“The researchers also looked specifically at the 2008 economic collapse and
estimate that a $1 minimum wage increase could have prevented over 13,000
suicides if previous trends held for this period.”
posted 1/12/2020 7:52pm ∞
“Ironically, the Times reports that Crossover’s own employees so resented the
company’s intrusive monitoring of them (as they created and sold intrusive
monitoring tools) that Crossover hemorrhaged employees and struggled to hire
replacements. Eventually, Crossover had to turn off its most intrusive features
so that it could keep the employees needed to make and sell its bossware
product.”
posted 12/17/2022 3:19pm ∞
“George W. Bush didn’t originally want to create the Department of Homeland
Security; he was persuaded into doing so by Democrats, who were themselves
mostly grasping for an opportunity to score political points. Almost no one
pushed for a new department because they thought it was a good idea.”
Amanda Chicago Lewis ,
The 20-Year Boondoggle
(The Verge ,
November 16, 2022 )
posted 11/29/2022 8:00pm ∞
“For all the grandiose talk about The Light Of Consciousness and The Future Of
Humanity that has come out of Silicon Valley during its ascent, what it has
delivered has mostly been spectacularly useless, lifeless, and anti-human. In
this sense, it reflects its owners perfectly.”
David Roth ,
Everything Is Silicon Valley Now
(Defector ,
November 14, 2022 ,
via Nick Heer )
posted 11/21/2022 8:00pm ∞
“Today’s America has seen decades of the intentional conservative-led starving
and squeezing of public education … and also the devastation of newspapers,
journalism, and a vast misinformation campaign. All this adds up to preventing
many who are educable from becoming educated. Thomas Paine, and those I’m using
him to represent, would recognize this as a sabotage of their system.”
posted 11/20/2022 8:00pm ∞