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https://www.europesays.com/at/291036/ Powassan-Virus breitet sich in Maine weiter aus: dritter Fall 2025 und neues West-Nil-Signal #Arbovirus #AT #Ausbruch #Austria #Gesundheit #Health #Krankheit #labor #Maine #Neurologie #Österreich #Powassan #surveillance #TickBorne #Überwachung #Vektor #Virus #WestNile #Zecke
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Powassan-Virus breitet sich in Maine weiter aus: dritter Fall 2025 und neues West-Nil-Signal
“Given the horrible trauma our immigrant neighbors have endured in recent months from DHS ICE operations in our state, the city should be taking every possible step to protect immigrant workers,” said Local 363 business manager AJ Lange. “All we’ve seen from the city in response to this issue is callous indifference, empty words, and feigned sympathy.”
Immigration services misspelled his name. Then Minneapolis fired him.
By Susan Du
The Minnesota Star Tribune
https://www.startribune.com/immigration-services-misspelled-his-name-the-city-of-minneapolis-fired-him/601795108?utm_source=gift
Farmers want the Trump administration to overhaul the H-2A visa program to make it more favorable to their businesses. But cutting red tape could cut labor protections, too.
#Agriculture #Law #Trump #Immigration #Immigrants #Farm #Labor
NEW: ProPublica journalist Max Blau spent a year reporting on abuses of farmworkers.
It left him wondering: Is there any way to find out whether the produce he buys at the grocery store comes from farms with a record of mistreating workers?
https://projects.propublica.org/blueberries-farmworker-mistreatment/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Food #Farm #Agriculture #Ethics #Labor #Groceries #Immigrant #Workers
Hey comrades, small request here. Healthcare workers at a local hospital here in Central PA are preparing to strike and could use a boost in financial support. If you are able to, please donate to their strike fund. If you can’t, please share his to spread the message.
Imagine being fired while recovering from a gunshot wound.
Layoffs Hit GameSpot Again
https://aftermath.site/gamespot-layoffs-july-2026/
#Layoffs #Labor #GameSpot #Journalism #Gaming
I can see why folks in power would continue to demonize Europe.
If we lived like them, power could ultimately be checked by the working class.
Developers at one of Ubisoft's studios have gone on strike after sweeping layoffs hit 51 staff, will extend through to mid-July
https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-barcelona-strike-after-layoffs
#Developers #Ubisoft #Barcelona #Spain #Europe #Labor #Layoffs #Strike #Gaming
"Between 2010 and 2022, an estimated 6,500 migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka died in Qatar—many of them building the stadiums that hosted the FIFA World Cup. The Gulf’s prosperity was built on their labor, and their deaths were absorbed into the logistics of construction schedules."
https://fpif.org/the-gulf-is-losing-its-workforce/
#GulfStates #FIFA #India #Geopolitics #Labor #StraitOfHormuz
"A TIME investigation—based on federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) filings, two legal filings, a review of 911 call logs, and interviews with three workers at the site—points to safety issues emerging amid the push by big tech companies to build AI infrastructure at an unprecedented scale and speed."
https://time.com/article/2026/06/24/ai-data-center-stargate-abilene-texas-injuries/
#PublicHealth #OccHealth #OSHA #workers #labor #unions #DataCenters #AI #texas
Don't stop asking good questions ... 🤔
#Amazon #Bezos #Alexa #question #tax #company #globalization #world #worldorder #politics #power #capitalism #society #people #wealth #money #finance #system #matrix #humanity #ethics #democracy #equality #chances #billionaires #advertisement #protest #resistance #meme #memes #wisdom #knowledge #fairness #work #job #labor #staff
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Location: Matrix
Top story: When Jose Luis Bautista fell 8 stories from the ceiling of the SpaceX Starfactory, he became the first worker to die on the job. But far from the first to be injured.
