Walz: If you say you love #freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is #privilege.
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@sundogplanets
I'm not a physicist, but I think the recommendations will work for white dudes in engineering too. :-E
#privilege #inequity #racism #sexism
BTW: happy I'm not posting this in the US. :-/
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@Punkwalrus Thanks for introducing me to that very true quote!
#ALT4YOU
Dystopian fiction is when you take
things that happen in real life to
marginalized populations and apply
them to people with privilege.
[A Twitter post by "an unofficial Hugo book club blog" (username Hugo_Book_Club) at 11:45 AM 2021-08-20]
Gayle King is quick in defending her space trip.
She doesn't seem to be as eloquent when it comes to Black female scientists being fired by the Trump administration, supported by Bezos.
She refuses to see she's just the token Black woman used to justify billionaires' support of racist and misogynistic policies but we're not blind.
Rolling Stone · Gayle King Defends ‘Expensive’ 11-Minute Space Flight After ‘Disrespectful’ Backlash
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Judge #Boasberg cites the #Trump admin’s gloating after his order was violated, noting the “oopsie”tweet from #Bukele & its amplification by admin ofcls.
Boasberg says the admin can “purge” its #contempt by bringing back the people he ordered not to be sent in the first place & giving them appropriate #DueProcess. If not, he will conduct further proceedings.
Boasberg said he’s skeptical of the admin’s invocation of #StateSecrets #privilege.
Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is
I remember when @scalzi wrote this back in 2012 (jfc, has it really been that long already??)
Have another read on it. It seems to me to have aged well.
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is/
Whatever · Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There IsI’ve been thinking of a way to explain to straight white men how life works for them, without invoking the dreaded word “privilege,” to which they react like vampires being fed a …
#FOSS = free software + *gratis* contributions ???
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@GottaLaff They don’t believe the rest of us are actual people, we’re just game pieces on their silly board games.
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yup
voting is part of the struggle to maintain your #rights
ignorance of the consequences comes from #privilege
nonvoters on the left are exactly like #MAGA this way: they don't know and they don't care how *they* are fucked
because what's important to nonvoters is masturbating their ego in an ivory tower of perfection, and if they don't get perfect, they feel #entitled to not #vote
utterly fucking ignorant to the fact they live in fucking reality and they are impacted, personally
Recently read this text from Solidarity Apothecary about burnout in organizing and the class perspectives therein - focusing on organizing with middle class.
It was an eyeopener for me, and now im curious about learning more about hidden privileges, feelings of natural entitlement.
Does anyone have short, practical resources about organizing and the class perspectives?
And how to open up for transformative praxis?
If anyone, anyone at all (?) was confused, the speaker has his nose well into the trough, a man who disregards parliamentary conventions (pretty much all they have In the place of rules) to suit whoever is in power.
Commons Speaker’s £180k bill for first-class flights and hotels. One trip to a luxury Cayman Islands resort by Lindsay Hoyle cost the taxpayer nearly £23,000
How did you use your privilege today? How are you planning to leverage it tomorrow? It's a cold hard rain pummeling us; maybe think about sharing your umbrella with someone who doesn't have one.
I kind of hate when people post comments assuming domain-specific knowledge from laymen such as "the fact people need to be told this is a little troubling to say the least".
It shows those people have not tried to even see how hard bootstrapping the knowledge they're assuming of others actually is, especially now that search engines have enshittified into uselessness and the hardware their comment pertains to no longer comes with useful manuals for their operation.
In a lot of cases, the knowledge also pertains to hacks for patching over design flaws & botched work that should've been done properly to start with (which would make said knowledge entirely obsolete as anything other than a curiosity).
It reeks of unacknowledged #privilege (and a heaping of normalization of deviance).
It shows those people have not tried to even see how hard bootstrapping the knowledge they're assuming of others actually is, especially now that search engines have enshittified into uselessness and the hardware their comment pertains to no longer comes with useful manuals for their operation.
In a lot of cases, the knowledge also pertains to hacks for patching over design flaws & botched work that should've been done properly to start with (which would make said knowledge entirely obsolete as anything other than a curiosity).
It reeks of unacknowledged #privilege (and a heaping of normalization of deviance).
Apparently #consumergrade #SSDs do not actually do anything to make their volatile write-cache safe.
What kind of asshole decided this was a good idea? Fucking infrastructural privilege assumptions.
As it turns out, yes, a *lot* of consumergrade SSDs will lose flushed data on a power outage.
So that means unless one has the privilege to be able to afford a UPS or enterprise SSDs, one otherwise has to disable the cache (promptly getting rid of most of the performance).
Hardware designers, much like software designers, should be required to live in underprivileged shitholes before releasing anything intended for wide public use.
#SSD #InfrastructuralPrivilege #Privilege #Design #DesignFail
What kind of asshole decided this was a good idea? Fucking infrastructural privilege assumptions.
As it turns out, yes, a *lot* of consumergrade SSDs will lose flushed data on a power outage.
So that means unless one has the privilege to be able to afford a UPS or enterprise SSDs, one otherwise has to disable the cache (promptly getting rid of most of the performance).
Hardware designers, much like software designers, should be required to live in underprivileged shitholes before releasing anything intended for wide public use.
#SSD #InfrastructuralPrivilege #Privilege #Design #DesignFail
Source: therapywithmaggielpc
https://www.instagram.com/p/DFQbgQou4Fo/
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2/2 also recognising now how my previous ability to post and engage so much more here was really rooted in immense privilege: as a university lecturer, i had a steady income, control over my time, confidence, freedom, identity: all this is now gone, all making me unable to post. Just wanted to really acknowledge this. #Privilege
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#Trump repeatedly called for the elimination of the #Education Department during his presidential campaign. On Wednesday he called it a "con job" & said he wants it closed. [says a guy who never went to a #PublicSchool ever]
About 100 probationary employees received termination letters on Wednesday at the #GSA, according to two people familiar with the firings.
This is today's code-generated texture, right after I read about these endangered words. I don't know what to do about it, so I'll continue creating things.
