#Corporate/Industrial News

[mysharona1987]

[wreckingball4good]

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…

[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…

[reality-detective]

Are Vehicles Spying On Us? 🤔 YES?

[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

[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?

[lasvegastrillgod]

Bruh can we please make getting paid more simple🤦🏾‍♂️ Fuck Spotify

[dailyplanet-loislane]

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

[soapdispensersalesman]

[hatecomeseasy]

L.O.T.I.O.N. - Every Last One

[yourpalnko]

In Response to Unity / IronSource

CEOs get paid to be untouchable rich dudes who occasionally set their company on fire for the sake of insider trading (while ignoring the outcry and warnings from hundreds of competent people below them).

The only necessary qualifications to become a CEO are to be tall and lack a soul.