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jalcine

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My public bio is at https://jacky.wtf/about.
I'm most likely reading, ranting or starting shit offline.
I was a mod for PlayVicious, so yeah. I talk politics a lot.

pfp: myself wearing gold rimmed sunglasses with a durag looking into the camera

header: myself at karaoke taken by https://union.place/@betsyvr

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“Amazon has launched a new ‘one-click to quit the union’ tool, and they’re relentlessly pushing it to every worker in their Coventry warehouse. […] If a worker scans the QR code and clicks the link, Amazon’s software automatically generates a letter from the worker and then emails it to the trade union, ending their membership.”

A legal challenge to some gnarly union-busting tactics that Amazon’s deployed in one of its warehouses in the UK: https://www.foxglove.org.uk/2024/05/02/legal-challenge-to-amazon-uks-new-one-click-to-quit-the-union-tool/

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@beep at this point someone could write leftist fiction with labor at a point and this still wouldn't have made it into the point as a plot device

Mind blowing

jalcine, to random
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Whew. Great read from @emilygorcenski about A24's film "Civil War" which for some reason I still want to watch.

> For all the war movies we make – for all the wars we start – we don’t really understand culturally what they look and sound and feel like. Americans are masters at empathy-at-a-distance, but Garland doesn’t understand how

https://emilygorcenski.com/post/when-charlottesville-was-the-front-lines/

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The idiocy of men was placing law above love.

jalcine, to random
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It's 2024. This is MSNBC asking you not to read A People's Guide to Capitalism https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/russia-trying-exploit-americas-divisions-war-gaza-rcna149759

> A favorite theme of Russian information operations is to paint America as a failing democratic state, according to U.S. officials and researchers

Does that make an agent of Russia for not believing in America the way I believe in people?

Then a source even admits that Russian propaganda has no impact on the direct political unrest. What is the point of these outlets if they only spread FUD?

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HUH?!?! lol

https://neal.fun/password-game/

jalcine, to random
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HM HOW COULD THIS BE? https://theintercept.com/2024/04/30/gaza-israel-palestine-cable-news-poll/

jalcine,
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Why would corporate-run, state-backed media be in favor of a state-backed, corporate-funding genocide? I don't get it.

jalcine, to random
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Journalism students are being held under threat of arrest to not leave their dorms. Investigative journalism is about to come back HARD.

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Democrats are about to praise the NYPD tomorrow morning for being brave and maintaining the peace.

jalcine, to random
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http://wkcr.streamguys1.com/live.m3u Sledgehammers being used to forcibly enter the school?

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https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/tesla-to-lay-off-everyone-working-on-superchargers-new-vehicles/

jalcine, to random
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Say this three times in front of your terminal and a Google Web engineer will appear to remind you that Google, in fact, is the Internet and the premier way to do things so fuck off and install Google (c) Chrome (tm) today!

https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112356898091727067

jalcine, to random
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Seeing police in riot gear in person never fails to freak me out. Why do they have the kind of equipment that some country's army would use?

Granted, the other scarily quiet question is that why are some police departments in the United States more armed than other smaller countries?

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agh I feel like I'm overly verbose a lot but I don't know if it's legitimate or I'm such subjected to so much shorter form content more nowadays that I feel like I have to adjust what I say to fit that space

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Just saw a video of a crow and a baby playing together

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What does it mean to be a tech worker? https://jacky.wtf/2024/4/kDBb

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Whether or not knowledge workers are safe to learn is a canary in the coal mine for innovation. Just as whether or not children are safe to learn is a canary in the coal mine for whether a society cares about advancing.

Something that made an indelible impression on me way back in college was the Sartre notion of bad faith: our ability to unmake the consequences of our choices to such an extent that we negate choice, we abdicate as agents.

We are holding bad faith with human innovation.

jalcine,
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@grimalkina I don't know if it compares but I've read October Sky and the way the mines were heavily influencing communal life, I can only imagine how many folks served as such canaries

jalcine, to random
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Didn't realize Chomsky was also a linguistics guy. Like the linguistics guy.

jalcine, to random
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I'm in volume 4 of Kernel, a techno-optimist magazine with contributions I'm more than glad to be next to.

You can get your copy at https://shop.kernelmag.io/products/kernel-4?variant=40975508635721

I was inspired to write for them after reading two articles in volume 3, namely "When the computer is the witness" and "No girls on the Internet"!

(also more people should try doing this! I didn't think it'd work out but here we are!)

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what happened with nixos?

jalcine, to random
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it's not really worth it to yell angrily, I guess. rethinking some approaches.

jalcine,
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Just really afraid of the Black Balaji to appear (and I'm personally eyeballing ~4 people who operate like him to a lesser extent) and the speed at which people will defend those people will be the basis of whatever next rift in the Black tech community will become.

The majority of Black tech folks are liberally aligned and have stronger ties to maintaining this ecosystem than attempts to actually change it (reform city). And this gets worse when you've decenter the Anglo-centric Black American tech scene (folks rising in the UK, Haiti by way of Florida, etc).

Having Black folks shill for cryptocurrency to the same communities that were affected by another industry-backed financial crisis in 2008 that still has people in shambles is SO wild to me but unsurprising (if you look at how whatever Black capital immediately left pre-integration communities to support white industries but then pointed back to tell poor Black folks to stand up for themselves, the echoes are loud).

It always devolves into an excuse for survival but it's an overtly an obsession with mirroring whiteness (in its obsession with wealth and individualism) that routinely gets me so mad and feeling powerless.

jalcine, to random
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What are some watchdog organizations you follow?

jalcine, to random
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Tech contractors are going to be a very interesting set of folks. With the capacity to supplant organized labor (as seen in other industries in the past and present). It's also very easy for laid off folks to fall into these pools of labor (as someone who's yo-yo'd into this).

There are contractor unions, but would tech contractors be willing to band together like this? What incentives would they have when employers could straight-out cancel or reject contractors who are affiliated with such a group.

Class consciousness is more necessary than ever — especially amongst those who are privileged and elevated. (https://jacky.wtf/2024/4/IPfp)

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Sigh. https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/112332180103290815. Another day, another use of American-centric stances to defend the use of gAI without looking at the systematic issues that, if solved, would be cheaper and less exploitative than the current state of gAI. Hire more translators instead of dehumanizing the process by throwing into a machine. Whole conversations on cost can be balanced here. Step back and assess what parts of the process optimize FOR English-speaking and/or English-centricity, instead of aiming to "decolorize" the process. We really need to move away English-centrism (and actually humanize people) in these labor spaces, pull in people who give a fuck and stop thinking that technology is this MAGIC solution that deletes everything else happening in the world (it's really giving PaulG/a16z techno capitalist optimism, and we know where that goes). (https://jacky.wtf/2024/4/gof_)

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