@Green_Footballs yeah white men within the ruling class have consolidated power, there is literally nothing we can do short of mass starvation for the cause to distrupt their control. We can do it but obviously we're fighting a class that has no conscience.
It boggles my mind that the Washington Post knew about the insurrectionist flag at the residence of a Supreme Court "Justice" at the time it was flown -- but didn't tell the public what it knew until years later, the NY Times did report it.
African AI workers, mostly from Kenya, released an open letter to Joe Biden this week asking him stop US tech companies from “systemically abusing and exploiting African workers” and to end the “modern day slavery” they’re subjected to.
@w7voa If a justice makes enough money to fly a flag upsidedown and own a beach house, they're not going to practice law wisely or adjudicate with compassion.
After posting on LinkedIn about resigning from my job due to burnout, I learned that the most common response to hearing that someone is experiencing burnout is to DM them an ask if they'll contribute their newly acquired free time to your project or organization for free 🥴
“I have seen the extremely restrictive off-boarding agreement that contains nondisclosure and non-disparagement provisions former OpenAI employees are subject to. It forbids them, for the rest of their lives, from criticizing their former employer.”
Of the many double standards employed by the media, Biden needing every speech to be some combination of Lincoln and Cicero while Trump's public appearances are 90 minutes of word salad, non sequiturs, and dictatorial musings that get no push back, is among the worst.
@michelemccarthy They're both terrible public speakers and weren't great in school. Very mediocre. You don't have to be great but I'd never suspect we'd lower the bar to the point where we'd be debating over an orange predator and genocidal president who can scarcely string a sentence together.
I'm especially annoyed today. Like both from people who think surgical masks are what to wear for Covid (when we know you need respirators like n95/ kf95/ kn95 or higher,) and also angered by people who want to ban masks for identity issues like NC. But maybe the combined ignorance will just result in surgical masks being banned and actual respirators being used instead? Either way the ignorance is killing me. Just wear an n95 and let others do the same. We are trying to protect each other.
"The president of Sonoma State University was placed on leave Wednesday, a day after he released a controversial campuswide message on the Israel-Hamas war that said the university would pursue 'divestment strategies' and endorsed an academic boycott of Israeli universities.
"California State University Chancellor Mildred García announced the decision in a statement posted to the CSU website, saying that Sonoma State President Mike Lee was taken off the job for his 'insubordination' in making the statement without 'appropriate approvals.'"
"The Raw Milk Institute called the warnings "clearly fearmongering." The institute's founder told the LATimes his customers are specifically requesting raw milk from H5N1-infected cows."
This is an example of how minimizing COVID is destructive to public health far beyond COVID.
Bruh. I just want a nice luxury EV that doesn't fund the world's most obnoxious man baby and his awful social media platform. If you're gonna lock BYD out of the US market, at least ask one of the US manufactures to make some good cars first.
McKenzie Scott is no philanthropist. Her wealth grows at a rate so fast she could never give it away fast enough. For tax purposes and her image she has to give it away. But once you exceed several million, you can live off the interest due to the financial system benefiting the wealthy. You can make up to $30k a month just off of interest on 3 million. Most people have little comprehension of what a crime it is to be wealthy.
This North Carolina bill is ridiculous. It justifies punishing protestors for blocking emergency vehicles, yet bans wearing masks for health reasons. This bill is dangerously anti-public health and restricts people's ability to protest and exercise their First Amendment rights.
@luckytran Someone working with small particles that could affect breathing can wear masks but we're not allowed to wear masks due to viruses that have killed millions.
Journalists: The student protestors appear to be college-aged individuals. Most of them are wearing Columbia sweatshirts. They're carrying overpriced textbooks. We have verified that they are enrolled in classes and are paying tuition to the university.
NYPD: Wow these Antifa agitators are using alarmingly advanced infiltration tactics.
@lowqualityfacts They got into an Ivy League school only to one day protest genocide?? Brilliant minds to predict their future and college activities 😂
You know something has gone terribly wrong when 94% of teachers have to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies while the average Wall Street employee gets a bonus of $176,500. Hello?
If you've ever found yourself missing the "good old days" of the #web, what is it that you miss? (Interpret "it" broadly: specific websites? types of activities? feelings? etc.) And approximately when were those good old days?
No wrong answers — I'm working on an article and wanted to get some outside thoughts.
@molly0xfff The ads and marketing alone make the internet not just dangerous but frought with privacy violations that I didn't see coming. I don't want anyone to know what i'm looking at for the sole reason that I once enjoyed privacy.
IDENTIFIED: Meet racist Zionist provocateur David Kaminsky, who attacked and spat on pro-Palestine protesters at the UCLA student encampment. Kaminsky is openly boasting about his hate crime on social media.
