#unit 7

[rastronomicals]

4:42 PM EDT April 21, 2024:

Cannonball Adderley - "Unit 7" From the album Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley (February 1962)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

[doulingosakura]

As of Jan 2024: Section 1 Rookie Vocab

Unit 7 🌸

Part 1: Talk about hobbies

Part 2: describe eating habits

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* = Already know but now introducing kanji

Unit 7 pt 1: Talk about hobbies

Watch : mimasu : みます : 見ます

Often : yoku : よく

Sometimes : tokidoki : ときどき

TV : terebi : デレビ

Movies : eiga : えいが

Anime : anime : ア二メ

Read : yomimasu : よみます : 読みます

Listen : kikimasu : ききます

Book : hon : ほん : 本

News : nyuu-su : 二ュース

Manga : manga : まんが

Magazine : zasshi : ざっし

Soccer : sakkaa : サッカー

Music : ongaku : おんかく

Rock : rokku : ロック

J pop : J poppu : J ポップ

Jazz : jazu : ジャズ

Play : shimasu : します

Basketball 　: 　basukettobooru 　: 　　　　　バスケットボール

Baseball : yakyuu : やきゅう

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Unit 7 pt 2: Describe eating habits

Every day : mainichi : まいにち

Every morning : maiasa : まいあさ

Every night : maiban : まいばん

Breakfast : asagohan : あさごはん

Lunch : hirugohan :ひるごはん

Dinner : bangohan : ばんごはん

Eat : tabemasu : たべます

Drink : nomimasu : のみます

Boxed lunch : bento : べんとう

Bread : pan : パン

Sandwich : sandoicchi : サンドイッチ

Juice : juusu : ジュース

Coffee : koohi : コーヒー

Ten : juu : じゅう : 十

(At) o'clock : ji ni : じに : 時に

Eleven : juuichi : じゅういち : 十一

Twelve : juuni : じゅう : 十二

* Nine : 九

* Eight : 八 (Tumblr displays this kanji incorrectly on mobile, sorry can't fix)

* Half : 半

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[portlandnet]

2024.05.29 Rose Festival Special - De-escalation Tips, with Lt. Jason Jones

[mwagneto]

TUMBLRBOT ???? 💀💀💀💀

[fisheito]

900 pages......

[mysharona1987]

[jraker4]

Yeah, so even though I dislike Netanyahu intensely, and even though I think deescalation (with compromise on both sides, as happens in actual peace talks, including return of all hostages) is very desirable…

Man, you don’t need to be a very good politician to be able to leverage this sort of thing and be able to say ‘we’re the source of protection, war is necessary, we must crush them’. If I’m an Israeli, or someone who thinks Israel has a right to exist, a story like this not only makes it easy to disregard and mistrust the United Nations, honestly, rationally how can you regard them as a fair arbiter at all?

[dailytogachako]

In the past, the daisy flower was considered the flower of maidens and even today it symbolizes youth, innocent love and sensitivity. This delicate flower also represents purity, peace, kindness and affection.

[hyolks]

hey guys uhm... whatcha got there...

[mostlysignssomeportents]

When the app tries to make you robo-scab

When we talk about the abusive nature of gig work, there’s some obvious targets, like algorithmic wage discrimination, where two workers are paid different rates for the same job, in order to trick occasional gig-workers to give up their other sources of income and become entirely dependent on the app:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/#fishers-of-men

Then there’s the opacity — imagine if your boss refused to tell you how much you’ll get paid for a job until after you’ve completed it, claimed that this was done in order to “protect privacy” — and then threatened anyone who helped you figure out the true wage on offer:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/07/hr-4193/#boss-app

Opacity is wage theft’s handmaiden: every gig worker producing content for a social media algorithm is subject to having their reach — and hence their pay — cut based on the unaccountable, inscrutable decisions of a content moderation system:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/10/e2e/#the-censors-pen

Making content for an algorithm is like having a boss that docks every paycheck because you broke rules that you are not allowed to know, because if you knew the rules, you’d figure out how to cheat without your boss catching you. Content moderation is the last place where security through obscurity is considered good practice:

https://doctorow.medium.com/como-is-infosec-307f87004563

When workers seize the means of computation, amazing things happen. In Indonesia, gig workers create and trade tuyul apps that let them unilaterally modify the way that their bosses’ systems see them — everything from GPS spoofing to accessibility mods:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/08/tuyul-apps/#gojek

So the tech and labor story isn’t wholly grim: there are lots of ways that tech can enhance labor struggles, letting workers collaborate and coordinate. Without digital systems, we wouldn’t have the Hot Strike Summer:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/02/not-what-it-does/#who-it-does-it-to

As the historic writer/actor strike shows us, the resurgent labor movement and the senescent forces of crapulent capitalism are locked in a death-struggle over not just what digital tools do, but who they do it for and who they do it to:

https://locusmag.com/2022/01/cory-doctorow-science-fiction-is-a-luddite-literature/

When it comes to the epic fight over who technology acts for and against, we need a diversity of tactics, backstopped by tech operated by and for its users — and by laws that protect workers and the public. That dynamic is in sharp focus in UNITE Here Local 11’s strike against Orange County’s Laguna Cliffs Marriott Resort & Spa.

The UNITE Here strike turns on the usual issues like a living wage (hotel staff are paid so little they have to rent rooming-house beds by the shift, paying for the right to sleep in a room for a few hours at a time, without any permanent accommodation). They’re also seeking health-care and pensions, so they can be healthy at work and retire after long service. Finally, they’re seeking their employer’s support for LA’s Responsible Hotels Ordinance, which would levy a tax on hotel rooms to help pay for hotel workers’ housing costs (a hotel worker who can’t afford a bed is the equivalent of a fast food worker who has to apply for food stamps):

https://www.unitehere11.org/responsible-hotels-ordinance/

But the Marriott — which is owned by the University of California and managed by Aimbridge Hospitality — has refused to bargain, walking out negotiations.

