https://gofund.me/40249d1b

I know there are hundreds of #mutualAid requests on here already (yay #capitalism) but here's another one for you to consider. Marlee has been a member of the Topless Topics community and a good friend for years, he's spent most of his life #houseless, and being openly #queer in a very conservative state, has trouble finding steady employment (you don't even want to know some of the horrible comments from coworkers and bosses he's had to endure...). this is a rare chance for him to experience housing security for at least a little while, so please consider helping him make rent. thank you.

Oh look, Google being Google.

(In case you were thinking of learning/using Go, I’d say skip it. There are plenty of other fish in the sea. Unless you like telemetry by default in your programming languages and tools, that is. In fact, just don’t touch anything tainted by Google if you can help it.)

https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409

#google #alphabet #go #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #privacy #development #dev #software

A billionaire Silicon Valley venture capitalist setting up a fediverse account isn’t the win you might think it is.

Who do you think funds and benefits from the Twitters and Facebooks of the world?

We can’t stop these folks from setting up their own servers but please don’t feel a need to federate with them or subsidise their existence on servers you pay for and maintain.

And remain vigilant against embrace, extend, and extinguish.

#billionaires #vc #SiliconValley #mastodon #capitalism

When billionaires say they don’t care about privacy, it‘s your privacy they’re talking about not theirs. Mark Zuckerberg says “privacy is dead” in one breath and buys the four houses around his house in the next because he values his own privacy. It’s yours that he’s actively engaged in strangling the life out of.

#privacy #markZuckerberg #elonMusk #SiliconValley #surveillance #capitalism

Beware of billionaires peddling “decentralisation”.

Anyone seeking a decentralised world would never allow themselves to do the things it takes to become (or remain) a billionaire. Billionaires and trillion-dollar corporations are the epitome of centralisation.

Decentralisation begins at decentring yourself.

#JackDorsey #BlueSky #billionaires #capitalism #twitter #fediverse #centralisation #decentralisation #corporateCapture #embraceExtendExtinguish #warning

#Capitalism will never solve #ClimateChange. Doing so would be putting something other than profit ahead of the primary drive, which is an antithesis to capitalism.

@Hypolite Petovan I totally agree with you. #Capitalism sucks at this point and also a lot others. In November I worked 37 hours by a 40 hours contract in a half month. Now their #tax consultant made 1/2 payment (255 EUR instead of "full" 450 EUR). Okay, he was not aware of how much I actually worked so today I gave them my time sheet as PDF and I hope they can find a good way to fully pay me because I didn't work 20 hours but 37.