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This comments section is the first time I've felt even a shred of hope in eight days.
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January 29, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Two hundred UK companies are moving to a permanent four-day work week.

The decision comes after a trial where businesses tested the model.

Workers were happier and more productive, and the quality and quantity of work was unaffected or even improved.

future4days.com/two-hundred-uk
Two hundred UK companies moving to permanent four-day working week
In a major shift, 200 companies in the UK have decided to permanently switch to a four-day working week without cutting pay. This move, led by the 4 Day Week ...
future4days.com
January 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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A new report from the NYPD's Inspector General finds that NYPD leaders' bullying approach to social media interactions with their perceived enemies in the press, in elected office, and on the bench violated department rules and maybe even federal law: hellgatenyc.com/nypd-inspect...
NYPD Inspector General: Police Brass Shitposting Was Stupid and Wrong
NYPD leadership's pugnacious social media behavior violated rules and was a "plainly inappropriate and regrettable uses of official City social media accounts," according to a new NYPD Inspector Gener...
hellgatenyc.com
January 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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The city's biggest police union wants to scuttle NYPD reforms that are meant to bring the department's protest policing policy in line with the U.S. Constitution. Last week, the union made its case to a federal appeals court: hellgatenyc.com/pba-wants-th...
NYC’s Biggest Police Union Still Wants to Reserve the Right to Violently Crush Protests
The Police Benevolent Association made its last ditch legal argument to scuttle a settlement that reforms how the NYPD approaches protests.
hellgatenyc.com
January 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Israeli forces block ambulances from entering Jenin and its refugee camp during "Operation Iron Wall," leaving Palestinians "bleeding out in the streets" as at least 10 are killed and dozens wounded.

🔴 LIVE updates:
Israel kills 10 in West Bank raid as 120 bodies found in Gaza over two days
Israeli attacks on occupied West Bank intensify as Trump’s UN pick says Israel has ‘biblical right’ to the territory.
aje.io
January 22, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Frank Zappa predicting the future in 1986.
That future being today, in #America
January 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Agree or disagree?
January 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
This is grotesque and it happens in the US as well. Parasitic middle men sucking the life force from people’s labor
I see a lot of people talk about the environmental costs of AI. I don't see as much about the human exploitation behind it.
Training AI takes heavy toll on Kenyans working for $2 an hour | 60 Minutes
YouTube video by 60 Minutes
youtu.be
December 14, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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In December 2021, Arnell ‘AJ’ Stewart, a young Black man, was killed by a 50 y/o white man in Saint Paul, Minnesota after the man accused Stewart of parking on his property. While much of the media paid little attention to the murder, Unicorn Riot followed the case.

unicornriot.ninja/aj-stewart/
The Murder of AJ Stewart - UNICORN RIOT
Coverage of the racially-charged murder of AJ Stewart by a "white vigilante" who received no prison time despite being convicted of murder.
unicornriot.ninja
November 27, 2024 at 6:59 AM
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The Video Donald Trump Doesn’t Want You To See
The Video Donald Trump Doesn’t Want You To See
Meet the REAL Donald Trump
www.doubledown.news
November 27, 2024 at 9:43 AM