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-meโฆ
Future posts will be about the dystopian hellscape that I conjure into being at my own business.
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Edit: they are thankfully still alive. Theyโre injured from the strike.
Both of my parents were in the Red Cross during the 75-90 civil war and have both said it wasnโt 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.
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A small group of Canadian politians try to rescue the last of Afghanistan's former woman MPs
After months of secret work, the multipartisan Canadian rescue mission is going public, but is not complete
#Afghanishtan
cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.652โฆ
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"Itโs so difficult to love when weโre all pretending to be machines."
"Itโs so difficult to love when weโre all pretending to be machines."
dinanalasad.substack.com/p/letโฆ
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.
Letter #24
Iโm writing to you from London and lately, Iโve been thinking about love. Reading time: 4mdinan alasad (Letters from Dinan)
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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 schoolโs 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 wasnโt 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 isnโt 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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Another police killing in Alberta
aptnnews.ca/national-news/i-doโฆ
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Ethical Revolution
ethicalrevolution.co.uk/
So, step 1 (they are alphabetical!) is Abandon Amazon
ethicalrevolution.co.uk/amazonโฆ
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
Welcome aboard the Ethical Revolution
Join the Ethical Revolution and take 26 step challenge to a better world from A-Z. The only way is ethics!Ethical Revolution
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.
Tell Miller and Joly: Save Families from Gaza Now!
Sign the petition if you are Canadian.www.cjpme.org
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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.
Announcement from We Don't Have Time at Climate Week NYC Sept 23-29 2024
It was a hard-earned victory. Powerful fossil fuel lobbyism managed to have this paragraph removed from earlier drafts.
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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Bread and Circuses
in reply to Bread and Circuses • • •Here's how Murphy describes the series title, โMetastatic Modernityโโฆ
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The name conjures a grave cancer diagnosis โ terminal, in fact. Modernity is fated to self-terminate, like any cancer, due to its complete reliability on non-renewable materials, accumulating ecological damage, and failure to exist as a part of an ecological whole in reciprocity with nature. It has no long-term place on this planet.
But because modernity is just one of many possible ways for humans to arrange their lives, a failure of modernity does not translate to a failure of humanity.
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LINK TO FULL SERIES -- dothemath.ucsd.edu/2024/07/metโฆ
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in reply to Bread and Circuses • •This, for anyone who tries to argue that human overpopulation is not really a problem, out of misguided political correctness or tech-optimism or whatever.
Also, animal agriculture. Since everyone's not going to become vegan, can we at least promote the dietary fact that eating animal products sparingly is better for our health and get rid of these stupid carnivore fad diets?
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