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Shocking that the 'tell voters they are wrong and don't ...

2026-08-05T21:03:54+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…wpgn
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Shocking that the 'tell voters they are wrong and don't actually want anything to change' approach seems to be failing.
Who could have guessed that running on the 'we will make 0 effort to improve your lives or do things you want from us' platform could have ever backfired.

How is she even still on the ballot? Is her 3% just from ...

2026-08-05T05:28:10+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…ja0a
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How is she even still on the ballot? Is her 3% just from mail-ins?

The news outlets are doing their "Make it as stressful as ...

2026-08-05T04:58:37+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…6rg7
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The news outlets are doing their "Make it as stressful as possible to follow the live results" thing, but, unless detroit goes hard for Stevens, I don't see where else she picks up the numbers to catch up?

Can be generalized to the entire government. Legitimacy flows ...

2026-07-29T22:29:22+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…hmwz
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Can be generalized to the entire government. Legitimacy flows *from* the public; if the public does not recognize an authority as legitimate - then it is illegitimate. No matter what the laws, constitution, or misc. other bits of paper and agreements might have to say about it.
Without the public agreeing it is legitimate, none of it is worth the ink it's written with.

Interacting with Academics when I was in uni kinda crushed my ...

2026-07-28T20:10:58+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…csrc
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Interacting with Academics when I was in uni kinda crushed my dreams of going deep into academia - I'd suspected a lot of them were gonna be like that prior, but, actually interacting with them really just incinerated the illusion of "smart people doing smart things in smart places" - especially when I could just go have a deeper more substantial convo over a cigarette with the homeless dude who didn't finish high school that's hanging out just off campus...

Do you just get new people showing up who haven't heard this ...

2026-07-27T22:01:34+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…9hpf
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Do you just get new people showing up who haven't heard this explanation every couple weeks, or, is it a persistent handful of folks who don't/won't read it that keep pushing for you to vote?
Seems like a lot of energy on their part that could be better directed towards like... getting someone politically disengaged to pay attention/care, rather than harassing someone who is... clearly paying attention, and just landed on a conclusion they don't like.

Yeah, at this point a lot of journalists are... Well past ...

2026-07-26T21:08:58+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…f9c5
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Yeah, at this point a lot of journalists are... Well past plausible deniability and into 'open malpractice'.

Maybe outside your scope, but, do you think we're at a point ...

2026-07-26T03:51:51+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…d9ha
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Maybe outside your scope, but, do you think we're at a point where the unsubstantiated accusations of fraud are doing more harm than the actual vulnerabilities, at this point? (wrt keeping elections reasonably-fair)

... in this, is "bor" rhymes with word "or" and ...

2026-07-23T19:22:56+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…ajdc
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... in this, is
"bor" rhymes with word "or" and "bore", "gore"
"b-oo-r" starts with "boo" (rhyme 'do', 'too') with an r added at the end?

You are far from the only person I've seen use the term ...

2026-07-23T07:11:41+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…6yej
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You are far from the only person I've seen use the term "Butlerian Jihad", which went from 'niche reference to sci-fi books most americans probably haven't actually read' to 'thing I see/hear nearly daily' remarkably quickly...
It's also one of the few things that everyone from neonazis to anarchists agrees on (usually for... very different reasons).
Somehow this seems to be going even *worse* for them than the "dismantling democratic and government institutions" thing.

Damn, and here I was hoping I could get your ...

2026-07-20T17:56:14+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…frgf
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Damn, and here I was hoping I could get your china/iran/cia/russian/cuban/israeli paymaster to come fund me to say their governments shouldn't exist, and the working class should rise up and overthrow all these fuckers globally.

(sarcasm, obv.)

Yeah, it's not even really subtle... basically hitler youth ...

2026-07-20T16:24:01+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…7kga
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Yeah, it's not even really subtle... basically hitler youth with american flags slapped over the swasticas...

I mean... from the psychology research I've been able to find ...

2026-07-20T06:01:26+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…3khq
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I mean... from the psychology research I've been able to find on the subject, the general consensus seemed to be that they don't... actually prevent any harm? Or cause any, or seemingly do much of anything... So, I'd be kinda surprised if there is any message of yours one can point to for it.
It seems it's just a social convention, at this point - basically it's just considered "rude" not to use them.

eg, here's a meta-analysis from a few years ago https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21677026231186625

The US's propensity for 'prosperity gospel' sorts of ...

2026-07-19T21:25:01+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…8dg5
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The US's propensity for 'prosperity gospel' sorts of framings certainly doesn't help - the combination means that, those who die to not being able to afford basic needs are moralized as unworthy of life (since, if they were 'good', god would have arranged for them to be wealthier), and those billionaires are moralized to good, no matter who they hurt (because clearly god favours them).

Just, that a "proof of life" photo for a sitting senator ...

2026-07-13T04:57:34+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…aqkw
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Just, that a "proof of life" photo for a sitting senator was, by some long chain of bullshit, a thing that has happened, at all?

Yeah, it's definitely not an efficient option. If you want ...

2026-07-01T21:29:23+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…h265
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Yeah, it's definitely not an efficient option.
If you want efficient, chain them all to a boulder and drop them overboard somwehere around 48°S 123°W (around the point of the oceans farthest from land)
Don't even need the fossil fuel or rare materials wasted for it; just a rock, some ropes/chains, and a boat of some sort.