@VPS_Reports Keep ur head straight, do not get distracted. Black protestors practiced being spit on and insulted in order to have the training necessary to gain freedom. We can do this. We can survive and win despite abuse. But not without therapy and support. During the protest, keep that energy, its only temporary. The goal is so close.
Politicians from both ruling parties are comparing anti-war protesters on school campuses to the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville and some are even calling for the National Guard to be used against them on campus.
These are calculated attacks designed to dehumanize human beings in the eyes of the public, attack solidarity, and grease the wheels of repression. These calls for systematic state violence echo the attacks against anti-war, divestment, and anti-apartheid protesters in the 1960s and 1980s.
I originally thought the hashtag ActuallyAutistic was specifically that in part because many of us (as I do) overuse the word "actually".—I learned a long time ago its true origin and meaning though.
I was curious (and still am) what other words we tend to overuse. For me I've come up with these so far:
@JoBlakely@punishmenthurts@JeremyMallin@actuallyautistic Guess why so many white people want guns and limit gun control when they are the ones doing all of the shooting. When you do wrong things, paranoia is the price you pay.
"I serve with some real scumbags. Matt Gaetz, he paid minors to have sex with him at drug parties. Bob Good endorsed my opponent, a known neo-Nazi. These people used to walk around with white hoods at night. Now they’re walking around with white hoods in the daytime.” - Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) on CNN today https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2024/04/21/sotu-gonzalez-during-panel.cnn
@w7voa Its always about rape. When I was first homeless after rape, it took about 5+ years to understand that this was state violence and all money can be traced to rape, not drugs. Drugs are the accessory to wealthy, rape is the destination. Money just buys it and also buys impunity and elaborate covers.
@GossiTheDog I'd also like to ironically tell the dude about all the time white bruh's were literally killing us, raping, keeping us in poverty and making us homeless by fucking iwth our careers when we were good at it so....your turn!
I once wrote about how it was not unrealistic, to think that there was no such thing as an un-traumatised autistic. About how so many of us have known bullying and persecution simply for being different. Not even always for what we may have said or done, but often for simply standing out; in all the ways that we didn't even know we were. How just simply being, was so often an excuse to be attacked or punished. That our very existence, even as hard as we tried to mask, whether we knew that was what we were doing or not, was the cause of so much pain.
All the scars we carry from misreading situations. Or from believing in something, or someone, and being burnt as a consequence. All the times we've tried to stand up for ourselves, or as often as not for others, and been dismissed and ridiculed. All the misjudgements and disbelieve and times when our intent and purpose have been seen in the ways that were never, ever, meant. The sheer inability for others to see us as we are, or to judge us accordingly. But, always to seem to want to see the worst and to base everything else on that.
But the more I learn and understand about being autistic. The more I realise that so much of my trauma and the scars that were left, came not just from this overt pain, but from the covert well-meaning of others as well. From my parents and relatives, from friends and teachers. From all the advice and instruction I have received over the years that was meant to shape me in the right way. As a child, to teach me how to grow up, how to behave and act. What was expected and what wasn't. And then, as an adult, how I was supposed to be and how a successful life, with me in it, was supposed to look. All the rules I was supposed to learn, all the codes I was supposed to follow. How to act, how to speak, what to feel, when to feel it. What I was supposed to do and how I was supposed to be.
Not in any unusual way. Not in any way that you weren't supposed to raise a child, well a normal child anyway. That's what makes this so covert. If you were trying to do this to a child knowing that they were autistic, then it's overt abuse. It is ABA, it is infantilising and punishing a child for always failing to become something, that they had no more chance of becoming than a cat has of becoming a dog. But for those of us who didn't know we were autistic. It was simply the constant hammering of the world trying, without even realising it, to fit a round peg into a square hole and all the pain and disappointment that came from their failure to come even close.
For me, what made this worse, was that it wasn't as if I didn't know that I was different, not in my heart, but that I thought that I shouldn't be. That I should be able to learn what I was being taught, that I should be able to follow the guidance. That I wasn't any different really from anyone else and so if I failed to act in the right way, or react the way I should, for that matter, then it was my fault. All the patient sighs and familiar looks, simply became just another reinforcement of my failure. Even being told off for the simplest things, became a reminder that something that I should have been able to do, was beyond me and always for the only reason that ever made any sense; that I was broken, that it was my fault somehow.
Is it any wonder that so much of my life has been about trying to justify myself in the light of this, of trying to become that "good dog". Of judging myself against an impossible standard. A constant lurching from one bad to choice to another, and always because I thought they were the right ones. And for each new failure and inability to even come close, another scar, another reminder of what I wasn't. Further proof that my self-esteem was right to be so low. Of how I was such a failure and a bad person. That I was never going to be a proper son or brother or friend. Because I couldn't even be what I was supposed to be, let alone what I should become.
