#20/04/2023

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Les gens qui souffrent se comprennent, mais cela apaise-t-il pour autant leur peine ?

V. H. SCORP

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Hayley Raso v. Katie McCabe - July 20 2023

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of course the 04 liner would be in the lesbian flag colors

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Dream replied to George on twitter 2023/04/20

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Me encontraba trabajando en distintos oficios; entre esos, en una cafetería, como vendedora freelancer para una boutique de vestuario. Todos ubicados en providencia, una comuna muy bonita, elegante y central de la capital.

Mis días comenzaban después de la 4pm, cerca del atardecer, la parte favorita del día donde puedes ver la transición de colores en el cielo adornado por las luces dinámicas de las calles y edificios que estimulaban mi mente para comenzar a laburar.

Uno de los lugares donde trabajaba, el café bistró, se ubicaba en la base de un rascacielos que me gustaba subir para contemplar la noche de luces dinámicas.

Por mis trabajos solía relacionarme con mucha gente, con algunas tenía más confianza, aunque la relación no pasaba más allá de lo que se intercambiaba.

Era un día cualquiera. Me dirigía a la boutique, cuando había visto a una actriz, pero con lo creídos que son los actores, no pesqué. Al terminar la jornada de trabajo, me tocaba ir al café bistró. Fue en el trayecto donde me intercepté con tres personas full producidas, entre ellas, un hombre que me miraba con familiaridad y me dijo que desde hace un par de días quería contactarme para ofrecerme un papel secundario en una teleserie, luego de haber escuchado sobre mis características de una clienta del bistró quien me recomendó. Le pregunté si tenía que aprender varias líneas, si tenía que actuar, ya que nunca lo había hecho, y eso me emocionaba aún más. Después de haber concordado, el hombre, productor de la serie, me compartió la dirección del lugar al que tuve que ir ese mismo día.

Ya me encontraba en el set, una casa antigua que colindaba con un edificio y una plazoleta cerrada para la actuación. El productor apenas me vió, me indicó el lugar para cambiar mi vestuario y después presentarme en el punto de filmación. Camino a cambiarme, comenzó a subirme la adrenalina que me provocaba pensamientos autoboicot, y me hacían cuestionar si me encontraba en el lugar correcto, hasta que me encontré con la clienta del bistró, resultó ser la guionista de la serie, quien muy cálida me instó a atreverme a actuar.

Estaba lista en el set, en el que se encontraba también la actriz que me crucé el otro día. Ciertas personas me entregaban las indicaciones para desenvolver mi papel un tanto espontáneo. La escena comenzaba bajando las interminables escaleras de emergencia expuestas a un costado del edificio con el cielo estrellado de fondo...

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Classificados do Edimilson: veja as vagas de emprego da semana de 23 a 27 de outubro

1 – Secretaria Municipal de Trabalho e Renda – Rio É do RIO DE JANEIRO? Venha fazer parte do nosso Grupo de WhatsApp com vagas diárias exclusivas para RJ! Os preparativos para a Black Friday e as festas de fim de ano já estão a todo vapor no Rio. E, com a perspectiva de aumento de vendas, a Prefeitura do Rio, por meio da Secretaria de Trabalho e Renda (SMTE), informa que há 60 vagas para…

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“me das un beso?” vs “te puedo dar un beso?”

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Amazon's bestselling "bitter lemon" energy drink was bottled delivery driver piss

Today (Oct 20), I'm in Charleston, WV at Charleston's Taylor Books from 12h-14h.

For a brief time this year, the bestselling "bitter lemon drink" on Amazon was "Release Energy," which consisted of the harvested urine of Amazon delivery drivers, rebottled for sale by Catfish UK prankster Oobah Butler in a stunt for a new Channel 4 doc, "The Great Amazon Heist":

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-great-amazon-heist

Collecting driver piss is surprisingly easy. Amazon, you see, puts its drivers on a quota that makes it impossible for them to drive safely, park conscientiously, or, indeed, fulfill their basic human biological needs. Amazon has long waged war on its employees' kidneys, marking down warehouse workers for "time off task" when they visit the toilets.

As tales of drivers pissing – and shitting! – in their vans multiplied, Amazon took decisive action. The company enacted a strict zero tolerance policy for drivers returning to the depot with bottles of piss in their vans.

That's where Butler comes in: the roads leading to Amazon delivery depots are lined with bottles of piss thrown out of delivery vans by drivers who don't want to lose their jobs, which made harvesting the raw material for "Release Energy" a straightforward matter.

Butler was worried that he wouldn't be able to list his product on Amazon because he didn't have the requisite "food and drinks licensing" certificates, so he listed his drink in Amazon's refillable pump dispenser category. But Amazon's systems detected the mismatch and automatically shifted the product into the drinks section.

