I’m very pro-restorative justice when it comes to theft… except wage theft. Sell a fucking kidney, turn tricks, I don’t fucking care. Get me my fucking money.
Restaurant owners in my city just fucking love wage theft. It’s crazy because if someone owed me 2 paychecks, I would be up their ass until they paid me. If they owed me + their entire staff 2 paychecks? There would be hostages.
When there are stupid arguments on Tumblr where everyone is just absolutely screaming out their asses… you can just not. Like, you don’t have to do any of it at all.
The weirdness of internet arguments where people will fight over who’s right, with both basically just citing their own expertise which amounts to… being a longtime blogger?
“Bob knows nothing about topic! All he’s got is, pfft, his podcast!? I have over 5 self-published books!”
the anthony bourdain documentary ai thing raises some great ethical questions about the future of the digital age and what it means to be dead but still have a version of you exist afterward that you had little to no impact on but may very well be your legacy
yeah they just used him to say his own words but they could’ve gotten him to say “i love henry kissenger”. it’s just the same deepfaking debate but with a macabre undertone because the faked can’t defend themselves because they’re dead
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
“a dead man’s voice speaking his own words of despair is hardly the most dystopian application” it’s pretty damn close dude!
What gets to me is the filmmaker is deliberately obscuring which words are recordings of Bourdain and which are AI generated. I’d be less worried if there were a “AI reconstruction” subtitle on screen, but the fact that Neville is actively distorting what’s real in a documentary is a genuine iasue.
“distorting what’s real in a documentary” oh no nobody has ever done that before :/
Uhm, as someone who watched What the Bleep Do We Know two and a half times and definitely understood it…
If you can’t donate, reblog. Spread the word because this story isn’t the only one like this and it is disproportionately happening to POC.
Landlords have bills to pay as well, but they should be standing shoulder to shoulder with their tenets against the larger power. The banks are the problem and the government is backing them up instead of having the backs of the citizens that vote them into power.
Hey folks.
If you are in a situation like this, you have got to call your city. You have got to call Legal Aid. If you live in NYC, you have got to call 311/HPD.
You as a tenant have rights. You may have legal recourse even if you don’t think you do or owe back rent. Some cities have emergency housing/rental assistance funds. Your city has an interest in preventing you from becoming homeless. Your landlord is legally obligated to maintain certain living conditions. And I only really know NYC well in this regard…and I know it well in this regard…but the city will help enforce those requirements. You have to be diligent, you have to keep on top of it, but they will.
I know calling on city bureaucracy can feel onerous or useless, but like.
Please don’t let things get critical before you let someone with the power to help know what’s going on.
I feel like back when I was young (c. 56 million years ago) skepticism wrt consumer culture and especially shopping as a purported form of activism was much more robust. I don’t know what’s happened exactly since to create our current environment in which it seems a go-to, nigh Pavlovian response to issues is, “What can I buy to help?” Strikes are treated as advertising opportunities. Here’s How to Shop During This Protest Action. It’s, uh, fucked up. Everybody is constantly issuing (unpaid!) product recommendations, and whenever possible—whenever a convenient event occurs—framing it as some kind of activism or solidarity or whatever. It isn’t. There are situations that necessitate an implicated category of purchase, of course, and one should always avoid going against immediate labor concerns at a bare minimum. “No ethical consumption” doesn’t mean all consumption is equally unethical, et cetera. But often there’s no need to make any purchase! Were you already definitely going to buy a bag of chips when an ad for Frito-Lay alternatives crossed your dash, or were you influenced?
I know I’ve posted about it before, but a local (white) business owner got 1mil in PPP loans, then fired almost all of her staff and closed for 2 weeks to go on a vacation. She has said publicly that the staff had to be fired because they were all white supremacists, which… damn, woman, how the fuck did you hire ENTIRELY white supremacists? If that were true, it kinda seems like it would be on you.
I remember an interview with an old SNL cast member where they asked him why he didn’t come out until after he left the show. He was like “I came out years before I was on the show. It wasn’t a secret while I was in in the cast, but I was a nobody and I never got asked about it.”
