James Wu / is on Nostr

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2024-07-08 15:59:58

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100%. The same parallels have been drawn by indigenous elders today, especially in the context of deployment of research to “help protect” native ecologies.
I forget where I saw it, but the quote was something like “before the troops come, there were always missionaries” by an Aotearoa elder comparing the parallels to universities as absolutely one of the arms of empire that prep the ideological ground (if not the literal ground) for colonization.

2024-07-08 15:59:58

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2024-05-03 23:25:04

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I’m guessing these days you also have to do an arch x OS combinatorial table of the performance metrics

2024-05-03 23:25:04

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I’m guessing these days you also have to do an arch x OS combinatorial table of the performance metrics

2024-03-31 01:27:32

How #xz could have been avoided:
1. During the 2013-2018 boom when tech workers as a class had maximum leverage, used *some* of the energy organizing broad tech unions and guilds instead of negotiating for fuck-you money and pulling up the ladder by telling other trades to “learn 2 code noobs”
2. craft broadly populist multi-union legislation to raise taxes for “infra and natsec basic income fund”, for a living stipend to infra workers: railroad, steelworkers, electricians, OSS maintainers