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SCOOP: AT&T is suspending all broadband data caps during coronavirus crisis, showing that these are bullshit nonsense caps anyway
SCOOP: Uvalde and Uvalde Police have hired a private law firm to fight against being required to release body camera footage and other records related to school shooting
Files could be 'highly embarrassing,' involve 'emotional/mental distress,' it argues
NEW: It is the position of NYC bus drivers that they will not be used to transport arrested protesters
"It is in solidarity with Minneapolis' bus drivers."
NEW: We have reporting inside Twitter that explains why Jack hasn't "banned the Nazis:" Treating white supremacy like ISIS would mean autobanning some Republican politicians
Would you believe that egg prices are higher because a giant company decided they could make more profit by raising prices and blaming "bird flu" and "inflation" rather than anything to do with bird flu or anything else
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So:
Taxpayers:
- pay for the police
- pay the private lawyers to defend the police when the police are bad
- pay for the private lawyers to prevent the release of public records
- pay for the investigation into the police and any litigation that arises
- pay out any damages
NEW: General Electric workers who normally make jet engines have walked off the job to demand that their factories are converted to make ventilators instead
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MTA union has confirmed this is the official position of all bus drivers in the city:
NEW: Thousands of Amazon workers in 12 countries are protesting on Black Friday, from garment manufacturers and call center employees to warehouse workers all over. Biggest coordinated international labor action thus far
BREAKING: Leaked emails show that USPS headquarters has ordered local post offices to NOT plug back in mail sorting machines
Amazon's message to workers the day after a driver was mauled by a customer's dogs and died:
vice.com/en/article/wxn
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Uvalde says it has received 148 public records requests from the shooting. Letter to Texas Attorney General seems to seek to suppress records relating to all/most/many of them
Major League Baseball’s Korean marketing campaign is incredible
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someone tweeted something smart earlier which is it turns out all the shitty things companies do to consumers are made up and can be easily killed in a crisis
Whole Foods CEO suggests employees who are not sick "donate" their vacation time to employees who are sick:
SCOOP: The U.S. Military is buying user location data harvested from a Muslim prayer app that has been downloaded by 98 million people around the world, is using this type of data for "counterterrorism"
Twitter says it will suspend people who tweet that they hope Trump dies. Facebook will let you wish death upon Trump so long as you do not tag him
Jeffrey Toobin suspended by New Yorker for pulling his dick out on work call, says he did not realize camera was on
BREAKING: Kickstarter employees have become the first major tech company to unionize
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I am not sure what the "penalty" for calling in sick before was but a punitive sick leave policy is definitely what you want at a grocery store
SCOOP: All mail employees are now getting memos telling them not to speak to the press under any circumstances and to be suspicious of any customer who asks "a series of questions"
The Facebook metaverse stream was the most delusional thing I've ever seen from any company or any person in my entire life
Amazon is hiring an intelligence agent to identify union organizers
BREAKING: Robinhood has restricted users from buying GameStop, AMC, BlackBerry, Nokia stock. This is VERY CRAZY, I do not see how RobinHood survives screwing its users like this
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To be clear pornhub just deleted like 60% of all videos on one of the largest porn sites on the internet by flipping a switch
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Over the weekend, a verified account posing as FTX founder SBF posted dozens of copies of this deepfake video offering FTX users "compensation for the loss" in a phishing scam designed to drain their crypto wallets
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currently deciding if i will live on water coast and fire coast
NEW: Amazon has shut down one of its best-organized warehouses and is moving the workers to separate warehouses, where they will be forced to work a "Megacycle" shift, in which workers come in at 1 am and leave at noon
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Whole Foods just published a blog post in response to our article in which it says "We have relaxed our policy to allow Team Members to call out of work due to illness, without penalty."
media.wholefoodsmarket.com/news/how-whole
We've obtained the chats Facebook gave to police in Nebraska to help them prosecute a 17-year-old and her mother for the crime of "abortion," as well as the search warrants and court records used to obtain her chats
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at least three people have DMed me thinking I am the CEO of Whole Foods I am not
Congress is officially considering a national right to repair bill. Exciting! and so overdue
I have spent the last three months immersed in the Pokémon card collecting world and I need to stress that it’s not just “popular again” it’s like, so popular that it is causing labor crises all over America
this exact robot is being used by cops in Hawaii right now to patrol homeless encampments vice.com/en/article/wx5
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Imagine what AI powered machines will be able to do in the next 5-10 years.
