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Seattle’s Massage Workers Demand Safety and Solidarity—Not Stigma: After police raids on more than 50 Asian massage parlors, workers are pushing for licensing that recognizes their expertise and an end to the “rescue” model.

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@lrhodes It's always telling when "you should have morals" draws a critical response.

> But anyone who reads the manifesto alongside the classic texts of the Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative quickly sees two world-views colliding. World-views that have formed the backbone of the internet for forty years.

Yes, it's pretty clear that the principles that have governed the internet for 40 years, and have seen it transform from a place of freedom and decentralized experimentation into one of repression, control and centralization *require* a challenge and a change.

The FSF, GNU and OSI are *spectacularly* failing to rise to the challenges of our age.

“The Work Ahead”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-work-ahead/

> It's clear – or I hope it's clearer – that a lot of voters actually hate "AI" – both the technology itself and everything that it symbolizes: wealth inequality, authoritarianism, corruption, nihilism, violence, theft, unaccountability, environmental destruction, indeed the destruction of any notion of the future other than the one that these terrible, terrible tech CEOs seem to have for us.