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[Link] Starbucks CEO Announces NFTs to Workers Amid Union Drive
Read: 5/4/2022 www.vice.com
In a town hall meeting on Monday aimed at Starbucks workers amid a massive union drive, failed presidential candidate and Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz revealed a development that he hoped would excite workers: crypto.
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[Link] Guy Whose Companies Keep Getting Sued For Discrimination Threatens to 'Improve' Twitter
Read: 5/4/2022 www.vice.com
Elon Musk has joined the board at Twitter, saying he plans to make several improvements to the platform.
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[Link] Amazon referred to US attorney general over ‘potentially criminal conduct’
Read: 13/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
Members of the Democratic-controlled House judiciary committee have referred Amazon to the Department of Justice, alleging “potentially criminal conduct” by the company and some of its senior executives.
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[Link] US lawmakers seek criminal probe of Amazon for lying about use of seller data
Read: 9/3/2022 arstechnica.com
Amazon lied to Congress about its use of third-party seller data, the House Judiciary Committee said today. In a letter to the Department of Justice, the committee chairs asked prosecutors to investigate the company for criminal obstruction of Congress.
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[Link] Peloton Apologizes to 2800 Laid-Off Workers With Free Memberships
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
Peloton, the fitness and technology company, announced Tuesday that it was laying off 2,800 people as it attempts to right the ship following a string of controversies and corporate missteps that led to production stoppages, price increases, and a plunging share price.
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[Link] ‘Just never going to be OK’: report finds luxury brands falling behind on animal welfare
Read: 6/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
Despite recent commitments from the luxury fashion industry to reduce its environmental footprint, a report has revealed luxury fashion brands are among the worst in the industry for animal welfare, driven by their continued use of fur and exotic animal skins.
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[Link] Exploitation complaints almost nil: Coles
Read: 2/12/2021 7news.com.au
Supermarket giant Coles says the rate of work exploitation complaints in its supply chain has dropped to almost zero over the past year.
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[Link] Prosecution gets Elizabeth Holmes to admit she was in control of Theranos
Read: 2/12/2021 arstechnica.com
At this point in her criminal trial, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' best chance for acquittal is for the jury to believe that she was a puppet being controlled by her boyfriend, company president Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani. Yesterday, the prosecution attempted to pick apart that defense.
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[Link] The McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hacking Saga Has a New Twist
Read: 1/12/2021 www.wired.com
Six months ago, a tiny startup called Kytch sued Taylor, the billion-dollar manufacturer of McDonald's notoriously broken ice cream machines.
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[Link] Westpac admits to charging 11,000 dead customers, ASIC sues for 'widespread' breaches
Read: 29/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has launched six court cases against Westpac for alleged, widespread compliance failures that affected thousands of deceased consumers.
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[Link] Elizabeth Holmes throws scientists under the bus
Read: 24/11/2021 arstechnica.com
Elizabeth Holmes would like the jury to know that scientists, at Theranos and at other companies, led her astray. One of those scientists was Ian Gibbons, who led Theranos’ scientific research efforts.
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[Link] Ninth Circuit Tells NSO Group It Isn't A Government, Has No Immunity From WhatApp's Lawsuit
Read: 21/11/2021 www.techdirt.com
Long before its current run of Very Bad News, Israeli malware purveyor NSO Group was already controversial. Investigations had shown its exploits were being used to target journalists and activists and its customer list included governments known mostly for their human rights abuses.
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[Link] Outrage as McDonald’s CEO appears to blame parents of slain Chicago children
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
McDonald’s chief executive, Chris Kempczinski, has sparked outrage after the emergence of a text exchange with the Chicago mayor, Lori Lightfoot, in which he appears to blame two Chicago parents whose children were fatally shot.
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[Link] Uber drivers tell Senate inquiry of abuse, false complaints and suspensions during Covid
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Uber drivers in Sydney and Melbourne have been temporarily suspended from the service for asking customers to wear face masks in their cars, a Senate committee has been told.
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[Link] New York City Taxi Drivers Win Debt Deal After 15-Day Hunger Strike
Read: 4/11/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
The New York Taxi Workers Alliance has declared victory in its struggle with the city government that had made millions artificially inflating the price of taxi medallions and then left taxi drivers to suffocate under debt as those prices plummeted in the age of Uber.
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[Link] How the 'Craigslist of Guns' Helps Arm Cartels in Mexico
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Investigators traced guns found in the border city of Reynosa back to Americans who used the website Armslist.
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[Link] Facebook has ruined our reality, now it’s coming for the metaverse too
Read: 31/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
“Facebook”. The word paints a thousand pictures, every one of them a portrait of some element of the human condition I could happily live without. Message requests from veterans in Montana that read, “Hello beautiful Lady.
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[Link] Red Spice Road owners publish open letter about unpaid former staff
Read: 31/10/2021 www.theage.com.au
The owners of popular city restaurant Red Spice Road, which planned to reopen without contacting or paying the staff it sacked in May, have released an open letter claiming there had been a terrible misunderstanding.
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[Link] Netflix hit with unfair labor charge from suspended and fired employees
Read: 31/10/2021 www.avclub.com
After weeks of controversy surrounding its release of—and then vocal high-level support for—the transphobic material in Dave Chappelle’s comedy special The Closer, streaming giant Netflix now faces an unfair labor charge from two of its current/former employees.
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[Link] Zuckerberg’s role in Facebook rebrand may backfire, experts say
Read: 31/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Mark Zuckerberg’s effort to remove “negative associations” between Facebook and its parent company may be undermined by his decision to front the launch of its rebranding as Meta, experts have said.
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[Link] Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horrible Company
Read: 29/10/2021 www.vice.com
Facebook’s new name is “Meta,” and its new mission is to invent a ‘metaverse’ that will make us all forget what it’s done to our existing reality.
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[Link] Uber Wants In On All That Positive Hertz-Tesla Press
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
On Tuesday, Hertz announced it is buying 100,000 Teslas as part of a massive push into electric vehicles. This is a smart move by Hertz, because renting electric vehicles, especially in the U.S., is currently very difficult.
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