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Aug 10, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
work just rolled out the official rules about "location-based compensation" and i am just having all sorts of feels about the ways this reinforces structural oppression, especially when coupled with an explicit push to slow/stop hiring in expensive markets (SF/NYC/SEA)
like, the upshot of all of this is that my cishet white dude coworkers are going to game the system by finding the cheapest suburbs they can move to that are still within the radius that puts them in a higher-tier city for comp purposes, bc their privilege lets them
May 4, 2019 • 46 tweets • 16 min read
Keynote 1: Shadeed Wallace-Stepter (Sha), starting off with a question. “How many people here are on probation or parole?” There are no hands. #pycon2019
Sha is an entrepreneur and OSS enthusiast who’s learned through Python.
A year ago, Sha was in San Quentin State Prison for assault with a firearm.
How did he get there, and how did he get here afterward?
“I definitely wasn’t born [a violent high schooler].” #pycon2019
