MAYA ANGELOU ―the poet laureate, 3 time Grammy winner, National Medal of Arts and Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree― once worked as a SEX WORKER; both as labor and management.
there’s a whole generation of BLACK nanas and aunties that had to do what they had to do to care for our families. sex work isn't just the sex. many Black brothels were social, cultural, health centers for our communities.
#Meta to cut 10% of staff as it pours billions into #AI
Meta said Thursday it plans to lay off roughly 10% of its workforce, or about 8,000 people, the latest in a string of #tech industry #layoffs fueled in part by #ArtificialIntelligence.
The company is also closing around 6,000 open roles, Janelle Gale, Meta’s chief people officer, wrote in a memo published by Bloomberg.
#DOJ settles with #IBM over alleged #DEI practices After the “modest” [we’re paying you a pittance just to get you leave us be] $17 million agreement with the company, #Trump admin attempted to paint it as a win saying they expect it to be the first of many such settlements.
Even at my most secure, it’s never really safe for me to write. I didn’t realize that until recently. . . . [I]n a country without much of a safety net, you are dependent on what you and yours can accumulate. Any energy diverted to something other than accumulation is a risk. If you lose your job—or get hurt . . . —what you have accumulated has to last until your next opportunity, if there is one.
The energy others put into securing career advancement I devoted to #writing. . . . I have no idea how much money I would need to accumulate before I could believe writing was safe for me. I wish it could be, because I’m not sure I can stop doing it. But maybe it’ll always be a risk.
