astory

@astory@tilde.zone

labor organizer for software engineers, leftist, medievalist. he/him.

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josh, to disability
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Even if you think I'm overly COVID cautious and disagree with much of what I say... please, please, at least for your own sake:

If you get COVID, DO NOT PUSH THROUGH IT. Even after you start testing negative.

Seriously, learn from people with ME/CFS.

Pushing through is how you increase your already quite-high odds of having long lasting or permanent damage.

astory,

@jamiemccarthy @scottjenson @josh can you say more about rebound?

hrefna, to random
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Three different problems:

  1. How do I get everyone who agrees with me into a room?

  2. How do I get everyone in a room to agree with me?

  3. How do I get everyone who doesn't agree with me out of the room?

I think a lot of people on the left confuse these.

(2) is the bread and butter of union organizers, but the look, feel, and compromises required are radically different from (1), and both of them are quite different from (3) except in trivial cases.

astory,

@irenes @hrefna I gotta say, as someone organizing successful direct actions for working conditions, thinking about 2 is the thing that worked. Doing 1 was useful to get the base of support to give me any my teammates training, staff, and legal backing, but the actual power comes from 2.

futurebird, to random
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Dare. To. Dream. Big.

(Via thecuriousurbanist and amtrak Official tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/futurebird/735017224980594688/image-description-this-would-literally-destroy?source=share)

astory,

@dschwarz @futurebird @njwatt @CStamp Amish are rare on the northeast corridor, but go west from DC or Philly and they're common on the trains. There were segments of my ride from NYC to Chicago via Pittsburgh that I heard more Pennsylvania Dutch than English

RM_Transit, to random
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    astory,

    @RM_Transit what defines a slab tower? Maybe it's that I live in an area in NYC built entirely in the 1960s but these are all I see around me.

    misc, to random
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    Massive sit in protest tonight at Grand Central led by Jewish Voice for Peace https://abc7ny.com/amp/grand-central-pro-israel-rally-mta-metro-north/13982013/

    astory,

    @DanHakimi @misc my dude, I've personally been to jvp NYC meetings and I assure you they're run by Jewish people. Get the fuck out of here with your bullshit. We're trying to stop a genocide and you're mad about somebody's social media presence?

    astory,

    @DanHakimi @misc nobody in Gaza, and especially not the seven thousand civilians killed, half of them children, is capable of more than a skirmish. Get some perspective.

    astory,

    @DanHakimi @misc honey, those things are bad but they're not genocide.

    The IDF clearly has the ability to level Gaza. Hamas can do bad things, it can inflict harm and terror, but it cannot destroy a city.

    Additionally, Israeli sources report 1400 deaths in the conflict, which is awful, but much smaller than the 7000+ Gazans killed.

    mekkaokereke, to random
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    Yesterday I spoke to an MIT sophomore hoping to get an interview for a Google internship. The student has already done one summer internship at another company, enters programming competitions, and has coursework in machine learning, distributed systems, and neuroscience. So far they have submitted over 40 internship applications.🤯

    From all their applications, they've only gotten two OAs (online assessments), and no interviews.

    It is so much harder for kids today than when we were young.

    astory,

    @chiasm @mekkaokereke my info is a decade old, but I have a major in biology and in CS and work at Google.

    Biology doesn't know how to pay for computing talent.

    I did good research, writing code to do it, and because of that everybody wanted to view me as the operator of this expensive machine, the computer, in the same way as the person that runs the PCR machine or whatever (PCR machines are now automated but pick your thing). This is not the level of compensation that can attract the kind of talent that faang at least was hiring for.

    (Of course, technicians do work that is just as hard and just as valuable as writing software and deserve the full value of their labor just like any worker but that's not what this post is about)

    So when my options were "go to Google and make six figures out of undergrad" or "spend years getting a masters or PhD and eventually make half that in the field you love" it wasn't really a contest. I suspect this person has realized that too.

    skyfaller, to random
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    What could you do with a chimney / gas furnace exhaust pipe once you remove all of your gas appliances and no longer need an exhaust pipe? Simply sealing it up is boring. In our house, the gas boilers are in the basement, so what could you do with a connection between the basement and the roof? Ideas:

    • Solar tubes - Light the basement without power use, electronics or moving parts.
    • Windcatcher - Turn the basement into a shabestan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabestan - Needs qanat as well, though.
    astory,

    @skyfaller pneumatic delivery tube? Send snacks from floor to floor

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