As long as Boeing is in the news, let me remind you...
Boeing's outgoing CEO will get a "golden parachute" worth as much as $45 million.
The CEO before him got $62 million on his way out the door.
America has socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for everyone else.
my whole life i struggled with attempting to communicate and be understood, never realising this strongly correlated with neurodivergence.
there's something at once liberating and cliched about it--there was nothing wrong with me this whole time??
it's a startling and refreshing development.
Osborne Computer was a pioneer in portable computing that talked too freely about an upcoming product, leading to a premature bankruptcy. But I felt the Osborne effect even beyond a single company's products in 1983. #retrocomputing https://dfarq.homeip.net/osborne-computers-bankruptcy-and-the-osborne-effect/
Today is @craigmaloney 's birthday. I've been looking at it in my calendar all week, with fondness and sadness. He would have been 53. He fought cancer for over two years before this lap around the sun was truncated on April 2. He was a huge part of my life while he was here. He has continued to be so through the ways he helped me, the friends and relationships I made and kept through him, and the experiences I would otherwise have missed if he had not introduced me to various concepts, groups, and spaces. He supported me in all I did.
I wanted to put something out into the world to honor him on his birthday. Craig encouraged everyone he knew to create and put things out into the world. Nothing was considered too insignificant to matter, everything counted. "The world" didn't have to mean at large, creating something for yourself in your personal world was more than enough. I am relearning how to knit, and today I knitted a new lace pattern in purple yarn. It doesn't look quite right, but it doesn't matter. I created it.
Today, I encourage you to do the same. Whether you knew Craig or not, create something and share it with someone. If you don't feel that you have anyone to share it with, share it with me. If someone shares something they created with you, give them support. Add something positive to the world. Create, share, and support.
Published on my blog.
#AusPol #VicPol #CFMEU #sexism #hypocrisy #Labor #ALP #Albanese
After the Albanese led Labor government and capitalist news media used allegations of sexism to justify ousting the CFMEU leadership, the person they appointed to run it, Grahame McCulloch, has been forced to resign after making a string of sexist and sexual comments towards female union staff. McCulloch, a so-called leftist had previously blocked the NTEU from supporting BDS when he was their National Secretary.
archival link:
The Australian: Why CFMEU Victorian administrator Grahame McCulloch abruptly resigned
Been really enjoying learning #Inkscape over the last few days as a replacement to what I used to do in Adobe Illustrator.
Definitely a powerful program for text and vector graphics. Now that I've got my way around it with shortcuts and the like, I won't ever open or pay for Adobe Illustrator again.
It's also ticking the boxes for the type of work I used to do in Adobe Photoshop in regards to graphic design and text layout work for posters and such.
#FOSS for the win!
If you have any misconceived idea about Australians having a right to peacefully protest, or that anti terrorism laws are for your protection, have another think.
#DisruptLandForces #naarm #WagePeace
https://www.police.vic.gov.au/public-notice-melbourne-6-15-september-2024
the other 9/11
never forget september 11th 1973, in Chile when Salvador Allende’s democratically elected socialist government was overthrown in a US backed coup, replacing him with the neoliberal dictator Pinochet
The economy isn’t broken. It’s working exactly as intended: funneling wealth upwards while the rest of us drown in debt and ill conceived Linkin Park reunions.
#AusPol #VicPol #DisruptLandForces #Naarm #Melbourne #PoliceViolence #ACAB
Preface: fuck the age, archival link so as to not give them traffic
A police officer shot a protest photographer at the Disrupt Land Forces rally in Naarm (Melbourne) with a rubber bullet which resulted in him losing part of his ear and perforating an eardrum.
The Age: Protest photographer loses part of ear after being shot by rubber bullet
#AusPol #VicPol #FreePalestine #FreeWestPapua #DisruptLandForces #protestPhotography #GreenLeft
Photos from the Disrupt Land Forces anti-war protest in Naarm (Melbourne) Australia
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/photos-some-images-disrupt-land-forces
minor gripe #2
lacan, marcus aurelius... the sam harris fans...
my guy, philosophy should shake you to your core and truly leave you stunned and amazed. philosophy at the level of a hobby is like a box of cheap party tricks.
when i hear you mention stoicism i want to hear you mention others like seneca, not just the pop philosophy names.
if you really think about it, having opinions and not having opinions are the same thing. this is why I hold every possible opinion at once, including and not including this one