Holy shit yes

Let’s start the hexbear coding coop and make our own jobs

I went to school for CS out of passion, computers and software have been my bread and butter since I was a kid. Currently on month 7 of the job hunt with no bites. I got another degree in math for similar reasons, but job prospects from that are pretty slim too. It’s a grim landscape; there’s work to be done and a need for more workers, but it’s more profitable to bleed the existing workforce white than to hire new people in any real quantity. And they lean on “AI” as an excuse for the hiring freezes but the reality of that grift is obvious; it’s all just bluster and excuses to pad the margins.

Went to an observatory my alma mater runs out in the mountains to look at stars earlier this month. It was great, kinda cloudy at first but once the skies cleared we got a great look at some globular clusters and cool stars. Also saw some baby foxes playing in the woods on our way up there, extremely cute

I wish them all a swift return from orbit and minimum return on investment 🙏

Piracy is ethically correct against corporations and I do it with glee

I thought he said he was gonna cure cancer?

If the US backs away from continuing to commit this genocide over petty interpersonal drama, that’s good but I can’t imagine a dumber timeline

It might be pedestrian to the people living there but ofc I’m gonna be astonished by actual infrastructure and development lol. It’s very impressive and beautiful

I hope it comes with a flood of dirt cheap computer hardware on the used market

Man this is not good. Assad sucks bad but he really did seem to me the least terrible option. Now any pretense of secularism is gone, openly Islamic fundamentalist groups are taking power; any facade of rights for women, religious minorities, other oppressed groups will fade into the background. I don't see HTS being anything of a bulwark to US or Israeli interests like Assad had been. Despite his lukewarm response to these things it seemed he at least was stopping Syria from becoming a base for that shit. Maybe I'm just stressed about nothing but it feels to me that an anti imperialist player has crumbled in this key region and I just can't imagine how this could be a positive development

Protect Hasan at all costs, despite his flaws he's fairly principled and a decent left voice in a sea of reactionary streamer shitheads.