“I remember when going online took effort, and I remember, too, when that effort evaporated….the internet stopped being somewhere you went and became something you lived inside.”
“I like to keep an eye on all my workers so no one gets a break,” said drag performer Jeff Bozos, imitating the Amazon founder of a similar name. Their partner-in-crime and fellow performer, Pay My Bills Gates, shuddered with joy.”
"the bill would reduce monthly fruit and vegetable benefits from $52 to $13 for breastfeeding mothers and from $26 to $10 for young children."
I want to say one thing about this. This has been the hiring process for low wage workers for awhile. Wal Mart et al have been using automated job application systems to gamify everything from postings to schedules. The crisis, such that it is, is that it is now happening in middle skills jobs.
“Had Jason or the other occupants of the laundry room been able to freely exit the room, or otherwise summon assistance, emergency personnel could have been alerted sooner and provided lifesaving care earlier,” the lawsuit asserts.
private equity firms ownership of 46,700 Triangle apartments is “among the highest concentrations in the country—a level of institutional control that’s reshaping what it means to rent here. It also coincides with the region’s biggest landlords facing accusations of colluding to push rents higher.”
This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center
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For @indyweek.bsky.social, Nate Dixon, NC writer of a recent short story collection satirizing the Tea Party, drove out to New Bern to interview Ben Fountain, NC author of satirical political novel “Rasputin Swims the Potomac.“
and from last year, here’s my feature on Nate’s indefatigable collection
In the character Rasputin, Ben Fountain imagines a challenger for our current president—whose all-too-familiar name, it bears mentioning, is completely redacted from the text.
(“Less for legal reasons,” he explained, “than that I was simply tired of seeing it.”)
The lawsuit says Jason Pulliam died of heart failure after he became trapped in the laundry room of his mother's downtown apartment building.
"AI has Tinderized hiring. Workers are applying to hundreds of positions & never hearing back; companies are receiving thousands of resumes & struggling to respond. More than that, AI has Amazoned hiring. It has scrubbed the uniqueness out of applications..."
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House Republicans joined by 4 Democrats vote to literally take food away from pregnant women and children
'Rasputin Swims the Potomac,' North Carolina writer Ben Fountain's fifth book, is a biting political satire that releases in June.
After a satirical drag skit about tech billionaires, a crowd filed into a Wednesday hearing to speak against the utility's proposed rate hikes and the rise of data centers.
Maybe flawed people were better than brute algorithms.
Millions of WIC recipients would have less money for fruits and vegetables under the legislation, which funds the Agriculture Department and other agencies.
