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LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’ in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

"...me my money."

Thinking about picking up interview and pre-hiring trainning trolling as a hobby. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Problem is no humanity in "human resources".

Exclusive clandestine agents of the business that work to train you to be as vulnerable as you can with them. Only as info gathering to be used as leverage against you if needed. Especially in the US now with the collapse of already lacking agencies like the NLRB, CFPB, FTC, etc... folks need to really JOLT themselves out of programming according to an old rulebook.

Whistleblowers are literally ending up dead, companies are adjusting their tolerance for inclusive practices and they are quickly losing fear of any regulation or retaliation.

Fuck 'em. Any way you find a way to slow things down or make them difficult. The social contract is broken, so quit trying to hold up your end with corporations. You aren't going to help them grow a conscience with your righteous and admirable principled adhesion to the old rules as they stab you and colleagues in the back.

I admire your spirit, OP. Be careful. Operate outside of your own industry if possible. Find job descriptions within that industry, directly copy key terms and add to a fake resume that will catch the attention of their sorting algorithm on job boards. As companies continue mass layoffs for sport to juice a stock price, the "talent acquisition" people only see you as pigs coming into slaughter (or at best, the fresh meat at the top of the grinder that will inevitably push the old meat through the grinder dye).

Society is in the decline. Internalize that. Act accordingly. Doesn't mean you have to set it on fire or give up a fight, but they've shifted the overton window on human decency. Your principled stand doesn't even register on the scale anymore.

Cathy, do the math. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Average union dues are typically 1-3%. This claims an 18% increase in weekly salary for union workers... So what are you thinking isn't getting factored in here and what is your point if it isn't represented inb these numbers?

Unions aren't "tricky", they are vital.

‘Dogequest’ Site Claims to Dox Tesla Owners Across the U.S. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Luxury is a choice. I've never owned a "new" car. I could afford new cars eventually, but the reality is the world meant that I was never going to put myself close enough to a potential edge, that the purchase of a nicer car could lead to future discomfort for me or my family.

You really have no idea how out of touch you are. Your next point is, "Getting a gold foil wrap on a cybertruck is an investment! You don't get the full value of that investment on resale... Do you expect me to just take that loss?"

You are tone deaf. You doing see it at all, and that's really the point.

‘Dogequest’ Site Claims to Dox Tesla Owners Across the U.S. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Ate you seriously trying to tell a sad story about imagined poor unfortunate souls that are barely scrapping by on a "tight budget" and drive.

"Maybe some of you have Beluga caviar with every meal, but us working folk can only afford sevruga 3-5 times a week, at best!"

There It Is: RFK Jr. Suggests Best Strategy For Combatting Measles Is For Everyone To Get It in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

RFK Jr., a man vaccinated against the measles, says your kids should get measles.

“Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Go look at the down votes on all your posts and just how universally unpopular your take is - That's called being wrong. That's fine, you can be wrong sometimes, that's okay. It doesn't define you, but stop digging in the wrong direction.

I can pay for music, I often don't on principal. I work to find other ways to contribute to artists as directly as I can (patreon, merch, shows, etc). I'm not alone in that. You had some weird guilt socialized into you that tells you your value is in what you spend and own. Protest at any level is valid. Copyright law is bullshit, DMCA takedowns are bullshit, DRM and digital streaming music that you never actually legally own is all bullshit. Anything you can do to make that broken system nervous or hurt is a great and valuable thing to broader society.

You are unequivocally wrong here, you're the last person to realize that, but you still can realize it here and now today and go forward from here. How about it, take the olive branch, bud?

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says "we're going to keep doing it" after arrest of Columbia activist in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

It will be what we make it. For now, stop performing on social media though and try to listen and think a bit. We take in history and try to learn from it. That's the first step.

You're scared, that's fine. Take strength from knowing that this isn't brand new. Doesn't mean it's easy or the good guys "win", but means people have survived this before, fascist regimes have toppled, just not in the US yet. So we'll see. We'll hope there's less death, less destruction, but there already is and will be some.

It's okay for you to be scared. There's probably SOMETHING you can be doing to help though. Take some time and consider what that might be.

Marc Rober shows why Tesla's camera-only self-driving system is dangerous in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

"Full shelf driving" still needs to be in quotes. It's a feature's brand name for a product that doesn't actually have full self driving capabilities.

Try not to carry water for their attempted, repeated lie.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says "we're going to keep doing it" after arrest of Columbia activist in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

"You see," my colleague went on, "one doesn’t see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of your way to make trouble.’ Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.

"Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, ‘everyone’ is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You know, in France or Italy there would be slogans against the government painted on walls and fences; in Germany, outside the great cities, perhaps, there is not even this. In the university community, in your own community, you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, ‘It’s not so bad’ or ‘You’re seeing things’ or ‘You’re an alarmist.’

"And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have.

"But your friends are fewer now. Some have drifted off somewhere or submerged themselves in their work. You no longer see as many as you did at meetings or gatherings. Informal groups become smaller; attendance drops off in little organizations, and the organizations themselves wither. Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality of things. This weakens your confidence still further and serves as a further deterrent to—to what? It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then you are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait.

"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.

​

Copyright notice: Excerpt from pages 166-73 of They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer

“Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a problem. Also reports of some reviews that do have mute buttons, but the functionality gets selectively disabled - I.e. on the YouTube app, pressing mute will pause an ad, but not mute. The point is to force you to complete watching ads.

“Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh course it does, what are you talking about? It applies to any product or service that can have its quality gradually and intentionally reduced in service of having its profit margin increase.

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It's not "Quiet Quitting" it's giving them the exact level of labor that they deserve (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Don't embrace and repeat the business media buzzwords built to give the CNBC ticker fill text. These terms are created to forgive executives and BODs of the guilt they feel - "It isn't that we are treating people like shit, it's that they are ungrateful little piggies and there's just no winning so why not double down on our cruelty?"

I know it's an easy draw, but don't reinforces their lazy bullshit, redefine it. When they say quiet quitting, you say no, you're getting what you fucking deserve. Act better, and we will consider doing the same. For now, feel empowered to work in active defiance of your shitty job. Stop complying. Show up, do the minimum. Give them the quality and frequency of labor that they deserve. Give them that without apology, excuse or buzzword. They are terrified that you are done adhering to the social contract that they have openly broken while giving you the finger, so be done.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go shake my mouse and type and delete a few characters in a slack message to demonstrate a minimum level of engagement for the algorithm tracking my productivity to determine if my employee number is included in the next batch of names recommended for mass layoffs to juice the stock price.

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Watch him for the next 24 hours, today is the anniversary of the Reichstag Fire; the inciting incident of the Holocaust. (lemmy.world)
 

Elmo loves to say the quiet part loud, let's see what today brings... Hope for quiet.

It was the canary in the political coal mine—a flashpoint event when Adolf Hitler played upon public and political fears to consolidate power, setting the stage for the rise of Nazi Germany. Since then, it’s become a powerful political metaphor. Whenever citizens and politicians feel threatened by executive overreach, the “Reichstag Fire” is referenced as a cautionary tale.

This was used as the excuse to fully start what became the Holocaust.

Hitler blamed his perceived enemies for the fire (that he likely had started himself). All of this after he was insufficiently punished for an insurrection/coup attempt called the Beer Hall Putsch.

Let's hope this stays a historical reference with current US admin seig heiling on stage and looking for any excuse to invoke martial law.

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YSK: You should know that TODAY is the anniversary of the Reichstag Fire in Germany (considering the state of the US) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
 

When the German Parliament building was burned down and used as an excuse to fully commence what became the Holocaust.

Hitler blamed his perceived enemies for the fire (that he likely had started himself). All of this after he was insufficiently punished for an insurrection/coup attempt called the Beer Hall Putsch.

Let's hope this stays a historical reference with current US admin seig heiling on stage and looking for any excuse to invoke martial law.

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PayPal owns brands like Venmo, Honey and is heavily integrated into eBay - if you're looking to stop giving your money to bad companies, take a second to search their subsidiary brands as well. (brandsownedby.com)
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Antiwork Community Icon and Banner Images (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
3 comments fedilink
 

We currently have the following lead images for this community:

Icon:

Banner:

With enough heavy things going on in the world today, let's have a focus on something light. I'm opening up discussion for a week or so on if you think these images are representative and should stay or if you think we should change one or both. If you support change, please submit alternative images for either image type and maybe we can throw up a poll at the end to vote.

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Decision: Antiwork will ban links to Twitter/X, allow screenshots (with conditions) - Detail inside (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
4 comments fedilink
 

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.

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Discussion: Banning links to Twitter/X (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
33 comments fedilink
 

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.

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What does this community need/want from a moderator? (lemmy.world)
 

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?

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What's the proper gift for a one month anniversary? (lemmy.world)
 

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.

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In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? (lemmy.world)
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🎶 Friday, I'm in (the near future, around election day) (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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AI are like shitty palm readers/fortune tellers (lemmy.world)
 

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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