Ahro 🏹 @ Comm Work

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PNW Furry - 30+/She/They - Artist - Pan - 💍❤️ 🔞 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ AuDHD 🌛🌝🌜♈ NO AI! I stand with 🇺🇦! Free 🇸🇩! Twitch: http://twitch.tv/ahrosart (Hiatus) FA: http://furaffinity.net/user/ahro Art Tag: #Ahrosart

Yes let me just dawn an Engineer cap as your graphic designer for this huge acrylic lettering sign that is to wrap around the corner of a building and straddle a drain pipe while at it. :) Hire a graphic designer to be your engineer at a fraction of the cost! Will the sign be correct? STORY AT 11!

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

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In a way it is to protect people from AI. But it’s more about offering protections from predatory capitalism. It’s about offering the same protections that other workers have at regular jobs as more people resort to artistry and gig work to pay their bills as AI takes over more of our jobs. Check it

POLICY: ARTISTS & GIG WORKERS BILL OF RIGHTS
In a city that runs on creativity and hustle, we will no longer let workers starve for their art or break their backs for their rent. I've been paid in 'exposure' and empty promises. We can't eat exposure. We can't pay bills with a shoutout. We will make work pay, period. No one should stay in a toxic job just for health insurance. No delivery driver should fear a hospital bill more than a car accident. They call us independent contractors' to keep us isolated and powerless. We're not independent - we're interdependent. And we're unionizing. We're priced out of the city we made cool. I've shot photos in closets and edited tracks on subway rides. We deserve a room of our own. I've worked for tips at the mercy of moody customers. We've driven for apps at the mercy of moody algorithms. That ends now.
1. LIVABLE WAGES & ECONOMIC DIGNITY
• Federal "Pay Your Freelancers" Act: Mandates on-time payment, penalizes late pay, and bans
"spec work" (free work for exposure). Mandate fair pay for freelancers.
2. HEALTHCARE & BENEFITS
• Medicare for All: Covers all freelancers, artists, and gig workers. No more tying healthcare to a full-time job.
• Portable Benefits Fund: Companies (Uber, Amazon, etc.) pay into a fund that provides gig workers with paid sick leave, injury insurance, and retirement contributions.
3. UNION RIGHTS & BARGAINING POWER
• Right to Unionize for Gig Workers: Reclassify gig workers as employees with full collective bargaining rights.
• Artists' Unions: Federal support for unions representing photographers, musicians, writers, and performers.4. AFFORDABLE SPACE
• Seize Vacant Properties: Turn landlord-neglected buildings into artist live/workspaces with below-market rents.
• Zoning for Creativity: Require new developments to dedicate 10% of space to arts venues, studios, or rehearsal rooms.
5. PROTECTIONS FROM EXPLOITATION
• Ban Unpaid Internships: Companies must pay interns at least $20/hr.
• Algorithm Transparency: Gig workers have the right to know how app algorithms assign work and set pay.
How We'll Do It:
• Create first-ever Congressional Artist Task
Force (funded by taxing billionaires).
• Federal Arts Grants: Tax billionaires to fund creatives.
• Pass protections for gig workers in must-pass bills.
• Extend OSHA protections to food-truck workers and vendors.
• Push for a wealth tax (Warren's Ultra-Millionaire Tax). End carried interest loopholes and stock buyback taxes.
• Defund Corporate Subsidies: Cancel tax breaks for companies like Amazon that violate labor laws.
HOW WE PAY FOR IT
• Tax Billionaire Wealth: 90% marginal tax on wealth over $10M.
• Tax Wall Street Speculation: 2% tax on stock trades.
• Cancel Pentagon bloat (1% of military budget =
$8B for NYCHA).
• Vote NO on all Israel funding and redirect back into the people.