The internet can be pretty gullible about tech products, but congrats to everyone who called exactly what this was going to be used for from the first moment they saw it.
Matt's not wrong. Matt's a fascist propagandist funded by and benefiting from the same ecosystem that was trying to suppress Lula and push Bolsonaro. Taking advantage of all the useful idiots unwilling to acknowledge this extremely basic and obvious fact.
I just think Matt's wrong about this. We're at a point in our technological development where a ton of problems spill over national borders--if Flavio Bolsonaro burns down the Amazon, that will flood houses in Miami.
My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today.
Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.
Big Shout Out to the @lakesidebuoys.bsky.social !
They took time out of their day to rock on by the Moonbase and troop the Two-Spirit and Trans Pride colours.
Trans Rights are Human Rights!
The Buoys are alright!
I think these things might have been my first *real* realisation of the way media coverage and tech reporting serve as a propaganda arm meant to manufacture consent by exploiting the most credulous fools who still somehow get treated as beloved trustworthy epistemic authority figures.
And for years people kept insisting I was unreasonable and that these were just cute utility/rescue robots because their favourite washed up TV figure made fun YouTube videos with one of them.
I'm currently staring into the camera like it's The Office.
Charlottesville is the key inflection point that stopped fascist consolidation in the US. Anti fascists stopped the consolidation of brown shirts which was the domino which didn't fall allowing Trump appointees to defect without fear and dooming J6 to farce.
At the time liberals like Klein and Wynn did NOT even remotely grasp the magnitude of the threat during Trump 1. We only got out thru a combination of i) antifa brutally crushing fascist networks, ii) trump's incompetence and random media filters, iii) defections of Trump's appointees.
Since it apparently needs to be explained again honey dears: this is all just a DISTRACTION! It is a play of MERE APPEARANCES over ESSENTIAL FORMS! We are SUPPOSED to be spending our NIGHTMARISH LIVES contemplating GNOSIS!
HERE WE GO AGAIN!!!!
Desert Bus for Hope 2026, the 20th year of Desert Bus!
I hope y'all are ready for what promises to be the greatest show on Earth featuring a bus.
What mischief, excitement, wonder and hilarity have we cooked up for this most auspicious year?
Head to desertbus.org right now!
The stream is about to start in less than 15 minutes. It’s the 20 anniversary of the longest running video game streaming fundraiser. It’s fun and you should watch it, it’s gonna be on nonstop for the next week. twitch.tv/desertbus
About to enter the annual week long Desert Bus for Hope fugue. I'm only VST sheeting four hours of Zeta a day this year but considering all the stuff I have going on elsewhere I expect to not be in possession of a brain until next Saturday. Let's put people in hospitals, shall we?
About to enter the annual week long Desert Bus for Hope fugue. I'm only VST sheeting four hours of Zeta a day this year but considering all the stuff I have going on elsewhere I expect to not be in possession of a brain until next Saturday. Let's put people in hospitals, shall we?
I know right wingers in the US intentionally stole the word to disempower the working class (Rothbard is on record doing this on purpose) and that's why I always make it clear whether I'm talking about libertarian or capital L Libertarian and I sympathise with people being confused by this
You know, between treating hosting anarchist websites as an act of terrorism and the thorough scrubbing of anarchism's role in leftist politics throughout history while making sure to even take our own words away to make it more difficult to talk about our beliefs,
I know right wingers in the US intentionally stole the word to disempower the working class (Rothbard is on record doing this on purpose) and that's why I always make it clear whether I'm talking about libertarian or capital L Libertarian and I sympathise with people being confused by this
Also, because of what people are saying in the replies of that thread: libertarian is the opposite of authoritarian, it says nothing about individualism vs collectivism, those are separate axes
And even individualism is compatible with leftism - I don't necessarily love Proudhon or Stirner but it's hard to argue individualist anarchism or egoism are somehow separate from broader leftist politics.
