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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Gotcha. If you have any experience interacting with groups that would have a chapter in most metro areas, feel free to let me know. Where I’m from originally we had some really active groups, but since moving to my current city I’m having difficulty finding something that seems to make a difference. I’d like to do mutual aid focused stuff rather than more mainstream charity work, but the charity work tends to be more impactful.


  • Does your group have chapters? If so, can I ask what group it is? I’ve had difficulty finding a mutual aid group that has a real impact. They do things, but the lack of structure and organization makes it seem functionally useless. The people are all pretty cool, but it mostly feels like a waste of time.




  • The flyers the organizers put up say:

    “Don’t want to work at the Employee Data ​Extraction Factory?”

    It’s funny how they have to specify “employee data extraction factory”, because they all already know they work at a data extraction factory, but it wasn’t affecting them just yet.

    I also love the idea that Meta is saying it needs to know which buttons the employees press to train the AI to work. I would bet there are virtually no applications that Meta employees use that don’t have some kind of API. Having an AI click buttons is the most error prone and least efficient way for them to be used. I don’t work in AI, so maybe the they plan to use that to somehow reinforce the API use (when a person would click the send button you should add the snippet to send the message), but I can’t imagine that’s more helpful than raw code analysis. People make mistakes and backspace, they idle, they have trouble navigating menus. Maybe in a more focused situation the information would be helpful, but I don’t understand why you’d train a bot to use a computer like a person. I feel like this is asking for resignations so they don’t have to do as many layoffs.


  • Really not sure that makes sense as a solution. If people like their politician, why primary them? If politicians know they’ll just be primaried anyway then it really doesn’t matter if they enact the will of the people or that of corporations in the first place. That’s one of the big concerns with term limits too. If the incumbent is there due to corporate funding, the next one likely will be too. We need to stop corporations from funding elections and have strict laws that we actually follow around insider trading. Complete divestment for anyone in elected office.


  • Thank you for sharing. Always disappointing to see how we’ve managed to not only make our country worse, but somehow persuade other people into wanting to make their countries worse.

    Our economic policy is ruining us and I hope all other countries can at least learn from our bad example. You don’t want what we have, I promise.

    Good luck in law school or as a lawyer. The world needs more good people in law and politics.