Member, National Writers Union (NWU). Anti-fascist, author, journalist, blogger, bicyclist, consumer advocate, human rights activist, speaker, and travel expert.
Member, National Writers Union (NWU). Anti-fascist, author, journalist, blogger, bicyclist, consumer advocate, human rights activist, speaker, and travel expert.
Member, National Writers Union (NWU). Anti-fascist, author, journalist, blogger, bicyclist, consumer advocate, human rights activist, speaker, and travel expert.
Today on world Press Freedom Day, Delegates to IFJ's Centennial Congress joined members of French journalists' unions in front of City Hall in Paris for a reading of names and moment of silence for journalists killed around the world in the last year. The list was too long. The largest number were Palestinian. #IFJ #NWU
Member, National Writers Union (NWU). Anti-fascist, author, journalist, blogger, bicyclist, consumer advocate, human rights activist, speaker, and travel expert.
Spotted on the picket line in front of the Tesla showroom in San Francisco today:
Member, National Writers Union (NWU). Anti-fascist, author, journalist, blogger, bicyclist, consumer advocate, human rights activist, speaker, and travel expert.
"The Profession That Does Not Exist: Writing won't make you a living":
https://thebaffler.com/odds-and-ends/the-profession-that-does-not-exist-symposium
cf. some of my thoughts on how writers make a living (with difficulty):
https://nwu.org/how-writers-monetize-words-the-marketplaces-for-writing-in-digital-formats/
Member, National Writers Union (NWU). Anti-fascist, author, journalist, blogger, bicyclist, consumer advocate, human rights activist, speaker, and travel expert.
Interviewed by Labor Video Project at At No Kings Day in San Francisco:
"The goal of AI, as people like Musk see it, is to replace workers with robots and to gain more power over those workers because they'll just be interchangeable parts and not people whose knowledge and whose skill is used and respected."
Member, National Writers Union (NWU). Anti-fascist, author, journalist, blogger, bicyclist, consumer advocate, human rights activist, speaker, and travel expert.
At IAM 1464 in Wilmington (Port of L.A.) for symposium on impacts of artificial "intelligence" on labor across industries: https://change-links.org/a-i-labor-and-the-future-of-la-war-the-world/
Member, National Writers Union (NWU). Anti-fascist, author, journalist, blogger, bicyclist, consumer advocate, human rights activist, speaker, and travel expert.
See you this Saturday in L.A.:
Member, National Writers Union (NWU). Anti-fascist, author, journalist, blogger, bicyclist, consumer advocate, human rights activist, speaker, and travel expert.
My talk at symposium on "AI, Labor, and the Future" at SF Public Library:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXS_zKe7LnE&t=1293s
Slides:
https://hasbrouck.org/articles/Hasbrouck-SFPL-13DEC2025.pdf
Member, National Writers Union (NWU). Anti-fascist, author, journalist, blogger, bicyclist, consumer advocate, human rights activist, speaker, and travel expert.
"ILWU Statement of Policy: The ILWU Versus Fascism": https://www.ilwu.org/the-ilwu-versus-fascism/
See also "NWU Commits to the Fight Against Fascism":
Member, National Writers Union (NWU). Anti-fascist, author, journalist, blogger, bicyclist, consumer advocate, human rights activist, speaker, and travel expert.
Member, National Writers Union (NWU). Anti-fascist, author, journalist, blogger, bicyclist, consumer advocate, human rights activist, speaker, and travel expert.
"Kindle’s New Gen AI-Powered “Ask This Book” Feature Raises Rights Concerns" (by Victoria Strauss, Writer Beware):
Member, National Writers Union (NWU). Anti-fascist, author, journalist, blogger, bicyclist, consumer advocate, human rights activist, speaker, and travel expert.
Slides and links for my presentation today at SF library symposium on "AI, Labor, and the Future of San Francisco": https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002812.html
Member, National Writers Union (NWU). Anti-fascist, author, journalist, blogger, bicyclist, consumer advocate, human rights activist, speaker, and travel expert.
Searchable list of works included in tentative settlement of #copyright #infringement lawsuit against #Anthropic AI made public:
https://secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
FAQ from the National Writers Union about what this means for writers:
https://nwu.org/anthropic/
