Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Found this on FB. All the feels.

And whoa - turns out it's from a TikTok vid by SeaTrick aka @TrixiDelMar. I recommend you watch the video:

https://www.tiktok.com/@seatrick/video/7190420174120553771

Folks are treating the recent tech layoffs as something spontaneous. They were not. Apparently the current layoffs were orchestrated by hedge funds.

This hedge fund demanded that the big tech companies lay people off because they were being paid too much. Let that one sink in: a hedge fund manager saying that you're being paid too much.

Note that TCI is demanding that Google lay off more people.

Every worker in every industry deserves a union, and tech right now is having a clear demonstration of how our lack of unions hurts us.

I just heard an exec say that it was "unfortunate" that we couldn't fire people faster in other parts of the world because of labor protections. Sit with that for a moment.

In the US unions are one of our very very few tools to give us any chance at all.

We need strong unions to push back against this sort of callous insensitivity backed by unchecked greed.

The vision of the future sketched here, the one Hasbro is currently risking destroying D&D forever to create, is really deeply depressing. Instead of having fun painting little models and maps, or God forbid *imagining*, you just pay $3.99 over and over forever. Some leaks float the idea of eliminating the DM role entirely (an "AI" does that).

Interposing technology where it's not really needed because technology can be monetized (taxed) in a way imagination can't.

Google likes to claim it loves the web. Google fucking broke the web.

Cookie notices on every fucking website? They need those because they use Google Analytics or Google Ads.

Recipe sites that go on for fucking days? That’s because Google penalises websites when you leave too quickly, and they can’t show as many ads.

Obviously-bullshit machine-generated “content” designed to entice you to click ads? That’s because Google Search is a monopoly.

I’m so tired of Google.

tiktok has a button employees can click to artificially boost posts! facebook gives every employee $3,000 a year in free ad credits! spotify invents fake royalty-free artists out of thin air and gives them placement to artificially dilute the per-play royalty!

Capitalists understand collective action.

The current layoffs *are* collective action. They're collective action *by the Capitalists* to suppress wages/rights.

@anildash I don't think enough people have realized how incredibly valuable the robust universal sandboxing provided by WASM is going to be

I genuinely don't want to run code written by other people that's NOT in a sandbox at this point: even if I trust them, do I also trust them not to have written any bugs?

WASM to me represents the freedom to run code on my machines again!

To provide electricity at Pompeii, without wrecking the historic feel of the site, "invisible" photovoltaic cells have been installed that mimic terracotta roof tiles.

https://www.themayor.eu/en/a/view/pompeii-features-invisible-pv-panels-in-the-form-of-roof-tiles-11435