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by test098 1y ago
Israel is purging the land it wants to take, which is contained within the "borders" of what Israel considers its own land, whose citizens are restricted by the Israeli military, socially and economically. Yeah, civilians die. But
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by test098 1y ago
> you get "fiery but mostly peaceful" campus protests oh no, not students checks notes exercising their rights. > every BBC interviewer asking you in the perfectly aggrieved RP tones why you hate children so much dude you
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by test098 1y ago
NYPL Map Warper, unfortunately now defunct: https://wayback.archive-it.org/13216/20210520171637/http://m...
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by test098 1y ago
That study didn't "measure bias in tech": "Here we report five hiring experiments in which faculty evaluated hypothetical female and male applicants, using systematically varied profiles disguising identical scholarship,
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by test098 1y ago
It was the beginning of a movement which affects all workers in the US today, so... 100%.
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by test098 1y ago
There were plenty of worker revolts in the 19th century which laid the groundwork for the modern labor movement. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/themine...
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by test098 1y ago
You should maybe read about the history of the US labor movement to understand how and why we have good working conditions: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/themine...
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by test098 1y ago
> People advocating for their interests isn't warfare. When those interests come at the expense/lives of other people, it is [1] [2]. > I assure you there are virtually no rich people cackling, monocles and cigars in place,
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by test098 1y ago
the "tech industry" is somehow totally isolated and completely different from all other types of labor in the history of the united states? how? here's an answer i gave to this question downstream: "the Riot Games union
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by test098 1y ago
the Riot Games union is bargaining for better pay and less brutal working hours. at Blizzard they did employee walkouts, leading to better pay and changes in work culture. at Kickstarter they negotiated better remote work policies and reduc
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by test098 1y ago
love those flying goalposts. i guess "tech" is different enough from other kinds of labor that it's special? ok: IFPTE, UAW, CWA (which just recently welcomed workers in the video game industry: https://cwa-union.o
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by test098 1y ago
IFPTE, UAW, CWA (which just recently welcomed workers in the video game industry: https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/video-game-workers-launc... )
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by test098 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_history_of_the_United_St... pretty much every team in blue collar industries which have been able to negotiate better working conditions, better pay, and more time off.
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by test098 1y ago
i don't know, probably the same as his end goal with doing nazi salutes. we want the same things for Elon that he wants for us. hitting a billionaire's wealth and influence is the only way us commoners have of "voting him out
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by test098 1y ago
https://gizmodo.com/teslas-self-driving-fails-the-wile-e-coy...
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by test098 2y ago
oh no, not the moderates who checks notes stand up for nothing and no one except themselves and overwhelmingly align with right wing politics. what's the moderate position on Trump/Musk, that we should accept a little bit of aut
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by test098 2y ago
that coincides with industrialization and the subsequent rise of trade unions. the alternative was violence against capital.
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by test098 2y ago
> It is well established that Hezbollah shot the missile. They bragged about it in their Telegram channels > I don't read the Hezbollah channels ok... [1] > The only reason to sow doubt is to protect these monsters. i personal
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by test098 3y ago
> Disney & sky resorts are private and are free to charge who they want how they want. You don't like it? Don't use it. that's all well and good until essential services are privatized because "free market good&qu
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by test098 3y ago
i grew up in university computer labs (parents were grad students then professors). all the machines in the labs were SGI Indys/Indigos running IRIX 4.x/5.x. as a 12yo, i used the 3D graphical file browser because it was fun and c
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by test098 3y ago
pretty simple explanation: the girl in the movie is more talented than teenage kevin mitnick. if that's a bridge too far for you, i'd recommend not watching the rest of the movie because it's about people cloning dinosaurs us
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by test098 3y ago
i've built an entire career building apps and tools in JS for data scientists to explore complex data. tons of companies pay lots and lots of money for this - i'm currently at a FAANG doing exactly this with data scientists.
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by test098 3y ago
nobody wants "innovation risks" when it comes to truth and ethics in journalism.
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by test098 3y ago
> No, his whole point was not that. He says as much - from the same article (next subhead): As we also noted from the first paragraph of our earlier review of this material, to which we will simply refer here for specifics, “there is no
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by test098 3y ago
the propagation of misinformation is asymmetrical. a single person or group of people will not have the resources to counterbalance misinfo when its bankrolled by state actors or malicious groups who use it as a weapon. additionally, it&#x2
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by test098 3y ago
> Rather than covering up what a tragedy war is, how about we work to avoid it? how do you avoid it when the misinformation is intended to cause division, conflict, and war?
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by test098 3y ago
> Who defines what illegal and misinformation mean? EU regulators. > The information being false or not is actually irrelevant, it's the process of censorship that's damaging. > This is because even though humans are impu
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by test098 3y ago
used to live in the midwest. plenty of folks living in trailers in the boonies where power availability is unstable (some of these people are old and/or don't have a formal education). they find or are gifted a used generator. it
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by test098 3y ago
> The Twitter Files clearly demonstrated that government agencies, from the FBI to the DHS and more, were in intimate contact with internal Twitter moderators and frequently made demands to Censor (wording!) Americans by banning or dera
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by test098 3y ago
https://www.propublica.org/ https://theintercept.com/ https://www.readfrontier.org/ https://www.texastribune.org/ https://thelensnola.org/ https:/&#x

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