"Delivery workers said they continue to face long working hours, declining earnings, unsafe delivery targets, arbitrary account deactivations, and lack of welfare benefits, particularly during peak demand periods and festivals."
https://www.livemint.com/news/india/swiggy-zomato-amazon-blinkit-gig-workers-flipkart-all-india-strike-on-christmas-new-year-eve-what-you-must-know-11766644346573.html
https://www.livemint.com/news/india/swiggy-zomato-amazon-blinkit-gig-workers-flipkart-all-india-strike-on-christmas-new-year-eve-what-you-must-know-11766644346573.html
mint
Swiggy, Zomato, Amazon, Blinkit gig workers announce all-India strike on Christmas, New Year's Eve: What you must know | Today…
The Indian Federation of App-Based Transport Workers and the Telangana Gig and Platform Workers Union reportedly called the strike to protest over “deteriorating working conditions.”
“One day you will be called on to break a big law in the name of justice and rationality. Everything will depend on it. You have to be ready. How are you going to prepare for that day when it really matters ? You have to stay ‘in shape’ so that when the big day comes you will be ready.
What you need is ‘anarchist calisthenics.’
Every day or so break some trivial law that makes no sense, even if it’s only jaywalking. Use your own head to judge whether a law is just or reasonable. That way, you’ll keep trim; and when the big day comes, you’ll be ready.”
— James C Scott
What you need is ‘anarchist calisthenics.’
Every day or so break some trivial law that makes no sense, even if it’s only jaywalking. Use your own head to judge whether a law is just or reasonable. That way, you’ll keep trim; and when the big day comes, you’ll be ready.”
— James C Scott
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"They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price."
— Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam (1926)
— Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam (1926)
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"AI-generated videos are taking over social media platforms all over the internet. From TikTok to Instagram, YouTube, and even Facebook, it’s extremely common to see short clips created with tools like Google’s Nano Banana and OpenAI’s Sora showing impossible things like animals expertly jumping off diving boards or people suddenly falling through suspended glass bridges."
https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/health-experts-warn-youtube-ai-slop-aimed-at-babies-will-affect-what-kids-think-is-real-3289841/
https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/health-experts-warn-youtube-ai-slop-aimed-at-babies-will-affect-what-kids-think-is-real-3289841/
Dexerto
Health experts warn YouTube AI slop aimed at babies will affect what kids think is real - Dexerto
Child development experts say AI-generated content aimed at infants can impact their perception of the world around them.
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Adults will make every waking moment a fresh bleak hell for children and then be like, "social media is making them depressed!"
My sibling in christ, you have the causation backwards.
– PallasRiot
My sibling in christ, you have the causation backwards.
– PallasRiot
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“Outdoor recreation guides tend to treat cis men's bodies as default, but menstruation is as natural as trees, water and wildlife. Here's a guide to having your period while camping — including a fact check on the urban legend that bears will attack you for it.”
https://thenarwhal.ca/period-planning-outdoors/
https://thenarwhal.ca/period-planning-outdoors/
The Narwhal
How to have your period in the woods
Camping on your period shouldn't be overwhelming. Here’s some advice on menstruating outdoors, from those who’ve been there
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capitalists: *create poverty by robbing people of their land*
also capitalists: let's define poverty, if i give you more than 2 dollars a day to forcibly work for me because i made you poor and dependant on me, you're not poor
pro-capitalists: waaaooow capitalism make poverty go!
also capitalists: let's define poverty, if i give you more than 2 dollars a day to forcibly work for me because i made you poor and dependant on me, you're not poor
pro-capitalists: waaaooow capitalism make poverty go!
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"The only difference as compared with the old, outspoken slavery is this, that the worker of today seems to be free because he is not sold once for all, but piecemeal by the day, the week, the year, and because no one owner sells him to another, but he is forced to sell himself in this way instead, being the slave of no particular person, but of the whole property-holding class."
— Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845)
Image: Delivery riders wait at Bangalore's Sony Signal in the rain (2025)
— Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845)
Image: Delivery riders wait at Bangalore's Sony Signal in the rain (2025)
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Sorry not sorry to the haters who think all homeless people with mental health issues are scary and dangerous, but loud vehement public ranting is actually a completely rational response to the top-down violence inherent in the fall of civilization, an unchecked and publicly ignored plague that's still killing millions, rampant genocide on both geopolitical and sociopolitical levels all over the world, and climate devastation so bad that if all of the above doesn't kill us first, the now-inevitable collapse of the stable planetary system that allowed us to literally evolve in the first place definitely will.
If you're not yelling about this shit in public, what *are* you doing?
If this shit *isn't* making you crazy... are you sure? Or does your crazy just happen to be a form of increased compliance with the forces of this dying global empire?
— angelteeth
If you're not yelling about this shit in public, what *are* you doing?
If this shit *isn't* making you crazy... are you sure? Or does your crazy just happen to be a form of increased compliance with the forces of this dying global empire?
— angelteeth
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"If you can no longer believe a thing, you do not have to force yourself into faith or to busy yourself lastingly as if with a sacred truth of the faith, as theologians or philosophers do, but you can tranquilly draw back your interest from it and let it run.
Priestly spirits will indeed expound this your lack of interest as ‘laziness, thoughtlessness, obduracy, self-deception’, and the like. But you just let the rubbish lie, notwithstanding.
No thing, no so-called ‘highest interest of mankind’, no ‘sacred cause’ is worth your serving it, and occupying yourself with it for its sake; you may seek its worth in this alone, whether it is worth anything to you for your sake.
Become like children, the biblical saying admonishes us. But children have no sacred interest and know nothing of a ‘good cause’. They know all the more accurately what they have a fancy for; and they think over, to the best of their powers, how they are to arrive at it."
— Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
Priestly spirits will indeed expound this your lack of interest as ‘laziness, thoughtlessness, obduracy, self-deception’, and the like. But you just let the rubbish lie, notwithstanding.
No thing, no so-called ‘highest interest of mankind’, no ‘sacred cause’ is worth your serving it, and occupying yourself with it for its sake; you may seek its worth in this alone, whether it is worth anything to you for your sake.
Become like children, the biblical saying admonishes us. But children have no sacred interest and know nothing of a ‘good cause’. They know all the more accurately what they have a fancy for; and they think over, to the best of their powers, how they are to arrive at it."
— Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
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Forwarded from Begumpura: bahujan antifascism
"Goyal’s statement confirmed allegations by various unions that the aggregators had used the police to weaken the protest and force delivery personnel to work."
https://www.thenewsminute.com/news/gig-workers-unions-say-strike-was-a-success-dismiss-zomato-blinkit-sales-claims
https://www.thenewsminute.com/news/gig-workers-unions-say-strike-was-a-success-dismiss-zomato-blinkit-sales-claims
The News Minute
Gig workers’ unions say strike was a success, dismiss Zomato, Blinkit sales claims
Follow TNM's WhatsApp channel for news updates and story linksFood and grocery delivery platforms Zomato and Blinkit claimed they saw record-high deli