Free_Appalachia

Enough of this. This is one of the dumbest takes Gelderloos has had and there are a lot of dumb takes he has put forth. He can join Chomsky in the pile of anarchist authors doing more harm than good. He had one good essay on non-violence and it mostly served as a way to help cancel Ward Churchill, whose Pacifism as Pathology is just much better. Use your critical thinking skills on this one. Global warming is anthropogenic and your consumerist behaviors have always driven these things. At any time we could have been like, what I have is enough for me, but we didn’t we bought the new iphones and the new jordans and every other dumb thing the billionaires sold us, when all we really needed was reliable food, shelter and clothing. Now we are buying their AI while having the audacity to be mad they are building the datacenters. Stop. We are the problem and we could have changed our behavior, but we didn’t. Now the earth is being ravaged for the lithium for your e-bike when a regular bike worked just fine (if you are disabled and need an e-bike you are excluded from this critique, because you aren’t forming the destructive trend I am talking about by using a mobility device), rare earths for your phones and computers and trees to build mansions nobody needs to live in, but everybody wants anyway. Our insatiable hunger for bullshit is why we are here in this climate catastrophe that will never get better, only worse. If we all keep clinging to shit like this to pass the buck onto just one or two humans we are actually just outsourcing our own power to said people. Take personal responsibility and collective responsibility and organize together and do better, or stop whining when somebody identifies humans as the parasites. It has nothing to do with colonialism or eugenics, because I will go further and say white people are the parasites… Whiteness is the disease and if you want to fix this shit, don’t whitewash yourself to fit into their disease of a culture. Gelderloos is simply giving cover for the whitewashing of the world, whether that’s his intention or not. Enough is enough.

If you are looking for stuff to financially support specifically, I think sites that handle leaks are probably your best bet. They always need money between all the legal shit and the infrastructure that requires.

I think what people are trying to tell you in a more pedantic way, is that all media is biased, because all people are biased and all that unbiased really will mean is that the authors share your same bias and blind spots, so it will look fair, when you don’t understand the ways that it might affect somebody with a different perspective. Even reporting strictly facts has the bias of what facts were not included. It’s impossible to include all facts in a story about something, so the only way to get an accurate perspective is to collect experiences. The pictures people in gaza take of their lives will always give you a better perspective of what is happening than the news organization that doesn’t want to unfairly represent anybody. So accept bias as part of media. Try to find your own blind spots in that exploration. To that end it doesn’t so much matter what you read, but how you read.

404media has some deep blind slots in regard to racism and it’s relationship to surveillance. They don’t seem to fully understand that surveillance isn’t just about coercing people to follow laws, but that as identities are criminalized more and more, it is about making people feel uncomfortable supporting and standing up for the people in targetted groups. I feel like this comes from having a predominantly cis//white perspective that forms the understanding of this issue. Just my opinion.

Productivity is such a bullshit idea… Like how do you measure productivity? In GDP? Because in that sense, inflation increases productivity (nevermind that what that really means is that more money moved around simply because everything costs more). Or are you measuring units shipped? What units? In what way could these be equivalent. Output for outputs sake is the definition of bullshit jobs. Most of this productivity people talk about is actually just meaningless toiling for meaningless output. We aren’t building homes or harvesting food or in any way bettering our lives, we are toiling towards tricking rocks into being forced to suffer consciousness or something as closely approximating that as possible. Leave the pretty rocks alone and do something useful, for something other than GDPee growth. In what way is making the number go whirrrrr worth destroying the biosphere? Nobody is happy. The rich are miserable because as it turns out even being the first person to a trillion net worth can’t fill the dad shaped hole in your heart and the poor are miserable because meaningless toil is not a great recipe for fulfillment. This whole system up to and including AI needs to go full sui, so we can get back to picking fleas of eachother’s backs… Or you know, whatever the fuck you feel like doing when society doesn’t have a gun to your head.

Why not get a lenovo for 1/4 the price and either install linux or buy one from them that ahips with linux… I always go on ebay, get a used thinkbook or some such device (dells have also been easy to put linux on), that way I’m not paying money for the windows license that I have no use for. It’s not that hard to put linux and it will have much easier compatibility with your other devices. Mac will lock you into the mac ecosystem and in a few weeks you’ll be back on here for iphone recommendations, because your macbook says fuck you to anything not apple related. Apple is a lifestyle brand. They want you running around with the apple watch and the iphone and this and that “smart,” device and there is just no room for your linux or android compatibility if you want to be in the mac club. It’s really just a cult.

The word “alleged,” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. If this was about antifa doing something sketchy, somehow nobody would be thinking about how to word things to avoid a libel suit.

Not using it as an insult has only allowed liberals to temporarily cosplay anarchism before betraying the real reason they get involved in things, which is to convince people voting for their Blue MAGA candidate will some how be a lesser evil and it never is.

I have been able to install ad blockers into Chromium, but I can remember if I had to change something somewhere. The point is, that it can be done… But overall I do agree that we Chromium is not fine overall. It needs to be forked to have full community control. FF has been forked a lot and I think that is the only reason we currently have functional browsers. Apparently this is a big problem, because you don’t see other much work in this area apart from servo, which would be great if it could get enough traction to be a full blown browser soon. I will switch on day 1.

