it's actually really interesting - and really *bad* - that the general public feels that database software that a huge number of organizations use is so arcane and so boring that it's not worth a two-sentence explainer in a mainstream newspaper. it's a clear sign of the formation of a priesthood, in my opinion
i feel similarly about the lack of interest people tend to show in, say, water treatment, waste management, and manufacturing processes. it's good and important to know and care about the way your life is built and maintained
and especially for us middle-class white people in the imperial core - we have more power than most in re: these systems, and it's incumbent upon us to understand them to at least some degree for that reason
uspol, passports
given the recent shitshow i think we really should stop pushing for X gender markers and start pushing to strip all gender markers from ID documents in general, the netherlands was weighing it recently-ish, not sure where thats gone. anyway all it does is give bigoted officials a free pass to go "well you don't look like insert gender here" or worse
Ask yourself this: will fares in self-driving cabs be cheaper? Will subscriptions to vibe-coded SaaS cost less? Will tickets to see model-generated movies be a fraction of the current price?
Or do all these technologies just solve the problem of having to pay people, with no benefit to anyone else except shareholders?
And then ask yourself this: if nobody's getting paid, who's hailing the taxis, using the SaaS and watching the movies?
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on furnal equinox and their fascist bs
and like let’s be fucking real lol - this was always going to happen because we kept pretending the fandom wasn’t political. in many spaces i have been in there's an air of politics being this unspoken taboo that nobody talks about. as a result we have chosen to willingly commodify and gentrify ourselves.
on furnal equinox and their fascist bs
fascists and bigots, unlike many assert, *thrive* here. yes, they fucking do, and many of them do not wear the "furry raiders" type beat pawprint badges. people in this fucking community are so afraid of conflict and politics that they let everyone walk over them. the white, cis, male, abled majority refuses to take a stand, dismissing every attempt to call this out as "drama" or "discourse." it’s cowardice dressed up as neutrality, and it’s killing us.
@sharan I was originally motivated to post this by the thing about Fandom and their treatment of volunteers, but the same thing applies to platforms like Reddit, YouTube, and also a lot of smaller, more niche platforms that I've seen over the years but that don't come to mind immediately.
@h3artbl33d Ah, well, taking a cutting is a good start, but you have to plant it in some soil and nurture it for a while to have it grow into a proper WiFi-bearing plant
@h3artbl33d Also, they don't want you to know this, but the internet is free, you can just take it home, etc. etc.
@h3artbl33d In fairness, they are also orange things sticking out of the ground, so close enough
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