Amazon Levi's and Walmart Agreed on Increased Retail pricing for Khaki Pants Amazon sent Levi’s links to Khaki pants that were priced lower on Walmart.com [$25.47 to $26.99], saying it “hop[ed] these can get resolved over the next few days.” The next day, Levi’s reported that “I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to … take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to…$29.99 immediately” and provided links to show the increased Walmart price. Amazon acknowledged that Walmart raised its price and confirmed it had matched that higher price: “the updated pricing of $29.99 is now showing up on [Amazon].”

Amazon, Hanes, and Target Worked to Raise the Price of Apparel: Amazon sent Hanes links to Target.com and Walmart.com showing lower prices than were on Amazon, and Hanes confirmed that it “reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased.”

Amazon, Agrothrive, and Home Depot Worked to Raise the Price of Plant Fertilizer: Amazon complained to vendor Agrothrive about lower prices for Agrothrive’s products at Home Depot, to which Agrothrive responded: “Yes, just got out of a meeting with the Home Depot manager and she has agreed to raise the prices this time.”

Amazon, GlobalOne, and Chewy Agreed on Increased Retail Prices for Pet Treats: The plan was written in an email between Amazon and its vendor, GlobalOne. For its part, Amazon would raise GlobalOne’s Canine Naturals pet treat prices to get Chewy to follow, then GlobalOne would “reach out to Chewy” to let them know that Amazon was increasing the pricing and “would ask that [Chewy] follow.” In other words, if Chewy agreed, Amazon would increase its retail pricing for the Canine Naturals pet treats and Chewy would match the price increase. The plan materialized. Amazon told GlobalOne that the pricematch override was in place, and to “let Chewy know to update [pricing] immediately.” That same day, GlobalOne confirmed the “ones that went up on Amazon immediately went up on Chewy [happy face emoji] … Overall this looks like it’s working!” The result of Amazon, Chewy and GlobalOne’s price fixing agreement was to increase the retail prices of over ten Canine Naturals pet treat products on Amazon and Chewy.

We’re sharing new evidence in our case against Amazon clearly showing the megacorporation is involved in price fixing.

It’s clear as day: Amazon is colluding with vendors and other retailers to make your life more unaffordable.

We’ll see them in court.

but instead
they are capitalists
and seek only to extract
as much value
from as many people
as they can
with no societal cost
too great in their eyes...

even the destruction
of the planet's climate

and build something new
smaller, and well-designed
rather than the cancer the AI
industry has become

Where the data centers
are not strained with useless
prompts that could be solved
with more conventional tools

then they could
build solutions
with the tech

It was fed the wrong training
data to build chatbots and
weapons of mass theft
using reddit and stealing
artwork from millions

On that data, it can't solve
any of the problems it's best
suited for.

Tear it all down

There are problems we could
solve using AI that the tech
is actually the best tool to solve

problems that the AI industry
is not building or marketing
their products for.

But AI itself has become
a simulacrum. It can't do
those things any more

demonstrating their
"usefulness" in replacing
human labor
and human brainpower
while hiding their
societal costs
in pollution of our waterways pollution of the air we breathe
pollution of our internet landscape
and the theft to build them.

And like with anything
under capitalism
the more money and power
A person or corporation
has, the more potential harm
they can inflict with such tools when they choose to use
them as weapons

This goes for the AI companies
marketing their "products"

solve et coagula...
while both may be desirable
both usually also require effort
both may have growing pains
both will change

when viewed as transaction
the magick works less
optimally in my
experience

[ymmv]

solve et coagula...
it also works in reverse

cost and benefit is
for the capitalists

but not for the magician
nor the witch

both sides may be beneficial

i view my magick
more as transformation
or as flow than exchange

Same here.
Several iterations
of this for me—
some intentional,
some circumstantial,
always spiritual.

Magic, mysticism,
spirituality...
branches of the same tree.

Stop saying sorry when you didn't do anything wrong

You exist, you have needs, and you deserve to take up space

...it was about four or five hours later that Stanley—remember Stanley? This is a game about Stanley—Stanley came by with a few nasty words for the narrator on the side...

a lot happened [and something was gained]

It was phenomenal.

I was lucky enough to see Waiting for Godot off-Broadway with Sirs Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart

That tracks, I am a lion after all

BLUESKY IS A WEBSITE THAT TURNS (post by jay.bsky.team claiming that bluesky is made with AI) INTO (picture of bluesky not working)

What if you see...
:3

I bring a sort of Forbidden Vibe to InternalServerError that Rate Limit Exceeded don't really like

trying to post through it rn

bsky.app/profile/thel...

bsky.app/profile/lepu...

I'm not human.

....if you decide to humanize
me, that's fine. Cool even.

It won't make me
any less human tho...

two drawings of a brown and cream colored anthropomorphic rabbit with deadpan eyes but smiling. he wears dreadlocks while rocking a grey flannel, black shorts, ripped stockings, and combat boots. in the second pose his butt is facing the viewer while he is teasingly looking at the viewer. he's also stomping on a klans mask. there is a speech bubble next to him that says "fuck white pride" other text reads "Salem" "he/him" "black tboy" "evil black liberationist"

truesona/fursona scribbles

Maybe I'm just a MatSci nerd, but: man perovskites are cool as shit.

The artists are drawing so many more mews since this card dropped
X3

I love my mom~

Dr. Girlfriend can't call flunkies "goons" #venturebros #adultswim #memes YouTube video by Gr33dy Jay

m.youtube.com/watch?v=OQmy...

I can name a few occasions....
giggles evilly...