Hey, here’s an idea, let’s stick a computer on your face.

It’s amazing to me that we’ve built a system where you’re punished for trying to do the right thing and rewarded for fucking things up.

Want to build a better web? Sure, man. Sounds great. How about you toil under financial insecurity and spend inordinate amounts of time worrying about keeping a roof over your head? That should be fun.

By the way, why isn’t it ready yet? Look at what those billionaires are achieving. What’ve they got that you don’t?

Hmm, let me think about that for a second…

There’s No Such Thing As a Smart Fascist

“The ideology itself is about as clever and complex as a rock to the face … Fascists, and their larval form, conservatives, simply do not give one single lonely fuck for rules or conventions or the system in which they flourish.”

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-smart-fascist

1. Read this blisteringly powerful article.

2. Shout it from the rooftops.

3. Follow nostr:npub1fh4zj0w6f7w0jzd50yuhy6seeazrwy0keldwhc8y3gga2ke6nvusdw44wz and support her work.

Should be required reading in schools.

Please boost.

#fascism

nostr:npub1gzlededxhz0xmgf5q9a5qswzuwjx0yfl2fx799csjhdnfrgawvksxwkk4u I am, but appreciate your reaching out, thanks :)

One of the downsides of being on Fedora Silverblue is that installing stuff that messes with the operating system at that sort of level is more problematic (not to mention, apparently, that it already has issues with Fedora). Don’t want to sacrifice the stability of my (rather rock solid) system to make a keyboard happy.

So because I apparently NEED another keyboard, I got a #Razer #Huntsman Mini with the optical linear red switches after touching one in Paris.

(I love my Topre but it can get a bit tiring after a long typing session. Also, I’ve always wanted a 60%)

Anyway, great little #keyboard, crappy proprietary Windows-only software. Used my Windows test machine to map Shift to Hypershift which makes the arrow keys usable.

Then, in #Linux, had to press Fn+menu until the correct profile kicked in.

Remember “Open APIs?” How Tim O’Reilly told us they were how we would build the “open web” in “Web 2.0?”

Turns out an Open API is open in the sense that a gate owned by someone else is open. In that it can just as easily be closed and locked at their whim.

#open #APIs #openAPIs #web2 #openWeb #SiliconValley #openWashing #timOReilly #freedom

What’s happening in Turkey today is not some exotic oddity. It’s a forewarning of exactly what can (and is) happening in the West.

Does this timeline seem familiar?

1. Neoliberals get elected. They fill their coffers while alienating a whole swath of society who they deem too far beneath them to matter.

2. A religious fundamentalist arises who speaks to those marginalised people, telling them they’ve been wronged (they have) and that he will make it right.

3. He gets elected.

4. He stays.

“Turkey's #Islamist leader Mr #Erdogan has a bond with his followers…religious #conservatives…

‘We were blessed by the fact that our president is again leading us,’ said Hatice Duran, 50…smiling broadly beneath her headscarf.

Now he is newly emboldened…and the Kremlin is celebrating…

In his victory speech he insisted ‘only #Turkey was the winner’—but he lost no time in attacking the opposition and the #LGBTQ community…”

Many predict…more #religion and less #freedom”

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65743021

Folks, if you see this character creating accounts on your instances, please block on sight. They’re a nuisance to say the least:

https://annihilation.social/objects/056d13e8-24be-4bef-b6af-2cc1821e2571

Thanks.

(I know this isn’t actually #fediblock but we likely need a separate hashtag for folks who create spam accounts across many instances. Any ideas?)

#spam #fediverse #mastodon

The problem with billionaires is that they’re billionaires.

#capitalism #billionaires

Machines aren’t taking over.

Corporations are taking over.

Worry about the right thing.

#corporatocracy #ai

Privilege is the luxury of remaining neutral on issues that destroy less fortunate people’s lives.

#privilege #socialJustice #neutrality

Man, corporations have really done a number on society, haven‘t they?

“According to a recent poll, more than 70 percent of Britons under the age of 50 are indifferent to the coronation. Even so, a staggering 250 million pounds ($315m) of magicked-up taxpayer money will be spent on this single day even as thousands of nurses, doctors, teachers and other key public workers have been told for months there is no money in the coffers to offer them a meaningful pay rise.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/5/5/with-charles-iii-coronation-colonialism-is-coming-home-to-roost

#monarchy #uk #inequality #letThemEatCake

British democracy is arresting people protesting the crowning of a king.

👑

💩

#coronation #uk #monarchy #democracy #policeState #notMyKing

Trixie Mattel for president.

(Please and thank you.)

#gender #lgbtq #drag #trixieMattel #humanRights #transRightsAreHumanRights #christofascists

Since a couple of you asked what’s the something we can start doing about billionaires, it’s simple:

Whatever you can to make them socially unacceptable. Make being a billionaire the equivalent of wearing fur.

Don’t feed them if you can help it (easier said than done). If you must feed them, make sure people know you’re not happy about it. If there are alternatives, fund, promote, and use them. But at the very least don’t praise and glorify them and stop giving them “the benefit of the doubt.”

A billionaire does things for many reasons. None of those are in your interests unless you also happen to be a billionaire.

The sooner you learn this, the sooner we can start doing something about it.

Would love to see a more diverse jury for the #BigBrotherAwards #bba23

It’s 2023, I think we can do better than 4 Men and a Lady (all white).

Watching the band playing at the Big Brother Awards.

Update: it’s starting now.

https://bigbrotherawards.de/en/2023

#bba23