Notices by Danilo Campos 🇵🇷 (danilo@hachyderm.io)

@mattly entirely reasonable!

I'm so tired of all the beefing, so let me say something that can unite all of us, except bad people with no taste

react sucks

just dogshit

@mattly the whole point of why we do this in one story!

INCREDIBLE story from the person who made the One Million Checkboxes website about teens hiding data in its shared state

https://eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes/

I think consent goes further than authority when it comes to teaching and learning

So when I’ve given a class to youngsters the last few years, I make “agreements” instead of rules.

I don’t know how much the difference registers for my students, but for me I’m starting off from a place of negotiation instead of demand and I think that’s how you do good work

If you support a #freepalestine and #ceasefirenow perhaps you will interact with this video

Developing at the DNC is a sit-in by uncommitted delegates who found out just an hour ago that the Harris campaign had refused their request for a Palestinian-American speaker before the convention closes.

I don’t think this is over. But we need to get together and push for history to move in the direction we know is necessary

A lot can happen between now and tomororw

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNcD9qTX/

I wonder if $60m is enough to make these cameras not completely suck ass

My opal is in a drawer where it can no longer harm me
https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/112921177798265506

@mattly I obviously know nothing but I am struggling to imagine they didn't know

I cannot fathom them not knowing

Here is a brand new ad for friend, an "AI" hardware product.

I can't speak to the merits of the product from an ad or a teaser site.

But on scifi, I am expert. And I think it's absolutely wild they're going full Black Mirror here. It invites so many questions.

Do they MEAN to go Black Mirror? Do they KNOW they're going Black Mirror?

Is this a wink and a nod? Is this a consequence of the ~Cerebral Valley~ echo chamber? I am very, very curious!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Q1hoEhfk4

Swimming against the current.

A headwind.

Whatever you want to do these days, that's how it feels. There are lots of reasons for it.

Consolidation is a big one: so many people have so few choices. A handful of companies are our only options, and they're endlessly chasing things that have nothing to do with our needs or happiness.

The pattern is fractal. Everywhere you look.

It's not just your telephone, your social platform.

It's your employer, too. Your means of surviving.

Employment is actually one of the clearer ways to understand our perpetual headwind.

There are two companies. One company absorbs the other. It doesn't matter why.

Afterward, the combined company has ALL these costs. All these children getting fed, all these pets receiving care, all these aging parents being supported.

That's expensive. The company doesn't want that at all.

So it makes a little spreadsheet and cancels as many obligations as it wants. Unilaterally.

It's trying to rent an apartment, or buy a house, the costs of which increase steadily as they fall into fewer and fewer hands.

It is, in other words, inequality.

It just keeps on going. I remember when I first saw the gap between productivity and wages documented, in my 20’s, I went absolutely off the wall. How were we accepting this?

I'm almost 40 now. It uh, hasn't really gotten better. Everyone is just kind of walking through the mud.

Every person subjected to a post-acquisition layoff is thrown into an objectively more difficult market. The global pool of jobs has contracted as a consequence of the consolidation.

So that's their headwinds. Tech workers, currently, are feeling an extreme version of this as layoff contagion enabled a blood letting of half a million jobs

But this is just one dimension. It's buying groceries, and no matter which label you choose, one of a handful of companies stands behind it.

Eventually the mud gets us to a breaking point. We have a lot of names for this. Marxists will chime in right here with "consumption crisis:" the inequality becoming so pronounced that business can no longer find anyone with money to spend on their products, seizing the economic machine as a whole.

So the questions of our moment are:

How close are we to the breaking point?

Do we need to actually REACH the breaking point to address a crisis?

What will people demand in the event of the breach?

@mattly this is really the vibe I get too

It feels like a successful referendum against gerontocracy that’s injecting energy above and beyond the fundamentals

I watched the transformation play out in my own mind

“Kamala's weird. And she's a cop, I don't know…"

But the contrast between Harris and Trump is irresistible. She's got energy and a sharp edge honed from a long career working her way up the system.

Suddenly, Harris was looking PRETTY good.

They say the healthy antidote to nihilism is absurdism, and it was in this spirit that the KHive suddenly grew into a big tent.

Coconut memes everywhere. Irony transmuted to conviction.

Meanwhile, now that there’s a seat open, the surrogates have a renewed fighting spirit.

Everyone is going to hit the morning and Sunday shows with vigor, competing for the VP slot.

By making room for the next generation, Biden has given the next generation new reasons to fight and win.

It was yet another Extremely Online Meme to be inside.

We were existing in the context. We were unburdened by what had been.

Winks and nods to Harris's idiosyncratic rhetorical style became shibboleths, made all the more sparkling by the intransigent stridence of those who were committed to going down with the Biden ship.

And so the question becomes:

Is THIS the pattern Kamala enjoys across the board? Do her poll numbers bloom as more voters go through this same evolution?

This is wild.

ActBlue donations totaled $61m for the week ending July 20.

In the single day since Biden stepped back and the party started coalescing around Harris, ActBlue collected over $83m

https://observablehq.com/@rdmurphy/actblue-ticker-tracker