“I didn’t sign the arbitration agreement,” Diaz explained. “These companies are using arbitration to effectively turn workers into slaves.”
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Nasa Accuses Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Of “Prioritizing Itself Over Every Other Person Alive Today”
The legal dispute with Blue Origin has thwarted collaboration between Nasa and SpaceX, delaying the 2024 deadline for the lunar mission.
Amazon’s AI Cameras Punish Delivery Drivers If They Look At Their Side Mirrors Too Much
“A car cuts me off to move into my lane, and the camera, in this really dystopian dark, robotic voice, shouts at me,” a Los Angeles delivery driver said.
Bitcoin Price Plummets After China Makes Crypto Transactions Illegal
The Chinese central bank said that digital currencies “cannot be used in the market as money” and banned companies from using cryptocurrency exchanges.
Crypto-Trading Hamster Performs Better Than Bitcoin, Warren Buffett, And The Nasdaq 100
Following the Wall Street trend of using bots, NPR’s Planet Money built its own stock-picking method in 2017 that invested money based on Trump’s tweets.
Trump’s CIA, Along With Pompeo, Discussed Kidnapping Or Assassinating Julian Assange
Talk of kidnapping or killing Assange happened “at the highest levels” of the administration, a counterintelligence official claimed. “There seemed to be no boundaries.”
Billionaires Grew Their Ranks By 13.4%–Making The Pandemic A “Windfall To Billionaire Wealth”
“The issue of widening inequality may well spur more concerted re-distributive policy efforts in areas such as tax and regulation,” the report pointed out.
Bitcoin’s Price “Flash Crash” Obliterates Over $200 Billion From Crypto Market
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele tweeted that he saw the crypto market crash as an opportunity to “buy the dip.”
Zuck Made Deal With Trump–No Fact Checks On Political Posts For No New Regulations On FB
“Facebook had long seen itself as a government unto itself,” wrote author Max Chafkin, “the site would push what the Thiel confidant called ‘state-sanctioned conservatism.'”
Scientists Propose Using Blood, Sweat, And Urine To Make Bricks For Building Bases On Mars
“The concept is literally blood-curdling,” said researcher Aled Roberts. The bodily fluids of astronauts can be used to build future colonies on Mars through a novel method.
