Motivations and Labor of Creating Algorithmic Conspirituality Content on TikTok
Ankolika De, Kelley Cotter, Shaheen Kanthawala, Haley McAtee, Amy Ritchart, Gahana Kadur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16851

"Whoever needs to see it, will see it": Motivations and Labor of Creating Algorithmic Conspirituality Content on TikTok
Recent studies show that users often interpret social media algorithms as mystical or spiritual because of their unpredictability. This invites new questions about how such perceptions affect the content that creators create and the communities they form online. In this study, 14 creators of algorithmic conspirituality content on TikTok were interviewed to explore their interpretations and creation processes influenced by the platform's For You Page algorithm. We illustrate how creators' belief…

Trump may be chipping away at America's economic advantage.
In recent weeks, Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics when her agency reported weak job growth
and tried to force out officials at the Federal Reserve when they refused to cut interest rates.
He and his aides have used the power of the federal government to target
— and perhaps criminally prosecute
— perceived enemies, including at the Fed, and to pressure companies over thei…

Trump’s Attacks on the Fed and BLS Threaten Key Source of Economic Strength
The president’s efforts to control the Federal Reserve and Bureau of Labor Statistics carry risks. But collectively, the moves could be even more damaging, economists warn.

Happening now: CISA Director nominee Sean Plankey is finally getting his confirmation hearing. https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/nominations-11/

Nominations - Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
Nominations of Pedro Allende to be Under Secretary for Science & Technology, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Sean Plankey to be Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Paul Ingrassia to be Special Counsel, Office of Special Counsel; Charles Arrington to be a Member, Federal Labor Relations Authority; Christopher Fox to […]

Dies ist ein Traintröt auf dem Weg ins Labor, wo ich heute wieder Computerkram mache. Die Saga* um den Einbau von 10GBit/s Netzwerkkarten geht weiter und ich werde dann heute auch mal ein paar Fotos vom Innenleben der Rechner tröten - das ist nämlich durchaus etwas obskur, teilweise 10 Jahre alte Kisten, mit zwei Xenon CPU mit partieller Wasserkühlung und einer hohen, zweistellen Anzahl von PCIe Lanes sieht man nicht alle Tage...
Jemand Interesse an besonderen Details...? ;)

"The British used parts of North America as a penal colony. Convicts were transported by private companies and sold by auction to plantation owners. Between 1718 and 1776, it is estimated that 30,000-50,000 convicts were transported for penal labor to at least nine of the continental colonies." -- https://

Penal labor in the United States - Wikipedia

Why AI can't possibly make you more productive; long
#AI and "productivity", some thoughts:
Edit: fixed some typos.
Productivity is a concept that isn't entirely meaningless outside the context of capitalism, but it's a concept that is heavily inflected in a capitalist context. In many uses today it effectively means "how much you can satisfy and/or exceed your boss' expectations." This is not really what it should mean: even in an anarchist utopia, people would care about things like how many shirts they can produce in a week, although in an "I'd like to voluntarily help more people" way rather than an "I need to meet this quota to earn my survival" way. But let's roll with this definition for a second, because it's almost certainly what your boss means when they say "productivity", and understanding that word in a different (even if truer) sense is therefore inherently dangerous.
Accepting "productivity" to mean "satisfying your boss' expectations," I will now claim: the use of generative AI cannot increase your productivity.
Before I dive in, it's imperative to note that the big generative models which most people think of as constituting "AI" today are evil. They are 1: pouring fuel on our burning planet, 2: psychologically strip-mining a class of data laborers who are exploited for their precarity, 3: enclosing, exploiting, and polluting the digital commons, and 4: stealing labor from broad classes of people many of whom are otherwise glad to give that labor away for free provided they get a simple acknowledgement in return. Any of these four "ethical issues" should be enough *alone* to cause everyone to simply not use the technology. These ethical issues are the reason that I do not use generative AI right now, except for in extremely extenuating circumstances. These issues are also convincing for a wide range of people I talk to, from experts to those with no computer science background. So before I launch into a critique of the effectiveness of generative AI, I want to emphasize that such a critique should be entirely unnecessary.
But back to my thesis: generative AI cannot increase your productivity, where "productivity" has been defined as "how much you can satisfy and/or exceed your boss' expectations."
Why? In fact, what the fuck? Every AI booster I've met has claimed the opposite. They've given me personal examples of time saved by using generative AI. Some of them even truly believe this. Sometimes I even believe they saved time without horribly compromising on quality (and often, your boss doesn't care about quality anyways if the lack of quality is hard to measure of doesn't seem likely to impact short-term sales/feedback/revenue). So if generative AI genuinely lets you write more emails in a shorter period of time, or close more tickets, or something else along these lines, how can I say it isn't increasing your ability to meet your boss' expectations?
The problem is simple: your boss' expectations are not a fixed target. Never have been. In virtue of being someone who oversees and pays wages to others under capitalism, your boss' game has always been: pay you less than the worth of your labor, so that they can accumulate profit and thus more capital to remain in charge instead of being forced into working for a wage themselves. Sure, there are layers of management caught in between who aren't fully in this mode, but they are irrelevant to this analysis. It matters not how much you please your manager if your CEO thinks your work is not worth the wages you are being paid. And using AI actively lowers the value of your work relative to your wages.
Why do I say that? It's actually true in several ways. The most obvious: using generative AI lowers the quality of your work, because the work it produces is shot through with errors, and when your job is reduced to proofreading slop, you are bound to tire a bit, relax your diligence, and let some mistakes through. More than you would have if you are actually doing and taking pride in the work. Examples are innumerable and frequent, from journalists to lawyers to programmers, and we laugh at them "haha how stupid to not check whether the books the AI reviewed for you actually existed!" but on a deeper level if we're honest we know we'd eventually make the same mistake ourselves (bonus game: spot the swipe-typing typos I missed in this post; I'm sure there will be some).
But using generative AI also lowers the value of your work in another much more frightening way: in this era of hype, it demonstrates to your boss that you could be replaced by AI. The more you use it, and no matter how much you can see that your human skills are really necessary to correct its mistakes, the more it appears to your boss that they should hire the AI instead of you. Or perhaps retain 10% of the people in roles like yours to manage the AI doing the other 90% of the work. Paradoxically, the *more* you get done in terms of raw output using generative AI, the more it looks to your boss as if there's an opportunity to get enough work done with even fewer expensive humans. Of course, the decision to fire you and lean more heavily into AI isn't really a good one for long-term profits and success, but the modern boss did not get where they are by considering long-term profits. By using AI, you are merely demonstrating your redundancy, and the more you get done with it, the more redundant you seem.
In fact, there's even a third dimension to this: by using generative AI, you're also providing its purveyors with invaluable training data that allows them to make it better at replacing you. It's generally quite shitty right now, but the more use it gets by competent & clever people, the better it can become at the tasks those specific people use it for. Using the currently-popular algorithm family, there are limits to this; I'm not saying it will eventually transcend the mediocrity it's entwined with. But it can absolutely go from underwhelmingly mediocre to almost-reasonably mediocre with the right training data, and data from prompting sessions is both rarer and more useful than the base datasets it's built on.
For all of these reasons, using generative AI in your job is a mistake that will likely lead to your future unemployment. To reiterate, you should already not be using it because it is evil and causes specific and inexcusable harms, but in case like so many you just don't care about those harms, I've just explained to you why for entirely selfish reasons you should not use it.
If you're in a position where your boss is forcing you to use it, my condolences. I suggest leaning into its failures instead of trying to get the most out of it, and as much as possible, showing your boss very clearly how it wastes your time and makes things slower. Also, point out the dangers of legal liability for its mistakes, and make sure your boss is aware of the degree to which any of your AI-eager coworkers are producing low-quality work that harms organizational goals.
Also, if you've read this far and aren't yet of an anarchist mindset, I encourage you to think about the implications of firing 75% of (at least the white-collar) workforce in order to make more profit while fueling the climate crisis and in most cases also propping up dictatorial figureheads in government. When *either* the AI bubble bursts *or* if the techbros get to live out the beginnings of their worker-replacement fantasies, there are going to be an unimaginable number of economically desperate people living in increasingly expensive times. I'm the kind of optimist who thinks that the resulting social crucible, though perhaps through terrible violence, will lead to deep social changes that effectively unseat from power the ultra-rich that continue to drag us all down this destructive path, and I think its worth some thinking now about what you might want the succeeding stable social configuration to look like so you can advocate towards that during points of malleability.
As others have said more eloquently, generative AI *should* be a technology that makes human lives on average easier, and it would be were it developed & controlled by humanists. The only reason that it's not, is that it's developed and controlled by terrible greedy people who use their unfairly hoarded wealth to immiserate the rest of us in order to maintain their dominance. In the long run, for our very survival, we need to depose them, and I look forward to what the term "generative AI" will mean after that finally happens.

