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Baby Cheetah (Marxist)

@willbloom.bsky.social

I dispense my own brand of industrial justice

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Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d ago

We already have an AI kill switch: cut power to servers. Really want to talk existential threat? Fine. We humans have many ways to blow things up. Like data centers. Panicky discourse assumes the first priority is protect tech company investments and expand their businesses. But why should it be?

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d ago

AI didn’t “go rogue.” People connected a computer system they know can mess with another computer system in unpredictable ways to less advanced computer system and it messed with that computer system in unpredicted ways. As @tressiemcphd.bsky.social argues, don’t lose sight that *people* did that.

Opinion | Panic Won’t Fix the Looming A.I. Threat. Politics Will.

The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.

nytimes.com

Tom Scocca@tomscocca.bsky.social · 2w ago

"We don't have a plan for preventing me from getting cancer on the job yet so I guess the only thing to do is keep going to work and hope someday we stop being unable to come up with an anti-cancer plan"

NDP@ndp.ca · 2w ago

1/ Happy Labour Day! Workers built this country and keep it running every day. No matter where you work, you deserve good wages, strong protections and benefits that help you afford a good life.

Canada belongs to the workers who built it
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 2w ago

right. when thinking about slavery as a system i think it is important to foreground the fact that this was an astonishing wealth production machine. to paraphrase barbara fields, the point of slavery was to produce commodities; white supremacy was the ideological superstructure of the whole thing

❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆@sababausa.bsky.social · 2w ago

The huge wealth in the cotton trade and textiles also a major factor behind global trends like “why was the British political establishment so pro-Confederate?”

Starbucks Workers United@sbworkersunited.org · 4w ago

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting. What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it. Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. No Contract? No Coffee.