Google's gone full on IBM-helping-Germany, eh?
Really excited to start Governable Spaces by https://nathanschneider.info/books/governable-spaces. A flow that helps me determine quickly if a book will be worth my time was one described in The Art of Clear Thinking. This book and The Age of Insecurity are ones I'm hoping to get some inspiration from.
The most densely populated island in the world wasn't where I expected, nor the amount of people on it.
A large tech conglomerate that's routinely profited from violence that's now attempting to join the larger open Web is also complicit in the current US-sponsored genocide of Palestinian lives. Sounds about IBM. https://blog.paulbiggar.com/meta-and-lavender/
This is going to bring a new meaning around "is this conversation being recorded?". https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/17/a16z-backed-rewind-pivots-to-build-ai-powered-pendant-to-record-your-conversations/. It's also a tell-tale sign of the lack of a sense of immediate privacy that the tech industry generally has.
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.