Alex 🖤
@utopiandreams.bsky.social
I'm a trans anarchist living in the pacific northwest. She/they/it
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I say this to say: intellectual property law is the biggest sham in history it slaughtered millions during covid, it upholds the worst of the worst industry and silos important knowledge from the general public. Abolition of IP is as important as “seize my the means of production”
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I say this to say: intellectual property law is the biggest sham in history it slaughtered millions during covid, it upholds the worst of the worst industry and silos important knowledge from the general public. Abolition of IP is as important as “seize my the means of production”
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There are some things that thus must be destroyed. Prisons don’t exist without violence and coercion. Fire to them. Cops don’t exist without violence or coercion. Completely abolish them. Education of course can exist without violence or coercion. In fact it *works better*
November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
There are some things that thus must be destroyed. Prisons don’t exist without violence and coercion. Fire to them. Cops don’t exist without violence or coercion. Completely abolish them. Education of course can exist without violence or coercion. In fact it *works better*
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Something I am continuously drawn to in the concept of abolition is something I learned from “gender abolition”. Which is to say abolition is removing violence and coercion. You don’t want to coercively say “no more gender” that’s a TERF thing. But you abolish the violent coercion of gender.
November 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Something I am continuously drawn to in the concept of abolition is something I learned from “gender abolition”. Which is to say abolition is removing violence and coercion. You don’t want to coercively say “no more gender” that’s a TERF thing. But you abolish the violent coercion of gender.
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It’s no different than the way rapists use rape jokes both to show other rapists they have a possible ally in class solidarity but also to reinforce hierarchies of gender that some people (women, trans people) are raped and that cis men like him do the raping as a form of gender policing
November 3, 2025 at 12:13 AM
It’s no different than the way rapists use rape jokes both to show other rapists they have a possible ally in class solidarity but also to reinforce hierarchies of gender that some people (women, trans people) are raped and that cis men like him do the raping as a form of gender policing
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this is why julian responds by calling his critics things like "puritans, hormonal baby gays," etc--he's using phrases (often appropriated from kink, trans, & queer speech communities of which he is not a member) that signify "outgroup, Other" and signaling himself to be part of the "ingroup."
because that's what the fight is over, it's over the window of acceptable discourse and whether "cool funny edgelord guy who sexually harasses women 'as a dunk'" is part of the in group or outgroup. or whether "shrill feminist bitches" are the outgroup instead etc
November 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
this is why julian responds by calling his critics things like "puritans, hormonal baby gays," etc--he's using phrases (often appropriated from kink, trans, & queer speech communities of which he is not a member) that signify "outgroup, Other" and signaling himself to be part of the "ingroup."
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You don't need as much "welfare" when more income goes to the workers who produce wealth in the first place, instead of to unearned rents for the wealthy.
The inequality gap between the US and Europe doesn't result from the latter’s welfare states, which are in fact funded by more regressive systems of indirect taxation. Rather, the key to higher levels of equality is a more egalitarian distribution of pretax market incomes
jacobin.com/2025/10/left...
jacobin.com/2025/10/left...
The Left Needs to Rethink How It Understands Inequality
The 21st-century left has often argued that the solution to rampant inequality is income redistribution. But this may not be a silver bullet. What workers need is power over employers and the market.
jacobin.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
You don't need as much "welfare" when more income goes to the workers who produce wealth in the first place, instead of to unearned rents for the wealthy.
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The tl;dr on this is that you should absolutely block
@dollspace.gay and you should ABSOLUTELY not use its hosted appview. The BEST case is that it's sharing a brain and body with Laurelai and all your conversations with it (and any data sent through the appview) are easily accessible BY Laurelai.
@dollspace.gay and you should ABSOLUTELY not use its hosted appview. The BEST case is that it's sharing a brain and body with Laurelai and all your conversations with it (and any data sent through the appview) are easily accessible BY Laurelai.
🧵: a community safety warning (or, yes, it's Laurelai Bailey again)
October 5, 2025 at 7:05 AM
The tl;dr on this is that you should absolutely block
@dollspace.gay and you should ABSOLUTELY not use its hosted appview. The BEST case is that it's sharing a brain and body with Laurelai and all your conversations with it (and any data sent through the appview) are easily accessible BY Laurelai.
@dollspace.gay and you should ABSOLUTELY not use its hosted appview. The BEST case is that it's sharing a brain and body with Laurelai and all your conversations with it (and any data sent through the appview) are easily accessible BY Laurelai.
