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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Will ask you to elaborate what you mean by the "advent of Corona"?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Typically more people will buy into your point, or at least give you the time to consider, if you don't have a typo in the title...

I'm going to leave this up for now, but please keep discussion to Antiwork relevant impact on wage value and potential impacts to the working class.

 

As a community that supports labor, with an aspiration for it to cease to be required to live our lives, we should not be afraid to organize and act in heightened moments like this. And that's what this is, a small collective action that could (likely not, but maybe) add up to something. Ultimately, doesn't change much here in the day-to-day, outside of formalizing what has happened casually/organically over time as musk bought and performatively tanked twitter to remove it's power as an organizing tool against fascists/oligarchs and Twitter investors, like the Saudis (e.g. see the Arab Spring protests and how Twitter was key to the people in that moment).

So, after considering the active discussion from our community through the comments in this thread, Antiwork will no longer allow links to Twitter/X, at the very least. This rule will formally go into effect in about a week, announced through a stickied post. In addition to that main action, the following related steps will also be taken,

  • We will also ban links to Meta owned properties - Facebook, Instagram, Threads (open to suggestion of others if we want to officially make a list of these known, low quality sources and spreaders of misinformation, hate speech, etc through an evolving domain list)
  • You may post screenshots IF THE INFORMATION IS NOT AVAILABLE ON ANOTHER VALID PLATFORM, but screenshots must include enough information to fully support a relevant conversation within this community and a VISIBLE time/date stamp for posterity. PLEASE NOTE: If you are caught manipulating content of a screenshot, your post will be removed and you will receive an indefinite ban from this community.
  • We will not allow links to any pass through/archive service that potentially feeds traffic back to these services, directly or indirectly. Services like Xcancel/Nitter can give traffic to Twitter/X because they still fetch that content.

For those who contributed that the voices on Twitter and other platforms discussed are too important to lose, I'd say that there may have been a time when that was true, but at this point in time, if you have information that is ONLY sourced on twitter or one of these dying social media platforms, then you very likely have bad information from a person with low character and limited, if any, credibility.

If you support or have any objections, please discuss changes here for the next week. If no major points of discussion that slow us down, we will then implement final changes to apply going forward. I'm looking into potential automod scripts to automatically handle these things for us, open to suggestions if any members of community are mods in other communities that did this well or have experience otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Due respect, your take is obtuse at best or you're a shill. The company, with current leadership in place, just cannot come back from the first statement, it illustrates a fundamental detachment from objective reality, to the point that you've lost any and all credibility, permanently.

In a business based on trust, this is just so clear. Poop

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not familiar with Hedge's work, but supporting Jill Stein and having a show on RT (Russia's state TV propaganda channel) that ran up until Russia invaded Ukraine aren't great points of confidence for me personally. Seems like some good general positions within the chaos there, but some significant red flags to consider before diving into this type of long form content.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

If anyone is actually going to do this (and you feel the company is large enough or somehow lacks business ethics to the point that you see the action as justified) may want to consider completing any training the employer offers prior to no show - that training costs the company a good chunk of money that they see as an investment they are hoping for a return on.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Source of this information is questionable - Mint is owned by the Hindustan times and this article cites a Hindustan Times article. This is just odd laundering of HT content, which has a poor reputation for misleading and outright false claims at times. As others have pointed out, the content is also poorly written and potentially AI slop.

If you're going to post OP, please respect the time and attention of others by vetting your sources a bit prior to posting a headline looking for engagement - especially hard to believe innocent mistake as you are a 4 day old account. Suggest that you delete this post, or remove the link to the questionable story at least, and then you can ask the community if they've seen or heard of this approach first hand and what people's general thoughts about it are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I'm a boatman, and a tanman.

But I digress... Sorry, we were discussing cowardly, billionaire sycophants vigorously licking fascist balls in public.

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Seems aligned with the core values of this community that we should join the currently discussed movement to ban links to Twitter/X, including screenshots, on c/Antiwork

That platform's owner (through purchase) essentially started the more recent wave of unprecedented layoffs in tech giving cover to others that quickly followed along blaming interest rates, but likely just seeing that investors were excited about it and using the cover. He failed to pay promised severance packages to former employees, publicly attacked them, provides notoriously poor and measurably dangerous work environments and is just generally hostile to labor. More than most communities, feels we have a strong mandate to have some clarity in our rejection of these actions, and this small movement has built around sending this message.

While there has been much discussion in recent days about the platform and actions of the person that bought and is in the process of fundamentally changing it (not to say it was perfect prior, but objectively declining since purchase), the platform has been a general point of contention online for a long time and for many reasons. Misinformation and hate speech are more prevalent than ever on that platform.

If no objections to discuss, we would establish the policy with a new community rule in the sidebar and of course, we can always evaluate positions like this in the future, should any meaningful change(s) occur.

