My guess is that the amount of money being shoveled into CS programs through amazon, the B&M Gates Foundation, and Meta research are shifting the focus of a cs degree away from understanding how computers work and towards how to simply program applications. This is reflected in the proliferation of using Java throughout the entire curriculum in multiple school, a language that allows the engineer to ignore the low level implications of what they are writing.
Worth mentioning that employees of ILM and the vfx industry in general view that film as propaganda to distract from the past decade of labor abuses they endured.
I’d suggest the fair middle ground is to loosen state power by defunding police departments and reinvesting in communities.
I keep seeing this sentiment voiced, but from a ground level looking up it comes off as closeminded because it implies that “riots” and “protesting” are different things. The reality is no one in portland tried to burn down the justice center, if they did they would be shot on sight. Whats happening is people are disrupting their societies to make a point to the people who run it that they’re doing a poor job. That’s a noble endeavor, no matter the means.
America’s founded on white supremacy, and America’s maintained white supremacy. I think it’s inspiring that people are targeting the police forces of their cities, who are in no uncertain terms the major enforcers of a rotten status quo.
>That’s a noble endeavor, no matter the means. America’s founded on white supremacy, and America’s maintained white supremacy.
That's fair. But understand that not everyone agrees with this, and will be willing to do what it takes to defend their way of life. What does the end-game look like?
