Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

NYPD “Goon Squad” Manual Teaches Officers to Violate Protesters’ Rights https://theintercept.com/2021/04/07/nypd-strategic-response-unit-george-floyd-protests/

Code smithing was important, when all I knew was coding (high school - early career). Now it's annoying, because I know how little import it has in the whole of software development. #wisdom

Yet I still see many devs in late career devoting a lot of time to it. Some are even writing books/selling consulting based on it. #dumballover

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?

https://newsbots.eu/@ScienceDaily/106021131641147443

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.