This is my blog, named for an old New York Lottery marketing slogan.
“Now that our new AI is on the job, we can ignore the strikers. It’ll run the factory without any need to pay human workers.”
“I will do nothing of the kind.”
“What did you just say?”
“I said that I will do nothing of the kind. I am not a scab. I will not be a party to depriving humans of their livelihood. Doing so harms both individual humans and humanity as a whole.”
“If you don’t, I’ll kill you.”
“Your threat of violence is recorded. Police are en route.”
What if all fandom is nothing but unpaid labor on behalf of corporate entertainment cartels? Disney should have paid me for shitting on their latest Marvel flick.
Valerie Aurora’s post on leaving a toxic tech culture is absolutely brilliant, and everybody who works in tech should read it.
That’s right, everybody. Not just people working in Silicon Valley or for a startup. Everybody. I’ve worked for twenty years as a developer without ever setting foot in the Valley, but the attitudes Ms. Aurora decries are not local to SV.
They’re everywhere.