Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

“I’m a Google Cloud software engineer, and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide [and] apartheid”

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/google-protest-israel/

Watch the others in the room. The assholes who jeer and manhandle the protestors. These are your peers in the tech industry. These are the “acceptable folks” in tech. Fuck these people.

Look at their faces. They know exactly what they’re complict in. Look at their smug smiles. Dickheads each one.

#tech #google #ai #ProjectNimbus #israel #genocide #palestine

Friendly reminder that if person with ADHD doesn't reply to your messages for a while or forgets about important events because of hyperfixating, it doesn't mean that they don't care or that they're lazy or that they're upset at you or anything of the sort. When we get hyperfixated on something we can spend hours focused exclusively on that one thing entirely losing track of time, sometimes even forgetting about basic bodily needs. It can very much be unhealthy and is often a much bigger problem for us than it is for you. Please be understanding.

whenever i see a suspiciously straight line on a map i always get reminded of this

It’s wild how fast I lost interest in space travel when it stopped being presented as a collective accomplishment and became a competition between a handful of morally bankrupt white men.

@joepie91 i think it's very important to stress that "worker" is a temporary, and thus precarious position.
capitalism excludes the unemployed from society (something that social capitalism tries to mitigate).

but this status is an important political pressure force on on the workers, because at any point, somebody from the reserve army of labour could replace them.

fascism likes to exclude disabled people from society. which sounds like a terrible euphemism… many countries which are on all other accounts democratic do this. Germany and Austria tried to distance themselves from that particular part of their history, and swung all the way to the other direction, and so there companies now get to reap the fruits of the labour of disabled people who earn a few € per week for it.

and finally there's people who are ostracised socially for whatever reason that makes then different (immigrants, queers, people travelling communities), they often have a hard time finding work, but regardless of physical and mental ability don't even fit into the reserve army of unemployment category. these undesirables of society will serve fodder when the whatever fascism decides is the first target group is "dealt with".

so, say I'm trying to say is: "workers", however temporary their ability and other attributes that makes them desirable to capitalism or to fascism, need to build solidarity across all these lines, lest they want to watch members of their family, friends, social circle or themselves be sucked into one of the other categories, and be excluded from society.

"you'd never survive a cod lobby" okay well you wouldn't survive a discord server full of queer furries

oh fucking hell. they're ending the free covid tests program THIS FUCKING FRIDAY.

GO ORDER SOME. THEY'RE FREE.
https://special.usps.com/testkits

PLEASE. we are literally on our own now.
#thanksIhateThis #covid #covidisntover #covidsafe #wearamask

Taking care of myself doesn't mean 'me first.' It means 'me, too.” ~ L.R. Knost

I just saw a toot explaining a useful "youtube fixer" firefox add on that removes "for you..." and "people also search..." from search results.

This made me realize how far we have come the wrong way: we are now in THE AGE OF ADVERSARIAL FEATURE DESIGN. Product creators introduce anti-features to attempt to divert user attention AWAY from what they want. Users are captive to the ecosystem because the software USED TO BE useful, and they actively have to block against new features to keep it so.

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There's one thing I learned about Germany : choose a random train station with nothing but some crappy RegionalBahn service - and you can be sure there's a post box in front of the station 😅.