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Great news everyone! I saw code so terrible yesterday that I quit my job on the spot, for realsies. Enjoy what should be the last post about me gazing directly into corporate-hell:

ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/get-me…

Future posts will be about the dystopian hellscape that I conjure into being at my own business.

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I think it's all different views of the same curse that is non technical leadership that has established itself everywhere. The emergent effect of the MBA.
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@ramblingsteve Ah, this is so, so true! I’ve witnessed this in my field over the years. These leaders /might/ have good intentions, but ultimately they do not understand what people like me are actually doing day in day out. Yet, I reckon, they’re good at selling stuff/ putting a spin on what I do/ satisfyingly shareholders.

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Edit: they are thankfully still alive. They’re injured from the strike.

Both of my parents were in the Red Cross during the 75-90 civil war and have both said it wasn’t as bad, that they could still cross Israeli lines to help ppl at the time. Israel now just targets first responders as a matter of policy. This is a rogue, criminal regime.

#Lebanon

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A small group of Canadian politians try to rescue the last of Afghanistan's former woman MPs


For having been a female MP in the pre-Taliban regime, they are now in hiding from death threats.
After months of secret work, the multipartisan Canadian rescue mission is going public, but is not complete
#Afghanishtan
cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.652…
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" #OpenAI loses money every single time that somebody uses their product" wheresyoured.at/oai-business/
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"It’s so difficult to love when we’re all pretending to be machines."


I just love this woman's writing.
"It’s so difficult to love when we’re all pretending to be machines."
dinanalasad.substack.com/p/let…
Are there actually places where you don't have to pretend to be a machine, though? I thought it was just hard everywhere. And getting harder.
Dinan is from Sudan.

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Before being fired from her college, tenured #Jewish #professor Maura Finkelstein was the subject of a campaign of thousands of anonymous, bot-generated emails sent every minute for over 24 hours to the school’s administrators as well as local news outlets and politicians.

"If I can be fired for criticizing a foreign government, calling attention to a genocide and using my academic expertise as an anthropologist to draw attention to how power operates, then no one is safe. I wasn’t fired for anything I said in the classroom. I was fired because of a charge brought by a student I had never met, let alone taught, who had been surveying my social media account for months. This isn’t about student safety, this is about silencing dissent. We are witnessing a new McCarthyism and we should all be terrified of its implications."

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Yemen air defenses down *11th* American MQ9 drone‼️

FYI these cost $30,000,000.00 each!

#US #Yemen #Genocide #Israel

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"individuals who use, like, or comment on the slogan “From the river to the sea” on social media will not be eligible for German citizenship"


It's getting really really bizarre in Germany.

#freepalestine #westbank #gaza #palestine #israel #germany


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𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕒 🏳️‍⚧️🦋 is ignored


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No, It s the right one. I was referring to how the man was complying with the first officer by walking out of the hotel, when two more arrived, grabbed, tased, and assaulted him. He then died after vomiting and bleeding from the mouth.

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Very interesting look at how #Toronto Canada is a world within a city #languages
thestar.com/news/gta/this-smal…

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Ethical Revolution


I've signed up here for the 26 steps (one every two weeks) to being an Ethical Rebel! Things many of us on here are already doing. I know my individual stands I take can't change the world by themselves, but we can be part of the community that is moving in a new direction, maybe...
ethicalrevolution.co.uk/
So, step 1 (they are alphabetical!) is Abandon Amazon
ethicalrevolution.co.uk/amazon…
Easy, I have already done this with the help of the behometh itself. A few years ago when I was trying to be a seller as well as a buyer I got mixed up with the multiple accounts, lost passwords, and Amazon's "change password" codes which were supposed to come by phone never did! A blessing in disguise! I decided to just leave it that way. However a family member who is a very ethical person is nevertheless constantly buying from Amazon including when they send me a gift..so the boxes still can show up on my doorstep. #ethicalconsumer
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Gazan families of Canadians die because of lengthy bureaucracy designed to fail them


To my admittedly great surprise and pleasure, my neighbour Rana has been able to bring her sister, brother-in-law and one nephew to Canada, but she has many other family members in grave peril, maybe dead. She's desperately trying to raise funds with a GoFundMe and selling foods at the Farmers' Market.

cjpme.org/save_gaza_families

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#Montreal
#Emergency
#Protest

Today

6 PM - Imperial consulate

#Lebanon #Palestine #Gaza

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#Israel resumes its practice of murdering #UN employees, now in #Lebanon. Dina and Jad did not deserve this.

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And this, sadly, will probably get more views and reactions than little Fatima (9 years old) or little Mohammad (12) being killed just the other day.

A state targetting another state's civilians, there must be a name for that (yes, it's "war crimes").

It's all so sad, infuriating and fucked up.

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Announcement from We Don't Have Time at Climate Week NYC Sept 23-29 2024


Yesterday, world leaders gathered in the UN headquarters in New York and adopted the Pact for the Future, cementing the shift away from fossil fuels as the fundamental norm for climate action.
It was a hard-earned victory. Powerful fossil fuel lobbyism managed to have this paragraph removed from earlier drafts.

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Israel has launched more than 650 attacks on some 1,300 Hezbollah targets across Lebanon over the past 24 hours, killing 492 people and wounding 1,645 others.

@palestine
#Lebanon

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Undocumented immigrants paid $97B in taxes in 2022.

T-Mobile, Office Depot, and Duke Energy made billions in profits but paid nothing in federal income taxes between 2018 and 2022.

Remember this the next time the undocumented are called "freeloaders."

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They probably paid a HELL of a lot more than our government subsidized BILLIONAIRES!!!

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Does anyone have a recommendation for an email service that is privacy oriented and uses green energy? I know there are several, mostly European based, What are your user experiences? #email
I would be willing to pay a small fee to support the independence of such a service but my needs are pretty simple.
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@christof Mailbox looks interesting; you get quite a lot of tools along with email for your few euros: online office tools and video conferencing . Have you used these?
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– I haven't, so can't report on those, because I have alternatives in place for these (BBB, CryptPad). But I do like the core email service.

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Israeli soldiers raid, order closure of Al Jazeera office in Ramallah [Screengrab/Al Jazeera] and tear down an image of Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist shot dead by Israeli forces in May 2022.

@palestine
#WestBank
#AlJazeera

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