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MayInToronto

@MayInToronto@mstdn.ca

Dipped my toe into civics and now I care about stuff.

About me: Toronto is home. Former career nomad settling into building better tech companies. Genderfluid queerdo. Community educator and organizer. Spiritually aligned with FOSS. Truth and reconciliation. End settler colonialism.

Talks about: Toronto, politics, humanity, capitalist systems, food, life. Community. Intersectionality.

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philip_cardella , to random
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    @philip_cardella My cancer survivor friend goes through survivor's guilt constantly. My younger friend dying of cancer has come to terms with it.

    It's unfair to the survivors (your dad) and the memory of those who didn't make it to make this comparison. It doesn't do any good to those who are still alive.

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    Has anyone managed to use the CCPA (or GDPR?) to force Mailchimp to cough up a list of all the mailing lists you've been nonconsensually added to?

    MayInToronto ,
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    @pluralistic No, but you might find this interesting.

    I inherited a MailChimp mailing list. Did you know that if you unsubscribed from one such list, you stay on that overall list, but your status is unsubscribed?

    As the admin, I cannot remove the unsubscribed people unless I do it manually, and it's REALLY hard to pull a list with that flag.

    MayInToronto ,
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    @pluralistic To clarity, some of these unsubscribes happened YEARS ago. These numbers are after I last cleaned it up.

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    @michaelgemar @pluralistic I shouldn't be able to see their emails or details anymore. That data should be on the back end. Anonymized at the very least.

    MayInToronto ,
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    @michaelgemar @pluralistic Nefariousness is not the issue. These are bad product decisions, coupled with non-compliance with legal obligations with a total lack of regard for data privacy best practices (ie, deletion of inactive accounts).

    I mean, yeah, Meta's "disappointed" that their partners went and did bad things with the data they made available. The problem is that data being made available in the first place. Bad by lack of design is usually worse than being bad by design.

    MayInToronto , to random
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    A product leader recruitment firm asked me to share my understanding of product operations (what I do). https://www.mbassett.com/blog/decoding-product-operations/

    Capitalism aside, since most of us have to work for a living, wouldn't it be nice if we all had fewer blockers in the way to do the work we usually enjoy? Wouldn't it be nice to have more decision autonomy as a team?

    That's what I do. I build high trust B2B organizations that scales with and through your people.

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    Worst Marvel character ever.

    MayInToronto ,
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    @flexghost I spent a year in China as an adult and made friends with a sex shop owner.

    Turns out, he didn't know that condoms were for more than just contraception.

    With the one child policy and rampant sterilization, people would just have been fucking without protection. Combined with the complete lack of sex education in many parts of the country, this doesn't surprise me at all.

    flexghost , to random
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    Shark attacks? That’s so 2006

    Train derailments? So over it

    Shoddy airplanes? That’s yesterday’s news

    …but boats? That’s poppin

    If the news media were actual news then it wouldn’t be subject to trends.

    MayInToronto ,
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    @flexghost I'm waiting for the day that the news didn't happen, but AI reports something new since it's trending.

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    Every financial advice article: If you deprive yourself of all joys in life, then you can save up enough money to maintain your joyless lifestyle until you die.

    MayInToronto ,
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    @lowqualityfacts You will pry my avocado toast away from my cold, dead hands.

    MayInToronto , to random
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    I never thought I'd delete my account, but here we are. A part of me wonders if the employers are winning as a result of this .

    If you've missed the news:
    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/glassdoor-adding-users-real-names-job-info-to-profiles-without-consent/

    oatmeal , to israel group
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    🇨🇦 / Parliament to vote on motion backing Palestinian 🇵🇸 statehood

    […] Canadian legislators are due on Monday to vote on a non-binding motion backing Palestinian statehood that has drawn condemnation from and that could deepen splits inside the ruling Liberal Party.

    […] "Justin Trudeau could take bold steps for peace and justice, but he doesn't have the courage. That's why we brought a motion to force the Liberal government to finally help end this bloodshed," NDP leader Jagmeet Singh said in a statement, saying Palestinians and Israelis both deserve to live in peace.