On the right, there is an “economic exploitation” faction whose goal is to get as close to slave labor as they can, and a racist faction whose goal is to be as cruel as possible to immigrants.
Those factions overlap, they align, some people gravitate to both — but they are not identical. They align •only• if the cruelty creates terrible labor conditions — not if the cruelty removes the labor entirely.
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FORGE: An LLM-driven Framework for Large-Scale Smart Contract Vulnerability Dataset Construction
Jiachi Chen, Yiming Shen, Jiashuo Zhang, Zihao Li, John Grundy, Zhenzhe Shao, Yanlin Wang, Jiashui Wang, Ting Chen, Zibin Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18795

FORGE: An LLM-driven Framework for Large-Scale Smart Contract Vulnerability Dataset Construction
High-quality smart contract vulnerability datasets are critical for evaluating security tools and advancing smart contract security research. Two major limitations of current manual dataset construction are (1) labor-intensive and error-prone annotation processes limiting the scale, quality, and evolution of the dataset, and (2) absence of standardized classification rules results in inconsistent vulnerability categories and labeling results across different datasets. To address these limitatio…

A Pilot Study on LLM-Based Agentic Translation from Android to iOS: Pitfalls and Insights
Zhili Zeng (Jack), Kimya Khakzad Shahandashti (Jack), Alvine Boaye Belle (Jack), Song Wang (Jack), Zhen Ming (Jack), Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16037

A Pilot Study on LLM-Based Agentic Translation from Android to iOS: Pitfalls and Insights
The rapid advancement of mobile applications has led to a significant demand for cross-platform compatibility, particularly between the Android and iOS platforms. Traditional approaches to mobile application translation often rely on manual intervention or rule-based systems, which are labor-intensive and time-consuming. While recent advancements in machine learning have introduced automated methods, they often lack contextual understanding and adaptability, resulting in suboptimal translations…

Transforming H&E images into IHC: A Variance-Penalized GAN for Precision Oncology
Sara Rehmat, Hafeez Ur Rehman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18371 https:…

Transforming H&E images into IHC: A Variance-Penalized GAN for Precision Oncology
The overexpression of the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) in breast cells is a key driver of HER2-positive breast cancer, a highly aggressive subtype requiring precise diagnosis and targeted therapy. Immunohistochemistry (IHC) is the standard technique for HER2 assessment but is costly, labor-intensive, and highly dependent on antibody selection. In contrast, hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining, a routine histopathological procedure, offers broader accessibility but lacks HER2 …

Did you know that in two states in the USA there is no “Democratic Party” but a merged coalition that acts in some ways like the Democratic Party but has different values and a different platform?
In Minnesota, for example, there's the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (which was a merge in 1944 between the Farmer-Labor Party and the Democratic Party), which has values like Democratic Socialism and left-wing populism!
The other one is in North Dakota, the Democrati…

A GenAI System for Improved FAIR Independent Biological Database Integration
Syed N. Sakib, Kallol Naha, Sajratul Y. Rubaiat, Hasan M. Jamil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17934

