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In short: US companies can apply for #mining rights in international waters, essentially bypassing international environmental regulations and protections meant to safeguard the ocean. This is a huge step towards the industrial #exploitation of the #DeepSea, which remains one of the last pristine frontiers on Earth.

And it’s not just a legal technicality, this is an environmental disaster in the making!

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Photo of massive green machine being released into the ocean 

While the world debates industrial fishing and offshore wind farms, a new corporate threat is creeping into the ocean. 

One that could strip-mine the seabed under the guise of 'green technology'


Yet more reasons to put NO business Amazon’s way. Quite apart from the fact that if you put another couple of minutes into the task something you have found there can be yours from the supplier for the equivalent or a lower price.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/18/amazon_algorithmic_worker_management

#SweatShop #Amazon #Exploitation #DontUseAmazon


#Starbucks: Employees stage #SitIn in #Chicago, 11 arrested for criminal trespass

https://www.irishstar.com/culture/food-drink/starbucks-strike-action-staff-34849435

#strike #strikes #union #unions #Pittsburgh #Eaton #StLouis #Seattle #PhilGee #capitalism #exploitation #ClassWar


Meanwhile, in #BadEconomy #fuckery

> Google Cofounder Exhorts Employees to Work 60-Hour Weeks to Create AI Designed to Replace Them https://futurism.com/google-sergey-brin-60-hour-week-ai

But yea, the #tech #HigherEd and #academia are rushing to embrace, including certain small campuses with #librarians who should know better.

#AI #Internet #assholes #BringBackGuillotines #jobs #work #labor #exploitation


Just in case anyone thought it was 'just' those nasty commercial employers (well, some of them at least) exploiting zero hour contracts to screwq their staff.

Oxford has no shame - well it probably never has had any... Probably a scheme p[romoted by some PPE nobhead and will undoubtedley be supported by other PPE nobjeads in government.

Grateful not to be in academia any more.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/mar/08/ive-lost-my-work-and-been-ostracised-oxford-university-accused-of-failing-to-act-after-ruling-on-sham-contracts

#Oxford #ShamEmployment #ZeroHours #Theft #Dienfranchisement #UKPolitics #Exploitation #NDA


welp. . remember #miami it's now - way more . . . sects" ? after the locals whoa ~
gangs imho in white collars. . . egh' ?
hiding up high. with what? ~
who what where when - how * ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKKBhoi8uag #division #manipulation #exploitation through * #social ' #media (s $ mofos .. even #fmradio ffs.. AM forget it craaaaay #conspiracy (s in #florida
MANY ' off gridder anti vax blame gf(s etc.. live in holy' lands everglades SUPER SKETCHY



Copied from Gearóid Ó Cuinn on Bsky:

“They’re the new #Caribbean pirates. They want to take our land.”

The Times reports on #exploitation of #Barbuda by billionaire colonial-style developers, & the strong community resistance.

We're supporting local legal strategies to stop land grabbing.

#press #BreakingNews #BlackMastodon

https://www.thetimes.com/world/latin-america/article/the-island-rebellion-to-save-princess-dianas-haven-from-developers-gld9w973x


There are huge advantages to this ‘box’ approach.

a. You gain a lot from their labor and energies.

b. Their labor and energies won’t go into anything that challenges your own power out in the ‘real world’.

c. You feel ‘free’ by comparison with them, and superior.

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#WorkersRights #Equality #Exploitation


Here’s how to do it:

1. Build a box. Make it secure.

2. Paint the inside of it in nice landscape colors.

3. Grow the people in that box so, with any luck, they’ll never know they’re in one.

4. Once they’re grown, you can assign those people very specific tasks – all of which serve the hierarchy that actually exists outside the box.

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#Workers #Unpaid #Exploitation #School #Education #Oppression #Capitalism


#Landlords gouge victims of #LAFires

by Judd Legum and Noel Sims, Jan 14, 2025

"The devastating fires in Los Angeles have killed 24 people. The fires have burned tens of thousands of acres, and hundreds of thousands of #Angelenos have been forced to evacuate. The blaze has destroyed at least 12,000 structures and thousands of people have nowhere to live.

"For most people, this is a horrific tragedy. But numerous landlords in the area are treating it as a #MoneyMaking opportunity.

"A review of rental listings revealed dozens of properties where the landlords have sharply increased their prices since the fires began on January 7. Popular Information used Zillow to identify rental homes in communities near the areas impacted by the fires — including #PacificPalisades, #SantaMonica, #ManhattanBeach, #HuntingtonBeach, and the #SanFernandoValley — that have increased their asking price over the last week.

"While not every rent increase is evidence of #exploitation, the timing and scale of many increases strongly suggest #PriceGouging is occurring.

"In Manhattan Beach, for example, Popular Information identified a five-bedroom home listed on December 31, 2024, for $8,750 per month. By Monday, the rent was bumped up 125 percent to $19,750 monthly.

