alphonsegaston

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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
Thank you.
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
Labor organization with the express aim of putting an end to Surveillance Capitalism. Google and Facebook can’t withstand a sustained disruption of their workforce, which is why they spend so much time paying lip service to social issues. T
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
Any “exchange” that’s premised on the “loss of rights” is just the Capital class leveraging their power to further exploit the poor.
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Democratize the Universe(jacobinmag.com)
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
Let me tell you a secret - it’s the drier. Clothes last far longer when you hang dry them. You’re right that fast fashion has reduced overall quality, but you can still get more wear out if them if you avoid the drier.
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
>It sounds like a cliche, but capitalism = freedom. And War is Peace. Ignorance is Strength.
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
That you've so internalized this oppressive ideology as natural or just is why I imagine people like Schifter feel so hopeless in the face of their circumstances. Perhaps think on this before dismissing another's life so glibly.
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A Driver’s Suicide Reveals the Dark Side of the Gig Economy(nytimes.com)
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
People are angry at your tone, but you’re correct. The evidence shows that disproportionate gender representation in STEM is the product of social conditioning, not anything innate: https://www.nature.com/articles/44213
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Amazon fulfillment centers do not generate broad-based employment growth(epi.org)
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
I often see debates here about how tech workers should or shouldn’t organize because they’re too highly paid, etc. But what if they organized to protect something more simple, like warehouse workers fundamental humanity? I understand that p
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
I think he was on his way out to a post in the Clinton administration as Google’s man on the inside. He’s mentioned his political ambitions in several interviews/profiles. When that didn’t pan out, they didn’t see much use in keeping h
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
I don’t mind the downvotes or anything, but it struck me as strange that on the same day that it’s reported Google is pursuing partnerships with an entity as corrupt and demonstrably awful as the Saudi regime, people see this as outside the
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
Most likely he was cast aside so Google can cozy up better with the Trump administration. Schmidt was close with the Clinton campaign, which Trump himself noted when they met: http://www.siliconbeat.com/2017/12/22&
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
In the face of all of the companies that illegally colluded to suppress developer wages sitting on massive reserves of cash... It’s the same thing as poor whites clinging to racism because they think it elevates their class position. False
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
You used Lindgren and her story as an example of the "business climate" of Sweden in the 70s and as an implied defense of Kamprad/IKEA's actions. But her critique, when coupled with her continued commitment to socialism,
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
Dakuten(what you call “dots over letters”) are used to modify the way consonants are pronounced, not for emphasis, e.g to turn the character for “Ka”(カ) into “Ga”(ガ). And the usage of katakana in the way the parent describes isn’t “tiring.”
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
And yet Lindgren remained a committed Social Democrat even in spite of this. Drawing a parallel between her and a tax-dodging, fascist sympathizer is quite the leap. Lindgren despised the Nazism Kamprad embraced and never really fully repud
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
The parent already pointed out that in a 2010 interview he expressed his unchanged admiration for Endghal. And he was also later show to have remained friends with him well into the 50s, exchanging correspondence and kind regards, a further
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
He also used East German dissidents as slave labor in the 70s and 80s. Pretty despicable. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/nov/16/ikea-regret...
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
The opioid crisis is probably a more apt analogy, given its class dimensions and origination in the pharmaceutical industy. But see also corporate algorithms commodifying all social interaction into "followers" and "likes&quo
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Does Gender Matter?(nature.com)
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
I wonder at what point people will realize that Musk is a shyster who uses his media profile to underpay and overwork his employees. Can you imagine working for someone who engages in media spectacles as a way to induce death marches? &quot
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Scientists move Doomsday Clock ahead to 2 minutes to midnight(cbc.ca)
45 points by alphonsegaston 9y ago|70 comments
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A Recession-Era Economic Myth Goes Up in Smoke(jacobinmag.com)
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
But also for teams to be successful, employees have to be able to trust their managers. I just quit a job after a month because, within that short time, my manager twice misrepresented the scope of a task so he could either leave early or h
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Tech's Moral Reckoning(onbeing.org)
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
>At the risk of being reductionist, this article strikes me as being in a similar vein to "Ancient Egyptians were black!". That is, an attempt to elevate a modern minority group to higher prestige by attributing to them histori
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
Appealing to the values of an ignorant majority is quite an ironic position to take when defending Mencken. More pragmatically, he was a misanthrope, which, whatever its other charms, rarely serves one well in seeing past ingrained bigotry
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Freedom from the Boss(jacobinmag.com)
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