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fascinating that "no, the computer is not alive" and "yes, it's questionable to gleefully say anti-computer phrases modeled after racial slurs" are two thoughts people are struggling to reconcile
October 5, 2025 at 4:56 AM
fascinating that "no, the computer is not alive" and "yes, it's questionable to gleefully say anti-computer phrases modeled after racial slurs" are two thoughts people are struggling to reconcile
I think the elite liberal instinct to valorize Charlie Kirk based on the idea that he somehow supported the liberal ideal of free speech makes it clear how important the anarchist idea of unity of means and ends is.
September 12, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I think the elite liberal instinct to valorize Charlie Kirk based on the idea that he somehow supported the liberal ideal of free speech makes it clear how important the anarchist idea of unity of means and ends is.
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We’re Walling Off The Open Internet To Stop AI—And It May End Up Breaking Everything Else
A longtime open internet activist recently asked me whether I'd reversed my position on internet openness and copyright because of AI. The question caught me off guard—until I realized what he was seeing.…
A longtime open internet activist recently asked me whether I'd reversed my position on internet openness and copyright because of AI. The question caught me off guard—until I realized what he was seeing.…
We’re Walling Off The Open Internet To Stop AI—And It May End Up Breaking Everything Else
A longtime open internet activist recently asked me whether I'd reversed my position on internet openness and copyright because of AI. The question caught me off guard—until I realized what he was seeing. Across the tech policy world, people who spent decades fighting for an open, accessible internet are now cheering as that same internet gets locked down, walled off, and restricted.
www.techdirt.com
September 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
We’re Walling Off The Open Internet To Stop AI—And It May End Up Breaking Everything Else
A longtime open internet activist recently asked me whether I'd reversed my position on internet openness and copyright because of AI. The question caught me off guard—until I realized what he was seeing.…
A longtime open internet activist recently asked me whether I'd reversed my position on internet openness and copyright because of AI. The question caught me off guard—until I realized what he was seeing.…
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If you think fundamental human rights are an area where we have to "respect the democratic will of the public," you have sold your soul to the devil. You have a weathervane where your moral compass should be.
September 8, 2025 at 9:25 PM
If you think fundamental human rights are an area where we have to "respect the democratic will of the public," you have sold your soul to the devil. You have a weathervane where your moral compass should be.
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September 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Had this idea stuck in my head for a week, finally carved it out
September 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Had this idea stuck in my head for a week, finally carved it out
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Here's Rudolf Rocker on how lesser evilism helped pave the way for Hitler. Keep in mind, this is from 1937. He follows this saying, “Democratic countries have learned nothing from this example and are now traveling with fatalistic submissiveness along the same path.”
August 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Here's Rudolf Rocker on how lesser evilism helped pave the way for Hitler. Keep in mind, this is from 1937. He follows this saying, “Democratic countries have learned nothing from this example and are now traveling with fatalistic submissiveness along the same path.”
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Become Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant-pilled
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYN...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYN...
Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant
YouTube video by CGP Grey
www.youtube.com
August 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Become Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant-pilled
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYN...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYN...
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There's more beauty in this world than I'll ever see
There's more amazing people than I'll ever meet
There's more art than I'll ever experience
There's more stories than I'll ever tell
And there is no good purpose to immortality?
Fucker, I want more life.
There's more amazing people than I'll ever meet
There's more art than I'll ever experience
There's more stories than I'll ever tell
And there is no good purpose to immortality?
Fucker, I want more life.
an end to death would mean an end to all human liberty forever. the only purpose of immortality is to create a permanent ruling class who will lord over the rest of us as cattle and functionally as gods.
August 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
There's more beauty in this world than I'll ever see
There's more amazing people than I'll ever meet
There's more art than I'll ever experience
There's more stories than I'll ever tell
And there is no good purpose to immortality?
Fucker, I want more life.
There's more amazing people than I'll ever meet
There's more art than I'll ever experience
There's more stories than I'll ever tell
And there is no good purpose to immortality?
Fucker, I want more life.
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Okay, so if death is so good why are you choosing to still be alive right now?
August 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Okay, so if death is so good why are you choosing to still be alive right now?
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It's plainly obvious that if true immortality existed the actual moral obligation would be to share it with everyone, not destroy it out of a misguided sense of ressentiment
People prefer being alive. That's why we understand murder to be wrong.
People prefer being alive. That's why we understand murder to be wrong.
August 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
It's plainly obvious that if true immortality existed the actual moral obligation would be to share it with everyone, not destroy it out of a misguided sense of ressentiment
People prefer being alive. That's why we understand murder to be wrong.
