Posts tagged Vice
Vice to lay off hundreds and stop publishing on website
February 23, 2024 // Once high-flying media brands are shrinking as the digital ad market tightens further. BuzzFeed on Wednesday announced the sale of Complex for $108.6 million, a company it paid nearly triple for as part of its SPAC in 2021, albeit with some assets not involved. BuzzFeed also said it will lay off 16% of its workforce. Vox Media, which an executive once dubbed the "most acquisitive company" in digital media, spun off its political brand NowThis last year. It laid off 4% of its overall staff in November and 7% last January.
AI is now giving big business the power to bust labor unions
June 9, 2023 // All that has now been eclipsed by AI. Why keep an eye or an ear trained on employees, or purchase software to read their posts and Facebook pages, when a centralized AI can detect union-friendly phrases and behaviors in every Amazon warehouse automatically in real time and at zero cost? Disconcertingly, union-busting AI relies on exactly the same scientific breakthroughs that yielded the germ-busting AI. Before AI, researchers categorized molecules as vectors that either contained or did not contain certain groups of chemicals. This was no different, and no more efficient, than Amazon’s SPOC software categorizing employees on the basis of their perceived temptation to form a union.
Starbucks will get reporters’ messages with union, federal judge rules
October 31, 2022 // A federal judge has ordered the organization behind a unionization drive at Starbucks stores in western New York to turn over all of its messages with journalists — a sweeping and unusual ruling that will let the company peek into communications that courts usually view as private and protected. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit Court,
TikToker Makes Script to Spam Ralphs Scab Site with 23,500 Fake Applications
March 31, 2022 // In a TikTok video laying out his plan, Black shows viewers how to use a tool available through his bio to automatically submit a fake application to the Ralphs site.