Jaycie @jaycie@mastodon.social

controlled opposition with the fascist talking points:

CNN: "The vanishing white American" https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2018/06/30/the-vanishing-white-american.cnn

whiteness is a centuries-old political myth used to weaponize colonizers. it is not a race or a people or a history, it is the absence of such. it is the subsumption of identity, of ancestry, within an agenda of subjugation.

whenever you hear "the white race is disappearing!" know that the death of the myth is long overdue.

I’m sick to death of people being precious about #GMO produce. Functionally there is no difference between a grape bred to have little or no seed and a grape that has been modified in a lab for the same thing. Y’all are just scared of science.

You wanna talk about #Monsanto charging for “licenses” for their crops, ok. Talk about agribusiness killing the planet, ok. Talk about corporations copyrighting genetic code, ok. These are all valid concerns.

But the science is sound.

I didn’t know lush were doing a Destiny 2 cross promotion

fetch with fennec...

#fetch #ball #hardwoodfloor #leftfoot#fennec #fox #animatedgif

been watching SGDQ this week and here's some Four Swords #zelda #art because I realized I've never drawn them before!

https://twitter.com/danniaskini/status/1012835342183874560?s=20

The cherry on the shit sunday of today's news.

Get safe, prepare to defend you and yours. This train haven't breaks

if you, a trans person, need to update your docs, do so NOW. you can get help from folks like the Trans Relief Project, who will cover any fees: https://www.transrelief.com/apply.html

“The current political situation is a situation of constant surveillance. Not only are we constantly watched and monitored, we are also constantly being recorded. Any collection of data becomes a treasure trove of information. A target.”
A long time ago, Sunil Shah convinced me that Kept Pages are better than keeping old revisions of wiki pages forever. This is unlike a source code repositioned. We don’t need version control software for conversation.
https://oddmuse.org/wiki/Kept_Pages
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“In computer science, it’s easier to keep everything. It just costs space on a disk. Forgetting is hard. And thus, being lazy, we decide to build a world that makes it easy to undo all our mistakes, to prove all our mistakes, to keep all our records, and so the road to the police state is paved with good intentions.”
As software developers, we often find that designing humane software is harder then ignoring human needs. But it’s what we need.
https://oddmuse.org/wiki/Kept_Pages
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@dredmorbius writtes about the same issue under the title “data is liability”.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3hn4r5/on_the_media_asks_what_can_we_learn_from_ashley/
I recently thought about this again in relation to “eternal messages” and Secure Scuttlebutt (#ssb). Why are we designing software to model conversations as a set of contracts? “I don’t like to design a system that doesn’t allow for any take backs. Human lives, our legal systems, or social conventions – they all allow for take backs wherever possible.”
https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2018-06-29_No_Take_Back
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@garbados We're already at the point where local communities could run their own power & Internet utilities today. The main barrier is the existing monopoly providers. The fact that ISPs can sue cities to stop them from providing their own Internet is just mindboggling to me.

@freakazoid @garbados This literally happens here. My city built and deployed a municipal fiber network. It's amazing. A city to the north, and one to the southeast started, but comcast stopped them and the legal fees for the process to stop them, and the subsequent process of fighting the efforts to break the monopoly (which were eventually successful in the northern case) were billed back to the community. It's shitty.

the whole way we approach work in IT is pretty much… fucked.

companies are trying to entice you with exciting technologies and interesting sounding projects

as though i'm bored with what i'm doing at $current $job, instead of being deeply frustrated with the processes

if you can offer a work environment where i can have some semblence of agency, some delusion of power to shape the process i wouldn't mind doing the same damn thing for 60 years.

⚠️ ⚠️ Important Unfortunate News⚠️ ⚠️

I was just contacted by Typeform that they had a data-breach and an unknown hacker downloaded all of the results from all Typeform forms prior to May 3rd, including the Sneepsnop Sign-Up form

The good news is they didn't acquire anything else;;

That spreadsheet had your provided email address and Mastodon handle.

The orchid mantis is a big weird lanky bug, which is relatable, but she also rocks high-femme fashion while being a terrifying predator with swords for arms, which is aspirational.

oh my god, someone suggested that there needs to be a Mei + Wrecking Ball mode in called Total Mei-Ham #overwatch

Reclaiming RSS

“Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS: Really Simple Syndication … As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS.”

https://ar.al/2018/06/29/reclaiming-rss/

#ethicaltechnology

19 ICE agents have recommended that the Department of Homeland Security shut ICE down. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/us/politics/ice-immigration-eliminate-agency.html

They're concerned that Trump's focus on illegal immigration is interfering with their work against /actual/ transnational criminal enterprises, and they want their positions reassigned to another department, where they can fight actual crimes instead of being told to detain three-year-olds.