The Observer obtained OSHA reports for hundreds of injuries which have taken place at the site, from second degree burns to broken bones.https://www.texasobserver.org/worker-death-starbase-spacex-osha-elon-musk/
RE: https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/116811843895106716
those 350 engineers should join line workers and unionize with the United Auto Workers #UAW
like #baseball players and #Hollywood actors, #engineers #architects #physicists #scientists are the working class and deserve to be represented and defended by a #labor union
Monterey Bay Aquarium Workers United had a few major wins during the bargaining period:
FMLA: We removed exceptions so that all employees are covered creating easier qualifications for leave
Reproductive Loss Leave: Expanded to include sterilization and abortion; clarified coverage under CFRA for family-planning procedures
Bereavement Leave: Up to 5 paid days per event; expanded to include foster family, cousins, designated persons (tamily-like relations), and pets
Proud of my former coworkers
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Screenshot of the Monterey bay aquarium workers union showing that they won several major things
FMLA: We removed exceptions so that all employees are covered creating easier qualifications for leave
Reproductive Loss Leave: Expanded to include sterilization and abortion; clarified coverage under CFRA for family-planning procedures
Bereavement Leave: Up to 5 paid days per event; expanded to include foster family, cousins, designated persons (tamily-like relations), and pets
I thought the Saudis were supposed to bring money to the deal.
As its sale to Saudi Arabia approaches, EA lays off its third wave of staff this year, with the full scope of the cuts currently unknown
https://www.eurogamer.net/ea-more-layoffs-june-2026
#SaudiArabia #EA #Layoffs #Labor #Gaming
Iceland is tiny, so a company letting 40 employees go makes national news. The company in question, Rapyd Europe, of course claimed "AI" as the reason for the layoffs.
So, I called them out on their bullshit – in my first piece for the Reykjavík Grapevine:
https://grapevine.is/mag/feature/2026/06/20/rapyd-layoffs-attributed-to-ai-hint-at-something-else/
The new national #detention standards, which #ICE posted to its website Monday, include some of #GeoGroup’s requested changes. The document says detainees are not employees & “are not entitled to wages or benefits under applicable #wage #laws or #labor #regulations.”
The revised rules no longer say detainees must be paid at least $1 per day, & no longer include several references to contractors having to comply with #state or local laws.
Ubisoft is at it again!
Ubisoft reportedly shuts down more studios and lays off staff in Barcelona and San Francisco - Engadget
#Ubisoft #Studios #Layoffs #Labor #Barcelona #SanFrancisco #Gaming
I fully support #Ukraine in the #UkraineWar
Ukraine has to fight. #Russia can just go home. If Russia wins, their #ethnofascist #imperialism and #colonialism means #genocide for Ukrainians
However they have limited #labor. So they turbocharge #innovation
From such efforts, something horrible is born with terrible implications for the world
Literally #Skynet from "The #Terminator" movies
"Fully #autonomous #drones have killed human soldiers for the first time"
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Technology
Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time
A senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry told New Scientist that a test took place two years ago involving fully autonomous drones set to destroy anything in a given area, with confirmed casualties
By Matthew Sparkes
10 June 2026
Drones are a common sight on the battlefields of Ukraine, but they are normally controlled by human pilots
Frank Herrmann/Getty Images
"A Trump administration initiative to impose $100,000 fees on employers seeking visas for skilled foreign workers amounts to an unlawful tax on those companies and must be voided 'in its entirety,' a federal judge ruled on Monday."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/us/politics/judge-visa-skilled-workers-fee-trump.html
#healthcare #hospitals #workers #physicians #nurses #labor #immigration #visas #USpol #courts
"According to new research from consulting firm Robert Half reviewed by Fast Company, nearly a third (32%) of hiring managers say that their organizations eliminated a role or let someone go primarily due to productivity gains from AI or automation, and then later rehired for that same role."
RE: https://post.lurk.org/@loriemerson/116698844776482762
ATTENTION EX-CATHOLIC ATHEISTS
once baptized, you’re catholic. if you took communion and/or took your confirmation vows, you are ―for all intents and purposes― a (lapsed) catholic.
excommunication is, technically, the only way out of catholicism.
would be interesting to test title VII from a secular catholicism point of view.
Silicon Valley thinks they are working to create a permanent underclass because:
- They do not understand #economics
- They do not understand #technology or #AI
They think #AI can eliminate employment, because they actually believe the lie that #capital creates #work.
