Notices by D Dino (garbados@toot.cat), page 7

@tcql @zkat it might have been one of their toots that put it on my radar! yay

@cstanhope sometimes the especially banal ones come true 🤫

this was one of those dreams in the alternate present where everyone has already unionized, so reading this article over breakfast about libertarians embracing labor advocacy had a kind of mea culpa smell to it — i remember thinking it was a good start, but feeling wary of everything investor-related. then i went to my union job making the digital equivalent of chairs.

i think i had a dream about startups.

i dreamed that the techno-utopians whose unicorn projects entrenched the fortunes of terrible men, who have now found themselves sidelined by the profiteers they trusted for funding, did what startup folk tend to do and tried again — but this time, with unions!

in the dream i was reading an article about this cadre of yc vets whose new companies — innocuous tooling and infra firms, mostly — operated on a hybrid model that included investors, but gave primacy to the company union, who generally controlled ~40% of stock. by exploiting cagy investors who only pick horses that have already won, they were able to fund setting up their unions and integrating their advocacy into governance practices. any wariness about unionization was overshadowed by the unicorn mystique, the superstition among investors that these crazy kids must know something they don’t.

mr sad man why you so sad?
yeah i get that, i feel the same way!

mr crab man, oh jesus it's you!
don't be so sneaky with those huge claws 🦀

mr bad guy, who made you bad?
oh it's the authors, ob vi ous ly!

waking up by riffing almost involuntarily on mr sandman

@sl2c it seems like the professional thing to do 🤷♀️ the farewell missive was defined by the tension about profiteering even as it went entirely undiscussed

okgoodnightbyebye

so uh, what's your favorite up-and-coming federated universal package manager?

i've got my eyes on entropic, which it seems SOME OF YOU have been contributing to 🤩

https://github.com/entropic-dev/entropic

@streetvalkyrie three point six ravengen. not so good, not that bad.

so uh as a followup, laurie resigned, and in fact had resigned months before making the "but i'm a socialist" remark 😬

https://twitter.com/seldo/status/1151911865334689792

@tcql bloop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop

my last skirt ripped

down to two point five outfits

won’t get garfoold again