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DreadwoodGirl

@redwoodgirl.bsky.social

Working on clean indoor air for all as a human right, hoping for a Star Trek future. GenX, Level 59. -> COVID isn't over, so mask up! -> #Prosecute&AbolishICE

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Anil Dash@anildash.com · 19h ago

This is part of the endgame of Big AI in an era when everything we do is mediated through digital platforms. This is also why I keep trying to tell people that just wishing AI away isn’t a useful or effective answer — there has to be actual *countermeasures*. That means alternative technologies.

Anil Dash@anildash.com · 19h ago

Not only no culture, but no *commons*. The dependency on the capitalist overlords will be complete, because you can’t ask for help or context from others when there is no common frame of reference. This has already happened in coding, the first space where they destroyed the commons we’d all built.

onion person@junlper.beer · 2d ago

this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20h ago

for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.

Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH@geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 2d ago

People are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory.

Russell Stover has begun using prison labor to make candy in Kansas A Russell Stover candy factory in Kansas has begun hiring incarcerated workers through a work release program, Eoin Higgins reports in his newsletter, The Flashpoint. About 150 women are bussed in from the Topeka Correctional Facility and paid $14 an hour, but the prison keeps some of their wages for room and board, taxes, transportation, and other expenses. When all is said and done, they take home less than $6 per hour. These deductions are high, but elsewhere in the country, they're even higher: In our May series on prison
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Mamdani: "We are talking a federal agency that is ripping families apart, that's willing to endanger the lives of a 5 year old child as well as any New Yorker in the surrounding area, % then after the fact, seeks to blame the person and the city at large as opposed to reflect upon their own actions"

David Simon@audacityofdespair.bsky.social · yesterday

No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative.