Douglas Edwards 
@dedicto@zeroes.ca
My Sumerian AMARGI stands for debt jubilee (its original meaning), NOT right-libertarianism! Handle is from Latin "de dicto", technical term in philosophy. #ZeroCOVID, vaxed 10 times. Always mask with N95 in public. Own 3 Aranet4 CO2 monitors. Self-diagnosed with #AuDHD in late 2024 at age 67, after reading '"Autism is a spectrum" doesn't mean what you think' (Lynch 2019, NeuroClastic). Coined use of the word #kaleidotropic to refer to an autistic thought pattern. Alt: dedicto@mastodon.social
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RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116981152027273133
I keep telling everyone: THEY WANT US DEAD. This isn't about saving money; that's just a rationalization. They've convinced themselves that #AI can do all the work, and as far as they're concerned, we can all die of #heatstroke.
Hannah #Arendt predicted, in the 1960s, the rise of a version of #fascism that wouldn't be content with targeting certain minorities. It would no longer rely on the labor of some supposed human master race. Instead, it would rely on automation, and its aim would be the extermination of everyone outside a tiny elite #oligarchy.
And here we are.
With exhaustion and #heatstroke for all.
#exterminism #DeathWithDeniability
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A Republican-controlled House committee passed legislation earlier this week that would
prevent the US Labor Department from enacting federal standards to protect workers from extreme heat
-- a move that came amid sweltering heat across the country.
The Heat Workforce Standards Act,
led by Rep. Mark Messmer (R-Ind.),
passed the House Education and Workforce Committee on Tuesday in a 18-15 vote along party lines.
If enacted, the legislation would bar the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) from implementing nationwide heat protections for workers
—including those proposed by the Biden administration in 2024.
The Biden Labor Department estimated that its proposed rules would protect around 36 million workers.
Trump’s Labor Department has done nothing to move forward with the Biden-era proposal.
https://therealnews.com/amid-deadly-temperatures-gop-advances-bill-to-ban-federal-heat-protections-for-workers
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