Tech contractors are going to be a very interesting set of folks. With the capacity to supplant organized labor (as seen in other industries in the past and present). It's also very easy for laid off folks to fall into these pools of labor (as someone who's yo-yo'd into this).

There are contractor unions, but would tech contractors be willing to band together like this? What incentives would they have when employers could straight-out cancel or reject contractors who are affiliated with such a group.

Class consciousness is more necessary than ever — especially amongst those who are privileged and elevated.

Adding to https://jacky.wtf/2024/4/gof_, at Code for America, I spent time (unpaid) to help translate information for New York City regarding some public services that were being transitioned into Haitian Kreyol. I have the privilege of time to do so as well as the bridge to understand the language in written form to do so. I really do hold the idea that folks, like me, multilingual people, who choose to just push towards anything else and not volunteer this time is similar to closing the door on folks and allow the system to reintroduce the same cracks that our parents and elders fall through when systems fail us. It is a mistake to immediately assume that the systems that barely hold social services together will help people — understanding from both lived experiences and now having to work on them.

Going back to this career coach, I'd half expect that if you're not considering plurality in language in your work in helping people be employed, then you're not helping people outside your immediate sphere — which is fine! Be honest and don't take money from people who could spend that on people can truly help.

All personal points but something that bangs against the wall of my mind about once a month, tbh.

Sigh. https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/112332180103290815. Another day, another use of American-centric stances to defend the use of gAI without looking at the systematic issues that, if solved, would be cheaper and less exploitative than the current state of gAI. Hire more translators instead of dehumanizing the process by throwing into a machine. Whole conversations on cost can be balanced here. Step back and assess what parts of the process optimize FOR English-speaking and/or English-centricity, instead of aiming to "decolorize" the process. We really need to move away English-centrism (and actually humanize people) in these labor spaces, pull in people who give a fuck and stop thinking that technology is this MAGIC solution that deletes everything else happening in the world (it's really giving PaulG/a16z techno capitalist optimism, and we know where that goes).

The concept of federation has won the popular debate of the open social Web. I don't think the IndieWeb is going to be able to put itself in a place that makes the "indie" part attractive anymore, and the slow encroaching need for funding of the open social Web is going to push that even further away.

It's not a prerogative of the IndieWeb (in the sense of reading the Wiki, not speaking on behalf of the community) and I think that it's a routine failure of the space and community. I've yoyo'd on working on something to alleviate that, but I hadn't the kind of time necessary for it. Critical critique is always necessary (and without it, things can't grow — atrophy becomes the method of progress).

I don't know what I'll do with myself or my site — I've already sunk a few years into it (and I learned a lot — grateful for that). But I sorely wish the "Web" part of the "IndieWeb", in the sense of building collective tools that lift all the boats instead of individual yachts being propelled, were something that was focused on more and not left to the rest of the world to just "adopt".

This has been something on my mind for a year now and I'll expect that I'll be writing more on it soon.

So, the more repressed you are at work, the more likely you are to play video games.


I had to read this more to understand what was it signifying as working and middle class and it seems to be that "working class" means "upper-lower class" (or just people who aren't in control of their workplaces) and the managerial class is now middle class. Can we just get a unified idea of these "rankings" (or just do away with them altogether?). https://phys.org/news/2024-04-video-game-devotees-class-middle.html

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As mentioned in the replies to this note, the gist of this article is bullshit and classist noise. It's the kind of content produced for the managerial class of society, or those who are staunch neo-NIMBYs of the workplace.

So, the more repressed you are at work, the more likely you are to play video games.

I had to read this more to understand what was it signifying as working and middle class and it seems to be that "working class" means "upper-lower class" (or just people who aren't in control of their workplaces) and the managerial class is now middle class. Can we just get a unified idea of these "rankings" (or just do away with them altogether?). https://phys.org/news/2024-04-video-game-devotees-class-middle.html

So The New York Times just be running straight lies for war, eh? Like it mixes it with some truth and left-adjacent voices so it's kind of seen as a both-sides space.

Referring to NL as the "Kingdom of the Netherlands" to remind myself that these folks still got colonial grips on the Carribbean. I legit thought Aruba (or Arubeira, the name given by the locals) was an independent country. A prime minister of the area had just decided it wasn't worth pursuing anymore. So so freaky.