#gigified

[eternalistic]

This Could Be The Biggest Strike In U.S. History 340,000 UPS workers are gearing up for a massive, nationwide strike. Working at UPS used to provide a comfortable, middle-class life. But the company has spent decades eroding pay and working conditions and even trying to gigify jobs. Now workers are fighting back. If they don't get a fair contract deal by July 31, 2023, workers could go on strike. It would be the largest single-employer strike in U.S. history.

[manorpunk]

the American economy was fully gigified by the late 2030s, but then some job creators had a bold new idea: “what if we paid employees an hourly wage in exchange for them working regular agreed-upon hours?” this unique new concept rapidly took off soon afterwards, but then everything got gigified again in the 2050s.

[candiedkinks]

Out of everyone to be gigantic, i feel someone like Vriska is the worst personality to gigify.

((oh true but listen

candy can fix her. vriska literally just wanted people, especially girls, to pay attention to her she just went about it in the worst way

[piffany666]

I pronounce it

Gigifi

OKAY TUMBLR. IT'S TIME TO SETTLE THIS ONCE AND FOR ALL

Reblog this if you pronounce “.gif” as “JIF.”

NOT GIF,

JIF.

And here is the link for the opposite.

WE SHALL SEE WHICH ONE PREVAILS.

[blimpsarecool]

If the industry is going to continue to be increasingly gigified, we writers need to start billing for our time. Even if we don’t expect a check—and we don’t because we are writers, and we have been trained not to expect a check—we need to invoice our clients for the emails, the Zoom calls, the phone calls, the texts, the scripts, the books and articles we read, the meetings—everything we do.

POV: I’m an experienced screenwriter—and I’m also on welfare. My story highlights the importance of the writers’ strike

[gibbdesign]

Pressed my screen printing buddy into service again - he’s a champ! #willyg #gigified #diyshirts #uprlft #childlabour (at Uprlft) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzuI37Wn1Js/?igshid=1wrpk8aeser29

[zacefronews]

AT&T Life Gigified Event Zac Efron & Jeni Bell Q&A Video

[olderthannetfic]

Got any opinions on selling fanfic?

Saw someone trying to sell fanfic the other day and felt my soul wither inside of me as I recall the days of fanfic past, when we were hunted down with lawyers and DMCA notices for simply HAVING fanfic that we weren't trying to profit off.

Now we've got all these kids selling their fics on AO3 and its going to get us shut down.

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I think they should keep their commercial spam off of AO3, like the AO3 rules tell them to.

More broadly... I don't love it, but I'm not shocked. Corporate greed has intentionally gigified fucking everything. People are desperate.

[azspot]

The electoral loss of the U.S. conspiracist-in-chief did not dam the river of falsehoods, but unsurprisingly galvanized movement hustlers and true believers to mobilize against the government, including the representatives of his own party. Commentators were quick to describe the “storming of the Capitol” on January 6 as a “breaking point” or a path “off the rails” of U.S. history. Yet the protesters’ ability to enter the building, in some cases with the aid of police, simply made visible what has long been brewing across the country, though now in a farcical and violent spectacle televised for a world audience. The far-right militants bearing weaponized gear and the self-documenting social media performers were gleeful about defaming the symbolic structure of government and denouncing Mike Pence’s confirmation of the Electoral College vote. But the class positioning and political intentions driving them were more diverse than the blanket coverage of the “Trump supporters” often suggested.

Indeed many elements of this allegedly all-American rightwing “insurrection” resonate with the diagonalism challenging countries around the world. Only in the days after the spectacle were the identities and stories of the most visible protesters revealed. Among the most eye-catching was the Bison Man from Arizona, also known as Jake “Q Shaman” Angeli, who moonlights as a “Behavioral Health Tech,” “Entrepreneur,” and YouTube Personality, according to his Parler profile, and who met Rudy Giuliani in suit and tie last year. By his side was a Maryland man whose company ID hung from his Navistar Direct Marketing lanyard. The Arkansas man photographed with his boots on Pelosi’s desk was an independent contractor who received pandemic-related support from the government himself. The Californian woman shot and killed in the Capitol was a “self-described libertarian” formerly in the Air Force who owned a struggling pool-supply company. Among the arrested were two men from the Chicago suburbs, a real estate agent and a CEO of a tech company focusing on data-driven marketing strategies. One Texas woman flew to the D.C. protests on a private plane.

