Reason number 5,386 to delete your Reddit account and encourage your friends & loved ones to do the same.

and incidentally, reason number 5,386 to make your online profiles hard to track down without actual active measures (like NSA attention).

[…] allegedly throwing an improvised incendiary device that ignited part of an exterior gate before fleeing the scene on foot.

The suspect was ultimately located about an hour later near OpenAI’s headquarters, roughly 4.8 kilometres (three miles) away, where he was allegedly threatening to set the building on fire.

ngl disappointing performance. If you’re going to do an adventurism by yourself, which I generally don’t advocate for tactical reasons, then at least make it worth the prison time.

Defenestrit

Do diplomacy by shouting in public and assuming the message will reach your enemy.

You may not like it, but this is what peak transparency looks like

Art of the Squeal

“Left-Right” isn’t really a cohesive model of politics, but it’s a hard sell for any form of capitalism to be considered left of socialist economics. Like PugJesus said, you’ve generally described modern social democracy (not to be confused with democratic socialism). It’s an improvement, but still a long way away from ‘left of left’.

This seems utopian, akin to one saying “participating in wage labour empowers capitalists - working most jobs is still evil”.

What is the point of such abstract declarations? I’m an anti-capitalist because I want to improve the world, not to be “good” or “correct” or some other philosophical purity; “the point is to change it”.

This is how ancient communal villages worked btw

Adblockers have been mentioned a hundred times, as they should.

Annual reminder to donate to Invidious too. YouTube has done some serious work to try and block most of the instances.

It seems to me like many have arrived from huge mainstream sites and don’t realize that the fedi is actually pretty big. There are many thousands of us, just look at this community’s stats alone!

When you’ve explored beyond the core of the internet and found websites where there truly are dozens of you, it’s much more calm and communal (or as screentime enthusiasts would call it, slow and ded). I actually was on Lemmy back when there were mere hundreds of us, when many were yearning for the day when reddit would shoot its own foot and bring people here. So I’m very grateful that there aren’t dozens of us! Welcome!

That’s it, I’m deleting the internet

Someone posted an image that says “Verify you are human”, with the test being “I stand with Palestine”.

The implication is that those who do not, are not human.

Yes, joking about how Zionist scum (and apathetic people) lack humanity is dehumanization. The image is very literally saying some is not human if they don’t stand with Palestine.

And to recap what I said, this isn’t some moral objection - death to the Zionist Regime and those who empower it. The problem is that dehumanization of humans is an anti-materialist delusion, which has historically led to underestimating enemies.

Oh hey, my anniversary is coming up.

For base daily driver on desk and lap, just a stable standard beginner friendly distro. I’ve customized it a lot, added custom hotkey scripts here and there, but it’s so close to base that a stranger could use it. VMs for anything specialist, a couple of portable USB distros for presentation/demo/one-purpose OS environments, but for the most part I’ve just kept it simple and clean.

I’ll slapfight that, because that’s a waste of time and water.

No, it isn’t standing with Palestine, nor standing against it. It’s simply pointless and a tactical error.

Dehumanizing is a mistake that the Nazis made, leaving them vulnerable to their own propaganda. They expected all their victims to be sneaky, cowardly and inferior, and they paid for that mistake.

Dehumanizing the new wave of fascists leaves us open to the same mistake.

The people committing genocide in Palestine are human, and it’s important for us to stop them by any means necessary, including killing them.

Unfortunately it initially made me think of the red triangle badges in Nazi Germany’s concentration and extermination camps.

huh, guess my habit for picking smaller indie providers is paying off.

And eventually, maybe they’ll even tell their old people friends about it. I can definitely see one of my mom’s friends complaining about how slow their computer is, and my mom saying “well my son put this Linux stuff on our computer, and it sped everything right up” and then boom you got old people getting curious about it too.

That’s a good point. If we’ve reached a point where the basic experience Just Works while solving real Windows issues (incl updates and performance), then it’s going to get word-of-mouth praise instead of complaints. And if regular people start hearing about Linux stuff improving their computer, it’s going to mean far more than my ideological rants about owning your own tools and community created software.

Another, longer video with a more formal structure and more evidence on screen: NonCompete’s The “Founding Fathers” were the Original Epstein Class.

It’s a fair point - one of the most important steps in change is understanding the power we have. Not just as individuals, but collectively.

Don’t wish for a future. Instead, want to build that future. I want to build a functioning justice system.