Michael 🏴‍☠️ Fleet @f1337@librem.one

The lesson to take from the big layoffs at Twitter and Facebook is this: "The job will never love you back." No matter how much effort you put in, no matter how clever you are, no matter how long you've committed yourself to $COMPANY, when push comes to shove, you're just a replaceable part in the machine.

Keep your weekends and your evenings. Leave your bugs at work. Your time is for you, and your boss won't send you flowers.

For my part, I've always seen them as something at the discretion of the author. As the reader, you have a plethora of tools to disengage from unwanted content on Mastodon—with even better filters coming in 4.0—and harassment is not one of them. People who are arriving now have as much right to be here and bring their own culture as the ones who came before them.

How can you go to concerts when you’re autistic?”

- music is my special interest and has been a way to express myself
- i am not only a sensory avoider, but also a sensory seeker
- i use loud music as a way to drown out other sensory input
- singing and dancing are a way of stimming for me
- screaming certain lyrics at the top of my lungs at concerts give me an opportunity to feel and express feelings that i’m otherwise not able to identify
#ActuallyAutistic

I wrote a thread about Mastodon on Twitter, it needs to be read.
https://twitter.com/pati_gallardo/status/1590485665535643649?s=46&t=hpE2Unzsn-9qKirLfo3tYA

Have you heard about Silicon Valley’s unpaid research and development department? It’s called the EU.

https://ar.al/2019/06/22/have-you-heard-about-silicon-valleys-unpaid-research-and-development-department-its-called-the-eu/

Who should you thank for Facebook’s Libra?

• “One of the UK’s leading privacy researchers”
• University College London
• The DECODE project

And, if you’re an EU citizen who pays their taxes,

• You.

Surprised? Don’t be.

Adversarial interoperability helped Apple beat Microsoft and Facebook beat MySpace.

Reinvigorating it in an era of #BigTech is key to restoring competition to the tech marketplace https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/adversarial-interoperability-reviving-elegant-weapon-more-civilized-age-slay

RubyGems is working on adding Rust support for building native extensions, https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/issues/2726.

That's a great news! 💎🦀

#rustlang #ruby