Stone cold take: Every time you model your organization or your process on Amazon, or Google, or Spotify, or Apple, or almost any other well-known profitable enterprise, you're choosing to value exploitation.
That's your choice, of course.
But it's a fucked-up choice, and I don't wanna hear about your long personal struggles to extract value from community so you can keep it for yourself and your shareholders.
You got nothing to teach that I'm interested in learning.
Latest #McCarthy concessions to R holdouts in his candidacy for #speaker of the #House: 1) Speaker to perform foot-rubs upon request during any floor speech; 2) Shall only speak in rhyme each Thursday the House is in session; 3) will rename firstborn son Donald Ayn Ronald; 4) free piggy-backs upon each adjournment. Margin of rejection holds steady for 8th ballot nonetheless.
Ok, ok, I’ll be #speaker.
Probably nothing to be worried about when the State Department has to issue assurances that US democracy isn't crumbling.
“'We stay in until we win,' [McCarthy] told reporters in a brief conversation. 'It will eventually change,' he insisted. 'I know the path.' Pressed on the path, McCarthy declined to say."
Today in 1983, 40 years ago: The ARPANET officially changes to using TCP/IP, the Internet Protocol, effectively creating the Internet.
Remarkable online tool for US residents to see the wide range of discounts and tax credits they can get since Jan 1st under the Inflation Reduction Act. From solar panels to heat pumps and electric stoves to electric vehicles:
https://www.rewiringamerica.org/app/ira-calculator
I love how everyone is blamed for George Santos except the people that voted for him.
It's Dem's fault for not doing oppo research!
It's congress' fault for not having tougher laws against liars!
It's the GOP establishment's fault for allowing liars to be part of their fold!
His platform was trash anyway. The fact that a basic con man can show up and say, "I am for whatever they are against! Let's take America back!" and win your votes, shows that you've learned nothing since Tr*mp.
Jan 31: #Mastodon How-To For Activists, Organizations & Movements
With hate speech taking over Twitter, many of us are tired of our vulnerability to the whims of corporate-owned social media. Join this free 2-part training run in collaboration with the @openrightsgroup. Basics to advanced topics including setting up a movement server.
#HumanRights #RacialJustice #SocialJustice #ClimateChange #BLM #TwitterMigration #Introduction #IranRevolution #StandWithUkraine
Any sufficiently advanced #userexperience is indistinguishable from love.
If the US is really worried about variants and the spread of COVID through travel, it should require negative tests for all travelers, no matter where they come from, and require masks. Targeting single countries with bans and requirements is ineffective and racist.
This misses the point. There is no non-Trump Republican way forward, not because R’s happen to have no perfect alternative candidate or are hostage to momentary political realities, but because Trumpism IS WHAT REPUBLICANISM IS and always has been. Trump himself just threw away the veneer, and there’s now.
Reasonably happy almost all the time, somehow. Extremely lucky father & husband; 20+ year software veteran / exec now studying the software industry as Ph.D @York University Science and Technology Studies. Blog at https://sakhavi.wordpress.com