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html
#AI #labor #profit #economics #UnionStrong
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A black-and-white illustration of various hand tools (pliers, scissors, wrench) with the quote: "The pursuit of greater profits cannot justify choices that systematically sacrifice jobs, because the human person is an end, not a means, and the economic order must remain subordinate to human dignity and the common good." — Pope Leo XIV
It's #MayDay *INTL #Workers' Day, & this year 5/1 is drawing attention for a nat mvt call for⚡protests, boycotts & walkouts across the US. This yr: mvt is backed by 100s of orgs incl 50501 & Indivisible,⚡uses the labor holiday to call attention to econ & wp issues.
+Organizers framed the mvt as opposition to🚨policies of the #TrumpRegime: #ICE, #IranWar... as part of a broader mvt to push back against corp influence & fed #labor decs.
#WorkersRights #GeneralStrike #USPol
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2026/04/27/may-day-protests-may-1-as-may-day-strong-calls-for-no-work-no-school/89816681007/
Grew up in a lily-white small town surrounded by entitled, mediocre, uneducated men born at their empire's glorious peak. Even as they tumbled out of Reagan's, and Clinton's, shrinking middle class, they were as certain of their destiny as future millionaires as they were certain of their deserving this birthright in their very essence.
I fled.
Made my way to the wicked city and found my tribe, that global cadre of thinkers, of scientists and artists. Those who expect no handouts, who wait for nothing and no one, who create and invent and enrich and ennoble by the sweat of their brow. Passed though the Olympus of Berkeley on the way to the bucolic Ivory Tower.
And had to watch as they settled themselves, with all of their accents and skin tones and creeds, into ignominy and servility as arrogant demagogues for the status quo, as fuck chimps for their billionaire patrons, as apologists for every crime, cosplaying the ruling class and blaming everyone but the ruling class when the ruling class pushed them down an elevator shaft.
For which of these two categories of willful slaves I have more contempt is a question that depends on my mood from moment to moment.
RE: https://tech.lgbt/@iamada/116455437413475828
a good time to remind y’all
MAYA ANGELOU ―the poet laureate, 3 time Grammy winner, National Medal of Arts and Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree― once worked as a SEX WORKER; both as labor and management.
there’s a whole generation of BLACK nanas and aunties that had to do what they had to do to care for our families. sex work isn't just the sex. many Black brothels were social, cultural, health centers for our communities.
true allies stand by all sex workers.
AodeRelay boostedTaking the elite's money
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Post by @merricdeville > "Sex workers have historically funneled money from rich white men who run everything, back into their communities. Anyone who says 'sex workers are enemies of the working class' is a fucking idiot with little life experience, LARPing as a leftist"
#DOJ settles with #IBM over alleged #DEI practices
After the “modest” [we’re paying you a pittance just to get you leave us be] $17 million agreement with the company, #Trump admin attempted to paint it as a win saying they expect it to be the first of many such settlements.
#law #LegalEthics #FirstAmendment #CivilRights #labor #business #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism #racism #sexism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/04/16/justice-department-settles-with-ibm-over-alleged-dei-practices/
#IBM, a leading corporate computing company & one of the most storied names in US #business, has agreed to pay the #US #government $17 million to settle #DOJ allegations that the company’s diversity, equity & inclusion [#DEI] policies violated antidiscrimination laws [they weren’t hiring an over abundance of straight white Christian men].
#law #LegalEthics #FirstAmendment #CivilRights #labor #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism #racism #sexism
"Federal regulators have cited three contractors, including one owned by a campaign donor to President Donald Trump, for safety violations stemming from the death of a worker helping build a major immigration detention center last year."
#PublicHealth #immigration #ICE #detention #workers #labor #OSHA #texas
I'm at the local #dsa annual meeting.
Two comrades from #minneapolis DSA spoke with us via Zoom.
One of the main points was that #labor #unions have #resources to #support their #workers. So where is this support for their workers being targeted by #ICE and #CBP? Answering this question is important, because mobilizing that support was instrumental in the success of the No Work, No School, No Shopping #action.
Lawrence W. Britt: 14 Characteristics of #Fascism
[Unattributed, but based on the writings of #UmbertoEco]
"#Historian #LawrenceBritt studied the fascist regimes of #Hitler (Germany), #Mussolini (Italy), #Franco (Spain), #Suharto (Indonesia), and #Pinochet (Chile) and found they had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism.