A GenAI System for Improved FAIR Independent Biological Database Integration
Life sciences research increasingly requires identifying, accessing, and effectively processing data from an ever-evolving array of information sources on the Linked Open Data (LOD) network. This dynamic landscape places a significant burden on researchers, as the quality of query responses depends heavily on the selection and semantic integration of data sources --processes that are often labor-intensive, error-prone, and costly. While the adoption of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable,…

Can Recombination Displace Dominant Scientific Ideas
Linzhuo Li, Yiling Lin, Lingfei Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15959 https://arxi…

Can Recombination Displace Dominant Scientific Ideas
Scientific breakthroughs are widely attributed to the novel recombination of existing ideas. Yet despite explosive global growth in scientific labor and publications -- creating more opportunities to reconfigure knowledge -- the rate of breakthroughs has not kept pace. To investigate this disconnect, we analyze 49 million scholarly works from 1960 to 2024 using measures of atypical recombination and disruptive innovation. Contrary to recombination theories, we find a robust negative correlation…

Communication Architecture for Autonomous Power-to-X Platforms: Enhancing Inspection and Operation With Legged Robots and 5G
Peter Frank, Falk Dettinger, Daniel Dittler, Pascal H\"abig, Nasser Jazdi, Kai Hufendiek, Michael Weyrich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18572

Communication Architecture for Autonomous Power-to-X Platforms: Enhancing Inspection and Operation With Legged Robots and 5G
Inspection and maintenance of offshore platforms are associated with high costs, primarily due to the significant personnel requirements and challenging operational conditions. This paper first presents a classification of Power to X platforms. Building upon this foundation, a communication architecture is proposed to enable monitoring, control, and teleoperation for a Power to X platform. To reduce the demand for human labor, a robotic system is integrated to autonomously perform inspection an…

A Curated Dataset and Deep Learning Approach for Minor Dent Detection in Vehicles
Danish Zia Baig, Mohsin Kamal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15431 https://ar…

A Curated Dataset and Deep Learning Approach for Minor Dent Detection in Vehicles
Conventional car damage inspection techniques are labor-intensive, manual, and frequently overlook tiny surface imperfections like microscopic dents. Machine learning provides an innovative solution to the increasing demand for quicker and more precise inspection methods. The paper uses the YOLOv8 object recognition framework to provide a deep learning-based solution for automatically detecting microscopic surface flaws, notably tiny dents, on car exteriors. Traditional automotive damage inspec…

No ok.
Source @thetimothysnyder@threads.net: https://snyder.sub stack.com/p/concentration-camp-labor
h/t @paula_rhodes@threads.net
#USpol #labor #labour

Thai officials restore Ministry of Labor website after hack, defacement https://therecord.media/thai-officials-restore-labor-website-after-hack

Masimo sues US CBP, saying CBP exceeded its authority in an Aug. 1 internal advice ruling that enabled Apple to reactivate a Watch blood oxygen tracking feature (Christopher Yasiejko/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-la

Masimo Sues US Customs Over Apple Restoring Watch’s Oxygen Tool
US Customs and Border Protection unlawfully let Apple Inc. reactivate a blood-oxygen tracking feature on Apple Watches that infringes patents for the technology, Masimo Corp. said in a federal lawsuit.

A Few Fit Most: Improving Performance Portability of SGEMM on GPUs using Multi-Versioning
Robert Hochgraf (Rochester Institute of Technology), Sreepathi Pai (University of Rochester)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15277

A Few Fit Most: Improving Performance Portability of SGEMM on GPUs using Multi-Versioning
Hand-optimizing linear algebra kernels for different GPU devices and applications is complex and labor-intensive. Instead, many developers use automatic performance tuning (autotuning) to achieve high performance on a variety of devices. However, autotuning "overfits", and must be redone if any part of the environment changes, such as if the device or input characteristics change. In most non-trivial cases, a single compute kernel cannot maintain near-optimal performance across all environmen…

Reconstructing Subnational Labor Indicators in Colombia: An Integrated Machine and Deep Learning Approach
Jaime Vera-Jaramillo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12514 https://

Reconstructing Subnational Labor Indicators in Colombia: An Integrated Machine and Deep Learning Approach
This study proposes a unified multi-stage framework to reconstruct consistent monthly and annual labor indicators for all 33 Colombian departments from 1993 to 2025. The approach integrates temporal disaggregation, time-series splicing and interpolation, statistical learning, and institutional covariates to estimate seven key variables: employment, unemployment, labor force participation (PEA), inactivity, working-age population (PET), total population, and informality rate, including in region…

Gibt es hier im Fediverse jemanden der mir erklären möchte, wie eine HLA-Typisierung mittels Lymphozytotoxischen Tests im Labor abläuft? #Knochenmark #Medizin

SafetyFlow: An Agent-Flow System for Automated LLM Safety Benchmarking
Xiangyang Zhu, Yuan Tian, Chunyi Li, Kaiwei Zhang, Wei Sun, Guangtao Zhai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15526

SafetyFlow: An Agent-Flow System for Automated LLM Safety Benchmarking
The rapid proliferation of large language models (LLMs) has intensified the requirement for reliable safety evaluation to uncover model vulnerabilities. To this end, numerous LLM safety evaluation benchmarks are proposed. However, existing benchmarks generally rely on labor-intensive manual curation, which causes excessive time and resource consumption. They also exhibit significant redundancy and limited difficulty. To alleviate these problems, we introduce SafetyFlow, the first agent-flow sys…

Trump admin blasted for new 'barrage of attacks' on workers: 'Showing their true colors' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-department-of-labor/

The Australian government has delayed the release of highly detailed government modelling outlining the severe economic, environmental and budgetary risks posed by the effects of climate change, just weeks ahead of its decision on a new 2035 emissions reduction target.
https://www.

Australia climate risk assessment: Labor delays release of ‘dire’ climate change impact report
The government has delayed the release of a “shocking” assessment of climate change’s effect on the economy, just weeks before its 2035 target decision.

