This photo is the Norman Rockwell moment for SF 2023:
#innersunset #goodneighbors

SF police can arrest a bunch of scater kids but do nothing about actual crime. Are they scared or corrupt or incompetent? WTF!

Mega corporations have an unapologetic and unhidden profit motive. They take much criticism for this motive.

But there's a big difference between the approach to resisting racism and fascism taken by companies like Disney and Nike (push back hard), and the approach taken by organizations like the New York Times, the College Board, and now the book publisher Scholastic (enable).

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/15/1169848627/scholastic-childrens-book-racism

You can't appease both fascists and their victims at the same time. You have to choose.

Talking to a few friends in healthcare and struck by how much all of the progress from COVID is being unwound. No more telehealth. New software deployments back to taking years. People tasted efficiency and are going back to mediocrity.

Same is happening in tech with WFH.

RT @bigblackjacobin
VCs would rather gamble with other people's money, enrich themselves and friends, rewrite laws and restructure markets in their own favor, and offload as many costs as possible onto the public than build anything of value. https://slate.com/technology/2023/03/silicon-valley-bank-rescue-venture-capital-calacanis-sacks-ackman-tantrum.html

You're not imagining it: many of the most powerful and visible people in tech have been radicalized into an extremist world view that is unfathomable even in other major industries. The impacts have already been awful, and promise to get worse. https://anildash.com/2023/02/27/tycoon-martyrdom-charade/

This guy stole a delivery from our doorstep this evening in Nopa, SF. Anybody recognize him?

Did a half empty plot of commercial real estate write this?

A HS student to their TX school board, which is banning books:

“I’m not going to sit here and talk about the slippery slope that book banning leads to because I learned from a book, that I checked out from my school’s library, that I don’t need to resort to logical fallacy to make a point. I’m simply going to say that no government – and public school is an extension of government – has ever banned books, and banned information from its public, and been remembered in history as the good guys.”

Black people keep saying it’s systemic, and y’all don’t understand how Black cops could do this? Do you not know what “systemic” means?

If you're looking for ways to support folks in Atlanta, please contribute to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund.

https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/contribute-to-the-atlanta-solidarity-fund

This will go directly to folks facing charges for their work to fight Cop City. For Tortuguita!

#StopCopCity

I miss the rain. NOT

Buffer adding Mastodon is just another example of the momentum that the Fediverse now has amongst developers -- and how this is going to push adoption forward.

This is the *real* story about Mastodon's growth during the past three months.

All praise the #MudMonk
#MudWizard #MudMage

@Ouij I would pay to watch you host a Shark Tank spin off. What would you call it?

@Ouij “huffing their own farts” <takes a breath between guffaws>: you sir, understand Silicon Valley

#Mastodon is hiring!

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› Full-time

Looking for:

› DevOps Engineer
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It could be you! Apply now:

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When you see someone like Elon Musk embracing the far right, it's not because the far right has any kind of coherent political or intellectual worldview he agrees with. It's because the far right is the last bastion of shitty people - they will accept anyone regardless of their personal behavior.

The far right have no standards for behavior, identity or beliefs - you only need to share the raw desire to dominate others. The far right welcomes all manner of abusers, thieves, grifters, and scoundrels.

Logically therefore if you're an abuser, thief, grifter or a scoundrel you will eventually find that the only friends you have remaining are far right extremists.

Every other platform says, "We could run these blatantly misleading ads, and make $NNN million USD, but that would be morally reprehensible! We might destroy democracy!"

Most other platforms also say, "And how would we even verify the funding source of these campaigns? What if a truthful campaign were funded by a foreign source? That would be bad! No, no, too risky!"

But if you can't afford rent or toilet paper, and half of your legitimate advertisers have gone, it's the only play.

Inevitable