Posts by beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com
(DIR) Post #AuzzsapO36x1xswEzI by beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com
2025-06-10T19:02:38Z
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I’m loath to share interviews with myself, but I really had a wonderful time sitting down with Ellen McGirt over at Design Observer. We spoke about my (too short) time at 18F, about responsive design turning 15, and about the urgent need for collective action — and, yes, unions — in tech.You listen to (or read! yay transcripts!) the interview here: https://designobserver.com/compassionate-design-career-advice-and-leaving-18f-with-designer-ethan-marcotte/
(DIR) Post #AvC036OrFL6yUomflQ by beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com
2025-06-16T13:34:12Z
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(DIR) Post #AvR5bLzAGl8yCYIznU by beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com
2025-06-23T19:00:51Z
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i have disabled every possible “artificial intelligence” setting in my accountevery team or org i work with has disabled every “artificial intelligence” setting in their accountsand yet,
(DIR) Post #AvR5bNCfk1XhyjdIUS by beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com
2025-06-23T19:03:56Z
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tech ceos in the 1990s: computers can be bicycles for the mindtech ceos in the 2020s: imagine a multiverse, but filled with Clippy
(DIR) Post #AwfTnxiYVzp6JF9Okq by beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com
2025-07-30T14:22:32Z
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billions of dollars poured into data centers doing unspeakable things to our planet, and all modern recommendation algorithms still basically amount to> YOU ENGAGED WITH PICTURE OF: CAT> HERE IS FOUR MILLION MORE PICTURE OF: CAT
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2025-08-31T20:15:07Z
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“…National Nurses United, the nation’s largest nurses union and professional organization, today called for […] the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to be fired […] or to resign.”good afternoon ONLY to organized laborhttps://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nations-largest-rn-union-time-for-dhs-secretary-rfk-jr-to-go
(DIR) Post #AyJWTA3dhTJ6iZYE4m by beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com
2025-09-17T21:44:51Z
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sometimes you have to write two thousand words to figure out which 1,500 words you need to cut
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2025-09-17T21:46:31Z
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to be clearI DO NOT RECOMMEND OR ENJOY THIS PROCESS
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2025-08-28T00:33:00Z
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“I am here to be rude, because [AI] is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response.”Gosh, this is good. https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html
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2025-11-05T20:21:20Z
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NINETY TWO PERCENT of Starbucks union members just voted to authorize a strike, kicking off on 13 November unless they (finally) get a fair contract: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/starbucks-workers-union-strike-november-13-red-cup-day/#labor #1u
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2025-11-05T20:22:09Z
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Want to support them? Sign their strike petition: https://www.nocontractnocoffee.org/
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2025-11-05T20:24:54Z
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hot labor winter, is this anythi
(DIR) Post #B1BAs2yoW1j2Rz16lU by beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com
2025-12-12T15:53:31Z
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id Software just unionized, we LOVE to SEE IT https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/id-software-devs-form-wall-to-wall-union-with-165-workers-at-doom-studio-the-latest-to-vote-in-favour
(DIR) Post #B1BAsBPh9xyubfegm8 by beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com
2025-12-12T16:04:55Z
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Courtesy of Aftermath, here’s some commentary from various workers involved in the union push: https://aftermath.site/id-software-union-doom-microsoft-cwa/These aren’t statements from the union as a whole, but some concerns cited here are: layoff protections, better benefits, remote work, and protections from “AI”.
(DIR) Post #B239kQhRmOKLnobXgu by beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com
2026-01-07T16:01:13Z
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“npm install our project dependencies. Download this 5GB file onto your five year-old laptop. Install docker. Build and start the containe—”You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.
(DIR) Post #B239kYfGAPKaVLduOO by beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com
2026-01-07T16:01:23Z
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(with apologies/thanks to https://twitter.com/doulbedoink/status/1504165271724044291)
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2026-01-28T17:21:34Z
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did you know you can listen to john darnielle sing “there is power in a union” just, like. any time you want to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2ajMrnVmxEsometimes the internet gets it right
(DIR) Post #B3A2kn4QkfpyStuXWC by beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com
2026-02-09T18:00:58Z
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Whatever the output gains promised by LLMs, their initial productivity surge is erased over time, and replaced by heavier workloads—and that leads to workers experiencing “cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making.”All this from research out of the notoriously pro-worker rag [checks notes] Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it
(DIR) Post #B3A2kuZsq89jkTgG12 by beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com
2026-02-09T18:03:30Z
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I deeply hate to quote myself, but here’s me back in September: “…the technology’s real value isn’t improving productivity, or even in improving products. Rather, [“artificial intelligence” is] a social mechanism employed to ensure compliance in the workplace, and to weaken worker power.” https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/against-stocking-frames/These platforms are not for you and I, and never were.
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2026-02-09T18:20:18Z
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i think that i shall cause problems* on purpose*** post this on linkedin** on purpose