question about Amazon protest call to action
(I’m aware that the most ethical thing to do is quit the industry. I plan to exit once it’s possible for me to do so. I’d like to help in the meantime.)
question about Amazon protest call to action
For those of us that can’t protest Amazon in person because it may jeopardize our employment, are there any good orgs to donate time and money towards?
I know that sounds hypocritical, but many of us in tech have to stay employed to keep a roof over our loved ones while trying to fight late capitalism and fascism.
Politics, RPG.net banning trump supporters
https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?835849-New-Ban-Do-Not-Post-In-Support-of-Trump-or-his-Administration
"This is because his public comments, policies, and the makeup of his administration are so wholly incompatible with our values that formal political neutrality is not tenable. We can be welcoming to (for example) persons of every ethnicity who want to talk about games, or we can allow support for open white supremacy. Not both."
I am so fucking glad to see a major tabletops community take this stance
@Thaminga Hap birf!
brazilpol, request for help for friends that need it
Thanks, all. This resulted in some very useful info that I’ve passed along.
brazilpol, request for help for friends that need it
@v0idifier Higher likelihood of success than other options, and contains friends that can help them make a claim. Said friends are not experts on the process, though.
brazilpol, request for help for friends that need it
@megfault Linked this to them. Thank you!
brazilpol, request for help for friends that need it
@Ormur Linked to them. Thank you!
re: brazilpol, request for help for friends that need it
@Thaminga Thank you. They’ve been looking into Portugal’s immigration laws in particular. Linked this to them.
-, but useful
I want to live in a world in which my paranoia isn’t valuable.
Friends and family have reached out to me to thank me for advising them to not post personal info to Facebook and Twitter, and for articulating the danger of all of this before it metastasized in uspol and internationally. That’s all well and good, but let’s fight for a world in which we can be open and free about ourselves, without having to worry about the calculus of what evil people will do with all that info.
brazilpol, request for help for friends that need it
This is a long shot, but if anyone here knows how to seek expedited immigration or asylum from Brazil into the EU, that information is urgently needed by friends of mine.
Capsule version: they have credible fear or persecution and harm under Bolsonaro, and any information that can get them out of harms way as they try to flee would be incredibly valuable right now.
A Greek shipwreck dating back to the 5th century BCE has been found in the Black Sea off the coast of Bulgaria. It's the oldest intact shipwreck ever found: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/oct/23/oldest-intact-shipwreck-thought-to-be-ancient-greek-discovered-at-bottom-of-black-sea #archaeology #classics
birdsite, news mention
Apparently the pipe bomb guy had a Twitter presence, and he regularly spammed threats at people before sending his (thankfully intercepted) packages. Twitter took zero action until he made the news, and have only now suspended his account.
Remind me again what the point of their guidelines are if they only use them to perform damage control?
I’m glad no one got hurt, and at this point, I want to get as many people off of Twitter and onto Masto as possible.
re: Nimbatus
Update: I need to build better missiles. The current design is hilarious, but it has trouble with anything with high mass or momentum.
Also, I lost the finals of a simulated tournament because... someone uploaded a blatantly illegal weapons bot? I’m guessing the game has a few bugs to sort out in its validator, but everything else has been okay so far.
It's not too late to choose one of these AI-generated costumes. Toaster Boy? Vampire Chick Shark?
This is my first NYT op-ed and I am so excited.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/26/opinion/halloween-spooky-costumes-machine-learning-generator.html
@Rosemary Yeah. And it looks like veekun’s location database is currently not up, so maybe someone needs to scrape the older game data again.
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