Joe Bowser

Life update: I had to take an Engineering Management job to pay my bills. It’s far from ideal, but any port in the storm that is the shittacular Vancouver Tech Labour Market!

Trans people need to be careful about talking about DIY. Yes talk about it in the general sense, quote the facts and figures but be careful. Don't give away sources to cis folks. Don't talk to journalists about the details. They're coming for it.

What in the ever living fuck.

Man Knows Exactly Which Asshole Got Him Sick

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The real 🫖☕️ on the Tea app is that it was a privacy disaster from jump + a terrible idea... because of the data industrial complex and lack of federal privacy protections in the US.

@liaholland.bsky.social , Communications + Campaigns Director (and resident cat lady at Fight) breaks it down.

Horst Mahler, a German Holocaust denier who was once a far-left militant, dies at 89 He helped found the Red Army Faction, which killed 34 people and injured hundreds in a campaign against what members considered U.S. imperialism and capitalist oppression of workers.

Horst Mahler, a member of the ‘70s German armed group Red Army Faction, but who later became a neo-Nazi, has died.
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Communication is a fundamental human right. Like a universal human right…

Billboard that says Elon fears Bannon’s truth, unban bannon on x

normal stuff happening on Texas billboards

I mean, Microsoft also invented the XHR, so that was definitely a huge plus. As much as monopolies suck, there’s definitely major value in being the adult in the room.

In retrospect, I think that Internet Explorer was one of the best things to happen to the web, since before it existed, the most popular browser was run by bigots.

Funny, this is how I view Andreessen-Horowitz and their peers

Thousands of sex workers are being swept up in targeted ICE raids of massage parlors and abducted off streets with the help of facial recognition. Law enforcement is using the threat of deportation to commit widespread sexual assault.

But the larger immigrant rights movement is shunning them.

“WhatsApp increases group chat size limit to oddly specific 256”

to all 25 year olds arguing about niche micro-identity politics on the internet: they got all kinds of cool stuff outside. you can see a bird or even buy a seltzer out there. Adventures Await, Outside

As always, ACAB and FTP

The people I actually know, in real life, who listen to Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson are 45 and think they're 22, which explains a lot of things.

America’s Incarceration Rate Is About to Fall Off a Cliff Long sentences and recidivism kept prison populations high for decades, but prisons are now starting to empty.

"The principal political barrier to closing half-full prisons is the power of public-sector unions." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Atlas of Surveillance just added 80 agencies in Oregon, Texas and Washington that are using Flock Safety automated license plate readers. Plug in your city or county to see what surveillance tech cops in your area are deploying.

Debris From SpaceX Explosion, Landing in Mexico, Draws Investigation Mexican environmental activists say detritus raining down from Elon Musk’s rocket company has caused die-offs of marine life.

President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico is considering taking legal action after one of SpaceX’s giant Starship rockets disintegrated in June in a giant fireball. The explosion rained down detritus on beaches in northern Mexico and, environmental groups say, caused die-offs of marine life.

AI Killed My Job: Tech workers Tech workers at TikTok, Google, and across the industry share stories about how AI is changing, ruining, or replacing their jobs.

AI is being used to justify firing workers at major tech companies, leaving those that remain to pick up the pieces.

AI code is being shoveled into crucial Google products, replacing trainers at TikTok, and worse.

This, in tech workers' own words, is how AI is killing jobs in Silicon Valley.

Canada must re-examine Safe Third Country Agreement w/U.S. How can we call U.S “safe” for asylum seekers? We should reassess Canada-U.S. refugee policy, Protect affected families, Defend human rights. The travel ban took effect June 9, 2025. Canada must not remain silent. 3/ #HumanRights

Bill C-5 undermines the democratic process, the rights of Indigenous Peoples, the rights and safety of workers, and critical environmental protections.

The NDP opposes this bill in its current form.

Read all the problems associated with Bill C-5 here:

If LAPD is telling you they don't want to take part in your fuckup you have fucked up in ways that defy human comprehension

Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74 Atkinson’s gleeful brilliance helped people draw on computer screens and access information via links.

Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74 www.wired.com/story/bill-a... #macintosh #apple #hypercard #retrocomputing #RIP

When you read the article, it’s clear that there’s no actual opposition. Instead there’s the fact that no company is asking for this pipeline. Eby is literally owned by Oil and Gas.

His owners allowed him to say that? Or did he just say nothing?

What is policy rationale the government is using to justify warrantless access to information about subscribers and inspection of ISP systems for interception capabilities in Bill C-2?
According to the department brief, combatting organized crime and fentanyl.
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