aberrate_junior_beatnik (he/him)

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  • I think you may be confused, partially because the article is written in a confusing way. It says Newsom condemns ordinances that prohibit homelessness without adequate shelter. This is a strange thing to write shortly after mentioning that he supports a recent supreme court ruling that allows ordinances that prohibit homelessness without adequate shelter. The article says that this is in keeping with a years long effort to get homeless people into shelters, but mentions nothing about any state support for building shelters. It does mention spending billions of dollars to clear homeless encampments, maybe in the hope you’ll assume this includes providing adequate services and shelter. It mentions an ordinance that targets homeless people who refuse shelter, but makes no mention of if the shelter being offered is adequate (one instance comes to mind where homeless people were offered one week of shelter if they gave up all their possessions. Reporting simply mentioned that only 8 percent accepted offers of shelter).

    The way corporate news reports on homeless people is systematically dehumanizing and frankly genocidal.

    Also: fuck Gavin Newsom. I hope a piano falls on him while he is walking down the street.




  • I feel like most of tech had already sold out by 2014. Really by the late aughts it seemed to be all gone; that was when apple and its philosophy had taken hold. Not that apple was the only force in that direction, it just felt like the apotheosis of the greedy and controlling mentality. MS had plenty of greed, but they were willing (in some circumstances) to play ball. Google seemed to love interoperability in the early-to-mid aughts, but look at it now.