fascism

What we’re up against in the U.S. during this election.

Yesterday:

1. Meta closed the No Kings accounts on the day of the protest. Restored them later, saying “our bad.” But did not restore admin privileges.

2. We learned that millions of people had no idea about the protests because Meta suppressed posts about it.

3. Bluesky closed the Democracy Now account for “unusual activity.” (No idea if it has been restored.)

And for months we’ve been watching the fascists do everything in their power to restrict voting rights.

The billionaires know they’re the minority. Not economically (which is obvious) but ethically. Otherwise they wouldn’t be working so hard to stop democracy.

Most Americans are good people. We’re fighting for what’s right. But our enemy has massive resources and control. That what we need to quell.

Keep fighting. Stay vigilant. And for fuck’s sake, vote!

So I’m about a month out from not being able to make ends meet financially. I finally just got moved into my new place and am able to take interviews online and job hunt more seriously. I decided to try #Indeed as a hopefully less evil alternative to #LinkedIn. Never used any of these sites before, only the American Mathematical Society’s job board (mathjobs.org).

They want a resume right away. Fine, I submit my CV. I then get a bunch of “AI summary” of various parts of my CV, all pretty much totally wrong. Okay, at least I can decline each of the suggestions. But then I get to this, where I must affirm that the LLM was fucking accurate. I don’t know, man, I don’t know if I want to pay my rent bad enough to click that box.

Apocalypse intersection. Today’s cartoon by Zez Vaz. More cartoons: cartoonmovement.com

Anyone who believes Springer will absolutely love Peter Thiel

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Wer Springer glaubt, wird Thiel lieben

When life is beating satire day after day…

#Springer is giving an award for to Peter Thiel. For his work for democracy & human rights

Good to see that this isn’t going without public reactions - there are two rallies against it

The Science Against Tech-Oligarchy & Fascism againstoligarchy.org with @ennopark@mastodon.social @Rainer_Rehak@mastodon.bits-und-baeume.org @tsetse@todon.eu @Katika@chaos.social & an open mic & thielshallnotpass.org

I’ve never been a Digital Ocean customer. But they’re really taking a nose dive right now.

First, they offer healthy financial support for the fascist Linux project, otherwise known as Omarchy. Now they’re killing one of the best CSS resources around, @csstricks@mastodon.social.

How are they killing it? Well, they’re giving SO much money to fascism that they can no longer afford the small potatoes of a CSS community knowledge base.

As @eric@social.ericwbailey.website points out, so many of us front-end developers are indebted to CSS Tricks. The authors there have been invaluable to my own skillset.

ericwbailey.website/published/…

It’s painful to see this kind of thing happening. I hate fascism and death by capitalism.

@Puck@sfba.social DHH is charismatic (in the eyes of impressionable/young people) if you don’t know much about him and don’t know his blog posts.

how many people won’t see this info? How many young guys will get sucked into it?

Exactly. Young people will see all their favorite YouTubers shilling for this “hot new Linux distribution” by this charismatic guy DHH and start using Omarchy without necessarily being fascists. And that is how they get pulled into fascism and toxic communities.

Omarchy is a recruiting method and breeding ground for a new generation of fascists. See also the conference Omacon with which they already made the step from the Online into the Offline.