Notices by Camille lives at Praxis Now (camille@social.praxis.nyc)

I do wonder if 20th century terms like fascist and Nazi are still fit for purpose or if we are just having a collective crisis of imagination.

There is a persistent narrative in the US that the Leftists are the ones who turn a "blind eye" to things that are "obvious social ills", rather than that Leftists are people who see those "obvious social ills" as symptomatic of deeper infrastructural issues that need to be extruded at the root rather than just whack-a-moled.

I do agree the institutional Left's game, all too often, is to dispute that said social ills are even social ills at all (the "don't believe your lying eyes" approach).

So I'm wondering how the anti-authoritarian Left can raise its profile such that there are voices saying, "Yes, we SEE that this situation is not good. However, we need to do surgery here, not just apply a bandaid."

And as we alleviate symptoms and tackle the root cause, we need to make sure the 'surgeon' isn't the same assailant that inflicted the wound. Oh, oh, and, also let people know that a critical part of that 'surgery' is SMASHING the current social order.

I think my issue with liberals is that they often see (and focus on!) the root cause, but are MARRIED to maintaining current social order. So they don't do much to address symptom OR underlying ailment.

A visit to the Greenpoint Tool Library: repair economies, object lending, and new production paradigms in times of climate change.
https://themaintainers.org/toolib/

#toollibrary #sharingeconomy

I find it helpful to search for the phrase "the President should" in Project 2025 to get a good overview of executive priorities and plans to consolidate power under the executive.
#project2025

Help the Community Creativity for Development (CC4D) MakerSpace and repair café in Yei, South Sudan, raise $8,000 to equip the space with sustainable electricity, essential repair tools, and furniture!
https://gofund.me/bda8b531

🙏🏾PLEASE BOOST🙏🏾

Nothing like Steve Bannon calling someone else the most racist.

This is about to be a YEAR y'all.

“Why do we have South Africans, the most racist people on earth, White South Africans … making any comments at all on what goes on in the United States?”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/12/bannon-musk-trump-maga/

@nick
https://colet.space
I started a collective 6 years ago to try and get movement people to embrace open source. It was really hard to do this work and get movement people to pay for it/financially support it. I walked away 6 months ago, but the other two are still trying. https://matsutake.network/
@mlncn and @FreeScholar have had a lot more success with Agaric and I know there is also Tadpole coop and Sassafrass, but the climb is steep.
startup funds are needed in this space
@bhaugen

@nick
You can't just be like "Here's a link. Here's a toolkit."

The change needs community-centered onboarding and support and ongoing maintenance.

I gave a talk the gives some ideas about how to do this https://www.writethedocs.org/videos/portland/2018/rewrite-the-docs-field-notes-from-the-radical-it-department-camille-acey/

The problem is we (radical tech folk) keep trying to NOT do this stuff at human scale. We keep trying to do it capitalist scale even though we know that that leads to the same ruin we claim we are trying to undo.
@mlncn @FreeScholar @bhaugen

@skinnylatte
Hmmm, I didn't know this. What if the company is mostly or completely remote? I worked somewhere with a woman on H1B once and no one knew she was that status until she was about to be fired (which she was). Her boss stretched her time with the company a little longer to see if she could find a new job, but of course H1B status makes it a huge slog!

@skinnylatte
Actually, working in tech, most applications I've seen or reviewed ask you citizenship/residency status. In addition to that, hiring tech managers often assume employees with Asian surnames will require H1B. For these reasons, the startup landscape tends to be less Asian than the BIG tech cos who can afford the cost and complexity of H1B. Those cos also tend to have better/higher comp.

What’s life like in the Brooklyn jail where Mangione awaits trial? Really bad, experts say. - Gothamist

https://gothamist.com/news/whats-life-like-in-the-brooklyn-jail-where-mangione-awaits-trial-really-bad-experts-say

> Those familiar with the facility said Luigi Mangione’s presence could draw attention to dangerous conditions inside.

Ok, so word is Asma Al-Assad now wants to get out of Moscow and away from Bashar. As a UK citizen, she is entitled to go back home...but here's hoping they won't let her

https://news.yahoo.com/news/amsa-al-assad-cannot-allowed-121709199.html

Chick is a total war criminal.

On Friday, Andrew Witty, the CEO of UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of UnitedHealthcare, said he agreed that the health care system is flawed.

"We know the health system does not work as well as it should, and we understand people's frustrations with it," he wrote in an op-ed published in The New York Times.

#luigimangione #unitedhealthcare

@carnage4life
...and then driving alignment amongst leadership! I've seen so many product leaders say "No we can't/won't be doing that" and then a sales leader going out and selling it anyway OR a founder just leaping out of the shower with some Brilliant Idea and expecting it to be prioritized without anything else on the roadmap having to be shifted.

A PM friend of mine used to say, "Product has a lot of responsibility and almost no power."

Whenever people say violence solves nothing, I am like, "OK , maybe it doesn't *solve* anything, but it certainly has a way of drawing attention. Doesn't it? Nothing in and of itself solves anything. We have to do the solving. You and me and those people over there. US."

Israeli military to remain in Gaza for years, food minister says

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/29/israeli-military-to-remain-in-gaza-for-years-food-minister-says

“I think that we are going to stay in Gaza for a long time. I think most people understand that [Israel] will be years in some kind of West Bank situation where you go in and out and maybe you remain along Netzarim [corridor],” Dichter said.

Wow, first the NYC mayor appoints the scion of one of the richest families in the city to be the head of the sanitation department. After she spectacularly fails to make an impact in that role, he moves her over to run the police department.

WHAT
COULD
GO
WRONG?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-names-loews-heiress-jessica-tisch-to-lead-the-nypd/ar-AA1us6i6

@persagen
I am wondering if there is a scorecard tracking how far Trump has *already* strayed from this plan. I have a feeling the folks at Heritage Foundation are tearing their hair out with annoyance.