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#privilege

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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

"Normally we'd say that #Columbia University & those #law firms taking in tens or hundreds of millions of dollars annually are powerful. They're #rich, they're highly visible, but in their acquiescence they have proven they are weak rather than strong, that what is supposed to be their power is their accumulation of #privilege they are so afraid to lose they turn out to also be afraid to use. If you can't use it, it's not #power and you're not powerful."
meditationsinanemergency.com/p

Text from article: What's most striking to me about all this is the question of: what is power? Normally we'd say that Columbia University and those law firms taking in tens or hundreds of millions of dollars annually are powerful. They're rich, they're highly visible, but in their acquiescence they have proven they are weak rather than strong, that what is supposed to be their power is their accumulation of privilege they are so afraid to lose they turn out to also be afraid to use. If you can't use it, it's not power and you're not powerful. Or maybe it's that you can both accumulate power and spend it, and they're afraid to spend it. I think this is often the case with elites – they become hostage to their own privileges, so afraid of losing them they are acquiescent to whatever comes.
#USA#Politics
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SeaFury 🦜🍉

I was called out yesterday for stereotyping people who live in “Ravo” (a public housing area here in Launceston) I have been ruminating about it and have come to thr conclusion that I am a snob and I don’t want to be. I will try to be more aware of my privilege and prejudice 😳 #privilege

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Ben Royce 🇺🇦

@tarheel

yup

voting is part of the struggle to maintain your #rights

ignorance of the consequences comes from #privilege

nonvoters on the left are exactly like #MAGA this way: they don't know and they don't care how *they* are fucked

because what's important to nonvoters is masturbating their ego in an ivory tower of perfection, and if they don't get perfect, they feel #entitled to not #vote

utterly fucking ignorant to the fact they live in fucking reality and they are impacted, personally

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jowek

Recently read this text from Solidarity Apothecary about burnout in organizing and the class perspectives therein - focusing on organizing with middle class.

It was an eyeopener for me, and now im curious about learning more about hidden privileges, feelings of natural entitlement.

Does anyone have short, practical resources about organizing and the class perspectives?
And how to open up for transformative praxis?

johanweltzinkristensen.ukrudt.

#middleclass#organizing#privilege
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Wen

If anyone, anyone at all (?) was confused, the speaker has his nose well into the trough, a man who disregards parliamentary conventions (pretty much all they have In the place of rules) to suit whoever is in power.

Commons Speaker’s £180k bill for first-class flights and hotels. One trip to a luxury Cayman Islands resort by Lindsay Hoyle cost the taxpayer nearly £23,000

archive.today/2025.03.04-16593 (archived)

Photo: Lindsay Hoyle, wasting our money and his time
#UkPolitics#LindsayHoyle#HouseOfCommons
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LisPi
I kind of hate when people post comments assuming domain-specific knowledge from laymen such as "the fact people need to be told this is a little troubling to say the least".

It shows those people have not tried to even see how hard bootstrapping the knowledge they're assuming of others actually is, especially now that search engines have enshittified into uselessness and the hardware their comment pertains to no longer comes with useful manuals for their operation.

In a lot of cases, the knowledge also pertains to hacks for patching over design flaws & botched work that should've been done properly to start with (which would make said knowledge entirely obsolete as anything other than a curiosity).

It reeks of unacknowledged #privilege (and a heaping of normalization of deviance).
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LisPi
Apparently #consumergrade #SSDs do not actually do anything to make their volatile write-cache safe.

What kind of asshole decided this was a good idea? Fucking infrastructural privilege assumptions.

As it turns out, yes, a *lot* of consumergrade SSDs will lose flushed data on a power outage.

So that means unless one has the privilege to be able to afford a UPS or enterprise SSDs, one otherwise has to disable the cache (promptly getting rid of most of the performance).

Hardware designers, much like software designers, should be required to live in underprivileged shitholes before releasing anything intended for wide public use.

#SSD #InfrastructuralPrivilege #Privilege #Design #DesignFail
#designfail
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