aspiring community builder/organizer, web master @ buoy software (ki/kin he/him) @tern@social.lol
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Ryan Ong ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ retweeted
We have to want the distribution of power and itโs uses for justice more than we want the protection power provides. We are watching the end result of what happens when oppressed people seek to use their power, just to never be oppressed again.
Ryan Ong ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ retweeted
2 reminders:
1) Many Jews are not zionists. Stop conflating the two. (Join us!)
2) Many zionists are not Jews. In fact, Christian Zionists have a huge and growing amount of power in America. (Christians, get your people)
Ryan Ong ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ retweeted
wondering how many AI engineers have heard of alvin lucier's "i am sitting in a room" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Sโฆ
Ryan Ong ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ retweeted
I faked my life for over a month using AI and made a video about it. Spoiler alert: I low key go insane
youtu.be/FRClNMC_z-s
Ryan Ong ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ retweeted
Linus Torvalds on how quickly git took off largely due to "the Ruby people, strange people." A classic. ๐
via @RubyWeekly
youtube.com/watch?v=0m4hlWx7โฆ
Ryan Ong ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ retweeted
Wow. Didnโt know Bo Burnham was a real one. Couldnโt be more relevant
Ryan Ong ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ retweeted
"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."
// Ursula Le Guin
Ryan Ong ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ retweeted
I just wrote a sentence in an email and realized it wasn't helpful there. But it was really good so I'm sharing it here.
"I think computers should be easy. Or at least I think there's no inherent virtue in computers being hard."
Ryan Ong ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ retweeted
Now this is how headlines should be written
ALT Billionaire Monopolist Jeff Bezos Is Buying Up Single-Family Homes to Rent-Trap Humanity Forever Why canโt people understand? Money-hoarding dragons will not stop until they are stopped From Jared A Brock
Ryan Ong ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ retweeted
i realized the nonprofit industrial complex was intended to keep people poor when i went from โtoken inner city kid benefiting from programsโ to person trying to take positions from white people in the nonprofits in the hood. the shift in how i was treated was intense lol
Ryan Ong ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ retweeted
Liberals tweeted all about kids in cages during the Trump presidency. But after 2020??? Problem over! The reality is that they never cared about immigration issues/kids in cages. A lot of them used those issues to build platforms & now everything is โback to normalโ.
Ryan Ong ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ retweeted
"I'm sure if you talk to white people a bit differently, they'll come around."
Do y'all even hear yourselves? Have you met white people?
Ryan Ong ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ retweeted
The human brain can only natively process two kinds of thinking:
1. Everyday physics
2. Village politics
Every other kind of problem must first be mapped into one of these two before you can think about it.
Ryan Ong ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ retweeted
These stories out of Highland Park about kids knowing exactly what to do when the shooting began, and guiding parents based on their active shooting drills, embody the burden of violence this next generation of kids endure because of the inaction of their elders
Ryan Ong ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ retweeted
Rich kids have one very important advantage in life: they see from early childhood how to find leverage and use money to free up time.
It's a crazy important skill for VC-backed founders and part of why the learning curve can be so steep for non-rich people (like how I grew up).
Ryan Ong ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ retweeted
Joe Biden is nominating an anti-abortion attorney to become a federal judge in Kentucky. When a future Republican POTUS appoints this fascist to the Supreme Court under the false pretense of bipartisanship, the entire Democratic establishment will blame progressives.
Ryan Ong ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ retweeted
Worth remembering that protest alone can never be effective against an explicitly and self-consciously anti-majoritarian political movement. They already know how you feel. You have to actually take their power away
