Notices by ✌🏿✍🏿 (jalcine@todon.eu)

@aral

1. Fixed the first one.

2. Whiteness is a construct and is deployed across phenotypes, geographical markers and the like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteness_theory. This is how folks like the Karshadians are able to also deploy a sense of whiteness on a global scale: https://ajammc.com/2017/08/29/armenian-whiteness-america/. In short, in the way that I can't run from my Blackness because of whiteness, society will not allow you to run from that. It's on how you utilize it that makes a difference.

3. I'm going off the word of the founder of Elementary, who's highlighted that (and you've blocked?). To follow your example regarding System76's COSMIC, what's available to people (i.e. a layperson isn't building Comet from source, they're pulling it from AppCenter) is what they'll perceive as available. If you haven't updated it, that's on you to fix (and that's easy it sounds like).

This is something Angela Davis wrote about as well.

I wrote https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2024/oh-aral/ about the recent accessibility campaign that @aral's been holding in (or against) the GNOME community, how it's an inversion of privilege preservation and how I fell for it.

I saw red flags and ignored them because of the messaging.

the phrase "diversity of thought" is such a red flag

I'm curious about the choice of batteries in the MNT Reform. Is it something to do with better life? Repairability (looks like it for sure)?

You know, at first look, https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-reform is expensive.

But I think this is one of those "you get what you pay for". My laptop is out of stock (https://frame.work/products/laptop-diy-11-gen-intel?q=processor) and is probably about $700.

But the Reform will probably last longer than my laptop even with repair costs (as the parts for it will be cheaper; my current display, core and storage will be more expensive per part than needing to upgrade that with the reform)

Journalism students are being held under threat of arrest to not leave their dorms. Investigative journalism is about to come back HARD.

What does it mean to be a tech worker? https://jacky.wtf/2024/4/kDBb #BlogPost

This is the world of surveillance. This is getting out of hand (and it's been). https://www.fastcompany.com/91087484/how-fast-food-is-becoming-a-new-surveillance-ground. I'm going to always ask folks to read and understand how all of this is tied to the American project, as highlighted in Logics https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/origin-stories-plantations-computers-and-industrial-control/ (https://jacky.wtf/2024/4/JqjB)

@julienw

"The infrastructure of major cities like Atlanta, New York City and San Francisco were built using forced slave labor, convict leasing and on the other hand bridges and roads were built using strong union labor that still has to find their way to humanity under the law, so I guess both models are valid."

Just because something produces the results that you'd want does not imply that the model itself is valid. That's the justification that capitalists (or anyone with a distance from the act of production itself) will use and we do not have mimic that.

(Also please see my username)

@blogdiva @danilo @mhoye

@danilo @mhoye I keep hearing it's too hard for communities and that confuses me so much because they're communities who build so many parts of it. Is it the herding?

When I see those defending unethical systems because it's profitable for them, their phrasing almost always devolves into this.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C1NQVFPPdno/

Stop defending companies as if they're people in 2024.

I'm begging you please. Just because the government treats them with personhood doesn't mean you have to. Legality of a concept does not equate to its morality.

@feditips I think @ntnsndr might be speaking _beyond_ the legal facets of it, no?

Okay. It's official. I'm raising funds. More context was sent to my newsletter at https://buttondown.email/jackyalcine/archive/a-modest-request/. You can see the detailed campaign at https://www.gofundme.com/f/stay-housed-while-i-look-for-work (https://jacky.wtf/2023/11/HDHj)

I'm officially looking for new work! Contracts are great as they'd allow me to be a bit more flexible; but full time work is most ideal. Remote (US). My resume lives on my site at https://jacky.wtf/work. I'm open to Ruby, Rust and JavaScript roles currently. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/10/Mh0p)

Went to the local library and I shit you not, on the shelf of new books, next to a book about Photoshop was this one. #books #mastodon

Fuck

This is why I said fuck: it was announced internally but instead of engaging in union bargaining, upper leadership decided to do this https://codeforamerica.org/news/moment-of-change-on-our-journey/

#labor #union

I am 80% certain that I will be affected by these layoffs

This is not good for me; I've been in the weeds with debt and have been living paycheck to paycheck. As today's the last pay cycle, I'm fretting (WHILE ON THE BARGAINING CALL RIGHT NOW - I AM DISASSOCIATING)