https://twitter.com/FalconryFinance/status/2043107160301895841
All you had to do was pay us enough to live
The algorithms aggressively pushing this to get hold of the attention economy will likely increase the probability of copy-cats.
This is why commies say the revolution will not be televised. No rational government in history would/has do/done such a thing.
But we don’t have rational actors, we only have algorithms and the markets.
The algorithms aggressively pushing this to get hold of the attention economy will likely increase the probability of copy-cats
beautiful real life example of capitalism containing the seeds of its own destruction
they are really selling us the rope we will hang them with. i’m expecting they clamp down on this shit sooner rather than later though, they can’t be that stupid.
The last corpos algorithm will sell us the agitprop that their employees will be inspired to destroy them with.
They have a choice between either putting that content on their own platforms or watching visitors trickle to competing platforms where they can get that content.
Much as newspapers have a choice between printing news about such actions or watching people buy competing newspapers that have it in there. They print it while putting their own spin on the events.
Really the only difference between the two is that the editor of the newspaper is a human hand while the editor of the internet plaforms is the algorithm. They have degraded their control by handing things over to automation. The algorithm will never be a spindoctor, even with ai.
This happened 3 days ago and was caused by faulty solar panels catching fire on the rooftop.
This is the same video as on the tweet. It was posted on tiktok 3 days ago. The tweeter claims this happened today. https://www.tiktok.com/@rocio1821/video/7626431313540631839
Remember when the East Palestine Ohio chemical spill train crash happened and then for like a week we everyone was talking about every train crash but also train crashes aren’t that uncommon?
Maybe factory fires aren’t that rare and most of them are caused by faulty equipment.
I think there are a lot of fires. Here is a query for “Structural Fires” classified as “Other commercial building fires” in NYC, during the month of March 2025 (excluding simultaneous calls): Fire Incident Dispatch Data | NYC Open Data
There are 342 entries, a bit more than 10/day. There isn’t any way to directly filter more specific than that (for warehouses/retail), but it’s also just one city. Being designated as “commercial” implies the location is a workplace. So I guess we can imagine each of these as a spark of rebellion???
Most acts of workplace sabotage are not grandiose; there is nothing to put on tik tok. People know how to fuck with their employer in a way that keeps themselves and their communities safe.
It’s very stupid to even fantasize about a trend of angry workers starting fires like this. For goodness sake, the more neglient and avaricious the employer, the laxer attention to safety, the less likely everyone is to get out alive and safe. Nobody here even knowing the triangle shirtwaist or anything? Industrial fires (however they start) are often catastrophes for working class people.
I 100% of the time take Amazon at their word. If they said it was a solar panel fire, that must have been it.
The article has a image of the fire damage.
there was a factory fire near my house last week. It was also a complete accident. This shit happens all the time.
Algorithms are picking up every mention of warehouse and fire and pushing it to people who are then sharing it and pushing it further. Social media doesn’t care about recency which is why almost all of them default to trending. It’ll push days old news as if it just happened because it sounds like it’s related.
There is an estimated 3000 industrial/factory fires in the US every year. That’s like 8 factory fires every day.
This, but unironically.
This might be like how people breathlessly reported a lot of relatively minor incidents involving airplanes (that normally would have received little attention) for a while after some high-profile accidents; it seems to be a solar panel fire rather than arson.
They shoulda praised the sun
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Probably bought the panels on Amazon.
Even if this was arson. Stop committing adventurism. You’d do more damage to their bottom line and help yourself and others in solidarity, by unionizing and locking in a contract.
this is like telling water to stop boiling when it gets hot. keep up the lectures, that will surely stop the bubbling and splashing
Can I have burned warehouse as a treat? 🥺
They unionize and they close the warehouse anyway
There is only one unionized Amazon warehouse and that’s JFK8, which is in fact still open four years later. No need for doomerism regarding unions.
yeah i enjoy seeing this stuff happen, and it could even bring people over, but it still won’t push things forward when it’s so depoliticized like this.
Yo what is going ON
Bring your fire to work week
This is really nice I’m stealing it for the group chat
The workers have nothing to lose but their chains Jerry
Khamas
Aurora Borealis
Didn’t pay them enough to live.
Something’s… happening?
This one specifically is definitely nothing
Don’t worry, Steiner won’t let any other warehouses burn down.
Mein Führer, Steiner… eliminated the lint trap cleaner position from every location…Bring me Fegelein!
All they had to do was pay them a living wage.
Another one
