@maegul@workreform I've been referring to this as "the single platform creator trap" - a creator who is trapped by their own belief that they can't control the value they bring, is stuck within one third-party online platform, and who doesn't fundamentally know how to recreate their success or take it elsewhere.
Creators who can make multiple platforms work always always always have way more control.
It's a self-imposed alienation from owning the means of production in Marxist terms.
@mikey By being spineless, profit chasing dirtbags...They laid those people off due to wanting to make their profit margins look better. Even though they could easily cut the salaries of overpaid higher management the mad amounts of cash for their work instead to achieve the same effect. But no, instead like all lay off addicted companies, Microsoft chose the worse option and affecting the lives of so many people just to look good for some damn investors. Capitalism without firm regulations is a huge mistake!
@WanderingPoltergeist I know it's far-fetched, but I would love to see a company like SEGA make a surprise comeback into the hardware space. And the nostalgia aspect alone would definitely help them!
@inspirationgrid Nostalgia is one hell of a drug that we've all fallen victim to at some point. However, if they made awesome hardware...I wouldn't mind at all!
Treated myself to a new book today. I would never have discovered it if it hadn't been for the wonderful @neilhimself . Can't wait to start reading it but I have The Dark Is Rising sequence to finish first. #Bookstodon#Books
@Yorkslass70@neilhimself I love all of Zelazny's work but A Night in the Lonesome October is one of my favorites! I got to hear him read the whole thing to us at a Con over three nights. Every so often he would stop and make notes in the manuscript he was reading from.
I have several friends who read this every October chapter-by-chapter, day-by-day; I don't have that level of discipline; if I start it, it's getting finished same day!
Zelazny was a very underrated writer; I sometimes think he's omitted a lot in libraries, who always seem to have a lot of Asimov, simply because of his alphabetical positioning.
Interesting reflection by two older musicians (Beato and Tim Pierce) about how the music industry used to have a "middle class" that's been pushed out now by an industry that focuses more and more on profits.
They don't really go into the details of how the changes happened, with big-corp #capitalism being the elephant in the room ... but their observations, which include tech, paint a pretty clear picture.
I remember a piece Harlan Ellison wrote back in the 1970s. He was working on television shows, and said that if he could save $1,000.00 he could live for six months and just write the stuff he really wanted to do.
https://www.alfiekohn.org/blogs/autism - Alfie Kohn, 2020, on ABA, Applied behavior analysis, basically Skinner's operant conditioning, that STILL is in use for/with #autistic people, especially children:
"Suppose you participated in implementing a widely used strategy for dealing with homelessness, only to learn that the most outspoken critics of that intervention were homeless people. Would that not stop you in your tracks?"
@samid@actuallyautistic I believe the thing is, the mere act of smiling when you dont feel like it means the same in masking [M] and emotional labor [EL], youre right. But ALL scientific research that is referring to the concept of or containing the term EL has the proposition of an NT person that due to its NT wiring WOULD smile in this interaction with a friend, and just dont feel like to do it job-related [if not in the mood/sympathy]; and that just isnt the case for #autistic folk.
@samid@actuallyautistic By drawing that line I just would like everyone to have in mind that the knowledge concerning EL + the precautions that one might be able to do to NOT feel the burden of EL - doesnt apply to autistics, because masking is a different psychological concept. While writing I just had the thought that masking for ND people maybe could be compared to an NT that always forces themselves to make a "disgusted" face when greeting a friend, instead of a smile.
Hi, I'm Laura and I study #pollen, reconstructing prehistoric #landscapes, using #FTIR#microspectroscopy to identify grass pollen and also enjoy using different coding languages such as #R and #Python ^.^
My hobbies include #DJ ing, watching #anime and collecting #Pokemon cards (thrilling I know). Very happy to be here :3
@josephcox This also affects science - when you visit the website of the journal "Nature", sources like Bidswitch and Pubmatic are installed. So researchers are in the view of this shady company and its customers.
"I guess everybody felt like if they did the work and enough people did the work for personal development that somehow that would create a massive shift and everybody all at once would experience collective leap in consciousness. This lie, this neoliberal lie of moving towards collectivism through startling individualism and navel gazing has just blown me away. And I feel like that took over the entire decolonial movement. I feel like it's in every every activist movement." Tyson Yunkaporta