Trump's immigration crackdown causing labor shortages to California's construction industry, builder says: "They're hiding" (Carter Evans/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-immigration-crackdown-labor-shortages-california-construction-industry-builders-say-theyre-hiding/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250719/p1#a250719p1

ICE raids of farms are a cruel reminder that the U.S. has long devalued immigrant labor
-- while also being wholly incapable of surviving without it
https://prismreports.org/2025/07/16/our-country-doesnt-value-the-farmworkers-who-help-su…

Our country does not value the people who help build, feed, and sustain it
ICE raids of farms are a cruel reminder that the U.S. has long devalued immigrant labor, while also being wholly incapable of surviving without it

Lang2Lift: A Framework for Language-Guided Pallet Detection and Pose Estimation Integrated in Autonomous Outdoor Forklift Operation
Huy Hoang Nguyen, Johannes Huemer, Markus Murschitz, Tobias Glueck, Minh Nhat Vu, Andreas Kugi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15427

Lang2Lift: A Framework for Language-Guided Pallet Detection and Pose Estimation Integrated in Autonomous Outdoor Forklift Operation
The logistics and construction industries face persistent challenges in automating pallet handling, especially in outdoor environments with variable payloads, inconsistencies in pallet quality and dimensions, and unstructured surroundings. In this paper, we tackle automation of a critical step in pallet transport: the pallet pick-up operation. Our work is motivated by labor shortages, safety concerns, and inefficiencies in manually locating and retrieving pallets under such conditions. We prese…

Write, Rank, or Rate: Comparing Methods for Studying Visualization Affordances
Chase Stokes, Kylie Lin, Cindy Xiong Bearfield
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17024 https://

Write, Rank, or Rate: Comparing Methods for Studying Visualization Affordances
A growing body of work on visualization affordances highlights how specific design choices shape reader takeaways from information visualizations. However, mapping the relationship between design choices and reader conclusions often requires labor-intensive crowdsourced studies, generating large corpora of free-response text for analysis. To address this challenge, we explored alternative scalable research methodologies to assess chart affordances. We test four elicitation methods from human-su…

Revolutionizing Validation and Verification: Explainable Testing Methodologies for Intelligent Automotive Decision-Making Systems
Halit Eris, Stefan Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16876

Revolutionizing Validation and Verification: Explainable Testing Methodologies for Intelligent Automotive Decision-Making Systems
Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS) use complex decision-making (DM) models with multimodal sensory inputs, making rigorous validation and verification (V&V) essential for safety and reliability. These models pose challenges in diagnosing failures, tracing anomalies, and maintaining transparency, with current manual testing methods being inefficient and labor-intensive. This vision paper presents a methodology that integrates explainability, transparency, and interpretability into V&V processes. W…

"Paradoxer" Akku-Prototyp:
Beim Entladen lädt er sich selbst wieder auf
Eine Batterie, die sich beim Entladen teilweise selbst wieder auflädt - Mehr....
https://winfuture.de/news,152233.html

"Paradoxer" Akku-Prototyp: Beim Entladen lädt er sich selbst wieder auf
Eine Batterie, die sich beim Entladen teilweise selbst wieder auflädt - ohne Ladegerät, ohne Kabel. Was wie ein Paradoxon klingt, wurde nun im Labor experimentell nachgewiesen. Möglich wird das durch einen physikalischen Effekt: bipolare Elektrochemie.

Labor in America: Perspectives on the African American Contribution https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/07/16/labor-in-america-perspectives-on-the-african-american-contribution

I continue to maintain that Biden was one of the worst presidents in my lifetime - mostly due to an accident of timing. If he had been president in 2016 or 2000, he obviously would've been a huge improvement over Trump or Cheney, respectively. Heck, even in 2008 or 2012 or 1996 he would've been.. fine.
But after covid, BLM, 4 years of Trump 1.0 abuses, & subsequent open insurrection by literal fascism, he was the wrong person for the job. He gave the fash 4 years to prep

Improving Chip Design Enablement for Universities in Europe -- A Position Paper
Lukas Krupp, Ian O'Connor, Luca Benini, Christoph Studer, Joachim Rodrigues, Norbert Wehn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14907

Improving Chip Design Enablement for Universities in Europe -- A Position Paper
The semiconductor industry is pivotal to Europe's economy, especially within the industrial and automotive sectors. However, Europe faces a significant shortfall in chip design capabilities, marked by a severe skilled labor shortage and lagging contributions in the design value chain segment. This paper explores the role of European universities and academic initiatives in enhancing chip design education and research to address these deficits. We provide a comprehensive overview of current Euro…

Saw this «The Children Yearn For The Mines»-vibe poster while playing GeoGuessr today. That it's in a town that used to be a gulag/forced labor camp doesn't help. 🙈

Collective action gets the goods, yet again.
It seems that the government didn't think Section 107 would hold up in court (at least not with this strike), and the Air Canada employees effectively called their bluff. This is exactly the kind of stand that needs to be taken to keep labor rights from being rolled further and further back.
(Also, I didn't realize just how tightly connected the government is with Air Canada)

Strike 'Ends Unpaid Work' As Union Reaches Deal With Air Canada – The Rover
Low wages and unpaid labour led to flight attendants using food banks, sleeping in cars.

Can we start a #ResignNOW #ThankYouForYourAttention campaign across platforms citing his misdeeds?
https://masto.ai/@Non…

Can we start a #ResignNOW #ThankYouForYourAttention campaign across platforms citing his misdeeds?
https://masto.ai/@Non…

US targets steel, copper, lithium imports under Uyghur forced labor law (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/us-targets-steel-copper-lithium-imports-under-uyghur-forced-labor-law-2025-08-19/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p53#a250819p53

BDIViz: An Interactive Visualization System for Biomedical Schema Matching with LLM-Powered Validation
Eden Wu, Dishita G Turakhia, Guande Wu, Christos Koutras, Sarah Keegan, Wenke Liu, Beata Szeitz, David Fenyo, Cl\'audio T. Silva, Juliana Freire
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16117

