Thinking about this, and the future of global #underwork.
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CEOs call it a revolution in efficiency. The workers powering it call it a "new era in forced labor." I spoke to the people on the front lines of the AI takeover.Luc Olinga (Gizmodo)
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Any mention I have seen of a "power couple" is always catering to the ego of women. No man cares about power couples, because they are not looking for a woman who is chasing some high flying career.
It only seeks to validate the feminist idea that a women should be celebrated for chasing careers, and that they should be rewarded for keeping their hypergamy even when it is unnecessary. A family can be supported fully with one high flying career. Two of them just means more money than needed.
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President Masoud Pezeshkian hails Pakistan’s firm support for the Islamic Republic during the recent 12-day Israeli-American war on the country.PressTV
Bondi moves forward on Justice Department investigation into origins of Trump-Russia probe
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Owners of cargo ship that crashed into Baltimore bridge sue company that built vessel
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US President Donald Trump’s 50% tariffs on Brazil, which are set to go into effect on Wednesday, August 6, are “unacceptable blackmail,” says Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The Trump administration cited Brazil’s prosecution of former president Jair Bolsonaro as a significant reason for the proposed tariffs. In response, Lula said on X that Brazil is “a sovereign country with independent institutions and will not accept any tutelage.”
High court’s misrepresentation of January 8, 2023 riot as a “coup” is central to Lula government’s plans to stay in powerDavid Agape (Public)
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At least six more Palestinians in Gaza have starved to death in the past 24 hours as famine spreads in the besieged strip. At least 181 Palestinians, including 94 children, have now died from hunger-related causes in Gaza.Democracy Now!
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tbh, I've looked at examples of other people's resumes who actually work in cybersecurity in the jobs I'm applying for, and mine isn't even bad. It's pretty good, even. I don't understand why no one's even interviewing me.
I feel like if one of these recruiters saw how rabid I'd been in the last two weeks with my home lab they'd hire me on the spot.
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1/ Les forces israéliennes retiennent toujours le corps du militant palestinien Odeh #Hadalin, tué la semaine dernière par un colon en #Cisjordanie occupée.
2/ Sept membres de sa famille, qui ont été témoins de l'assassinat, sont toujours détenus. Une infirmière qui a tenté de le sauver a été expulsée, ainsi que d'autres témoins internationaux.
3/ Des dizaines de femmes d'Umm al-Khair ont entamé une grève de la faim pour demander justice.
4/ Un juge israélien a levé l'assignation à résidence de #YinonLevi, le principal suspect, affirmant que le dossier est faible et qu'il pourrait s'agir de « légitime défense ».
5/ Levi est propriétaire d'un avant-poste illégal en Cisjordanie et d'une entreprise de démolition qui travaille en collaboration avec l'armée israélienne.
6/ Au début de cette année, l'administration Trump a levé les sanctions de l'ère Biden contre Yinon #Levi, malgré sa longue histoire de violence et de harcèlement contre les Palestiniens.
From Kerem-navot -- Israeli NGO established in 2012, which monitors and carries out research on Israeli land policy in the #WestBank:
#YinonLevy was born in Jerusalem around 32 years ago. Odeh #Hadalin was born around 31 years ago in the small Bedouin village of Umm al-Kheir in the South Hebron Hills. Last Tuesday, Yinon Levy killed Odeh Hadalin. This was not a one-time event but the result of many systemic failures.
Yinon #Levy owns a company that operates several heavy construction machines. Odeh Hadalin was an English teacher at the school in the Bedouin village where he was born and lived his entire life. From video footage and eyewitness accounts, we can piece together what happened that day. But in this post, we want to talk about some of the decisions that ultimately led to the moment when Yinon Levy shot and killed Odeh Hadalin — most of which were made long before either of them was born.
In 1980, #Israel established a “Nachal” military outpost called Carmel. It was built on lands belonging to the Palestinian town of Yatta, in the southeastern West Bank. Near that site, several Bedouin families from the Hadalin clan had been living. These families had arrived after being expelled by Israel from the northern Negev area during and after 1948. A few years later, the Nachal military outpost became the settlement of Carmel, which is home today to around 650 settlers. In 1983, Israel confiscated about 2,200 dunams of Yatta’s lands by declaring them as State Land. These lands were handed over to the settlement of Carmel and today form its “municipal jurisdiction”.
