I’ve said for years: If American industrialists paid a living wage, people would care more about their work — even the so-called “menial” jobs. But if you treat workers like disposable gears in a machine, they won’t give a damn. That’s not laziness. That’s a lack of love. 💡 Pay people. Trust […]

So many video outlets use YT for their live stream and clips. If #peertube and #owncast had a shared site and mobile/TV app, they could say to them, how about you stop relying on them or any other middlemen and instead fully control it? Work with us to build a similar service to what YT provides?

Just a note for the next time anyone schedules a conference in Texas: It is now literally illegal for trans people to use the bathroom there. Your trans friends and colleagues are going to be silently judging you for hosting events in a place it's illegal for them to exist when there's lots of […]

[US society & politics] Some defend existing institutions and the rule of law. Some protest. Others do what they can to help the less fortunate. I & a few others are building alternatives: help local groups have more impact & find ways to make society more resilient. We’re at the beginning of […]

A few years ago I would not have predicted @wired.com would be a journalistic beacon, but with this forthcoming “politics issue” they are doubling down on real, anti-authoritarian reporting Not regretting my new subscription

It’s more important than ever to support independent media free from corporate caving to autocracy and wherever possible on the open social web and on direct open media. https://journa.host/@w7voa/115222129277589068

Seeing a lot of American anti -imperialist types read a lot of conspiracy theories into American meddling in the developing world today. I’m sure there is a grain of truth in some of it but I think it is disrespectful that they won’t simply accept that many people around the world have agency to […]

I can track with this.

When your code works but no idea how

I have a political science degree. I have 17 years’ experience in ‘tech’. I had some early AI ethics training (2019? 2020)? I think our STEM-only tunnel vision has led us to precisely this place. I think I said in a talk recently: I care about what happens to people (when computers happen) […]

An article about the scathing peer review (led by @andrewdessler, joined by 80+ others) of the DOE report (authored by five climate deniers) used to justify the EPA's proposal to rescind the Endangerment Finding and repeal all greenhouse gas emission standards for vehicles […]

#Sciop hit a Petabyte (actually a Pebibyte but nobody knows that word) of total proven capacity a week or two ago. That's all the seeders * the size of the things they are seeding. All volunteers, zero dollars in funding, piggybacking off existing resources […] [Original post on neuromatch.social]

A Russian and an American get on a plane in Moscow and get to talking. The Russian says he works for the Kremlin and he's on his way to go learn American #propaganda techniques. "What American propaganda techniques?" asks the American. "Exactly," the Russian replies. [we need a term for how […]

This is not a drill. 🇺🇸 www.thebulwark.com/p/despotism-...

One way to counter the requirement of ID for social networking might be to have local community-oriented instances where you get an account because you know someone in the community. Show up, claim the account, and no record needs to be kept to be leaked or sold or used inappropriately. Locally […]

"At each point the language model has done nothing more than make the next move in the conversation game. Like a good improviser it has formed no commitment beyond being consistent with what has gone on before, helping to continue the current scene." […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

The idea of the "cicada" is great. People who only write occasionally when they have something important to say. It acknowledges that much of what the #substack puts out is filling space. To justify a paid subscription. I'd say the same with podcasts that aren't about processing the weekly news […]

Just finished watching Time Cop (Rifftrax version). They were 20 years early and a bit off on details, but not by much. Ugly self driving cars, rich person wanting to be president for life, white supremecist party, corrupted law enforcement. And the accompanying short about the policeman being […]

The only thing that will stop Trump is a grassroots movement using diverse tactics. (not just protests! We need boycotts, strikes, slowdowns, guerrilla art, disruptions, gumming the works from the inside, etc) from a cross-section of society. It’s on us. A few skeets here with resources: 1/x

DC-adjacent friends of #DHmakes, there's work to do.

@andypiper (or anybody else ...) Somebody working with a non-profit that is considering starting up a Mastodon instance to use as part of an activism campaign asked me for a rough estimate of how time consuming it is to administer a mastodon instance. Good question! Is there a good wrteeup of […]

Seeing some extra spicy #USPol takes on my timeline right now suggesting certain things and y'all I 100000% get it but *especially* today you NEED to see this ⚠️ VERY ⚠️ FUCKING ⚠️ IMPORTANT ⚠️ REMINDER #ShutTheFuckUpFriday #STFUFriday #shutthefuckup

Decentralize the economy. It's our only hope.

