Spotted on the picket line in front of the Tesla showroom in San Francisco today:
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Edward Hasbrouck
@ehasbrouck@union.place
mastodon 4.7.3Member, National Writers Union (NWU). Anti-fascist, author, journalist, blogger, bicyclist, consumer advocate, human rights activist, speaker, and travel expert.
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Joined February 13, 2025
National Writers Union (NWU):
NWU on Bluesky:
Blog posts about writing & publishing:
Video of my presentation on "AI and Writers: Follow the Money": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQmhYJP9Tww
slides:
https://hasbrouck.org/articles/Hasbrouck-SFPL-13DEC2025.pdf
links mentioned:
https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002812.html
(Slides in the video are out of sync, so it may be better to view the slides separately.)
AI, Writers, Follow the Money & The Rip-off Of Writers
"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/
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."