the anthony bourdain documentary ai thing raises some great ethical questions about the future of the digital age and what it means to be dead but still have a version of you exist afterward that you had little to no impact on but may very well be your legacy
yeah they just used him to say his own words but they could’ve gotten him to say “i love henry kissenger”. it’s just the same deepfaking debate but with a macabre undertone because the faked can’t defend themselves because they’re dead
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
“a dead man’s voice speaking his own words of despair is hardly the most dystopian application” it’s pretty damn close dude!
The Hellenic deities are parts of an actual religion. It was practiced thousands of years ago, it was practiced for thousands of years, and it is practiced today, thousands of years later. People who were not witches worshipped these gods. People who are not witches still worship these gods. It’s not a magical toolbox. It’s not a spell ingredient. It’s a religion with a long history that very much still exists today.
You want to work with these gods as a part of your witchcraft practice? That’s totally fine. But that is YOU and YOUR practice. Working with these gods has never required magic. Nobody interested in working with these gods is required to do the whole spiel that YOU choose do as a witch, as a part of YOUR practice.
Witchcraft is not an aspect of any religion, and no religion is an aspect of any type of witchcraft. There are many concepts commonly found in witchcraft today that have never existed in many religions. You want to apply witchcraft concepts to working with deities? That’s your choice. But other people don’t have to do what you do, and they shouldn’t be made to feel otherwise.
So, this hasn’t crossed my dash yet. (Not blaming anyone, there is soooo much going on in the world and I’d also missed it in the noise).
There is currently a strike at Frito-Lay. in Topeka. These workers are striking because:
They were being forced to work 84 hour weeks. The company’s best offer so far is a 60 hour cap. This is shit we fought for a century ago, people.
Their generous offer also includes a whole 4 percent wage increase…over the next 2 years. I’m not sure what COL is in Topeka, but… Well, it’s better than the entire 77 cents they’ve apparently gotten in the last decade.
There’s also a report that a worker literally collapsed and dropped dead on the line and the foreman’s response was to make them move the body out of the way and put in a replacement. (However, this is unconfirmed and, of course, the company denies it).
There have been multiple OSHA violations at this plant over the last few years, including a forklift accident that’s under investigation.
They’ve now been striking since July 5 but, of course, it only hit the national media yesterday.
Because Frito-Lay is refusing to budge. They are attempting to make the excuse that union leadership agreed to the 60 hour work week and crappy pay cut…when union leadership only agreed to put it to a vote.
And this means that we need to put the thumbscrews on them. Remember, this is about 19th century style working conditions.
So, I’m calling on my followers to boycott Frito Lay’s until the strike is involved.
Frito-Lay owns:
Lay’s
Doritos (Sorry. I really am. I KNOW there’s no good alternative to Doritos, although Zapp’s are good if you can find them).
Fritos
Tostitos
Cheetos
Ruffles
Sun Chips
Baken-ets
Chester’s
Cracker Jack
Islen plantain chips
Funyuns
Grandma’s (the cookies)
Matador Meat Snacks
Maui style potato chips
Miss Vickie’s
Munchies
Munchos
Rolled Gold
Sabritones
Santitas
Simply
Smartfood
Stacys
The Walking Taco
NatuChips
PopCorners (this one wasn’t on their website, but was bought by Pepsi’s in 2019 with the intent of adding it. So best avoided just in case).
Yes, this really is more than half of the snack aisle. Suggested alternatives:
Kettle Brand Chips
Zapp’s (If you can find them. My supermarket had them once and not since, so I’m guessing the culinary cowards in this neighborhood were afraid of “Voodoo” flavored chips).
Pringles
On the Border for salsa.
Wise Cheez Doodles
Bugles
Utz
Store own brand alternatives, if your store has ones that are any good.
Cheez-its
Check before you buy and let’s tell these people they don’t get to treat workers like that.
This was posted on FB recently by someone supporting the strike!
apparently my boss who is a professor at my school doesn’t have a cell phone and his coworkers were upset by this so they bought him a childs toy phone and labeled it “David’s jitterbug” (for those of you that don’t know jitterbugs are phones made for old people that have like massive buttons and shit) so the other day I walked into his office to ask him a question and he pressed a button on it which made it start loudly playing the ABCs and he said “excuse me I have to take this” and then started singing along to the ABCs while shooing me out of his office
this is the phone. he apparently was in the middle of a meeting with the department the other day and got annoyed so he pressed a button, said “I have to take this” and left
David’s co-workers probably: “This is a valid tactic to embarrass him into buying a mobile phone, right?”
David: “Bold of you to assume that I get embarrassed.”
I will NEVER stop reblogging this big dick energy.
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