My Tech Workers Have Unionized, 2026.10.05

Alex Hanna: Welcome, everyone, to Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, where we seek catharsis in this age of AI hype. Bender: Along the way, we learn to always read the footnotes, and each time we think we've reached peak AI hype, the summit of Bullshit Mountain, we discover there's worse to come.

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1. 01She also co-founded and runs the annual tech organizing conference, Circuit Breakers, which I will be at later this month
2. 02So this week, as you might expect, we're going to be focusing on tech workers and the labor that makes this industry run
3. 03And the headline is, "Amazon finds cases of AI causing runaway spending on tech projects." Subhead, "E-commerce giant's staff said the new technology had caused budget overruns tha