JUST RELEASED: Employers are increasingly using workplace surveillance, AI, and worker data not just to monitor productivity—but to undermine worker organizing. In a new white paper with the National Institute for Workers' Rights, EPIC examines the rise of algorithmic unionbusting. 🧵

Who’s Got the Power? Restoring Worker Power in the Age of Algorithmic Unionbusting

EPIC and the National Institute for Workers’ Rights’ white paper, Who’s Got the Power? Restoring Worker Power in the Age of Algorithmic Unionbusting, examines how employers increasingly use…

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FBI Director Kash Patel is planning a visit to Russia in mid-October, with stops in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The trip is expected to include meetings hosted by the FSB, Russia's main security agency. It is unclear whether Patel will meet Putin or what will be discussed. Source: POLITICO

Ex-UK defense chief says Israel snubbed Ukraine to appease russia Israel declined saying they didn’t want to upset russia. So russia kept spending nearly $1bn+ on Iranian drones. Now ordinary Israelis have to face the consequences of Netanyahu’s judgemen defence-blog.com/ex-uk-defens...

Ex-UK defense chief says Israel snubbed Ukraine to appease Russia

Britain's longest-serving Conservative defense secretary since Winston Churchill says he personally urged Israel's government to help Ukraine early in the war, and that Benjamin Netanyahu's government...

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We've spent all summer killing civilians in Ukraine. @amnesty.org's account hasn't mentioned it once. Wonder why.

"Employers" do not "add" jobs. Jobs are employment contracts entered into between employers and employees. Employment is not a benevolent gift bestowed on society by employers. Framing matters.

lol come on

Question people who insist humans don’t care about each other. Dill here is making a very good point.

Heritage Foundation has already been running media content about America's nuclear defense deterrent. the Republicans will be moving towards nuclear warfare propaganda, along the same lines as Russia bc this was one of the most successful propaganda campaigns in 2022 during the invasion of Ukraine

I get the stock market is bad but the equivalent has already happened to foreign aid, research funding, and public health. Everyone didn't freak out because there isn't some ticker on the news measuring the number of cancer researchers and Ebola prevention experts being fired.

Trump has done the same damage to our health, environment and security as to our markets, it's just that there isn't a stock ticker that measures the impact so clearly

I hate the term “Freak off.” I know it’s what Diddy called them but it softens what those incidents were: acts of sexual violence.

The same kind of lazy sentiment was shared during the height of the pandemic in 2020. Dems would literally say "fine, let the anti-vaxxers die off, make future elections easier for us" The Republicans control all 3 branches. Enough with the self-satisfied "they'll learn their lesson"

Ya, for us, if we keep relying on stupid meritocratic democrat strategies like "Trump is a narcissist, so let's reverse psychology him!! We are so clever!"

Creating an agency to cut other agencies? Sounds like when companies hire management consultants to review efficiency. Typically the consultants get rich by helping the companies outsource work to the management consultants.

We should acknowledge that MAGA and Trump’s victory were enabled by internet platforms whose business models reward fear and outrage. Dems had 8 yrs after FB enabled Trump and never had a floor vote in either chamber on a single bill that could possibly have addressed the harms. 🧵1/x

BRENNAN: Do you think experience is necessary? JIM HIMES: How far we have come that on a major news show the question we're examining is, 'is experience necessary for one of the most powerful positions in the land?' Of course it's necessary!...how is this what we're focusing on?

Ukrainian female drone pilot, callsign Ada. She is recovering in the hospital after hitting a landmine, losing one leg completely. Photo- libkos

Ukrainian kindergarten teacher, who joined armed forces and shot down Russian missile today.

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When botanist Richard Deakin examined Rome’s Colosseum in the 1850s, he found 420 species of plant growing in the ruins: cypresses and ilex, pea plants and more than 50 types of grasses. But some flowers growing there mystified him. They were so rare they were found nowhere else in Europe.

Now that I have fewer followers, I can finally admit that sometimes I read the wikipedia plots of books with very large male followings and post controversial and nonsensical takes in the subreddits of those books, just to rile them up 😌

"WAIT TIL THEY" It is so deeply pathetic how so many meritocratic Democrats are gloating about leopards eating faces and shit like this. Meritocratic democrats genuinely believe the "just you WAIT! Youll learn your lesson!" approach is going to work to sway the other side.

Shit like this is why I cannot take meritocratic Democrats seriously. And why they WILL NOT help get us out of this mess.

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This one is doing the rounds again, for (I presume) obvious reasons.

There is now some hard evidence that X boosted the Trump campaign and suppressed the Harris campaign. What's to stop Musk from doing the same in other countries? www.threads.net/@profsander....

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New computational analyses from the University of Queensland on algorithmic bias suggest that the X algorithm substantially boosted Republican accounts right after Elon Musk's endorsement of Donald Tr...

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DNC Aiming To Reconnect With Working-Class Americans With New ‘Hamilton’-Inspired Lena Dunham Web Series theonion.com/dnc-aiming-t...

Real men don't sit around arguing on the internet about what a real man is.

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