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I'm not a physicist, but I think the recommendations will work for white dudes in engineering too. :-E
#privilege #inequity #racism #sexism
BTW: happy I'm not posting this in the US. :-/
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Judge #Boasberg cites the #Trump admin’s gloating after his order was violated, noting the “oopsie”tweet from #Bukele & its amplification by admin ofcls.
Boasberg says the admin can “purge” its #contempt by bringing back the people he ordered not to be sent in the first place & giving them appropriate #DueProcess. If not, he will conduct further proceedings.
Boasberg said he’s skeptical of the admin’s invocation of #StateSecrets #privilege.
"Normally we'd say that #Columbia University & those #law firms taking in tens or hundreds of millions of dollars annually are powerful. They're #rich, they're highly visible, but in their acquiescence they have proven they are weak rather than strong, that what is supposed to be their power is their accumulation of #privilege they are so afraid to lose they turn out to also be afraid to use. If you can't use it, it's not #power and you're not powerful."
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/people-have-the-power-week-whatever-of-the-stupid-coup-and-the-pushback/?ref=meditations-in-an-emergency-newsletter
in calmness 
#FOSS = free software + *gratis* contributions ???
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@GottaLaff They don’t believe the rest of us are actual people, we’re just game pieces on their silly board games.
I was called out yesterday for stereotyping people who live in “Ravo” (a public housing area here in Launceston) I have been ruminating about it and have come to thr conclusion that I am a snob and I don’t want to be. I will try to be more aware of my privilege and prejudice 
#privilege
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yup
voting is part of the struggle to maintain your #rights
ignorance of the consequences comes from #privilege
nonvoters on the left are exactly like #MAGA this way: they don't know and they don't care how *they* are fucked
because what's important to nonvoters is masturbating their ego in an ivory tower of perfection, and if they don't get perfect, they feel #entitled to not #vote
utterly fucking ignorant to the fact they live in fucking reality and they are impacted, personally
If anyone, anyone at all (?) was confused, the speaker has his nose well into the trough, a man who disregards parliamentary conventions (pretty much all they have In the place of rules) to suit whoever is in power.
Commons Speaker’s £180k bill for first-class flights and hotels. One trip to a luxury Cayman Islands resort by Lindsay Hoyle cost the taxpayer nearly £23,000
I kind of hate when people post comments assuming domain-specific knowledge from laymen such as "the fact people need to be told this is a little troubling to say the least".
It shows those people have not tried to even see how hard bootstrapping the knowledge they're assuming of others actually is, especially now that search engines have enshittified into uselessness and the hardware their comment pertains to no longer comes with useful manuals for their operation.
In a lot of cases, the knowledge also pertains to hacks for patching over design flaws & botched work that should've been done properly to start with (which would make said knowledge entirely obsolete as anything other than a curiosity).
It reeks of unacknowledged #privilege (and a heaping of normalization of deviance).
It shows those people have not tried to even see how hard bootstrapping the knowledge they're assuming of others actually is, especially now that search engines have enshittified into uselessness and the hardware their comment pertains to no longer comes with useful manuals for their operation.
In a lot of cases, the knowledge also pertains to hacks for patching over design flaws & botched work that should've been done properly to start with (which would make said knowledge entirely obsolete as anything other than a curiosity).
It reeks of unacknowledged #privilege (and a heaping of normalization of deviance).
Apparently #consumergrade #SSDs do not actually do anything to make their volatile write-cache safe.
What kind of asshole decided this was a good idea? Fucking infrastructural privilege assumptions.
As it turns out, yes, a *lot* of consumergrade SSDs will lose flushed data on a power outage.
So that means unless one has the privilege to be able to afford a UPS or enterprise SSDs, one otherwise has to disable the cache (promptly getting rid of most of the performance).
Hardware designers, much like software designers, should be required to live in underprivileged shitholes before releasing anything intended for wide public use.
#SSD #InfrastructuralPrivilege #Privilege #Design #DesignFail
What kind of asshole decided this was a good idea? Fucking infrastructural privilege assumptions.
