[Tubby Isaacs]

There's a referendum in Virginia on redistricting. Democrats are responding to the explicit, Trump ordered gerrymandering in other states, and want to do be able to do the same in Virginia.

It's quite astonishing how the state legislature in lots of states gets to redraw maps to the advantage of their party. Virginia requires a bipartisan commission to set its maps, but can overrule that with a referendum. Hence this.

Same situation happened in California, which voted Yes by a bigger margin that the general political slant of the state. Hopefully that happens in Virginia too.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Virginia’s new map passes. Looks closer than I expected.

[mattomac]

I was called a Nazi for asking someone why the Democrats are fascists when there seemed no issue with the Republicans doing it? And why are they planning on putting ICE agents on polling stations.

I wished the Russian bot a very unsuccessful year in war with Ukraine.

[Spoonman]

What in the fuck... I say, what in the fuck is this late stage capitalism bullshit?

‘Uber for nurses’: gig-work apps lobby to deregulate healthcare, report finds

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... rk-ai-apps

Billion-dollar tech platforms are aggressively pushing for deregulation of the “Uber for nursing” industry in an effort to expand gig work in the healthcare sector, according to a report published on Tuesday.

The report from the AI Now Institute, Uber for Nursing Part II: How Gig Nursing Companies Are Lobbying States to Deregulate Healthcare, examines the use of artificial intelligence to staff hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

The report warns that growing use of the technology comes at the expense of workers’ rights, protections and pay.

As has increasingly become the case with ride-share companies, the “Uber for nurses” model relies on artificial intelligence to set pay rates for work shifts, to surveil performance metrics, and to use that data to determine a worker’s future access to gigs and pay rates. The industry also allows nurses to bid on work shifts, with the lowest pay rate winning the shift.

Only 'murica for now, but don't rule out something similar over here if Reform get a whiff of power.