I know right wingers in the US intentionally stole the word to disempower the working class (Rothbard is on record doing this on purpose) and that's why I always make it clear whether I'm talking about libertarian or capital L Libertarian and I sympathise with people being confused by this
Dorsey is not part of this tradition and his Libertarianism is of the right wing nature but it's important to recognise that technologies made by capital L Libertarians exist both to perpetuate right wing politics and undermine leftist alternatives that get less funding while also by their nature
still being possible to utilise as tools against state control (in a way we need to be careful with and suspicious of) and this tension should make you more curious about libertarian socialism rather than pretending that even bringing up its existence is somehow wild.
I know right wingers in the US intentionally stole the word to disempower the working class (Rothbard is on record doing this on purpose) and that's why I always make it clear whether I'm talking about libertarian or capital L Libertarian and I sympathise with people being confused by this
Bur, I'm sorry, the moment you start clowning on people, maybe go read a book or something. Talk to an IWW member. Learn about the history of the labour movement. Consider that there's parts of leftism that don't root back to Lenin. Give the high horse a rest.
About to enter the annual week long Desert Bus for Hope fugue. I'm only VST sheeting four hours of Zeta a day this year but considering all the stuff I have going on elsewhere I expect to not be in possession of a brain until next Saturday. Let's put people in hospitals, shall we?
sigmund? sigmund it's your cousin marvin... marvin freud... you know the thing you've been talking about where there's some libidinal force inside us that seeks egoic shattering even unto death... well you're not gonna believe this but I'm looking at the news and im thinking, call it the death drive
Ok, one more thing… links to PornHub are allowed, even though links to OnlyFans are not. This isn’t about porn, it’s about censorship of independent creators.
#Censorship
The @desertbus.org arrives early this year! And here's how the poster starts.
Over the week I'll be drawing up stuff they do on stream and it can be purchased to help support the charity drive!
Just 17 hours away: desertbus.org
The aggravating thing about trying to argue for a practical, material angle to trans issues is how quickly you discover a vast contingent of your ostensible allies who seem to genuinely believe that trans people actually do just do all of this for other people's validation
I think the thing about AI and small business owners is that previously the design would have to be run past either a second person who know some amount of design, or they'd learn photoshop and some amount of design with it
now they can ask the AI to do their bad design
and the AI never says no
I'm the kind of autistic that loves clearly and equally enforced rules. The liberal idea of everything being ok if we can just word the rules properly and wish an orderly world into existence appeals to me on a deep level. It is through lived experience and educating myself about history as well
as the present, listening to others and applying material analysis in a consistent manner that sometimes challenges my pre-existing ideas about the world that I arrive at being an anarchist.
It's not optimism, it's not naivety, it's not misplaced belief in the goodness of people. It's pure pragmatism arrived at by focusing more on material reality and consistency in values instead of sticking to an ideology and trying to conform my views to its needs.
"To want to suppress fascism by means of the government is like wanting to combat a symptom of a disease by aggravating the causes that produced the disease in the first place."
— Errico Malatesta
video games continue the gradual cleavage and split into "beautiful & heartwrenching indie yuri game made by two trans women referencing clarice lispector and obscure political debates in 1950s china" and "unreal engine anime gacha with the monthly profit of a small country's gdp"
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: every single interaction I see between libs/Dems and trans people always comes down to the trans person being told some version of, “shut up and do as you’re told or we’ll let the fascists kill you.”
It’s almost comical how reliably my posts go viral when I criticize electoral politics for prioritizing the status quo comfort and assimilation over meaningful change. Nothing proves my point quite like a bunch of liberals yelling at a trans person to get in line and stop expressing disappointment.
You'll get a long fucking way in political understanding if you just try not to be a fucking rube. Like, maybe just don't get conned by the obvious fucking con artists?
"JKR is motivated by her history of abuse." "Fascists are economically anxious and this is why they fear immigration." Statements pushed by liars and believed by fucking rubes.
I feel like "hey, bigots fucking lie a lot and parsing their pronouncements to try and figure out their motivations is fucking pointless" is underrated as a life lesson. Also "their motivations don't matter if you commit to stopping rather than persuading them."