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TremblayGilDec 22, 2024
Ben WerdmullerDec 20, 2024
"Return-to-office (RTO) mandates have caused companies to lose some of their best workers, a study tracking over 3 million workers at 54 "high-tech and financial" firms at the S&P 500 index has found." You don't say. #Labor https://werd.io/2024/companies-issuing-rto-mandates-lose-their-best-talent-study
Companies issuing RTO mandates “lose their best talent”: Study

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/12/companies-issuing-rto-mandates-lose-their-best-talent-study/ [Scharon Harding at Ars Technica]From the "gee, you don't say" department: "Return-to-office (RTO) mandates have caused companies to lose some of their best workers, a

Werd I/O
TremblayGilDec 22, 2024
jphillDec 20, 2024

The police work for billionaires.

They’ll attack a strike, they’ll arrest protesters, and they’ll devote themselves to making CEOs feel safe.

Not only do cops defund our cities, they work overtime to stop us from building a better world.

My latest: https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-cops-work-for-jeff-bezos.

The cops work for Jeff Bezos

Not for you or me

New Means
TremblayGilDec 22, 2024
Paris MarxDec 20, 2024

Shopify executives are vocally opposing the Canadian government — and now they’re being openly praised by the Conservative Party leader.

They’re trying to extend Silicon Valley’s right-wing project to Canada — and need to be stopped.

https://disconnect.blog/the-conservative-tech-alliance-is-coming-to-canada/

#tech #canada #cdnpoli #cdntech #shopify #politics

The conservative-tech alliance is coming to Canada

Shopify executives want to emulate the right-wing project of their Silicon Valley peers

Disconnect
TremblayGilNov 15, 2024
Carl BeijerNov 14, 2024
NEW: Trump's win has decisively vindicated leftists who warned about the problems with Biden's economy. https://www.carlbeijer.com/p/election-2024-vindicated-the-marxist
Election 2024 vindicated the Marxist theory of ideology

Trump's victory and popular complaints about the economy were both driven by material conditions.

Carl Beijer
TremblayGilNov 15, 2024
Carl BeijerNov 15, 2024
LOL just found out the subreddit for Jesse Singal's podcast about twitter drama has a special rule where you can't bring up HIS twitter drama
TremblayGilOct 18, 2023
Paris MarxOct 16, 2023

After the Hamas attack, Israel began a campaign that has unleashed immense suffering on Palestinian civilians and will forever change Gaza.

I spoke to Antony Loewenstein about what’s happening in Israel and Palestine, the broader context of this war, and how it benefits Israel’s defense tech industry.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/this-is-not-simply-between-israel

#tech #israel #gaza #palestine

"This is not simply between Israel and Hamas. It's much bigger than that."

An interview with Antony Loewenstein on the Hamas attack, the brutal Israeli response, and the wider context of the conflict

Disconnect
TremblayGilOct 3, 2023
Show threadDr. Lucky Tran Oct 2, 2023

Katalin Karikó won a Nobel Prize for her work on the COVID mRNA vaccines. Yet just 10 years earlier, UPenn kicked her out of academia.

"They told me that they’d had a meeting and concluded that I was not of faculty quality. When I told them I was leaving, they laughed at me and said, ‘BioNTech doesn’t even have a website.'"

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mrna-coronavirus-vaccine-pfizer-biontech

How mRNA went from a scientific backwater to a pandemic crusher

For decades, Katalin Karikó's work into mRNA therapeutics was overlooked by her colleagues. Now it's at the heart of the two leading coronavirus vaccines

WIRED UK
TremblayGilAug 10, 2023
Luke LeBrunAug 8, 2023

Suncor is no longer participating in Canada’s ‘Top 100 Employer Awards’ after criticism over worker deaths, the Globe and Mail’s publisher says.

The ‘Top 100 Employer Awards’ changed its rules to account for workers’ health and safety.

https://pressprogress.ca/suncor-not-participating-in-top-100-employer-awards-after-criticism-over-worker-deaths-globe-and-mail-publisher-says/

Suncor Not Participating in Top 100 Employer Awards After Criticism Over Worker Deaths, Globe and Mail Publish

“There are no shortcuts for health and safety. You've just got to do the heavy work.”

PressProgress
TremblayGilAug 10, 2023
Paris MarxAug 10, 2023

Venture capitalists are parasites that deploy harmful technologies in the name of profit and control. Now they’re fueling AI hype not to improve the world, but to make a quick buck.

On #TechWontSaveUs, Edward Ongweso Jr. outlines why we need to abolish venture capital if we have any hope of creating better technology and actually improving people’s lives.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/13377584-abolish-venture-capital-w-edward-ongweso-jr

#tech #ai #vc #finance

Abolish Venture Capital w/ Edward Ongweso Jr. - Tech Won't Save Us

Paris Marx is joined by Edward Ongweso Jr. to discuss how the venture capital industry works, why the technologies it funds don’t deliver on their marketing promises, and how that’s once again being shown in the hype around AI. Edward Ongweso...

Buzzsprout
TremblayGilAug 5, 2023
Paris MarxAug 5, 2023

Elon Musk says a left-wing political party in South Africa is promoting white genocide for singing apartheid-era song “Kill the Boer.” He’s echoing a far-right conspiracy.

“That Musk weighed in … through the hysteria of [far-right provocateur Benny] Johnson, who erroneously, though tellingly, labeled Malema’s EFF as ‘South Africa’s Black party’, is revealing. The specter of ‘white genocide’ is a long-standing trope among US white nationalists.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/01/musk-south-africa-apartheid-chant-malema/

#elonmusk #tech #racism

Analysis | Elon Musk raises the specter of ‘white genocide’

A far-left South African political party staged a massive rally in Johannesburg, where faction leader Julius Malema belted out an apartheid-era song: “Kill the Boer” — a term for white Afrikaners — “kill the farmer," he intoned. News of the event set U.S. right-wing social media aflame.

The Washington Post