I don’t want to bring sadness to a joy thread, but it’s incredibly different how the human rights convention is treated when the person whose rights have been compromised is a first-class citizen from a first-world country. In poorer countries, human rights is the right to survive (optional).
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Unfortunately that is true. That’s why solidarity with people all over the world is so important. For example the EU making laws that force businesses to disclose where they get their wares from and how the people making them are treated can help people in poorer countries a lot - of course such change is fought back at every step by the industry.
We need to unionize, locally and world wide.
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I’m sorry to be a bummer too, but skeptical that this is possible. Wealthy nations have a vested interest in maintaining their poorer neighbours in an impoverished state because the resulting power and economic imbalance is what helps maintain the privilege that wealthy nations have. It’s why countries like the US have historically destabilized the governments of nations that threaten the wealthy western hegemony. Keeping people poor and not offering them the same human rights is how wealthy nations hold control of power and wealth (and the same way wealthy groups maintain privilege over marginalized groups within their own countries). Things like unionization may help in countries where structures of privilege already exist and minor imbalances of power can be wrested from corporations, but far less likely in countries where those structures are less likely to exist thanks to neo-colonialist interference and active political destabilization, genocide, etc.
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I understand the interests in play here, but my union for example invites people from unions in developing countries and tries to help them with training courses for negotiations for example.
I understand that looking from outside the fight seems often lost, but I try to concentrate on the fights I can win and we can win, for example when Musk gets confronted with unions in Germany when he opens a new car factory and thinks he can treat workers like in the US or when Walmart gets laughed out of the country because no one wants to work for them in Germany and sing their “business song” in the mornings or when an union from Afrika has the back of a German union that are working for the same car manufacturer. It does make a difference and every win of a worker or union no matter where they are in the world needs to be spread and celebrated, because every win makes us stronger.
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Highly recommend Babel by R.F. Kuang. Her historical fiction novel’s main theme is about this very concept.
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Well I finally get a job and this time it looks… promising.
I don’t count one’s chicken before they hatched, but it’s the first time in A LOT of years that I have some job that looks like it could be… moderately long.
Moreover, it’s a fun and interesting job.
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That’s awesome. As someone currently in the job market myself this gives me hope. Good on you!
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I’ve been applying recently and hoping something good comes my way too. Congrats on the new job! I hope they treat you good. :))
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@JoeyPajamas @Roach Thank you both!
I hope you have luck with your jobs, too!
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It is a start of hopefully more regulation! F*ck AI and the AI industry!
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New classification guidelines will debut on September 22, 2024, and mandate that titles featuring “in-game purchases with an element of chance” must have a minimum classification of ‘M’ (not recommended for children under 15 years of age).
Games that feature “simulated gambling,” such as casino games, will be legally restricted to adults aged 18 and over with a minimum classification of ‘R 18+.’
Look at that, loot boxes aren’t “surprise mechanics like kinder eggs” another country has found out. I hope more countries will follow and in the end we will get gambling regulated as such.
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Australia leading the way! Our culture of “everyone deserves a fair go” should be adopted world wide!
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This is a start, I highly recommend the full read and if you can finding a way to support this from your country:
We, people and organizations from across the globe, are fighting for a future where the digital infrastructure underpinning our world works for people, workers, and the planet. And where creativity and innovation can flourish free from centralized control.
We believe in a world where power over data and technology is decentralized, redistributed and democratized, instead of being held by harmful tech monopolies. Where people can choose between a wide variety of digital tools to explore and connect, without giving up their privacy and other rights. Where we really get to control and trust what we see on our social media feeds, instead of algorithms designed to surveil, exploit, enrage, and addict.
It’s a world we know is possible, necessary and urgent. But it won’t come about by chance. Creating the digital future we all deserve will take a determined ‘whole of government’ effort from states – to break up the powerful tech monopolies, steer the digital economy in a direction that promotes innovation, fair competition, and democratic values, and offer people genuine freedom and choice in goods and services that are designed to serve them, rather than use and abuse them.
Big Tech corporations have locked us into a narrow and warped version of the digital world that chips away at our democracies and concentrates wealth, while deepening global inequalities. We must break down Big Tech’s walled gardens, which protect their profit margins, not the public interest. Doing so will unleash progress, fair competition and innovation in a new digital economy – one built to serve the billions of lives the Internet is weaved from, not the tiny group that currently holds the strings.
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Very good news, let’s hope next year the next president doesn’t reverse all progress made.
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Never heard of this. “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is some Trump level shit. Any government that did something like this should be ashamed.
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Except it came from Bill Clinton. We have him to thank for the Defense of Marriage Act, too. America!
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I remember writing a paper about DOMA in high school. I still have a copy of it somewhere.
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My condolences. America continues to lag behind the rest of the world, we’re in unprecedented crises, and voters are still undecided. What a world.
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The issue here is not enough people vote and right-wing politicians are bent on preventing people voting as much as possible because they know a majority of Americans voting would be trouble for them.
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