Hal @zzz@eldritch.cafe
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Moral consequentialist, armchair ethicist, and aspiring speed-cube enthusiast.
I'm a Secular Jew here to learn from other people and exchange pictures of plants and food. The fastest way to make me like you is to recommend me a cool article or book about something you care about.
Joined Feb 2020
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Support Mechanical turk workers
https://blog.turkopticon.info/?page_id=758
Support the IWGB
https://iwgb.org.uk/page/donate
Support the NYC Car Wash workers
https://www.rwdsu.info/donate_to_support_ny_car_wash_workers
Support the London Renters Union
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When you realise what you did wrong, know that I will forgive you. It's the only way either of us grows.
Hey, can someone who understands javascript or npm help me with something? This is a very basic question.
That most airlines are getting rid of first-class and expanding economy-class seating should tell you who really powers the economy.
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1 week left to apply! Our worker co-op is recuiting some more data analysts, for our work on open data standards in the transparency space. UK based, but working remotely.
https://app.beapplied.com/apply/cdfx2tfy9j?utm_source=mastodon
If you read reviews https://openreview.net/forum?id=dNy_RKzJacY the main value others had in the paper is they paid some workers to create it. The authors do not want us to think about all the bad things you could do with their research.
Anybody want to hear me rant about a paper that tries to teach a computer ethics?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02275
Because having a blackbox model decide what's moral and what's just is healthy for a democratic society!
And yes we had fucking tea even though it's fucking 30C here and his milk was fucking curdling.
Still lost.
Only in England can you meet with your supervisor in a garden for tea and then immediately get lost in a hedge maze when you two part ways.
It's not enough to just plant trees or commit building "garden cities". We have to really treat the trees and vegetation around us as part of an ecosystem. Monoculture just leads to crop disease and environmental destruction no matter how many trees of a single species and a single gender that you plant.
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-07-02-rewilding-cities-grow-back-greener-cleaner-and-healthier
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Labor strike
The Frito-Lay strikers do ask for boycott.
If you think people shouldn't be forced to work for 84 hours in a week, and that employees should be given yearly raises, this is the boycott to join... conditions were extremely bad, they didn't stop production after a death, and the union is failing to finalize a contract.
Frito-Lay is Pepsi-Co, so Snapple, Gatorade, Starbucks, Lipton, Quaker, Cheetos, Bubly, Mountain Dew, sodastream etc etc
Maybe pick up a pen.
Happy Bastille Day everyone
Support the nurses on strike
https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/usc-nurses-hold-two-day-strike-for-patient-safety
Where my CCP-stans at? Authoritarian governments do not tolerate gay people.
I feel a lot better for shifting how I do my activism. Basically I publish anonymously and mostly do stuff offline. Highly recommend it!
Been enjoying reading the Queer history of computing https://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/apr/9/queer-history-computing-part-three/
misogynist, academia
See I can't prove that my former colleague with a misogynist, but I found it very telling that in his PhD thesis he didn't acknowledge any of the many women in the department that helped him with his research.
He did manage to have space to thank all the men that came to his tabletop games on weekends.
Although I'm not a member in good-standing, I really do love the red songs the IWW choir sings
Happy Bloomsday everybody!
I find it kinda hilarious that the Highgate cemetery brochure goes out of its way to not highlight how many famous socialists are buried. Paul Foot is listed as a journalist. Claudia Jones is listed as a journalist and activist.
They really want to erase the massive societal impact of socialists so you believe that nobody with these ideas accomplished anything significant.
- Pronouns
- he/him
- Longform
- https://progressandclass.surge.sh
Moral consequentialist, armchair ethicist, and aspiring speed-cube enthusiast.
I'm a Secular Jew here to learn from other people and exchange pictures of plants and food. The fastest way to make me like you is to recommend me a cool article or book about something you care about.
Joined Feb 2020