Boston Dynamics machines flawlessly and soulfully dancing in rhythm. twitter.com/insta_science/
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I love when my profits go from $50 million to $535 million in one year due to bird flu
Horrifying story out of Oregon. This woman called 911 for domestic violence. Cops showed up, harassed her, and a few days later one returned to her house and raped her. When she demanded justice in front of PD building, *she* was the one who was arrested
Valve says that the microtransaction economy in Counter Strike is being used almost exclusively by organized fraud networks to launder money, lmao
Please stop sharing Medium posts written by people who have no idea what they're talking about. The recklessness of how this research was rolled out is beyond the pale
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The app, called Muslim Pro, collects user location data to tell them what time to pray and which direction Mecca is in. It then sells that data to a company called X-Mode, which sells to U.S. military contractors
SCOOP: Hundreds of workers at *30* different fast food restaurants are going on strike tomorrow to demand Covid-19 protections. Looking more and more like a general strike.
BREAKING: White House website acknowledges climate change is real again vice.com/en/article/qjp
Archivists have pirated more than 5,000 studies about coronaviruses and made them open access: "It's a moral imperative," they said. “A copyright on the health of humanity? Fuck off.”
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I think a key thing to flag here is the view expressed by this twitter employee should not be controversial, but Twitter is so worried about upsetting conservative politicians that it won't publicly touch this argument with a 10-foot pole
NEW: An Amazon VP resigns, calls the company "chickenshit" for firing and disparaging workers who have protested working conditions under Covid-19
this is one of the most interesting pieces i've read in a very long time. Turns out white people do not like when surveillance tech is not biased, and affects them equally, such as with speed cameras
NEW: Software made to let businesses send text messages can take over anyone's phone number with no notifications, allowing anyone to intercept a target's phone numbers and leverage that access to break into other accounts. This is a gigantic flaw
Underappreciated aspect of Twitter exodus is this:
Elon just bought every employee's equity at inflated price of $54/share. He then asked if they want to work "extremely hardcore" or take their large pile of cash + 3 months of pay and leave the shitshow
I filed FOIAs about the Chinese Mystery Seeds with state departments of agriculture in all 50 states. I received thousands of emails, spreadsheets, complaint forms, presentations, voicemails. The takeaway is that MANY Americans planted the seeds
Ring has blamed its users for the spate of hacks over the last week. But our own tests have found that the company doesn't even take the most basic of security precautions. Bottom line: Buying a Ring camera makes you less safe
we have new details about today's Twitter hack. Spoke to one of the people involved in hack, they say a Twitter employee gave access. Sent screenshot of tool being used to hijack
SCOOP: University of California police borrowed military and FBI surveillance tech to monitor a grad student strike at UC Santa Cruz earlier this year, internal documents show
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i don't have any real thought as to what the rule SHOULD be. but, the things people say about the most powerful man in the world should be scrutinized less than, say, the things people say to private citizens, especially women and Black people and queer people on this site
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trump enabled this by relaxing offshore internet drilling laws
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to steal 's idea but do better math:
Jeff Bezos is worth $116,000,000,000. Donating $690,000 is equivalent to someone worth $50,000 donating 29 cents
NEW: Salaat First, an app used by millions of Muslims for prayer times and to determine the direction of Mecca, tracked the precise movements of its users and sold them to a supply chain that was at one point connected to ICE and DHS.
NEW: The USPS is turning off mail sorting machines ahead of the election vice.com/en_us/article/
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Not controversial in that the strategies taken against ISIS were *so* scorched earth and *so* intense that of course a similar approach against white supremacy would piss off Republicans
Tiktok activists are flooding Texas abortion “whistleblower” site with fake data using this very easy to use script you can find here:
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Twitter has done a horrible job of policing death threats and targeted harassment for like, a decade. Its moderation system is more automated than FB or YT and it takes moderation less seriously than them (my opinion, based on talking to the people in charge)
SCOOP: Instacart shoppers are planning a massive, nationwide strike on Monday because of the company's terrible response to coronavirus
so, we just got this in. sources suggesting Facebook is deleted forever. shocking if true
vice.com/en/article/4av
Last time Suez Canal was blocked, 14 ships got stuck for eight years and formed a communist micronation complete with postage stamps and Olympic Games in which a dog won a medal
In 2018, John Deere and other tractor manufacturers promised that, starting Jan 1, 2021, it would make repair tools and diagnostic software easily available to all farmers. It said this made right-to-repair legislation unnecessary. It's 2021. Deere lied.
