#Corporate/Industrial News

[mysharona1987]

[settlercolonialismisbad]

something something eaten by the monster they created

[s-0236-salix]

When I worked as a QA scientist in a dog food factory, corporate always bragged about how we were "zero-waste". This conflicted with the fact that our lab generated waste - used gloves, used kimwipes, old glass tubes, etc. So, I figured "zero waste" applied to the manufacturing floor, not to the labs or offices. Fair enough, I suppose. That would be a high standard.

But the floor-side of the QA team kept talking about scrapped pallets. 2000 to 4000 lb pallets, often ten to twenty at a time, were being scrapped because of production issues. Okay, I thought. Maybe the cans get squished and all the dog food is rinsed out, then they go to recycling.

Nope. Turns out "zero waste" meant "zero waste *in our state*". All the scrapped product, literal semi trailers full of it, each week, was sent to a neighbor state to be thrown away *over there* instead. As if it didn't exist, then. The cab of the truck would then pick up a new trailer of scrap from the other factory and bring it back home to throw away. Fuck corporate America.

[bharatbriefs]

Big Tech Braces for Wave of Antitrust Rulings in 2024 

U.S. antitrust cases against tech giants Google and Meta Platforms are expected to come to a head in 2024, likely producing long-awaited rulings that could shape the legacies of top Biden administration regulators. Silicon Valley and its critics have seen their patience tested on some of these cases. A U.S. antitrust case brought against Alphabet’s Google unit in 2020 went to trial in 2023 and…

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[reportwire]

Silicon Valley Bank depositors will get 'all of their money,' regulators say

U.S. financial regulators on Sunday said Silicon Valley Bank customers would have access to all their money on Monday, days after the bank failed. Announcing new steps, the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said their moves would “ensure that the U.S. banking system continues to perform its vital roles of protecting deposits and providing access to…

[khaled-red-blog]

The $385,000 Netflix Private Jet Flight Attendant: 'Where Can I Apply?'

wanted one Netflix Inc. nflx -3.23% flight attendant to work on the company’s private jet. Requested Salary: Up to $385,000. in a reduction time At many major tech companies, Netflix sent the internet buzzing this week with what some described as an unusual job offer. The streaming company wants a trained flight attendant to be in charge of the trips on its super-midsize jet, according to the…

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Outdrawn

f/f contemporary romance

two cartoonist who’ve been rivals since uni, and now have competing webcomics online, have to work together on the relaunch of a cult classic at the comic press they both work at

they both struggle with art-related physical and mental health issues, and complicated families

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

All it took was real physical action for these people to cry out for reform, had Brian Thompson not been killed these media outlets wouldn't even dare utter a word of reform.

[itsybitsybatsyspider]

Deleted Adobe Photoshop (which bums me out because i felt like i was really getting the hang of it. Booo to their new terms of service) and downloaded Clip Studio Paint instead!

Probably gonna try out some sketches tomorrow to get comfortable using it!

back at it again with the new drawing platform learning curve. yyyyaayyyy

[reasonsforhope]

“The Justice Department and a group of eight states sued Google on Tuesday, accusing it of illegally abusing a monopoly over the technology that powers online advertising, in the agency’s first antitrust lawsuit against a tech giant under President Biden and an escalation in legal pressure on one of the world’s biggest internet companies.

The lawsuit said Google had “corrupted legitimate competition in the ad tech industry by engaging in a systematic campaign to seize control of the wide swath of high-tech tools used by publishers, advertisers and brokers to facilitate digital advertising.”

The lawsuit asked U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to force Google to sell much of its suite of ad technology products, which include software for buying and selling ads, a marketplace to complete the transactions and a service for showcasing the ads across the internet. The lawsuit also asked the court to stop the company from engaging in allegedly anticompetitive practices...

The new lawsuit “adds another important complication to Google’s efforts to deal with regulators worldwide,” said William Kovacic, a former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. “There’s a chance one or more of these challenges is going to make its way through and hit the target...”

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said monopolies “threaten the free and fair markets upon which our economy is based.” He added, “We will aggressively protect consumers, safeguard competition and work to ensure economic fairness and opportunity for all.”

The Biden administration is trying to use uncommon legal theories to clip the wings of some of America’s largest businesses. The F.T.C. recently asked a judge to block Meta from buying a virtual-reality start-up, a rare case that argues a deal could harm potential competition in a nascent market. The agency has also challenged Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of the video game publisher Activision Blizzard, a notable action because the two companies are not primarily seen as direct competitors.

These efforts are expected to meet fierce resistance in federal courts. Judges have for decades subscribed to a view that antitrust violations should mostly be determined by whether they increase prices for consumers. But Jonathan Kanter, the chief of the Justice Department’s antitrust division, and Lina Khan, the F.T.C. chair, have said they are willing to lose cases that allow them to stretch the boundaries of the law and that put corporate America on notice.”

-via The New York Times, 1/24/23

[aci25]

A Story about the Tourism Industry in Oaxaca, Mexico

This story was censored by a big and well-known media company. So I decided to tell it on my own.

I look into the following question: does the current tourism model in Oaxaca lead to deeper inequality?

[dailyplanet-loislane]

CNN on the Block: A Risky Gamble for Warner Bros. Discovery?

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[sanstropfremir]

why does ptg have the worst luck of anyone in the history of the world 😭 like in what world does it make sense for hui to be a contestant on boy's planet 🤨?

it rlly feels like when btob went on kingdom to me, but worse 😭 like ppl pointed out that he's gonna be judged by idols he's both senior to, AND produced for 😭 also this tweet made me laugh:

literallyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy in what fucking mirror universe does it make sense for hui to be a trainee on this show when he fucking birthed wanna one like honestly this is genuinely humiliating. what the fuck is wrong with the industry that a post-military 30yro with a well established career and an active group goes on a trainee survival show. it's so fucking unhinged. at least with btob kingdom wasn't about breaking down the groups and making a new one, it was just about making the best performance, but the fact that these senior groups are being subjected to this is so...................