    […] The motion calls on Canada to "officially recognize the State of Palestine" - a step that no member of the Group of Seven industrialised nations has taken - and suspend all trade in military goods and technology with Israel.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/canada-parliament-vote-motion-backing-palestinian-statehood-2024-03-18/

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/palestinian-statehood-motion-house-canada-1.7146032

    @palestine
    @israel

    MayInToronto ,
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    @oatmeal @israel How much more have they already authorized? Not symbolic indeed.

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    MayInToronto ,
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    @dillyd Drag queen or Burlesque dancer?

    MayInToronto ,
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    @dillyd @allenstenhaus My friend does this so she can wave around a fat stack of cash while poor.

    rbreich , to random
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    “We want to make sure that we’re not leaving any pricing on the table. We want to take as much as we can.”

    —CFO of Constellation Brands, producer of popular beers like Corona and Modelo

    Corporate price gouging has gotten so bad that they aren't even trying to hide it anymore.

    MayInToronto ,
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    @rbreich Many of us in the product world talk about value-based design and pricing. We do research, competitive analysis, and balance for customer satisfaction.

    It all gets thrown out when the people at the top want more. The goals change when your company moves from building a great product that people will keep paying for long term, to build the most profitable product that will extract the highest corporate valuation for our exit in 12-24 months.

    It's the main underlying cause of burnout.

    flexghost , to random
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    The teens of america are uniting!

    To end war? No

    To solve world hunger? Nope

    To stop congress from banning TikTok? Yep

    After the spyware… (ahem) after the app supplied users with numbers to call, one teen threatened “I promise you do not ban TikTok. If you want a January 6th riot, that's what's going to happen. Don't do it”

    …this, after giving their full name and address at the start of the call
    (Via Politico)

    And the calls keep coming

    We’re about to see the wackiest uprising ever 🇺🇸

    MayInToronto ,
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    @flexghost Banning Tiktok isn't going to solve the underlying issue that consumers have no privacy protection, and these businesses are allowed to make and profit from these highly addictive products, while profiting from addiction.

    Fix and enforce privacy laws. Regulate addictive products and addiction by design. Limit the power of a single corporation through antitrust policies.

    But they won't do that.

    MayInToronto ,
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    @flexghost I feel like that's so much of what politics are these days, except the policies that hurt people. 😢

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    7 chapters in - damn if doesn't read @pluralistic 's like he is Marty Hench. This story has me looking for corners to hide in and keep listening!

    MayInToronto ,
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    @no_spoon @onmywalk I had this same conversation with someone else yesterday about where to find @pluralistic 's audio books.

    Then I found his fantastic article on Amazon/Audible's monopoly on the audiobook market. https://doctorow.medium.com/why-none-of-my-books-are-available-on-audible-83cb182f2f91

    Super worth reading.

    rbreich , to random
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    It's my old boss's birthday. Here's why I'm not celebrating

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMZKegjJurk&ab_channel=RobertReich

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    @rbreich This was so well done.

    MayInToronto , to random
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    A great piece on Ubers in Toronto by @pluralistic. https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/29/geometry-hates-uber/#toronto-the-gullible

    What a line.
    "These "conservative" mayors – the philanderer, the crackhead, the sexual predator – turned the city into a corporate playground, swapping public housing and rent controls for out-of-control real-estate speculation and trading out some of the world's best transit for total car-dependency."

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    @philip_cardella A useful thing to understand is legislation and policies.

    Smaller companies are more reliant on individuals, but as they become huge, organized labour becomes more like a challenger than a partner, driving up costs and negotiating fairer wages.

    Preventing monopolization is great for society and labour. A publicly traded company is required to pull in maximum benefit (profit) for their shareholders, so they're almost required to fight labour.

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    MayInToronto ,
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    @philip_cardella Manual receipts in 2024. Hilarious.

    MayInToronto , to random
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    I went to hang out with the local rainbow seniors group this afternoon. One trans woman spoke about transitioning in the 70s and the problems she had to go through to get there, but 50 years later, she's still here and loving life as her authentic self.

    It's so important that we have these spaces to have intergenerational conversations. These stories are lost forever if we don't talk to each other.

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