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Patagonia subtweeting Elon in their latest catalog. I love that for them. #Patagonia #NotMars #SaveOurHomePlanet
In America you have to just violate the law and then keep it out of Delaware:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1254648
RT @SBWorkersUnited
Notably, Judge Rosas’s Decision holds that Schultz himself violated federal labor law when he came to Buffalo in November 2021 to thwart early organizing efforts.
https://twitter.com/SBWorkersUnited/status/1631057949752737792
Starbucks Workers United on Twitter

“Notably, Judge Rosas’s Decision holds that Schultz himself violated federal labor law when he came to Buffalo in November 2021 to thwart early organizing efforts.”

Twitter

Here is your must-read article for the day, a profile of @emilymbender, and her efforts to deflate the ridiculous hype around large language models such as ChatGPT.

It's also about the people who are behind that hype, and about what their way of thinking has the potential to do to us.

It's worth reading all the way to the end.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html

So this is an interesting ruling involving BMS's acquisition of Celgene.
https://www.law360.com/securities/articles/1581458
Bristol-Myers Slips Suit Over $6.4B Investor Payment, For Now - Law360

A Manhattan federal judge Wednesday dismissed a proposed class action alleging Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and its executives intentionally delayed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of a cancer treatment developed by subsidiary Celgene Corp. to avoid making a $6.4 billion payment to investors.

So much sturm und drang about how Laster's decision in McDonald's was revolutionary bc he held that an officer violates his fiduciary duty when he flagrantly breaks the law and ignores his job, but we all knew this was coming:

As most of you know, our library is being sued by 4 corporate publishers who want to stop the Internet Archive from lending books. The date for oral argument has just been set for March 20.

What's at stake? Lia Holland from @team elaborates: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2023-02-23-statement-major-decision-on-libraries-digital-rights-a-step-closer-on-march-20

Statement: Major Decision on Libraries’ Digital Rights A Step Closer on March 20

Judge John G. Koeltl of the Southern District of New York has set March 20, 2023 as the date for oral arguments in four major publishers’ lawsuit against the Internet Archive’s digital library. The following statement can be attributed to Lia Holland (they/she), Campaigns and Communications Director at Fight for the Future: We’re eagerly awaiting […]

Fight for the Future
Surprised they didn't write this headline:
"Where the Asses of Silicon Valley Sat"
The Furniture Hustlers of Silicon Valley https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/technology/office-furniture-tech-companies.html?smid=tw-share
The Furniture Hustlers of Silicon Valley

As tech companies cut costs and move to remote work, their left-behind office furniture has become part of a booming trade.

The New York Times
@ct_bergstrom this sentence stood out:
“The very fact that no sabotage has taken place to date is a disturbing and confirming indication that such action will be taken.”
— General John L. DeWitt, head of the U.S. Army’s Western Defense Command

We all have different things that touch us. For some, it's stories on the printed page. For others, songs or spoken narratives. For yet others, photographs.

You may not know that the US government hired Dorothea Lange to photograph the "relocation effort."

She clearly saw the injustice and human tragedy that was unfolding, and documented it unflinchingly.

Her work was censored, and only in 2006 made broadly available.

Take a moment and see what she saw.

https://anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothea-lange-censored-photographs

Dorothea Lange’s Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps — Anchor Editions

The military seized her photographs, quietly depositing them in the National Archives, where they remained mostly unseen and unpublished until 2006.

Anchor Editions