Robert ReichTotal student loan debt that would have been erased for millions of Americans: $400 billion
Total cost of the Trump tax cuts that largely benefited the wealthy and corporations: $1.9 trillion
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
EdB
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Lesley Carhart 
I will be giving a keynote at both Blue Team Con and WWHF about lessons I have learned in a decade of mentoring job seekers and career changers in cybersecurity, but here is one tip for free right now - never give greatly more to a company than they generally return to you. If they pay you to do a job, do a good job at it. Have integrity! But don't go overboard in perpetual overtime or free work, missing time with family, losing your health in a way they would never commit to you - most organizations today in the US will lay you off and replace you in a moment. If you die, they will replace you.
If they go above and beyond for you in real, meaningful ways, return that loyalty and commitment in kind. But never gratuitously more. You only live one life, and your job is not your family. It is a contract for labor, and if you are lucky one you learn from and somewhat enjoy.
Dr. Fortyseven 🥃 █▓▒░
@hacks4pancakes Great advice that I learned the hard way.
@jab01701mid
It's great to have a project that you can obsess over, spend all your free time working on, and then proudly enjoy. All the better if there's a personal connection to its past.
It's great to have a project that you can obsess over, spend all your free time working on, and then proudly enjoy. All the better if there's a personal connection to its past.
Aral BalkanProudly proclaiming that you won’t associate with people who take a principled stance against surveillance capitalism and toxic Silicon Valley people farmers like Facebook says so much more about you than it does about them.
#SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #SiliconValley #Meta #Facebook #BigTech #fediverse #mastodon
@nixCraft or just don't use Chrome
@rbreich Oligopoly makes this possible.
There is one legitimate reason to have attended the meeting of fediverse admins with Facebook/Meta and that’s if your goal was to leak the contents.
(We’re waiting.)
Personally, I don’t see how I can trust any fediverse admin either stupid enough or malleable enough to sign an NDA with Facebook/Meta.
No one made you sign an NDA with a surveillance capitalist that this space stands in diametric opposition to. You did that to yourselves. Don’t be surprised if there are consequences.
(And maybe some of you will now see why I’m designing the Small Web as a peer-to-peer web. Why ensuring that every node – every instance – is equal is essential to any system that wants to resist centralisation and corporate capture. Why if these places are extensions of ourselves, we must own and control them ourselves. It’s the difference between being a person and not a person in the digital age. It’s high time we understood this.)
What is the Small Web?
Updated June 19th, 2023 Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. But that doesn’t mean you can’t watch it! You can download Small Is Beautiful #23 directly, and watch it with your favourite video player. Small Is Beautiful (Oct, 2022): What is the Small Web and why do we need it? Today, I want to introduce you to a concept – and a vision for the future of our species in the digital and networked age – that I’ve spoken about for a while but never specifically written about: