kit ✅ 🌦😷 @wlonk@mastodon.transneptune.net

Yes.

"On Monday, workers say they will refuse to accept orders until Instacart provides hazard pay of an additional $5 an order, free safety gear (hand sanitizer, disinfectant wipes, and soap) to workers, and expands its paid sick leave to include workers with pre-existing conditions who have been advised by their doctors not to work at this time. Workers say the strike will last until Instacart agrees to these terms."

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4agmvd/instacarts-gig-workers-are-planning-a-massive-nationwide-strike

Old term: dad jokes.

Updated terminology: corny on main.

RT @MarkoSaric@twitter.com

People are realizing that their new "work from home" venture capitalist tools are not privacy friendly.

In my remote work guide, I've included ethical alternatives to Slack, Zoom etc. These are @matrixdotorg@twitter.com @RiotChat@twitter.com @jitsinews@twitter.com @taigaio@twitter.com @basecamp@twitter.com 👇

https://markosaric.com/remote-work/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MarkoSaric/status/1242154913326645248

it’s weird how “don’t want atrocities to happen” is considered an extremist political position

did you know that "after the pandemic" we can collectively decide to continue checking in on each other + drive less + be environmentally conscious + promote unionization, empathy, and collaboration and make THAT the new normal ...

“And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently.”

"And the people healed. And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal.”

"And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed."

~Kitty O'Meara

Things that are looking pretty broadly reasonable right now:

- Nationalize, + plan for a managed decline of, airline & oil industries
- Universal basic income (or better yet, universal basic outcomes)
- Reversing decades of cuts to public healthcare and education
- Internet = a public utility and universal right

Amazon. Again.

Global pandemic is a windfall for them. Don’t feed their greed.
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RT @lifewinning@twitter.activitypub.actor
"even though Amazon is encouraging workers to wash their hands, it’s not giving them enough time to do so, Bailey said. The nearest bathroom is a 2-3-minute walk in each direction" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/03/17/amazons-warehouse-workers-sound-alarms-about-coronavirus-spread/
https://twitter.com/lifewinning/status/1240260780358066176

Approximately every employee under the sun: We are curtailing hours or closing stores to avoid worsening this already-dire situation, we will do our best to keep our employees paid during this difficult time.

Jeff Bezos:

Remember how Trump ordered the National Security Council's entire global health security unit (including a renowned pandemics expert team) to be shut down in May 2018?

Trump: "I'm a business person, I don't like having thousands of people around when you don't need them. When we need them, we can get them back very quickly."

Well, as it turns out, the administration cannot actually reassemble such a team "very quickly".

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-struggles-explain-why-he-disbanded-his-global-health-team-n1153221

English "be a man" = be tough

vs.

Yiddish "zay a mentsh" = be kind, be generous, do the right thing