Over time, the settlement expanded and became more extreme and violent. In the most recent elections, for instance, 86% of the votes there went to Ben Gvir and Smotrich. The rest were divided between Likud, Shas, and Ayelet Shaked (there used to be such a politician). In short, you get the idea of the type of settlement and settlers we’re talking about.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian village of Umm al-Kheir also grew — despite the army and Civil Administration’s ongoing attempts to choke the community through lack of planning, denial of basic infrastructure, repeated raids, and house demolitions. As a result, these two communities have been living just a few dozens of meters apart for decades. Nowhere else in the West Bank settlers and Palestinians live in such proximity.
Despite this close proximity, the disparity in quality of life between the two communities is unfathomable. A visit to the area — no matter which side of the fence you stand on — is the kind of sight that wounds both the eyes and the heart. Assuming you have one.
This situation is the result of deliberate policy, from which countless administrative and planning decisions have stemmed. One of them was to expropriate the lands surrounding the village of Umm al-Kheir in a way that would suffocate the village and its residents’ ability to live off agriculture and herding. And since these lands were seized and transferred to the settlers, they can now do whatever they want with them — including build something 30 meters away from the village homes. Their “right,” no?
And when settlers want to build, they hire people like Yinon Levy, who makes his living from this system. And what do people like Yinon Levy do when working near Palestinian villages? They deliberately drive their bulldozers into privately owned Palestinian land — not yet officially expropriated — in order to provoke, humiliate, and destroy. And when tensions rise, what do people like Levy do? They draw their pistols, start shooting — and sometimes kill someone who happened to be 30 meters away, someone who posed no threat.
Yinon Levy is just a contractor — a particularly violent one — whose job is to execute the policy that every Israeli government since 1967 has promoted in one form or another. That policy is called apartheid in every other part of the world. And that apartheid is gradually shifting into a policy of ethnic cleansing. That’s why Odeh Hadalin lies dead, while Yinon Levy smiles in court and now sits comfortably at home. Yinon Levy knows that if he’s punished at all, the sentence will be laughable. He knows the apartheid regime will ensure its contractors can continue rampaging — and occasionally, shooting and killing along the way.
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Odeh Hathalin, qui avait tourné des images du documentaire israélo-palestinien oscarisé, a été tué par balle lundi 28 juillet. Le tireur est Yinon Levi, un colon extrémiste sous le coup de sanctions internationales. Depuis l'Oscar décerné en mars dernier, l’équipe du documentaire No Other Land, qui montre le sort des villages de bergers palestiniens de la vallée de Massafer Yatta, en Cisjordanie, sous les violences des colons et de l’armée israélienne, paie très cher ce coup de projecteur. La France a condamné ce meurtre « avec la plus grande fermeté ainsi que toutes les violences délibérées perpétrées par des colons extrémistes » affirmant que "ces violences sont des actes de terrorisme". Pourtant, ces derniers semblent bien protégés de toute accusation.
Trois semaines après l'oscar, l’un des réalisateurs, le Palestinien Hamdan Ballal, qui habite la région, est lynché par des colons puis arrêté par des soldats israéliens durant son évacuation en ambulance, avant d’être relâché 24h plus tard. L’oscar “ne m’a pas protégé de la violence”, écrira-t-il dans une tribune publiée par The New York Times.
Lundi 28 juillet, c’est un autre palestinien de l’équipe de No Other Land, lui aussi de la région, qui a été victime de cette violence. Mais Odeh Hathalin, militant de la cause de Massafer Yatta, qui a tourné certaines des images du documentaire, l’a, lui, payé de sa vie, raconte le média israélo-palestinien +972 Magazine, auquel collaborait Hathalin, ainsi que deux des autres réalisateurs du documentaire, l’Israélien Yuval Abraham et le Palestinien Basel Adra.
