had a meeting today that took me back to being a child at school and it was not a good feeling
nothing can exist and prosper on its own.
RAM prices are so so depressing right now
(pic: DDR5-6000 2x32GB, average price tracked from pcpartpicker.com/trends/price...)
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how do i make the same or more money while playing around on the web but without dealing with clients or development?
HTML is the new JSON? what the hell?
Being in tech, a predominantly White & male industry, is a perfect example imo. The theatre of DEI was at play during the Obama years but it didn’t change much materially for minority workers. Instead women and Black ppl were told they need to do more to be seen, “lean in”.
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Girl Boss Feminism is seeing a return in response to trad wife shit & those who are in the GBF camp don’t see the direct lines between capitalism and patriarchy.
bell hooks (& other womanists) calling it White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy makes the connection more explicit.
A lot of DEI work is theatre, & I say this as someone who ran a nonprofit to get Black women in tech (& was successful). The ease of which everything has rolled back is evidence.
There’ll always be a tension btwn the E and capitalism bc capitalism requires workers to not have equity.