Some are also banning the use of links/screens of Meta owned properties as well, something we can consider and discuss here. I'll leave this thread pinned for about a week. Please share your thoughts if you have them and then a decision, and potential changes, will be made.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Huge difference between a teacher's union and a cop union. You shouldn't make blanket statements like this about labor - they aren't correct and actually make you look like what you're accusing them of being here.

Please try to comment with more specificity in the future, and cite sources of claims, or may need remove statements like this as misinformation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

As you say, likely a long time until the next moment like that, if ever - that was an unprecedented rise in popularity during the "great resignation" news cycle. An even longer shot on attention with Lemmy, but agree generally - we are stronger together and should share. Clarity in strong messaging we believe in and consistency in the delivery, especially when facing adversity, is the equation in my experience.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

"I didn't vaccinate my kids, and even though yours died after going to school with mine and contracting a horrible, preventable disease that led to their violent, struggling death... I don't think you realize how that doesn't affect me."

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

For those claiming to be upset about body shaming in this specific instance, nazis believe they are literally genetically superior specimens - that's like one of the main parts of their deal. It's party of why they perpetually want to SLAUGHTER millions of people, to rid the world of what they see as less superior genes in the pool.

Therefore, it is HIGHLY appropriate in this case to point out, frequently and with enthusiasm, that elmo is a very divorced and bloated potato, soaked overnight in a bath of drugs and one of those middle school colognes that you wear because you desperately hope people will like you more if you wear it - ketamine and kool water.

So it's not at all inappropriate to point out that the world's international shame, our oddly lumpy elmo and his be-diapered old vice president, are tremendously far from a physical fitness ideal condition. They are infact, very proud membersof the Master Race (to Krispy Kreme). So feel free to confine to state that he is certainly a member of the Master bRACEsiere or that he takes his Master raICE CREAM with extra nachos on top - fuck nazis, without exception, and the people who apologize on their behalf.

My heart goes out to you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He's the President of one of the more powerful countries in the world, so I think a lot of people.

 

Hey,

Existing community rules had the following stated, leaves some room for interpretation:

"Post must have Antiwork/Work Reform explicitly involved in some capacity. This can be talking about antiwork, work reform, laws, and ext."

In a way endless growth capitalism and just about everything that makes up a lot of US politics, the police state and the growing rise of fascism around the globe can make work seem pointless or can meaningfully contribute to a person feel trapped participating in that broken system so that they can feed their families. So in a lot of ways "talking about antiwork" can be a pretty broad topic - if that's what the community wants it to be.

That said, there is also some literature cited in the sidebar as a basis of this specific movement. If the community wants a more narrow definition of antiwork, in alignment with one or a few of those philosophies, that can be very valuable as well.

So, what's working in this community for you, what could be helped along with a bit more consistent attention in moderation? What do you appreciate in other "antiwork" communities around the web that you'd like to see on this instance?

 

Remember remember!

The 4th of December

A CEO dies all alone;

On the street he was lain,

cold, pale and in pain,

thousands of deaths that he own.

The decisions he'd struck,

Layers removed from the slaughter,

Were a shareholder's treat,

Your dead mother or daughter.

Those investors all wait, on that cold winter morn,

Still unawares of profit potential they'd mourn,

Poking at hotel breakfast, bored looks on their face

As was Brian's when he denied and delayed at great pace

Endless growth, deposed, on behalf of us all

Luigi didn't do it, we were hiking in Nepal.

 

I don't care if Monday's filing cases without evidence to clog the courts

Tuesday's prematurely declaring victory and Wednesday accusing fraud because vote count went overnight due to unsupported and disproven gop challenges of voting machines

Thursday, trucks with ski masked neo-nazis pulling up to the Capitol with assault rifles

It's Friday, I'm in a camp for suspected Marxist socialist antifahs!

Monday, barricades at politician's homes can fall apart

Tuesday, Wednesday, break my elderly neighbor's hip when cops break the door down at the wrong home and tackle her for being a suspected "illegal"

Oh, Thursday doesn't even start because musk/trump dept of efficiency has outlawed clocks and calendars so there can be no more legal labor challenges of unpaid overtime, no weekends and no holiday pay

It's Friday, I'm in only the second week of trump's second, never-ending term as America's dictator clumsily toppling 250+ years of democracy


You know you can do the right thing here. Go register, go vote. (Start here) - It's fast, simple and painless. You know we have to tell ourselves the above could never happen here to feel safe, but you also know it's closer to reality then ever before and you can do something, right now.

 

You willingly give them key points of information about yourself, directly or indirectly. They then read those signals and use your own information against you to convince you they have answers. And they are often wrong, but you walk around repeating their "insights" as if they are true.

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Iconic (lemmy.world)
 
 

I heard a person call into a show the other day, voice only, and talk about some poor working conditions at a factory. Made me think about how it would probably be so easy for nefarious bosses to be able to identify that person through voice recognition SW with all of the data that comes from us looking directly into cameras and speaking clearly in modern workplace meetings.

Do "anonymous" callers need to start using voice modulation software for these kinds of calls in the modern world?

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