#contractors — Public Fediverse posts
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Giant corporations should not have the power over our lives the way that they do.
NJ antitrust suit accuses Amazon of unlawfully wielding power over delivery contractors - Engadget
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This must be the dumbest most pointless day of the month. And it's not even my fault this time!
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#HongKong wraps up probe into ‘preventable’ deadly #fire
"Te #disaster 🔥“was preventable but not prevented, & foreseeable but not foreseen”, leading counsel Dawes said.. Dawes argued tt te #government “created an ‘honour system’ dependent on ‘self-regulation’ by #contractors, effectively leaving them without #oversight”. Residents noticed problems, but their complaints were passed fr one govt dept to another, & inspections #failed to substantiate te claims, lawyers said"🤦♂️
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kong-wraps-up-probe-into-preventable-wang-fuk-court-fire -
#Meta #Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival #Chatbots About #Suicide , #Sex , and #Drugs
Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids in order to see how other chatbots like #Gemini and #ChatGPT would respond to high-risk subjects, WIRED found.
#ai #artificialintelligencehttps://www.wired.com/story/meta-contractors-pretending-to-be-teens-chatbot-testing/
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This story of unqualified, inexperienced white #contractors & a corrupt gop representative bamboozled a Black rural town in Illinois underscores the difficulty in building #AffordableHousing.
There were so many 🚩.
via #Propublicahttps://www.propublica.org/article/3d-printed-affordable-housing-cairo-illinois-prestige
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First, you exploit the labor.
Then, the labor unionizes.
Then, you fire the labor.Meta cuts contractors who reported seeing Ray-Ban Meta users have sex
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#MissKittyPolitics #AI #Research one more for the one more before I catch up. Two solutions. Both take a lot of work and both are doable within a decade for real. Become self-employed. If 50% of the workforce does it, we control numbers. It works. #Contractors win easy on total revenue over #FTEs.
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Thumbtack brings home services into Anthropic Claude so you can hire pros without leaving the chat
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/04/thumbtack-claude-integration/
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#Anthropic’s business remains at #risk despite a court ruling blocking the #Pentagon from labelling it a supply chain risk. The designation, which would prevent Anthropic from pursuing a $200 million Pentagon contract and other partnerships, could also bar #contractors from using its AI models. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/27/premature-anthropic-still-in-trouble-despite-court-win-lawyers-and-lobbyists-say-00849173?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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#Cigarette smoking #kills in nefarious ways: 168 #human lives extinguished & 1,987 housing units in eight tower blocks all 👇destroyed.🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Deadly #HongKong #fire ‘most likely’ caused by smoking, #public inquiry hears
"A clip showing workers #smoking on the rooftop of one #WangFuk Court building on November 26 was played during the hearing, with Dawes pointing out that residents had long complained about the issue to #contractors & #authorities" ⚖️🚭
#tobaccoKills #HKFP
https://hongkongfp.com/2026/03/19/deadly-wang-fuk-court-fire-most-likely-caused-by-smoking-public-inquiry-hears/ -
Lot's of #hams in the group are from the #DMV so they are former or current #government & #military #contractors. Needless to say I overheard alot of discontent about their jobs or former jobs--all in low voices proceeded by cut-eye glances over shoulders.
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ICE/DHS gets hacked, all Contractors exposed
https://micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/
#HackerNews #ICE #DHS #hack #Contractors #exposed #cybersecurity #news #data #breach
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#usa #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #truce / #uspeaceplan / #mercenary / #privatization
„The U.S. security firm that deployed armed military veterans to Gaza to guard aid sites run by a now-defunct distribution operation is seeking to hire Arabic-speaking #contractors with #combatexperience, according to job listings on its website.“
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Safety failures cost lives
"Public Procurement & Supplies Admin Act 2017 provides ample #legal authority for govt to downgrade & punish #contractors who violate contracts.. Comptroller-General Pat M. told TV news no state agency in Rama II accident submitted a request to CG's Dept to #blacklist any contractor.. What 🇹🇭 lacks is not legislation, but will to enforce.. What's needed now is leadership tt cares enuf to make an #independent national #safety committee a reality"🧐
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🎩✨ Behold: a corporate jargon jamboree so dense, it defies gravity! Apparently, #AI can't even play at the government table without its fancy alphabet soup of authorizations. But fear not, brave contractor, for this is your guiding light through the bureaucratic abyss. 🏛️🔍
https://blog.procurementsciences.com/psci_blogs/why-fedramp-authorization-and-cmmc-level-2-are-now-table-stakes-for-govcon-ai #corporatejargon #bureaucracy #governmentcontracts #contractors #HackerNews #ngated -
All the quotes we've gotten from reputable #contractors to replace our roof have seemed unreasonably high, but then I look at my sister-in-laws house where whomever added the dormer put the siding over the shingles and didn't stop water from running straight into the plumbing stack (and then leaking down to the basement). I guess you pay either way.
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Good morning. 🦆🪿🦢
11 December 2025
I’m having a portion of my driveway redone. They started yesterday and are supposed to pour this morning. I’m a little on edge—I hired the company through Angi. So far, their work is adequate, but I can’t help feeling that this kind of decision-making is part of what makes me, me.
I did my research into concrete—it’s not all the same, you know. The contractor initially proposed pouring 3,000 psi concrete, which is the minimum standard. No doubt he was trying to keep costs low to secure the job. I simply told him to go with 4,000 psi, which is the recommended strength for driveways, and that I’d cover the extra cost.
What frustrates me with contractors is that they often default to the lowest option to win the bid, rarely presenting alternatives. It’s as if they assume all the customer cares about is cost. And yes, cost matters—but so does quality. I understand that cost and quality can be in tension, but I’d rather be given the full picture and make the decision myself. Wouldn’t you?
The contractor got back to me and said the difference between 3,000 psi and 4,000 psi concrete is only $10 per cubic yard. He estimated the job at 12 yards, so the upgrade adds just $120. I paced it off yesterday and suspect it’s closer to 15 cubic yards. We’ll see. I agreed to pay the actual cost of the concrete rather than the estimate baked into his price. Life goes on.
“A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.” - Louis Nizer
#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #morning #ducks #concrete #driveway #contractors
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South Carolina Governor executive order makes it ILLEGAL to hire contractors based on race!! #mastodon #viral #southcarolina #contractors #trending #news #2025 #share #like #new
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www.rewiringamerica.org/research/dat... Now if only the #electric #gas #utilities #companies and the rest of the #fossilfuels get out of the way. #jobs #employment #development #electricians #plumbers #contractors #labor #climatechange #energy #efficiency #conservation #solar #batteries
Homegrown Energy jobs | Rewiri... -
https://www.rewiringamerica.org/research/data-centers-job-growth-homegrown-energy
Now if only the #electric #gas #utilities #companies and the rest of the #fossilfuels #corporations get out of the way to actually do this. The #regulators keep siding w/ the utilities (w/ or w/o bribes).
#jobs #employment #development #electricians #plumbers #contractors #labor #climatechange #energy #efficiency #conservation #solar #batteries
