A Boring Dystopia

• The Rise of "Little Tech": Small startups and SaaS vendors—often backed by Silicon Valley venture capital—are leading the charge in AI-powered workplace surveillance, embedding tracking tools into everyday HR and productivity software.
• Global Surge, Local Collapse: While countries like Brazil, Mexico, and India have privacy laws on paper, enforcement is weak, allowing both domestic and foreign vendors to deploy invasive technologies unchecked.
• Gig Workers as Guinea Pigs: Gig economy workers in sectors like delivery and rideshare are the frontline subjects of AI surveillance, subjected to real-time tracking, biometric scans, and even models that predict union activity.
• Surveillance Disguised as Care: AI surveillance is increasingly framed as a tool for safety, wellness, and productivity—masking coercive oversight in the language of health and efficiency.
• Privacy Theater: Many vendors offer copy-paste privacy notices while quietly retaining worker data indefinitely. In countries like Mexico and Colombia, some companies even conduct home visits and collect data on workers' families.
• Workers are Fighting Back: From sanitation workers in India to ride-hail drivers in Nigeria, workers are resisting algorithmic control—organizing protests, forming unions, and demanding AI transparency.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30621905

The fucking AI is like the antithesis of King Midas; everything it touches turns to shit.

In 2001, Dale Winton accepted a gig as the presenter of a new Channel 5 reality show. And reality TV is simple enough: stick a bunch of people in a house, have them fight and mate like bored zoo animals.

The Channel 5 bigwigs went another way. They got a bunch of people to stand in a shopping mall for five days, touching a Toyota Land Cruiser. And while that can lead to bouts of extreme volatility after several days, the surrounding footage is largely just... people standing around in a shopping mall, touching a truck.

A surreal dive into one of British television’s most baffling game shows.

This video isn’t just about Touch the Truck — it’s about why people still try. Why they endure humiliation, boredom, and sleep deprivation for a prize that’s barely worth the effort. Why we reach for meaning even when there's none on offer.

Also: Dale Winton. Still performing. Still hopeful. Long after the applause stopped.

Also, also: money.

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Note that I'm not necessarily opposed to her facing consequences for killing him -- my issue is with how gleefully NYPost is framing it as if she just attacked him out of the blue and shoehorning her into the "evil transgenders" stereotype

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30522666

It's like RoboCop, except the robots are villains helping human villains villain more comprehensively.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5083015

Why don't they just have a better pancreas?

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More than 100,000 New Delhi street vendors have had their livelihoods crushed (literally) in the name of "beautification".

Paywall removed: https://archive.is/iHITD

Just another day in the 4th largest economy in the world. We're so proud.

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