Bjørn Stærk @bjornstark@octodon.social
I write when I can, and code when I need money. Oslo, Norway. http://bearstrong.net
I can't believe I had this conversation...
RECRUITER
Blah-blah exciting opportunity blah-blah dynamic environment...
ME
Enough. I agreed to meet you and stay in touch because your firm has helped me before, but it's time to dispense with the pretenses. My job is bullshit. Your job is bullshit. The job you're pitching is bullshit. There is no reason I should give up the bullshit job I currently hold and interview for a new bullshit job.
I'm in Utrecht this month. So of course we had to get hold of some rusty cheap bikes. https://octodon.social/media/YBj0LBVr43NSQfa4_84
Half of writing is not writing stupid things. The other half is editing out the stupid things I've written before they get published.
Jeg skriver at vi må redesentralisere nettet, og ta det tilbake fra Facebook, Google og andre store nettselskaper: https://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikk/i/MgaK30/Vi-ma-ta-internett-tilbake--Bjorn-Stark
Hey, I've got another blog post up on Medium, and it's another I think y'all might like. It's all about the centralization of power on the internet and how that basically sucks for everyone!
https://medium.com/tootsuite/the-centralization-of-power-on-the-internet-bfd8841620ee
If you wanna take a look, I'd really appreciate it :)
How far you get with two hours on the train:
Denmark - Across the country
Sweden - Between two major cities
Norway - From Oslo to a bit beyond the commuter towns
Har anmeldt Jordan Petersons selvhjelpsbok, fordi kulturkrigen spiser alt. https://joindiaspora.com/posts/c2deae50fc57013526ff0242ac110003
"Like the faithful who tell you Christianity is “a religion of love” that had nothing to do with the Inquisition, Pinker stipulates that the Enlightenment, by definition, is intrinsically liberal."
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2018/02/unenlightened-thinking-steven-pinker-s-embarrassing-new-book-feeble-sermon
are you having trouble sleeping?
have you tried staring into the soothing blue light of the TERROR RECTANGLE for hours on end?
"The problem is not that we need a slightly better Facebook. It’s that Facebook—a company worth $400 billion because it vacuums up information about our tastes, our shopping habits, our political beliefs, and just about anything else you might think of—is too powerful in the first place."
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604082/we-need-more-alternatives-to-facebook/
Anonymity expert @jhirshon has kept his face offline for two decades.
Find out how he avoids detection by the omniscient internet in this week’s episode of IRL: https://irlpodcast.org/episode11/?utm_content=buffer25328&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer source: https://twitter.com/mozilla/status/965733895042994186
Pretty amazing how times change. I spent the evening playing board games, and watching Let's Play videos, and listening to music.
But when they were my age, my parents were spending every evening in the darkened woods outside of town, bodies daubed in mud, hunting the Shadow Wolves that regularly raided our village, coming back each night to me and my brother with their breath smelling of blood and that peculiar hallucinogenic tea that was brewed from the the humming mushrooms that grew under the floorboards of our home and whose music lulled us to sleep each evening.
New blog post: "This Isn’t About Social Media. This is About Control." https://medium.com/tootsuite/this-isnt-about-social-media-this-is-about-control-112dea8a21fd
Aker brygge, #Oslo, December 2017.
I've known for a long time that half of everything I believe is wrong. The problem is that I never know which half.
From a practical point of view, I do of course understand how difficult it would be to confiscate weapons from millions of angry, armed assholes. It probably won't be fun to knock on the door of some angry asshole to take their weapon away. I really don't know the best way to carry this out, considering how angry all the armed assholes will be.
Lutvann, #Oslo.
A few thoughts on tech-worker-redemption stories that - in the end - only serve to further cement their problematic dominance in intrinsically political discourses. http://ift.tt/2Cg8day
"Revolusjonen trenger ikke færre giljotiner. Den trenger snarere at vi maksimerer antallet giljotiner." https://www.nrk.no/ytring/datatilsynet_-se-til-facebook_-1.13895132