But the employer didn’t walk out over wages, benefits or support for a housing subsidy. They walked out when workers demanded that the scabs that the company was trying to hire to break the strike be given full time, union jobs.

These aren’t just any scabs, either. They’re predominantly Black workers who rely on the $700m Instawork app for gigs. These workers are being dispatched to cross the picket line without any warning that they’re being contracted as strikebreakers. When workers refuse the cross the picket and join the strike, Instawork cancels all their shifts and permanently blocks them from new jobs.

This is a new, technologically supercharged form of illegal strikebreaking. It’s one thing for a single boss to punish a worker who refuses to scab, but Instawork acts as a plausible-deniability filter for all the major employers in the region. Like the landlord apps that allow landlords to illegally fix rents by coordinating hikes, Instawork lets bosses illegally collude to rig wages by coordinating a blocklist of workers who refuse to scab:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/company-that-makes-rent-setting-software-for-landlords-sued-for-collusion/?comments=1

The racial dimension is really important here: the Marriott has a longstanding de facto policy of refusing to hire Black workers, and whenever they are confronted with this, they insist that there are no qualified Black workers in the labor pool. But as soon as the predominantly Latino workforce struck, Marriott discovered a vast Black workforce that it could coerce into scabbing, in collusion with Instawork.

Now, all of this isn’t just sleazy, it’s illegal, a violation of Section 7 of the NLRB Act. Historically, that wouldn’t have mattered, because a string of presidents, R and D, have appointed useless do-nothing ghouls to run the NLRB. But the Biden admin, pushed by the party’s left wing, made a string of historic, excellent appointments, including NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo, who has set her sights on punishing gig work companies for flouting labor law:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/10/see-you-in-the-funny-papers/#bidens-legacy

UNITE HERE 11 has brought a case to the NLRB, charging the Instawork, the UC system, Marriott, and Aimbridge with violating labor law by blackmailing gig workers into crossing the picket line. The union is also asking the NLRB to punish the companies for failing to protect workers from violent retaliation from the wealthy hotel guests who have punched them and screamed epithets at them. The hotel has refused to identify these thug guests so that the workers they assaulted can swear out complaints against them.

Writing about the strike for Jacobin, Alex N Press tells the story of Thomas Bradley, a Black worker who was struck off all Instawork shifts for refusing to cross the picket line and joining it instead:

https://jacobin.com/2023/07/southern-california-hotel-workers-strike-automated-management-unite-here

Bradley’s case is exhibit A in the UNITE HERE 11 case before the NLRB. He has a degree in culinary arts, but racial discrimination in the industry has kept him stuck in gig and temp jobs ever since he graduated, nearly a quarter century ago. Bradley lived out of his car, but that was repossessed while he slept in a hotel room that UNITE HERE 11 fundraised for him, leaving him homeless and bereft of all his worldly possessions.

With UNITE HERE 11’s help, Bradley’s secured a job at the downtown LA Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites, a hotel that has bargained with the workers. Bradley is using his newfound secure position to campaign among other Instawork workers to convince them not to cross picket lines. In these group chats, Jacobin saw workers worrying “that joining the strike would jeopardize their standing on the app.”

Today (July 30) at 1530h, I’m appearing on a panel at Midsummer Scream in Long Beach, CA, to discuss the wonderful, award-winning “Ghost Post” Haunted Mansion project I worked on for Disney Imagineering.

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

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/30/computer-says-scab/#instawork

[Image ID: An old photo of strikers before a struck factory, with tear-gas plumes rising above them. The image has been modified to add a Marriott sign to the factory, and the menacing red eye of HAL9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' to the sky over the factory. The workers have been colorized to a yellow-green shade and the factory has been colorized to a sepia tone.]

Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg

CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

[asphodeldreams]

it's actually insane to me how many rvb fans have only gotten into the show in the past like 2 years. looking at the survey results so far is breaking my brain i think because 2022-2024 is in the top three for that question currently. like in the time between zero/family shatters and restoration there was practically NOTHING happening with the series what do you mean this many people STARTED watching it then?? also i see so many people on my dash who are like "watching for the first time i'm on season 6 teehee" HELLO?? should-should i tag for spoilers on my rvb posts??

[rastronomicals]

4:47 AM EDT April 6, 2024:

Cannonball Adderley - "Unit 7" From the album Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

[th3pwettiesgf]

WONBIN REPLYING TO SOMEONE WITH A SEUNGHAN PFP

[portlandnet]

2024.04.17 Basic Crisis Intervention – History and Evolution, with Lt. Jason Jones

[monstergirls-and-men]

"Mama, I'm chasin' a ghost... I don't know who he is."

With the release of Comic #7 and the return of Dad Spy(TM), I urge all of you to remember the Scout who really started this all.

BLU Team really got the short end of the stick, and while I love Dell with all my heart, I'd love to have gotten better representation for Builders League United in official content (though at this point I've rep'd the BLU Team a little too hard and written characters for them all... oops).

Either way, I deeply love these characters despite their flaws. Maybe one day, both Scouts can be recognized by their father—but until then, it seems that BLU will continue to be nothing more than the forgotten son hidden in his older brother's shadow.

[krazycat6167]

So @somerandomdudelmao made a version of their sona in a dystopia (inspired by @tapakah0 doing the same to theirs) and the person in this ask named the robot C.A.S.5 and I thought, ‘well then there’s at least four other C.A.S. units out and about in the world’ leading to this being the end result! It was a lot of fun to come up with the different customizations each C.A.S. unit has.

also, the design for C.A.S.4 (Cash) was partially inspired by @mobiitez post.

Doodles: