Here’s a thought experiment: If you had a small group of skilled mobile, desktop, server, and web front-end engineers who have access to time and money, and are eager to MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE USING THEIR SKILLS (and not just spin up yet another exploitive startup) what would YOU have them do?
Be specific.
Assume cost is no object.
It’s time to stop bellyaching about how bad tech is, and start brainstorming about what good it can do.
Please repost for exposure.
EDIT: Let’s add hardware, industrial design, and UX engineers in the mix as well, to round things out.
Anarcho-Communist envisions a society rooted in the rejection of capitalist structures and values. We reject individualism. We reject private ownership. We reject hierarchal structures. We reject competition. We reject profit-making. Instead we promote the good things: community-centered living, communal ownership, horizontal non-coercive organization, mutual aid, and focusing on meeting the needs of all individuals! #communism#mutualaid#horizontalorganization#anticapitalism#solidarity
I'll be speaking shortly after 1pm. Please come & chat before or after & signup to volunteer for my upcoming community art for #Palestine#solidarity event ✌️🎨🇵🇸🍉💗
Here's a still from the sit-in at Liverpool Street station. The video doesn't really convey the scale but any of you who have been to Liverpool Street will be able to gauge the number of people there from this picture. #Solidarity#CeasefireNow#Gaza
Anarchists in South Florida re-affirm the Palestinian people’s right to wage war against the colonizer zionists. 75 years of undeterred revolution against the settler state of Israel — a feat that all liberatory movements must look to in admiration.
4 banners hang over i75 in West Miami Dade, adorned with anarchist As, flowers, the Palestinian flag, and the Ironfront; reading:
“Viva Viva Palestina”
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine shall be free!”
“Zionism = genocide”
“Israel killed 17 children last week MIA➡️PSE”
Spotted over i75 in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, when European Zionist conquistadors, aided by British and U.S. armed forces, raped and pillaged the multi-ethnic/religious republic of Palestine.
Palestine’s fight is our fight; Israel is but a puppet state of the American Empire! They care not for Jewish people, for they raped and pillaged Arab Jews in 1948 just the same as Arab Muslims. As always, this is a question of power and greed.
Fascism here in the US — ever more powerful law enforcement, politicians banning our existence, street violence by bigoted terrorists — parallels the colonization of Palestine by Israel with US support. Fascism is but imperialism come home.
Free free Palestine!
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Do you want to be part of a social media platform that cares for the people using it? One that supports and nurtures our mental health? Here in the verse, the only people who can make that happen is us.
Every time you post here, ask yourself; "would I want some stranger to speak like this to my child when they're online?"
If you don't have children, think of a child you love and feel protective towards, a nephew or niece, a friend's child etc.
GOOD NEWS ALERT!
The people of Poland have voted for democracy. The opposition has won a majority of seats and the authoritarian PiS is defeated.
The main factor was huge turnout.
Voting matters. #Solidarity#Poland#Democracy#ResistFascism ✊🇵🇱 🇪🇺
Tech needs unions yesterday. Don’t listen to the insufferable one-percenter bunch of (almost always under-40, white, male) “unions are going to hamper my negotiations” population of well-paid, senior engineers. You need unions. NOW. It’s already past time.
This reminds us that #policing - in #SettlerColonial societies like Canada - has always been a central force for dispossession, displacement & containment.
If you’re also a NewsGuild-CWA member, please consider writing our Executive Council a message in support of publicly calling for a ceasefire. Hurry, though: they’re meeting on this subject tonight. Please send a letter via the above link just as soon as you read this!
#Solidarity and #gratitude to the hundreds of people who used kayaks and their bodies to blockade the world's busiest #coal port for 32 hours this weekend, and to the thousands who supported them, and to the millions who cheered them on, and to the billions for whose sake they were acting. This was a taste of an unstoppable force of collective #courage, #care and #commitment
One of the reasons for the invisibility of #AntiAsianRacism is inextricably connected to #ModelMinorityMyth. The myth focuses on #stereotypes of #Asians as hard-working, independent, intelligent & economically prosperous.
Stereotypes hide many issues & disappears the realities of working-class #AsianWomen’s lives.
This excellent comic on the history of Luddism by Tom Humberstone https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite led me to this site with folks developing 'Glaze' which is a thing artists are using to mess with AI trying to scrape their art. Check it out here:
So wait, let me get this right. Creatures have been roaming the planet for millions of years, thousands of years ago humans come along, and around three hundred years ago capitalism kicks in with its "endless growth" and "endless extraction" bullshit and already the planet is wrecked, there's climate chaos, and we're experiencing our hottest years ever and people are getting burns from touching the fucking pavement, and the capitalist class and their spokespeople in power don't give a shit because they're confident they and theirs will hold out on resources way longer than the rest of us, at the barrel of a gun if they have to, since there'll be enough desperate fools to accept scraps to keep protecting them from us. And in the meantime they'll continue to promote the same old filthy industries and agriculture, de-fund public transit, buy up social media to openly and proudly promote misinformation, and use their state and corporate media hierarchies to ensure ignorance towards the climate emergency like they have the ongoing pandemic, or just keep pushing back already-laughable environmental "targets" while they keep laughing at us, extracting resources and profits, filling their coffers, fucking the planet, and introducing sweeping surveillance and protest bans, to the point where someone like me, even with my privileges, will end up in prison just for existing or for anarchist thought; someone who never did shit to anyone, just dared to engage in (shock!) noncompliance in their wretched little system, doing no harm and taking no shit. Take care of one another! Organise! We can't aid and abet these policymaking mass murderers in sharp suits. We can't lose our humanity. After all, humanity never was compatible with capitalism. #GlobalWarming#ClimateChange#ClimateCrisis#ClimateEmergency#CapitalismIsADeathCult#Capitalism#anarchism#solidarity#organise#unionise#unions#RentersUnion#RentersRights#TransRights#LGBTQ#RefugeesWelcome#WeAreThe99Percent#ACAB#Abolition#FuckCars#PublicTransit#community#urbanism
"Palestine has always served as a litmus test of our collective imagination of what freedom could look like. When we say from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free, we imagine a world free of Islamophobia, antisemitism, anti-Blackness, militarism, occupation & apartheid."
— letter from 65 student organizations to The Daily Northwestern
A propos of the poor being a punching bag for the political right, the criminalisation of poverty and the ugly rhetoric they embrace every time they need votes.
Know your enemy.
We can do better. We can look after each other. #Solidarity is the way.
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