Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

Tale of two “leaders”

Trump wouldn't be the first Peace Prize winner to support genocide or using the military on his own people. Aung San Suu Kyi got a Nobel PP and supported the Rohingya genocide. Obama got one and was doing drone strikes on Americans not long after. Nobel has been shit for a while!

periodic reminder that if you write stuff that's published on the web for a publication you yourself do not own, PDF that shit as soon as it goes live

Since I'm talking about this, does anybody need line editing or copy editing on their books or movement resources? I would love to help nurture your works about making change or understanding the current moment and its history. I've got 20 years of experience and I will never ever use "AI"/LLMs.

You have to try to remember something that flopped, because any tech good enough to stick around didn't *need* to be pushed this hard. Artificial demand is way more expensive and unsustainable than organic demand, they wouldn't be forcing it if they didn't have to.

The world needs to divorce itself from US tech. That means getting off of windows and developing solutions that are far and away from the fascist techbroligarchs.

If for no other reason than your own safety and sovereignty.

Prepare for the post-US world

So MS users ask how to get rid of Copilot, and Salesfarce users want actual search back instead of being forced to use the slopbot which gives wrong answers

Across the board nobody likes to use Next Token Guessing ELIZA, even when given no other option.

Again, I’m pretty sure it’s because of loading ads in the background

Incredible that it’s not possible to pay for a game with no ads, no in-app predatory stuff, save for few exceptions (eg Apple Arcade)

As a parent with a kid who’s starting to play games on the iPad, I’m so pissed at the predatory state of kid’s games.

1. I pay $7 to remove all ads from this game. Yet catch my kid watching ads - even after paying they are offered to watch for in-game rewards. WTH

2. (cont’d)

"Hey we're sorry... we're doing it anyways because it's gonna make lots of money... but we're sorry"

cancel it!! Refund the tickets!! Apologizing but still doing it is less than an empty gesture! it is actively being complicit while pretending you're not!! Bear the consequences of cancelling it!!

ye see this shits not inevitable never give up in advance

We reached our goal — and now we’re raising it to meet the moment.

Drop Site News and Unmute Humanity launched the Gaza Journalist Fund with a $150,000 goal to support 29 Gaza journalists. With your help, we raised $221,836 and supported 38.

But as soon as the campaign went public, the need..

i think we really need to reckon with the fact that several of the incredibly wealthy people tirelessly driving society down darker and darker paths are fucked up mold infused resident evil monstrosities

mold didn't make them evil originally, but it sure helps them be MORE evil

That includes Zohran Mamdani fans. No genuine Palestine supporter would have anything to do with the Dem Party and he's already showing lots of signs of having been insincere about his beliefs while campaigning.

You didn't learn from Obama, Bernie, AOC all being pro-war, lying sellouts?! Pathetic.

You need to stop trying to save the Dem Party. Let it die. The more you do this, the longer it keeps that zombie party full of Republicans afloat. They hate the left, because they're right wingers. They'd rather self-immolate and give power to Trump than ever let the weakest DemSoc seize the reins.

a large part of why creators coming out in support of AI is SO disappointing is because it forces you to realize that all the parts of the craft that you thought they enjoyed, all the other artists you thought they valued, are actually disposable to them. they don't care about the process of MAKING.

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Earlier today, someone wrote, as encouragement for dismayed US-ians, that Europe overcame fascism. I propose that this isn't the case, as near uniform elite support for genocide shows and, this, from Gabriel Rockhill: www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/16/t...

Language hack - When talking about "autism", replace autism with "tall" and see if it makes sense:

"The tall community has opinions about new tall research that came out recently, about the increased risk of tall."

Now write it correctly, using tall, and then replace "tall" with "autistic".