c4ss.org/content/31283 to the point. Labor unions are misunderstood today because they have become legalized and hence enmeshed with government. But an association of workers is just that. Especially in an era of monopsony.
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c4ss.org/content/31283 to the point. Labor unions are misunderstood today because they have become legalized and hence enmeshed with government. But an association of workers is just that. Especially in an era of monopsony.
which is like <2% of the anthropocene
My father was an obsessive reader who died a few months before I turned 9. Our best times were taking our library books to read together Sundays.
why is this even a state matter?
Born in Europe in 1974 to a European woman who was seriously damaged by being a 6 yo watching Nazi war crimes and an American father who was an officer in the final push in 1944 in Italy ww2 has been more of the background of my life than other gen xers. Unfortunately nothing now surprises me.
America earlier: "One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police" "White nationalists pervade law enforcement 10,000 family dogs killed by police every year (DOJ: "epidemic") "Police solve just 2% of all major crimes "NYPD Costs $10 Billion a Year "50% of municipal budgets
A very basic test of Trump's justification for sending armed officials into DC (to reduce crime) is whether its residents feel safer or not. They do not. They are not going to public spaces. They are not going to restaurants. They are more afraid of the occupiers than risks from crime.
UFW is the only caller for donations I always give to. However it was sad that a caller from Minnesota for them last month did not know the city name Bakersfield - UFW’s home city and home of Cesar Chavez. I gave anyway because they do feed us.
I decided at 16 to never participate in a 401k or other US gov ‘protected’ retirement account. BC I assumed the US would not exist by my retirement. Social Security not optional - have been contributing since I was 6 as a child actress supporting parents. But this end of humanity cult is different.
Taylor Lorenz's was already warning about this a few days ago! bsky.app/profile/tayl...
“Police” vests on humans rn are no different than “service dog” labels on canine harnesses. Easily bought at big box stores and complete BS.
slate.com/technology/2... I will start worrying about this when Siri stops interpreting my clearly enunciated “going to” as the awful “gonna” and ‘our president’ stops Capitalizing for Fascist Emphasis.
Masked men jumped a San Bernardino family in unmarked cars, opened fire, and shattered their truck windows—all while the family was just coming home from work. The feds later admitted it was CBP, but the family says the agents never showed warrants or IDs.
www.cnn.com/2025/08/15/u... wtf?
that helped, thank you
This is simply confusing to me and I am someone who can usually follow any winding theoretical path. Help me out here?
what I am hearing from experienced devs is we need experienced dev code review of bot code. Overall a time saver but you don’t want my PM vibe coding to be prod with only bot oversight.
"If you look at page 1 of the tariff handbook, it says: Don't tariff inputs. It's the simplest way to make it harder—more expensive—for Americans to do business. Any factory around the world can get the steel, copper, and aluminum it needs without paying a 50% upcharge, except an American factory."
Let’s stop calling the United States of America ‘America.’ The US is a fraction of America.
possibly - Paul is our common connection
I’ve never applied to Amazon. They’ve expressed interest and on their own started doing backchannel on me. One such ‘isn’t she kind of fierce?’ inspired my then ex husband now rehusband Paul Boutin to write and record the song open.spotify.com/track/5bfplX... Thanks Amazon for your norm breaking!
this is almost a Leonard Cohen lyric
The conflation of lawful and ethical is rampant. I obey the law generally because being arrested is inconvenient. I follow my moral compass because of my love for other human beings, even those I do not like. Sometimes that is inconvenient, and so sometimes I fail.
It surprises me that so few educated people understand this. Artificial economies of scale. Econ 101.
this is not how you do Sankey diagrams. L-R, all cohorts on one picture is much more informative.
d’uh. That’s why it’s called the anthropocene era. We started by burning stuff intentionally to shape the world for our benefit around 400,000 years ago.
The word “content” —implying a commodity — is an offensive one to many. If Anthropic were making a public digital archive of the originals before pulping, in addition to the training, I’d be a bit less troubled. Let’s stop here as we are clearly misunderstanding one another. Have a good night.
I have no objection to the training use. You are misreading me.
I kept 1000s of cover slashed books I received in my teens for free from bookstore clerk friends and my job in a library, read them voraciously, then passed them on. From Camus to Vidal. I’m not typical, but also not alone in this.
