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WORKER-19 (blogwood@union.place)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 22:27:49 JST WORKER-19

‘Wholly Ineffective and Pretty Obviously Racist’: Inside New Orleans’ Struggle With Facial-Recognition Policing https://portside.org/2023-11-01/wholly-ineffective-and-pretty-obviously-racist-inside-new-orleans-struggle-facial
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  ‘Wholly Ineffective and Pretty Obviously Racist’: Inside New Orleans’ Struggle With Facial-Recognition Policing
  
  In the summer of 2022, with a spike in violent crime hitting New Orleans, the city council voted to allow police to use facial-recognition software to track down suspects — a technology that the mayor, police and businesses supported as an effective, fair tool for identifying criminals quickly. A year after the system went online, data show that the results have been almost exactly the opposite.
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WORKER-19 (blogwood@union.place)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 22:51:42 JST WORKER-19

He Died Helping Build Tesla’s Gigafactory. Tesla Didn’t Tell Local Officials. https://www.texasobserver.org/tesla-texas-worker-death-heat/
In conversation Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 22:51:42 JST from union.place permalink
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  He Died Helping Build Tesla’s Gigafactory. Tesla Didn’t Tell Local Officials.
  
  from Gus Bova
  
  Antelmo Ramirez was a dad, grandpa, and husband. His death by hyperthermia is absent from a Tesla report required in a county tax deal.
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WORKER-19 (blogwood@union.place)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 04:41:03 JST WORKER-19

Naomi Klein on Her New Book "Doppelganger" & How Conspiracy Culture Benefits Ruling Elite
http://www.democracynow.org/2023/9/14/naomi_klein_doppelganger
In conversation Friday, 15-Sep-2023 04:41:03 JST from union.place permalink
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  Naomi Klein on Her New Book “Doppelganger” & How Conspiracy Culture Benefits Ruling Elite
  
  We spend the hour with acclaimed journalist and author Naomi Klein, whose new book Doppelganger out this week explores what she calls “the mirror world,” a growing right-wing alternate universe of misinformation and conspiracies that, while identifying real problems, opportunistically exploits them to advance a hateful and divisive agenda. Klein explains her initial motivation for the book was her own alter-ego, the author Naomi Wolf, for whom she has often been mistaken. Both Naomis entered public consciousness in the 1990s with books critiquing corporate influence, but in recent years Wolf has become one of the most prominent vaccine deniers and purveyors of COVID-19 misinformation — making the ongoing confusion about their identities a source of frustration. “It’s very destabilizing,” says Klein, who still urges people to seriously engage with the dangerous ideas propagated in mirror worlds, rather than simply look away. “It’s so hard to look at the reality that we are in right now, with the overlay of endless wars and climate disasters and massive inequality. And so whether we’re making up fantastical conspiracy theories or getting lost in our own reflections, it’s all about not looking at that reality that is only bearable if we get outside our own heads and collectively organize.”
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WORKER-19 (blogwood@union.place)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 05:52:21 JST WORKER-19

If You Can Borrow a Book, Then Why Not a Chainsaw? The Rise of Tool Lending Libraries
https://inthesetimes.com/article/tool-lending-library-alternative-economy
In conversation Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 05:52:21 JST from union.place permalink
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  If You Can Borrow a Book, Then Why Not a Chainsaw? The Rise of Tool Lending Libraries
  
  from @InTheseTimesMag
  
  Spawned in the wake of World War II, tool libraries lend implements and provide practical guidance to community members who can’t afford to own or store their own tools.