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From September 23, 2024:
Macron unveils new right-wing French government: The long-awaited new line up marks a decisive shift to the right, even though a left-wing alliance won most parliamentary seats. ↗︎
↳ “Democracy”. — added 6:29am on 23/09/24 ❧
From September 22, 2024:
Lucy’s job should be more secure – but at Australian universities, labour laws are having the opposite effect ↗︎
↳ Let’s be clear, this system is designed specifically to ensure that precarious people stay that way — and the bosses revel in it. — added 8:00am on 22/09/24 ❧
Twenty years of microplastics pollution research—what have we learned? ↗︎
↳ Structurally? Nothing — capitalists gonna capitalist. Individually? Be scared of things you can’t control. Scientifically? Much like the climate crisis, oh shit. — added 6:28am on 22/09/24 ❧
FTC Says Social Media Platforms Engage in 'Vast Surveillance' of Users ↗︎
↳ Did they forget it’s state sponsored? Of course the place the state requests the data from is the place doing the surveillance. — added 6:24am on 22/09/24 ❧
From September 21, 2024:
Pregnancy deaths rose by 56% in Texas after 2021 abortion ban, analysis finds ↗︎
↳ The disproportional affect of this on women at the interstices shows this truly as a tool of bourgeois hegemony - capitofascism (or, capitalism) at its finest. — added 1:54pm on 21/09/24 ❧
‘Stop doing dumb stuff,’ economist warns as housing affordability in Australia slips ↗︎
↳ Perhaps we could abolish ‘the economy’ and instead distribute resources according to need. — added 8:03am on 21/09/24 ❧
Do remote workers actually work? Yes, but they also shop and shower ↗︎
↳ How dare you have a life while also meeting your job spec! — added 5:58am on 21/09/24 ❧
Re-opened Three Mile Island will power AI data centers under new deal ↗︎
↳ Does this feel to anyone else as though it’s the dawn of skynet? Or is that just the feeling of the climate collapsing. — added 5:55am on 21/09/24 ❧
From September 20, 2024:
CEO Pay Has Risen 1,085% Since 1978, But for Workers? Just 24% ↗︎
↳ Yeah so they got a raise and we still get a pay cut, because buying power and “inflation”. — added 9:14am on 20/09/24 ❧
Orbit by Mozilla ↗︎
↳ From their TOS: “When you submit your own content through the Services, you continue to own the rights to that content. You grant Mozilla a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, sub-license, prepare derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display the Inputs for the purpose of operating the Services.” — added 6:17am on 20/09/24 ❧
Expert who coined presenteeism term says employers who force staff back are dinosaurs ↗︎
↳ I’m not sure they’ll care, they are frequently called worse. The added benefit (for them, duh) is they destroy our mental health and the planet by forcing us into open plans. — added 6:00am on 20/09/24 ❧
Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water — AI data centers also raise power and water bills for nearby residents ↗︎
↳ *Planet killers* that just string together human authors existing sentences in pseudo random order. Cool. — added 5:30am on 20/09/24 ❧
From September 19, 2024:
Bright unintended electromagnetic radiation from second ↗︎
↳ I’m sure Elon and his sick cronies will care about this… — added 6:05pm on 19/09/24 ❧
‘The bear at the door’ ↗︎
↳ A deeply rotten industry. Head to toe. — added 7:13am on 19/09/24 ❧
Mozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December ↗︎
↳ Mozilla (corp) is really increasingly a garbage fire. Which is terrible for the internet. — added 5:27am on 19/09/24 ❧