As it turns out, yes, a *lot* of consumergrade SSDs will lose flushed data on a power outage.
So that means unless one has the privilege to be able to afford a UPS or enterprise SSDs, one otherwise has to disable the cache (promptly getting rid of most of the performance).
Hardware designers, much like software designers, should be required to live in underprivileged shitholes before releasing anything intended for wide public use.
#SSD #InfrastructuralPrivilege #Privilege #Design #DesignFail
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2/2 also recognising now how my previous ability to post and engage so much more here was really rooted in immense privilege: as a university lecturer, i had a steady income, control over my time, confidence, freedom, identity: all this is now gone, all making me unable to post. Just wanted to really acknowledge this. #Privilege
Paroles de la chanson “Privilege” de The Weeknd
#TheWeeknd #Privilege
https://daletra.art/the-weeknd/paroles/privilege.html
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#Trump repeatedly called for the elimination of the #Education Department during his presidential campaign. On Wednesday he called it a "con job" & said he wants it closed. [says a guy who never went to a #PublicSchool ever]
About 100 probationary employees received termination letters on Wednesday at the #GSA, according to two people familiar with the firings.
On Call S01E01 released in 2025.
A pig of color is killed on duty. I feel no sympathy
The female protagonist has African ancestry but is white passing.
A white pig threatens to taser a white suspect.
Had the latter been Black, he'd be murdered.
» For Your Eyes Only / Read and Delete «
NSA's list of 27 banned words »
#Anti-Racism
#Racism
#Allyship
#Bias
#DEI
#Diversity
#Diverse
#ConfirmationBias
#Equality
#Equity
#Equitableness
#Feminism
#Gender
#GenderIdentity
#Inclusion
#Inclusive
#All-Inclusive
#Inclusivity
#Injustice
#Intersectionality
#Prejudice
#Privilege
#RacialIdentity
#Sexuality
#Stereotypes
#Pronouns
#Transgender
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I have a work social media persona. My "worksona". It's who I represent as on LinkedIn and also on here.
I also have an authentic social media persona. It's another account on another server under an alias. An anonymous alias.
Why does this discrepancy exist? Because I talk about lived experiences, values, and positions on my second account that are stigmatized by society. Mental health. Neurodivergence. Gender. #FuckTheSystem.
My "worksona" is not me. It's a construct I shaped to maximize my chances by allowing me to harness conditional privilege: mainly that I'm _read_ as a white assumed cisgender, neurotypical, heterosexual, able-bodied man. But it's a mask. It means I'm keenly aware of the discrepancy in privilege that is granted based on how one is perceived.
I've been slowly incorporating more authenticity into my "worksona" but the sad truth is that there's still a wide chasm between who I really am around the people I trust and who I am in a professional context. There is literally only a single person who knows the full me and also knows me in real life. Everyone else gets a filtered version. Why? Stigma. Stigma that's assigned to layers of my identity I have no control over.
This is what privilege is about. Chances are that if your "public persona" aligns closely with your authentic self that you benefit from a whole lot of privilege (or that you're a #neuroqueer rebel; I see you and applaud you). And to the white men in my followers: this is what people talk about when they say you have privilege. The insidious truth is that it's _invisible_ to you because you probably don't know anything else. But there are many people around you who just _pretend_ to look and act like you.
I am one of the people who pretend.
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Before you call for a “general strike”, read this article, and think about whether you’re speaking from solidarity, or privilege.
“Unlike real strikes, which take a ton of work, calling a general strike is apparently a simple affair. A date is picked, a Facebook post is created, the labor liberal press picks it up, and a general strike is born. This raises the question of under whose authority they are being called.”
#unions #solidarity #generalStrike #privilege
“No More Fake Strikes”
Organizing.work · No More Fake StrikesJoe Burns takes a critical look back at the many “general strikes” called in recent years.
@magicalgirlsabrina @pixelcode then you are still #privilege|d enough to believe you ain't of interest.
- Which is a false assumption and not how a surveillance state works, as having comromitting info for blackmail and threats is part if the problem!
So trust noone and completely yank any corporate #AntisociaMedia...