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

To be honest, I don't remember too much of a mention of generative AI in Klein's book but the mention in this video is on point.https://youtu.be/lCjcwVhFhTA

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.

So Podman Desktop is some weird hybrid of whatever VS Code uses and ... I don't understand, tbh. It works, though.

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.

This #NationalLibraryWeek, I need to take my books (physical and audio) and these DVDs back to the library, ha. Gotta share the wealth!

I have been enjoying the work of Dissent; namely of their Spring 2023 issue. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/issue/spring-2023/

The essay about Copy City at https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-fight-against-cop-city/ helped made clear and provided a working example of a multi-issue, cross-left-political banner towards liberation eventually devolves into a battle between corporations and its larger shielding — the State itself. We can hope for the State to reconfigure itself, but that takes decades. People going as far as to put themselves to prevent the ecologically corrupt disaster of the capitalist prison system should be enough to show people that this is not an accident or some misunderstanding.

And just backed a copy of this for myself and an inmate by way of Unchained, a support group for inmates in NYC. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3/abolitionanddisabilityjustice.

Just backed the Iron Circus's newest comic line: Rigsby WI. https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/iron-circus-comics/rigsby-wi-volume-1

Lmfao, so much for the EU being a privacy bastion. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec23winter-prepub-107-bouhoula.pdf

This is the world of surveillance. This is getting out of hand (and it's been). https://www.fastcompany.com/91087484/how-fast-food-is-becoming-a-new-surveillance-ground. I'm going to always ask folks to read and understand how all of this is tied to the American project, as highlighted in Logics https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/origin-stories-plantations-computers-and-industrial-control/

Up and onwards, Keith! https://blog.glitch.com/post/my-last-day-at-fastly/ Glitch was lucky to have you.

alright enough corpo-wailing from me, back to being a work drone.

More days than not, the "beep boop" doesn't hit me in the feels the same way it did a decade ago. The "beeping blorp" just flops. Not even a bop.

TIL that "Ars Technica" means the art of technology

Lol, I'm actually looking for a mention of the tactics of infighting that COINTELPRO mentioned when they worked to infiltrate dissent groups.

Them: "What's that you're reading?"

Me: "oh, nothing, just a book about the government".

The book: https://archive.org/details/cointelpro_papers/page/n9/mode/2up

This video is good and a reminder that the government will lie first before telling the truth. https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1589606899569377282. This is not even like a side-thought: "national security" is the means of the United States of maintaining its existing means of operation with no interruption, no reform and no changes.

Imagine how many articles we've read today that has a bunch of "briefed" journalists who do truly believe that the same government that spent billions on killing Indigenous peoples to form itself would, this time, tell any sort of complete truth.

The fact that we have FOIAs should be a bigger reminder to not fall for that.