sometimes you just need to appreciate that rochko is not a fascist – even if we know it's a low bar.
because right now it's a bar that most media and tech ceos in the u.s. are unable to reach.
Two people in Michigan have died from the Cyclosporiasis outbreak.
The media is already leading with the fact that they had pre-existing conditions.
They’re pacifying the public.
Anyone could die from Cyclosporiasis, but they want you to believe it can’t happen to you.
It can only happen to the weak, the disabled, the elderly.
The expendable people.
Eugenics.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/well/eat/cyclospora-deaths-michigan.html
#ableism #publichealth #disability #eugenics #chronicillness #uspol #Cyclospora
@kirtai It was that way in the US, too. You had to be straight, thin, white, conventionally feminine, and attractive enough (to them) to merit receiving access to hormones. And that was the system "compromising" with us!
"You'll never be a real woman but if you're fuckable, we'll let it slide in your case."
@gwynnion
Reminds me that the UK trans medical establishment required transwomen to be straight and to look attractive after transition or they wouldn't be treated.
Yes, if the (male) doctors didn't think you'd be fuckable after transition they'd deny treatment.
Hey, conservative men! I know you're deeply submissive to male authority figures, but it's not okay to drag the rest of us into your kink.
I'm saying it clearly here because I know you have trouble understanding consent.
the deepest form of control
#anarchism #politics #history #economics #memes #marxism #gramsci
The Fediverse is overflowing with incredible artists, engineers, designers, photographers, and brilliant minds in academia. With the job market on fire globally, let's make a habit of hiring from within our own community, please 🎨📚
Need a designer for a project? A photographer? A researcher? Post your gigs here. Let's create a close-knit support system to help fellow people weather the storm.
If you are hiring: look here first. Post your short-term gigs, full-time roles, and freelance contracts. Give people here a chance.
If you are looking: share your work, follow the hashtags, and connect. Let's take care of each other.
#FediHire #GetFediHired #Academia #MastoArt #art #Photography #Freelance #SoftwareDevelopment #programming #photography
The “best” thing about genAI (the quotes are doing heavy work here) is that it’s really lowered the bar on getting into hand-made art. Literally anything you make is better than ai. There’s never been a better time to throw away your fear and start learning that craft you’ve always wanted to learn.
COMPANIES: no one wants to work anymore
PEOPLE: pay us
COMPANIES: I just don't know what we're doing wrong
PEOPLE: easy. pay us. we'll work.
COMPANIES: we've tried everything. pizza parties, casual fridays, standing desks...
PEOPLE: you haven't tried paying us
COMPANIES: it's like nobody even cares anymore.
PEOPLE: we care about our paycheck. offer us a living wage paycheck.
COMPANIES: there's literally nothing we can do
PEOPLE: pay us. pay us pay us pay us pay us pay us
COMPANIES: welp off to post on LinkedIn about my billion dollar retirement package and new yacht
Like a broken clock, even people still on X are right once or twice a day.
Jesus Christ Yegge
Seeing another round of “it turns out that WFH has serious downsides because employees get all their social interaction at work and are getting unhealthy without that” stories and my first thought is “maybe we should fix that bit where people are forced to rely on their jobs for social interaction” rather than “let’s go back to the office”
@ireneista we should do a swap. humanities people get to learn some coding and the principles that underlie development, testing, optimising etc, and developers and engineers get to learn some history or human geography, and the underlying principles of societal organisation. @aparrish
then again, the bar is pretty low, seeing as how "actually wanting to know whether or not something works, or is true" is considered a hardcore leftist position nowadays
Fortunately, this is not a problem. Because we live in a Competitive Economy that operates as an Efficient Market, these corporate windfalls will soon be passed on to consumers as lower prices, thus-
[touches earpiece]
Hold on, I’m getting an update from The Real World We Actually Inhabit
@davidgerard "To whet your appetite for today's post predictions: CI/CD as we know it will be dead by next year; I will show you its mathematical inevitability. It almost certainly gets replaced by a Mad Max-style thunderdome. At least, that's what I use now. So you prolly will too."
Behold, we have created software that, with enough exposure, makes people talk with the self absorbed arrogance of heavy cocaine users.
@davidgerard Fucking amazing how these assholes are building absolutely nothing useful while wasting massive amounts of money and resources, devastating environments, and they have zero shame about it. Techbros need to be stopped, permanently.
RE: https://social.notjustbikes.com/@notjustbikes/117032291431471097
I don't want stations cluttered up with personal luggage and bags, people should leave their bags at home and just rent a public suitcase of clothes at their destination...
If public transport is to be a viable alternative to cars, then it needs to be usable to transport people and their stuff in similar ways as cars do. That means some people will want to take their bike across the country to go for a bike ride somewhere. They may also need to move a couple of bags of stuff. Etc...
1/n
I hope y'all who've been rooting for the AI bubble to crash are prepared to hunker down.
This is gonna be grim.
The current CEO of Identity Digital (formerly Donuts Inc) named Akram Atallah, used to be the president of ICANN's global domain division, the folx that “own” and “run” the internet.
Under his leadership, ICANN introduced the new generic Top Level Domain program, or new gTLD, giving the creation of a new domain ending (.shop, .brand, .gmbh) a price tag of 200k USD.
Interestingly enough, the one business that jumped on this newly and artificially created market of top level domains, was Donuts Inc., whom Akram Atallah then became CEO of. Today, they control ~37.1% of all new top level domains, as they created hundreds of shell companies to bypass limitations.
I have a list of all shell companies, public records proving they all tie back to him and Donuts Inc., and he's proudly bragging about having done this on LinkedIn so it's not really a conspiracy but known corruption.