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In April 2021, New York City’s Department of Consumer and Workplace Protection (DCWP) sued Chipotle for $150 million, asserting that it had violated the City’s Fair Workweek Law almost 600,000 times over a two-year period.
Last August, Chipotle reached a settlement agreement with the City, agreeing to pay $20 million split between 13,000 current and former Chipotle workers.
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Good news from New Jersey. Let’s repeat this in the other 49 states, now
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John Oliver’s report on farm workers included that, along with the other atrocities:
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While the headline is a little off, the idea is bloody brilliant.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh plans to introduce legislation to “rein in outrageoUs CEO pay” by increasing the taxes of companies where CEOs make “excessive” profits.
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Television has been experiencing a boom in the United States, the likes of which has never been seen before. Just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, there were 532 scripted TV shows that were broadcast or streamed the year before—an all-time high. In 2022, there were 599. In fact, according to FX Network Research, since 2012 there has been a steady increase in the number of scripted shows, except for a small dip due to the lockdown-related production halt in 2020.
These new heights in television production can be attributed largely to streaming services such as Netflix—a company that has been offering up tantalizing on-screen fiction for the past decade since “House of Cards” first debuted as an exclusively streaming show on the platform. But the primacy of streaming is also the reason why TV writers are now threatening to go on strike. For years, streaming services have slashed residual payments, which writers rely on, prompting the Writers Guild of America (WGA) to vote to strike.
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If only American workers realized their worth and stood up like the French.
The spice must flow and it can’t without workers. This beats having the government make your strike illegal.
I read somewhere the Monaco Grand Prix may have issues as well.
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Any programmer knows that code runs things.
Including AI.
Even if AI learns to write code well (so far, not so much), it will still need testing, and still need power, and power plants, and infrastructure. At least until we get to The Matrix human-battery-farms or Terence McKenna’s self-assembling machine elves:
(not entirely sure what McKenna was on about, but it probably makes a lot more sense when one perturbs one’s brain chemistry with specific inputs)
And code is inherently fragile, hackable, constantly needing updating and upgrading, is corruptible, is subject to other AI malware, etc.
We’re trading one set of problems for a different and much less understood set of problems.
ETA: typo
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But - will it have velocity?
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Media company lays off their games division effective June 2nd, but lets them keep podcasting. The results are…entertaining.
Get it before they realize what they’ve done
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