So... how about a Union of Itinerant Workers (anyone in the workforce but not formally employed full-time)... I'm thinking if enough people joined it, then the union could threaten something close to a general strike if employers didn't agree to pay in enough to support basic living expenses for all members, currently employed/contracted or not -- but I'm not sure how the numbers work out.
Welcome to our Clowder of Compucatination, @Blazulite ! I hope we're what you're looking for :tootcat: :blobcatthinkingportal:
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(For entrepreneurs / business owners interested in moving to Nederlands)
UPDATE: this little pup has been claimed! Thank you everyone for your interest and support!
Can you make good use of an original Commodore PET computer? This one is yours for free if you can pick it up in Los Angeles (near USC). My parents bought it in 1978. It has the famous chiclet keyboard and integral cassette tape drive. It doesn't work at this point, which someone told me is probably due to some bad RAM chips but I don't actually know. The screen shows random squares when it's on.
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ETA: email me at adrian@foutu.org or DM me here.
Without sharing the reading list I just emailed to a friend, here's what various feminist writers/thinkers have posited as ways to smash the patriarchy.
IOW, we *have a roadmap.* We don't need to flap our hands and say, Oh noes....the Patriarchy is too bigs!
intersectional collective action.
align feminism with global anti-capitalist movements.
build power through difference, not by flattening it.
abolitionist frameworks as gender liberation
integrate feminist choices into everyday life.
reclaim maternal power while rejecting compulsory roles.
collectivize care; de-privatize parenting
wages for care, refusal of unpaid reproductive labor.
reproductive justice = autonomy + material conditions, not just “choice.”
chosen family as infrastructure.
abolish biological family as destiny; redesign kinship.
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If, say, FB started requiring systems to report birthdate, they'd have to get that information through the browser -- which would then have to be implemented by multiple vendors, and what's to stop them from just allowing you to enter whatever birthday you like? (For that matter, what's to stop a system user from filling in whatever birthday they like?)
This requirement looks to me exactly like a typical political "be seen to be doing something, even if it's really stupid".
@hellomiakoda Today has been like that for me too. I figured it was just that yesterday was a bit of spoonsaster...
I'm not sure that's the best solution either -- though I see no reason why it couldn't be a per-post or per-user option.
I'm sure that'd get shot down, too; there's been a lot of "not invented here" syndrome at Masto Central. Maybe now that it's under new(ish) leadership, they'll reconsider some of these decisions?
Failing that: one of these days, I will dig into the code...
@servelan What an amazing invention -- a coin with negative value!
Instead of taxing the rich, the government can just send them billions of these.
(Side note: the gift-link still requires a login. Make of that what you will.)
@alan I do that anyway, as a way of (a) being able to block large amounts of spam with high reliability and (b) finding out who has leaky databases.
@rnd Looking forward to when people start using LLMs to reverse-engineer proprietary code and, you know, un-break it.
@lauren Probably a combination; I'd say there are some clear improvements that could be made, but the value of not breaking a Pretty Darn Good Standard has not yet made them seem worthwhile.
@riley They often do seem to talk in terms that equate to "the evil plot to do their legally-mandated job".
"Bribing constituents by giving them what they want" is one that particularly sticks in my mind.
@BigShellEvent t-shirt: When the System Abuses You, Abuse It Back
realtalk, tho: 6+ years ago I updated my license to reflect the court-accepted name-change. I made sure to bring in all the documents necessary to get a RealID, and they said they'd give me one, but what they sent me in the mail was not, in fact, a RealID.
This time I renewed online, not expecting any change -- and it said they'd be sending me a RealID this time. ...and they did.
So I guess whatever error made it not happen the first time didn't get etched into my records but was just a transient thing. "The World May Never Know", as the lollipop commercial used to say.
Ironically, I now have a "RealID", in my actual name (i.e. not deadname).
Funny how these things work out sometimes.
