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- Better get yourself a gun.by cliglot
- He's being harassed by a law firm, not the mob. If someone shows up to do him harm they will be from the government because the law firm will have contrived government process to that end.
Shooting at them while they're on the clock is generally not wise.
- I wonder how this will be received. Since AI has come up, I think pro-union sentiment has been at a an all time high. How do you feel, HN?
- This is honestly hilarious and I applaud the excellent use of Claude Code for the malicious compliance with their demands.by spelk
- > malicious compliance
This isn't malicious compliance. It's over-the-top compliance. He has no requirement to comply with their random demands. He does anyway.
- Oooooh this is great.by a34729t
- This is the spirit we need more of, good to see nerds causing a ruckus.by gonight
- This is delightful. I know he's not paid to do this but I would gladly donate to this.
- > When I asked them whether they believe those are IP infringements, I was told that they don’t answer hypothetical questions.
Huh, I've never seen this strategy before.
by LoganDark - It’s a close relative of the “I haven’t heard of that defense” by politicians who have definitely heard about said event in question.by lovich
- Notably, those questions aren't actually hypothetical.by Marsymars
- Amazing. Next is automating this, automatically or manually gathering all domains they have registered, and spinning up Claude to register a similar domain and creating the counter website.by gunalx
- A cancer center [1] is resorting to these tactics? Based in Seattle?!
Here is their leadership team and Board: https://www.fredhutch.org/en/about/about-the-hutch/leadershi.... If you're in the area, or if you know a patient, I'd e-mail them a copy of this blog post.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hutchinson_Cancer_Center
- Unions destroy innovation and change in businesses. Look at how teachers unions fight against performance based pay and make it impossible to fire bad teachers. I love that cancer centers are resisting communism.by silexia
- US management culture is the same everywhere.by mrguyorama
- Of course they are. It's a good reminder that non-profits are very often just an arm of capital, whatever their legal status is, and that they will exercise capital's authority to try to suppress workers' rights.by gilfaethwy
- Paying the worker bees more because they've unionized might potentially take money away from the nonprofit's important mission. Not to mention the salaries of senior staff, who are paid over a million dollars a year. [0]
[0] https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/911...
by justin66 - This is the attorney who runs https://nlrbresearch.com (which is run on Datasette) and the AI assistant (Claude Skill) that is tied to it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOa3Pc8RD40by elicash