Damming the Amazon feat. Alex Press
It's the free one!
This week, Riley, Milo, Alice, and Hussein join special guest Alex Press (@alexnpress) of Jacobin magazine and the Primer podcast (@primerpod) about the Stratford Orb, another union-busting app, and the news that the Amazon union election has to do a re-run (and the Teamsters are getting involved!). You will enjoy this.
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Ah I felt that so hard when Alice said reasonable people will say "at least someone's doing it". Reminded me of this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57712618 John Lewis building 10,000 new rental to "combat the housing crisis".
I'm just imagining a Boeing 767 and a gigantix shining orb. Not sure what connects these two ideas, nor at which velocity the 3rd, connecting idea, would be.
"Improving school buses services by letting some guy with a van do it who says he'll work for basically free" is very upsetting
You've experienced Millennium Tier Dome, but... Are you ready for https://www.newagedomeconstruction.com/ ?
new age dome is when you date a tiktok mlm witch
The FPF (Reactor Guards) are possibly the most psychotic security agency in the US. Their defense plans basically guarantee mass civilian casualties. Also they’re mercenaries.
Love to see how we now have the Palantir from LOTR, but it's shit and it's only for advertising useless crap no one wants.
What if we made the Mountains of Mordor, but shit and expensive? (l checked. Elven isn't in the Unicode standard. Yet. Given that it would probably make Peter Thiel happy, we will probably rue the day it's included).
Alice losing her composure to the mental imagery of the Orb Baz was brilliant
Got to say hearing about this orb got to love that London is going to make the Dawn Machine and I for one welcome my new artificial god powered by human souls
I welcome the giant orb but I do think it could be larger
Amazon is the us empire's east india company
I like to think of it as Shinra Corp from Final Fantasy 7, but I totally get the vibe.
Hey, Steve Bannon was arrested by the United States Postal Inspection Service for wire fraud. Which is how most of us found out that the USPS even has an enforcement arm.
Within a couple months, we'll get an episode which is just a Milo Rant
I would like to propose the name Skoolbussy
As someone born and raised in bow, absolutely loved milo’s Olympic legacy rant
London as ‘cringe cyberpunk’ is agonisingly close to home
You’re not on the run from an omnipresent AI, you’re on the run from your landlord who’s an app with an inbuilt mental health text counselling service
how many more years until Jacobin goes full Spiked magazine?
See, the problem with this hypothesis is that Jacobin is mostly run by socdems, not weird Trots, so their path to corruption is The Grauniad, not Spiked.
I live a 15 min walk from this proposed the giant glowing orb and thoroughly enjoyed traffic chat.