Lyssa Dawson @squeakycheetah@awoo.space

Anyone ever think about how fucked up the phrase "work-life balance" is?

Like it just lowkey tacitly acknowledges that what you do at work isn't necessarily your life. And conversely like... you have to balance how much work you do versus how much living you do.

I dunno it's just kinda fucked to me. We need a society and culture where our lives can be our work, not where we work endlessly to support our lives.

(and don't get Brave, either. Brave is snake oil meant to justify "good" advertisements. There is no such thing as "good" advertising, this is just the talk of capitalists.)

Context: Google has chosen to move forward Manifest V3 changes that hamstring extension's capabilities for blocking arbitrary requests.

This applies to all Chrome users and extensions, except to Enterprise customers.

It makes it abundantly clear that the public feedback they asked for on the change was nothing more than lip service to the extension developer community. I am ashamed to admit I fell for it, because the changes could have been rationalized at the time.

Now, it's abundantly clear that Google wants to exploit you, through Chrome.

Move to Firefox now. There is no better option, now that every other browser is Webkit or Blink based, or directly forked from Chromium.

Asking "What role can Twitter play in preventing white supremacy radicalization" is like asking "What role can Exxon Mobil play in lowering carbon emissions?" or "What role can the military-industrial complex play in ending genocide in Yemen?"

An unregulatable hypercapitalist industry will lie, cheat, radicalize, kill, mass-murder, mass-incarcerate, or propagate fascism for the bottom line

Fascism enriches Jack Dorsey as much as it benefits Exxon or Lockheed Martin.

just because someone can do something, doesn't make it right to do so.

just because someone will do something that isn't right and can get away with it, doesn't suddenly make it excusable or not something to push back on when we can, where we can.

it angers me to see people respond to something with "well i don't see why this is a big problem, just don't do the thing you'd be doing that they will do something wrong with".

this line of thinking enables those doing wrong who we could otherwise stop