Turns out the UAW university strike vote is happening on May 13th, so still a while in the future. The leadership voting went alright though at least. The shittier part of the union still holds at the highest level, but there's more people in various campus level leadership positions, so the grassroot tendrils are still spreading.
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Well, certain linguistics quirks and tendencies were pre-programmed, but that doesn't necessarily mean that's all she was
Something I think was clever was the addition of Joi, and her role in the story. By the time this movie came out, the original Blade Runner had kind of percolated through society. Replicants being human isn’t really a mindblowing or challenging premise imo.
So to get a similar feeling and though exploration going, a new level of “fake” life needs to be introduced, one that the audience might not immediately accept. You can see that reflected in the movie where a replicant treats Joi like shit for being “artificial”, reproducing the oppression of replicants, despite the history and material context of the abuser. Seeing the movie explore Joi and her potential development and emergent autonomy was super cool. She was definitely my favorite part of the movie.
In addition to the strike authorization vote we're having next week, for UAW 4811 (the UC grad worker union), we're having leadership voting right now. Since our pay negotiation strike last year, and the spectacular displays of worker betrayal we've seen, we've been working on cutting out the more corrupt/collaborationist caucus in the union, but we only like halfway seized power in the aftermath. I'm really hoping they don't gain ground back, especially right before this potentially huge vote next week.
Got an email from my union president a few minutes ago. UAW 4811, the union of academic workers in the UC system, "voted to hold a strike authorization vote as early as next week to give the Executive Board authority to call a strike."
This is obviously in regards to the attack at the UCLA encampments. My opinion of the highest level of my union leadership is kinda bad, there's still a decent bit of corruption that hasn't been stamped out, but I think this might have been egregious enough for the other organs of the union below to push for this. This could be pretty huge if it goes through, there's 48000 people in the union altogether. This would be a massive amount of economic pressure, so I can only hope.
The strike authorization vote will be across the entire union membership, which is good. The membership is consistently better about things than the highest leadership levels.
Is Human Rights Watch an imperial puppet organization, or is it somewhat legitimate? I don't actually know what level of propaganda outlet they are.
I know Voice of America and BBC are terrible.
Pete does it to seize power and to kill more dogs. This lady just wants to go to space. Full respect.
Noooo! No creating things! Only financialization! CCP needs crypto freedom and high dollar solar panels.
Just like Kissinger unfortunately
Imagine if she gets nominated. I bet she'd trot around Bernie on a leash like a war trophy.