Notices by D Dino (garbados@toot.cat), page 2

> tell me, applicant, what do you think about... government?
< nothing. i think nothing at all about it.
> good, good. so you won't impede our efforts to supply concentration camps?
< i would think nothing about it.
< nothing at all.
> very good. when can you start?

it's weird to think about internet hate machines as a consequence of how we have structured social interactions on the web, linking them closely with manipulative metrics and dopamine-trickling mechanisms...

it especially fucks me up how these hate machines swallow kids into their ranks.

but also how intensifying geopolitical conflicts have rewarded state actors for goading and abetting these hate machines, heightening their impact and especially their harm.

youtube recently changed their anti-adblocking kit such that i have to disable my adblocker to use it, so uh thanks google for that big SHOULD WE DEPORT ILLEGALS? PAID FOR BY 🍊4PREZ ad over an anti-capitalist anthem 🤦♀️

@requiem i'm a little frazzled right now but i've done a lot of thinking about this topic. here's an essay i wrote about it, maybe you'll like it:

# Structural Advantages for Software Developers to Leverage and Destroy

https://garbados.github.io/my-blog/leverage-and-destroy.html

YOUR MILD EMBARRASSMENT AND CAREER SETBACKS ARE NOT EQUIVALENT OR EVEN COMPARABLE TO SYSTEMIC OPPRESSION OR AUTHORITARIAN STRICTURES

erlang / elixir are good. i think i will use them more

if they are converting your effort into cash, you're a worker, and you need a union

@wohali disable all smart friends, thanks hp

if you unionize at work, they fire you.
if your whole team unionizes, they liquidate the company.
so how do you unionize?

tech multiplies the power of labor,
which multiplies the power of the scab.
while the boss fires unionists,
only the bossless can unionize.

organize contractors!

hey programmers

you uh

you wanna unionize

2010 diana: wow software is so amazing! everything is possible! we can innovate good things 😎
2019: i will never know how many people my software has killed but for what i thought was a foursquare clone, it is a lot

hell has wifi but satan taunts you by guffawing, “good luck finding a computer”

what she doesn’t know is charon helped you smuggle in your freedombone kit

software needs foundations and unions to shut out the profiteers that pervert our hard work. foundations like the ASF and PSF have a long history of stewarding software properties specifically so they don’t become financial instruments, but labor has no steward. these foundations struggle to so much as discuss compensating labor beyond the profiteer’s purview. for that we need unions. not just company unions either, but nonexclusive trade unions to gather and protect the innumerable disciplines of the craft, to leverage collective bargaining both for labor standards and practical standards alike. until we organize, profiteers and propertarians will continue to monetize and exploit the ecosystem that volunteers built.

splinter, that vox-like, calls for overthrow:

https://splinternews.com/they-dont-care-1836965692

> It is time to stop looking at America in a childish way. You cannot appeal to these people. You cannot simply replace these people. You have to break the system that they serve. That is the obstacle in our path. You can bang your head on the wall all you want. The wall will never feel sorry for you. You have to tear it down.

ethical consumption feels weirdly like a hostage situation.

“fork it over!” the profiteer demands, “or the planet gets it!” hoo boy 😰

like we could just end hunger but instead companies jack prices to protect profits even as climate change diminishes crop yields and further exacerbates hunger. then they have the nerve to say, well, if people really wanted ethical food, why do they buy unethical food? argh 🤦♀️

Magic! At The Gathering

dexter is trans