Χίμαιρα corvids @autistikai@computerfairi.es

someone on twitter said:

Voting isn't choosing your character, it's choosing your opponent.

Which is an interesting contextualization and good argument against letting perfect be the enemy of good re: candidates and moving the overton window etc.

Its wild that tech is such a dominate industry in the US when it is so extremely vulnerable to worker stoppage and sabotage.

What are the means of production here? codebases, servers, and computers to create code on? 2 of those 3 can be distributed almost instantly. Only the demand for constant uptime prevents the 3rd from being handled in a decentralized kind of way...

Why is tech an industry at all? Why does lyft exist when we could make an open one? why does facebool? twitter?

anyway demons are hot how do I become one in meatspace and the online?

where's a gay teleporter network when you need it

@gendertreyf @Fidgetcetera @interneteh i would be remiss not to note that the state also has a role in *creating* (through trauma, especially childhood trauma, poor living conditions, and violent policing) a not-insignificant portion of the disabled population which corporations are then exploiting

injuring people (and entire populations) so that you can then pay them less is part of how American capitalism functions

@Fidgetcetera @interneteh Paraprofessionals know they have what is essentially unlimited access to a vulnerable population that is either cognitively or through systematic oppression unable to properly advocate for their own rights. They also know that if it becomes a question of who is telling the truth about an allegation they will almost always be believed.

Corporations say sub minimum wage labor is the only reason they hire us. They lie.

So the state of Alaska decided to make it against the law to pay disabled folks less than minimum wage. There's a couple other states that did so as well. Maryland is one. In most states, disabled people can legally be paid below minimum wage

I was posting about this one and some guy who claimed to work with disabled people said "it's not about the money. If these people lose jobs because of this, they're going to lose the only socialization they have."

This seems like bullshit to me, no?