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Augie Ray (@augieray@mastodon.social) (Mastodon)
Business leaders: We can't find enough workers! Workers: You could pay more. Business: Nope. Workers: Better benefits? Business: No. Workers: More flexible hours? Business: No way. Workers: Treat your current employees better to build your employer brand? Business: Never. Workers: Well, what's left?! Business: Child labor! https://apnews.com/article/iowa-governor-child-labor-laws-e8cb29e2a45b956489c4a192b7ddeba5
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AnarchoNinaWrites (@AnarchoNinaWrites@mastodon.social) (Mastodon)
"We invented a machine that thinks!" "It's not thinking..." "Technically true, but it can CREATE new content out of thin air." "It steals everything it spits out by scraping the internet..." "Okay, got me there, but think of the information access; now everyone with a phone has their own research assistant and the Library of Alexandria!" "The machine spits out wrong answers; like every time." "Look, fuck you, we own everything and you're buying it." #WeLiveInASociety #HowIBecameTheJoker
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Conservatives are making Pride merch 'toxic.' Their real goal is much worse. by Dean ObeidallahDean Obeidallah
Target announced earlier this week that the company was removing some LGBTQ-themed items from shelves and moving displays intended to honor Pride month to the back of the store in response to a public backlash from the right. But what happened at Target goes far beyond just some people calling for a boycott.
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In reply to @babumenos.

@babumenos @_L1vY_ You two will want two incredibly useful plugins to get the complete classic experience back: Classic Editor and Classic Widgets. These are lightweight and get updated regularly. I'm recommending them as someone who will use the classic editor until I can't use it anymore and then will go headless in order to avoid the block editor and associated things like full site editing.

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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (@rysiek@mstdn.social) (Mastodon 🐘)
> (...) Bluesky, the invitation-only Twitter lookalike that launched in beta just a few weeks ago. It’s a corporate product, a comfortable, ready-built house made of sticks, founded by the libertarian weirdo Jack Dorsey, that emerged right on cue to deliver a glossy, brainlessly Twitter-like experience to people, in and out of media, who’ve grown way too accustomed to Having it All, only to realize way too late how they’re the ones who’ve been had.
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‘Succession’ and the Future of Social Media by Maria Bustillos

Succession, the popular HBO soap opera about a family of hideous media moguls, will come to a close this weekend. It’s a supremely glossy and expensively-made TV show about supremely glossy and expensively-made TV. The in-your-face self-referentiality distinguishes Succession from shows like The Sopranos and The Wire, earlier “prestige” classics that likewise reflected—and shaped—the zeitgeist. […]