The predatory structure of Upwork now makes sense:

It's owned by shareholders such as institutional investors like The Vanguard Group & BlackRock, who together hold over 50% of the company's stock. CEO of Upwork, Hayden Brown, also owns a % of shares.

They @up-work.bsky.social also raised the fee on writing gigs to 15%. In 2021, if you made over 10k on a gig, the fee dropped to 5%. Then changed & all jobs, regardless of how long + much it went up to 10%. Now they raise it to 15%. The level of corporate greed. Now, no humans, just an AI bot. WTF.

America and its oligarchy of corporations run on snake oil.

@up-work.bsky.social explain to me why anyone should continue to use your platform? Upwork is valued at close to 2 billion dollars, which is due to firing humans from customer support and nickel-and-diming people who want to work.

How in the name of sanity does this make any sense? @up-work.bsky.social

All this talk about AI being the future. @up-work.bsky.social Upworks AI system can't understand that eleven months of credits should equal 110 credits, not 10 credits.

@up-work.bsky.social is a nickel-and-diming POS. Upwork has obviously fired their humans & left the entire freelance community to deal with an AI "customer support" system that doesn't understand jack 💩. Its auto-response is to buy more credits. It can't do math, add, or reason.

The United States is not postcolonial. it’s actively colonial.

Every economic downturn, I find myself here. This time, the cost of housing + food is so high that homelessness arrived faster than I could process it. Three degrees, cripling student debt, and purposely kept out of the workforce. This country is trash.

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I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.

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I just hope people know if this guy can be sold into slavery in El Salvador by mistake, other people can be sold into slavery in El Salvador “by mistake”.

I’m heading to the Senate floor because Donald Trump and Elon Musk have shown a complete disregard for the rule of law, the Constitution, and the needs of the American people. You can tune in on CSPAN, YouTube, X, and Facebook.

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Absolutely worth the read. She gives an inside account of how people are being treated in these ICE detention centers that are actually for-profit and are part of the push for stricter immigration laws (to keep centers filled) which is beyond deplorable.

A recent study found that cervical cancer deaths in young women have plummeted since the introduction of the human papillomavirus vaccine.

The Red Scare 2.0 in the land of make believe

Another deplorable move by the circus of destruction