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- Comment on 360 Degrees Owl 4 days ago:
I’m getting strong Hotline Miami vibes from this comic.
Press R to restart
- Comment on US to reportedly sanction 200 more Chinese chip firms — high bandwidth memory might also see export bans 1 week ago:
If by ‘we’ you mean the oligarchy and ‘trade war’ means second cold war, then yea.
- Comment on The peer review system no longer works to guarantee academic rigour - a different approach is needed 1 week ago:
I agree that ultimately, science and profit do not mix in any capacity and the money aspect must be done away with. I do have some knowledge of the debate as a labor activist, but not nearly as much as I’d like. However, until there is an shift to economic socialism on an international scale, anyone doing science is performing labor that will produce an incentive to extract profit from these workers. Ideals and ethics are important considerations for science, but the class dynamic cannot be ignored and must be addressed for an equitable solution to emerge.
- Comment on The peer review system no longer works to guarantee academic rigour - a different approach is needed 1 week ago:
Why does the selection process for reviewers need to also disappear to provide wages? Journals still select reviewers for best fit. Ultimately, peer reviewers are performing labor for a corporation making profit. It is unethical for anyone to be put in a position to provide free labor in the pursuit of profit of a corporation.
- Comment on The peer review system no longer works to guarantee academic rigour - a different approach is needed 1 week ago:
Like paying them?
- Comment on DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open its search monopoly 1 week ago:
They should force it to become a worker cooperative. It’s the only solution that doesn’t allow for corruption
- Comment on Cowboy 1 week ago:
Did you see the bike? Don’t ask questions you know the answer to
- Comment on The UK steps up with an 81% emissions cut target at COP29 following Trump win 2 weeks ago:
I hope it means they nationalize and expand rail, go hard on new offshore wind and ocean current production, ban oversized vehicles, and create community hydroponic gardens. Of course this is the UK labour party and not a real labor party, so they’ll half-ass everything they try
- Comment on 10 Ways to Destroy the World 3 weeks ago:
2% sounds easy until you think about how much fucking energy that is. If we back it off to like 1% we can catapult ourselves onto the kardashev scale. #10 would still be at play, and it would be even more disastrous than before!
- Comment on Responsible Adults 3 weeks ago:
But infinite recursion hurts my tummy
- Comment on CrowdStrike part 2 crashes Microsoft Office on Windows 11 24H2 3 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s time to consider that kernel level software is generally a bad idea.
- Comment on Aptera completes low-speed drive in its first production-intent solar electric vehicle 4 weeks ago:
I’m excited to see them succeed. I love it when stuff is designed with function over form, and made practically. I’m a tall person, this is the only small electric vehicle I feel I could actually fit in
- Comment on American house 4 weeks ago:
You missed my point. I own guns, know how to operate them, and know the names of the parts. I use magazine and clip interchangeably, because pointless pedantry doesn’t contribute anything to the conversation.
- Comment on American house 4 weeks ago:
So then all magazines are clips, but not all clips are magazines.
- Comment on Ban on Chinese tech so broad, US-made cars would be blocked, Polestar says 4 weeks ago:
You mean the table that the US government built by gutting US manufacturing in the 90s?
- Comment on Disability Rights Are Technology Rights | It’s bad enough when DRM infects your video streams, but when it comes for hardware, things get really ugly 5 weeks ago:
Tech companies hate disabled people generally, considering one of the largest tech unions in the US had a rally about disability rights
- Comment on Amazon Says It Has a First Amendment Right to Union Bust 5 weeks ago:
You mean the people the maintain the biggest logistics network in the world? Not sure, but it sure as fuck is relevant to news about the company that hosts 25% of the internet.
- Comment on Amazon Says It Has a First Amendment Right to Union Bust 5 weeks ago:
Got it. You believe that the only thing relevant to technology is the things being made, but the people that make those things aren’t relevant. Got it. Let’s see how much tech news will come from those companies when the workers stop working.
Labor is inseparable from it’s fruits.
- Comment on Amazon Says It Has a First Amendment Right to Union Bust 5 weeks ago:
AWS hosts 25% of the internet. It doesn’t matter if you think it’s not tech related, the company is in tech and unions within tech is a rapidly growing movement. Next you’re going to say that workers protesting at Microsoft isn’t tech related.
- Comment on Amazon Says It Has a First Amendment Right to Union Bust 5 weeks ago:
Lawfare will not stop us.
- Comment on What’s your favorite random fact that most people don’t know? 1 month ago:
I always learned 22/7 = 3.142
Also close enough for most situations that don’t need extreme accuracy
- Comment on Midjourney will soon let users upload and edit images with AI on the web 1 month ago:
I’m sure this will go exactly as they intend and won’t be taken down within 2 hours.
- Comment on Ouch my texicles 1 month ago:
The best part is the juice, I always suck on the texickles so I get every drop
- Comment on Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ? 1 month ago:
No, because its nonsense tribalism. I haven’t seen any actual consistency in nonsense takes between any particular instances, with only a couple of extreme examples (explodingheads, grad, yddrasil, etc) that are already blocked or dehosted. ML has more socialists, because lemmy was a little leftist community project at first and it’s one of the oldest and biggest instances. Big instances also have a lot of idiots. World has a reputation for a lot of idiots, because it’s by far the biggest instance. That doesn’t mean everyone, or even most people, are idiots that are on the instance.
- Comment on "Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely 2 months ago:
The same way you organize anything. Start by talking to a couple trusted coworkers to form an organizing committee. All the members of the OC need to talk to coworkers, handle workplace drama, agitate for better conditions, educate people about unions, maintain systematic campaign tracking, and fight against the boss during their union busting campaign. When I worked remotely, it was as simple as sending a dm like this:
Hey, would you be able to talk over break? Some coworkers and I were discussing some issues and I wanted to hear your thoughts.
- Comment on "Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely 2 months ago:
Unions are legal in the US. The labor movement is currently seeing a huge swell in new bargaining units across most unions
- Comment on "Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely 2 months ago:
Unions generally don’t write or repeal laws, but a union contract can negotiate overtime pay where there isn’t any.
- Comment on Jazz hands 2 months ago:
To be fair, the factory management knew that it was dangerous but didn’t tell the workers and encouraged them to lick the brush.
- Comment on Home Depot 2 months ago:
The guy with a truck had a concept of a plan
- Comment on Be more specific 2 months ago:
I thought the new big thing in astronomy is watching the anniversary of a black hole eat a star 3 billion years ago