Butler enlisted some confederates to place orders for his drink, and it quickly rocketed to the top of Amazon's listings for the category, which led to Amazon's recommendation engine pushing the item on people who weren't in on the gag. When these orders came in, Butler pulled the plug, but not before an Amazon rep telephoned him to pitch him turning packaging, shipping and fulfillment over to Amazon:

https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-let-its-drivers-urine-be-sold-as-an-energy-drink/

The Release Energy prank was just one stunt Butler pulled for his doc; he also went undercover at an Amazon warehouse, during a period when Amazon hired an extra 1,000 workers for its warehouses in Coventry, UK, in a successful bid to dilute pro-union sentiment in his workforce in advance of a key union vote:

https://jacobin.com/2023/10/the-great-amazon-heist-oobah-butler-review

Butler's stint as an Amazon warehouse worker only lasted a couple of days, ending when Amazon recognized him and fired him.

The contrast between Amazon's ability to detect an undercover reporter and its inability to spot bottles of piss being marketed as bitter lemon energy drink says it all, really. Corporations like Amazon hire vast armies of "threat intelligence" creeps who LARP at being CIA superspies, subjecting employees and activists to intense and often illegal surveillance.

But while Amazon's defensive might is laser-focused on the threat of labor organizers and documentarians, the company can't figure out that one of its bestselling products is bottles of its tormented drivers' own urine.

In the USA, the FTC is suing Amazon for its monopolistic tactics, arguing that the company has found ways to raise prices and reduce quality by trapping manufacturers and sellers with its logistics operation, taking $0.45-$0.51 out of every dollar they earn and forcing them to raise prices at all retailers:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/25/greedflation/#commissar-bezos

The Release Energy stunt shows where Amazon's priorities are. Not only did Release Energy get listed on Amazon without any quality checks, the company actually nudged it into a category where it was more likely to be consumed by a person. The only notice the company took of Release Energy was in its logistics and manufacturing department – the part of the business that extracts the monopoly rents at issue in the FTC case – which tracked Butler down in order to sell him these services.

The drivers whose piss Butler collected don't work directly for Amazon, they work for a Delivery Service Partner. These DSPs are victims of a pyramid scheme that Amazon set up. DSP operators lease vans and pay to have them skinned in Amazon livery and studded with Amazon sensors. They take out long-term leases on depots, and hire drivers who dress in Amazon uniforms. Their drivers are minutely monitored by Amazon, down to the movements of their eyeballs.

But none of this is "Amazon" – it's all run by an "entrepreneur," whom Amazon can cut loose without notice, leaving them with unfairly terminated employees, outstanding workers' comp claims, a fleet of Amazon-skinned vehicles and unbreakable facilities leases:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/17/revenge-of-the-chickenized-reverse-centaurs/

Speaking to Wired, Amazon denied that it forces its drivers to piss in bottles, but Butler clearly catches a DSP dispatcher telling drivers "If you pee in a bottle and leave it [in the vehicle], you will get a point for that" – that is, the part you get punished for isn't the peeing, it's the leaving.

Amazon's defense against the FTC is that it spares no effort to keep its marketplace safe. As Amazon spokesperson James Drummond says, they use "industry-leading tools to prevent genuinely unsafe products being listed." But the only industry-leading tools in evidence are tools to bust unions and screw suppliers.

In her landmark Yale Law Review paper, "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox," FTC Chair Lina Khan makes a brilliant argument that Amazon's alleged benefits to "consumers" are temporary at best, illusory at worst:

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-paradox

In Butler's documentary, Khan's hypothesis is thoroughly validated: here's a company extracting hundreds of billions from merchants who raise prices to compensate, and those monopoly rents are "invested" in union-busting and countermeasures against investigative journalists, while the tools to keep you from accidentally getting a bottle of piss in the mail are laughably primitive.

Truly, Amazon is the apex predator of the platform era:

https://pluralistic.net/ApexPredator

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/20/release-energy/#the-bitterest-lemon

My next novel is The Lost Cause, a hopeful novel of the climate emergency. Amazon won't sell the audiobook, so I made my own and I'm pre-selling it on Kickstarter!

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124 I 2023. PROMISIUNI CREZUTE ȘI PROMISIUNI NECREZUTE [Numeri 23.19 I Evrei 11.11 I 2 Împărați 7.1–2]

124 I 2023. PROMISIUNI CREZUTE ȘI PROMISIUNI NECREZUTE I Podcast I Pasaje Biblice : Numeri 23 : 19 I Evrei 11 : 11 I II Împărați 7 : 1 – 2 I Meditaţii din Cuvânt I Cezareea I Reşiţa I 04 Mai 2023 I Atunci când ne referim la trăirea prin credință este bine să reamintim faptul că în viața de credință există : Continue reading Untitled

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George replied to Dream's tweet 2023/04/20

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Tres días de flamenco en el Colegio Mayor Isabel de España

TERESA FERNANDEZ HERRERA Prensa Especializada Del 18 al 20 de abril, la 23 edición del Festival Tío Luis el de la Juliana, promovido por la que fue directora del colegio María Luisa Muñoz y actual directora de su patronato, ha estado dedicado este año al fallecido maestro de la guitarra Manolo Sanlúcar, premiado a título póstumo. Y el último día, tras la actuación del ballet  de la maestra de…