BDIViz: An Interactive Visualization System for Biomedical Schema Matching with LLM-Powered Validation
Biomedical data harmonization is essential for enabling exploratory analyses and meta-studies, but the process of schema matching - identifying semantic correspondences between elements of disparate datasets (schemas) - remains a labor-intensive and error-prone task. Even state-of-the-art automated methods often yield low accuracy when applied to biomedical schemas due to the large number of attributes and nuanced semantic differences between them. We present BDIViz, a novel visual analytics sy…

LEHMANN Audio 007 - Raphael Dincsoy b2b Tamara Wirth by Lehmann Club / Labor Lehmann
https://on.soundcloud.com/PrAOEQSO0h2uIRJx0E
Raphael Dincsoy:
SoundCloud:

Don't have a bachelor's? Work the fields, boys...
'[I]t's an opening for people in the U.S. looking for work. I think that this is good news particularly for less-educated Americans who are likely to see a rise in wages," Camarota told the news outlet. "Maybe it'll even be helpful in dragging some of these noncollege-educated men who are working age back into the labor force.'
Study: 'Trump Effect' Sent 600K Immigrants From Labor Force | Newsmax.com
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/immigration-trump-labor-force/2025/06/19/id/1215651/

Trump actually said that some people (read "non-whites") are naturally suited for farm labor.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-migrant-laborers-remark-social-media-reactions_n_68932d3fe4b0d3424bc462b4

Trump's Latest 'Bats**t Crazy' Remark Has People Fuming
“Only someone as grotesquely amoral and mindless as he is would even think of saying something like that,” wrote one user on social media.

Neurosymbolic Feature Extraction for Identifying Forced Labor in Supply Chains
Zili Wang, Frank Montabon, Kristin Yvonne Rozier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07217

Neurosymbolic Feature Extraction for Identifying Forced Labor in Supply Chains
Supply chain networks are complex systems that are challenging to analyze; this problem is exacerbated when there are illicit activities involved in the supply chain, such as counterfeit parts, forced labor, or human trafficking. While machine learning (ML) can find patterns in complex systems like supply chains, traditional ML techniques require large training data sets. However, illicit supply chains are characterized by very sparse data, and the data that is available is often (purposely) co…

LLM Economist: Large Population Models and Mechanism Design in Multi-Agent Generative Simulacra
Seth Karten, Wenzhe Li, Zihan Ding, Samuel Kleiner, Yu Bai, Chi Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15815

LLM Economist: Large Population Models and Mechanism Design in Multi-Agent Generative Simulacra
We present the LLM Economist, a novel framework that uses agent-based modeling to design and assess economic policies in strategic environments with hierarchical decision-making. At the lower level, bounded rational worker agents -- instantiated as persona-conditioned prompts sampled from U.S. Census-calibrated income and demographic statistics -- choose labor supply to maximize text-based utility functions learned in-context. At the upper level, a planner agent employs in-context reinforcement…

Gigabit-Empfang im Zug – Testfahrten gehen in nächste Phase
Sehr schnelles Internet ist auf Zugfahrten eher die Ausnahme. Damit sich das ändert, soll im Nordosten nun wieder ein fahrendes Labor rollen.
https://w…

Gesucht: Archäologie Job, am liebsten zum Knochen identifizieren, bevorzugt in Berlin/Brandenburg. Wir klappern schon Unis/Institute/Grabubgsfirmen ab, gern her mit Hinweisen.
Meine Frau ist erfahren im Graben (DE, Jordanien, Moldawien, …) und hat reichlich Ahnung von Bio-Archäologie - aber sitzt gerne im Labor und starrt auf Knochen 🙃
#FediHire

🇵🇦 In Panama, Authorities Are Cracking Down on Mass Strikes
#panama

In Panama, Authorities Are Cracking Down on Mass Strikes
In a country with little left-wing politics, Panama’s nearly two-month-long strike movement has shown the power of organized labor. The government has responded with repression, acting as a rearguard for multinationals like Chiquita.

There’s a second theory, not mutually exclusive, about the frozen job market having to do with resentment from corporate leadership about the sudden surge in labor power in 2020. Someone (maybe @…?) referred to this as a “captial strike.”
I’m not sure how much economic sense that theory makes — but I am sure that corporate leadership is often impulsive, petty, and irrational, and frequently does things that make no economic sense. I can’t elucidate the theory well, but it’s thing I’m keeping my eye on.

University of Chicago Becker-Friedman Institute of Economics just published research this April 2025 of how Generative AI has had "almost no significant wage or labor impact so far".
✅ Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf

Towards Scalable and Interpretable Mobile App Risk Analysis via Large Language Models
Yu Yang, Zhenyuan Li, Xiandong Ran, Jiahao Liu, Jiahui Wang, Bo Yu, Shouling Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15606

Towards Scalable and Interpretable Mobile App Risk Analysis via Large Language Models
Mobile application marketplaces are responsible for vetting apps to identify and mitigate security risks. Current vetting processes are labor-intensive, relying on manual analysis by security professionals aided by semi-automated tools. To address this inefficiency, we propose Mars, a system that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) for automated risk identification and profiling. Mars is designed to concurrently analyze multiple applications across diverse risk categories with minimal human …

Quoting Union General Gordon Granger from General Order No. 3, which declared that enslaved people of Texas were free:
“…the connection heretofore existing between them [enslaved people and their owners] becomes that between employer and HIRED LABOR.” (caps mine)
That was BULLSHIT. (It helped, tho.)
#Freedom #HumanRights

Replaced article(s) found for econ.GN. https://arxiv.org/list/econ.GN/new
[1/1]:
- Intergenerational Mobility Trends and the Changing Role of Female Labor
Ulrika Ahrsj\"o, Ren\'e Karadakic, Joachim Kahr Rasmussen

Thoma Bravo agrees to buy HR software provider Dayforce for $12.3B at $70 per share, a 32% premium to Dayforce shares before reports of a possible deal (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/21/dayforce-hr-software-thoma-bravo

HR software firm Dayforce going private for $12.3 billion
It comes against the backdrop of a weakening U.S. labor market.