People prefer being alive. That's why we understand murder to be wrong.
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It is actually our moral responsibility to fully open source and spread true immortality tech everywhere if it is ever invented so deathists like Evans can no longer take it away (and so it isn't just dominated by a few billionaires but actually benefits everyone).
like 70% of the worst evil being perpetrated in the world right now is caused by rich men trying to avoid death. this is their underlying hope for AI, and genetic engineering.
if true immortality ever existed we would have a moral responsibility to murder the inventors and bomb their labs.
if true immortality ever existed we would have a moral responsibility to murder the inventors and bomb their labs.
Acausal Robot God have mercy on my soul, I have backed up every piece of the claim:
“The goal of LessWrong rationality is so Eliezer Yudkowsky can live forever as an emulated human mind running as a process on the future superintelligent AI god computer.”
*ahem*
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“The goal of LessWrong rationality is so Eliezer Yudkowsky can live forever as an emulated human mind running as a process on the future superintelligent AI god computer.”
*ahem*
>>
August 14, 2025 at 1:13 AM
It is actually our moral responsibility to fully open source and spread true immortality tech everywhere if it is ever invented so deathists like Evans can no longer take it away (and so it isn't just dominated by a few billionaires but actually benefits everyone).
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I think that when folks hear "abuse is ideological" and "the foundation of that ideology is entitlement to power and control over others" they make some incorrect assumptions about what this means
June 17, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I think that when folks hear "abuse is ideological" and "the foundation of that ideology is entitlement to power and control over others" they make some incorrect assumptions about what this means
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people are intuitive dualists and arguing against this dualism is nearly impossible because it is an intuition they are post-hoc justifying. this includes searle.
August 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
people are intuitive dualists and arguing against this dualism is nearly impossible because it is an intuition they are post-hoc justifying. this includes searle.
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LEAVE A MESSAGE FOR MASTERCARD’S CEO
STEP 1: CALL +1 914 249 2000
STEP 2: TYPE 0
STEP 3: TYPE 6432224#
STEP 4: TYPE 1
Congratulations, and have fun calling the executive who matters most in this Steam / itchio censorship situation
STEP 1: CALL +1 914 249 2000
STEP 2: TYPE 0
STEP 3: TYPE 6432224#
STEP 4: TYPE 1
Congratulations, and have fun calling the executive who matters most in this Steam / itchio censorship situation
a person is holding a piece of paper with the word spadder on it
ALT: a person is holding a piece of paper with the word spadder on it
media.tenor.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:03 AM
LEAVE A MESSAGE FOR MASTERCARD’S CEO
STEP 1: CALL +1 914 249 2000
STEP 2: TYPE 0
STEP 3: TYPE 6432224#
STEP 4: TYPE 1
Congratulations, and have fun calling the executive who matters most in this Steam / itchio censorship situation
STEP 1: CALL +1 914 249 2000
STEP 2: TYPE 0
STEP 3: TYPE 6432224#
STEP 4: TYPE 1
Congratulations, and have fun calling the executive who matters most in this Steam / itchio censorship situation
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it is impossible to return to a precapitalist past. the world has been eaten up too much. in fact, it is impossible to return to the 20th century. there is no returning. there is no salvation in idealizing the past. we can only take our history with us to build a future we seek
July 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM
it is impossible to return to a precapitalist past. the world has been eaten up too much. in fact, it is impossible to return to the 20th century. there is no returning. there is no salvation in idealizing the past. we can only take our history with us to build a future we seek
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This is why YIMBY should be a yes-and thing, not a one-note panacea. Eliminate single-family and monoculture zoning and parking minimums, yes! But combine it with community land trusts and a tax shift to land value, legalization of squats, bans on private equity "investment" in dwellings, &c.
YIMBYs: 🗣️ No taxes to fund affordable housing! They slow down production.
YIMBYs: 🗣️ No rent control on new development! It'll slow down production.
YIMBYs: 🗣️ Negotiating with developers for more affordability is NIMBYism!
YIMBYs: 😭 Why does the left call us neoliberal? We're progressive!
YIMBYs: 🗣️ No rent control on new development! It'll slow down production.
YIMBYs: 🗣️ Negotiating with developers for more affordability is NIMBYism!
YIMBYs: 😭 Why does the left call us neoliberal? We're progressive!
July 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This is why YIMBY should be a yes-and thing, not a one-note panacea. Eliminate single-family and monoculture zoning and parking minimums, yes! But combine it with community land trusts and a tax shift to land value, legalization of squats, bans on private equity "investment" in dwellings, &c.