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the first draft of anything is shit

So I’m not a business genius but if you call an all-hands company meeting to reassure everyone that everything is JUST FINE, first, why are you calling a meeting if everything’s fine, and second, maybe the canned questions to the CEO shouldn’t come from other senior execs

there is a strain of lefty discourse where you can’t come to any unflattering conclusions about the populace—those must be explained away by how they are being acted upon by capital—but I think you’ll understand things better if you understand capital can also exploit weaknesses it didn’t create

Among the things to clean up after this is over, the university administrators who bent the knee to Trump need to be fired. If they’ve moved on to other institutions by then they need to be fired from there

Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 3d ago

Need to have some frank talk about #Yale President McInnis, General Counsel Alexander Dreier and the trustees. First, they keep saying that they are compelled to enter into a settlement with the #Trump administration. Untrue. 1/

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

futurism.com

Christopher Nolan should coordinate with Disney so every three years or so we get a big loud capital-M Movie adaptation of some work of classical literature followed immediately by a Muppet version of the same story

In an ironic twist, I’m supposed to go see The Odyssey with my friend this afternoon but first her car tire went flat and now she’s out of gas. Just need a Scylla/Charybdis type thing with like a sinkhole and a bus accident