Picking Fights

Picking Fights

Super cool.. Must say never thought there would be a book on the topic. Thanks for sharing your experience with us all

Amazon’s CEO contributed just 0.4% of his taxable pay to Social Security last year.

Meanwhile, Amazon’s median-paid worker contributed 6.2%.

Amazon's workers paid a 15x higher rate of their taxable income into Social Security than their CEO.

Scrap the cap.

You got a pre print that you can share?

DO. NOT. TRAVEL. TO. THE. U.S. FOR. ANY. REASON.

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Only 14 House members sign letter calling for activist Mahmoud Khalil’s release

Only 14 House members sign letter calling for activist Mahmoud Khalil’s release

Austin, TX

Was it the correct package?

Not sure who needs to hear this.

Ok, a lot of people, and that’s fair!

Bitcoin isn’t a MAGA/Trump project.

It’s nonpartisan, open source and permissonless.

Don’t miss the forest for the trees. Bitcoin is for everyone, and definitely progressives too!

progressivebitcoiner.org

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Is David Lu Active in Active Directory?

Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having 'profound' security and privacy issues | TechCrunch Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned Friday that agentic AI could come with a risk to user privacy. Speaking onstage at the SXSW conference in

Meredith Whittaker on the security and privacy risks of Ai agents in messaging platforms, which I also worry about a lot. techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/s...

watch the whole interivew

Fight fascism with climate justice, not 'Canada First' nationalism Instead of turning towards nationalism, in the face of rising fascism, we should turn to each other and the planet.

“The answer to fascism isn’t more nationalism—it’s deeper democracy, stronger communities, empowered labour movements, and unwavering commitment to justice for all.” @erinblondeau.bsky.social 💯🔥
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If Americans don't protest this, let this be a clear sign the descent into fascism is well underway.

SCOOP: Emails Show Mahmoud Khalil Asked Columbia for Protection a Day Before He Was Detained "I haven’t been able to sleep, fearing that ICE or a dangerous individual might come to my home. I urge you to intervene and provide the necessary protections to prevent further harm."

SCOOP—Emails obtained by Prem Thakker and Zeteo show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him.

He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving.
He even wrote he feared ICE "might come to my home."

No bosses, everywhere.

Guess we all need to start somewhere.

About Face | Veterans Against The War We are Post-9/11 military members and veterans working to end permanent war and the use of military weapons and tactics in communities across the country.

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Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop them from forming. Keep up the fight.

A crowd of people demonstrating outside in front of the Lincoln Memorial on a clear, sunny day. Some of the signs read “Science over Stupidity,” “Science Makes America Great,” and “Team Public Health, Not Team Measles.”

Today at the “Stand up for Science” demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial.

Trump administration cancels $400M in grants and contracts with Columbia University | CNN The Trump administration said Friday that it’s pulling $400 million from Columbia University, canceling grants and contracts because of what the government describes as the Ivy League school’s failure...

I don't believe Trump cancelled $400 Billion to Columbia University for its failure to curb antisemitism.

I think Trump is making clear that he will take money away on a moment's notice -- if universities do not align their teaching and faculty with MAGA positions.

www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/u...

Here is a caveat for consideration: This is a class war dressed up in culture war drag perpetrated by the financially elite upon the populace for 40+ years.

I consider it my duty to stoke rage v the Super Citizenry created by Citizens United v FEC & the christofascist SCOTUS supermajority.
#NQNQ247

He is definitely not a nice guy, is he? :)

Trading Shares For Bitcoin - User Story To scale P2Pool, we need a payout mechanism that works past the limit imposed by bitmain on the number of outputs in a coinbase transaction. In P2Poolv2 we are aiming to provide transactions on the P2...

Trading shares for bitcoin - p2pool's payout mechanism(s).

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Slowly, but surely, we can make it happen.

Does bitcoin ops post here? If not, lets make it happen!

Building Radpool. A Decentralised, Scalable, Open Source Mining Pool.

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