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We have 6" of snow on the ground, many streets still not cleared, and it's gonna rain for the next few days. #Toronto
Time to dig out my crampons. #precarious #dangerous #pedestrianLife
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Perhaps later modules of the #COVID-19 #Inquiry report will ask to what extent #SocialDarwinist and #eugenicist politicians knowingly or intentionally crafted policy that widened inequality. Political leaders did not care about #disabled, #older, #deprived and financially #precarious people. They possibly committed #democide, accelerating deaths of people with high social welfare costs (and inadvertently causing even greater levels of long-term illness & unemployment).
Matt Gaetz frets about House GOP’s precarious majority after George Santos exit
The Independent · Matt Gaetz frets about precarious Republican majority after George Santos exit
She's a grad student juggling 3 jobs. Canada's cost of living may force her to move elsewhere
https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-9265-5bbf-89ed-812822929330
#Precarious, Low-Paid #Migrant Workers Are Sick of Low Pay and Bad Conditions https://novaramedia.com/2023/07/04/precarious-low-paid-migrant-workers-are-sick-of-low-pay-and-bad-conditions/
Novara MediaPrecarious, Low-Paid Migrant Workers Are Sick of Low Pay and Bad ConditionsStaff at eight workplaces walked out last month, as low-paid, outsourced workers in private-sector took industrial action. But their bosses are using outsourcing to wash their hands of them. Simon Childs reports.
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@wilf @Mer__edith "I think it’s stunning that someone would say that the #harms [from "#AI"] that are happening now — which are felt most acutely by people who have been historically #minoritized: #Black people, #women, #disabled people, #precarious workers, et cetera — that those harms aren’t #existential.
What I hear in that is, “Those aren’t existential to me.""
Amazing work! A Firefox add-on that rates job ads based on credibility and security parameters reported by users (mostly informal young women) who help in spotting ads that hide #sexualexploitation, #precarious working conditions, or other bads. In Spanish, created by UNDP Accelerator Lab Ecuador: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/navega-segura/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org
addons.mozilla.orgGuía Navega Segura – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)Download Guía Navega Segura for Firefox. Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD) / SDG Fund, presentan:
GUÍA DE NAVEGACIÓN SEGURA
Infórmate sobre tips para mejorar tu seguridad digital y analiza ofertas de trabajo en Ecuador en Computrabajo y Multitrabajo.
‘The #rich and everybody else’: Financial #inequality in Canada keeps #growing
https://www.tvo.org/article/the-rich-and-everybody-else-financial-inequality-in-canada-keeps-growing
"TVO Today speaks with author John Peters about the #billionaireclass, #deregulation, and why the #workforce is becoming more #precarious." #TVO #BringBackUnions
www.tvo.orgTVO Today | Current Affairs Journalism, Documentaries and Podcasts
Kim Kelly on Bhairavi Desai of the NY Taxi Workers Alliance
"Her organization has long straddled the line between traditional, legally recognized #unions and the types of creative organization developed by #precarious workers who can’t legally unionize."
Lux MagazineWhat Drives Bhairavi Desai?The New York Taxi Workers Alliance flexes in the rideshare era.
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Tsai Ming-liang 蔡明亮
"What strikes many critics is the utter consistency of his preoccupations." Max Nelson
+ rainy streets
+ #precarious jobs
+ #anonymous sex
+ fallible bodies
+ #Buddhism
+ intimacy
@nybooks https://nybooks.com/articles/2021/06/10/tsai-ming-liang-alone-together-taipei/
@art_film @sino_cinema #Taiwan @chineseliterature
I have a few litmus tests for senior #academics, but perhaps this one is the main:
have they ever mentioned #precarious #academic workers or attempted to advance the position of the precarious within #academia.