Open post Sorry, not sorry I’m Canadian 🇨🇦 @hannsf@mstdn.ca · 2mo ago Replying to @cdarwin@c.im When the United States ratified the 13th amendment in 1865, federal lawmakers very nearly outlawed slavery for good — but not entirely. Tucked within arguably the most important corner of the US constitution is a massive caveat: “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States” In the 160-some years since that amendment, a quieter type of forced servitude has lived on in the US: prison labor. From the debt peonage of the post-Civil War reconstruction era to the privatized contracting of the 21st century, prison labor is a massive money maker, generating $11 billion worth of goods in 2022 alone. As horrifying a thought as it is, one of the companies still benefiting from the practice is in the news for another reason: spreading a gut-busting diarrhea parasite through mass-produced shredded lettuce in grocery stores and fast food outlets. It turns out that Taylor Farms, the agricultural company widely believed to be behind the cyclospora outbreakcurrently raging throughout the US, is also heavily involved in modern-day forced labor #forcedlabor #TaylorFarms https://futurism.com/science-energy/diarrhea-lettuce-taylor-farms-prison-labor @cdarwin@c.im Seems like Canada should be sanctioning the USA [an imposing stiff tariffs] for using forced labour
Open post Sorry, not sorry I’m Canadian 🇨🇦 @hannsf@mstdn.ca · 42mo ago Replying to @mmasnick@mastodon.social <p>I've boosted a few others pointing out this article, but I gotta say, I find it absolutely hilarious that Taibbi went from Musk bootlicker to effectively off the site and shadowbanned in 48 hours... especially since one of Taibbi's big (misleading and misunderstood) scoops was about Twitters visibility filtering... <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/10/after-matt-taibbi-leaves-twitter-elon-musk-shadow-bans-all-of-taibbis-tweets-including-the-twitter-files/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">techdirt.com/2023/04/10/after-</span><span class="invisible">matt-taibbi-leaves-twitter-elon-musk-shadow-bans-all-of-taibbis-tweets-including-the-twitter-files/</span></a></p> @mmasnick Elon will run Twitter like a fascist dictatorship. Anybody remaining on the bird site is enabling Elon
Open post Sorry, not sorry I’m Canadian 🇨🇦 @hannsf@mstdn.ca · 2mo ago Replying to @dbattistella@mstdn.ca @Ayzacoder: Attention if you have a Gmail account: Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places: #Google #Email #Privacy #AI @dbattistella@mstdn.ca Is there a concern if I do not use the Gmail app, or web app? I get all my email [gmail, outlook, etc.] downloaded to my Apple Mail client