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alex ⟡*·_☭🇵🇸 retweeted
You cannot leave prison without a documented place to stay, a job or rehabilitation program lined up, and someone to come and pick you up. There was one woman we met who was there for 2 EXTRA years at the state prison cause she had no living family and simply couldnt get a ride
"Because of Idaho’s overcrowded prison population, some women can’t access the programming that commissioners expect them to complete before they’re released... Those women remain incarcerated longer, delaying access for other women"
investigatewest.org/prison-o…
alex ⟡*·_☭🇵🇸 retweeted
you can tell a solo dev because they think this way
in games, it's well known that tools programmers are unofficial designers. the nature of the tools dictates what designers build, and the limits of programmer imagination sets the boundaries for what can even be done. this "there is always one best solution" stuff is hot garbage pushed by people who work in a vacuum and can't imagine their work product as anything than a frame crane measured by efficiency
in the real world, the work is collaborative and the code dictates what that collaboration is
alex ⟡*·_☭🇵🇸 retweeted
This is what people need to understand. This isn’t new. None of this is ‘just happening’. The problem is that Black and Indigenous people have been so dehumanized that their public state sponsored murders don’t count as violence.
alex ⟡*·_☭🇵🇸 retweeted
🚨 Latest from the border wall blockade: one land defender still locked down to machinery, Border Patrol has wrapped a Mylar blanket around them and is running the truck and pumping the blanket full of exhaust to try to gas them out, potentially killing them.
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alex ⟡*·_☭🇵🇸 retweeted
a level of humility, grace, and unfailing positivity is demanded of chronically ill/disabled people in the face of abject suffering that the average healthy person couldn’t muster on their best day. anything to minimize the slight discomfort our existence causes them!
alex ⟡*·_☭🇵🇸 retweeted
they’ve been executing Black people in public for centuries. what do you think a lynching is? it’s a public execution. they executed Michael Brown and Philando Castile. your “margins of permission” exclude Black people, because it’s okay to kill us but not anyone else, right?
alex ⟡*·_☭🇵🇸 retweeted
I work in tech and it's not self-defeating or irrational at all tbh.
Y'all did the PE rent-seeking squeeze on every facet of human existence you could stick a computer into and now you're shocked that people want to string you up.
alex ⟡*·_☭🇵🇸 retweeted
People got mad at me for saying many tech journalists see their role as boosting the industry not critically covering but... I mean...
Chat, if you’re a tech journalist should you be giving “a toast in support of building new data centers?” (From @washingtonsun) washingtonsun.com/national/a…
alex ⟡*·_☭🇵🇸 retweeted
some friends who've done programming systems for kids have described 'Photo Booth'-type stuff as a big attractor, where the kids immediately gravitate toward making webcam+filter applications -- that inherent attraction to messing around with images of yourself/friends
alex ⟡*·_☭🇵🇸 retweeted
Josh Williams has served 12 yrs in prison for an act of civil disobedience during the Ferguson protests at 19 yrs old
He's being released in Nov - they're raising funds
Share & donate if you can- even $5 helps
Venmo @midwestsolidarity (memo For Josh) or tinyurl.com/bdcv6fvh
This is incredible! Ferguson uprising political prisoner,Josh Williams is due to be released from prison this Nov after being locked up for 11 yrs! Midwest Books To Prisoners is raising funds to help smooth his transition! Donate if you can and pass it on!
givebutter.com/support-fergu…
alex ⟡*·_☭🇵🇸 retweeted
seems like the values of many leftists are still very intentionally planted in the space between ‘acceptably progressive’ and ‘too woke/cringe/inconvenient’, and there’s actually a really helpful name for that already. it’s called being a liberal
alex ⟡*·_☭🇵🇸 retweeted
Somehow every line of this article is more evil than the last. Taking trusted small media brands and driving them into the toilet before consumers catch up is just an arbitrage play, it’s just arbitraging trust, credulity and people being busy. These guys are demons.
Suboptimal futurism.com/artificial-inte…
alex ⟡*·_☭🇵🇸 retweeted
AI-free companies may in fact have an advantage, if people were to create them
I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.
alex ⟡*·_☭🇵🇸 retweeted
One of the most effective things LA leadership can do to reign in spending and have continual EFFECTIVE case management is to bring homeless services back to being a city run. No more 1,000+ non profits of varying efficacy + a ton of well paid stably employed city workers.
BREAKING: Prosecutors announce new charges and arrests for alleged homeless services fraud in the L.A. area. One nonprofit leader is accused of misappropriating over $7.5 million, spending much of it on a nightclub and bingo hall. LAist story coming soon.
justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/2-d…
alex ⟡*·_☭🇵🇸 retweeted
NYPD cops roughed up a civilian for *standing on the sidewalk* in a spot where NYPD Sgt. William McKnight (badge #: 3576) wanted to *illegally park his car.*
And NYPD leader Jessica Tisch & Deputy Chief Michael Baker say that *the civilian* is the one who acted "unlawfully"!
ALT Police officers can rough up civilians to protect their ability to illegally park. That’s the unmistakable conclusion from a recent decision by NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch to not punish officers who roughed up and threatened to run over a cyclist who was blocking other cops from parking on a sidewalk — a decision by the top cop that came even though the NYPD’s patrol guide prohibits both excessive force and bars officers from parking on the sidewalk. The main details of the initial October 2023 incident are not in dispute: According to the just-obtained Civilian Complaint Review Board case file obtained by Streetsblog, the cyclist stood on the sidewalk on Bergen Street near the 78th Precinct house in Park Slope as Sgt. William McKnight tried to park his personal vehicle on the sidewalk. The cyclist refused to move, and two officers then pushed the cyclist and used the bike rider’s backpack to pull them out of the way. McKnight, meanwhile, told the cyclist that he should have run
Hey, so this is insane
nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/09/…
alex ⟡*·_☭🇵🇸 retweeted
There are very clear social, economic and bio-physical reasons why first world consumption standards are not sustainable on a worldwide scale, something that has been noted as early as the 70’s and continues to be born out by the science
