A graphic filled with photos of the women employees of Alternative Technologies, with text that reads, “What if your tech support support company was 42% women?”

What if your tech support company was as well-known for emotional intelligence as for finding solutions?

What if your tech support company hired employees based on their ability to listen?
What if your tech support company was 42% women?

#IT #Technology #TechSupport #NPtech #Cooperative

Supreme Court could ban counting of late arriving mail-in ballots California’s top election official says a ruling to stop election officials from counting late-arriving ballots would “disenfranchise millions.”

California’s top election official says a ruling to stop election officials from counting late-arriving ballots would “disenfranchise millions.”

Being pro-democracy shouldn't end at the workplace.

Support democratic businesses to fight for a world that grants everyone a voice in the decisions that affect them.

Worker Co-ops: www.usworker.coop/directory/

Food Co-ops: grocerystory.coop/food-co-op-d...

Worker co-ops rising in the USA Worker co-ops and democratic workplaces in the USA have grown 34% since 2020 while more than doubling their workforce

Worker cooperatives are growing. As democratic workplaces, they offer an alternative form of organization where each worker has one vote.

If you are pro-democracy, remember to support democracy in our economy. Combat the concentration of wealth and power by supporting democratic businesses.

A graphic filled with photos of the women employees of Alternative Technologies, with text that reads, “What if your tech support support company was 42% women?”

What if your tech support company was as well-known for emotional intelligence as for finding solutions?

What if your tech support company hired employees based on their ability to listen?
What if your tech support company was 42% women?

#IT #Technology #TechSupport #NPtech #Cooperative

Hector sees the problem: it is unplugged

#HeccSupport
#CatsofTechSupport
#catsky
#WFH
#TechSupport

Alysa Liu image credit: YantsImages | CC BY-SA 4.0
Lunar New Year image credit: Rhododendrites | CC BY-SA 4.0

raphic. Two gold framed images: a Lunar New Year dragon and Alysa Liu at her podium ceremony in a gold skate dress wearing her gold medal and holding the American flag behind her arms. Banner at top reads, “Bay Area Proud.” Text at bottom reads, “Oakland Lunar New Year Parade, Saturday February 28, 2026, 10am. At back is a red shimmery texture.

Is there anything more BAY AREA than ALYSA LIU, Olympics gold medal champion, ON A FLOAT with her parents the Oakland Chinatown LUNAR NEW YEAR PARADE?!?!
We are so here for this moment.

#LunarNewYear #AlysaLiu #WinterOlympics #MilanCortina #FigureSkating #Oakland #Chinatown #TheTown #BayArea

#MilanCortina #MilanoCortina #FigureSkating #AlysaLiu #BayArea #Oakland #TheTown

Screenshot of a post by Overheard LA. Text reads, "Everyone in the bay area watching Alysa Liu." Photo shows Joey from friends pointing at a television on which we can see Alysa Liu in her gold medal Olympic figure skating performnce.

Don’t miss this gripping story and essential piece of history!

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#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #BlackFutures #NASA #Space #SpaceHistory #Friendship7 #MoonLanding #HiddenFigures #Math #Computers #Mathematics #Technology #TechnologyHistory #History #BlackWomenLead #NPtech

Katherine Goble was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015, and NASA dedicated the Langley Research Center's Katherine Johnson Computational Building in her honor the following year.

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A movie epilogue notes that Mary Jackson obtained her degree and became NASA's first Black woman engineer; Dorothy Vaughan continued on as NASA's first African American supervisor; and Katherine Goble performed calculations for the Apollo 11 and Space Shuttle missions.

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...performing mathematical calculations and later operating an IBM 7090 electronic computer. Hidden Figures covers their pivotal roles in launching and landing Friendship 7, the first crewed American orbital spaceflight.

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Starring Janelle Monáe, Taraji P. Henson, and Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures tells the story of Katherine Goble, who works at Langley Research Center in Virginia, in 1958 through 1961, alongside her colleagues Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan, as human "computers..."

