Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON
@juliahobsbawm.bsky.social
How we live and work. Writer, consultant. Broadcaster. Founder of Workathon. Also Young Granny. Www.juliahobsbawm.com
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Two heroes of the hour in UK politics areBaroness Beeban Kidron and Lord Ed Vaizey who voice the utter madness of the idea that ditching copyright - specifically ceding it to Big Tech AI - is fair, workable or good economically or culturally. AI can't be used to steal.
#copyrightlaw #copyright #AI
#copyrightlaw #copyright #AI
May 17, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Two heroes of the hour in UK politics areBaroness Beeban Kidron and Lord Ed Vaizey who voice the utter madness of the idea that ditching copyright - specifically ceding it to Big Tech AI - is fair, workable or good economically or culturally. AI can't be used to steal.
#copyrightlaw #copyright #AI
#copyrightlaw #copyright #AI
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“The history of work and jobs is littered with disruption, change, and we live today as much with the relics of old ways of working as we do the moulds of new forms we are creating,” argues @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social | iai.tv/articles/ai-...
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#AI #techsky
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AI won't steal your job, it'll make it interesting | Julia Hobsbawm
The future of work is more uncertain than at any point in a century, writes Julia Hobsbawm, highlighting that, according to the World Economic Forum, about a quarter of jobs will change by 2028. But…
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April 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
“The history of work and jobs is littered with disruption, change, and we live today as much with the relics of old ways of working as we do the moulds of new forms we are creating,” argues @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social | iai.tv/articles/ai-...
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THE FLEX WORK STRATEGY WORKED - (take note Monsieur Farage) : at a national level being against common sense will not work. Congratulations @AlboMP for putting this policy at the heart of your campaign.
ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
Albanese backs working from home
Says Dutton 'out of touch' for pushing workers back to office.
ia.acs.org.au
May 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
THE FLEX WORK STRATEGY WORKED - (take note Monsieur Farage) : at a national level being against common sense will not work. Congratulations @AlboMP for putting this policy at the heart of your campaign.
ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
Five years ago today Italy became the first country in Europe to lock down. Find out what happened to Italy's world of work in the United State of Work report out tomorrow
workathon.io/usw/index.html
workathon.io/usw/index.html
March 9, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Five years ago today Italy became the first country in Europe to lock down. Find out what happened to Italy's world of work in the United State of Work report out tomorrow
workathon.io/usw/index.html
workathon.io/usw/index.html
What I loved was three different women working the aisles and tills in the supermarket (OK, @waitrose ) shyly wishing me and a girl friend Happy International Women's Day: like it was lovely to hear themselves say it and mean it and be heard. That was lovely.
March 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
What I loved was three different women working the aisles and tills in the supermarket (OK, @waitrose ) shyly wishing me and a girl friend Happy International Women's Day: like it was lovely to hear themselves say it and mean it and be heard. That was lovely.
Go Big or Go Home, they say. Announced today. workathon.io/doc/WORKATHO...
February 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Go Big or Go Home, they say. Announced today. workathon.io/doc/WORKATHO...
Popular culture should be separate from politics but the medium has been the message for so long. Can Deep Mind resurrect Macluhan just for a day?
February 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Popular culture should be separate from politics but the medium has been the message for so long. Can Deep Mind resurrect Macluhan just for a day?
Fury! Sharing this apparently elegant debate I did with @ethicistforhire.bsky.social but the quiet fury between us was undeniable. I think you can only apply esoteric philosophy so far in the debate about whether The Global South needs the internet or not.
youtu.be/bfW9QYf5M7Q?si… via @YouTube
youtu.be/bfW9QYf5M7Q?si… via @YouTube
Is communication no longer human? | Nolen Gertz vs Julia Hobsbawm
YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas
https://youtu.be/bfW9QYf5M7Q?si…
February 21, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Fury! Sharing this apparently elegant debate I did with @ethicistforhire.bsky.social but the quiet fury between us was undeniable. I think you can only apply esoteric philosophy so far in the debate about whether The Global South needs the internet or not.
youtu.be/bfW9QYf5M7Q?si… via @YouTube
youtu.be/bfW9QYf5M7Q?si… via @YouTube
"the sprint to “delete” U.S.A.I.D. on grounds of waste and ideological bias also sent its own bigger message: that soft power, properly understood, is not really power at all, only a shackle restricting the exercise of the harder and more old-fashioned kind." - David Wallace-Wells @nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 3:20 AM
"the sprint to “delete” U.S.A.I.D. on grounds of waste and ideological bias also sent its own bigger message: that soft power, properly understood, is not really power at all, only a shackle restricting the exercise of the harder and more old-fashioned kind." - David Wallace-Wells @nytimes.com
What did you do when the world stopped working like it ever had in March 2020? And how is it changing now for all of us, 5 years on? Get your free download ordered of The United State of Work, published by WORKATHON on 19 March 2025 workathon.io/usw/
February 4, 2025 at 1:34 AM
What did you do when the world stopped working like it ever had in March 2020? And how is it changing now for all of us, 5 years on? Get your free download ordered of The United State of Work, published by WORKATHON on 19 March 2025 workathon.io/usw/
An amazing week here in New York where we found a very *very* warm reception indeed for WORKATHON. People want to connect and meet the challenges of work in a community, a network, and they also want data, research, ideas. We're just getting started and it's - so American - "super exciting"
February 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
An amazing week here in New York where we found a very *very* warm reception indeed for WORKATHON. People want to connect and meet the challenges of work in a community, a network, and they also want data, research, ideas. We're just getting started and it's - so American - "super exciting"
Incredible, really, to have the President of the nation which has led the world of work for a century spend his first fortnight going to war with his own federal workforce and undertaking a bonfire of DEI in its entirely, even going so far as to blame "it" for the tragic DC plane crash
February 1, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Incredible, really, to have the President of the nation which has led the world of work for a century spend his first fortnight going to war with his own federal workforce and undertaking a bonfire of DEI in its entirely, even going so far as to blame "it" for the tragic DC plane crash
New York State of Mind. It's cold. But not that cold. Nevertheless it's my Babushka look.
