Notices by theowraithical physics (dankwraith@lamp.institute)

did you know: its actually ok to dislike someone because you had a disagreement with them or they behave in a way that you dont enjoy and you dont have to reverse engineer a political reason to dislike them or try to convert people to your side

did you know: its ok to not like someone and not want to interact with them or see their posts for non political reasons, its actually fine, you can just do that

did you know: this website has a mute button you can use if you dont like someones posts and you dont have to start a moral crusade to cancel them

when hackers surreptitiously use programs to harvest personal information without the users explicit permission and knowledge: spyware

when multi billion dollar corporations do the exact same thing:
:hacker_a: :hacker_d: :hacker_t: :hacker_e: :hacker_c: :hacker_h:

it actually fucking kills me that liberalism is a philosophy that is almost totally about personal responsibility for actions, and yet institutions and those in charge of them are never held responsible for the consequences of the effects produced by those institutions. it is such a wild ass contradiction

i dont know about you but white people talking about how there are too many humans gives me the heebie jeebies

UBI without rent control / massive subsidized housing programs should be called Universal Landlord Income

as a programmer, let me say: stop putting computers in everything it makes the things worse

ok heres a pitch - sherlock holmes but in a post capitalist society where hes hunting down the capitalists in hiding who need to pay for their crimes against humanity

oh hey this is late but the LA teacher's strike won:

- a mandatory cap on class sizes at every grade level

- hiring full time nurses at every school

- a librarian hired at every middle and high school by next year

- 50% reduction in frequency of standardized test assessments

- a hard cap on number of charter schools

- 6 percent pay raise

this contract was ratified by an overwhelming majority of the union. these changes will benefit not only the teachers, but every student in the city public school system.

STRIKES. WORK.

what you say: the art market is saturated!

what i hear: capitalism has utterly failed at satisfying the need of humans to self actualize

hmm, it seems too me, like if the people who do labor stop doing the labor there isnt jack or shit a politician can do about it

now thats what i call prime minister of japan 57 shinzo abe

the breakfast wanter

microsoft is bad lets all use google stuff!

*google eventually does all the same monopolistic monoculture shit that microsoft did*

hmm i wonder if there is a lesson to be learned here

Twitch Plays Running The US Government

if lots of people want to do art, maybe that's because being creative is fundamentally human and it is not a moral failing on their part??????? just spitballing here

me, a brainless undergrad computer science student: ok i need to do some humanities requirements "the problem of evil" sounds cool

me, emerging 5 months later with an enormous beard and a crazed expression on my face: fuck

was tearing my hair out yesterday for HOURS trying to diagnose a programming bug last evening. i went to sleep, woke up, had a cup of coffee, looked at it for literally 5 minutes, and fixed it immediately

if youre a newbie programmer, the best advice i can give you is just... go the fuck to sleep honestly

public library usage has never stopped growing and any suggestions to the contrary are merely pretexts for further stripping the commons