#WomenWhoCode is shutting down for funding shortfalls. I can’t think of a more dire canary in the Silicon Valley coal mine than this. We can expect a social fascist turn in the IT industry from here out as the remaining jobs not taken by AI are rationed out to men only.
$4m is chump change for infotech capitalists, a few bucks tossed to a pan handler. That they won’t fund #WWC anymore isn’t an economic decision, but palpably a policy priority toward a hard social rightward turn.
@jesseplusplus I’m certainly far on the outside looking up at the nosebleed heights of the infotech socioeconomic pyramid. So I hope you’re right. But WWC did good for some of us far outside of Silicon Valley. I was one such, though couldn’t take it anywhere myself. For that alone they get my salute.
I was just informed by one of the admins that I have 14 days to leave functional.cafe after I called a troll doing genocide apologia in my comments a zionist ape, where should I go? What servers don't bow to the complaints of #Zionism?
Functional.cafe are claiming I'm simply a multiple offender of their rules, which i will admit is true ever since they changed their rules, but I would like for it to be clear. They changed their rules in October specifically to accommodate Zionists complaining about my posts, the very day a #BDS tagged post of mine blew up and became among the most shared BDS posts on the activity pub network. I initially agreed to CW political posts, but as #Israel's #genocide in #Palestine has accelerated, killing all but one of my students in Gaza along with most of their families, I've concluded that hiding this behind content warnings is itself bowing to mild repression for the sake of satisfying the demands of the most extreme oppression: genocide.
I've seen plenty of pro-genocide posts in the local server feed. I dont think they are being asked to leave or even getting their posts censored, as mine increasingly have been (even removing posts with many likes from months ago, apparently on demand).
I'm sad I'll be losing all my past posts, especially those about #lisp and #scheme that I occasionally rediscover. Where can I go that won't turn similarly sour? My time with the #fediverse may be up tbh. After being blocked and soft-blocked by nearly everyone I was buddies with in the #guix community (for years!) for being an anti-genocide Jew, and now this, its quite clear that even spaces that act like they stand for universal liberties above all are actually willing supporters of the most oppressive regimes and ideologies on the planet. At least insofar as they are #European in origin and character.
@rml I am a bit disappointed to see apes tarred with the smear of Zionism. Surely most apes possess enough common care to not stoop to the genocidal mania undergirding Israeli hegemony in Palestine.
Requirements to put in a job description to discourage or filter out autistic people:
Comfortable with ambiguity
Strong people skills
Good culture fit
Multitasking
A fast-paced dynamic environment
Bachelor's degree or better
I see these things and think you don't want my >30 years of programming and machine learning experience, or my problem-solving skills and comprehensive knowledge that had people mistaking me for one of the team's PhDs, or my solutions that have proven patent-worthy. Your loss.
@hosford42@actuallyautistic@neurodivergence There’s always the perennial standby for the unimaginative copy writer: “team player” or “people person”. These I’ve long translated as “this job has a high social stress load and a domineering boss, bad work environment with coworkers and/or customers”.
Provoked by a dollop of hopeful shame, there are times I still wonder if I’m “on the spectrum”. Then something about human society wallops me right into “Yes. Yes, I really am so bloody autistic.” No matter how consummately I try to emulate, anticipate, script, conscript, or model it… neurotypical human social brouhaha is a game I can never ever really play at, never mind win.
I’m too old to really care to try anymore. So… cheers to us. 🥂
Pretty sure #MotherNature needs to kick the living shit out of humanity at least two or three times before we internalize Aldo Leopold's #LandEthic sufficiently for humanity to live sustainably on this planet.
Sorry folks.
We just don't cut the evolutionary mustard. Carrying capacity is a harsh master.
I wish your family's genes good luck in the coming #jackpot
@LeftistLawyer@MySideIsHumanity Yes, Nausicaa is set in a mid term post-apocalypse future where most of the new ecosystems are based on mutant fungi. I can’t say more than that without spoilers! It’s one of his best, full of care and Miyazaki’s Shinto animistic-naturalism. (I always cry when the river god in Spirited Away is finally clean!)
Could we do worse than “defund the police”? We surely can! “Abolish the family!” Now there’s a winning chant to make friends and converts. /s
PS, this stuff has been tried before by batshit insane communist regimes. It didn’t go so well for actual communal care. I’ve seen the aftermath first hand. Turns out that human animals need organic community and kinship, quel surprise.