Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

GDI (God Damn Independents) was always my favorite fraternity/sorority (bad terms to get point across) in college. We had much better and more inclusive house parties (which didn't have to involve sex or beer or even a house). No hazing, no codes, no faux brotherhood/sisterhood, no segregation, just DIY.

Nowadays, I'd probably call it FI (Fucking Independents) to remove the religious baggage.

What if you don't want to be a leader? What's wrong with being a follower or an independent?

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Got my COVID-19 vaccine. I could tell the 15 minutes they have you wait afterwards is for calibration of the microchip, because of the strange antenna the nurse at the checkout desk had pointed my way. A black helicopter followed me most of the way home; probably final tracker test. As soon as I got home, there was an email from Biden congratulating me; his eyes seemed to track my movements.

Someone just reported a highly stressful corporate mandate has led them to consider suicide. The CEO and HR told them they're doing it wrong. #corporatelife

CEO just called worker exploitation a hunger to succeed. Pitted one part of the global workforce against the rest. Challenging the workforce with the implied threat of offshoring. #fuckoff

CEO All-Hands Q&A: That part of a status affirmation event where the CEO gets to call you a liar.

So much of corporate direction is structured around getting free labor from the workers, especially when it concerns innovation. Innovation adds much more to the corporate profit than they are willing to compensate the innovators. #theCorporateScrewJob

It's always fun to ask the CEO questions, during their dog and pony shows, that imply their workforce might not be happy with their management. You get the CEO tapdance and soft shoe shuffle where they fumble at words to answer the question in corporate approved boilerplate.

CEO talking about Trading Window, which appears to be a path to insider trading only available to corporate officers and boards. #eattherich

@dynamic IANAL; ethical vs legal implies two different things. I think it is unethical to attribute a quote from someone who confided something in private without permission. I also think it is unethical to quote someone out of context. Neither of these views may legally constrain publishers. As far as rights to pull context, I would ethically want to honor that right, but understand that a public post already grants permission to share. A link is more ethical, but ???

Forgot I had preordered this, JELLO BIAFRA AND THE GUANTANAMO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE "Tea Party Revenge Porn" LP + Shirt Bundle. What a nice surprise!

I'm involved in a project at work, where two wrongs don't make a right, but we're going to do it anyway. I've seen this so often in companies, that I don't even bother fighting it once direction is set; I also don't put in any unpaid overtime on it, because I told you so. You can't build quality in at the late stages of a project. You can't build maintainability in at the late stages of a project. If you fuck up the front end, you get a steaming pile of shit. #dumballover

I believe that anyone who uses the term, "cancel culture", is not worth reading/conversation. While I don't believe in broad censorship rights, I do believe in focused censorship rights. i.e., by an individual or community. You can't always choose your neighbors, but you can ignore them.

@dynamic I may have phrased it badly; by "use", I meant the ability to republish it on the internet, not personal use.

@dynamic Of course archiving and using are two different things. If you archive someone else's content, you should have to obtain permission to use it. Public posting with removal rights might theoretically have different rights to usage than public posting without removal rights.

@dynamic OTOH, the problem with centralized services is that when you leave them, your content often disappears. I've seen this with LinkedIn and Twitter. Especially disheartening was LinkedIn groups content, where a person gets removed from whole conversations. Usenet is a caution on decentralized services. It hasn't survived unscathed. There are valuable technical conversations lost due to lack of support. I guess the lesson is to archive anything you find of value yourself.

@freakazoid The USA needs laws that limit the size and reach of companies period. Our antitrust remedies have proven inadequate and getting weaker. Microsoft got barely a slap on the wrist. This won't happen until we see a government for the people trend. i.e., drastic reduction of the wealth gap, voting rights protections, stiffer health, safety, and environmental regulation, and adequate social supports. Tech freedom requires people freedom. Until then, we are just #dumballover.