Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

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“An MIT Technology Review investigation last April found that self-driving companies, including Tesla, took advantage of the collapse of Venezuela's economy by getting workers in the country to label self-driving data for an average of just over 90 cents an hour.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-ai-will-not-take-jobs-create-future-work-opportunities-2023-2

My kid is in a club at school, and they meet 4x a week for 4 hours. So all the parents chip in and stock a "snack cabinet" (granola bars, juice boxes, etc.) because teenagers are hungry goblins.
I went to fill the cabinet and noticed a padlock on it, apparently someone had been "stealing."
I admit, this triggered me.
I spoke to the coach and told him that perhaps he should talk to the kids and find out if one of them is food insecure instead of locking up some two dollar box of granola bars.
The look on his face, I could tell it kinda clicked, he didn't even think of that, just assumed it was some punk kid breaking rules.
People who grow up with wealth don't even realize that it changes the way they think. Luckily, he's a cool guy, and he was horrified that one of 'his kids' might be hungry at home. Sometimes it just takes one comment to open up someone's eyes to their privilege.

As I tell my own children: If you see someone stealing food, no you didn't.

This is how they arrive on Earth.

People sometimes confuse the plural of octopus.

Here’s a guide:
• one octopus
• two octopuses
• three octopods
• 3.14 octopi

Thinking of Reham from soapandmore.ie who came here as a refugee from Syria and set up her soap company. She’s currently donating all proceeds from sales to earthquake relief in the region - when asked if she could not just encourage people to donate rather than lose her profits, she said she was thinking of the cost of living in Ireland and not wanting to ask too much of people ❤️ what an absolute lady. 💔

https://soapandmore.ie

We have just defederated from an instance running a "blockbot" which was being used to name, and hence draw further harassment to, any fedizen who blocked any user of that instance.

I'd like to invite reports of other such bots, should our members discover them. I can think of a few ways that's a violation of our rules and just basic ethical behaviour in general.

It is obscene that governments effectively require people to have internet connectivity to be able to function in society but abdicate responsibility for ensuring that people actually have that and delegate it to for-profit enterprises instead

Private jets are 10 times more carbon intensive than airliners on average, and 50 times more polluting than trains. Billionaires are keeping our planet hostage, it's time to make them accountable! #TaxFrequentFlyers

Not the kind of thing I relish writing but I'm glad a vigil is being organised for #BriannaGhey in #Sheffield.

#HerNameWasBriannaGhey #SayHerName

https://nowthenmagazine.com/articles/sheffield-vigil-planned-for-murdered-brianna-ghey

Valentine’s Day always reminds me of the time when my mom was in hospice and one of my parents’ elderly neighbor ladies brought a gift basket.

Here’s the thing. Due to being around Valentine’s Day and the likely limited options at the store, this gift basket was a super tacky Valentine’s gift basket with a teddy bear and some chocolates and some other random items.

It was a totally weird gift basket, but my mom thought it was pretty hilarious because WHO BRINGS A VALENTINE’S GIFT BASKET TO THEIR DYING NEIGHBOR?

Anyway, after the neighbor left, my mom and I started looking through the basket to see what was in it and that’s when we realized that it wasn’t just a Valentine’s gift basket, but a SEXY Valentine’s gift basket and the teddy bear wasn’t just a teddy bear, but a SEXY teddy bear and it also came with flavored lotions and oils and other “sexy” stuff.

That poor neighbor clearly had no idea what was in it and likely just grabbed a random gift basket because it had a dumb teddy bear in it, but it seriously provided us with hours of entertainment digging through that sexy gift basket and forcing “sexy” gifts on my mom’s friends whenever they’d come to visit.

Anyway, happy Valentine’s Day, neighbor lady. I hope you’ve made it a tradition of handing out sexy gift baskets to dying people because it really does lighten the mood.

BREAKING NEWS:

Climate activists are blocking the Harrods Aviation private terminal at Luton Airport near London.

The greed of the extreme rich will not go unchallenged in the face of a climate emergency.

#BanPrivateJets