Notices by ✌🏿✍🏿 (jalcine@todon.eu), page 17

Got the e-mail confirmation.

Myself, along with almost 40 other workers, were laid off from Code for America. Instead of working with workers to get a union contract, they gutted our stances and refused to negotiate layoffs (again, anti-union behavior).

Will be immediately looking for new work. yo@jacky.wtf

I'm going to keep saying this to have this dig into heads. As much as America loves to preach the power of voting locally, they have pushed out the first democratic president of #Haiti (under Clinton) and have financially backed the now-leader who's been violating the Haitian constitution's terms of tenancy. That coupled with the US government's need to keep Haiti in a state of poverty (which guarantees labor and illiteracy), it's redundantly disrespectful to preach that voting can fix things if the power of people is nerfed by private interest. I pray this never happens here, your tunes will flip so fast.

Tech Won't Save Us: The Online Shopping Boom Is Over w/ Amanda Mull

Episode webpage: http://techwontsave.us/

Media file: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/12954730-the-online-shopping-boom-is-over-w-amanda-mull.mp3

Listening during my stationery run, @parismarx hits the head with the fallacy of consumerism being the way out for people. Frankly, 2013 - 2020 was a primary example of this, especially with the DEI wave in tech that led to more burnout or attrition of BIPOC and overall increased violence in relation to "representation".

Microsoft has managed to make a wholesome game completely shit. https://twitter.com/ShitpostRock/status/1687305982009819136 (https://jacky.wtf/2023/8/W-Xn)

"The narrative in the United States is that the majority of Africans captured during the slave trade were in America. This is not true" (paraphrasing the beginning of this)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CuZwpEkvxpI/

The upholding of corporate structures as a valid form of personhood and white supremacy go hand in hand.

I keep bringing myself to ask how to publish a paper without relying on academia and I don't know why I don't trust my own site to be good enough. Because it doesn't have a dowry? A seal? No accreditations?

I need someone who works at #Google to share this message so they stop contacting me.

STOP CONTACTING ME ABOUT EMPLOYMENT.

@element

That's a horrible hill to die on, and I can't ever again in good faith recommend or support y'all. Thanks for spitting in the face of millions.

@amatecha @matrix @liaizon

@element

Like this makes you no better than the corporations that promote abusive forms of communication y'all are allegedly against (or I guess not?)

@amatecha @matrix @liaizon

The Boondocks https://nebula.tv/videos/workingtitles-47-the-boondocks-fdsignifier

Mozilla's taking an interesting lead here as a NGO (with their resources) to help bolster the Fediverse. The fact that moderation and safety isn't an afterthought is reassuring. https://www.theverge.com/23710406/mozilla-social-mastodon-fediverse-moderation

And taking a step to look how to incorporate public services instead of celebrities and politicians should be onboarded (since they provide more immediate value to the other 99% of the users) is dope! (https://jacky.wtf/2023/5/iTV4)

Wow — workers at Bandcamp are organizing! https://www.bandcampunited.org/

They have ways they've mentioned you externally can support at https://www.bandcampunited.org/show-support (https://jacky.wtf/2023/3/fiDf)

@clacke oh no lol

Reading Dean Spade's Mutual Aid this morning (looks like I never finished it) and I've been just nodding my head each time. And I'm glad that there's substantial evidence about the Christian influence of maintaining poverty that I've never been able to put into words. Mutual aid truly is one of the most valiant forms of communal care that exists and can be deployed. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/2/fCL6)

For example, charities maintain (and exacerbate) poverty and unhoming of people by doing everything but what's needed: giving someone a home unconditionally and access to BASIC HUMAN needs (like water, food and clothing). There's enough money to do so (if we can spend $100 billion of the federal budget on a instigated war from 2014, we can feed the people in this fucking country). Without doing this, they encourage this yoyo of having to accept anything (including below "minimum wage" work, abusive work conditions and other inhumane working conditions) to prevent going back to the blender of charity services. And that's mainly for white cishet men who are poor and unhomed. For others, jailing becomes no different than Salvation Army's housing. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/2/l8IV)

Fuck capital-centric wealth, embrace communal strength

If someone gave me one immediate wish, it'd be to establish public banking in every county in America, move every citizen's money into it and have them only """reinvest""" that money into civic works.

No more overdraft fees. More of an incentive for faster transfers than ACH.

I also would want to let citizens vote directly on what services they'd like to have based on what the budget can offer to further discourage private banking. More publicly owned parks. More BUS LANES. More actual bike- and foot-centric traffic.

(This is more than one thing and would probably not happen, if started today, but it's a wish).

AI content under capitalism is the natural progression of this attention world we're in. I'm glad we're in a place that allows us to sus out things like this but I'm going to avoid it like the anti-labor and worker plague it is. I have to be tremendously better about also where I source my entertainment from. Like I've gone down the renegade route for big labels but I don't do that for indie artists, I pay for the whole album even if there's only one track that I like. So to also contort and repackage someone one's work in a world where intellectual property laws permit companies to rob the commons and flip it for profit is really irresponsible and something I can't get with. (https://jacky.wtf/2022/12/FJrz)