It turns out that, despite all appearances and easy narratives, the rightwing protesters at the Capitol were not dominated by the so-called “left behind,” working-class deplorables whose image captured the mainstream imagination in 2017. Instead, the “fantasy putschism” of a QAnon-inflected protest was driven by an American brand of diagonalist hustlers and political entrepreneurs who self-fashion “outside the mainstream.” (Their actions may have been impotent and delusional but, as Richard Seymour notes, given certain conditions, delusional politics can win.) For some, a plane ticket and an upscale hotel reservation was an easy price to pay for a historic act of anti-government “resistance.” For others, Capitol-storming was just an unexpected gig among others in this gigified political economy.

Beyond the obvious spectacle of Trump’s Save America Rally, Giuliani’s ludicrous lawsuits alleging voter fraud, and attorney Lin Wood’s delusional tweets, recent protests—spanning the “reopen,” “stop the steal,” and other movements—have tapped into a kind of hustling that the right has perfected but by no means monopolizes for itself. Alex Jones may traffic in conspiracies to sell his dietary supplements (Super Male Vitality), but Gwyneth Paltrow can sell the very same supplement under another name (Sex Dust). The same goes for more savvy entrepreneurs of political outrage. The almost universal frustration of living in a COVID-19 world and the technological dynamics of social media have given form to a pandemic politics of capitalizable conspiracy, itself driven by the internal propulsion of incitement capitalism.

[shlipayadavblog]

Second-sale realty broker Settlin raises $1 mn in pre-series A round

Settlin, a digital broker for resale homes, has raised $1 million in a pre-series A round from Powerhouse Ventures, Rajesh Sawhney-founded GSF Fund, and marquee angel investors Murugavel Janakiraman (Founder & CEO, Bharat Matrimony), Dinesh Agrawal (Founder & CEO, IndiaMART) and others.

Settlin said in a statement that it plans to use the funds for expanding within Bengaluru. It aims to execute 24,000 visits across Bengaluru within the next 12 months, leading to over 800 property sales worth Rs 600 crore.

The company claims it has grown 4x during the past two quarters and is currently helping over 5,000 prospective buyers do 1,200-plus property inspections every month.

Ashish Srivastava, Co-founder & CEO, Settlin, says, “The residential resale market is three times that of new houses, and holds the key to organising the entire real estate transactions industry. Settlin is now bridging the gap between lakhs of homebuyers and individual resellers through its hyperlocal gigified approach, which is both standard and personal at the same time."

[bouxmounir]

Top Déclarations : Neymar gigifi de gigolo, Ceferin tacle la L1, Saint-Maximin se compare Man, le Real choque Messi... - Football

Top Déclarations : Neymar gigifi de gigolo, Ceferin tacle la L1, Saint-Maximin se compare Man, le Real choque Messi… – Football

Au menu des Top Déclarations cette semaine, Neymar qualificatif de gigolo, Ceferin n’est pas fan de la L1, Saint-Maximin compare Man, le Real choque Messi, Olmeta dzingue Bosz… Découvrez les phrases chocs de la semaine. Pourquoi est-ce que Neymar est un “profiteur” et un “gigolo”… Chaque samedi, Maxifoot propose de faire le tour des dix déclarations de la semaine qu’il n’a pas manqué. Du grave…

[isfeed]

AT&T’s new 5-gig and 2-gig fiber internet is here, starting at $110 a month

AT&T’s new 5-gig and 2-gig fiber internet is here, starting at $110 a month

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AT&T is rolling out 2Gbps and 5Gbps speed tiers for its fiber-optic internet option. The company made the announcement to kick off its Life Gigified event, where it said new and existing AT&T Fiber customers will soon be able to take advantage of these multi-gig connections. If you don’t know what multi-gig is, it means a single connection that offers…

[r0b0ts-d0nt-have-feel1ngs]

It occurs to Ed for the first time, despite being told on several occasions, that max Gigify is essentially a series of artificial level-ups. That means they should enhance his core stats based on his growth parameters.

This implies two things; A) Gigification will get stronger the more souls Ed pumps into his growth. And B) His Mind Stat should be obscene right about now.

Ed sleeps the dreamless sleep of someone who has thoroughly gotten their ass kicked.

Not your best moment. Wake up back home with a sore… everything.

[juwannuh]

Gigi babies since mid-2000s, IT Girls na ngayon haha. Love being #GIGIfied!! 💋

[nanakyeisports]

Out and About in #seoul🇰🇷. #korea #itaewon #GiGified #madeinghana #fashion