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Microsoft Workers 4 Good retweeted
This morning I took a look into the MSPAC donations via @OpenSecretsDC. In 2020, MSPAC donated to roughly a third of all representatives who pledged to not uphold the election results. Accounting to 1 in 10 dollars donated by the PAC.
@bradsmi / @SatyaNadella Shut down the PAC.
ALT A list of names of US politicians who MSPAC have donated to: Ted Budd , Jeff Duncan, Jason Smith, Billy Long, Sam Graves, Guy Reschenthaler, Mike Kelly, Lloyd Smucker, John Joyce, John Rutherford, William Timmons, Kevin Hern, Chuck Fleischmann, Jim Jordan, Richard Hudson, Ron Estes, Elise Stefanik, Chris Stewart, Russ Fulcher, Andy Biggs, Jackie Walorski, Tim Walberg, Warren Davidson, John Carter, Jim Banks, Adrian Smith, Markwayne Mullin, Jodey Arrington, Blaine Luetkemeyer, Mike Johnson, Ben Cline, Michael Waltz
Microsoft Workers 4 Good retweeted
The MSPAC has a tricky task of donating to the 2 main American political parties to be partisan.
Alas this tends to favor one party in particular. (maybe systemic bias? maybe it's easier to give $ to R? or just assumes R will win?)
ALT A graph of red vs blue bars for MSPAC donations, Red is higher almost every year
Microsoft Workers 4 Good retweeted
Microsoft Workers 4 Good retweeted
Imagine you're one of those overrated tech hipster engineers making a grand $150K a year. How long would it take for you to reach Amazon's $1 trillion value?
We are not the same as the ruling class
#MakeAmazonPay
1%6 million years
12%7 million years
88%Okay okay, unionize!
137 votes • Final results Microsoft Workers 4 Good retweeted
When gig workers go on strike, we all go on strike. If we don’t, by the time our own #Prop22 arrives from the bosses, there will be no one left to fight with us
Latest edition of @twcnewsletter by @jesse_squires
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Microsoft Workers 4 Good retweeted
THREAD/ ‼️ Today is a big win for @ClimateGooglers and tech activists everywhere: @Google announced a new environmental pledge to run its operations on 100% carbon-free energy by 2030. See below for our response ⤵️
Microsoft Workers 4 Good retweeted
Go to BigTechLovesBigOil.com to sign the petition – tell @Google that they MUST take a stronger stance against extractive industries!
Carbon neutrality isn't enough – Google is one of the biggest+wealthiest companies on Earth.
We CAN and SHOULD hold them to a higher standard!
Google, Amazon, and Microsoft can't really call themselves"green" if they still have Big Oil contracts! #greenwashing #BigTechLovesBigOil Sign with us: #ClimateAction #digitalaction actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
Microsoft Workers 4 Good retweeted
Do you use Google search? Google maps? Google docs? Google photos? Youtube? Do you have an Android phone?
YOU ARE A GOOGLE USER.
Let @Google know you are NOT okay with them putting profits over the health and wellbeing of the planet (and everyone on it!)
#BigTechLovesBigOil
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Microsoft Workers 4 Good retweeted
We need a permanent stop to selling facial recognition to law enforcement, not just a temporary halt for police. And: even if the recognition models were perfect, this surveillance tech is too dangerous to communities to justify.
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Microsoft Workers 4 Good retweeted
If @amazon really needed the naming rights, a better choice might have been to name it after some of the employees who advocated for and inspired Amazon's climate action. Oh wait... they fired them instead. @emahlee @marencosta @AMZNforClimate
Welcome to #ClimatePledgeArena!
Today @amazon, @oakviewgroup & @NHLSeattle_ announced a partnership that will name the New Arena at #SeattleCenter, #ClimatePledge Arena. It will be the first net zero carbon certified arena in the world.
Learn more → climatepledgearena.com
Microsoft Workers 4 Good retweeted
There is no safe way to use facial recognition for surveillance purposes. It's fundamentally incompatible with basic human rights.
That's why we're redoubling our call for lawmakers everywhere to #BanFacialRecognition.
Take action at BanFacialRecognition.com
Microsoft Workers 4 Good retweeted
Big caveat, they say they'll stop until there are "national standards," which is code for "legislation that our corporate lawyers help write to ensure it is friendly to our business model."
But make no mistake: this is a huge deal, and it's the result of tireless organizing.
Microsoft Workers 4 Good retweeted
HOLY SHIT. THIS IS BIG.
@amazon is known not to change course for anyone, and this is only temporary, but it is a big step.
This technology is widely held by civil rights groups to be racially-biased and, especially now, it should not be in the hands of police departments.
AMAZON: “We’re implementing a one-year moratorium on police use of Amazon’s facial recognition technology.”
blog.aboutamazon.com/policy/…
Microsoft Workers 4 Good retweeted
THREAD
@Amazon, stop performative #BlackLivesMatter support. Immediately end your police surveillance contracts with 1,360 police departments - including 30 added since the murder of George Floyd (one only 9 miles away from Minneapolis) #AntiBlackAmazon
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Microsoft Workers 4 Good retweeted
Thank you to everyone--organizers, researchers, workers--who made not selling facial recognition a safer bet than selling it.
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Microsoft Workers 4 Good retweeted
A thread about AI injustice.
Last weekend, my sister in Boston wrote me an email breathing fire over the attached story. She could not believe that in these explosive news times, Microsoft would fire human journalists in favor of AI. 1/ msn.com/en-in/news/other/rob…
Microsoft Workers 4 Good retweeted
Actions speak louder than words. Amazon's words mean nothing when they are firing Black employees organizing for better working conditions, when leadership planned racist smears against Chris Smalls, calling him "not smart or articulate," ... (cont)
Microsoft Workers 4 Good retweeted
1. Sincere donations to frontline, grassroots organizations are critical right now. AND
2. If you are writing 6 figure checks but not investing in systemic policy change at the local level (hiring a lobbyist, starting a PAC, etc.), 1 is a bandaid.
DO BOTH.
Don't know how? ASK ME
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Ed Smith, one of the first African Americans to work in video games, has published an autobiography! We're adding this immediately to our library, and you should too. Let's support capturing more black voices in our video game history canon: amazon.com/Imagine-That-Amer…
