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.

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He ain’t wrong

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

Jennifer Romig @jennifermromig.bsky.social · 4d ago

Notetaking in meetings is tiny case in point - used to be some predictable social assumptions who would do it; now anyone can offer to do ”notetaking” by turning on the AI listener. Further interesting scenario is human recollection / notes (taken by habit by a person) conflict with AI summary

Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Such a joy to talk with Paul Loeb this week about what it means to be stubbornly, imaginatively hopeful in exceptionally dark times. I didn't know how much I needed this conversation until we had it. Hope it will bring you something needed, too. youtu.be/zzsSTsG_efI?... @inthemeanwhile.bsky.social

The Impossible will take a little while with Paul Loeb | Ep 62

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Want to resist imposed genAI use in your workplace? There’s some advice and inspiration in here (h/t @readywriting.bsky.social) aftermath.site/ai-resistanc...

Welcome To The Resistance: Meet The Workers Dodging (And Sabotaging) Their Employer's AI Mandates

'When I copy-edit writing I take an extra twenty minutes to double check, then say I had Claude copy edit it as well. Everyone’s really happy with my performance'

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I guess I am comfortable saying that in cases where people you formerly respected, or presumed you did, are now actively choosing to sunset their own minds & surrender them to machines invented by incels and billionaires, then yes there should be a stigma for that. This is what society is for

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d ago

“There is also a moral and political judgment that is coming along with AI usage…Especially in creative industries where the stigma is the strongest.”

yes, actually I do think AI-use/adoption is a fundamental declaration of what you value and what you don't and its really silly to believe that such declarations won't be noticed by those around you

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d ago

“…the same mechanisms that drive people to grow wary of — and hostile toward — friends, co-workers and family members with different political beliefs are beginning to shape attitudes toward AI.”

Maybe I missed it, but did anyone ask about gun control during either yesterday's or today's press conferences on the Seattle Center tragedy?

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

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HYPERSCALE is hitting bookstores on October 20. Preorder it now! In the book, I dig into how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point, and the incredible efforts of people pushing back against the profit-driven interests of Big Tech. Get your copy: hyperscalebook.com

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 2mo ago

The goal isn’t to replace the work of humans. It’s to make a case for its devaluation.

Happy Friday! Seattle's finally decided to make universal school meals a reality. It shouldn't have been this much of a fight. This week, the amazing @jessehagopian.bsky.social talks with us about fighting for educational justice, in Seattle and everywhere. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Ep 61: Teach Truth and Feed the Damn Kids with Jesse Hagopian

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AI is really sorting out who’s too lazy to do their jobs.

404 Media@404media.co · 2w ago

A judge in Indiana warns a court reporter than it's their job to proofread their work, after catching errors likely made by AI transcription services.

Biggest L of course goes to Foster, as all the progressives in the city collectively realized "oh she's gonna be like that, huh." Talk about pissing away all the goodwill in the city and for what. (Joy's mayoral ambitions)

it does actually sound like taylor farms and the white house teamed up to try and blame taco bell for the outbreak. unprecedented corruption

Jessica Nix@jessicanix.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: As cyclosporiasis cases jumped, the company linked to the outbreak - Taylor Farms - effectively delayed a recall that mounted in consumer confusion. Gift link for @business www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

You opened a credit card. ICE now knows where you live. Here's how when you open a credit card your address leaves your bank, goes through middlemen companies, and ends up with ICE. ICE plans to use this data for immigration and 'voter fraud'. No warrant More: www.404media.co/you-opened-a...

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Holy hell Katie Wilson is on fire here.

Crystal Fincher@finchfrii.bsky.social · 2w ago

Seattle, the World Cup brought possibility. Let’s build on it

Moment of zen to banish the Sunday scaries, thanks to the magic of the Salish Sea.

Medicaid covers low-income adults, children, pregnant people, the elderly and people with disabilities. It’s one of our few social safety nets. Giving HIPAA-protected data to ICE and Palantir is a betrayal of public trust and straight-up illegal. The ongoing theft of our country’s data is a heist.

ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir

The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.

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"Editor-in-Chief of Science and Professor of Chemistry and Medicine at George Washington University." And yes, Dr Thorp, some of us actually use search engines and not ChatGPT.

Holden Thorp@holdenthorp.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hi, this is Holden emerging from my Bluesky hiatus to tell everyone that when checking the links in the piece, I used ChatGPT as my search engine (does anyone use Google anymore?). The piece was written by me and edited by humans. So all the links were checked by me and again by our copyeditors.

I try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 3w ago

Miller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli

Brilliant new episode with @deanspade.bsky.social! We talk about the new edition of Mutual Aid, and how more and more people are turning to it as institutions fail. He reminds us mutual aid has always been proudly radical, militant, and uncivil-and must remain so. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

I think that's called a revolution.

Aaron Sojourner@aaronsojourner.org · 4w ago

We need a War on White Collar Crime

Historian Joan W. Scott on Princeton: "Three assistant professors, all in the humanities, who not only supported the students, but signed the letters referred to above (3), were denied tenure in the spring of 2026."

CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education (CADHE)@cadhe.bsky.social · 3w ago

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