“Independent contractors” have been used as a dodge for some employers for decades. It’s uncertain hours, no health insurance, no benefits, and the off chance they will be terminated for a little or no reason.
If you think society can be cohesive on gig working then you're living in the wrong century, as well as the wrong millennium.
Good step from the Biden administration.
New Biden rule on gig workers: What to know:
https://qz.com/gig-worker-rules-biden-department-of-labor-1851152373
#substack, by first refusing to ban nazis under the guise of being a "free speech" platform, and then turning around and saying "actually we'll ban some of the nazis", has taken the route that will piss off the most people possible
good work, boys
“The clearest example of plagiarism: uncredited ghostwriters, but we all accept that for some reason.” @Atrios https://www.eschatonblog.com/2024/01/plagiarism-feeding-frenzy.html
This is a very good response by OpenAI to the NYT lawsuit.
“men are hitting on my scheduling bot because it has a woman’s name — Ask a Manager”
"I will personally pay you thousands of dollars if changing the bot’s name to Wayne doesn’t put an immediate end to this." https://www.askamanager.org/2024/01/men-are-hitting-on-my-scheduling-bot-because-it-has-a-womans-name.html
“Needless to say this is not what happened. Rather than repudiate the attempted coup – which seemed barely possible until some point on January 8th – the party embraced it, validated it, pursued a consistent policy of protecting the reputation and freedom of those who carried it out. It is true enough that a bare majority of elected Republicans won’t explicitly excuse the behavior of the individual insurrectionists who committed discrete crimes of assault, vandalism and trespass on January 6th. But shock troops are always expendable. The coup attempt itself – the criminal effort to remain in power after clearly losing a free and fair election – the institutional Republican party has defended on every front. The vanishingly small number of elected Republicans who denounced this crime are easily identified by the fact that they have all been driven out of the party. ”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-january-6th-is-more-important-now-than-its-ever-been
This isn't Minority Report. The government cannot preemptively make human beings incapable of murder.
There are a lot of solid arguments against gun laws in America, but "we allow mass murderers to commit mass murder for freedom" is wildly disingenuous and does nothing but hurt the gun-control cause.
COVID killed over a million Americans, it revealed the wanton ignorance of half our countrymen, it exacerbated the cracks in our medical system, and it fueled a raging culture war.
But now it's also making science say exercise is bad for you.
Soooooo....
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
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