It’s Do Not Freak The Fuck Out Friday. It’s where you don’t freak the fuck out on a Friday because the US president is the antichrist and roughly one third of the country are devil worshippers who wish to reestablish chattel slavery after turning the middle east into a parking lot for Israel.
A decently popular thought leader in the industry writing a blogpost to the tune of “sure, things are bad, but you should build something to maybe feel less bad about things” is, I think, a rather good encapsulation of how completely cornered and malnourished the imagination of the American SWE is.
i have never seen an industry with as little class solidarity as software engineering in the US, it's horrendous, 3/4 of US SWEs are mini peter thiels. don't even know where to start with organizing/reshaping an industry like it
On a quest to create more failed states than any previous world leader ever - including his own!
there needs to be a genuine cultural revolution specifically in software engineering - silicon valleyites are a plague upon the industry and with shit like this are generating massive amounts of resentment from the broader public, deservedly so. it’s so tiring
Last week the city opened $30/hour snow clearing jobs and they filled fast.
Now what if we had a municipal jobs guarantee? Livable wages. Union benefits. Stronger communities.
well, the accuracy and efficacy is questionable, but that’s what LLMs like chatgpt and gemini are being used for - they’re (ostensibly) able to sum up massive quantities of data into an easy to interact with simplified model
The US killing one and hundred fifty school children in a single attack on Iran has apparently been universally decided to be a non story by the Western press. Not front page news, not in the highlights, instantly memory holed. Profession and institutions worse than worthless.
they are. kansas in particular has passed a law to start doing this, and it's taking effect immediately from the sound of it.
fluxer is pretty much a clone of discord, it still has some growing pains, but it is the closest in functionality, and also has plans for a self hosting option which is cool
nice opinion, who gave it to you, jeffrey epstein? because that’s where the transphobic talking points you’re using were crafted
Fuck BAFTA for not nominating him and fuck BAFTA for this and fuck BBC for censoring “free Palestine” and fuck BBC for not censoring the N word
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I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there.
I need you to listen to these people.
STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.
We need to pick up this Overton Window and throw it as far as we can. Stop waiting for shit to “be popular” and start advocating for what is transparently right.
Neighbors standing guard over churches so that parents can have secret meetings about how to keep daycares safe. This is what's happening in the Twin Cities right now.
Van Hollen: We are here to say not one more dime for Donald Trump's ICE operations
these days also given the state of the country it feels incredibly farcical to do stupid little spreadsheets about shit that doesn't matter so all things considered i think my employer should be happy that i even pretend to work let alone actually ever do my job
The choice really is socialism or barbarism, Rosa was right
one can take some heart in the notion that we are seeing, repeatedly, the platonic ideal of the imperial boomerang playing itself out. from the CIA child soldier shooting those national guardsmen to this iraq war veteran shooting a mom in the face - our ghoulish adventurism is exacting its fee
Not on their own, imo. But if Europe and the rest of the world presented a united front and ALL told Russian to take a hike, then maybe. Sanctions can really heavily damage a country’s capabilities. I think Canada + the rest of the world are going to need to be united to overcome US imperialism
very asymmetric terrain, and there is no real oppositional force from within capable of truly contesting the trump regimes actions (yet).
but it seems like the US isn’t giving other countries a choice outside those two paths. i could be wrong admittedly, that’s just what i see from my knowledge of US imperialism and from the perspective of living inside the belly of the beast. ppl in the US are fighting against this too but its a
I guess a more concise way of wording what im tryna say is that i think the rest of the world is going to have to either ”starve the beast” or enter outright war with the US, with the first definitely being preferable, agreed. but upending the current economic world order wont be painless
it seems both rhetorically & materially that carney is caving to the US. Unfortunately, we’re at a crossroads where countries will have to decide b/t sacrificing economic stability and cut ties with the US, or sacrifice lives to war. It’s not an easy choice, but i fear it will be a necessary one
there needs to be a global united front against the US and i worry about the likelihood of that
been using qobuz for a little bit and it's been wonderful. also love that you can buy albums outright there, is a nice supplement to whatever's not on bandcamp (or at a local record shop). hope they remain slop-free 🙏
A nuclear-armed U.S. under full totalitarian control is an existential threat to billions of people. To life on this planet.
It's up to us, U.S. citizens living here in the imperial core, to stop it. Nobody is coming to save us. Not the U.N., not the ICJ. It's us or it's nobody.
Perfect gender-divide line in america where like 90% of the men seeing this just go "whatever its a robot! its just for fellas to blow off steam and get their urges met theres no issue"
meanwhile 90% of women see this and realize "oh fuck im going to need to carry a gun 24/7 this time next year"
Interesting how I haven’t seen a single person who tried to whitewash MTG’s violent history and claim she’s “coming around to our side now” speak a single word about her latest anti-trans bill.
