Liberals claimed that Trump's mass deportations would lead to food shortages and skyrocketing food costs. Probably will. But there's more to it than simply following through on a fascist campaign pledge. Gives them cover for stripping away child labor laws, paving the way for an escalation of injuries, deaths, and exploitation of children, as more and more corporate farmers demand child laborers to replace the immigrants they've lost to deportation.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/child-labor-laws-florida-immigration-desantis-b2721384.html

#workingclass #immigration #childlabor #exploitation #fascism #MAGA #trump #inflation

Today in Labor History March 11, 1811: Luddites attacked looms near Nottingham, England, because automation was threatening their jobs. At the time, workers were suffering from high unemployment, declining wages, an “endless” war with France and food scarcity. On March 11, they smashed machines in Nottingham and demonstrated for job security and higher wages. The protests and property destruction spread across a 70-mile area of England, reaching Manchester. The government sent troops to protect the factories and made machine-breaking punishable by death.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #luddites #automation #unemployment #england #wages #war #technology #vandalism

How uplifting seeing the name Aaron Swartz in my feed so much lately & then this article, filled with the names of wonderful organizations such as: Internet Archive, Electronic Frontier Foundation, & Creative Commons popped into my feed today! Keep the ball rolling! Opt-out of the surveillance capitalist culture war for-profit cesspool. Choose #OpenSource, #FOSS, #OpenAccess #GNU #FSF, #NoAI, NoLLM, #Linux #NetNeutrality (HT: @atoponce for this!) https://sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/aaron-swartz-marble-statue-unveiled-internet-archive/

#PDFTribute #AaronSwartz

Discussions with a friend tonight, and I reminded them that, historically, the most effective defense against the current chaos in America that the average, exhausted citizen can take is:

Don't.

Don't inform on your neighbors. You didn't see anything, you don't know anything.

Don't show off how much smarter than them you are; play dumb. I'm sorry, what was it you wanted me to do? I don't understand, can you explain it to me again? Is that legal?

Hello, yes, I am still here <3
Know it's been a minute, but I apparently needed a deep social media break. Likely wont be posting as much as usual. Just wanted to let everyone know that we're doing well, as well as can be at any rate given everything, and that we're alive.

"This is beyond politics—this is a matter of national security. Foreign national intelligence organizations will be quick to take advantage of both the chaos and the new insecurities to steal U.S. data and install backdoors to allow for future access."

DOGE Is Hacking America
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/11/doge-cyberattack-united-states-treasury/

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#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 27 - If Hollywood wanted to adapt one of your books but change almost everything, would you do it?

No.

Not everything that works in a book works in a film, so I would be okay with plot adjustments that served the new medium. But I would not let somebody write a whole different story and wrap the trappings of mine around it. At that point, they would really just be using the popularity of my work to advertise theirs.

I don’t care what you celebrate this holiday season, whether Happy Honda Days, Toyotathon, Ford Built for the Holidays, or the Chevy Red Tag event, we are all in it together and I wish you all the very best.

I have some small adjustments to make before I release the model, but I'm pretty happy with how this display case came out! #3dPrinting

Wearing A Salmon On Your Head Is Back In Fashion For Orcas, After A 37-Year Break

https://www.iflscience.com/wearing-a-salmon-on-your-head-is-back-in-fashion-for-orcas-after-a-37-year-break-76971

Today in Labor History November 23, 1903: Army troops were sent to Cripple Creek, Colorado to put down a rebellion by striking coal miners. 600 union members were thrown into a military bullpen, and held for weeks without charges. When a lawyer arrived with a writ of habeas corpus, General Bell, who led the repression, responded "Habeas corpus, hell! We'll give 'em post mortems!” The Pinkertons were heavily involved in the Colorado Labor Wars, as agent provocateurs, spies, and armed thugs operating for the mine owners. The strike was led by Big Bill Haywood and the Western Federation of Miners, which, at the time, was one of the most militant unions in the country, calling for revolution and abolition of the wage system. A year and a half later, Haywood would go on to cofound the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), along with Mother Jones, Lucy Parsons, Eugene Debs, James Connolly, Ralph Chaplin, and others.

You can read my full-length article on the Western Federation of Miners here:
https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2021/05/13/the-western-federation-of-miners/

You can read my full-length article on the Pinkertons here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/04/union-busting-by-the-pinkertons/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #mining #coal #union #strike #freespeech #freepress #revolution #prison #police #policebrutality #rebellion #colorado #cripplecreek

The Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) is an open-source, earthship-inspired design using reclaimed materials to create 47 living units and 14 common areas. It includes spaces for dining, socializing, art, music, yoga, and more. All designs and construction methods will be shared for global use and sustainability.

https://www.onecommunityglobal.org/recycled-materials-village/

#RecycledMaterials #Sustainability #EcoLiving #OpenSource #GreenBuilding #EarthshipDesign #ReclaimedMaterials #SelfSufficientCommunities

@mitchw

#AltText

So anyway, I had this idea that everyone, particularly young people, should learn what is taught in law school.

I also had the idea that the way it is taught to young people is boring.

It wasn't until law school that I realized how interesting this stuff is.

The result ⤵️

1/There is nothing more embarrassing than watching hordes of liberals willingly herd themselves into a pen funded by Russian capital. Blue sky’s principal funder Blockchain Capital LLC is run in part by Kirill Dorofeev, who also works for VK, Russia’s state social network.

How will climate change in your region?

The C3S Atlas allows you to explore and analyse past and future climate monitoring and change information in a flexible way.

It facilitates global and regional in-depth assessment of past trends and future changes in key variables and (extreme) indices for different periods across emission scenarios or for different policy-relevant global warming levels.

Read about the new features of the C3S Atlas in the latest ECMWF newsletter: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/newsletter/181/earth-system-science/copernicus-interactive-climate-atlas-tool-explore-regional

From all I’ve read over the last few days, the consensus seems to be:

- #Bluesky have got a lot of the UX right, but there are still a lot to do on the infrastructure side to create a truly decentralized social media.
- #Mastodon / #Fediverse have come further in terms of building the underlying, decentralized infra, but are lagging behind when it comes to UX.

From what I’ve learned over the years, neither UX or infra are easy to fix down the road. But infra somewhat harder than UX.

Huge study of 18 million births from US found the proportion of babies born with a congenital heart abnormality increased by 16% after the first year of the Covid pandemic.

Source: https://www.news-medical.net/news/20241115/Pandemic-linked-to-1625-rise-in-babies-born-with-heart-defects.aspx

Study: https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/uog.29126

@auscovid19