Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"The plethora of 'learn-to-code' boot camps are designed not as altruistic ways to get the working class into high-demand jobs[...], but to drive down the cost of [software] labor." #WorkWontLoveYouBack #SarahJaffe "Programming might be destined to be [...] Clive Thompson of Wired wrote, "the next big blue-collar job." "

Work Won't Love You Back has a quote from Molly Crabapple, "the prize is what used to be called your salary.", in regards to the gamefication of workplaces of software developers.

Learned a new word, Fauxtomation, in Work Won't Love You Back, coined by Astra Taylor for a job that human beings perform that most people assume is done by automation; it was used in the ontext of purging social media of porn and violence.

"love is too big and beautiful and grand and messy and human a thing to be wasted on a temporary fact of life like work" - how Sarah Jaffe ends Work Won't Love You Back. #bravo #greatread

Police funding in Los Angeles to be partially reallocated from the LAPD to a one-year basic income pilot for 500 single parents https://basicincometoday.com/police-funding-in-los-angeles-to-be-partially-reallocated-from-the-lapd-to-a-one-year-basic-income-pilot-for-500-single-parents/

Oil companies want you to think they’re feminist. It’s BS. https://grist.org/justice/oil-companies-not-feminist-international-womens-day/

Entire Staff of Nevada Democratic Party Quits After Democratic Socialist Slate Won Every Seat https://theintercept.com/2021/03/08/nevada-democratic-party-dsa/

Jim Crow Rises: Desperate Georgia Republicans Scurry to Pass Voting Restrictions Law https://theintercept.com/2021/03/09/georgia-republicans-voting-sb-241/

Scary reading about how much underpaid adjunct professors have replaced tenured professors at most colleges. Not only are you paying a much higher price for college these days, you are also getting a lesser education. #capitalismsucks

You should really believe Microsoft when they tell you their cloud based email is much safer than the older Exchange solution. [sic]

Fool me once, fool me twice, keep fooling me baby. I'm just a sucker for you! #MicrosoftRubes #MicrosoftSucks #dumballover

One thing you get by sneering at something as "academia" is another measure of protection [sic] against having to apply the thing to your work. It's basically anti-science and anti-knowledge. It makes one feel better about their own ignorance. #dumballover

Oh goody! My favorite job, replacing a garage door spring. [sic] #fml

I was a little disappointed in the chapter on technical work in Sarah Jaffe's book, Work Won't Love You Back, because it focused too tightly on Silicon Valley and game development. The things she described aren't wholly unique to the game industry, but it kind of sounded that way. She did a good study on how the software industry abuses youthful enthusiasm, and her treatment of burnout, ego, and mistaking software dev for art was spot on.

Don't let the right-wing fucknuts take Viking history or Norse gods away from you. They also don't own the "Don't tread on me" flag. We know they're bullies that run in the face of stuff opposition, so stand up and show them how small of a minority they are! #NaziPunksFuckOff