Algorithmic Sabotage Work

This isn't about smashing looms like the Luddites of the 19th century. It’s a sophisticated, often invisible tug-of-war between human intuition and machine-driven management. What is Algorithmic Sabotage?

: Demonstrating that an automated system (e.g., for credit scoring or sentencing) produces discriminatory results. Creative Subversion algorithmic sabotage work

We tend to think of sabotage as dramatic—a wrench in the gears, a hammer to a circuit board. But in the age of platform capitalism, the machinery is no longer physical. It is code. The modern workplace is governed not by foremen with stopwatches, but by performance scores, real-time tracking, and predictive analytics. This isn't about smashing looms like the Luddites