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California's crashing kelp forest

First the sea stars wasted to nothing. Then purple urchins took over, eating and eating until the bull kelp forests were gone. The red abalone starved. Their fishery closed. Red sea urchins starved. Their fishery collapsed. And the ocean kept warming. This ecological horror story movie took place between 2013-2017, with lasting impacts. This study chronicles the catastrophic shift in 2014 from a robust bull kelp forest to a barren of purple sea urchins.

Tsunami Bomb stream another song (“Petaluma”) from upcoming album

Tsunami Bomb release a brand new LP, The Spine That Binds, on November 8th via Alternative Tentacles. Following recent single “The Hathors“, the band are streaming another song, “Petaluma”.  Have a listen below. Pre-orders are up now.

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Subhumans (UK) release “Split” album with The Restarts

Veteran UK anarcho-punks Subhumans have teamed up with fellow UK hardcore act The Restarts to release a “Split” EP through Pirates Press Records. The album features one track from each band, and both songs are absolute bangers. Check out the new album below. Subhumans just released Crisis Point earlier this year, which also happened to be their […]

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I use Mastodon for mostly train of consciousness posts. If you want to discuss software, I can suggest matrix room I made, matrix.to/#/#SoftwareEngineeri

Will GM Workers Stay Out On Strike In Hopes of a Better Deal?

“They always say it will take multiple agreements to reach equality—we can’t win it all in one go,” said Sean Crawford, a second-tier worker at Flint Truck Assembly in Michigan.

Why I’m Voting No on UAW’s Deal With GM: A “Third-Tier” Worker Speaks

After 33 days on strike, the leadership at the United Automobile Workers (UAW) has negotiated a tentative agreement with General Motors (GM). Nearly 49,000 UAW members—concentrated mostly in the Midwest, with a few plants scattered in the South and Northeast—will stay out until their contract is ratified. And although union leadership has encouraged the rank and file to ratify the contract, many workers are unhappy with the highlights of the proposed deal. Numerous workers at the General Motors plant in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, tell In These Times that local union leaders are travelling to Buffalo, New York today, to read the full tentative agreement. Members have until October 25 to vote the contract in or to send the bargaining committee back to the table.

Pirates Press unveils extensive online raffle ahead of this weekend’s Rock The Ship

Ahoy, landlubbers! In advance of this weekend’s spectacular Rock The Ship festival in the Bay Area, Pirates Press Records have launched a hell of an online fundraiser auction. It features items from Tim Armstrong, Matt Freeman, Cock Sparrer, Bar Stool Preachers, Fat Wreck Chords, Chunksaah Records, and a ton more. The auction closes THIS SATURDAY […]

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Goals are another big company aberration. I think the idea is that you'll somehow foster innovation by telling your employees they have to think of extra work to do in addition to their job. Dumb all over, but type A personalities believe everyone is driven.

It's funny to see them pushing cloud-based tools as, "You can even work from home!", but still want you to be in the office M-F 9-5. Yeah, everyone I know would rather work 80 hour weeks than 40 hour weeks for no extra pay.[sic]

Insane companies who have "learning" quotas...
I took python training as resume fodder. Python is pretty much like any other 3GL. Memorize the syntax and start programming. The secret lies in knowing what's already in the libraries/modules/??? so you don't reinvent the wheel.

I'll be perfectly happy if I never use python on a job. I enjoyed learning Rexx more. Wonder what the hot language will be in 20 years?

Finally, things seem to start moving in the right direction:

Meet @forgefed, an ActivityPub / Federation protocol for networked version control services like GitHub or GitLab.

Python tenet: 'explicit is always better than implicit' ... except when you're talking about things that save typing like g-strings, no block delimiters, terse collection specifiers, etc.

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