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Movie screenshot. Actor Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Goble Johnson stands on a tall ladder drawing a mathematical diagram on a blackboard.

Let’s make some noise for Black women in technology history this Black History Month!

🍿We're here with a movie recommendation: HIDDEN FIGURES (2016)(PG)(HBO and Hulu).

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#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackFutures #NASA #Space #Math #Mathematics #Computers #Technology #History #BlackWomenLead #NPtech

This week in Oakland: Black Joy Parade, and the immersive show ‘Astronomica’ at Chabot Space and Science Center Black Joy Parade, the immersive show ‘Astronomica’ at Chabot Space and Science Center, Kelly Green Quartet at The Sound Room, and more.

Other events include an exhibit and poetry night at EastSide Arts Alliance, trivia in Old Oakland, a book conversation about flying at Clio’s and the Kelly Green Quartet at The Sound Room.

People who immigrate to the U.S. come here to find safety and opportunity and contribute to our communities.

We should be welcomed with dignity, not demonized.

Gung Hay Fat Choi! Happy Lunar New Year!

A brown cat with its mouth side open lays across a laptop computer.

You must respect the wishes of work stoppage cat.

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Photo. Sakamoto Kaori executing a backward cross-legged turn with arms extended. She is wearing a skate outfit which starts out light blue and the shoulders and deepens into navy blue at the skirt. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/David W. Carmichael CC BY-SA 3.0

We’re technically proficient, emotionally intelligent, and ready to take your call.

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#Olympics #WinterOlympics #MilanoCortana #FigureSkating #TaraLipinski #SakamotoKaori #KaoriSakamoto #TechSupport #Technician #Technology #NPtech #ItsAllConnected

Here at Alternative, we focus our hiring not just around technical skills, but also around people skills. In Olympics figure skating scoring terms, we aim to help you with an excellent grade of execution.

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Unless we're talking about an Alternative Technologies technician – in which case they are punctual, kind, and incredibly focused on solving your problem.

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Which… what does that mean? We've all had experiences with technicians coming to our office or home. A technician can be brilliant or unresponsive; helpful or clueless.

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Photo. Kaori Sakamoto executing a spin with one leg fully aloft held up by her left hand. She is wearing a black leotard outfit and white skates. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/Phantom Kabocha, CC BY 4.0

We've been watching Olympics figure skating, and commentator Tara Lipinski keeps saying about certain skaters, as she did about Sakamoto Kaori, "she's a technician.”

#Olympics #FigureSkating #TaraLipinski #SakamotoKaori #KaoriSakamoto #TechSupport #Technician #Technology #NPtech

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A photo of Bad Bunny during the Grammy awards with his face in his palms and text reads “owner with no business succession plan” and a photo of him holding three Grammy awards and smiling with text that reads “owner after converting the business to a worker cooperative with ex employees” text over each awards reads “worker safety for all, legacy preservation, calm retirement”

29% of the 242 cooperatives we surveyed originated as a conversion, when a traditional business transitions ownership to a #WorkerCooperative.

For more info about conversions and worker co-ops in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, download our 2025 State of the Sector report: www.usworker.coop/census/

A Door Open 24/7: Investing in Young Adults at the TAY Health & Wellness Center On February 2, San Francisco opened a new door of support for young adults experiencing homelessness. In partnership with GLIDE, community…

San Francisco has opened a new door of support for young adults.

The TAY Health & Wellness Center now operates 24/7, providing a safe, welcoming place for young people experiencing homelessness to rest, connect with staff & access pathways to stability.

Read more:
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Alright, this is way freaking cool:

"Facial recognition creates a broad, warrantless hoard of surveillance data that can instantly be weaponized for intimidation and oppression. It has no place in a free society and we will continue to fight to see it banned in every arena..."

NEW: Senator Ed Markey just introduced a critical bill that would ban ICE and CBP from buying or using facial recognition technology to go after our communities.

Congress must pass the ICE Out of My Face Act and use their funding power to rein in these out-of-control agencies.