The Armchair ActivistFeb 18, 2023
ICYMI: Tech Layoffs Are About Punishing Workers and Driving Down Wages https://popularresistance.org/tech-layoffs-are-about-punishing-workers-and-driving-down-wages/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #leftist
Show threadDick Smiths Fair Go SupportersFeb 18, 2023

@armact Hi Armchair Activist,

Welcome to Fediverse. Putting aside your rather unusual name that appears to encourage a sort of ineffectual form of #activism and realising that not all people are led to feel comfortable with direct resistance, we have a quick question.

And that is what is your positron on Amazon as a company?

Show threadThe Armchair ActivistFeb 18, 2023
@dsfgs LOL! I hear you.The name is 27 years old and stems from our initial purpose (convincing people doing nothing to at least do stuff via online/mail/phone; also encouraging those who have no choice but be homebound to be active), but we have been and are working/organizing in the streets. Just wedded to the name. As for Amacrap, evil-billionaire-Bezos-led land of oligarchs and predatory capitalism... What was your question? 😀
Show threadDick Smiths Fair Go Supporters

@armact
Okay, great. Also glad we agree on the Scamazon.

We don't know how to sugarcoat this but basically the site you're linking to has Amazon trackers in the from of the images on the pages. They are served by Amazon in such a way as to make it quite possible in our view for Amazon to track someone as they access the site.

It is likely to mean that Amazon is able to #monetise a visitor's #resistance similar to other #postmodern era methods of cooption.

Feb 18, 2023 at 7:54pmWeb
Show threadThe Armchair ActivistFeb 18, 2023
@dsfgs Oh nuts. THANKS for the warning. Let me go fix that pronto. BTW, I know the people who run the site itself and will hip them on the photos. 🙏