Looking back, I can't help thinking about how much of my life I spent living this way; of trying not to repeat the sins of my past. Of not repeating the actions or behaviour that led to those past failures and trauma. Of, in fact, all the effort I put in to not being myself. Because that, I realise now, was what I was trying to do. I was that round peg and trying to hammer myself into the square hole. Because everything I had learnt had taught me to think that this was how I had to be. That this was how you grew. And in so many ways, I can't help feeling angry about this. About the wasted years, about the scars I carry that were never my fault. About the way I was brought up, even though none of it was ever meant, but only ever well-meant.
@w7voa That's rare, usually the state goes out of its way to preserve the privileges of the privileged. That's almost always why there are two realities, one for the POC and working class and another for the rest of society. I have seen professional after professional get promoted for this kind of behavior.
No thought is ever complete. There will always be holes to fill!
RESIST THE URGE TO FILL THOSE HOLES
If someone has said something which you largely agree with, especially if what they said aligns with your understanding of and goals towards an issue, then the LAST thing they need from you is someone playing devil's advocate. Nitpicking is annoying at best and, in a world where people are looking to drive wedges between allies, dangerous at worst.
@rbreich Grocery stores are racist too. They charge more in poor areas if they exist at all. Small and large grocery stores have physically attacked me, accusing me of stealing. So I can only imagine how many politicians and police they will own after the merger. And how little they will pay employees.
"Dehumanizing and vilifying a person or group of people can provoke... stochastic terrorism, in which ideologically driven hate speech increases the likelihood that people will violently and unpredictably attack the targets..."
@mastodonmigration Humans are naturally violent and certain populations are far more predictably violent. It doesn't take a lot to invoke their rage and fear.
@TheConversationUS Patients call us all the time for a different prescription when they find out the inhaler is not often covered by insurance. We write scripts for rescue inhalers so insurance will cover a second one for work or school. Its so evil.
If anyone doesn't know this. You can schedule your posts to be deleted at set intervals. Social media brings the worst out in us and if you're like me its just a shit poster for my agony and deep recesses of dread and doom. There is no need to keep toots for prosperity. Unless you want to. #privacy
Requirements to put in a job description to discourage or filter out autistic people:
Comfortable with ambiguity
Strong people skills
Good culture fit
Multitasking
A fast-paced dynamic environment
Bachelor's degree or better
I see these things and think you don't want my >30 years of programming and machine learning experience, or my problem-solving skills and comprehensive knowledge that had people mistaking me for one of the team's PhDs, or my solutions that have proven patent-worthy. Your loss.
@TanekRune@jcmrva@hosford42@sentient_water@actuallyautistic@neurodivergence I am trying but one friend is controlling me with her hyper sensitivity and accusations of not being there for her. Shes older than I am, old enough to know you're responsible for yourself and your own feelings. She's burnt me out quicker than anyone else. I follow her rules but I have limitations that deserve consideration too. All I asked is that she tells me what she needs instead of punishing me and accusing me.
First it was Boehringer. Now drugmaker AstraZeneca has followed suit by capping out-of-pocket costs for inhalers to $35/mo. That’s down from over $600. But this doesn’t happen by itself.
It took pressure by lawmakers like Sen. Bernie Sanders and from engaged consumer activists.
@rbreich Some patients pay $200+ and insurance won't give them an extra one even if they'd die without it. Tell me how #capitalism and #competition bring out our very best....
I am counting down the 100 days left till my term as a CISO comes to an end with some humor and wisdom I've picked up over the past 4 years.
100 days left...
It can be intimidating to deal with external security researchers that have identified security defects in your products and are looking to gain some PR exposure. The initial response of many companies is to trot out the lawyers with threats of legal action. For the most part, security researchers are reaching out because they want partner with you. They ARE going to write about problems with your products, but you can be seen as embracing the process and using it as an opportunity to improve, or you can be viewed as obstinate and trying to hide your flaws. I've had the opportunity to work with many researchers over the years, and I've found in every single instance, kindness, responsiveness, and just taking their feedback seriously goes a long way.
@jerry IT bruhs are tricky to deal with. Mess with them and they'll get you back. be nice and they may fuck with you or they may not. But one thing is true, treat all humans as equal and you'd be surprised at how it minimizes your risk. Thats risk management. When I worked in IT, they called me "nice" and it's really offensive lmao. Men who ace risk management and improve morale, decrease legal events are strong tough managers. It sucks to be a woman in a mans job.
@rbreich People also don't realize that the interest on even 1% of that wealth is thousands of times more than thousands of people could earn in a life time.