William Pietri

@williampietri@sfba.social
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Chicago-area writer, software developer, runner, and nerd wrangler. Very interested in online community and reducing the harm of tech. Creator of @sfships. Formerly on Twitter at https://twitter.com/williampietri

HOLY MOLY, Trinet!

They got my email once in 2016 to send me a W2. And just now, with no intervening anything, they've decided to send me spam every hour on the hour!

The weird thing is that I'm currently in a position to influence a couple of companies on the choice of a vendor like that. It has reminded me that TriNet was dodgy then; a tradition they've clearly continued!

"Your call is so important to us, we have fired all the humans and replaced them with a terrible automated system that cannot understand you.

Please hold while we pay our executives another bonus for some reason.

Did you know you can use the Internet to discover our website can't answer your question?"

I've never been threatened by a trans person. Never been harassed, abused, assaulted, or discriminated against by a trans person. Never by a gay person either. I've had all of those things happen to me but the perps were every single one of them cishet men.

So I don't need protection from trans people or any variety of LGBTQ people at all. People who claim that are not speaking for me, they are seeking to oppress me. What I need is for cishet men to unfuck themselves and learn to respect others' autonomy and right to live free from cishet men's aggression and odious dominance displays.

shun harder it's working

Ooh, I just had my worst startup idea yet: InstantInfluence.ai. Want to make extra money? Just install our app, sharing your location, contacts, and audio. We'll use a real time ad marketplace to match you with brands. When the app chimes, you'll see an AI-personalized ad script for you to perform to your friends. The better your performance, the more you're paid!

It combines the power of network marketing with modern ad view exchanges. With AI! Interested VCs should slip envelopes of cash under my door, with a note that says which college the surgeon who removed your scruples attended. Pedigree is important!

Unless Trump's destruction of US #science is stopped, this period will be remembered as the exact time American science was crippled and the global lead shifted to China, just the way the Nazis crippled German science in the 1930s and America became pre-eminent.
“Don’t fight back against the fascists, you’ll just give them an excuse to crack down on us” reflects a catastrophic misunderstanding of what fascism is or what motivates them to act.
Out for a run and I came across the biggest keming problem I've ever seen. #Chicago #Typography
Being a software professional at the moment's a bit like being a doctor in a time when every hospital administrator believes the X--Ray specs they advertise in the back of newspapers actually work.