@hakan_geijer @HeavenlyPossum I'm fine being alone (with my family) but you can't keep food on the table that way in this country.
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Aaron (hosford42@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 07:09:40 JST Aaron -
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Aaron (hosford42@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 06:58:11 JST Aaron @HeavenlyPossum By all means. It's not an easy problem, and I imagine a lot of folks are in similar situations, particularly those of us most at risk of extermination under a fascist regime.
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Aaron (hosford42@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 06:58:10 JST Aaron @HeavenlyPossum One thing I can point to is establishing ways to communicate safely. Encrypted communication channels, for example. Also geohashing-style drop points for thumb drives. But this presupposes someone you want to communicate *with*.
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Aaron (hosford42@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 06:56:21 JST Aaron @HeavenlyPossum I would have never thought along these lines on my own. I'm also not sure how to go about it, aside from the reading part. I have basically no friends IRL, just family, and many of those can't be trusted.
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Aaron (hosford42@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 06:54:39 JST Aaron @HeavenlyPossum The best way to address this, IMO, is to point out specific actions people can take right now in their own lives to make a difference. I think that's where the disconnect lies for most people.
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Aaron (hosford42@techhub.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 00:23:22 JST Aaron If someone who commits murder lives on your block, are you a murderer?
If a terrorist organization is based in your country, are you a terrorist?
This idea that all of Palestine is responsible for the actions of Hamas is nothing but an excuse for genocide. It is no more valid of an argument than the idea that all of Israel is responsible for the actions being taken against innocent Palestinians. We have to stop grouping everyone together and identify those *individuals* who are actually contributing to the horrors if we ever want the pendulum of hate to stop swinging.
What matters are your deeds, not who you're lumped in with.
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Aaron (hosford42@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 06:55:03 JST Aaron @Brendanjones All good points. At this point, anything that improves the status quo is worthwhile ti me. I'm sick of our corporate overlords, and I will fight them in whatever way I can.
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Aaron (hosford42@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 03:50:10 JST Aaron The profit motive drives enshittification. Consumer coops are immune to it.
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Aaron (hosford42@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 03:50:09 JST Aaron The profit motive drives worker exploitation. Worker coops are immune to it.
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Aaron (hosford42@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 03:50:08 JST Aaron The profit motive drives ecological exploitation and the externalization of costs onto the environment. Consumer coops respond to the voice of the community.
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Aaron (hosford42@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 03:50:08 JST Aaron For-profit corporations are the reason we have ridiculous levels of wealth inequality. Coops work against that.
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Aaron (hosford42@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 03:50:06 JST Aaron The stock market is a source of economic instability, market crashes, and, in worst-case scenarios, worldwide economic depressions. Coops don't participate in the stock market and are robust to economic instabilities.
#Coops
#Cooperatives
#StockMarket
#MarketCrash
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Aaron (hosford42@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 03:50:06 JST Aaron For-profit companies abandon their customers and close their doors when there isn't a way to monetize. Consumer coops work with their customers to ensure their needs are met
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Aaron (hosford42@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 03:50:05 JST Aaron I'm sure I've missed some other good points in this thread. (Feel free to add them!)
The main point is: WE ARE DOING CAPITALISM WRONG.
#Coops
#Cooperatives
#Capitalism
#Socialism
#FreeMarket
#HumanDignity
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Aaron (hosford42@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 03:50:04 JST Aaron With the simple change of encouraging and incentivizing cooperatives as a business model, we can solve the vast majority of the dystopian-level economic problems we are currently experiencing.
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Aaron (hosford42@techhub.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 03:49:36 JST Aaron @feld @paul_ipv6 @tychotithonus Money comes before people, is what I'm hearing. Especially if it's people who already get shit on by society.
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Aaron (hosford42@techhub.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 03:35:08 JST Aaron @feld @paul_ipv6 @tychotithonus
"those people"
A quick check with a search engine informs me that 13% of the population is disabled. The number of people who will ever be disabled at some point in their lives is higher, around 25%. Those people are these people.
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Aaron (hosford42@techhub.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 10:46:57 JST Aaron @thomasfuchs My guess is that all the answers will be way too short, due to sane character limits.
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Aaron (hosford42@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 12:00:47 JST Aaron The entire #MachineLearning and #DataScience team, including me, just got laid off. :( :( :( :( :(
Anybody out there looking for an ML or software engineer with >30 years total experience and ~20 years in the industry?
I have extensive experience with #Python and #ML frameworks, particularly #TensorFlow, and I've worked on #NLP and #ImageProcessing both in the workplace and in personal open source projects. My resume is available here:
I'd love to work for a #coop or non-profit, if that's a possibility, but I'm open to other options.
If you work in this industry or know someone who does, please boost for reach.
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Aaron (hosford42@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 18:41:13 JST Aaron @mina @gaysteve Can it not? Given the current trends in popular thinking, this seems typical. Red meat makes you manly. Soy products make you enucht. Owning guns makes you manly. Treating women with respect makes you eunucht.