What is Universal Basic Income?
Universal Basic Income is a Plan to ensure that the millions of us whose jobs are permanently lost to “new technology” have sufficient income to “reduce conditions of scarcity, poverty, and financial insecurity”* while the Planners wait for you to die off.
That is all.
You’re welcome.
The traumatic lives of Facebook moderators;
Cognizant received a two-year, $200 million contract from Facebook to do the work, according to a former employee familiar with the matter. But in return for policing the boundaries of free expression on one of the internet’s largest platforms, individual contractors in North America make as little as $28,800 a year. They receive two 15-minute breaks and a 30-minute lunch each day, along with nine minutes per day of “wellness” time that they can use when they feel overwhelmed by the emotional toll of the job. After regular exposure to graphic violence and child exploitation, many workers are subsequently diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and related conditions.
Yet they still manage to summon the strength to censor white bread conservative content. Where’s my violin?
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who they won’t deplatform: If Cusack was anywhere right of Marx, he’d no longer have a Twitter account. Instead, he was given full pardon.
into a hundred million pieces.
Breaking News: Twitter has decided that investigative journalism is in violation of their terms of service – @Project_Veritas has been temporarily suspended from posting for tweeting internal communications from @Pinterest which show them calling @benshapiro a "white supremacist" pic.twitter.com/eJNDWEfanf
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) June 12, 2019
The U.S. government is gearing up to investigate whether Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google misuse their massive market power, sources told Reuters on Monday, setting up what could be an unprecedented, wide-ranging probe of some of the world’s largest companies.
The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, which enforce antitrust laws in the United States, have divided oversight over the four companies, two sources said, with Amazon and Facebook under the watch of the FTC, and Apple and Google under the Justice Department.
With jurisdiction established, the next step is for the two federal agencies to decide if they want to open formal investigations. Results are not likely to be quick. A previous FTC probe of Google took more than two years.
Related: Big Tech Is Big Brother (h/t Jim)
Into a hundred thousand million pieces: Google Should Be Afraid. Very Afraid.
Make an example of them.
Discuss.
The accusations of Huawei stealing trade secrets from across the world are hitting a fever pitch, thanks to a new Wall Street Journal expose that blows open accusations of theft and stealing of trade secrets. The article includes insights from lawsuits, Huawei’s competitors and former employees. Allegations run the gamut against the company: from its business practices, to the science behind its 5G, all the way down to copying the text it used in its user manuals. […]
The United States is finally following in the footsteps of places like Australia and putting pressure on the company out of concern for national security. Just last week, the Trump administration unveiled measures to help cut Huawei off from American suppliers and stop it from doing business in the United States. The administration believes that the company takes its orders directly from Beijing and that its standing as the top telecom company in the world makes it a powerful tool for China’s authoritarian government.
Huawei writes the whole thing off as one big misunderstanding and says that it complies with laws in global markets: “We respect the integrity of intellectual property rights—for our own business, as well as peer, partner and competitor companies,” the company said.
In a hostile, dangerous environment Twitter will not protect you, your privacy, or your family.
In over 400 public seminars on science communication I spoke of Twitter as a necessary component of science communication, encouraging scientists and farmers to use twitter for sharing content and amplifying the work of others. I promoted the use of Twitter as a forum for discussion and debate.
Not any more. Stay away, or be very careful about what you post. The bottom line is that Twitter is now ruled by automated bots that target you, sock puppet accounts that will be dedicated to harming your reputation, and endless legions of trolls that all the blocking and muting will never block or mute. Twitter is the hive of the anonymous slander artist, those that pass out pitchforks and torches and then say, “Go get ‘em.”
Your reputation will suffer if you are a target. If you create positive change, Twitter’s trolls will tarnish it. If you make a mistake, you will pay forever with eternal reposting. It is all about character assassination.
Twitter also allows malicious posting of personal information, like social security numbers and bank account information. This happened to me, and after I lobbied a complaint, they eventually (after hours available) removed my social security number. Right now my bank account number, routing number and home address remain online 36 hours after posting and 24 hours after I first reported it.
That’s because as a pro-biotech ag researcher, Kevin Folta is the “wrong” kind of Twitter user. He should have told them he was transgender.
Ray @BlanchardPhD has his account locked–for tweeting his opinions, based on decades of peer-reviewed research and clinical observation.
"Hateful conduct"? The #WrongThink police at Twitter are on a rampage now. pic.twitter.com/L5Csftc5wv
— 4thWaveNow (@4th_WaveNow) May 12, 2019
“Oh, the irony of a platform owned by RUSSIANS being one of the last sanctuaries of freedom of speech.”
Sounds vaguely familiar.
Well my wife, @Jsoosty has been suspended by @Twitter because she pointed out some basic facts to a silly 19 year old boy. People with penises are male, they can't be lesbians. That's the truth, ban me if you wish, I wouldn't want to stay in any club that threw my darling out.
— Tony Smollett (@tonescotland) May 6, 2019
Part Two.
Twitter sentiment is a styrofoam iceberg. You may think 9/10 of it is underwater, but actually, 9/10 of it is visible.
Sometimes a scandal is not just a scandal, but a biopsy of a society. So it is with the assault on Sir Roger Scruton, who in recent weeks has been smeared in the media, fired by the government and had his life’s work assailed. Scruton is the latest, though far from the first victim of the modern outrage mob. […]
The hit job on Sir Roger can be seen as a classic of the genre: he was sacked within five hours of the Twitter storm breaking. His fate offers a perfect case study in the art of modern character assassination. Except that in this instance, it unravelled and the whole nature of the trick can now be exposed. It is worth examining in some detail.