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   Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 10:03:40 JST Anil Dash

   I wanna say something to people who work in tech-related jobs in America: this is still a field where most people hate the rise of fascism and want to stop it. I know the media & amplification of the tycoons makes it seem like that’s the whole industry. But it’s not. And we still have power.

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     Misuse Case (misusecase@twit.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 10:12:01 JST Misuse Case

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     @anildash I’m in information security and if nothing else, there’s certain kind of work I just won’t do.

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 10:39:17 JST Anil Dash

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     • Vidmo Oreda

     @Vidmo no, it’s real fuckin bad and centrists are underestimating the threat.

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     Vidmo Oreda (vidmo@cyberplace.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 10:39:18 JST Vidmo Oreda

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     @anildash absolutely. There is good here, and we will be fine. I am seeing a disgusting amount of doom and gloom from the younger group in America.... they are scared. I get it... but we as a country have been through so much more. SO MUCH more... but so many democrats (I'm a dem) right now (I would say the far left) is freaking out publicly, trying to start a fuss, and actually sharing BS misinformation. They are doing things right out of the far right playbook. It's stupid.

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 12:30:16 JST Anil Dash

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     • Ranjeeth Malachira Devaiah

     @ranjeethmd there are unions in tech. Ask me how I know.

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     Ranjeeth Malachira Devaiah (ranjeethmd@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 12:30:17 JST Ranjeeth Malachira Devaiah

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     @anildash That is until someone who doesn't like your thoughts fires you, and everyone will align in a line. There is a reason there is no union in tech, you know.

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     Dave Spector (dhmspector@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 12:32:50 JST Dave Spector

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     @anildash lol. No we don’t. Will bet you any amount that when the bidding opens up for Trump concentration camps Amazon and google wills first in the door. 80b+
     Per year? They won’t be able to stop themselves.

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 12:32:50 JST Anil Dash

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     • Dave Spector

     @Dhmspector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._and_unions

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 13:15:04 JST jwz

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     @anildash
     I wish I could believe this, but I don't. My experience is that the quisling tech industry is even more timid and cowardly than the journalists who "can't" close their twitter accounts.

     "I't just a job", they say. I have lost close friends over this. People I thought were better.

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     Outfrost (outfrost@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 20:40:17 JST Outfrost

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     • jwz

     @jwz @anildash It really depends what org (and, if big enough, which part of that org) we're talking about.

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 20:47:15 JST jwz

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     • Outfrost

     @outfrost @anildash "Not All Dot Com" is not the insight you think it is.

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     Outfrost (outfrost@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 20:48:36 JST Outfrost

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     • jwz

     @jwz @anildash this post is not the jab you think it is.

     I never said the orgs themselves are progressive or whatever.

     I meant the majority of people working there.