Greg Spradlin @spradlig@social.cleverlibre.org

Company: We provide lots of benefits! Like paid sick leave, healthcare, and a 401k.

Me: Oh- you mean the things the State of California requires you to provide given how large an employer you are?

Raw Story:
'Ratings aren't worth our democracy': Legal experts trash Meet the Press' Trump interview

"Other than the occasional fatal admission, with respect to his criminal cases, there is no public interest in putting this man on television. The lies and distortions are nearly constant. Media who give him a platform are failing the public," said Herman F. Selvin Professor of Law at UC Berkeley Jonah B. Gelbach.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ratings-arent-worth-our-democracy/

#News #Politics #Trump #Democracy #Democrats

Drew Barrymore will not resume production of her talk show after facing an outcry of opposition from striking Hollywood writers and her fellow actors. NBC News has more on her reversal: https://flip.it/VRJwcc
#Entertainment #Culture #DrewBarrymore #HollywoodStrikes #WritersGuildOfAmerica

Wartime Pope Pius XII knew details about the Nazi attempt to exterminate Jews in the Holocaust as early as 1942, according to a letter found in the Vatican archives that conflicts with the Holy See's official position at the time that the information it had was vague and unverified.
https://www.reuters.com/world/letter-shows-pope-pius-xii-probably-knew-about-holocaust-early-2023-09-17/

Landed in Jackson, Wyoming, US. Apx. flt. time 31 min.

Enough already! So tired of these stories about Dem voters wanting a younger candidate. The reality check:
“Any discussion of an alternative is little more than a fantasy, they say, since challenging Mr. Biden would not only appear disloyal but would also most likely fail — and potentially weaken the president’s general-election standing.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/17/us/politics/biden-democrats-voter-concerns.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

I find it fascinating that the sorts of intellectual elites who used to talk about how terrible Facebook is for democracy over content moderation policies and how they’d never use it again are on Twitter/X day in & day out where far more deplorable things happen every day.

https://theconnector.substack.com/p/finishing-with-twitterx

On the heels of strikes leading to pilots & UPS workers winning significant pay raises and WGA/SAG still on strike to do the same, for the first time in 88 years, auto workers across all big 3 US automakers are on strike.

Their demands include a 40% pay raise, 4 day work weeks and the return of pensions.

The trend of workers fighting back after decades of shareholders eating first is accelerating.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-gm-stellantis-uaw-workers-indefinite-strike-2023-9?trk=storyline-feed_main-feed-storyline-activity-card_feed-article-content

As Florida reports more new #COVID19 hospitalizations than any other state, #GOP sociopath #RonDeSantis demands more sickness and death as surely as if he wrapped his cold, creepy hands around the throats of his constituents and started squeezing. https://wapo.st/3LltbuZ

If websites were honest.

Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/

Workers: DO NOT OVERWORK YOURSELF to avoid getting laid off.

- You’re damaging your life and health.
- Your employer doesn’t actually notice (no, really, they don’t.)
- Your behavior enables future mismanagement of resources.
- When layoffs come, you’re gonna get laid off anyway.

Remember that a company’s job is to extract maximum work from you for minimum pay, so your job is to extract maximum pay for minimum work. Somewhere in the middle, both parties find an equilibrium that they agree on. Do not voluntarily modify your side of the bargain to your detriment.

#FridayDevAdvice

Why is everyone talking about the fediverse? Mashable's Christianna Silva explains the reason behind Meta's interest, the future of social media and how that will change the way online creators reach their audiences.

https://flip.it/uLc6Sx

#Fediverse #Threads #Mastodon

To disable Google Chrome's "advanced" ad tracking, why not give Firefox a try?

#mtbos anybody remember how to find the nifty @geogebra animation of the positive/negative number line showing it as a mirror image by radiating the number line 'round?

AI is the cryptocurrency of education.

For people who for some reason still want to use Chrome:
Settings > Privacy >Ad privacy, then just toggle everything off.

For anyone unaware, Google Chrome is currently rolling out an update that track your interests based on browsing history, then share them with 3rd party websites. The notification page makes it sound like they added a new privacy feature, but in actuality they've automatically enrolled you into their tracking system and you have to go and manually opt out.

How “the richest man in the world who holds a commanding position in near-earth-orbit space delivery, electronic cars and global communications spent the weekend churning up hate against Jews as the source of his financial losses.”

Josh Marshall and TPM

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/newsletter/vol-2-no-67-elon-musks-excellent-adventure-with-anti-semites-over-labor-day-weekend