They are building surveillance algorithms to fuel their concentration camps while we're squabbling over which kind of machine learning algorithms are good or not

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

this world to the ground and render everything outside their bunkers uninhabitable. This fight has not even begun, don't fucking run cover for them. Our only option is total opposition to the tech fascist conquest of creativity and knowledge

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

and brown communities to power their attempt to turn the collective knowledge of all of humanity into a machine they control. We are fighting a war for the future of this earth, a war that will decide whether we are ruled by these fucking fascists until they burn

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

It's all a very specific approach to fully seize all of meaningful power in society without anyone noticing. I've seen several people describe what Thiel is trying to do as dual power in the last few weeks and I don't think that framework fits but it's on the right track.

Be it by forcing everyone to switch to a deflationary currency, stealing everyone's art and saying "too late the blockchain forever says it's mine", creating a whole alternate reality they can be the landlords of, or by stealing and decontextualizing all of culture.

I'm just now being hit by the full internalization of the fact that the thing connecting all of these as well as the promise of the metaverse is an attempt at reeonclosure of the commons.

When we ask "what if that was your daughter," a common patriarchal question to dig for empathy over property ownership, we erase who is actually centered & protected in rape culture. What if that were your son, your brother, or your friend? And we know the answer. It's been very loud.

People talk about Luddism being back a lot these days, but they don't talk about Enoch enough.

It bothers me how large percentage of people who have bought into prison+police abolition believe those things mean no consequences or at most "we waggle our fingers at the bad people until they promise to behave" and become uncomfortable whenever the topic of prioritizing victim safety comes up.

The magic of "this causes me distress, could I please be excused from participating?" being a callous offense against your family "who cares about this and can't you do this one thing for them that costs you nothing?"

But turns out sometimes good art is made by bad people or under harmful conditions that are corrosive to the rest of the society. And that's where your spine and critical abilities actually get tested.

If you can't process a thing you like being adversarial to your existence, idk what to tell you. Must be nice to be unaffected by material realities of engaging with media up until now or telling yourself you just have better taste than everyone else because you've never enjoyed "the bad things".

If I see you having a crisis or complaining about being expected to drop a thing that you and everyone else thought was good because it's been revealed it used genAI at some point, it signals to me you're a coddled baby living a life of privilege and you won't survive the winter.

Crazy isn't it how every website is happy to nuke the 60 minutes piece from orbit, clearly putting dedicated engineer and moderation time into doing it, on copyright grounds, but there's just nothing they can do about AI?