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Union wants to halt a "perpetual cycle" of layoffs, get back to contract bargaining.

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Mass layoffs, AI anxiety, and corporate surveillance have heightened interest in unions among IT professionals. Organizers who've been through it explain how to get started — and what to expect.

[-] squirrel 2 points 1 day ago

I have no legal knowledge here, but whatever legal consequences there may be, one of the goals is certainly to ruin the org financially through never-ending lawfare.

[-] squirrel 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's that and it is also a "divide and conquer" strategy that is aimed squarely at the rights of all women. The Heritage Foundation makes this abundantly clear by going after all women's sports now.

[-] squirrel 82 points 2 days ago

I will just leave this article from 5 days ago here:

Ubisoft Barcelona Celebrates Successful Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Launch With Layoffs

Despite Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced being considered a successful launch by Ubisoft, 51 employees at Ubisoft Barcelona, many of whom worked on the game, will be celebrating its launch by seeking new employment.

Announced on June 10, 51 employees at Ubisoft Barcelona face layoffs, with those who spoke to Insider Gaming saying the layoffs felt premeditated and were going to happen no matter how successful Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced was.

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The Trump administration has deployed the Federal Trade Commission in unprecedented ways against WPATH, the professional organization that oversees care standards for trans medicine. WPATH sued the FTC in January, over subpoenas it had issued against them. In their suit, WPATH asserts that the FTC’s actions were retaliatory and infringed on their right to free ... Read more

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History and the "Odyssey" (kiwihellenist.blogspot.com)
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The Odyssey is not set in the Bronze Age. It is totally flooded with classical-era motifs, with a smattering of archaic touches.

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Photo by Hermionecl

The domain consists of no less than two castles and vast parkland surrounding both. The older "lower castle" has its origins in the 11 or 12th century, but the original buildings were replaced by fortified ones in the 14th century, during the War of Hundred Years. The old castle lots its relevancy and some of its buildings were removed with the construction of the "upper castle" in the 18th century. Today the castle and the grounds are part of a State Park, after extensive renovations of the buildings and the gardens.

A view of the upper castle of Villarceaux, a 18th century building on a hill overlooking a lake

The upper castle (photo by Clicsouris)

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This is not an accurate summary of the video.

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Everywhere Republicans go - grindr crashes. Or at least, that's what people tell me...

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GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, released the findings of its annual Where We Are in Film (WWAF) study, which examines films released from January 1 – December 31, 2025.

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An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”

Archived version here: https://archive.is/fEVKk

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Ubisoft Barcelona faces cuts at the end of July

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The paper of record continues to diverge from other news organizations in its coverage of the transgender community.

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The castle traces its origins back to the late medieval 14th century. It was redesigned from 1535-1569 in order to become a more prestigious residence in line with the latest style. Fortifications and adjacent buildings were removed in this era. Further renovations were made in the 17th century, but mostly concerned the outside and the surrounding grounds, while the main building retained its Renaissance style.

The castle changed hands many times and was abandoned several times in its history. It served as an orphanage in the 19th century, but it is once again abandoned in the mid 20th century. Due to its poor state the Départment of Corrèze takes possession of it and its ground, repairs the damages. Due to the involvement of Bernadette Chirac, the wife of then prime minister, the castle becomes well-known and its image is used on a French stamp.

Today it serves as an event and exhibition space, as well as offices for the administration of the surrounding public land.

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Hello! Eurogamer's week of features celebrating the intersection of queer culture and gaming continues today as Kaan Se…

[-] squirrel 153 points 11 months ago

I remember when Microsoft first attempted to prevent the standardisation of Open Document Format (used by LibreOffice and others) and then bullied its way into getting approval for own OOXML standard. Already back then, supporters of FOSS warned that Microsoft would use the overly complicated OOXML to maintain its stranglehold on users of Office-like software.:

Whenever applicable and possible, standards should build upon previous standardisation efforts and not depend on proprietary, vendor-specific technologies. Albeit, MS-OOXML neglects various standards and uses its own vendor-specific formats instead. This puts a substantial burden on all vendors to fully implement MS-OOXML. It seems questionable how any third party could ever implement them equally well, especially when a standard comes with 6000 pages of specifications without serving its minimalistic purpose.

[-] squirrel 190 points 11 months ago

It all makes sense if you assume that everything Musk does is intended to impress a 4chan nazi circa 2012.

[-] squirrel 197 points 1 year ago

Dictionaries are - by definition - descriptive. It is not their duty to judge what goes into them. They merely collected terms used by people and explain what they mean.

Demanding to remove information from a dictionary, because you do not like what it expresses or the people who use those terms, is the very definition of censorship.

[-] squirrel 155 points 1 year ago

Consider this headline from Bloomberg in this context:

About 90% of Migrants Deported to El Salvador Had No US Criminal Record

[-] squirrel 179 points 1 year ago

The problem is that it's not a question of intelligence.

Trumpists and their ilk are living in echo chambers of "alternative facts", perpetuated by Fox News, Murdoch newspapers and an nearly endless amount of rightwing influencers (starting with Rogan at the top). They are not looking at what's happening, because they are surrounded in a very comforting bubble of disinfo and propaganda that confirms everything they wanted to hear: The illegals get deported, the queers get finally put in their place, the liberals are frothing with anger, finally men are back in charge who tell women where they belong and America is going to be "great" again any moment now.

It's fascism and fascism has always been a "cult": The early pioneers of fascism (particularly D'Annunzio and later Mussolini) explicitly said their aim was to create a "secular religion" around the nation, the people and the leader. And you can only be a member of that religion if you accept its "truth" and reject everything that contradicts it.

Very smart people can adhere to a religion for a variety of reasons and the most obvious one is (and always has been) because it promises them power over others.

[-] squirrel 168 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is a prime example of why patriarchy is hurting men too, because what this guy is saying boils down to:

  • We can make them work at any hour of the day because who cares if these guys have any life outside work?
  • We don't have to do any work management, we just call those guys
  • We can send them wherever, whenever
  • We can create a toxic work environment and it's okay to treat guys like shit
  • And those guys don't even complain because they need this job so bad
    Isn't it great?

The statement about "workplace laws" is so telling: Yeah, who cares about treating men with respect and dignity!?
It's not just about discriminating against women, it's also about mistreating men. That's what patriarchy is at its core: Pit men and women against each other and then reap the benefits. It's a "divide and conquer strategy".

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