Trump is recklessly shredding our economic advantages in the global economy.
Companies that are looking to make investments shouldn’t have to worry if Trump has cooked the books on economic data--but that’s exactly what’s happening following his decision.
-- Katie Porter

Firing of labor statistics head undermines trust in key data, ex-Trump official warns
President Trump is expected to nominate a new head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics this week, days after firing Commissioner Erika McEntarfer following the release of a disappointing jobs report. The president dismissed the data as “rigged” and “manipulated for political purposes.” Geoff Bennett discussed more with William Beach, the commissioner of labor statistics during the first Trump term.

Assessing Medical Training Skills via Eye and Head Movements
Kayhan Latifzadeh, Luis A. Leiva, Klen \v{C}opi\v{c} Pucihar, Matja\v{z} Kljun, Iztok Devetak, Lili Steblovnik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16819

Assessing Medical Training Skills via Eye and Head Movements
We examined eye and head movements to gain insights into skill development in clinical settings. A total of 24 practitioners participated in simulated baby delivery training sessions. We calculated key metrics, including pupillary response rate, fixation duration, or angular velocity. Our findings indicate that eye and head tracking can effectively differentiate between trained and untrained practitioners, particularly during labor tasks. For example, head-related features achieved an F1 score …

Appeals panel temporarily lifts order deeming Trump firing of federal employee labor board head unlawful (Ella Lee/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5358101-appeals-panel-temporarily-lifts-order-deeming-trump-firing-of-federal-employee-labor-board-head-unlawful/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p154#a250618p154

Safe and Transparent Robots for Human-in-the-Loop Meat Processing
Sagar Parekh, Casey Grothoff, Ryan Wright, Robin White, Dylan P. Losey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14763 https:/…

Safe and Transparent Robots for Human-in-the-Loop Meat Processing
Labor shortages have severely affected the meat processing sector. Automated technology has the potential to support the meat industry, assist workers, and enhance job quality. However, existing automation in meat processing is highly specialized, inflexible, and cost intensive. Instead of forcing manufacturers to buy a separate device for each step of the process, our objective is to develop general-purpose robotic systems that work alongside humans to perform multiple meat processing tasks. T…

Call for Papers: 25th Annual Africa Conference at the University of Texas at Austin, April 1st to 5th, 2026
https://ift.tt/iBNzwTc
Digitisation, Orphan Works & Copyright: New Resource for the GLAM sector CREATe, the RCUK…
via Input 4 RELCFP

For those not up to speed with the latest AI jargon, I hope to clarify some things:
Every time a company promises a revolutionary “AI” product, they just exploit cheap labor from India.

The Future of Tech Labor: How Workers are Organizing and Transforming the Computing Industry
Cella M. Sum, Anna Konvicka, Mona Wang, Sarah E. Fox
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12579

The Future of Tech Labor: How Workers are Organizing and Transforming the Computing Industry
The tech industry's shifting landscape and the growing precarity of its labor force have spurred unionization efforts among tech workers. These workers turn to collective action to improve their working conditions and to protest unethical practices within their workplaces. To better understand this movement, we interviewed 44 U.S.-based tech worker-organizers to examine their motivations, strategies, challenges, and future visions for labor organizing. These workers included engineers, product …

Investigating the Use of LLMs for Evidence Briefings Generation in Software Engineering
Mauro Marcelino, Marcos Alves, Bianca Trinkenreich, Bruno Cartaxo, S\'ergio Soares, Simone D. J. Barbosa, Marcos Kalinowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15828

Investigating the Use of LLMs for Evidence Briefings Generation in Software Engineering
[Context] An evidence briefing is a concise and objective transfer medium that can present the main findings of a study to software engineers in the industry. Although practitioners and researchers have deemed Evidence Briefings useful, their production requires manual labor, which may be a significant challenge to their broad adoption. [Goal] The goal of this registered report is to describe an experimental protocol for evaluating LLM-generated evidence briefings for secondary studies in terms…

Q&A with Taskrabbit CEO Ania Smith on the Ikea-owned platform's history, Taskers earning up to $50/hour, AI assistants, zero fees, high suburban use, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-…

Taskrabbit CEO Ania Smith isn’t afraid of AI robots replacing human labor
The head of the Ikea-owned gig work platform on what labor looks like in the future.

At a time when strategists across Wall Street are dialing back their recession probabilities, Peter Berezin of BCA Research is doubling down.
President Donald Trump's 90-day tariff pause was enough to ease the worries of some investors,
but the chief global strategist at BCA has maintained his bearish outlook.
While Berezin has lowered his recession outlook from Liberation Day levels,
he still expects an economic slowdown to unfold this year.
"I've …

Stock market crash: Strategist says 25% drop, recession still base case — Business Insider
Peter Berezin of BCA Research maintains a bearish outlook despite a tariff pause. Berezin predicts a 60% chance of recession, with the S&P 500 dropping to 4,500. Economic concerns include trade uncertainty, rising delinquencies, and a weakening labor market.

America's Labor Unions are Backing State Regulations for AI Use in Workplaces - Slashdot
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/16/0512211/americas-labor-unions-are-backing-state-regulations-for-ai-use-in-workplaces

AI, AGI, and learning efficiency
An addendum to this: I'm someone who would accurately be called "anti-AI" in the modern age, yet I'm also an "AI researcher" in some ways (have only dabbled in neutral nets).
I don't like:
- AI systems that are the product of labor abuses towards the data workers who curate their training corpora.
- AI systems that use inordinate amounts of water and energy during an intensifying climate catastrophe.
- AI systems that are fundamentally untrustworthy and which reinforce and amplify human biases, *especially* when those systems are exposed in a way that invites harms.
- AI systems which are designed to "save" my attention or brain bandwidth but such my doing so cripple my understating of the things I might use them for when I fact that understanding was the thing I was supposed to be using my time to gain, and where the later lack of such understanding will be costly to me.
- AI systems that are designed by and whose hype fattens the purse of people who materially support genocide and the construction of concentration campus (a.k.a. fascists).
In other words, I do not like and except in very extenuating circumstances I will not use ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, etc.
On the other hand, I do like:
- AI research as an endeavor to discover new technologies.
- Generative AI as a research topic using a spectrum of different methods.
- Speculating about non-human intelligences, including artificial ones, and including how to behave ethically towards them.
- Large language models as a specific technique, and autoencoders and other neural networks, assuming they're used responsibly in terms of both resource costs & presentation to end users.
I write this because I think some people (especially folks without CS backgrounds) may feel that opposing AI for all the harms it's causing runs the risk of opposing technological innovation more broadly, and/or may feel there's a risk that they will be "left behind" as everyone else embraces the hype and these technologies inevitability become ubiquitous and essential (I know I feel this way sometimes). Just know that is entirely possible and logically consistent to both oppose many forms of modern AI while also embracing and even being optimistic about AI research, and that while LLMs are currently all the rage, they're not the endpoint of what AI will look like in the future, and their downsides are not inherent in AI development.

