#tech workers

Two Americans sentenced to prison for North Korean tech worker scheme

Two Americans have been sentenced to years in prison for their roles in a covert scheme that defrauded major US companies while generating $5 million for the North Korean regime, the Justice Department said Wednesday.

Canada has long been a top destination for tech professionals, but 2025 marks a new chapter in its immigration playbook. With an increasingly competitive global market for skilled workers, Canada’s government has introduced bold immigration pilot programs targeting developers, engineers, and tech founders. But are these just shortcuts for quick hiring, or a smart strategy for sustainable…

hi friends - I got laid off this morning.

I’m a software engineer by trade, but I’ve also been dreaming for a long time about building something of my own — especially as a neurodivergent, trans nonbinary person navigating the tech world. so while I’m job searching and doing a bit of soul-searching too, I’m going to be streaming more regularly and inviting folks across platforms to hang out, co-work, chat, and keep each other company.

I’m based in LA and I’m hoping to build a space that’s cozy, queer, and welcoming to others who might be in transition, figuring things out, or just looking for a little ADHD body doubling while they work. even if it’s small, a little community of lofi study buddies would mean a lot right now.

if you want to follow my stream, join in, or just say hi — I’d love that. 💻🌈🧠

The rise of neoliberalism as a dominant political paradigm in the 1970s and the emergence of platform capitalism in the 21st century resulted in new areas of employment and a decrease in the relative numbers of workers employed in traditional working-class jobs. Data work, that is, the labor that goes into producing data for so-called “intelligent” systems, not only brings with it unprecedented forms of exploitation but, crucially, possibilities for organization and resistance in globally networked economies. 

The Data Workers’ Inquiry is a community-based research project in which data workers join us as community researchers to lead their own inquiry in their respective workplaces. The community researchers guide the direction of the research, such that it is oriented towards their needs and goals of building workplace power but supported by formally trained qualitative researchers.

The fragility in tech created by move-fast-break-stuff is gonna be how we get any leverage when the political fireworks really start going off.

Big Tech can't "fix" this or make it go away: its baked into the culture.

Change would demand changing the culture, and it would neccesitate due-dilligence, review, transparency and understanding none of which are profitable or concealable.

All it takes is one COBOL boomer to retire, or one person to change a few lines of code.

The bottleneck is not workforce capacity: Its contextural vacuum and code discovery.