Can someone with an Iphone let me know what it looks like when you receive a text from an unknown Android? Does it go into a separate box or something? Do you get a notification? If so, is it of a different type than the Iphone notifications? I have no plans to buy an Iphone, but I feel like there is a HUGE lag between when I text my Iphone friends and when they respond. Like I feel like I can text them all at once today and they will all respond way later but like all at the same time. 🤔
In a letter to Angela Davis as she sat in jail in 1970, James Baldwin lamented that > only a handful of the millions of people in this vast place are aware that the fate intended for you . . . is a fate which is about to engulf them, too. White lives, for the forces which rule in this country, are no more sacred than Black ones . . . the American delusion is not only that their brothers all are white but that the whites are all their brothers. #amiasrinavasan#therighttosex
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/
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
@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
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.
co-moderator of praxis.nyc (with @nonlinear) here in LenapehokingI run The Wind Down, where I help organizations close down or at least understand that endings can be beautiful. (avatar is of Spiderpunk, a black masc with a large afro in a leather jacket and hoop earrings along his ear and one through his nose)#blackanarchist