Le 28 juillet, aux alentours de 17 h 25, un homme entre dans le village d’Umm Al-Khair, dans la région de Massafer Yatta, avec un bulldozer, selon le récit fait par le site d’information. Cet homme, c’est Yinon Levi, un colon “bien connu des Palestiniens de la région”. Fondateur d’un avant-poste illégal dans la région et gérant d’une entreprise de terrassement, il a été reconnu coupable de plusieurs “attaques violentes dans des communautés palestiniennes visant à les chasser de leurs terres”, ce qui lui a valu d’être sanctionné par l’UE et l’administration Biden, des sanctions US annulées par l’administration Trump.
Ce bulldozer détruit alors la clôture, la conduite d’eau principale et les oliviers du village, puis l’homme s’en prend à un cousin d’Odeh Hathalin. En réaction, des habitants commencent à jeter des pierres sur le bulldozer. Yinon Levi court alors vers eux, frappe l’un d’eux qui le filmait avec la crosse de son pistolet avant de tirer des coups de feu en leur direction, poursuit +972 Magazine. Une balles atteint Odeh Hathalin au poumon, il meurt dans l’ambulance en route pour l’hôpital. La police israélienne a ouvert une enquête et a arrêté Yinon Levi. Il a été placé en résidence surveillée en attendant la suite de la procédure.
Odeh Hathalin "a considérablement servi sa communauté, plus que quiconque", déclare un autre de ses cousins. "Chaque jour, il œuvrait pour nos droits. Il l’a payé de son sang et aujourd’hui, de sa vie." Depuis le début de la guerre à Gaza, près d’un millier de Palestiniens, en majorité des civils, ont été tués en Cisjordanie par des soldats israéliens ou des colons. Dans le dernier article qu’il a signé, datant de juillet 2024, pour +972 Magazine, Odeh Hathalin écrivait : "À Umm Al-Khair, l’occupation nous condamne à un traumatisme multigénérationnel."
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Odeh Hathalin, qui avait tourné des images utilisées dans le documentaire israélo-palestinien oscarisé sur le sort de bergers palestiniens sous la menace de l’armée israélienne et des colons, a été mortellement touché par balle lundi 28 juillet.Courrier International
Deutsche Bahn boss Richard Lutz demands obligatory go-arounds for aircraft to achieve train parity.
"Aircraft in Germany must be delayed in flight at least by 20 minutes to make trains more attractive for passengers" he said during Tagesschau interview.
"Trains with their considerably lower operating costs simply cannot compete with heavily taxed air travel." he further explained.
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A simple recap of what most Americans want:
* Full healthcare for everyone
* Universal basic income
* Equal and fair justice
* Civil public libraries for everyone
* To not live in fear
* For everything to not cost so much
* To not have to work until they die
People don’t care who makes this happen or how it comes to pass — only that it does.
#America #UnitedStates #Usa #UsPol #Politics
In other showbusiness news, Macaulay Culkin called police after his father, Kit Culkin, slapped him for not cleaning his room.
Officers raced to the scene and immediately joined in… slapping Macaulay Culkin.
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Next Saturday could see a mass demonstration against the proscription of Palestine Action with the Metropolitan Police warning they will make mass arrests of people in breach of the Terrorism Act's prohibition of any support for a proscribed organisation.
If the numbers that are expected turn up this will push PA proscription arrests over 1000 & will further demonstrate Yvette Cooper's anti-democratic credentials.
Another unforced error
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Hundreds could join weekend rally in support of proscribed group as 300 UK Jewish figures urge PM to lift banBen Quinn (The Guardian)
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they don't have to say literally, as if there is something strange about the hypothetical choice.
How about men AND WOMEN choosing people they feel good with, regardless of achievements?
Is the Country and the World ready for the next #space #disaster from either #SpaceX or #BlueOrigin? Putting humans atop giant roman candles and hurdling them off into space is hard, and it is dangerous, and the fact that neither of these Companies has lost a life yet doesn't mean they won't tomorrow (or the next day).
Complacency is a cancer, and we (the collective us) have become complacent, just assuming that SpaceX builds perfect launching machines.
A disaster is coming. I don't know when, but I do know when it happens lives will be lost and lives will be changed.
I hope we're ready. #SpaceTravel #NASA #astronauts
A pair of #JeffreyEpstein’s victims blasted the #Trump admin & the #DOJ for their attempts to unseal grand jury testimony in the #criminal case against the late financier, saying govt officials haven’t listened to the voices of people who were harmed by his actions.