"But it is not only luxury properties with ocean views whose prices have skyrocketed in the last week.

"A three-bedroom home in #Tujunga, listed for $4,100 on December 28, was increased to $8,500 on January 7, the day the Pacific Palisades fire broke out, 93 percent higher than its initial listing price."

Read more:
https://popular.info/p/landlords-gouge-victims-of-la-fires
#PredatoryLandlords #CapitalismKills #CapitalismMustDie #RentGouging #Unhoused #California #UnaffordableHousing #Housing


[Thread] Random excerpts from #KleeBenally 's book, #NoSpiritualSurrender

The Enemy of #MotherEarth

"From Mother Earth to our bodies, in a #capitalist system everything that can be reduced to a commodity will be. As long as it can be sold, bought, or otherwise exploited, nothing is sacred. So long as the lands (and by extension our bodies) are viewed this way we will have conflict, as #capitalism is the enemy of Mother Earth and all that we hold to be #sacred.

"In its base definition, capitalism is an economic and political system based on an unregulated or 'free' market, private property, competition, and limited government intervention. But the definition obscures the reality that capitalism is based upon extreme social #exploitation and dispossession, #EcologicalDestruction, #hyperindividualism and #materialism, and its history is rooted in #WhiteSupremacy, #cishetereopatriarchy, #genocide, and #slavery.

"To be anti-capitalist is not enough, anti-capitalist propositions rooted in #industrialism and #extractivism are just as invested in #ecocidal (therefore anti-Indigenous) economies. Killing the Earth is killing Indigenous existence, #Colonizers must religiously convince themselves and others that the world is already dead to justify their ongoing violence against the Earth and existence. In the face of global ecological ruin, some attempt to further convince themselves that killing the Earth just a little bit less is an appropriate response."

Pages 136-137

#IndigenousAnarchy #Ecosystem #DefendTheSacred #CorporateColonialism


6. Main-carer parents, arguably, should neither be powerless nor feel humiliated – as it's likely to be counterproductive to their wellbeing and performance.

7. Being unpaid leaves main-carer parents open to exploitation and manipulation, due to depending on the goodwill of others or society.

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#Oppression #Exploitation


About boundaries.

I’ve noticed a pattern about people who tell me I should have boundaries.

It’s that they usually mean (once it’s explained to me) I should have boundaries to keep out the needs and wishes of those less powerful than me or equal to me.

A thread. 🧵

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#Power #Hierarchy #Society #Capitalism #Exploitation #Oppression #Boundaries #Psychology


#Google tests delisting Danish Union of Journalists website - "the fact that a union’s website is hidden from its own members in Google searches only underlines the extent of Google’s power"

https://europeanjournalists.org/blog/2024/12/16/union-website-deindexed-by-google-in-the-firms-latest-search-experiment/

#union #unions #media #MediaLiteracy #SEPM #IFRRO #disinformation #capitalism #exploitation #corruption #ClassWar


On Australian government's #union takeover: "This s*** is not that complicated, if there are allegations, they go to court, they don't go to parliament, they don't do trial by #media."

https://www.lismorecitynews.com.au/story/8842894/workers-protest-cfmeu-takeover-as-court-battle-starts/whats-on/

#Australia #unions #MediaLiteracy #CFMEU #ETU #Canberra #capitalism #exploitation #corruption #ClassWar


Twelve signs you're exploiting someone... or trying to!

A thread about how to spot power struggles in personal relationships.

https://mas.to/@KatyElphinstone/113581417015412079

#Exploitation #Bullying #PowerDynamics


This thread is meant as a resource for confused #autistic people, on social dynamics & power hierarchies.

In the posts below are links to various threads & articles I've compiled on this topic.

Sometimes it's only when you add a number of elements (each one unremarkable on its own), that you see a pattern.

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#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #Autistic #Heirarchy #Society #Power #Capitalism #Education #Parenting #AuDHD #Exploitation


Bezos says he is ‘very optimistic’ about Trump’s plan to roll back regulations

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/05/jeff-bezos-trump-regulations-tech

I am sure he is - he will get even more leeway to feck the workers than he got from the Democrats (already digraceful by any meaure of a civilised society).

#Bezos #Amazon #Exploitation #onePerCent


Venal #exploitation of the "misinformed"🤔

About 20% of #Americans regularly get their #news from #influencers on #socialmedia
"findings drawn fr a #survey of more than 10,000 #USadults.. Racial #minorities, #youngadults & adults with #lowerincome were more likely to get their news fr #newsinfluencers, according to e report.. #Media analysts have long been concerned abt how influencers - most of whom don't hv to abide by #editorial #standards - could fuel #misinformation"
https://apnews.com/article/influencers-election-trump-harris-news-eacd42bce73d6e11cbc760caf28c993a