January 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
New York State of Mind. It's cold. But not that cold. Nevertheless it's my Babushka look.
Here amongst the gleaming spires to give a talk @orieloxford.bsky.social. I have to say I love Oxford. It has a studious hush, a lovely light. Have written some of my books here in the beautiful quarters of another college which offered it up as a bit of a writing sanctuary.
January 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Here amongst the gleaming spires to give a talk @orieloxford.bsky.social. I have to say I love Oxford. It has a studious hush, a lovely light. Have written some of my books here in the beautiful quarters of another college which offered it up as a bit of a writing sanctuary.
My mother's care home with a high Jewish population: I arrive to find them all huddled around watching hostage release coverage @skynewss.bsky.social
January 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
My mother's care home with a high Jewish population: I arrive to find them all huddled around watching hostage release coverage @skynewss.bsky.social
This column by Marina Hyde nails it or should I say Neils it. I took part in the original @tortoisemedia.bsky.social podcast which kicked off this story www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Women’s claims of sexual abuse must be heard – unless they’re about master storyteller Neil Gaiman, apparently | Marina Hyde
It’s easy to process allegations against textbook scumbags like Harvey Weinstein. When it is beloved authors and ‘allies’, less so, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
This column by Marina Hyde nails it or should I say Neils it. I took part in the original @tortoisemedia.bsky.social podcast which kicked off this story www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"the media organisations, bureaucracies, universities and government-funded NGOs that traditionally delimited public conversation." - Peter Thiel in the FT. Am I the only one to long for a fervent believer in scary stuff who can write eloquently?
January 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
"the media organisations, bureaucracies, universities and government-funded NGOs that traditionally delimited public conversation." - Peter Thiel in the FT. Am I the only one to long for a fervent believer in scary stuff who can write eloquently?
Today @thetimes.com asked for my take on work predictions for 2025 and used this matchy matchy photo...An expert’s view on the future of work in 2025
www.thetimes.com/article/e31c...
www.thetimes.com/article/e31c...
January 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Today @thetimes.com asked for my take on work predictions for 2025 and used this matchy matchy photo...An expert’s view on the future of work in 2025
www.thetimes.com/article/e31c...
www.thetimes.com/article/e31c...
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A cartoon I did for @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social in 2024
January 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A cartoon I did for @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social in 2024
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Hard at work on this paper - out on 6 March to coincide fifth anniversary of first lockdown - NEW DATA + @rorysutherland.bsky.social @davidmcwecon.bsky.social
@benpageresearch.bsky.social
Vicky Price, Melis Abacioglu +
more in association #workathon
#thenowhereoffice
@benpageresearch.bsky.social
Vicky Price, Melis Abacioglu +
more in association #workathon
#thenowhereoffice
January 3, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Hard at work on this paper - out on 6 March to coincide fifth anniversary of first lockdown - NEW DATA + @rorysutherland.bsky.social @davidmcwecon.bsky.social
@benpageresearch.bsky.social
Vicky Price, Melis Abacioglu +
more in association #workathon
#thenowhereoffice
@benpageresearch.bsky.social
Vicky Price, Melis Abacioglu +
more in association #workathon
#thenowhereoffice
Hard at work on this paper - out on 6 March to coincide fifth anniversary of first lockdown - NEW DATA + @rorysutherland.bsky.social @davidmcwecon.bsky.social
@benpageresearch.bsky.social
Vicky Price, Melis Abacioglu +
more in association #workathon
#thenowhereoffice
@benpageresearch.bsky.social
Vicky Price, Melis Abacioglu +
more in association #workathon
#thenowhereoffice
January 3, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Hard at work on this paper - out on 6 March to coincide fifth anniversary of first lockdown - NEW DATA + @rorysutherland.bsky.social @davidmcwecon.bsky.social
@benpageresearch.bsky.social
Vicky Price, Melis Abacioglu +
more in association #workathon
#thenowhereoffice
@benpageresearch.bsky.social
Vicky Price, Melis Abacioglu +
more in association #workathon
#thenowhereoffice
Work on New Year's Day in cafes in urban areas much complicated by platform economy : physically there's the same amount of staff, same space, just fitting in lots of additional delivery and pickup: the unintended consequences of an internet society number 2025. Happy New Year
January 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Work on New Year's Day in cafes in urban areas much complicated by platform economy : physically there's the same amount of staff, same space, just fitting in lots of additional delivery and pickup: the unintended consequences of an internet society number 2025. Happy New Year