I did read the article. My point was not about rarity or financial value. Literally every physical book in print is valuable to those who get to read them. And eventually most go out of print. Digitization of entire originals is one thing. Eating them up to train a model is another.
Also the standard library and bookstore ‘pulping’ is just removing covers and those books find their way into the used book community. When young and poor 1000s of coverless paperbacks of great books I got for free were my library. The sort of pulping this seems to be is destructive.
this was the book a.co/d/8EixMWH - I made a special point of including it because of the underrepresentation of women in the standard art dictionaries of the time - a very early lesson for me in curating source data
this isn’t about paper waste, it is about the loss of to be out of print books to a machine that does not preserve them in their original form
We considered fair use, as understood at the time, carefully. Our thesis —backed by our lawyers at Brobeck — was that having human outsourced teams extracting facts but not keeping prose was fine. We were all naïve, including our fancy lawyers. The naïveté was that we were TOO careful!
The most heat we took was from a few artists included in a dictionary of north american women artists - because we were publishing their birth dates online for the first time. Now at an unabashed 51 I empathize, but back then I was a 25 year old reckless founder. Any data was fair game to me.
unlike modern AI LLM training we were after getting just basic facts of dates, names, major works, affiliations out of prose into a schema. Forgive us, it was 1999. Pre wikipedia.
25 years ago as founder of my first startup Artloop people thought I was nuts shipping physical artist dictionaries and auction catalogs to teams in the Philippines and Pakistan for structured entry into our data pipelines to seed a database of art facts. We kept the books intact and resold them.
How many times do I have to remind people that ‘Christian nationalism’ is an oxymoron? Galatians 3:28:“There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.”
I am just out of words and out of ideas. My friends and community are scared to leave their homes and have family in black sites.
States are a recent phenomenon in the anthropocene era. It seems like a good week to remind ourselves of that. Enjoy my chat. chatgpt.com/share/685a09...
“There’s power in a union…”
We have to keep giving kids out of college in all fields internships and first jobs where they will fail and be underproductive and mistaken, encourage them to use AI first — but be skeptical of it, and help them become mid career. Eng, PM, finance, sales, science … or the anthropocene era will end.
that makes sense
the level of supervision and the expertise to do that is what is being overlooked in the popular narrative. Again, not a coder, but close enough watching commits rn to see the truth.
my indirect one degree removed experience is they don’t make substantive comments when they decide ripping out a few thousand lines with necessary variables now hanging is a good idea.
You are exactly right and never before thought of that metaphor. Now it is stuck in my head.
I call that bad vibes coding
I wish they would comment their commits. Also we need CI to look for any wholesale code removal.
not just once and not just me but paul and other team members who are real engineers unlike me
yes but for a new startup where practices like that are just forming it can cost a precious few days.
And it does not account for what I have observed lately which is how easily cursor et al will ad hoc refactor existing code when only asked to make a minor change then requiring hours of debugging or careful rollback. And I am speaking as a ‘vibe coder’ who hasn’t done any real coding for years.
They are certainly not Christian. Galatians 3:28 everyone!
Also need to say - I am so sorry this happened to you, Mr. Takei, and so impressed and inspired by who you became.
It’s happened many times in many forms in the US that we choose to forget. Mexicans and other Central Americans today as regionally native mixed descent are being treated like Franco Americans were a generation or two ago. By more recent NA immigrants! This ‘country’ is based on a lot of ‘othering.’
The US runs on both the incarcerated and undocumented immigrants. It is still a slave society. I’ve given today to this org that helps get the truth out. Will you?
agreed, new friend.
If you knew me at all, we could go all day discussing what happens when people outsource their basic morality and instinct for goodness to ‘law.’ Thanks for engaging and answering a few questions, good night.
authorized use, ‘legal’ use ok. I question the the word ‘legitimate.’
You might be right re this assailant. Or he might have a cousin who underwrites loans or whatever. But the dark web resale is only possible because these data aggregators exist.
Single records are very flawed and affordable to both a dumb underwriter and a go for broke assailant.
Graham Leach Bliley aka GLBA I think you mean. Anyway my point here is so called reputable cos that sell data to businesses have wildly bad algos or don’t care. To have my mother’s home and that of a randomly same name person and their addresses and debt status disclosed to us is unconscionable.
helpful thank you. It does seem the companies in my question buy data and aggregate it into data products they sell. I also happen to have been around the data industry more as a data platform vendor and consultant for decades. Always trying to align shifting concepts.