The 2 victims, who weren’t identified, asked in separate letters filed in a Manhattan court Monday, that any files related to Epstein be reviewed to protect their privacy….
#law #CoverUp #criminal #rape
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Bloomberg News reported last week that the #FBI redacted Trump’s name & those of other high-profile individuals from govt files related to #JeffreyEpstein, citing 3 people familiar w/the matter….The names were withheld under privacy protections because those individuals, including #Trump, were private citizens when the federal investigation into #Epstein began in 2006, the people said.
#law #CoverUp #RapistInChief #criminal #rape #ChildSexCrimes #BelieveSurvivors
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Another *victim asked Berman to have a third party review any documents to ensure no victims’ names or likenesses are revealed through the process, saying that it appeared the #DOJ’s priority is to protect “wealthy men.”
“To learn that our own president has utilized thousands of agents to protect his identity & these high-profile individuals is monumentally mind-blowing,” the victim wrote. “That is their focus? Wow!”
#law #Trump #JeffreyEpstein #CoverUp #RapistInChief #criminal #rape
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- Approximately 3,200 Boeing union workers in the U.S. states of Misen.people.cn
One of the most effective misinformation tactics antivaxxers use is to quote legitimate news sources out-of-context in order to convey a biased narrative.
Studies suggest that news editors often contribute to this problem by publishing clickbait headlines that are easily weaponized by antivaxxers.
"Top health expert says vaccinated people are spreading Covid variant" is a headline that was often used by major outlets.
The full context in the article was: "Data shows that vaccines reduce transmission. However, some experts warn that vaccinated individuals may still be capable of contracting & transmitting Covid."
What would be your dream Desktop Linux (or 'bsd) system configuration?
Is your current setup close?
What would close the gap?
I really need to learn a keyboard-centric workflow and I think part of that would include learning a tiling window management system.
But I'm hoping to migrate my main system from Arch to Guix once I devote time to learning it.
San Antonio Spurs, De’Aaron Fox agrees to four-year, $228M extension, AP source says
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Lawmakers travel to Illinois, New York and elsewhere to stop vote on Republicans’ redistricting planGeorge Chidi (The Guardian)
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Just finished Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow. Engaging story that just pulls you along so well you don't want to put it down.
By luck of the Libby draw, I ended up reading the series in reverse order but still enjoyed every one. Thanks for the wonderful story, @pluralistic ! Looking forward to the next Marty Hench tale!
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The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Saturday that 39 Palestinians were killed and 849 others injured while waiting for aid. They were transferred to hospitals in the Strip over the past 24 hours, amid the ongoing Israeli aggression on the StDAILY YEMEN
I looked up the Black Hat app today and the app sponsored above it was a posture check app I kid you not.
Don’t forget your ibuprofen and gargoyle perching pillow, hackers.
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Brazil’s Supreme Court orders house arrest for former President Jair Bolsonaro
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in reply to Kate Bowles • • •And as a painful coda to Scott Farquahar’s #npc shenanigans shared earlier by @emmadavidson, here’s the other half (apparently the less warm one) firing 150 workers by video.
Sparkly new futurey jobs? No sign.
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Kate Bowles
in reply to Kate Bowles • • •Beginning a thought about the prospect of mass global #underwork.
The definitions and thresholds of employment used by governments are way more granular than just “in work” or “has job”. So underworking is likely to be far more prevalent than the data derived from self-reported survey responses. And the vision of labour market transformation thanks to sparkly new futurey jobs is very light on detail about new job stability or income sufficiency.
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Labour Force, Australia methodology, June 2025
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in reply to Kate Bowles • • •Why think about this as #underwork not underemployment? Because underworking is a human condition with human impact, like overworking. Underwork is a social situation.
And unless the sparkly new futurey jobs show up, AI driven underworking will expand the demographic of an established and generationally impactful underworking class: working under the level of wealth creation, working insecurely, with fewer protections, weaker access to fair work provisions, solidarity or safe protest.
These are long term political choices.
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in reply to Kate Bowles • • •And the threshold of being countable as employed in Australia is one hour paid work a week, and can be not even that. So the unemployment rate references this number, not any common sense understanding of sufficient work to live on. It includes all the teenage workers 15 and up.
