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If in your bedroom is all you can do, that’s better than nothing, but the ability to effectively organize online only is limited.

I know this sounds like a stupid platitude, but the solution to doomerism is to organize. In real life, with living, breathing humans.

Join whatever organization is active in your community, start attending meetings, find a campaign to plug into, and spend at least a few hours a week doing something positive with other people that also want to do something positive. And, after you campaign with them, socialize with them because organizing can be hard but feeling connected to members of your community feels better.

I helped found a mutual aid working group in my DSA chapter; we spend all month taking in donations, and then host a monthly Food Not Bombs-style food and hygienic supply distribution for the unhoused and food insecure. The feeling you get when you actually help improve people’s material conditions is genuinely just the best.

And, yeah, definitely get off Twitter.

Hot take, but this whole AI thing kinda sucks.

Steam, too. It was originally unpopular DRM for Half-Life 2. It had a broken offline mode that could only be selected when already online. It had no meaningful customer service and people permanently lost their accounts with no avenue for appeal (and probably no human even involved).

Prisoners: “We’re being sexually abused.”

IOF: “Of course we sexually abuse prisoners, want to see the videos?”

Israelis: “We’ll shut down the country to protest our rights to sexually abuse prisoners.”

Pretty much the only people on the planet that pretend to not know this are the ones writing the blank checks to arms manufacturers.

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What a terribly written article.

So it’s bricking an external piece of cheating hardware and not users’ actual PCs, or…?

So does right-wing media run with this as misguided validation for their fraud conspiracies, or bury it because she isn’t Somali?

Can we hurry up and surrender to Iran already?

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Kobo has it’s own ebook store, plus it connects with Overdrive (outdated version of Libby) to handle library checkouts.

Kobo is also really easy to sideload books on to, so you can, you know, just get them from wherever…

I do understand the internal logic of an EV tax to compensate for lost gas taxes for road maintenance. But making electric vehicles less cost effective speeds up our increasingly likely impending ecocide. So I kinda feel like you can make up the tax deficit elsewhere.

It’s a shame that we don’t treat deaths from political violence the same way we treat other deaths.

By allowing oligarchs to continue owning the means of production (and wealth, control of the state, etc.), whereas workers will have lost labor to withhold.

The oligarchs will give us just enough UBI to not riot. It’s going to be used as a bribe to keep them in power. That’s my issue with calls for UBI; they permanently entrench class dynamics. Our only (peaceful) leverage as workers to improve our conditions is to withhold our labor. If AI actually succeeds in mass unemployment, we lose that and we’ll be forever at their mercy.