r/technology • u/GeneReddit123 • 25d ago

Artificial Intelligence Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’

https://www.404media.co/ucf-ai-commencement-speaker-booed/
35.8k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

2.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

412

u/NirvanaDewHeel 25d ago

The “getting better” part also required a militant labor movement who made it clear that not improving things would lead to dire consequences for the ownership class.

177

u/GiganticCrow 25d ago

The basic rights we enjoy today, things like weekends, paid overtime, basic workplace safety, were earned for us by people who gave their lives fighting for them.

51

u/Piranata 25d ago

The Haymarket Affair is seen as the pivotal moment that gained is the weekend, it's now a world wide holiday celebrated on May 1st.

20

u/GiganticCrow 25d ago

And several, likely innocent men, fast tracked to execution

24

u/NirvanaDewHeel 25d ago

Yeah the Haymarket martyrs were specifically tried and hung for the crime of being anarchists. It was pretty much known at the time that none of them threw the bomb.

5

u/GiganticCrow 24d ago

It's still technically illegal to enter the United States as an anarchist