@evan maybe, but why would you do this?! maybe if my grandma and my dad and myself had grown still near the community, had contact with the old family, had kept participating in the life of the indigenous group. but none of that happened! it may be "reglamentary" but it still sucks
I had at least one indigenous great grandma. her name was Filida Varela and I went to her funeral. she's hard to research because she barely has a last name and she's not in the official registry. her lived experience was light-years removed from mine. it would never occur to me to claim her indigenous identity. holy hell. shudder.
"16) Joy is callous. All evidence of it is a reminder that someone somewhere is suffering, which many someones always are, so joy should be withdrawn, and anyway it’s neoliberal. There can be no good things until there are no bad things at all, which is why good things are bad."
that said, don't apply for a job you don't want. don't tell me on an interview you actually wanted that other job but you weren't called for it and are hoping to somehow convince me you're a great fit.
when I have been a hiring manager and an applicant does not fit what I need I think "oh interesting! sadly not the right fit for this job" and I promise you I have never, ever thought "who's this delusional person applying for this position? how dare they?!". you're not wasting my time I get paid for this.
a note about jobs: you should apply to EVERYTHING you want and let the hiring manager decide if you’re not the right fit for it. give them a chance to make that decision, don't make it yourself in advance. I promise many people apply with far fewer qualifications.
I love how many engineers imagine this as a data visualization tool. no sweetness, this is a human history. it will have stories, it will have tears, it will find no satisfying explanations. it will find jealousy and pain and love and desperation and joy. only about 5% will be seen in code or data or documentation or anything remotely hardware-like. it will be discarded in the first possible budget cut.
also I want to say that a corp archivist and a corp archeologist are friends and have coffee all the time and have adjacent offices and water each other's plants, but they have very different jobs.
I think some tech companies are large enough to have a product archeologist. someone who can date and catalog where features and artifacts came from, what was their purpose, what got discarded along the way, how did humans shape the product into its current form.
there’s a laaaaaaarge middle ground between “LLMs are a worthless scam” and “the emergence of a god-like machine consciousness is upon us” and i wish more of us were excited about that middle idk
my sad dumb problems are too small, but the horrifying problems of the world are too big, so i’m desperately trying to find a middle sized perspective where everything is fine actually
autista antifascista🪴🏴 daytime at @eff. i like computers. please stop explaining the capitalism to me. i know more about the international system of human rights than i ever wanted to know. de noche se escriben locuritas.