I’ve just seen some galaxy brained takes from the US describing 1-2 weeks every 12-18 months as ‘micro-retirements’ with absolute sincerity, describing how gen-z are taking them to avoid burnout.

By fucking god I want to spoon my eyes out.

If that attitude ever became accepted anywhere else, I’d sooner just walk into the sea than deal with that dystopian shit.

Toodaloo motherfuckers, and I’m taking my labor with me🖕

"It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you’re attempting can’t be done." – Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

#bookstodon

“The modern-day system of colonialism and sharecropping being constructed by the new East India Company that is Silicon Valley isn’t uncouth or stupid enough to put people in physical shackles. It doesn’t want to own your body, it is content with owning your simulation. And yet, as we have already seen, the more data they have about you – the higher the fidelity of your simulation – the closer they are to owning you.

…

If this doesn’t sound like democracy, it is because it is not. Surveillance Capitalism isn’t compatible with democracy.

The system we live in today can best be described as a corporatocracy; a feudalism of corporations.

Ours is a neo-colonial age of multinational monopolies.

A digital imperialism, if you will.”

– Me, The Nature of the Self in the Digital Age, 2016

https://ar.al/notes/the-nature-of-the-self-in-the-digital-age/

#BigTech #SiliconValley #colonialism #technology #feudalism #imperialism #corporatocracy #capitalism https://j12t.social/@j12t/114798595701343934

If you’re a UK resident and/or a UK citizen, please make sure you sign this petition. It’s at almost 80k signatures and it’s got 3 weeks left to get to 100k.

‘Legally enshrine the right of adults to physically transition using NHS services’

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/704793

#trans #TransRightAreHumanRights

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According to the BBC World Service news bulletin the Guadelupe river in Texas rose by 8 meters in 45 minutes. Governor Abbott speaks in biblical terms about this disaster as if it were just bad luck or a random event.

Continued denial is going to give us a lot more of this inexplicable stuff. #climatechange

Happy Saturday! Please enjoy this important training video.

https://youtu.be/QMMmyOGaUvY