Beverly Hills Cop-yright: Multiple cops in Beverly Hills have started playing music while citizens are filming them, seemingly in an attempt to trigger Instagram's copyright filters
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as always if you work at Twitter here is my Signal: 347-513-3688. and here is our secure drop. Don't DM.
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email is in direct contradiction with what Postmaster DeJoy said two days ago. this email or an email like it (we saw two versions) seemingly went to every maintenance head around the country
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this is not unreasonable, GE’s Healthcare division is already one of the largest manufacturers of ventilators in the country. It has also lobbied against efforts that would make them easier to repair
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This has been updated with significantly more detail. Toobin was masturbating during a break-out session during an election simulation featuring various New Yorker all stars
Rebekah Jones has claimed that her son was the target of a politically-motivated arrest at the hands of Ron DeSantis. The police report and the evidence suggest that he made multiple credible threats to shoot up his former school:
WHAT A WEEK: Biden executive order will create right-to-repair rules for cell phones and other electronics, NOT JUST TRACTORS. Very good!
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OK, we talked to another hacker. Were able to confirm how they got accounts: Twitter employee used internal tool to change email addresses associated with accounts. Twitter seems to have just confirmed this in tweets as well
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Here's a piece we did in December about Robinhood's business model, which is selling user data to big hedge funds before they execute their users' trades:
NEW: Two men walked into a Trader Joe's in Manhattan, refused to wear a mask and when confronted went ballistic. Bashed in the head of a worker with a wooden cash register oar, pulled hair of an employee, ripped off employees' masks
Hot 97 telling protesters to turn off faceid, use encryption, and turn on airplane mode, you definitely gotta love that
SCOOP: McDonald's has a secret intelligence team, whose tasks include spying on the Fight for $15 and workers involved in the movement advocating for a $15 minimum wage
NEW: and are holding a closed-door meeting to talk about "the health of the public conversation on Twitter," according to internal emails obtained by me and
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we spoke to two hackers and we were able to independently verify they were in control of hijacked accounts today. One of them said they paid the Twitter employee to help them take over accounts; not sure on the specifics here at the moment
yesterday an Amazon job listing for a private investigator to spy on union organizers was "an error." Then we found that Amazon already has a secret, sophisticated program and team dedicated to spying on its workers Facebook posts:
NEW: We obtained an internal police doc about driverless car programs that says they are "recording their surroundings continuously," footage is available to cops, and that it's been used for investigations. Driverless cars are persistent moving spy cams
Our fan page, the New York Times, wrote this more than 48 hours after us and used this headline and didn’t link, which is interesting because our article has been viewed nearly a million times, apparently by no one who works at that website
BREAKING: Raven QA becomes the first major video games union in the United States, unionizing at Activision by a vote of 19-3
I just feel inspired, like anything is possible if you take millions in government subsidies from small towns, abuse your workers, use algorithms to copy and crush competitors, and pay no taxes. But mostly just happy Jeff had a nice time
Breaking: GameStop has told its employees to ignore law enforcement demands to shut down during coronavirus pandemic
People trying to visit Pornhub in Utah are now greeted with a video of a clothed pornstar explaining to them that because of their prudish government they may no longer access the website
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twitter has like 40 euphemisms for suspension and gets mad if you use the term "suspension" colloquially to mean "you cannot tweet anymore because you broke the rules"
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Twitter says it will either delete or make you remove tweets that say you hope Trump dies from COVID and will possibly put your account into "read only" mode for an unspecified amount of time and adds that if you call this a "suspension" it will get mad
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update: "Jeff Toobin has asked for some time off while he deals with a personal issue, which we have granted,” CNN says.
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meanwhile his company is raking in cash helping oil and gas companies
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you should subscribe to THE MAIL, our newsletter about the USPS which is starting early next Monday and will have many interviews with postal workers who are speaking to the press (us) vice.com/themail
SCOOP: Leaked internal document claims Facebook:
- Has no idea how much data it ultimately collects on its users
- Cannot control where all that data goes internally
- Ultimately does not know what happens with it
SCOOP: Tesla makes its self-driving beta testers sign an NDA acknowledging there are "a lot of people that want Tesla to fail" and instructing them to be careful about posting footage to social media that could make the tech and the company look bad
The New York Times's standards editor sent their newsroom a memo telling them to please, for the love of god, link to and credit other outlets:
