Ex-farm worker here.
We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.
Not true AT ALL.
Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.
The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.
At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
#ImpeachTrump and remove him.
And then #ImpeachVance and remove him too.
"Lobbyist And Government Contractor Bought JD Vance’s Home For $170,000 Over Asking Price"
“We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.” Harvard Library Innovation Lab (via BlueSky)
https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02/06/announcing-data-gov-archive/
https://bsky.app/profile/harvardlil.bsky.social/post/3lhjzh7f54226
Thinking of Aaron Swartz today & I’m stuck on this photo - he & OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (both circled) each scraped 1000s of docs but one did it to make the knowledge free for all while the other did it to make $$$$ through probabilistic plagiarism. The US DOJ only came after one of them & the other is feted by tech bros and executives.
Thank you Aaron for so much, for RSS, for Markdown, for Creative Commons and more. I’m sorry our society failed you.
Next week the world's top scientists will gather in Boston for the #AAASmtg.
In 2017, we held a #StandUpForScience rally at AAAS, which kicked off a year of huge protests organized by the scientific community, which helped fight off censorship and budget cuts.
This week would be a good time for a repeat...
In Vermont we lost our last State Librarian a few years back to run the National Library Service for the Blind. I'm fortunate to have still kept in touch with him at his new job.
Do you work with assistive technology for people who are blind or have print disabilities? Would you consider working for the US government? If so, this union job as an assistive technology specialist is a pretty great one and you'd get to work with him.
<p>The position serves as an Assistive Technology Specialist which is located in the Patron Engagement Section of the Patron and Network Engagement Division in the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled in the Library Collections and Services Group. The position reports directly to the section head. Is an expert in assistive technologies available to blind, visually impaired, physically disabled and reading disabled individuals, focusing on reading and information access. </p>
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