Notices by CEO of Anti-Clock Society (be@floss.social), page 5

@lanodan It seems that song is quoting the essay.

The Abolition of Work

"No one should ever work.

Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world."

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bob-black-the-abolition-of-work

The United States can make intercontinental ballistic missiles, but somehow intracontinental trains are too much to ask.

Have you considered closing all your tabs?

malevolent dictator for life

I appreciate the bluntness of this warning in documentation:

"Note: qmltc, qmlsc and qmlcachegen are internal build tools. If you need to care about their invocation, you are either writing a build system, or you are doing something wrong."

Turns out, I am writing a build system, so I do care.

https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtqml-qtquick-compiler-tech.html

"Essential worker" implies most work is nonessential, or in other words, does not need to be done.

@dreadpirateyarr be a British man in Singapore?

@rose I think this reflects a cultural bias privileging vision over other senses. This comes out in technology in other ways, for example the resources put into photo & video software versus audio software. Or how audio quality in normative technology has decreased in the last decade (especially because of Bluetooth -- in no small part due to its forcible imposition via removing headphone jacks -- and streaming) while screens and videos keep getting more pixels shoved into them.

@abolisyonista Is that a complement?

@abolisyonista This hits home:

'The Mayor’s Office also advised residents to limit their household water use as the sewer system struggled to “move the water efficiently.”'

https://blockclubchicago.org/2023/07/03/chicagoans-clean-up-dry-out-after-weekend-of-record-rainfall-and-flash-floods/

Meanwhile, parking lots are still getting built and all the streets are covered in asphalt and cement 🙃

@abolisyonista This whole city was built on making our sewage Somebody Else's Problem (particularly, St. Louis' problem).

@abolisyonista https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/03/urban-fish-ponds-low-tech-sewage-treatment-for-towns-and-cities

@inthehands what do we need the state for that?

@inthehands In our current practical reality, I struggle to imagine the state creating institutions of care that aren't entangled with carceral institutions such as psychiatry.

@inthehands It's nice when police abolish themselves.

Remember when participation in society wasn't gatekept by using some app?

From the statements of people who have publicly apologized, it seems there were more people involved who should be apologizing publicly...

@noracodes @vyr Yeah, that's like saying "e-mail culture" or "Internet culture".

My plan for monotization is to collapse everything into a quantified value of currency, specifically 1.