Inga ️‍🏳️‍🌈 @[email protected]

thinking about self driving cars, but the cars are longer, with capacity for about 90 people per car. and maybe we could simplify the decision-making of the AI by providing a set path and schedule that they would adhere to. perhaps a physical mechanism on which the self-driving car could always be on, something like a rail to minimize them going off path and being a danger to cyclists or pedestrians. anyone in Silicon Valley want to fund this? we could even chain the cars together to maximize efficiency.

"My imaginary wizard is secretly gay but it's not in any of the books." 🙄 She has no track record of ~any~ support for LGBT youth. JKR's sudden "concern" for gay kids isn't fooling anyone.

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"The only people who get upset about you setting boundaries are the ones who were benefitting from you having none."

Marloes de Vries

Racism, transphobia, colonialism

We are taught by popular media that it is acceptable, even beneficial, to use persistence as a tool to bully others into accepting our demands despite their refusals. This erosion of consent is exemplified in the story "Green Eggs and Ham" (Seuss, 1960). In this essay I will

Imagine a Native American community who had a Disneyland-like resort built over their villages and ancestor's graves, the people made to do bastardizations of their sacred dances, wear mock 'sexy feather headresses' and entertain the rich tourists for starvation wages, 12 hours a day 7 days a week, living sardine-packed 20-to-a-house. And then be arrested for speaking their own language. It'd be an outrage, right? But that is just everyday life, in US-colonized Hawaii

To conflate the two "freedoms," on the one hand, confuses what free speech is actually about, and on the other makes the freedom of free software seem much more fundamental than it actually is. Unless the free software movement is about campaigning against the criminalization of programming activities, the comparison to free speech is meaningless and intellectually dishonest.

You know something that's really interfering with something adjacent to free as in free speech when it comes to software, inhibiting developers' ability to practice their craft and help others? Exploitative working conditions for devs in general and the chronic underfunding of free software projects. Or how about the fact that software development in the West is overwhelmingly white and male, and tech spaces are predominantly hostile to minorities and women? How many talented, passionate people never get a serious shot at developing because they are the "wrong" demographics?

But of course the free-software crowd is crickets on these issues because, in their mind, the freedom of devs to be exploitated and to exclude marginalized groups is more important than the ability of people to actually make software.

i just got a discord message from a coworker like "have you heard about the unionization efforts" and instantly I am fucking PRESSED because our group is so nascent and if we're leaking this badly at this stage in our organization we are super fucked. nope turns out just another parallel group of coworkers are also trying to unionize lmfaooo

@anthra @CornishRepublicanArmy https://reactor.reed.edu/faq.html

Reminder that Israel is holding nearly 2 million people in a under 150 square mile open air prison called the Gaza strip.

It is the 3rd most densely populated area in the world and none of the people who live there are allowed in or out.

The Palestinians who live there face regular bombing raids from Israel, and any attempt to protest this is met with lethal force, with hundreds of unarmed Palestinians being killed each month, and thousands injured.