BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores.
The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.
Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.
A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week.
For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.
One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.
Among the many things I hate about privacy nihilism is that it always ignores the very real and growing pushback against these systems.
Preorder page for my kids book, FIGHT TO WIN!
Did you know that the paperback version of my labor history book for young readers, ‘Fight to Win!’ is coming out in paperback soon, at a very low price point, right in time for summer reading lists?
Now you do, and you can preorder it for 25% off here!
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fight-to-w...
A graph that shows the rising violations of child labor laws in the US since 2015, increasing from under 2,000 per fiscal year to 6,000 in 2025.
The number of child labor violations has risen fivefold in the last 10 years, but Republicans across the US are continuing to propose and pass legislation that rolls back protections or regulations for workers under the age of 18.
"The legend of Cesar Chavez will never be the same," writes @moiradonegan.bsky.social. "But the righteousness of the trade union struggle...cannot be tarnished by Chavez’s behavior."
Interviewed the journalist who was getting death threats from polymarket gamblers to change his reporting on an Iranian missile strike. Scary stuff in here about how the intense harassment made him (for just a split second) doubt what he saw and reported. Others may not have his conviction/morals.
Like, well, pretty much everybody, the Cesar Chavez story broke @coyotemedia.org's heart.
There's so much to say about it, but @soleilho.com swung big: can we all agree to just... skip the whole hero thing entirely? www.coyotemedia.org/kill-the-her...
At a time when the right is using racialized/gendered anxieties to attack migrants/workers, the liberal response to claim moral purity by removing chavez' name while refusing to fight for the dignity of workers that dolores huerta and other survivors put before their healing is performative at best
*ARIZONA CHARGES KALSHI WITH OPERATING ILLEGAL GAMBLING BUSINESS
New! Living Trans, a video series featuring trans people working in technology and cooperativism, produced by the Argentine co-operative Alternativa Laboral Trans (ALT), in partnership with DigiLabour, funded by the Queer and Trans Research Lab/University of Toronto
www.youtube.com/@alt.coopera...
Latest from me and @juliapowles.bsky.social for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social on the social media ban and age-checks:
It's not just that this proposal is faulty, unreliable, and unfit for purpose. It's actively harmful.
www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/onl...
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Everyone read the latest from @juliapowles.bsky.social and @katejsim.bsky.social !!!
www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/onl...
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So excited to see this out in the world! @tomasgna.bsky.social historicizes the tensions between scale, compliance/trust, and governance/regulation that characterize the project of T&S ⬇️
Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic
“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”
Behind the scenes, “Meta was divided on whether protecting kids should take precedence over user growth and engagement. For years, the company only incrementally rolled out restrictive safety features, even as its own staff detailed the risks its platforms posed to children.”
Finally caught up with this great piece from @currentaffairs.bsky.social on the prediction market, which actively targets economically precarious young people. Absolutely no reason for this market to exist, let alone their ads to be everywhere
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ban-pre...
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
we're releasing a PDF of our zine about ICE's tech for free. we also translated it to Spanish. Please share far and wide! www.404media.co/icezine/
Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.
And there’s a federal version of this bill that you should tell your lawmakers to support.
www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/data...
Yup. Everything in this thread, up to and including the end. You don't eat around the cockroach.
In zohran's new york there will be a bidet in every bathroom
