William Antonelli

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Statement from The NewsGuild of New York and Condé United on illegal firing of four union leaders who demanded answers about this week’s layoffs at Teen Vogue, other brands Late Wednesday night, Condé Nast’s VP of Labor Relations notified the Guild that the Company was immediately terminating four Condé United leaders for engaging in the protected concerted activity of gathering in their 1 World Trade Center office to demand answers on this week’s abrupt layoffs at multiple brands including WIRED and the consolidation at Teen Vogue. These egregious terminations are a flagrant breach of the Just Cause terms of our contract and an unprecedented violation of their federally protected rights as union members to participate in a collective action. Through these illegal terminations, Condé Nast management is attempting to intimidate and silence our members' advocacy for the courageous cultural and political journalism of Teen Vogue, as well as diverting attention away from the obvious lack of corporate leadership at the company. Condé United members illegally fired are: Alma Avalle: Writer, digital producer at Bon Appetit; NewsGuild of New York first vice president, trans activist, and union leader Jake Lahut: Wired senior reporter covering the Trump White House Jasper Lo: Senior fact checker at The New Yorker and US Army veteran: outgoing first vice chair of The New Yorker Union Ben Dewey: Videographer at Condé Nast Entertainment, former vice chair of the CNE unit “Management’s attempt at union-busting, using intimidation and grossly illegal tactics to try to suppress protected union activity, will not stand,” said Susan DeCarava, president of The NewsGuild of New York. “The NewsGuild of New York has zero tolerance for bad bosses who harass, target and disrespect our fellow Guild members. We represent nearly 6,000 media workers across the tri-state area and we stand firmly in solidarity, ready to fight for the rights of our members illegally fired from their jobs at …

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

conde nast fired the vp of new york newsguild for asking HR questions

alternatively, you could invest $100 million in a two-year-old media company that does not suck

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this app might be a bit too scary for me

feel a little bad for the orc city guy at this point. i think self published fantasy authors who write bad books that no one has read or heard of should be able to make stupid posts in relative peace

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a kid with lesbian parents will have to call one mom "mother" and the 2nd mom "earthbound"

The AI jobs crisis is here, now It's not coming, it has already arrived.

I dislike that the terms for gen AI's development and deployment are largely being set by enormous and opaque commercial firms that are exporting their logic and incentive structures to the rest of the corporate and working world

This, essentially:

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-job...

Still from the television show Pepper Ann showing from left to right Nicky, Milo and Peppper Ann walking down a sidewalk next to a parking lot

if the hardcore band looks like this you are going to die in the pit

I have my problems with any Pope, by definition

But you gotta hand it to Papa Francisco for coining the phrase "theirs is the construction site of hell" in a description of American fascism and then dying almost immediately afterward

How AI is aiding Trump's immigration crackdown | Context by TRF Administration’s increased use of surveillance tech and personal data prompts worries about rights violations, abuses

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For @contextnewsroom.bsky.social, I spoke with digital rights experts about how the Trump administration is using AI tools like facial recognition scanners, flawed DNA tests, and more to build a inescapable web of surveillance for all U.S. residents — citizen or not.

plenty of cultures value children, but the US is unique in valuing the *idea* of children while enabling violence against actual kids and keeping them in privation at every turn

I wrote this :)

With Disney releasing a Win or Lose episode about a trans character whose story they suppressed to trim down an openly transition-related plotline, it feels opportune to bring up a few executive notes Sue Rose got hit with whenever she and her crew added even slightly queer elements to Pepper Ann:

The new revelations about DOGE's activities at the labor agency come from a whistleblower in the IT department of the NLRB, who disclosed his concerns to Congress and the U.S. Office of Special Counsel in a detailed report that was then provided to NPR. Meanwhile, his attempts to raise concerns internally within the NLRB preceded someone "physically taping a threatening note" to his door that included sensitive personal information and overhead photos of him walking his dog that appeared to be taken with a drone, according to a cover letter attached to his disclosure filed by his attorney, Andrew Bakaj of the nonprofit Whistleblower Aid. The whistleblower's account is corroborated by internal documentation and was reviewed by 11 technical experts across other government agencies and the private sector. In total, NPR spoke to over…

Highly disturbing story about DOGE but this detail is particularly chilling www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

“Taylor Swift’s personal security team’s threat universe includes ISIS and the richest man in the world” sounds crazy but not only is it literally true it is literally true in the past month