Amazon will have you peeing in a bottle next to your mandatory Return To Office desk too, programmers.
A company that doesn't respect some workers actually doesn't respect all workers.
Featured story from @gaigedavila.bsky.social: Meenu Batra, 53, is Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter. She once helped immigrants in the courts.
Now she's languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.
"The current Democratic party is as close to a party for working people as the US has ever had. That is inextricable from the fact that the Democrats are as close to a multi-racial coalition as the US has ever had," says @nberlat.bsky.social. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/this-democ...
You aren't going far enough. There are 131 individual states in Washington DC yearning for independent statehood!
When they received the call to respond to an Israeli airstrike in the city of Mayfadoun, in southern Lebanon, most of the paramedics held back, having previously seen colleagues killed by double-tap attacks targeting rescuers. But the medics from the Islamic Health Association (IHA) rushed to the scene. By the time the other emergency workers arrived at the site, they found the IHA medics had indeed been caught in a second strike. They started evacuating their wounded colleagues, only for their ambulances to be hit in two further attacks. One of the paramedics covered his ears and screamed, convulsing in pain as shrapnel shattered the back window of the ambulance. The rescue mission on Wednesday afternoon had turned into a nightmare as Israel carried out three consecutive strikes on three sets of ambulances and medical workers.
Israel performed a literal quadruple tap attack in Lebanon to massacre three separate sets of medics.
Truly pushing the bounds of human depravity.
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Anthropomorphism — mis-labeling their mistakes as "hallucinations" — is just rhetoric that falsely implies, again, more personhood here than is warranted. I don't care what that dude who wants to fuck his LLM on Esther Perel's podcast says: These are programmed machines, sycophantic Magic 8 balls.
They think you're stupid.
"They went door-to-door to tell their neighbors what the city had not told them: The data center would use twice as much electricity as all of Monterey Park."
The city’s notification in English reached only 40 people living within 500 feet. Activists worked in English, Chinese, Spanish & more!
The official seal of the United States Supreme Court, featuring a circular design with the words “Supreme Court of the United States” surrounding a central emblem of a balanced scale of justice and a laurel wreath, symbolizing law, authority, and fairness.
🧵 The arguments behind landmark Supreme Court rulings have never been freely available… until now.
More than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs (1830–2019) are now open on the Internet Archive.
Full announcement ⤵️
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@wolflawlibrary.bsky.social
You know originalism is fake because they don't teach history in law school.
If you like what happened in Virginia, you’re gonna love DC statehood
If you agree that Hochul should not gut the state’s climate law, check out this memo on what’s up.
Then, make a call to your state legislators if you live in NY. Tell them not to cave to Hochul on this issue!
/fin
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It is actually fascinating to watch the Washington Post try out this combination of USA Today editorial content and a WSJ opinion page. It's "laundry tips!" plus "We must slash capital gains taxes." Unfortunately for Jeff Bezos, the number of living human readers seeking this combination is zero.
They're unionized. It's an elected boss, just like every other.
ok actual lol
Single-panel cartoon showing a woman saying "It's raining men." Facing her is a man saying "Not all men."
@bretthamil.bsky.social might be a good fit
Blank check written to "downtown landlords"
Protec17 employee holding a sign that says "Boots on the Ground or Boots Downtown"
King County employees with PROTEC17 have taken over the lobby of the county's Chinook Building today to present Executive Zahilay with a blank check they say represents the unknown costs of new return to office mandates.
They're contending requests for more flexible schedules have been denied.
Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned today, a week after this:
1,370,070 Virginians voted early as of the state's final update this morning.
That compares to 1,485,413 who voted early before the governor's and legislative races last fall.
AI is simply not ready for use in litigation and courts should promulgate local rules requiring attorneys to disclose if and how it has been used in any filed papers.
The leaked memos confirm what we all knew: Big Oil effectively has the conservative Justices on retainer. This casts a disturbing pall over future cases affecting oil industry interests, including, most notably, Suncor.
when Musk bought Twitter I mentioned repeatedly that a BIG part of it was right wing information warfare
and I got a lot of odd, cocksure replies about how I was "overthinking it," "it's not 4D chess," "he's not that smart" "he tried to back out, so how could it be true," etc.
weird shit
If you want to understand the powerful backlash to AI, and why it's open season for refusing such projects, local data center movements are a great place to start. Especially since they've gone national.
People clearly felt that until they mobilized, they weren't being listened to, that their homes were treated like a dumping ground for big tech's project. That if a major project were to be built in their city, they wanted it to benefit the community, and no one had bothered to explain how it would.
Last night, after an hours-long public hearing, Monterey Park became the first city in California to pass an ordinance permanently banning data centers.
The city council voted unanimously to declare data centers a public nuisance, and to "prohibit all data centers within city limits."
My story:
We’re having the referendum here in #Virginia today to offset the Rs’ mid-decade redistricting in states like North Carolina that already swung three seats and is further designed to swing a fourth this fall.
Level the playing field with a Yes victory today.
Polls are open until 7 p.m. #valeg
One problem is that many articulate, confident people are forbidden by the terms of their employment to speak out. To acquiesce in the power that threatens everything is acceptable and uncontroversial. To contest it brings your employer "into disrepute" and could have you sacked.
My big takeaway before voting gets underway at Michigan Dems convention: the energy for the left candidates is absolutely nuts this year. Abdul gets huge standing ovation, especially after call to Abolish ICE; Stevens ($9 million+ from AIPAC) gets sustained boos from beginning to end of her speech.