So, funny story: remember how that Stanford professor described last years' layoffs as a "social contagion" exercise, where CEOs were just doing it because everyone else was doing it?
https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/
Well everyone get your surprised face ready but it was in fact a coordinated effort by execs, large shareholders and hedge funds to cover up mismanagement and suppress wages:
Did I say funny, I meant awful, typo sorry those keys are right next to each other.
As layoffs in the tech sector mount, Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer is worried. Research – by him, and others – has shown that the stress layoffs create takes a devastating toll on behavioral and physical health and increases mortality and morbidity substantially. Layoffs literally kill people, he said.
I am tired but excited. We are starting to record the second season/run of Vigilantes Union Local 13. I am looking forward to the team-up episodes.
It's just a blast when everything is going right.
Look for the last two issues of run 1. Out tomorrow and next week.
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I'm unlikely to get pregnant but I have ZERO presence on Meta/Facebook/Instagram/Threads as a matter of principle.
Just have to quickly finish a newsletter on the way being dismissed as "activists" robs trans people of dignity and then I see the New York Times has a column by Pamela Paul titled... *checks notes* "In Defense of J. K. Rowling" so.... OK... my morning is....
OH MY FUCKING GOD IT NEVER ENDS
If we don't stop the state sanctioned social violence it becomes state sanctioned physical violence. History teaches us that this is the pattern. We can trace it back millennia.
We are supposed to be better than those who came before us. That's what we are taught. Yet we only repeat the same patterns. Over and over and over.
I feel a little sad that we can have the conversation and multiple videos on the topic yet no one really learns to end the violence.