Hello sorry to barge into your mentions but I heard there's going to be an opportunity to bash uncritical adoption of AI at POD next month?
(This concern brought to you by a different union in a different sector but with relevant lessons IMO: blockclubchicago.org/2024/10/08/h...)
The unsigned mailers either thank or criticize city officials for their stance on a proposal to ban natural gas in new construction. A union is at least partly behind the campaign.
We can (and should) be both pro-labor and hold unions to high standards of integrity. The idea that a top-down organization whose leaders can benefit from certain kinds of misinformation could never do wrong is dangerous
Your framing here helped me a lot - I don't mind people saying "we need to vote for Harris because she's the only thing between us and that man" but the "purity test" language feels really bad!
Even before the pandemic there was a spate of white supremacist mass murders that happened in random places — malls, places of worship, garlic festivals — that has never happened before or since. This was, in hindsight, one guy’s fault. Uncovered as he’s a coin flip away from power in a month.
David Frum said "Conservatism is what the people who call themselves conservatives say it is." I think we've discovered that this has largely been proven true in a political sense...which would suggest that US conservatism is a pretty formless, infinitely adaptive thing that pretends to be an ethos.
Good bc I'm in the market for a new nemesis
I am somewhat like that and then sometimes I think, life is short, and I use the sticker, but only sometimes. One example
