Notices by crows call me breadlady (garbados@toot.cat)

@tcql

2016: quiet down you rabble and accept electability as the crown’s sole determinant
2020: quiet down you rabble and

have you thought about unionizing

for those wondering how to establish trade relations with crows:

- feed crows food A regularly
- when crows decide to bring you gifts, feed them food B
- when crows bring you different categories of gifts, feed them a food-per-category, ex: food C for jewelry, food D for paper money, etc
- crows will recognize these exchange patterns and opt to bring you things in order to acquire desired treats

good luck! 🐦

at least they know they're working on weapons. that sort of stuff is often hidden or obscured so workers don't really know what they're coding, or they're coding something totally different which happens to fit perfectly inside a weapon.

if you learn you're in weapons development, stand up and say no. don't let them make you party to killing machines.

> Microsoft workers are calling on the giant tech company to cancel its nearly $480 million U.S. Army contract, saying the deal has "crossed the line" into weapons development by Microsoft for the first time. They say the use of the company's HoloLens augmented reality technology under the contract "is designed to help people kill."

https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=697110641

sometimes it feels like bignames are looking for the roomba of decentralization: it just wanders around, decentralizing stuff, while you continue shitposting. so instead of organizing the labor to support decentralized infrastructure, bignames talk big about decentralization and then link to their twitter

"a blockchain would be perfect for this" is reliably a false statement

constantly amazed that software engineering, this incredible labor-saving discipline, suffers from such a labor shortage that its most critical layers are maintained by volunteers

social media is community infrastructure and requires ethical, accountable governance as much as roads and bridges do.

replacing uuid() with getRandomGender()

uh yeah i’m an anarcho-napitalist and i’d really appreciate it if you stopped violating my naptime 💤💤💤

the internet depends on people like this

the interviewer asks. this one is actually kind of embarrassing, but i decide to be honest. i say hesitantly, "i can't convert sunlight into energy," as i glance jealously at the potted plant near the door. i cover my eyes and struggle not to cry.

i feel weird saying it, but yeah, above and beyond the laws of any state, a service is responsible for the data it hosts.

discord is responsible for the nazis that use their platform, for the slurs in the logs they store, for the things those groups organize.

facebook is responsible for the hate that becomes violence on the parts of their platform they fail to or refuse to moderate.

even a crypto service should be wary they aren't protecting evil.

pronouncing "sql" as "skull" 💀

if "living wage" is a "union word" then yeah i'll take it

gotta say, bezos, betting on "unlivable wage" as the PR winner here, that's a pretty weird hill to die on

i’ve been thinking a lot about software stewardship and software cooperatives lately, in the context of taking responsibility for the craft as a class of craftspeople. i’ve got an essay on the subject on its third draft so maybe i’ll publish it soon but since im on the bus maybe i’ll just blither about it for a bit.

it’s one thing for workers to control the conditions of their toil but another for craftspeople to take responsibility for their craft, and we need to do both.

kill hype

> this is a witch hunt!

< witch hunts occurred primarily over a couple centuries while a flailing papacy, nascent secularists, and a litany of protestant groups spontaneously collaborated to eliminate political dissidents, undesirables, and keepers of native knowledge (ex: healers) en masse across the european continent.

< meanwhile you are an untouchable princeling upset that people want to hold you responsible for your actions.

mike pence on the issues

http://www.officialmikepence.com/issues/