I want that on a t-shirt.
"Unfortunately, more safety typically comes at the cost of less usefulness."
#DrJimFan, 2023
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"(Labour. Not as bad as National.' There’s a billboard in that.)"
Nailed it.
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> my career involves me being very online all day, and you forget there's a whole other world out there
Me too, since about the early 2000s when we started Aotearoa Indymedia. It's been very important for me to exit the Matrix regularly, and connect with both the human world and the wilderness.
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The Governor of Texas overrules local govt's attempts to prevent workers dying of heatstroke. Anyone still think the US is a model for any kind of "democracy"?
Just when you think you've plumbed the depths of the inhumanity capitalists and their politician puppets are capable of. It sends the rabbithole of capitalist sociopathy has no bottom...
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Also, so much this!
"Grief is so powerful it renders us mute and makes us turn to poetry, to art, to writing, to films. We want to know ‘has anyone else felt this exact same way?’ ‘Do you hurt like this too?’ ‘Does it get better?’ ‘How do I stop the bleeding?’"
https://emilywrites.substack.com/p/barbie-and-the-pain-of-being-alive
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“Humans only have one ending. Ideas last forever.”
Barbie, 2023
... is an insightful riff on a line from the V for Vendetta movie (arguably the main subtext of the original comic);
"Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof."
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This!
"Pure escapism and fun. Really fun. God, remember when movies used to be fun?"
https://emilywrites.substack.com/p/barbie-and-the-pain-of-being-alive
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Also, so much this!
"Grief is so powerful it renders us mute and makes us turn to poetry, to art, to writing, to films. We want to know ‘has anyone else felt this exact same way?’ ‘Do you hurt like this too?’ ‘Does it get better?’ ‘How do I stop the bleeding?’"
https://emilywrites.substack.com/p/barbie-and-the-pain-of-being-alive
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This!
"Pure escapism and fun. Really fun. God, remember when movies used to be fun?"
https://emilywrites.substack.com/p/barbie-and-the-pain-of-being-alive
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> if something is wrong, it must be their fault and they just need to work harder to maker everyone else happier
This is so toxic! Particularly because kids tend to assume this is the case ( for reasons explored by both developmental and evolutionarypsych). So they need to be regularly reassured that the dysfunction of the adults around them is *not* their fault.
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> I spent a few days off-grid
I did this at a couple of outdoor festivals over the summer. It's one of my favourite things about 21st century camping : )
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> We closer to having a perfect voting system now than we are to being able to have a functional internet voting system
Do you agree that secure digital voting is a worthy goal though? Given that the postal system is on its last legs, on a long enough timescale, it seems unavoidable for local government elections to go digital.
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> the more votes that go to the Greens or TPM, the more bargaining power they have
On this, we agree. I think TPM will have significantly more seats after October, and thus more influence, as I mentioned in the original string of posts.
Where we seem to disagree is on whether the Greens will get more seats. I see no reason, at this point, to believe they will.
(1/2)
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> you're approaching this from the deconversion side... whereas I'm coming at this from the angle of protecting diverse communities
Perhaps you've mistaken my motivation here? I'm not interested in this for the benefit of the deprogrammed. That's just a bonus. I care about deprogramming precisely because it reduces the danger to the rest of us.
So as I've already pointed out, this is exactly the same tunnel we're digging, just from opposite directions.
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> Epicyon works without JS too
nostr:npub120zh308gs69j3vwgvvrzgglv58vsk3q0vef43uajyu0lc3mtldsq2p33r2 used to at least give me some text and images with JS turned. Sadly it's reverted to the old...
"Please enable javascript to view this content."
I keep hearing good things about Epicyon. Like that it can run on an old laptop. Must give it a test.
"Shouldn't there be some inquiry into how the telecommunications giants are privately suppressing opinions they don't like or agree with on social media networks? Because you are supposed to send my message from Point A to Point B. You are not supposed to tell me what those messages say, I decide what my voice says, not 2 Degrees, not Spark, and not bloody Vodafone."
#BomberBradbury, 2023
#podcasts #TheWorkingGroup #FreedomOfExpression #censorship
Maybe I already posted this, but just a reminder of how cynical the NatACTs are ...
"National... knew its policy was unlikely to get the backing of teachers, and wasn't hoping to get it. Mr Luxon is going after parents concerned about the state of the education system, and how their child will fair in it."
#podcasts #RNZ #FocusOnPolitics #education #NZPolitics #Election2023 #NatACTs
"Purchased apps locked on iDevices will meet their doom when those gadgets stop working, as they are prone to do. Even before then, older apps will fade away as developers decline to pay the $100 a year required to keep their wares listed in the store."
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https://www.technologizer.com/2012/01/23/why-history-needs-software-piracy/2/
$100 a year to keep an app in the only store allowed on iThings!?!That's morally equivalent to mobsters charging "protection money".
"By accepting restrictive DRM into our lives, we are giving not only software publishers, but all media publishers the power to erase, control, or manipulate digital cultural history if they choose."
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https://www.technologizer.com/2012/01/23/why-history-needs-software-piracy/2/
#DRM #Orwell #1984 #MinistryOfTruth #MemoryHole
"Piracy’s preserving effect, while little known, is actually nothing new. Through the centuries, the tablets, scrolls, and books that people copied most often and distributed most widely survived to the present. Libraries everywhere would be devoid of Homer, Beowulf, and even The Bible without unauthorized duplication."
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https://www.technologizer.com/2012/01/23/why-history-needs-software-piracy/
"Purchased apps locked on iDevices will meet their doom when those gadgets stop working, as they are prone to do. Even before then, older apps will fade away as developers decline to pay the $100 a year required to keep their wares listed in the store."
nostr:npub1z604fw6arh7wfhxs8zy92gjexg2gyc0n330g9ex7wzxgyl2acpvsdtd0y7
https://www.technologizer.com/2012/01/23/why-history-needs-software-piracy/2/
$100 a year to keep an app in the only store allowed on iThings!?!That's morally equivalent to mobsters charging "protection money".
"Piracy’s preserving effect, while little known, is actually nothing new. Through the centuries, the tablets, scrolls, and books that people copied most often and distributed most widely survived to the present. Libraries everywhere would be devoid of Homer, Beowulf, and even The Bible without unauthorized duplication."
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https://www.technologizer.com/2012/01/23/why-history-needs-software-piracy/
Bang on.
"Piracy’s preserving effect, while little known, is actually nothing new. Through the centuries, the tablets, scrolls, and books that people copied most often and distributed most widely survived to the present. Libraries everywhere would be devoid of Homer, Beowulf, and even The Bible without unauthorized duplication."
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https://www.technologizer.com/2012/01/23/why-history-needs-software-piracy/