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“But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work. We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.”
— Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed https://www.raptitude.com/2010/07/your-lifestyle-has-already-been-designed/

Ready for the new users influx from Google+ after this morning's outage?

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Oh shit some last minute changes and WiFi is now 100% rock solid. BBSing off retro z3r0 is the jam!

💓 Sending lots of love and strength to all HIV+ people & their loved ones!

I feel like lately, HIV/Aids has disappeared from the news or our shared consciousness, and it's time to bring it back:

This virus is still raging in many places and is an ongoing public health crisis (33 million dead so far!), and while we - in the West - have medication that helps control the effects of it, we still don't have a cure.
People are still stigmatized, and society still has LOADS of misconceptions about what it means to be HIV positive in 2020. This is "not just something that affects queer people" (I use queer to mean all the 🌈 here), but it affects us all, and the virus doesn't care who you are.

Take some time to read about that today. Start here: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/hiv-aids

If you wanna get involved, look up your local HIV/Aids support organization and volunteer. Volunteers are always needed (in my experience, people speaking multiple languages especially!)

Thanks for reading, please share!

#hiv #worldaidsday

Can please boost me? Question for people not from the US (or Canada, probably): Do you feel like ideas like "racism is discrimination + systemic power" or "reverse-racism isn't real" are in some way ideas from the US? Would those seem foreign to you? Are claims around those and "we're not from the same culture, so we have different views" as disingenuous as it sounds to me or am I off?

#BigMood

I recently wrote a markdown to gemtext converter in C. It’s terse, artisanal and super low resource usage. Whatever memory it’s not actively using it gives back. I couldn’t work out why I’d put so much effort into such a drop in the ocean until I read an analysis of magic as a performative act about the agency you wish you have.

I think I did it as a ritual act because I hate Electron so fucking much.

This is the only known white giraffe remaining in the world and he's just been fitted with a tracker by the folks at the Ishaqbini conservancy in hopes he can be protected.

Such a looker. ​

The online #Guix Day #conference will take place on Sunday, November 22, and you can now watch the pre-recorded talks.

WATCH THEM NOW!

Or when you have time, until the 21. We will not have a dedicated time to watch them together on Sunday, instead we will have an extended Q&A of 25 (!) minutes for each subject.

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/online-guix-day-announce-2/

Lesbians, Goths, Bimbos, and Twinks.

The trouble users had yesterday launching apps on #macOS isn't just a technical problem, but a moral one. Operating systems should service their users, not phone home to a corporation to see if they're "permitted" to run the program. #Apple

The FSF's High Priority Projects committee is preparing its next round of updates to the High Priority Projects list, and we need your input! Help us identify areas of strategic importance for free software development. https://u.fsf.org/36k

my life is a slice of life porn manga titled "my wife is my math teacher"