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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • My understanding is that if you’re working in tech at GCHQ, you’re dealing with fossils—both your colleagues and the actual tech stack itself. Apparently any kind of meaningful change has to go through countless layers of scrutiny and review, taking weeks.

    You also need to basically nuke your social media and lie to your friends and family on the regular. Which IMO effectively means you need to be thinking about your job 24/7, and therefore are working 24/7.

    ~£40k isn’t even close to the low-water mark for an entry level job given all that IMO. If they want such a specialist skillset too, they’re probably gonna need to add a zero if they actually want to attract anyone good.

    There are even other parts of the government that don’t have all that baggage and pay more.





  • In a roundabout way yes I think it is

    Petrochemical companies are lobbying hard with politicians able to be bought because science is basically suggesting we essentially kill the entire industry off as expediently as possible—they are doing anything they can to stave that off for as long as they can, and they have a shitload of money to use on that goal.

    If a politician can be bought, particularly over something as urgent as climate change, they are clearly going to value personal success over collective success—which pretty much always leads to right-wing authoritarianism.

    Right-wing authoritarians are very good at propagandising rubes who don’t pay enough attention to the big picture when they’ve got the funds to do so.

    And here we are with the current situation.