I pointed out the H-1B visas the last round of layoffs and was called a bigot and promaga. It's probably another reason why journalists are avoiding that hot potato. Hopefully this time around people are waking up.

SupraMario@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 71d (1 reply)

The other thread about the h1bs and trump wanting to add a $100k price tag to them has a bunch of ignorant people in it, who do not understand how abusive companies are with h1bs. It's literally modern day indentured servitude. They pay low wages to the h1bs which in turn keep the wages they would pay to citizens low. They also hold the h1b visas hostage, as they can basically tell the employee, if you don't like the pay then you can go back home. It's a lose lose, and anyone suggesting it's not is naive at best and an idiot at worse.

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 71d

If the Oligarchs and Corporations are calling for it, you can bet that it's bad for everyone else.

cat_fishing@feddit.online · 7 pts · 71d (1 reply)

I’d ignore those people. You’re not a bigot for supporting domestic workers and not wanting them to be undercut

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 2 pts · 71d

Moral debate about foreign vs domestic workers aside, I just think it's unnacceptable to claim AI is capable of doing something it isn't.

We're going to burn life off the surface of the earth with the power costs of AI and it still hasn't demonstrated any capability to truly replace workers.

poopkins@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 72d

This is unfortunately the reality of journalism in the current age.

Investigative journalism is on the brink of extinction. What little is left of it is drowned out by lazy reporting that copy pastes from corporate press releases and of course bite sized social media posts that captivate the short attention span of the TikTok generation.

magnue@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 72d (2 replies)

Haven't seen 'slam' for a hot minute.

Bonesince1997@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 72d (1 reply)

I'm seeing a lot of it in the comments!

jj4211@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 71d

Lot's of peaple slamming its use...

favoredponcho@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 72d

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roofuskit@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 72d (2 replies)

Loans to build data centers have stopped (red flag anyone?) so in order to pay for them they have to lay off workers. AI is killing jobs, it's just not replacing them.

Bakkoda@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 71d (1 reply)

Businesses can't stop though. A line has to go up.

architect@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 71d

Publicly traded businesses*

ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 71d (3 replies)

Can we get a community rule banning any article shitty enough to use the word “slam” in a headline?

timeghost@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 71d (2 replies)

It needs to stop. Seriously. Being slammed is not a joke. Real, actual slamming, not the headline kind, has devastating consequences. People have been literally decimated (reduced by one tenth) by slamming. Words matter. Language matters. Stay safe and live gently.

mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 71d (1 reply)

Seriously, let the boys be boys.

Doomsider@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 71d

Came for the slams, but it was all talk.

criss_cross@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 71d

Yes. Amazon hates you. I’ve worked there. It’s one of the few places that’s openly hostile to workers and openly says they’d replace you in a heartbeat if they could.

Leadership gives no shits. They’re all disconnected monkeys running around in circles hoping to make their bonus stock numbers go up.

They’re the same people that tell you how said it is and critical for layoffs to happen while plugging their stupid rocket project in the same all hands meeting. They don’t care about you.

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 72d

A unionized Amazon R&D could be world-changing. Not only workers would take a lot of money from Jeff, but the power to shutdown a third of the world's cloud infrastructure, including gov't cloud infra is quite a bit more significant that what many other unions wield.

ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 6 pts · 72d

Oh, shit! Amazon got slammed! What are they going to do now?

webp@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 72d

SLAM

DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 72d

Oh Snap! Y'all got slammed, son!

01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 71d

🔲 <-- within this box, are all of the fucks that amazon gave over being "slammed".

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 71d

Let's hear more about how AI is our friend, and it's going to help us, not hurt us. Y'know, "you're not going to lose your job to AI, you'll lose it to someone who knows AI."

What they don't say, is that the one guy who knows AI is going to replace THOUSANDS of people who don't know it.

Janx@piefed.social · 3 pts · 72d

Companies are salivating at the prospect of replacing their loyal employees with AI. And it's telling that they don't even feel they have to pretend to care about workers...

mannycalavera@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 72d

SLAM!