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@gropeforluna.bsky.social

narrow but not straight patron saint of clumsy waiters

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH@geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 23h 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
Peretsky@peretsky.bsky.social · 1h ago

We are are going to see talking points from the top down calling kids and young adults who don’t use AI, social media, or even smart phones who find alternative avenues to engage with culture “hipsters” and I’m begging you not to fall for it this time.

Anna Holmes@annabookwriter.bsky.social · 16h ago

Whew this year’s COVID formulation is an asskicking. I would always rather have my ass kicked by a shot instead of a particularly dangerous virus, but if you plan to get it, make sure you build in recovery time.

redwingfaninca.bsky.social@redwingfaninca.bsky.social · 2d ago

For those who don’t know: The viral videos circulating online showing a person dressed as the Statue of Liberty on rollerblades outrunning ICE agents on the 101 Freeway are entirely AI-generated. The clips were created using AI tools for political satire and parody.

dylan@gropeforluna.bsky.social · 2d ago

see also: "i want a union, but not this one because _________" i was this very person about a decade ago and, while i was right to criticize the offensive talking points the union reps made, we would have been better off with a flawed union than none at all and it was used as leverage by management

Episode Ivy: A Biddy Blas Tale@episodeivy.bsky.social · 2d ago

Everyone in this story saying “I’m pro-union, but we don’t need one here”: There are 10^x of you at every American company. Literally nowhere is the exception. The fact that you think you’re better than your coworkers IS the leverage that the company is using against you and everyone else.

dylan@gropeforluna.bsky.social · 3d ago

i wonder what mr. tambourine man's song is/was never really described, never even says he plays a tambourine. maybe that's just his name? mr. jamaal k. tambourine jr., of stevens point WI

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d ago

This reminds me of a recent conversation I had with @alexhanna.bsky.social about AI and workers, in which Hanna noted that bosses tend to think most feminized work can be automated because they imagine the work as reduced to the task itself and forget the necessary relational aspects.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 3d ago

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng : My wife: Can you read our baby a book? Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone. My wife: But then it won't be in your voice. Me: I can train a voice model. Parenting hits different when you work in Al.
Peretsky@peretsky.bsky.social · 4d ago

What’s funny is you can just run into Moldbug on the streets of Chinatown NYC where he pretends to be a cool guy in a leather jacket who writes poetry at outdoor seating coffee shops and tell his 5’6 ass, who also happens to be Jewish as well, to off himself. Like I have.

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 4d ago

the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning

Genie Lauren@moreandagain.me · 4d ago

Socialism is being thrown around a lot, but almost none of these candidates are actually socialists and Americans don't know what socialism means.