LEHMANN Audio 006 - NIKO THE K1D
Lehmann Club / Labor Lehman
SoundCloud: #TechnoTuesday #TuneTuesday #techno #LehmannClub #NikoTheK1D

I've Seen What Happens When a Country Messes With Data. America, Beware. (Andreas V. Georgiou/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/opinion/labor-statistics-data-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p117#a250819p117

And the most recent jobs report has many hints that ICE is indeed having that desired effect: in an otherwise stagnant or contracting labor market, there was job group in leisure and hospitality, private health care, and (somewhat less) construction — all job markets with a concentration of immigrant labor.
I am not an economist and this is not a proper analysis — grain of salt, please! — but a quick skim of these stats is at least superficially consistent with a good chunk of current job growth coming from decreased immigrant participation in the labor force.
https://www.bls.gov/ces/publications/highlights/2025/current-employment-statistics-highlights-06-2025.pdf
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Call for Papers: 25th Annual Africa Conference at the University of Texas at Austin, April 1st to 5th, 2026 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20120949/call-papers-25th-annual-africa-conference-university-texas-a…

Can LLM Agents Solve Collaborative Tasks? A Study on Urgency-Aware Planning and Coordination
Jo\~ao Vitor de Carvalho Silva, Douglas G. Macharet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14635

Can LLM Agents Solve Collaborative Tasks? A Study on Urgency-Aware Planning and Coordination
The ability to coordinate actions across multiple agents is critical for solving complex, real-world problems. Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong capabilities in communication, planning, and reasoning, raising the question of whether they can also support effective collaboration in multi-agent settings. In this work, we investigate the use of LLM agents to solve a structured victim rescue task that requires division of labor, prioritization, and cooperative planning. Agents operate …

Trump’s all-out assault on immigrant communities and the rule of law
escalated to new heights when federal agents beat and arrested
David Huerta, a prominent labor leader and president of the Service Employees International Union
– United Service Workers (West),
while Huerta and others were observing an ICE raid in Los Angeles, CA, on June 6.
Huerta was released from federal custody, but he is still being charged with felony conspiracy to impede an officer,

EXCLUSIVE: David Huerta, union leader beaten & arrested at ICE raid, speaks out
In his first public interview since he was beaten and arrested by federal agents in June, David Huerta, president of the Service Employees International Union - United Service Workers (West), speaks about the status of his case and the roles unions must play in the fight against fascism.

What does jamming a crowbar into the fracture point look like?
When the Trump admin says they’re backing off deporting agricultural workers, remind the racists that Trump screwed them over to appease its ultawealthy corporate ag owners.
When the Trump admin keeps deporting undocumented people seeking work and thus drains the abusable labor pool, remind the rich corps who employ those people that Trump screwed them over to appease the racist chucklefucks who really control it.
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FollowUpBot: An LLM-Based Conversational Robot for Automatic Postoperative Follow-up
Chen Chen, Jianing Yin, Jiannong Cao, Zhiyuan Wen, Mingjin Zhang, Weixun Gao, Xiang Wang, Haihua Shu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15502

FollowUpBot: An LLM-Based Conversational Robot for Automatic Postoperative Follow-up
Postoperative follow-up plays a crucial role in monitoring recovery and identifying complications. However, traditional approaches, typically involving bedside interviews and manual documentation, are time-consuming and labor-intensive. Although existing digital solutions, such as web questionnaires and intelligent automated calls, can alleviate the workload of nurses to a certain extent, they either deliver an inflexible scripted interaction or face private information leakage issues. To addre…

Trump Bureau of Labor Statistics nominee was bystander outside Capitol on Jan. 6, White House says (Ryan J. Reilly/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-bureau-labor-statistics-nominee-ej-antoni-jan-6-bystander-rcna224645
http://www.memeorandum.com/250813/p97#a250813p97

AI is already transforming Hollywood, as studios and production companies experiment with AI tools and labor groups warn of job losses and other consequences (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digi…

MimicFunc: Imitating Tool Manipulation from a Single Human Video via Functional Correspondence
Chao Tang, Anxing Xiao, Yuhong Deng, Tianrun Hu, Wenlong Dong, Hanbo Zhang, David Hsu, Hong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13534

MimicFunc: Imitating Tool Manipulation from a Single Human Video via Functional Correspondence
Imitating tool manipulation from human videos offers an intuitive approach to teaching robots, while also providing a promising and scalable alternative to labor-intensive teleoperation data collection for visuomotor policy learning. While humans can mimic tool manipulation behavior by observing others perform a task just once and effortlessly transfer the skill to diverse tools for functionally equivalent tasks, current robots struggle to achieve this level of generalization. A key challenge l…

Forty-five billion will build a lot of stuff.
As a point of comparison: In 2023, the United States budgeted $12.8 billion to build new affordable housing.
We’re about to spend nearly four times on detention centers as we spend on housing.
https://newrepublic.com/article/197619…

Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America?
If you think that’s far-fetched, then you really haven’t been paying attention to what the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been up to lately.

