Calcifer

I actually just finished reading this last night. Very captivating read, you do really get a feel for the sheer entitlement to wealth and power some of these assholes have. Not surprised they tried to stop her from publishing this, it’s pretty damning to Facebooks PR lines over the years and pretty much confirms what (most folks I know) all thought - that they lied, on purpose, quite often, including to congress, about what they were doing. Not to mention the utterly horrendous personal behavior, including sexual harassment allegations (again, sadly not that shocking to me, but shudder inducing to read about nonetheless).

That said, I highly doubt anyone will see consequences from this.

I’ll have to see if I can find the video again, but I saw someone do a really interesting analysis on why this happens. The central idea was that it’s due to a whole ideology based on conformity. Everyone converges on the same “look” not necessarily because they even like it (though many of the choices do clearly represent a white cishet ideal) but because they hate the “alternatives”. For example, “creative” hair colors and makeup are things people do to try to be more individual, which is why these women paint those choices as “tacky” or marks of being an “evil lib” etc. Their fashion choices are self-limiting by design.

Okay, obvious queerphobia/freedom of expression issues and “how are these malignant societal tumors still on the debunked litter box thing” aside… Do none of these idiots remember that children often role play as animals because they have imagination and they are children? Have they even met children?!? Pretty sure “horse firefighters” or “we’re all evil cats today” etc. are a common type of game played at recess or whatever. They have nothing to do with being a furry and everything to do with just regular human development? Are these people really paranoid and threatened by childhood make-believe games?

Vaguely, yes, in terms of general inspiration, since I think this study was very popular in the cultural zeitgeist and also inspired terminology in other areas (like the whole “alpha males” thing) but in terms of “fandom history” the source of the omegaverse and it’s subsequent meteoric rise as a fanfic trope is generally considered to be the Supernatural fandom.

I found a witchy memes community, which does have a similar feel, but would love to see WVP come to Lemmy. After the last reddit fiasco a few years ago they spun up a discord very quickly (honestly terrible format, but it did gain a lot of traction). A fair amount of users would probably join to give Lemmy a go if they opened up a community here.

Immediately went to bookshop.org and they were promoting this book with an ad and a coupon. Hope to see the Streisand effect in action here.

Seems like it prevents the author from promoting the work but doesn’t do anything to the publishing company?

My flame will be extinguished.

Not sure how long you’ve been looking, but just be prepared for ghost job postings and very fierce competition. My job search took nearly a year and I know folks who’ve been looking longer. A large percentage of job postings are outright fake or they don’t actually intend to hire anyone for the position, and even real positions, especially remote ones, will have thousands of applicants. It might not be you, your location, or your resume - even if those are 100% optimized, it’s a rough market right now for finding a remote tech gig.

My advice is to make sure your resume is optimised for the AI screeners most companies are using (unfortunately what I, a human, looks for in a tech resume is very different from what HR and the AI tools look for, so make sure to have multiple versions and at least one formatted to be parsed by an AI tool) and leverage your network at much as you can. Apply as soon as you can after a job is posted. Check the websites and apply mostly to smaller companies. You can apply through Linkedin or indeed but most of the “easy apply” ones are ghost jobs. Still worth hitting the button on a few hundred of those or so just to try, but they’re far less likely to be of any value.

Good luck in your search.

At this point, I don’t know if even someone trusted would be able to change his mind. Admitting to being wrong about vaccines means admitting he basically killed their daughter. Horribly sad.

I am impressed at the level that this man (allegedly) scared the ruling class. I think they’re making a critical mistake though in assuming that these types of crackdowns combined with a spiraling economy won’t just make people who are even more desperate and motivated.

It hurt itself in it’s confusion!

I came because I discovered boost is now for Lemmy. Only wish Narwhal was still around.

The stock market is generally more of a “rich people’s feelings” graph - very few Americans relatively are invested in any meaningful way, most if they are do so through a 401k or similar. That said, what “the market” hates most is uncertainty - and there’s quite a lot of reasons to be uncertain at the moment between tariff threats and mass layoffs (not to mention geopolitical tensions).

Importantly though (and this is just a personal opinion) I think many stocks on the market are way overvalued. Executives and investors have used every trick in the book to “make a line go up”, which means they aren’t really operating on any business foundation designed for longevity or to withstand swings in the market. There’s bubbles lurking in a lot of sectors. I’d guess at least some of this downwards momentum will be a market correction for some of these issues.

As always though, it’s the folks invested through pensions and 401ks that have the most to lose relatively. The big players have probably already taken out their cash and are just waiting to see what they can buy up in a crash.

“A computer can never be held accountable - therefore a computer must never make a management decision”. - IBM Training manual, 1979.

So jazzed to live here in the future where we have AI making insurance denials and deciding drone targets! /s

Good on her for standing against the Silicon Valley doom hype machine.

Agreed - Even before this, the only thing I really used reddit for was to search. It’s unfortunate that Reddit is really the only search option with a decent chance of surfacing the information I want to know - most search results if you don’t add “Reddit” at the end are AI slop, ads, or AI generated listicles.