Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

Have you ever been forced to sign a non-compete agreement? They’re egregious.

These clauses keep workers trapped in their jobs, depriving them of higher wages and better working conditions.

In major news, the FTC proposed a sweeping ban on non-competes. That’s huge.

Greensburg's police chief is a nice guy. His drug business had the courtesy to provide a menu for customers. Kind of like the one at Olive Garden, but with coke and meth instead of breadsticks.

https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/greensburg-police-chief-charged-in-federal-court-with-conspiring-to-distribute-drugs/

#politics #uspol #uspolitics #police #lawenforcement #drugs #drugwar #warondrugs #meth #cocaine #donjr #OliveGarden #news

Now seems like a good time to remind you that the debt ceiling increased three times under Trump. There was no holding the economy hostage. There was no drama at all.

So in revised filings, Tony Devolder AKA George Santos AKA Kitara Ravache now admits those six-figure loans to his campaign DID NOT come from his personal funds after all. Where they came from remains mysterious but the odds that this doesn’t involve some fairly serious illegality seem very slim indeed. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/nyregion/george-santos-loan-campaign-finances.html

"A third laid-off Google employee told Insider that a team midway through an off-site at the Chicago office discovered that two of their team members had been laid off when they were unable to badge into the office with the rest of the group."

Companies act like this to people and then folks get offended that employees don't feel like giving their employers 2-weeks notice and putting themselves at risk anymore.

https://boingboing.net/2023/01/25/some-google-employees-found-they-were-laid-off-only-when-their-badge-didnt-let-them-into-the-office-inhuman.html

@Lunatech @SrRochardBunson @AdmiralFrosty Assume it must be difficult to leave because it usually also means losing your community, friends & maybe even family. Thank you for sharing your experience. Glad you escaped.

Just listened to this & it confirmed what you said about cherry picking from TOT & Revelations to control, and even tied into how we got to MAGA.

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/23/1150775806/revisiting-the-waco-siege-30-years-later

@Lunatech I don't have anything to do with WordPress.com but I would not be surprised if share to mastodon/activitypub arrives eventually. The Jetpack team do keep adding new SM stuff regularly.

@Lunatech @SrRochardBunson @AdmiralFrosty

Basic fact is few (percentage wise) that participate in institutional religion (as "flock") bother to do more than cherry-pick. Granted, that's born of the general laziness of humans, but it's reinforced by the potential terror that can come from questioning, really digging into things and thinking things through.

@AdmiralFrosty

Very interesting. I was raised hardcore Chuch of God. For those not familiar, it is a VERY conservative, #pentecostal and #charismatic denomination REALLY into "the Gifts of the Holy Spirit".

We were there twice on Sunday and at least Wednesday night. I think the part that still sticks with me the most is the #ReligiousTrauma caused by their belief in hell. I legitimately thought that if I was a perfect kid & said a cuss word immediately before getting hit by a bus, that I would suffer and burn in #hell for #eternity.

WTF?!?

Researchers offering $10,000 to show that their solution to the Travelling Salesman Problem is wrong. https://tsplp.research.uconn.edu/computational-challenge/

If it's right, this would show P=NP, which would be...kind of a big deal.

There is loads of talk about #Warp, the terminal replacement. As an iTerm user since forever, I am not getting the fandom behind Warp. Warp is installed and is currently underwhelming me. Open to be educated if anyone cares to try. #terminal #TrySomethingNew

After writing about Utah's laughable "promise" to sue social media for being harmful to kids, I was reminded that 3 weeks ago, Seattle's public schools actually did sue all the big social media platforms claiming they're a "public nuisance." As I write, this is the Seattle school district's admission that they are unfit to be teaching children.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/25/seattle-school-district-files-laughably-stupid-lawsuit-against-basically-every-social-media-company-for-being-a-public-nuisance/

This $200 mini PC features an unannounced Intel Processor N95 Alder Lake-N chip

https://liliputing.com/this-200-mini-pc-features-an-unannounced-intel-processor-n95-alder-lake-n-chip/

#liliputing #MiniPC #AlderLakeN

Politicians should be forced to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers so we can easily identify their corporate sponsors.

So, Utah's AG and governor held a press conference earlier this week to announce they were going to "sue social media" for being harmful to kids. The whole thing is stupid. They haven't even hired lawyers for yet, so they don't even know or care that there's no legal basis (either in the facts or the law) for such a lawsuit: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/25/utah-promises-that-its-going-to-sue-social-media-for-being-bad-for-kids/

Hey everybody, will you please boost this and help my friend @hauntedhideaway find her #librarian peeps on here? 📚

She lost her beloved #Twitter community of fellow #librarians and would like to build a new group here. Help a gal out!

Thanks in advance!!

#library #books #bookstodon

DAILY REMINDER: Today's MAGA GOP is no longer a political party, it's a white nationalist, FASCIST party that seeks to force their religion upon us by law. They are BANNING abortion, books, Black History + more. They must be politically crushed in order to preserve our Republic.

Bitwarden responds to encryption design flaw criticism | The Daily Swig
https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/bitwarden-responds-to-encryption-design-flaw-criticism

Teachers in Florida can choose which guns to have in their classroom but not which books because DeSantis would rather kids die than have their own minds.