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Sep 29 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
there's two kinds of people who live #VanLife in San Francisco, afaict

folx who are abused by capitalism

and folx who are starting companies to abuse people with capitalism

one of modern capitalism's most horrifying things -- the reinvention of indentured servitude in the form of things like Lambda School/BloomTech, and its found Austen Allred, who's startup famous for living out of his car for a few months in front of the Safeway on Market St
allred previous worked as a manager at a payday loan company called LendUp

so yeah
and the ironic thing is, this is also a form of being abused by capitalism, because spending $100k is STILL cheaper than buying an apartment in SF

you'd have to spend at least a 10x more to do that

oh yeah also!

the indentured servitude stuff?

the debt that it comes with is also being securitized! its sold to investors, large portions of it going to hedge funds!

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ok I promised @kevinmarks and @NoraDotCodes a thread where I take p2p to task instead of indieweb and federation this time, so here goes!
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later tonight i'm gonna take indieweb to task
ok indieweb you get a reprieve for tonight, i'm going to sleep
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I promised @aaronpk and @jackyalcine a rundown of my critiques of federation so here goes~
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a lot of social media features have cryptographic implementations

cryptography is the secret ingredient of p2p tools
want an identity that you cant loose control off b/c of other people, one that you control entirely?

public key cryptography key pairs
want to be able to verify that messages real come from who they seem to come from?

digital signatures with public key cryptography
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I've now acquired two separate posters for the cyberpunk movie Strange Days (which you should absolutely go watch)

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like, the reverse side is literally just the front size but mirrored

what
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but the SONG? its like wtf
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