nykula
@nykula@piefed.social
- Comment on UK Universities Are Smashing Humanities and Arts Subjects to Pieces 1 week ago:
I hope humanities subjects find more way into STEM programs. I’m finishing my English degree this year (working part-time as a programmer and teacher), and it’s the first time I find working towards a diploma actually prevents brain rot rather than causes it.
- Comment on The most useless website in Britain (Parliament Petitions) 4 months ago:
In the authoritarian playbook, one of the most important things is to continuously demonstrate to masses that they’re incapable of handling their own matters.
In case of petitions websites, I think they’re meant as an outlet for people to channel energy into so that they don’t have any left to organize politically for real change. People do intuitively understand this and largely stay away, leaving a few loons with time on their hands to repeatedly fill the platforms with garbage.
- Comment on UK Ranked Second-Worst Place in Western Europe for LGBTI+ Rights 5 months ago:
The exact chosen letters in the article are likely from the name of the organization mentioned, International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, which started as ILGA and added letters later.
- Comment on NHS ordered to share patient data with US ‘spy-tech’ firm 6 months ago:
Having a centralized, easy-to-leak database of everyone in the country with stigmatized diagnoses is overall a scary thing that privacy advocates should keep fighting against, in places where it still hasn’t been implemented.