1. Powerful and Continuing #Nationalism
Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of #patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. #Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
2. Disdain for the Recognition of #HumanRights
Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, and long incarcerations of prisoners.
3. Identification of #Enemies / #Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: #racial, #ethnic or #religious #minorities; #liberals; #communists; #socialists, #terrorists…
4. Supremacy of the #Military
Even when there are widespread #domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
5. Rampant #Sexism
The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional #gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to #abortion is high, as is #homophobia and anti-#gay legislation.
6. Controlled #MassMedia
Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation or by sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Government #censorship and #secrecy especially in war time, are very common.
7. Obsession with #NationalSecurity
Fear of hostile foreign powers is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
8. #Religion and Government are Intertwined
Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions.
9. Protection of #Corporate Power
The #industrial and business #aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
10. Suppression of #Labor Power
Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor #unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.
11. Disdain for #Intellectuals and the #Arts
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to #HigherEducation and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other #academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.
12. Obsession with #Crime and #Punishment
Under fascist regimes, the #police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego #CivilLiberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
13. Rampant #Cronyism and #Corruption
Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
14. #FraudulentElections
Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by #SmearCampaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control #voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.
This post is a summary of Fascism, Anyone? by Lawrence W. Britt published in 2003 by Free Inquiry magazine."
https://voxpopulisphere.com/2017/08/23/lawrence-britt-14-characteristics-of-fascism/
#History #Histodon #RabidRight #Antifa #Antifascism #FarRight #Trump #Putin #Russia #MAGA #Project2025 #CharacteristicsOfFascism #DetentionCenters #VoterDisenfranchisement #VoterIDLaws #SilencingDissent #CriminalizingDissent
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The 14 Defining Characteristics of Fascism
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
2. Disdain for Human Rights
3. Identification of Enemies As A Unifying Cause
4. Supremacy of the Military
5. Rampant Sexism
6. Controlled Mass Media
7. Obsession With National Security
8. Religion and Government Intertwined
9. Corporate Power Protected
10. Labor Power Suppressed
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
12. Obsession With Crime and Punishment
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
14. Fraudulent Elections
Moody's top economist, reading the state of the #labor market, concludes the US is probably already in a recession. https://www.businessinsider.com/us-recession-warning-job-market-signal-unemploymen-trate-mark-zandi-2026-4
It's great to see such a huge turnout for this past weekend's No Kings Rally. However, at the end of the #weekend, a friend (who works in healthcare) asked me which rally I went to. I told him I didn't attend any due to caregiving responsibilities. He asked what was so difficult about bringing our son to a rally.
So...I want to talk about #caregiving for a bit. I've mentioned here before my son is fully #disabled with severe spastic #quadriplegic cerebral palsy, is #actuallyautistic, and has significant #sensory #needs. Caregiving is physically and emotionally #brutal. It's a significant #life change that, unfortunately, a lot of #people simple do not and cannot fathom - unless it happens to them.
The best way I can describe *my* #experience is it's real time #multivariable #calculus with known, unknown, and constantly changing variables. It requires high level non-linear systems-based thinking to solve #problems, #chaos #management, and constantly being on high alert.
#Burnout is inevitable, the #physical and #emotional #labor is genuinely exhausting on a cellular level, and #time and #access to self care is rare. It's also incredibly #socially #isolating.
In addition to the #social #isolation, navigating the outside world isn't just unnecessarily difficult it's a #failure of the #system. The uncomfortable #reality is most places are NOT #accessible, including #bathrooms. #Toileting is a basic #human #right! My son is too large and heavy for the baby changing stations in "#family #restrooms." We need to put him on a #dirty bathroom floor in order to change his #diaper. Where is the #humanity and #dignity in *that*?
I feel like a broken record explaining this to him for the past six years. It's honestly mind blowing and exhausting.
I loved seeing so much support for covid safety & long covid at the community connecting event today!
#MasksSolidarity #CovidIsNotOver #Comrades #AntiAbleism #VictoriaBC #CommunityCare #Solidarity #BeTheChange #NormalizeMasking #HumanitariansMaskUp #LongCovid #Labor #PeopleWithDisabilities #Covid
I saw someone explaining tech companies' C-suite execs insisting on massive LLM / token use as "because companies would rather pay other companies under contract than give money to their labourers" and damn if that hasn't stuck with me for the last 24 hours.
