Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

“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

“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

Some people have seemed confused about what my Low Quality Facts account is, so I made this graph to help you all understand it.

The downside to using mirrors in telescopes is that we'll never see the space vampires coming.

haven’t told anyone to “just fucking google it” in a while

i haven’t suddenly become a better person, it’s just google doesn’t really work any more

If the Libertarian Party is going to be working in an official capacity to try to get Trump on the ballot in Colorado (which seems to be the case based on what I can deduce of Angela’s position on this), that is… a choice

“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

What do you think is a subject that most people misunderstand, and if they were more educated in the topic it would probably change their mind?

Sorry, can't. I'm busy torturing myself over a decision I made when I was twelve.

Sasquatch: *to tv camera* Tonight we will try a human call and hope for a response. *clears throat* 🎵Sweet Caroline🎵

From a distance: 🎵Bah bah bah🎵

Sasquatch: You heard that! It was a human!

Camera Sasquatch: I don't know. Could be a bird.