Provide your definition of data broker vs other kinds of data services and place the services I named in your taxonomy please.
I know.
Help me w LexisNexis, ID Analytics, SageStream et al.
I’ve had 103 robocalls in the last two weeks after a refi app. Underwriters using one of the data cos flagged my estranged mother’s house bought when I was 17 and living on my own 34 yrs ago as a potential debt plus the mortgage of an LA sound engineer whom we knew of bc he shares my husband’s name.
I’d so much prefer my mansplaining to be grammatical @askbillmitchell.bsky.social
The UFW is the only cold fundraising call I always take with pleasure. And gratitude for our delicious local food and the hard work that goes into it. Let’s not bite the hands that literally feed us.
#noflags is the logical conclusion of #nokings. Let us all truly be free and associate individually as we wish.
Admittedly I was in downtown Seattle that day for business. But as an anarchist, when I realized what was happening I ditched my heels and joined the crowd. It, like DC in 2017, required witness.
You hit on some self reflection of my own after 3ish years of consulting.
Were you at the 99 WTO protests? I was. If it tops those today that is something.
let’s not think Newsom is a white knight. He is also a would be king. He’s left people he harmed in the dust.
indentured servitude
I am learning firsthand rn the degree to which generic LLMs are trained to ‘think’ in generic ways, and the degree to which they must be prompted otherwise for anything domain specific.
I forgot that one
indeed. And his anthropology helped us understand that much contemporary representative ‘democracy’ was just simple avoidance.
yes. I am beginning however to think that ‘democracy’ may now be even more distorted as a word than ‘anarchism.’
I understand that POV. But the extension of consensus for what must be shared to the perceived right to dictate in all aspects of life by majority rule backed by force alarms me. My nail salon plays Fox. They had a segment ‘what should be illegal?’ That’s the idea of ‘democracy’ that is popular now.
I fail to understand why tyranny of the majority is thought just or free by anyone.
read Caste. Nazis and Afrikaners considered the Jim Crow US south to be inspirational and aspirational before wwII. And the Deutsche Bund had loyalty from much of SoCal. This is the history we avoid teaching.
was just in another window having this convo w an engineer you know who was with me in early SIEM circa 2003. Why are we writing these regexes? Really, why?
great thread
c4ss.org/content/60390 love it - great work today - exit and voice - from my friend @kevincarson1.bsky.social
www.the74million.org/article/how-...
This is not a remotely liberal organization.
I think it was Computer Ambush in 1984 on a Commodore 64. First and last.
Well if we (humanity) stop producing instant landfill this may be good. (Many layers of meaning intended here please don’t reply stupidly.)
thank you for acknowledging that
that we can agree on but was far from the point of my original post to which you responded. Newsweek’s silly fairness meter interaction can’t conceive of poor reporting along any other lines than consensus mainstream US understanding of left or right.
how you get that from my post is beyond me. as a very public anarchist my issue is the American definition of the only left as a statist one, left/right as the only axis. also here that fairness in reporting has anything to do with political position vs reporting fundamentals.
Newsweek your ‘fairness meter’ is so misconceived and immature I don’t know where to begin. Fairness is not a ‘balance’ of a mythical left and right.
alt text should be automatic and take no poster effort in 2025
great thread. full disclosure - early buoyant advisor and shareholder here. I am no longer actively involved but I think you are saying what no one else of stature is willing to say rn. OSS needs smaller projects w viable single commercial companies behind them and no bottomless vc behind that.
well yes technically it is active. But its legacy is much bigger than current membership.
no resurgence except in my heart — and maybe a few others. My grandfather was a contemporary Swedish immigrant to Joe Hill(strom). UFW most authentic successor to the IWW.
no apologies necessary. public records will show my 4 fig donations were marianne williamson before she went full bernie, hillary clinton and harris. separately I will always give to the ufw when they call. always a wobbly. that does not make me ‘blue’ today nor give every ‘dem’ a right to text me.
this am. reported but more will come. it is as if stripe was also an ad platform.
several a day like this. I have few to screenshot bc I usually report junk which removes them. ACTBLUE! Also tons of calls. Many of the messages are from particular candidates in other jurisdictions too.
