"nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them" Assata Shakur
dads are such shitbags to their daughters because, if those daughters get married to men, they'll be more willing to take their husbands' last names. in this way they cement patriarchal customs and keep Guy Name Supremacy alive and well. these men are all in it together.
Fifty per cent of web users are running ad blockers. Zero per cent of app users are running ad blockers, because adding a blocker to an app requires that you first remove its encryption, and that’s a felony. (Jay Freeman, the American businessman and engineer, calls this “felony contempt of business-model”.)
So when someone in a boardroom says, “Let’s make our ads 20 per cent more obnoxious and get a 2 per cent revenue increase,” no one objects that this might prompt users to google, “How do I block ads?” After all, the answer is, you can’t. Indeed, it’s more likely that someone in that boardroom will say, “Let’s make our ads 100 per cent more obnoxious and get a 10 per cent revenue increase.” (This is why every company wants you to install an app instead of using its website.)
There’s no reason that gig workers who are facing algorithmic wage discrimination couldn’t install a counter-app that co-ordinated among all the Uber drivers to reject all jobs unless they reach a certain pay threshold. No reason except felony contempt of business model, the threat that the toolsmiths who built that counter-app would go broke or land in prison, for violating DMCA 1201, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, trademark, copyright, patent, contract, trade secrecy, nondisclosure and noncompete or, in other words, “IP law”.
IP isn’t just short for intellectual property. It’s a euphemism for “a law that lets me reach beyond the walls of my company and control the conduct of my critics, competitors and customers”. And “app” is just a euphemism for “a web page wrapped in enough IP to make it a felony to mod it, to protect the labour, consumer and privacy rights of its user”.
the people who shelve their books with the pages facing out need to be stopped. i know they are just doing it to get a reaction, but surely we have reacted enough by now. let this madness end.
you have to understand that doing this is like covering the labels of your canned goods with white sleeves. you have not created visual cohesion; you have created mental and spiritual darkness. you reach for a can - what is it? well now you must do extra work to find out. your days are burdened with mystery and toil. you take the covers off one by one until you find what you need. if you cursed yourself and your progeny in this moment, you would be right to do so.
literacy is one of the most profoundly transcendent things about the human species. that we can scratch a few lines on a surface and anyone who speaks our language can immediately understand their meaning? that is nothing short of a miracle. do not spit on your ancestors by hiding the words from yourself! you are a disgrace to evolution and to your mother!!!
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