דגל שכור 🏴 @thufie@pixie.town

This isn't universal, this is just a pattern I've noticed.

I think a lot of people think they are being replaced by a machine. Whether it is creative workers or everyday laborers, in more and more of their tasks. I would like to offer an alternative explanation, as technology is not magic, and often comes with a huge maintenance burden.

Modern labor issues ought to highlight how much corporations want to replace a mass of moderately-trained employees with an extremely specialized and overextended set of maintenance specialists. It's not "AI" it isn't "IoT", it's not "self-service", it is small traveling crews of IT maintenance people. Sometimes in combination with outsourced menial IT tasks instead of purely mechanical compute. Labor is not being automated, it is being replaced with tech workers who are at once being stretched thin and also exploiting everyone around them in shittier system maintenance roles. This is attractive to corporations because they can subcontract the tech work and use them as pawns in disputes with labor, later throwing the sub-contractor under the bus if the ploy doesn't work without losing much of anything. This can be a very incremental process, with only very small parts of work becoming pure IT maintenance at a time.

Hey you're stupid! Go vote for Jill Stein!

(and unlike you I am gonna use a cw for uspol and spare the rest of the world our bullshit)

Peoples and Gentlethems, start your soups!

Why are so many weather control conspiracy theorists German?

If you are the kind of person who switches between apps in a cycle waiting for new stuff to appear, consider adding an app which does not depend on a feed of live user-generated content to that rotation which will let you break the loop. Ebooks, podcasts, language-learning and practice apps can all provide a healthy and productive way out of that cycle. I like using KOReader to pull up a book while I'm out and about and don't want people looking at my timelines and feeds anyways.

New KDE power menu panel widget shows the battery charge state and the selected performance mode in one icon you can check at a glance. This was sorely needed, no more tapping the panel to know both! #KDE 🥳

Times I've used my Israeli Hebrew language education sponsored by AIPAC money:

- Loosely following Israeli anti-war protests on Fedi.
- Rebuking American Zionists by extending their Hebrew chants with words they don't know because they don't actually speak Hebrew.
- Orderering a falafel pita with french fries and ketchup in it because I'm a fucked up individual.
- Correcting orientalists who think they can just make up Hebrew roots and make up shit on the fly during lectures without anyone noticing.
- Trying to explain ACAB to an extremely sheltered Israeli girl I ran into at college.

I hope the evangelical christian donors find this itemized list of returns on their investment to be valuable in turning my identity into a weapon lmao.