I don't know what point the cartoonist was trying to make with this one. But whatever it was.

We Stan the Solidarity Pixie.

(Don't forget to update the shared spreadsheet with everyone's salary and put it under your pillow tonight that you may wake to additional paid sick days.)

It is the workers who generate the economic value and wealth of a country. It's the workers who should own the means of production.

🤔😝

#UnionStrong #LaborDay #HappyLaborDay #labor #labour #union #unions #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong

Capitalism has led to income inequality, exploitation, and environmental destruction. Capitalism isn't working for us.

Just following orders

Essentially, laws exist to safeguard the capitalist class

A reminder the reason it's called "Labor Day" is to pander to the will of the elite. Support workers every day

Capitalism is about competition to see who can exploit workers more

Newly available:

"Only the Old and Sick will Die": reproducing 'eugenic visuality' in covid 19 data visualization

COVID-19 illness and death has disproportionately impacted marginalized groups the world over. In the United States, Black and Indigenous people have endured the largest risk of death. Disabled and chronically ill people have continued to isolate as their peers “return to normal”, bearing sole liability for their own safety in a society that deems their lives not worth the “sacrifice” of public health measures. While public and institutional policy makers bare personal responsibility for “survival of the fittest” approaches to public health, data science and visualization has contributed to and legitimized many of these eugenic policy decisions through design tropes I characterize as ‘eugenic visuality’. In this paper, I explore how inadequacies and obscurities in COVID-19 data visualization have contributed to and sustained public narratives that devalue marginalized lives for the comfort of white-supremacist and capitalist social norms. While I focus on visualizations and statements provided by the CDC, the implications extend beyond any individual or institution to our collective preconceptions and values. Namely, unexamined biases and unquestioned norms are embedded in data science and visualization, constraining how data is represented and interpreted. These assumptions limit how data can be leveraged in the pursuit of just social policy. Therefore, I propose guiding principles for a Just Visuality in data science and representation, supported by the work of disabled activists and scholars of color.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10227111

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373448965_Only_the_Old_and_Sick_Will_Die_-_Reproducing_'Eugenic_Visuality'_in_COVID-19_Data_Visualization

Or find my email.

#COVID19 #CovidIsAirborn #ThePandemicIsNotOver #Eugenics #Metaeugenics

In our judicial system we’re considered innocent until proven guilty.

Trump and his cult have never given anyone that same respect or courtesy.

#LockHimUp

The eyes of the nation will be on Virginia this November. Every House & Senate seat is up for grabs. The stakes? Virginia is the only Southern state that has not curtailed reproductive rights since #SCOTUS overturned Roe rolling back 50 years of legal precedent. Learn more.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford shuffles cabinet after housing minister resigns

#ontario

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-cabinet-shuffle-1.6956641?cmp=rss

The Reaganomics trickle down scam has redistributed $50T from bottom 90% to top 1%.

If the minimum wage increased with inflation & corporate productivity it’d be $26/hr today.

Corporations annually steal $15B from workers and face zero meaningful accountability.

Think about these facts next time you hear an exploitative CEO of a blue collar retail store complain “People just don’t want to work anymore.”
#LaborDay

Now that we're five years into the Ford administration I have to ask:

What has he got right?

Toronto council size fuckery?
HydroOne leadership debacle?
Secret mandates?
Taverner as the head of OPP?
Cancelling LTC inspections?
LTC COVID deaths?
License plates?
Gas pump stickers?
Invoking Notwithstanding?
Underspending despite federal funding?
Teachers strikes?
Nursing burnout?
Abandoning Ottawa to honking?
Expanding for-profit healthcare?
Selling public spaces?
Greenbelt swaps?

What?

#OnPoli

Jesus taught his followers that when they visit people in prison, they are visiting him (Matthew 25:41-46). What is visiting someone in prison but bringing them comfort?

It's strange how some of the worst prisons in the US are to be found in the South, where concern for God's law is voiced most loudly. We "protect" kids from drag queens, but we let prisoners die for lack of air conditioning. #Texas

https://www.tpr.org/government-politics/2023-09-03/a-long-hot-dangerous-summer-for-texas-prisoners

⚠️🇮🇷Russian launched Iranian drones attack Odesa Oblast for 3 hours, air defence responds (more) https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/09/4/7418294/ #Ukraine #Press #News #Russia #Iran #RussiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
#PutinEndTheInvasion

The number of websites blocking OpenAI's GPTBot crawler grew among the top 1000 most visited sites in the world, underscoring challenges in AI's use of copyrighted materials without clear legal or regulatory rules. https://t.co/uerwSbmc2b

“I personally agree with Greta Thunberg that nothing less than the total overthrow of the current capitalist system will save our planet. But for those who still fear even the mildest forms of democratic socialism, here are some historical facts. If you’re an habitual tabloid reader, this is for you.

The longest year-on-year period of economic growth in our nation’s history - 20 straight years! - was achieved following democratic socialist postwar reforms under the Labour government of Clement Attlee. Never mind Scandinavia, such measures were a resounding success right here in the UK.”

Full article:

https://libera.site/item/244517dc-d995-472d-828d-26109a5b913f

#DemocraticSocialism #PostwarConsensus #TabloidNonsense

English edition of a very fun interview discussing surveillance, AI, and why Signal is so important👇

https://schweizermonat.ch/when-ai-systems-are-used-they-are-usually-used-for-surveillance/#