Google is mask off now. It’s 100% a spyware company and jn AmeriKKKan crapitalism, caveat emptor.

Could we get a non YouTube link, since YouTube is owned by google and is causing the problem discussed by this video?

It’s funny, I hadn’t noticed, maybe because any site aleeady using reCAPTCHA or cloudflare alreadt gets blocked by my ad blocker… If those sites can’t do better on their own, its just another thing you don’t need. This is kind of a nothing burger. Stay strong and let google commit suicide.

Fascism is here. It requires no acceleration. I am talking about sabotaging it, not accelerating towards some unknown end. I don’t think it serves anybody to pretend the democrats are just failing at socialism and not actually also in favor of fascism (which is their actual position). People went looking for the solution to Neoliberalism and as is the historical precedent, they landed on fascism. That already happened. That is not something that may happen in the future. So currently the appropriate response to this strengthening and consolidation of fascism is to try to sabotage that process any way you can… Even if it hurts everyday people at times. We are no longer in the battle for hearts and minds, we lost that battle in the US. We are in the resistance and sabotage stage and from your response, I am reminded that people still don’t seem to know that yet for some reason. I knew that when Elon gave the Nazi salute and Democrats came out of the woodwork to defend that. Helping fascism limp along helps nobody. We need to give it’s collapse a hand. While fascism’s biggest enemy is the misery of the conditions it creates on its own. Left to fail on its own could take a century or more. I don’t have that kind of time, because for me and the people I know enduring some of the worst parts of this, we need this to end much more quickly. Economics is the best way you could choose to fight that unless you just want to armchair forever as it seems supposed leftists are quite content to do. Progressives are being pummeled and all they ever have done when they win elections is just not accelerate fascism, but look where we are. We currently have concentration camps… If thats progressives winning leave me out of that bullshit.

Most corporate social media is already overrun with AI slop. Even Mastodon has too much slop for me. People don’t seem to mind as much as we do over here on the fediverse and even that is a gross generalization, because most people here don’t seem to mind it anywhere near as much as I do… They just are data center nimbys. So, my guess, to be honest, is people will just engage with it the same way they do with other content for 90% of people. Maybe 10% get disgusted and leave. The children pine for the crypto mines.

I think the more economic harm this does, the better. Trump can’t expand an empire that can’t hold itself up under the weight of his stupid decisions. Does it hurt us back here in the US? Absolutely it does. But this is the politics we have done everything in our power not to change, so I think we clearly need to be hurting as a result of our decisions if we want any chance of people starting to make different ones. This pain is nowhere near deep enough yet, despite the fact that GDP adjusted to consider inflation has been worse than flat. Despite the impending bond market collapse. Despite the K shaped economy and the very clear AI pump and dump that will become a dump any day now. We are on the precipice of several unavoidable economic crises in the US… We will not see different decisions until people stop making money from the things that are a cash cow for them currently. AI is being hyped as having the ability to change our lives and everything will be better (despite only apparent negative consequences visible so far)… Eventually that is going to fall out, just like crypto did. People should be heading for the proverbial hills, but they aren’t. AmeriKKKa has been propped up for so long by subsidies for oligarchs that we can sort of coast through a crisis for a while before being forced to course correct. I would say we have reached the confluence of these crises already and the gas prices just make all of these crises intensify more quickly. The sooner it crumbles… The sooner we can change it. So I think this coasting we are doing now, actually serves to make for a much deeper crisis later. For those of us that know that nothing will get better until we can knock down all of these structures first, that is a good thing. To those who were hoping to retire with what used to be the AmeriKKKan standard of living… Probably might want to consider moving to a country with single payer healthcare and standards of decency for their citizens. Our prioritization of capital has ensured that the people in the US will have no safety net while all of the systems they thought they could rely on violently collapse. I’d be pulling my money out now if I hadn’t already done that when Trump got elected. Everything they do is a pump and dump that relies on you following them into bad investments that they get out of once sufficiently pumped and you get left with a bunch of worthless stock or crypto or whatever. Gas prices are going to be the least of your worries soon.

baahahahahahahahaha. oh… uh. Wait, are we the joke?

This looks really rad. I have been trying to build a leftist search engine using searxng and it has a lot of issue because of things getting blocked over tor due to the amount of background requests you have to be making to those sites. I have thought about building something like this to deal with that issue, but just had my hands full with other projects. Quite obviously the use case is people looking to build their own privately indexed search results without it having to get polluted by shit that comes up in other search engines. This project looks really cool and I am going to look into replacing my searxng instance with this soon.

I think they have just hit that point where the denial is unnecessary really. They still do it out of reflex and as part of the admit nothing doctrine all modern Nazis subscribe to as just part of how they grind down opposition. It’s not so much about hiding the crimes now, because the entire world order is complicit in these crimes. Stopping Israel would be stopping the entire global capitalist hegemony. They know this on their end, so it’s really just that low effort because that’s all that is required of them.