Testimonials about Courtney:
βI would trust Courtney to save my life.β β @bcj
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Fine, here's my insightful take on manhood:
How to tell if you're a man: Does it make you happy to think of yourself as one? If you're not sure, try it out. Take as much time as you need. Much love to you on this journey.
How to be a man: Think of yourself as one. If you feel safe doing so, tell other people.
How to be a good man: Be a good person while thinking of yourself as a man.
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not that this is wrong but I'd point out that adtech, self-driving, AI, and the gig economy demonstrate as well as crypto that capital intentionally and systematically seeks these frontiers to turn into a nightmarish maelstrom of abuse before the money dries up
RT @SilvermanJacob@twitter.com
I tell people that crypto is a free market in the sense of "free to be manipulated" (by whales, exchanges, and other big players) b/c there are no rules or oversight. It's not a free market in the sense of some unfettered or fairer version of capitalism. https://twitter.com/BTCTalks/status/1525761465000398848
π¦π: https://twitter.com/SilvermanJacob/status/1525783588519784448
βCare is a dimension of love, but simply giving care does not mean we are loving. Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundations of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusivelyβ -bell hooks
Were I as the head teacher, charitable proprietor, wise statesman, what
would it amount to?
Were I to you as the boss employing and paying you, would that satisfy you?
The learned, virtuous, benevolent, and the usual terms;
A man like me, and never the usual terms.
Neither a servant nor a master am I;
I take no sooner a large price than a small priceβI will have my own,
whoever enjoys me;
βYoung people in Europe and North America in particular, but increasingly throughout the world, are being psychologically prepared for useless jobs, trained in how to pretend to work, and then by various means shepherded into jobs that almost nobody really believes serve any meaningful purpose.β
- David #Graeber, #BullshitJobs
vent, anti-blackness
There's a certain dominant media cauldron of white moderates who take fascist greivance at face value, launder it by stripping out the most blatant dogwhistles, and continue to amplify racist ideas using more palatable rhetoric.
If someone uncritically forms their worldview based on such media, learns to excise anti-black terms from their vocabulary one-by-one, but does nothing to change their media consumption habits...I'm not sure that person actually ends up less racist.
Jock Dad of Friend Camp.