Fundamentally it is the weapons that determine the effects, and if we can stop the weapons, then we change the effects.

The technical infrastructure needs be seen in open for the effects it is complicit in. www.workersinpalestine.org/who-arms-isr...

Engineers must question they weapons they are building and why. Engineers must question the factories they are enabling and what they produce.

Become the new source.

Boycotts, definitely. But also, affirmative engagement in alternative sources, or build those sources up yourself.

The only ideologies I see today are the religions, stealing teachers of humanism to bind the naive in a harness, for the gain of a supremacist few.

The messages of hate come out into the open. Erika tries forgiveness, questions an eye for an eye. A secular view can recognize something important: Jesus of Nazareth didn't want any of this. The whole Project 2025 is it's own violent contradiction.

Let's talk about what it takes to achieve a person goal: completely stop using petroleum.

A general strike in 2025 will need a new form. Consumers and workers must strike together, engineers and technicians must understand their power.

The answer to the depravity and destruction we face in this world is a new love and global togetherness greater than any that has come before.

JD Vance is a slime and also must be really hurting right now. Compassion for the slime ? Mostly we just wait for a slime to understand their own pain, maybe soon, maybe never. In the meantime, we keep telling the truth.

There are people that do not believe that feelings of extreme loss could apply to them. Privately showing compassion when they do can be powerful, in fact it's essential. But that doesn't mean affirming their incorrect views or allowing skewed public discourse.

Death means loss, and loss hurts. Some people think this won't apply to them, but in the end, it does.

Manufacturing must and will come back to USA, but there are 2 ways. One, factories owned by a few rich people, which will be hell. The other, factories owned by and in support of communities, which is a vision of a just world.

I highly recommend this book for anyone feeling lost and for anyone needing a refresher. A solid, clear, and actionable accounting of the mechanisms that allow Fascism to develop and processes that it uses to assert control. You will understand 'what is going on with people'.

For a small mind to succeed it must keep the other minds small too.

A small mind mentality - own it all, silence all opposing voices, stack your org with people who are easy to control.

The general intention of the kind of leverage the state is currently pursuing is to force a civil war. Their main enemies are Americans themselves. It's actually counter-strategic to maintaining world power, which may be one key to their unraveling.

Being a racist and a fascist still makes you a bad person. The life of a bad person is indeed, always a tragedy, but that tragedy doesn't change the basic facts of their terrible contributions to society.

What's needed are new, creative ideas and streamlined ways to implement them. Boycotts and protests are good, but we can go further by making material changes in our lives that disrupt the engine fueling all of this.

Words and thoughts shared together make new ideas and emerge the solutions

AI is a pretty huge distraction, the bubble will burst, sooner the less people glom on. But what about the real conversations online, do you find yourself having them, and generating new ideas together? Or just reading, scrolling, liking We need those creative human conversations...

This hate and abuse must be countered with a message of love and collective humanity.

(2) Part of an answer will be found by integrating engineering mindsets and industrial realities with humanist strategies. The human is the way through, but the human has to understand the industrial ecology they live in. My friend told me that’s called an industrial union.

(1) what's needed is the general strike. but the idea now is that robots and ai will make a gen strike irrelevant, so striking becomes choosing poverty. actually that's an old story called automation, and scary if you know the history of the Midwest.

You know, I can't help but feel that large parts of our societies remain distracted and unaware about what's going on.

micro-organizing starts with friends and family. everyone needs to do it. invites, interaction, and information sharing.

Don't use AI. Stay sharp.

new theories of economic resistance. completely remove natural gas from your energy supply.

humanity is the way. compassion for the tragedy of your enemy does not mean you don't fight. it's the opposite, knowing the tragedy of power is the strength to fight it to its end.

unfortunately a tool to build now is answers to how we sustain under collective trauma. we have to be able to be getting strong even as the damages worsen.

alternative economic structures are gonna be a way to fight this. offering something yourself that chips away at one of the fascist corps, not just where you spend but what you produce.

I think that it's time to be returning to the robust exploration of ways to disengage with this economy. Progressives need to retake back to the land and back to basics.

The goal of AI tooling companies is to make the people forget how to design and develop technology, to make engineering a fully metered, owned service rather than a embodied skill that individuals can leverage.

if they militarize the cities, let's throw parties in the country

A toxic land supports a toxic people.

The land is being transformed into a toxic place, and we must fight to bring the remedy.

Collectivization is a form of resistance.

I think the plan is to intentionally impoverish the American people through tariffs.

the absurdity of wearing that hat in the situation room

the polluted landscapes they will have to till as the earth changes

myanmar

Israeli government has killed so many

Small and distributed action is the way.

"Humpback whale song occupies the same low-frequency bandwidth as deep-sea dredging and drilling for the rare earths that are vital for electronic devices. Ironically, mining the minerals we need to communicate [with them using LLMs] cancels out whales’ voices."

Oh, what's this, a special provision sneaked into the tax and spending bill to limit the power of the federal judiciary? What a surprise...

environment is everything. everything.

Definitely not the time to let up on #TeslaTakedown.

Ya know, there are lot of other ways of living life life than the history that is being made right now.