#taylorism — Public Fediverse posts
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Storing backups (cold data) on the same volume or in the exact same environment as the production database isn't a backup; it's just a local copy. It is therefore a lack of forethought that led to this situation.
I have never seen a company that allows just anyone to work on production servers. No matter the company, someone hired 2 days ago does not work on production; they read, they read some more, and they keep reading to understand the big picture. This is something AI cannot do.
The safeguard that prevents AI from running amok must be built by design, not through instructions in a .md file or a .yaml configuration. Furthermore, even if a person validates the commands by hitting the "authorize" button, they are not to blame. This is what we call Taylorized factory behavior. The natural tendency will be to validate blindly because mental fatigue will set in; there is a term for this: validation fatigue or alert fatigue. The concept of Taylorism lies in the fragmentation of skills and the absence of critical thinking in a production line. This is the programmer's job with AI nowadays.
An AI must work on servers that have absolutely no impact on production or ongoing work, almost as if it were working in parallel within its own sandbox environment. No matter the language model, things will get broken.
AI is a loose cannon... capable of impressive feats of productivity, but a liability that lacks any global vision.
#AI #SoftwareEngineering #DevOps #SysAdmin #Programming #CyberSecurity #TechDebt #SoftwareArchitecture #LLM #Taylorism
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There we go:
"Woolworths said it was engaging with Victoria Police over the alleged blockade."
And in this whole wretched ABC "news" article, not one word about the composition of today's picket line. Pretty heavy journalism there. But they did manage to include a bunch of Woolworths talking points.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-07/woolworths-industrial-action-victoria/104697608
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Comparing and contrasting the
- Today's dominant paradigm stems from
the 2nd Industrial revolution of
the late 19th century
from Part 2, with
- The new paradigm fit for complexity#Taylorism
#Fordism
#PostTaylorism
#ComplexityThinking
#SoftwareDevelopment
#LightweightMethods
#NewParadigm
#NewPhisolophy
#WaysOfWorking
#Management
#Leadership
#Agile
#PostAgile
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A new philosophy of work, management and leadership is born from innovative ideas and practices in different fields, professions and industries. A paradigm shift that goes beyond Fordism and Taylorism.
=> Video Short Part 3: The new paradigm beyond Fordism and Taylorism
#Taylorism
#Fordism
#PostTaylorism
#ComplexityThinking
#LightweightMethods
#NewParadigm
#NewPhisolophy
#Agile
#PostAgile
#Agility
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I really like the analysis in this podcast of how #TheToyotaProductionSystem is more efficient overall than #Taylorism because it optimizes labour value time for the entire system rather than for each individual worker. It's a great example of how #marxism offers abstractions over economics that demystify the process of production.
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/fromalpha2omega/episodes/2024-10-03T12_00_00-07_00
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Ben Affleck got PBS to cover up the fact that an unnamed-in-the-article ancestor was a slave owner. I wonder if it was Thomas Affleck, whose publication The Cotton Plantation Record and Account Book was a major influence on the use of the pushing system which, through unspeakable violence, allowed cotton planters to rapidly and continually increase the productivity of their slaves.
Thomas Affleck's work figures prominently in Caitlin Rosenthal's breakthrough work Accounting for Slavery, which traces the origin of modern management techniques, including Taylorism, back to methods employed on cotton plantations.
#BenAffleck #ThomasAffleck #Slavery #Cotton #PushingSystem #Plantations #Capitalism #Management #Taylorism #CaitlinRosenthal #AccountingForSlavery
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Affleck_(planter)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Plantation_Record_and_Account_Book
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Early management theory stemmed from studies of factory assembly line efficiency.
#ScientificManagement #Taylorism https://open.substack.com/pub/jamesrichardson/p/job-satisfaction-peaked-with-the?r=4hxgy&utm_medium=ios
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This makes AI-based #bossware subtly different from other forms of #Taylorism, the "scientific management" fad of the early 20th century that saw management consultants choreographing the postures and movements of workers to satisfy the aesthetic fetishes of their employers:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb-rumsfeld-monsters/#bossware
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A wonderful comic about Luddites, working class history and AI.
By @tomhumberstone :anarchoheart3:
https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/
#TheNib #TomHumberstone
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John Naughton joins the dots between 'boss ware' #office #surveillance of #workers and the logic of scientific management or #taylorism.
In this sense, as is so often the case the new shining #informationsociety is just capitalism enhanced via #technology (which was the central argument of my book The Information Society: a sceptical view, 2002, if you'll forgive the self-publicity!).
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My trigger: people who vocally advocate for “automation” and also have no idea who was Frederick Taylor.
You don’t even know what you don’t even know, my Nietzschean brother in Christ, incapable of grokking oxymorons.
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#Taylorism and other efficiency cults ended up scripting the motions of workers to the fingertips, and workers were and are subject to increasing surveillance and discipline from bosses if they deviate. Take too many pee breaks at the Amazon warehouse and you will be marked down for "time off-task."
Steampunk is a dream of craft production at factory scale: in steampunk, the worker is a solitary genius who can produce high-tech finished goods in their own laboratory.
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I hope this was an innocent typo and not some kind of Freudian slip hoping to squeeze more efficiency out of students 😂 #taylorism
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True:
"The Gamification Of Everything Is No Fun" [2022], The New Republic (https://newrepublic.com/article/169340/gamification-everything-no-fun-adrian-hon-review).
#Gamification #Work #Exploitation #MechanicalTurk #Amazon #Taylorism #Management #Overwork
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Reverse centaurism is the 21st Century's answer to #Taylorism, the pseudoscience that saw white-coated "experts" subject workers to humiliating choreography down to the smallest movement of your fingertip:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/great-taylors-ghost/#solidarity-or-bust
While reverse centaurism was born in warehouses and other company-owned facilities, gig work let it make the leap into workers' homes and cars.
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"The right #management" is not new. It is old! It was conceived & identified at the same time as #Taylorism; it has existed and been researched since those days. No "management innovation" necessary!
We can call this school of management #Follettianism. We like to also call it #BetaCodex: https://betacodex.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/BetaCodex-InventionOfManagements.pdf#mangementinnovation #cellstructuredesign #decentralization #lean #agile #orgdev #orgdesign #newwork #leadership #futureofleadership
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The lockdowns saw an explosion in #bossware, technology that monitors your every keystroke, every click, every URL, every file, even the video and audio from the cameras and mics on your devices, whether or not you pay for those devices.
This is the second coming of #Taylorism, the fine-grained, high-handed "scientific" micromanagement of factory workers, transposed to the home, and integrated with sensors that track you down to your eyeballs:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/great-taylors-ghost/#solidarity-or-bust
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The dystopian workplace TV series “Severance”, which has been described as a mixture of “Lost” and “The Office” and was nominated for 14 (!) Emmy Awards, offers a lot of reflection for anyone interested in organization and management. Having finished the show’s first season comprising 9 one-hour episodes, let me share some observations in this blog post: https://osconjunction.net/2022/09/06/between-retro-and-neo-taylorism-a-brief-review-of-severance-on-appletv/
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Tech Won't Save Us: How Algorithms Are Transforming Work w/ Callum Cant https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/8072334-how-algorithms-are-transforming-work-w-callum-cant.mp3?blob_id=36301417