“The statistics are brutal. Fascist takeovers prevented after winning power democratically: zero. Average length of fascist rule once established: 31 years. Fascist regimes removed by voting: zero. Fascist regimes removed by asking nicely: zero. Most were removed by war or military coups, and […]

Agriculture now generates 25% of greenhouse gases. Agriculture uses 70% of fresh water and is the leading cause of water pollution, deforestation, and biodiversity loss. 75% of all agricultural land is used for grazing or growing crops that get fed to livestock. Eating less meat is one the […]

The Great Enscrapening: a period in history when AI hoovered up everything it could find. Various authorities place its end date around the mid- to late-2020s depending on how much AI generated content was mixed into the material. It was followed by the Missing Century when AI-generated content […]

Seems like a good day for this one. #liveintruth

Will is doing the Lord's work here. We don't know for sure this is the story: capital could still succeed in building moats and enclosing this. But this is absolutely the story we need to hope for, and it's not crazy to hope for some version of it.

“You may assume that a collapse in the imperial superstructure meant that people went hungry and homeless, and that is certainly the picture in the poems of lamentation and sorrow. But the physical evidence of people’s health, for instance, shows something very different.” […]

Not enough people are talking about the chilling subtext and imagery in the messages being sent by the official DHS accounts

Jessica & I are going to talk about legal statuses (mostly non-profits) on Monday in prep for the Aug @friendsofccmusic meeting. If u have questions, lmk. This is something we really have to get right. It will determine what we can and cannot do regarding raising funds, distributing funds, etc […]

I’m proud to be organizing collective action in support of unions, workers, and just labor arrangements. Working with Indivisible Santa Fe on an event for this Labor Day in #santafe #newmexico. Info/register at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/819310/

If you're at an institution subject to public records requests, I'd put this entire list of words in your signature. Flood 'em with noise. And then switch to encrypted calls and face-to-face meetings for anything of substance.

Pareto-optimal non-market-based agricultural planning using a local and regional hierarchy of combined religious and pragmatic water temples. https://www.damninteresting.com/the-ancient-order-of-bali/

"“What do cultish and fundamentalist religions often do?” Mr. Epstein added. “They get people to ignore their common sense about problems in the here and now in order to focus their attention on some fantastical future.” […]

I believe #standingtogether (עומדים ביחד نقف معًا, https://www.standing-together.org/en) is our best hope of ending war and forging peace in #israel and #palestine. S.T. is working both tactically and strategically, mitigating harm in the #westbank and #gaza every day while building a realistic […]

I know what I'm doing in my free time this week: https://fediforum.org/2025-06/ There is so much alignment between what I'm seeing/hearing there and the non-tech work I'm focusing on. I'm not surprised -- similar values, different domain. I'll try to post some threads over the week as I go […]

This looks like an interesting book to read alongside Graeber. My own response to recent events has been to start building social resilience. That’s slow, hard work that isn’t flashy or exciting […]

via #jatinmodi on #linkedin Wall Street just discovered its most profitable product: stories that investors desperately want to believe. In 1720, the South Sea Company held exclusive British rights to the Spanish American slave trade. Shares 10x'ed in six months. To justify the valuation, the […]

A group of researchers who are all trans women is about to do a study on how trans women communicate medical information to each other online. It will be an hour long interview, so there is a bit of a time committment to it, but they also are offering a $30 payment to anyone who participates […]

When an #adhd person says „I forgot“ what we often mean is: * I remembered 5 times but at the wrong time * I fully planned to do it but I felt overwhelmed * I shamed myself for not doing it that I did not do it

I think we should pick some core non-negotiable ideas and put money and time behind propagandizing those ideas. 1. The scientific method is VERY effective. 2. All people have a right to exist. 3. All living things have intrinsic value and beauty. 4. Bodily Autonomy We could get into the weeds […]

Some Linux users might be interested, reading about this (Subscriber link, that bypasses the Paywall, since I find this information important to spread for awareness): https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1029767/0a550f0972703141/ „Linux users who have Secure Bootenabled on their systems knowingly […]

If anyone tells you US Constitutional democracy is fine, nothing to worry about, then they’re wrong. But if anyone tells you it’s all over, as if the US is a consolidated authoritarian state, they’re also wrong. That defeatism, with its preemptive surrender, is what the fascists want you to think.

Wanting to live in the end times is kind of cowardly since it absolves of you of the burden of building a better future. Some great compelling force will come down from on hight and sort it all out. Since you don't really know what times you face it's more responsible and brave to live as if […]

Had a tech bro email me to tell me that my writing is so terrible, that he can’t even use it to train his AI without significant cleanup, and I really do have to wonder, do these idiots really think that is an insult? #ai #aihype

"...the triumph of Maga has led to the piecemeal destruction of everything that once made America great, and on every level. Its power derived from a reliable trade network, with logistical chains that were the wonders of the world, combined with a huge alliance network, and the greatest […]

Enjoy. #ai #ceo. Source: "Internet" 🫣

🔥 @warnock.senate.gov: “A budget is a moral document. The character of our nation is on the line… This is Robin Hood in reverse. Socialism for the rich.” 🇺🇸 #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer