My new work in this area is going to be about how to brace for what's coming and how to prepare for the recovery. We're no longer playing a prevention game. We're playing a mitigation game.
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UBI won't be here save us before automation thrashes 5 million jobs. Facebook isn't going to undo what it did.
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Tech companies have been contentedly listening to 101-level material for years, content to keep us there and prevent us from moving on.
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We're still on "diversity is the invitation, inclusion is being asked to dance" and we need to be on "we will never fully recognize the material benefits of diversity until unqualified white men are fired and removed from positions of power."
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We literally have almost 5000 people dead in Puerto Rico, Nazis murdering people in the streets, and cops murdering Black folks weekly and we're at "well racial tensions seem high."
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So I'm done giving talks about the dangers that may come and I'm going to focus on the dangers that are here and what comes next. And it's not pretty.
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Note the use of the word "unqualified" in this tweet. Not all white men yada yada okay?https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/1002994618013831169?s=19 …
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I'm over asking people to think of ethics and to have empathy. I'm at the point where I'm asking people to think about wildcat strikes and active exposure of crimes and unethical practices.
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And when I say "think about," I mean it in the same way I mean asking people to think about ethics. What would the world look like if that was a reality? Is that a world you'd want?
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Here’s a thread of you bragging about aiding the imperialist state. You still so proud?https://twitter.com/emilygorcenski/status/890203217073545216?s=21 …
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Not as proud as your ability to deliberately misread a thread. Keep tankin' tho.
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I was asked to give a short D&I talk at a conference last summer, and my talk was this: Don’t ask me to give D&I talks.Don’t wring your hands about how this can’t be solved. Reach inside of yourself for some shred of empathy and find your solutions, you who are the whole problem.
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This, I would love to help with. I agree with you on what's coming, and I wish to make sure we win and that there's something to survive after.
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