"We are drivers for Uber, and we’ll be joined outside the conference by others representing the vast majority of AI workers: those whom the technology is being used against. We are eager to share our stories."

FFS
"clean"
just straight-up lying.
burning carbon is burning carbon

WE HAVE TO STOP BURNING THINGS FOR ENERGY

It's very visible in media but people are being fired at a high rate in basically every industry as far as I can tell and seniority has no impact on this process. I can't help but remember all those think pieces about how millennials need to 'have careers' and 'show some loyalty' to their employers.

Wired once did a profile on me and the fact checking took 5x as long as the interviews and was conducted by a team of people. I don't care what you think about Taylor Lorenz, but you don't get to pretend Wired is the New York Post. These influencers took money to ignore genocide & the Dems paid 4 it

SSA Whistleblower’s Resignation Email Mysteriously Disappeared From Inboxes Less than 30 minutes after the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer resigned following a whistleblower complaint, recipients could no longer access the resignation email.

Less than 30 minutes after the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer resigned following a whistleblower complaint, recipients could no longer access the resignation email. www.wired.com/story/charle...

I deleted several posts about a Times story because they violated Times social media standards.

Bloodboy rising

Yeah my job is pretty cool. My uniform is a tactical vest that’s two sizes too small and a gaiter I bought in a gas station. They send me to sneak into schools to kidnap little kids because people got mad about having to press 1 for English. The president had to warn everyone to stop spitting on me.

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

While our elected leaders are holding book tours, we are out in the rain doing something to fight back against Elon Musk's unelected takeover!

Grab a shell, get out to the Tesla store, and help show our leaders the kind of fight we expect from them!

#TeslaTakedown

Whoever is doing this in the UK deserves an award.

4 panel comic Panel 1: Pink Guy holds up a stack of paper and says: I’m a writer, could you read my manuscript? Yellow Guy, walking dismissively out of shot: gross no Panel 2: Robot moves into shot. A panel in its stomach is full of scraps of text. Robot snatches manuscript from pink guy and says: Gimmie that Panel 3: Robot stuffs manuscript into its mouth Panel 4: Robot bends over and proceeds to shoot a sludge of disgusting paper mulch into Yellow Guy’s smiling open mouth

when you say “duhh ai writing is good actually” you’re the yellow guy. this is u

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It simply cannot be the case that the government may lie about where someone is being held and then argue that a habeas petition filed is in that jurisdiction is improper because the person is not actually being held in that jurisdiction.

The reason why you don’t run a government like you run a business is because Jersey Mike’s does not have the capacity to drop atomic weaponry on my house if I stop buying sandwiches there

Gee bummer man

once again I have to invoke the specter of Ronald Wilson Reagan, who is in Hell now. under Reagan, the term "government spending" was effectively demonized. fuck you, Reaganite ghouls! spending money, on its people and their needs, is the function of government! public works are good! say so!

Worker-to-Worker Organizing Can Save the Labor Movement An interview with Eric Blanc about his new book, "We Are the Union"

"To get people into motion, you have to project some level of justified hope and a credible plan to win. That, in turn, becomes to a certain extent a self-fulfilling prophecy."

Eric Blanc on his new book, organizing, and labor's moves under Trump:
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/worker-to-...

Amazon’s Delivery Drones Are Grounded. The Birds and Dogs of This Texas Town Are Grateful Amazon’s drones met more resistance in College Station, Texas, than in any other city in the US. Now they’re gone—and a sense of peace and privacy has been restored.

good morning 🔌 we're plugged in and ready to roll. our top story so far:

In a Texas university town of about 125,000 people, ordinary residents and officials banded together to oppose Amazon’s proposal to more than double the number of daily local drone flights. And the animals are thankful for it:

Photos of SBWU members posing with SBWU logos and signs are edited onto a colorful poster that says "550 UNION STARBUCKS STORES + TODAY, PARTNERS AT 23 MORE LOCATIONS ARE ANNOUNCING THEY'RE ORGANIZING"

BREAKING: Starbucks workers at the S. Dale Mabry & Neptune location in Tampa, FL just WON the 550th union Starbucks store in the US!

Not only that - baristas at 23 MORE stores are announcing organizing efforts today!

When we fight together, we WIN together. And we're NOT slowing down. ✊🔥

There is nothing crazy about this. This horrific video epitomizes the logic of current meme-fascism: it's a colonization of the imagination that precedes and aestheticizes real neo-imperialist violence, dressed up in the glossy looks of stock imagery, influencer content and online scamming
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Bold. There simply aren’t enough voices promoting freedom and free markets in the American media.

Elon Musk’s Toxicity Could Spell Disaster for Tesla Staggering sales drops, swastika-daubed EVs, companies culling fleet models, and fan-forum owners selling their cars—Elon Musk's alt-right antics are seriously impacting his electric car business.

Tesla sales in Europe plunged by 45% in January. Yes, competition from Chinese EVs is fierce—but it's not just that. Musk’s alt-right antics are turning buyers away. From swastika-daubed EVs to fan-forum owners jumping ship, we saw this coming.

A London bus stop with a parody Tesla ad poster that says "goes from 0 to 1939 in 3 seconds - Tesla, the Swasticar"

👀 Be a shame if these popped up around the world. Make a donation via the link in our bio & we'll send you a PDF so you can print your own #dontbuyaswasticar

FOX News is a despicable, dangerous sham but MSNBC by pretending to be the reasonable answer while backing the same monied interests is far more insidious.

The Technological Republic by Alexander C. Karp, Nicholas W. Zamiska: 9780593798690 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books From the Palantir co-founder, one of tech’s boldest thinkers and The Economist’s “best CEO of 2024,” and his deputy, a sweeping indictment of the West’s culture of complacency,...

Anybody got a PDF of the new book by Alex Karp they wanna send my way? If I'm gonna read this Palantir Manifesto, then I'm at least not gonna pay for psychic damage. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/760945...

Tesla's brand is so rancid now that its stock declined over 2% on the day when they announced full self-driving. How long until Tesla investors figure out that even self-driving cars can't save Tesla from the Nazi salute controversy? There will be a stampede.

#TeslaTakedown

Current and Former Scale AI Contractors Allege ‘Wage Theft’ in Letter to U.S. Senators Scale’s former managing director will appear this week in a Senate confirmation hearing for the White House’s top science role.

NEW: A group of former and current Scale AI contractors wrote to Senators alleging "wage theft" during their time working for the company.

Note comes before confirmation hearing of Michael Kratsios, former Scale Managing Director, for WH's top science policy job.

www.inc.com/sam-blum/sca...

It's hard to shake the sense that if generative AI were any other tech trend—without the AGI mythology, the industry-wide bias confirmation, the historic levels of investment many firms treat as sunk costs—the AI boom would either just be one pretty successful app or dead in a ditch altogether.

Your boss is watching Monitoring technology is increasing the power imbalance between companies and workers. Protections lag far behind.

Dove deep into workplace monitoring tech and came out the other side concerned about the widening power gap between workers and companies (oh & AI too) ter.li/326z8h