“The weight of that calculation is the same weight for every single survivor in the farm worker industry. They’re not thinking about the movement, but they’re thinking about: ‘Will my family be able to work next year?’ ‘Will I be abandoned in the field?’ ‘Will I be killed?’” https://www.texasobserver.org/dolores-huerta-fear-farmworkers-advocates/
#farming #agriculture #politics #USpol #labor #workers #HumanRights
(CW: Descriptions of workplace sexual assault)
Several of the LLMs have produced inaccuracies which have been uncritically communicated to our customers by CrowdStrikers who failed to exhibit due diligence. Those errors were caught by said customers, and they were embarrassing to us all.From @brianmerchant@mastodon.social 's latest newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-ai-is-killing-jobs-in-the-tech
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Now we have an engineer, if you can call him that, working on a project that will introduce more than 30k lines of AI generated code into our codebase, without a single unit test. It will be impossible to do a proper code review on this much code and it will become a maintenance nightmare and possibly a security hazard. I don't need to tell you how much management is cheering on that.
A ticking timebomb in the making. It's especially galling that CrowdStrike is doing this, given their epic fail just last year.
A while back I wrote in a post here:
under Taylorism the workers who actually do the work and know it best no longer have a say (opinion) in how that work gets done. Pseudo-scientific principles (scientific management, the astrology of MBAs) dictates all. Computers, from the very first, were intended and designed for this purpose.riffing on what a lousy person Charles Babbage was and the lousy anti-worker plans he had for the proto-computers he designed. Among other things generative AI is another manifestation of the MBA pseudoscience known as scientific management and exists in a long line of digital technologies stretching all the way back to Babbage's.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #tech #dev #computation #ComputerScience #labor #organizing
5 years at 6% unemployment or 1 year at 10%: That’s what Larry Summers says we’ll need to defeat inflation
This is coded economist-speak for: we need to force a bunch of people who currently have jobs to be fired or laid off, and keep them in that state for 1-5 years, in order to achieve an economic goal. That is the essence of austerity economics and labor discipline.
Never mind that more honest economists have identified corporate markups as the primary driver of inflation, which immediately implies that forcing people out of work would worsen inflation, not reduce it. Summers knows this, or at least has access to this research. But he's an austerity ideologue.
So. Why is this person, who has no background in artificial intelligence, on the board of a company that claims to be building artificial general intelligence? In what universe does that make any sense? Well, it makes perfect sense in the universe where one of the goals for OpenAI's technology is enhanced labor discipline. Larry Summers has a track record and professional network for achieving exactly that; he'd know how to further that mission and knows the powerful people best-situated to help.
#AGI #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LaborDiscipline #Capitalism #labor #austrity
(a) Sectors where unionization activity and other labor unrest has appeared; and
(b) Sectors where the AI maniacs are claiming AI will soon take over jobs
My suspicion is that one of the functions of generative AI is labor discipline: frighten workers so that they stop making demands of employers for fear of losing their jobs or benefits. Labor discipline is a well-documented strategy the powers that be have been using for at least a century for exactly this purpose. Clara Mattei's excellent book and articles on this subject, which I think make this case incontrovertibly.
I don't think it's coincidental that there is so much enthusiasm for generative AI among powerful state and corporate actors despite a corresponding dislike and fear of it among working class folks: that's a common pattern in labor disciplining policies and is how they function. I also don't think it's coincidental that the generative AI rhetoric, and the latest hype cycle, kicked off in the wake of COVID-related state interventions: as Mattei argues, austerity policies are consciously brought to bear on behalf of wealthy capitalists whenever the state is forced by circumstances to take actions benefiting workers. The recent historic rise in unionization activity was met with mass layoffs (read: labor discipline), a rise in interest rates (read: financial pain inflicted on the non-wealthy) and attempts to "cool off" the economy (read: force a bunch of people to become unemployed, another labor disciplining tool). I think generative AI is, in part, an attempt to squash hope and force workers to be docile again through fear and acquiescence, which again is a labor disciplining strategy Mattei has documented is consciously brought to bear by the powers that be.
Therefore it wouldn't surprise me at all to find that (a) is nearly identical to (b), or contained within it.