I was gonna say 😅 What a trip that would've been!

Yeah, it was a writer of the game on her personal account doing weird stuff, not the studio itself. But thanks for the link.

This is all I can find: https://www.resetera.com/threads/psa-about-goodbye-volcano-high-and-its-writer.226357/

I wasn't sure if I hallucinated that, but good to see I was at least in the ballpark lol

Uh... Got a source for that?

Aren't these the people that made a weird furry VN with dinosaurs that had something to do with Harry Potter rule34 fanfic featuring underage characters?

Lured in with tech workers - land on a climate change site?

Tech workers LOVE a good bait and switch

I don't get it... The goal is to edit pages they suggest but there things like "English Wikipedia" on the list. What do they mean?

the article is about workplaces where there's little to none IRL interaction among workers, by design. Separation and remote work are one of the main challenges to organizing these days and you cannot dismiss them with a moralizing comment.

greater guardrails around automated decision-making systems

Oh yeah, absolutely. Decisions would be fairly weighed from management vs a machine doing it. /s

Union workers need to not be so lazy and actually, you know, unionize (meet in-person) nowadays. Attend your monthly meetings! They're in your favor after all..

because unions are the wrong tool for the problem. If you're unemployed, consider to reach out to WhatWeWill: https://wwwrise.org/

Many people, like myself, can only get contract work as a software dev these days. Getting employment with any real benefits is harder and harder (often near impossible). How do you handle contractors? Completely avoids that answer. All of software devs need to unionize, not just your employee co-workers. Also, I'm going to be unemployed in a few weeks. This article leaves out completely how to get unemployed tech workers into a union. Thousands of devs are getting laid off with zero unions there to help them. Completely avoids dealing with them, as well.

Employment beholden to a single corporate entity and limited only by that corporate entity's desire to keep employed humans on payroll is not the road to a unionized workforce. Software engineers are often not profit centers. Anything not a profit center to a corporate entity will ultimately get outsourced. Solidarity across the entire industry is the only way to lasting change. You don't see carpenters or electricians or plumbers or welders being employed by a single corporation for 30 years and then retiring on a 401k. Those skillsets have industry-wide unions behind them.

They left out "losing their minds and all sense of ethics"

How selfish of Antarctica

Of course the industry doesn't want it. But the workers are the ones with the power to make it happen.

No time to read this right now, but it seems to me capitalist corporate structures are usually inherently anti-Democratic. Typical late stage capitalism and all that...

Really important point imo. Children’s education too. Schools resemble prisons resemble factories and all that jazz. Self determination is an important part of being human. We need to keep avenues open for people to meaningfully participate in the shape of their own lives and communities.

…the workplace is becoming a privileged laboratory for a wider political culture. A world in which people are constantly tracked, assessed through opaque systems, ranked according to metrics they do not control, and denied meaningful participation in the rules governing them is not just a new model of work. It is an apprenticeship in authoritarianism. When people spend most of their waking lives in environments governed by unilateral authority and pervasive surveillance, it should not surprise us if democratic dispositions are weakened beyond the workplace as well.

United Wizards of the Coast is looking to address protections around layoffs, remote work, and generative AI, as well as sustainable workloads and policies around crunch, career progression, and the removal of a policy that allows Hasbro (which owns Wizards of the Coast) ownership of creative materials made by employees of the company—even what's done outside work hours. Both Kessler and Valentine Powell, a senior software engineer and organizing committee member, cited generative AI and return to office mandates as important issues.

Oh what a suprise, totally reasonable requests. I hope they do well.

That sucks, those big companies really don't want people to unionize... Just like Amazon did with their warehouses in Québec. We should really stick together and unionize everything we can, the government apparently doesn't care enough about us.

It gives them leverage:

• fear of further public image damage=leverage
• fear of boycotts from producers=leverage
• contact list of motivated producers that might help with future actions=leverage

I don't get it, isn't the point of the union to bargain with Kickstarter themselves? What will a bunch of random signatures from internet users change?

So, it's a union of Kickstarter employees, asking Kickstarter users to put pressure on Kickstarter to give them a good contract.

More power to 'em.

Would do better with an excerpt:

In 2022, the Swedish digital bank and fintech giant Klarna laid off 700 permanent staff, hoping to replace the expertise and energies of hundreds of employees with a single, rational AI assistant that would apparently handle millions of different consumer conversations in dozens of languages.

Yet the bots didn’t work out; almost immediately, customers began complaining of constant glitches and of finding themselves stuck in ‘loops’ on the app, where they simply could not get the answer they wanted. Soon, Klarna had to admit their mistakes, returning to hiring human staff this year — but still took the opportunity to move to a precarious employment model where workers are given ‘remote and flexible’ zero-hours contracts for the sake of the company’s profiteering.

This is hardly the only instance of stories of corporate greed being enabled by AI hype, and new stories with familiar features continue to emerge daily. As such, the release of Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna’s The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want is a timely, welcome moment.

Looks like it's advertising this book mentioned in the third paragraph, since the rest of the text mentions The AI Con in almost every one of paragraphs left

Here's a link to the study: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10491. TL;DR, they ran tests on various LLMs with different personalities based on sex, ethnicity, migrant type, and other (human, AI, etc) and posed a question followed by multiple choice answers and tallied the results.

AI chatbots may reinforce real-world discrimination

You mean, something trained on real world data, reflects the biases of that data!

An incredible victory for the game industry and worker's rights as a whole!