🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞

Well, yes, I’ll be off looking for them next time I need to use an archival site. I’m bummed to learn this crap about archive.ph.

Weapon of motherly destruction?

Dammit. Everyone’s been using that site to get around paywalls because it works well. Now I have to go find another one that works as well. :|

Reminder: Block trolls and remind everyone else to block them. Once you take all the fun away from them from trolling, they go away.

You know, I don’t even care about that. What I do care about is billionaires who have been stealing our wages and wealth for decades. We need a fair living wage, $20/hr at a base minimum ($15/hr in 2015 with inflation is now $20/hr), and it should be more than that.

I’m tired of the oligarchs skimming off our wealth to enrich themselves, leaving most of us barely managing to get by. I’m fucking sick of it.

Refund Trump’s tariff bullshit? Sure, fine, that’s not a bad start, but that’s a drop in the damn bucket.

Can you explain what you mean?

Thank you for your misplaced sarcasm. I am quite aware, friend. I have been seeing down votes for decades, warning people about the fascism that was coming. But thank you, you have judged me very well on one simple post and all of that time was for naught. I bow down to your superiority.

Oh yeah, I assume it’s that level of stupidity. Idiots in charge with zero concept of laws or IT or security.

“half joking”

“half joking”

/hj

My brain always reads this as “/handjob” and it breaks my brain for a sec. :)

My investigation into Alpha School also reveals that the massive amounts of data the company collects on students, including videos of them, is stored in a Google Drive folder that anyone with the link—even if they’ve left the company, or if it was sent to them—could access. In turn, that sensitive material is viewed by more Alpha School employees than students and parents may realize.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I’m gonna stop you right there with a huge huge WHAT the FUCK. That is an incredible decision to have made. Stunning.

I saw that Alpha School maintains a spreadsheet which contains a list of student names, their grade, and an archive of their recordings which shows what’s happening on their screen, their remote tutor, and a video of the student taken via their webcam. This spreadsheet is not only available to anyone at the company, but is also shared in such a way that anyone on the internet who has the link can access the spreadsheet and the videos of students.

“If I wanted to, I could go there and just watch students. Anybody who worked in this capacity could watch the videos of students working on their laptops,” one Alpha School employee told me. “So many hours of just students’ faces […] I’m not sure parents understand exactly what’s going on with that data […] I don’t think that this is clearly communicated, because I’m sure there’d be a lot more opt outs if it was.”

Wonder how many pedos work for the company.

https://archive.ph/XO6Pn

Dunno if that’ll be better, but I created it to see if it helped :)

I did more skimming than reading of the linked article because I don’t care that much abou tthe topic, but I just want to say: We need more of this journalism. THIS is what journalists should be doing so much more of. Calling out lies and specifically this is a great format for that.

Ahhhhhh, gotcha. Well, something like that can indirectly hurt because lower wages means shittier employees who care less and make crappier food slower. Many fast food locations across all the brands suffer from this. But if you have a good one with good service and food quality, it’s more likely you’ll patronize them.

For a long time I didn’t eat Burger King because the only ones near me were crappy. But we’ve moved to a place where we have one that’s decent, so it’s something I get very occasionally.

But yeah, most of fast food’s problem is the larger problem of companies in our country: Nobody can afford to buy anything. Or rather, at all levels, budgets are tighter. :)

The saddest part about our descent into fascism is that this story is no longer shocking, but merely infuriating.

It shows you how insular these people must be. That ad was the result of meeting after meeting, plan after plan. They had convinced themselves that the public would eat it up. We would be like “Holy shit that’s amazing, let’s give you ALL our data and video and privacy!”. They actually thought we would go for it. lol.

When I want to reply and tell someone to fuck off because I disagree with them, I try to remember the pleasant results of NOT doing that, so a reply like this helps me be a better person, thank you <3

Yeah, why are you two still here on my lawn‽ ;-)

Richard Simmons.

Y’know, I grew up making fun of him, but as I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized that homophobia isn’t funny, and the more I read about him, the more I realize he was generally a pretty sweet and caring dude trying to help people. All the hate he got was really unjustified. Our society sucks sometimes.