The car-centric age of development is one long mistake.
The cops object when their tools on turned on them
He may be the richest man in the world – but that doesn’t mean we’re powerless to stop him
Amid rising temperatures last year, unionized UPS workers made heat an issue – but despite a key contract win, workers say little progress has been made
The ‘right to disconnect’ has changed France for the better – and could soon be law in the UK too, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst
DMCA violations are $500,000 and 5 years in prison for a first offense
Oh wow, they sue you for $50k if you try. What confidence in their product.
Tesla allows resale I thought, you just forfeit all your DLC, killing the resale value
Something to keep in mind if you’re thinking of buying off Facebook Marketplace.
Most American men support abortion rights. Activists want to get them off the sidelines
What exactly is uplifting about animal agriculture?
“You’ve just lost a LONGTIME and very faithful customer."
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18724475
Arms supply had been halted over role in Yemen war but move is sign of hope kingdom can help resolve Gaza conflict
X owner, who will interview Trump on Monday, has cast doubt on mail ballots and spread false claims
The news comes months after dancers organized to negotiate with the company’s management.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/12260489
> Dallas Black Dance Theatre terminated its entire company of dancers Friday, according to a statement posted on social media by the labor union representing the dancers. A national organizer for the union confirmed Saturday that nine dancers were impacted. > > > A statement jointly posted on Instagram by the American Guild of Musical Artists and an account run by DBDT dancers responded to the company’s actions: “AGMA is aware that Dallas Black Dance Theatre (DBDT) leadership just terminated all their dancers, and we are appalled. This abrupt and shocking development is the latest in a series of actions the Company has taken since the dancers voted unanimously to unionize.
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/15357475
Software-defined vehicles are automakers' wet dreams right now, but they could become a nightmare for consumers. Here's an example
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/26292451
Exec says mouse that requires a regular fee for software updates is possible.
cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/23048125
The surveillance state always hurts dissidents most of all. We shouldn't neglect the importance of constraining its power.
What is this bullshit credentialism? A degree tells you nothing about whether someone is good or bad, whether they’ll follow the law, whether they’d make a good leader. Is the argument supposed to be that psychopaths and war criminals can’t advanced degrees? Gtfo
How? The same way that every shareholder in every company who owns shares of stock and has voting rights in that company does, even though the company is the legal owner.
The problem isn’t usually nationalization but the utter lack of democratic control of what is owned by the state.
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/14800185
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/14796738
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/14796738
This is the third post in a series highlighting flaws in the proposed UN Cybercrime Convention. Check out Part I, our detailed analysis on the criminalization of security research activities, and Part II, an analysis of the human rights safeguards.As we near the final negotiating session for the...
Implying public funding of campaigns? Accidentally based?
The “reactionary spirit” and the roots of the US authoritarian moment.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17805513
> … > > While Americans have long clashed over our country’s cruel and bigoted past, Germans have undertaken one of the most thoroughgoing efforts of any nation on the planet to reckon with their history. Germany, perhaps more than any other country, has attempted to pull out by the roots its homegrown variant of the reactionary spirit — the tendency of opponents of social change to choose hierarchy over democracy, trying to constrain or even topple democracy to protect hierarchies of wealth and status. > > The Nazis were born out of disgust with post-World War I Weimar democracy, led by men furious about both the new government’s weakness and acceptance of the Jewish minority into German society. After Nazism brought Germany to ruin, preventing a reactionary resurgence became one of the central goals of the country’s subsequent leaders. > > So it’s all the more extraordinary that in the past few years, Germany’s far right has been on the rise. > > In 2015, at the peak of the global refugee crisis, German chancellor Angela Merkel announced an open-door policy for those fleeing violence in Syria and elsewhere. In response, the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party, a Euroskeptic faction without a single seat in Parliament, morphed into a virulently xenophobic force calling for Germany to slam Merkel’s open door shut. > > … > > But its rise illustrates something vitally important: That Germany, of all countries, could fail to prevent a surge in reactionary antidemocratic politics suggests there’s something eternal and enduring about the reactionary spirit. And there is something about our current time period that makes it especially likely to flourish — not just in Germany, but around the world.
“I’m nothing like those nasty reactionaries who treat women like objects and judge them only by their looks”
In fact anonymous review is an important part of the scientific method, precisely because work shouldn’t be judged by its source
Rules for thee but not for me
Not sure about that case specifically, but in general lack of regulation unleashes enshittificatory impulses. This comment may be aimed more at conservative voters or politicians to convince them (or at least let them claim) that pro-consumer regulation actually harms “consumer welfare.”
Second the suggestion of credit unions, but to be clear they’re neither charities nor non-profits; they’re member co-ops, run for the benefit of members (instead of stockholders), in which each member gets one vote (instead of each share of stock having one vote).
The horrors of the vampires that are private prisons are bad enough, no need to make shit up
If anyone is going for this, may as well buy the July monthly Humble Choice that contains it along with a bunch of other games for the same price (USD$12)
If anyone believed in the imperial presidency it was Hamilton