Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

It’s the same anger I feel whenever I see someone calling themselves an “entrepreneur.” To me, that word will always mean “I look for ways to exploit labor and customers, so that I can personally enrich myself at the expense of others.”

It is an anathema to everything I believe in.

I think what makes me so incredibly angry about AI is that it’s not there to reduce *your* work. It’s there to reduce the amount of labor that CEOs have to pay for.

There’s no world in which doing *your* job a little faster is worth the trillions of dollars in investment; this is entirely predicated on eliminating working class jobs.

And *no one* should be excited about that, except for billionaires.

@venite En voor de zelfstandig ondernemers die van solidariteit houden: Word lid van een Broodfonds. Ik was ook niet van plan om ziek te worden toen ik ondernemer werd. En ik vond het al die jaren fijn om mede-leden financieel te steunen als ze ziek werden.

Toen ik zelf ziek werd moest ik een grote drempel over, maar het doet me zo goed.Natuurlijk heb ik de financiële steun nodig, maar alles eromheen doet zoveel meer. De steun, de warmte, de goede wensen 💛

Blij voor jou Anna! En goede oproep ❤️‍🔥

Eén van de “we laten het niet gebeuren”-tips is lid worden van een vakbond. Mijn vakbondspersoon helpt me momenteel met de WIA en dat is zó fijn (de enige persoon die zowel alle regels kent als 100% aan mijn kant staat). Hierom was ik geen lid, ik ging tenslotte niet ziek worden - ik was lid uit solidariteit en omdat vakbonden ons geweldige dingen hebben gegeven zoals het concept “weekend” en de 40-urige werkweek.

Dus word lid van een vakbond!!

@Sharksonaplane on that note: I've been boycotting Amazon for 5+ years, and surprisingly there have been maybe 2-3 times where it's been more than mildly inconvenient. One was when I was gifted a Ring device and had to ask to exchange it bc I didn't want Amazon systems in my home, bit awkward. But the rest of the time it's just a bit of extra friction.

For reference, at least 2.5 of those years I was living in the US, and 3 in the Netherlands.

Fuck

I hate how unaware USians are of how it feels to have war happening in your own land.

Joking about WW3 naively, with the underlying security that they won't be the one to flee, leave everything behind, give up on their hopes and dreams, have friends and family disappear, be maimed, tortured and die - only if they volunteer for the last one.

This is a scary subject, don't let the political buffoons convince you it's not

Proposal: every million dollars in wealth gets you a ticket in the anti-lottery. Every month, there's a draw, and whoever's ticket is drawn has all of their wealth except 800k confiscated, and redistributed evenly across all citizens.

This codebase does not spark joy

I think a lot about the formative experience of first getting on tumblr and reading posts from angry radicals and going "well I don't like this but I can't find any real faults in their arguments that don't boil down to my discomfort" and I want everyone to have to confront that

I think one of the most basic skills to cultivate is to hear something you don't like, acknowledge you are reacting to it negatively, and still then try to assess it rationally

I feel like it's important to understand that we are fundamentally creatures of emotion and instinct but that doesn't mean we can't live a life of reason and science