Whenever I'm Trying To Talk Myself Out Of Buying Something I Don't Need I Always Hear My Old Russian

It’s a little bit silly, but I have this little Hippocratic oath for data designers in the book. There are two basic questions I encourage them to ask themselves. One is, does it increase self-determination of poor people? And two, if it was aimed at anyone but poor and working people, would you be able to do it? And if you answer “no” to either of those, don’t do it. You’re on the wrong side of history.

The High-Tech Poorhouse

Here is a masterlist of every single genocidal statement made by the State of Israel, all appropriately quoted and sourced.

These statements cannot be retracted.

Quote from the Israeli State Minister of Agriculture and Development.

And yet, Zionists will tell you that “This is not a genocide, Hamas are using Palestinians as human shields!”

s h a p e c a t s

I think the turbolift is stuck…

"immortality sucks because all your friends die" all your friends die anyway. those we do not mourn are those who mourn us.

"immortality sucks because you forget who you are" we always forget who we are. do you remember who you were at four years of age? who you were at fourteen? "who i am" is a shadow cast on the wall.

"immortality sucks because" skill issue. skill issue. skill issue. give me your liver

That chapter is really saying, “If you do everything right, and you’re still living in a society that is deeply impacted by its hatred of the poor and its fear of precarity, you’re still going to create systems that punish, police, and profile.” And that’s the most frustrating place that people get to. Because then they’re like, “Well then, what do we do?” And they want me to give them a ten-point plan for creating better technologies. And I’m like, “Well, what we do is, join in social movements, and end poverty everywhere, and forever.” And I’m sorry that that’s a frustrating answer. But it’s the real answer.

The High-Tech Poorhouse

“You don’t miss college, you miss communism”

Rudolf Bauer Space, 1932