First, you exploit the labor.
Then, the labor unionizes.
Then, you fire the labor.

Meta cuts contractors who reported seeing Ray-Ban Meta users have sex

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/meta-cuts-contractors-who-reported-seeing-ray-ban-meta-users-have-sex/

#Meta #Contractors #Labor #Kenya #Union #RayBans #Tech

#MissKittyPolitics #AI #Research one more for the one more before I catch up. Two solutions. Both take a lot of work and both are doable within a decade for real. Become self-employed. If 50% of the workforce does it, we control numbers. It works. #Contractors win easy on total revenue over #FTEs.

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One of many sources reporting on this analysis of where the #US #taxpayer #dollars were allocated for #2025 tax year. For example:

$4,049 for #weapons and #war, vs. $2,492 for #Medicaid, which provided health insurance to 68.5 million Americans in 2025 β€” about one in five Americans.

β—‹ $1,870 for #Pentagon #contractors, more than twice as much as the $770 the average taxpayer paid for troops’ pay even as many troops rely on food stamps

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/analysis/2026/tax-day-2026/

Tax Day 2026: Taxpayers Are Paying More than $4,000 for War

In 2025, the average taxpayer paid $4,049 and worked 50 days to pay their taxes for war and weapons.

National Priorities Project

Thumbtack brings home services into Anthropic Claude so you can hire pros without leaving the chat

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/04/thumbtack-claude-integration/

I have said that if everyone became #self-employed there would be #no #financial #imbalance. And it's possible to do. If you #unionize that way. You are #self-employed #contractors in a #union. Much more powerful than still having to #negotiate directly with just one #employer. Harder to do even...
An Introduction to CMMC - Negative PID

If you work as a contractor for the United States Government, you must comply with stricter security rules than standard companies. One of these frameworks is

Negative PID

πŸ’Έ Gunzilla Games, the studio behind Off the Grid, is in the middle of a pay scandal: ex-staff and CONTRACTORS report months-long payment delays, some unpaid since September. Victims say requests get ignored or met with postponements while they're expected to keep working.

CEO Vlad Korolev admits trouble but insists it mostly affects external contracts and stems from cash-flow quirks; studio PR (PIONER / GFA GAMES) sums it up...

#SteamAndEpic #GAMES #CONTRACTORS #September #Situation #Gunzilla

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Canadian banks, pension funds gave billions to ICE contractors, data shows
An environmental advocacy group analyzed financial data from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the private financial data firm LSEG.
#Canada #ImmigrationandCustomsEnforcement
https://globalnews.ca/news/11751185/canadian-banks-pension-funds-billions-ice-contractors/