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IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS. WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK. AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE. SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS. THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES. IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.

the Black Panthers were right

My man.

Is there an alternative to "vibe coding" representing only partial reliance on the vibes? I.e. reading the code, giving pointed architectural feedback, etc.

i think the only way for atproto to succeed is for us to show what apps can do when every app sees every other app's public data, and they share an identity system. no technical or sociological argument is as convincing as seeing seamless interop and the lighthearted competitive landscape it unlocks

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Once these Let Billions Suffer voters see how gruesome letting billions suffer gets they will surely come crawling back to the Let Millions Suffer party and we’ll finally be able to win elections without catering to those troublesome Nobody Should Suffer radicals

Screenshot of a tweet: “The creator of Nutella, Francesco Rivella, has died on Valentine's Day”

Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey:

I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

This is describing "introspection," a thing you are definitely already supposed to be able to do yourself!!!!

Capitalism poisons society to see everything as a zero-sum game in which the highest priority is the exploitation of others in any given situation. It's fundamentally you vs. the world.

Cord Jefferson, quitting Instagram, sums many things up:

“I don’t need Instagram to be a haven for free speech for the same reason I don’t need a Jamba Juice or a Hooters to be a haven for free speech.”

JUDGE: As for the issue of bail?
ME: Bail, your honor?
PUBLIC DEFENDER: Oh. You can—you can pay gems to speed up the jail timer.
JUDGE: Did defense counsel not explain the gem packages yet?
PUBLIC DEFENDER: *sigh* For $49.99 you get 2200 gems plus 500 free. That’s the most popular option

Work from home was a boon to productive workers and an absolute catastrophe for the group of middle managers and executives who make their living putting their names on other people's work and that latter group started to undermine it as soon as they realized this.

I regret to inform you, dear reader, that in my heart of hearts, I do not identify as a Poster. I am without the juice. I am but a humble lurker, sprinkling likes and reskeets all about.

Sky Follower Bridge Detected 689 users Same handle name: 520 Same display name: 136 Included handle name in description: 33

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it found a full 1/3 of the people i follow. impressive work by the developer, but also impressive to see that that many twitter people are setting up here.

either people specify what they mean when they say “elite” or the term is just meaningless pejorative. both parties are dominated by elites in any conventional sense of what that means! the question is: why are right-wing elites more palatable to voters than liberal ones?