Trump Names Heritage's EJ Antoni to Lead Bureau of Labor Statistics (Molly Smith/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-11/trump-names-heritage-s-ej-antoni-to-lead-bureau-of-labor-statistics
http://www.memeorandum.com/250811/p115#a250811p115

US DOGE Service Agreement With Department of Labor Shows $1.3 Million Fee—and Details Its Mission
https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.wired.com/story/department-of-labor-doge-usds-payment/

Trump nominates chief economist at rightwing Heritage Foundation
to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics
The nomination comes after Trump fired the BLS commissioner
Erika McEntarfer earlier this month
after the release of a weak jobs report.
Antoni has previously voiced concerns about revisions to the jobs data at BLS.
“There are better ways to collect, process, and disseminate data
– that is the task for the next BLS commissioner,
and only consiste…

Trump to Nominate Longtime Critic to Lead Bureau of Labor Statistics (Meridith McGraw/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-to-nominate-longtime-critic-to-lead-bureau-of-labor-statistics-190e7252
http://www.memeorandum.com/250811/p116#a250811p116

Trump signs an EO clearing a path to add alternative assets like PE and cryptocurrencies into 401(k)s, instructing the US Secretary of Labor to review guidance (Sarah Min/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/07/trump-orde

Trump signs order allowing alternative assets like cryptocurrencies, private equity in 401(k)s
The executive order directs the U.S. Secretary of Labor to review fiduciary guidance on private market investments in 401(k) and other defined-contribution plans that are governed by ERISA.

Trump’s nominee to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics told Fox News Digital on Monday that the agency should suspend monthly jobs reports
-- a change that could leave businesses and policymakers at least temporarily without the data they’ve used for decades to gauge the state of the labor market and broader economy.

E.J. Antoni, the chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation,
whom Trump nominated Monday to lead the federal statistical agency,
has repeatedl…

Trump’s pick for BLS commissioner endorses suspending monthly jobs reports
“The BLS should suspend issuing the monthly job reports,” E.J. Antoni, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the federal statistical agency, said on Fox News Digital.

Trump Administration Considers Longtime Critic to Lead Bureau of Labor Statistics (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-administration-considers-longtime-critic-to-lead-bureau-of-labor-statistics-5aea02ed
http://www.memeorandum.com/250810/p56#a250810p56

Concentration Camp Labor Cannot Become Normal - by Timothy Snyder
https://snyder.substack.com/p/concentration-camp-labor

FEMA Employees Reassigned to ICE
Probationary employees who had been on paid leave were told to report to ICE within seven days or lose their jobs.
It could signal problems with ICE recruitment
https://prospect.org/labor/2025-08-06-fema-employees-reassigned…

FEMA Employees Reassigned to ICE
Probationary employees who had been on paid leave were told to report to ICE within seven days or lose their jobs. It could signal problems with ICE recruitment.

On Aug. 1, shortly after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a surprisingly weak employment report,
the conservative economist E.J. Antoni joined Steve Bannon’s influential “War Room” podcast.
“Have we put in our own person into B.L.S.?” Mr. Bannon asked Dr. Antoni.
“Is a MAGA Republican, that President Trump knows and trusts, are they running the Bureau of Labor Statistics yet?”
“No, unfortunately, Steve, we still haven’t gotten there,” Dr. Antoni replied,
go…

Trump’s Pick of E.J. Antoni as BLS Leader Criticized by the Right and the Left
Economists on the left and right criticized E.J. Antoni for misunderstanding the data he would now oversee.

When Married Women Couldn’t Teach,
Massachusetts Unions Led The Fight
https://horizonmass.news/2025/07/17/when-married-women-couldnt-teach-massachusetts-unions-led-the-fight/

When Married Women Couldn’t Teach, Massachusetts Unions Led The Fight
An often forgotten chapter in women’s labor history, the fight against marriage bans in Massachusetts eventually found success with activism, passionate union efforts, and nationwide economic change

The firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics chief Erika McEntarfer, has alarmed members of Trump’s own party.
“If the president is firing the statistician because he doesn’t like the numbers but they are accurate, then that’s a problem,”
said Wyoming Republican senator Cynthia Lummis.
“It’s not the statistician’s fault if the numbers are accurate and that they’re not what the president had hoped for.”
Kentucky senator Rand Paul, another Republican, questioned whether Mc…

Trump teases new policy for migrant farm labor (Myah Ward/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/05/trump-teases-new-policy-for-migrant-farm-labor-00493683
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p69#a250805p69

Timothy Snyder:
The people described as "undocumented" or "denaturalized"
(and other categories sure to be invented soon)
are portrayed as criminals.
If the Trump regime tries to enslave such people on a large scale, there will be a court case.
But waiting for the Supreme Court to do the right thing is, to put it gently, no substitute for action.
It would be good if there were explicit legislation banning slave labor in all circumstan…

Concentration Camp Labor
Cannot Become Normal

Concentration Camp Labor (Timothy Snyder/Thinking about)
https://snyder.substack.com/p/concentration-camp-labor
http://www.memeorandum.com/250704/p55#a250704p55

A May 22 move by the Supreme Court may signal the end of the NLRB’s independence, say labor leaders,
and transform the agency into an extension of the White House.
In turn, they warn, Donald Trump could use the board to reward friends and punish enemies. 
“It’s time to ring the alarm bell across the labor movement,”
said Jody Calemine, the director of advocacy at the AFL-CIO, the national union federation representing nearly 15 million workers across the country. 

‘It’s Time to Ring the Alarm Bell’
Labor leaders say a May Supreme Court decision could turn the agency that protects workers into a rubber stamp for President Trump.

Randi Weingarten, the longtime leader of one of the nation’s most influential labor unions and a major voice in Democratic politics,
has resigned from the Democratic National Committee.
She pointed to disagreements with the party’s new chairman, Ken Martin.
Ms. Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, had supported Mr. Martin’s rival in the chairmanship race early this year,
Ben Wikler, the chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party.
Mr. …

Randi Weingarten Quits D.N.C. Post in Dispute With Chairman
In a letter to the party’s chairman, Ken Martin, Ms. Weingarten wrote, “I appear to be out of step with the leadership you are forging.”