Within this are nested the underemployed who report themselves in a monthly survey of around 50000 Australians as employed and either having had expected working hours reduced, or preferring to work more than their normal working hours.
So this is how we get an official underemployment rate of 5.9% in Australia.
#underwork
Kate Bowles
in reply to Kate Bowles • • •Why this matters: if you hear that 150 workers have been ejected from their seats, but you just heard that employment levels are both high and stable, you might think: that’s ok, there will be another job.
But when you factor in underemployment, which includes people already losing sufficient work and people who didn’t have sufficient work to begin with, things look tougher.
Political choices that favour business and growth are long-term social choices about how we live, who gets to flourish, who gets by, who gets trapped in #underwork.
Kate Bowles
in reply to Kate Bowles • • •US labour market data makes the news, in a predictable way, by confounding the Tantrum in Chief. The thing to notice though is that the science of estimation always makes people testy because labour market vitals feed into consumer confidence and political futures. Meanwhile behind the data, every point is a person, a family, a community. #underwork
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Trump fires BLS commissioner after weak jobs report and baseless claim of 'faked' stats
Max Zahn (ABC News)Kate Bowles
in reply to Kate Bowles • • •This from @scottsantens on UBI is detailed and clear. Work related poverty is expanding; capitalism is failing humans as well as the planet. Capitalism as a system cannot deliver us from its own intended impacts. So, something new is needed, and urgently.
#underwork
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in reply to Kate Bowles • • •Curious about how US monthly labour market data is estimated? As in Australia, sample surveys.
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What You Need to Know About the Employment Report
Mark Mahorney (Investopedia)Kate Bowles
in reply to Kate Bowles • • •The US takes a granular view of “not working” in the survey period, including the subcategories of “discouraged worker” and “marginally attached to the labor force”. Among workers, “involuntary part-time workers” are what Australia would call the underemployed. This is the social experience that is rapidly becoming lifetime or even generational #underwork.
The language of labor underutilization used in US reporting moralises the problem of work, making it a problem that affects government and business rather than a social harm that affects people and communities.
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Bureau of Labor StatisticsKate Bowles
in reply to Kate Bowles • • •Caveat: I’m not a statistically literate person, far from it. I’m really just thinking about how employment reporting is a languaging practice, a storytelling practice, and all kinds of political vibing. Trump’s tantrums make this clear, but it was already there like climate change: however you count whatever you count, the underlying lived experience of trying to get through these times is that water is rising faster than we’re prepared for.
#underwork
Kate Bowles
in reply to Kate Bowles • • •Quietly horrifying correlate to the rapid spread of #underwork is the triumphalism now associated with #overwork.
We need to stop treating these as separate phenomena. They are the two sides of the work coin flipping. As Levitt describes, overworkers are colluding with the business ideal of competitive advantage, but in working two jobs inside one salary they’re also ensuring the rise of involuntary part-time work.
AI will win this race.
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Howard Levitt: The myth of work–life balance is dead, and employers aren't afraid to say it
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in reply to Kate Bowles • • •Meanwhile, salaries and sign-on bonuses in the AI sector give us a glimpse of the sunlit uplands where talent is rewarded with immediate and dizzying wealth. Work redefined as elite level competitive sport aligned to willingness to show up all hours is life changing for very few whose life goal is to, I don’t know, buy islands.
But these aspirational shenanigans are not disconnected from the social crisis of #underwork, far from it.
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AI salaries rise: Meta pays some of highest remuneration to artificial intelligence engineers, as talent war heats up
Melissa Heikkilä, Clara Murray, Cristina Criddle (Australian Financial Review)JamesAshburner
in reply to Kate Bowles • • •PAL: the primary approach letter, telling selected households that an ABS Population Survey interviewer would come (with ABS identification card), and giving a brief outline of the survey topic.
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in reply to Kate Bowles • • •“This unvarnished perspective reveals a fundamental truth about the corporate embrace of AI: it is, at its core, a quest for efficiency and profitability. And in this quest, human labor is often seen as a liability, an obstacle to be overcome.”.
The dehumanization of society for profit continues. #AI #forcedlabor
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in reply to Kate Bowles • • •