I'd rather tell them they're being sent to the sun to be ...

2026-07-01T19:07:58+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…9pwa
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I'd rather tell them they're being sent to the sun to be executed, make them sit with it as they go on the very-long trip there. But I'm in a spiteful mood, and would like them to suffer as much as their victims have had to.

That's fine, the sun will incinerate them before they can ...

2026-07-01T18:57:05+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…psu8
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That's fine, the sun will incinerate them before they can pollute/litter it.

I am opposed to littering other planets, so, would rather not ...

2026-07-01T17:01:46+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…anlw
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I am opposed to littering other planets, so, would rather not mars

They seem to like space, why not deport them to low-earth orbit ...

2026-07-01T07:43:29+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…gpm8
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They seem to like space, why not deport them to low-earth orbit so they can join the debris field they've been building by littering the atmosphere.

"Do you want a habitable planet, or do you want to play with ...

2026-06-19T00:07:01+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…hgvd
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"Do you want a habitable planet, or do you want to play with the slopbot until you and your children die in the climate disasters?"
is quite possibly the easiest ultimatum a lobby has ever presented.
Like, any politician who gets this one wrong should be banned from holding any office, anywhere.

Yeah, like, the circumsances making something like that possible ...

2026-06-14T19:43:22+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…jz7d
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Yeah, like, the circumsances making something like that possible are ... kinda horrifying.
And it ... has it's problems.
But with mainsteam media largely choking on it's own cowardice and corruption, that something like Zeteo *can* happen and work and get actual respected-in-their-field, competent veterans, experts, to show up is... very important, especially under the current media environment.

And it's not hard to find examples of that - I know a lot of ...

2026-06-13T20:35:18+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…4f0f
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And it's not hard to find examples of that - I know a lot of people who, like, show at protests, who've been pepper sprayed and arrested on bullshit charges for their opposition to the status quo -- but then go home to the house they've got a mortgage on, while avoiding the cognitive dissonance of doing so.
But also - they need a place to live, so, it's not as easy as 'you could just not' because the alternatives (rent, homeless, or squatter) have their own issues.

I think it works better (for capitalism, fascism) that most ...

2026-06-13T20:30:19+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…medz
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I think it works better (for capitalism, fascism) that most homeowners don't understand - to understand it would mean they recognize that their home's value is only sustained by the game being rigged against those lower in the social hierarchy... which a lot of folks would be (and are, clearly) fine with, but, I think the (often willful) ignorance here is load-bearing, because it makes many of the 'homeowners' who would otherwise be opposition, accomplices instead.

Yeah, looking at the aljazeera summary of it, looks like Iran is ...

2026-06-12T22:02:24+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…z00u
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Yeah, looking at the aljazeera summary of it, looks like Iran is saying they get to keep control of the strait, the nuclear materials stay in iran (but open to diluting them), isreal needs to withdraw from lebanon...
Basically looks like the same deal they offered the first time.

So... sounds like Iran's position for ending the war has ...

2026-06-12T21:58:01+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…44xw
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So... sounds like Iran's position for ending the war has still not moved very much, then?

Yeah, at this point, it's basically spend the next ...

2026-06-12T18:04:35+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…6y2j
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Yeah, at this point, it's basically spend the next century/two to four generations trying to gradually clean this up - then die to the climate damage anyway because no one managed that in time.
Or... overthrow the current ruling class and deal with the problems as a batch job, and maybe have enough time that only tens to hundreds of millions die to the climate, rathar than the entire fucking species.

... Considering how much general attitudes have turned against ...

2026-06-06T03:48:36+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…f0rx
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... Considering how much general attitudes have turned against Israel, the attempts to merge them so thoroughly to base functions of the US, reads as a desperation play to ensure that if an anti-Israel candidate does manage to win (despite all the cheating, stealing, and looming second violent coup attempt), they won't be *able* to cut them off without spending their entire term trying to disentangle things first...

Ah, okay

2026-06-04T20:02:49+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…zamw
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Ah, okay

Oh, is the class of people who have aggressively destroyed any ...

2026-06-04T19:47:50+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…gvx8
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Oh, is the class of people who have aggressively destroyed any shred of respectability or trust for the last my-entire-fucking-life wringing their hands about kids these days not respecting or trusting them again?

So now that google has well and truly shit itself, is "Duck ...

2026-06-04T05:47:14+02:00

So now that google has well and truly shit itself, is "Duck it" a viable alternative to "Google it"?

Yeah, especially after all the cancellations at the kennedy ...

2026-05-31T05:44:35+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…0m7w
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Yeah, especially after all the cancellations at the kennedy center a bit ago, I 100% believe this administration will lie and obfuscate as much as possible, to try to get artists to play at their nazi rallies.

Running elections on a "The voters are wrong and should feel ...

2026-05-23T00:49:24+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…22qc
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Running elections on a "The voters are wrong and should feel bad about it" platform has been working out fucking great for them so far [sarcasm] -_- surely it won't fail and lead to them being executed as political enemies of either the current bootleg hitler, or whichever one they loose to next.

Yeah... at this point so many lines have been crossed, so ...

2026-05-19T22:41:09+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…vcyw
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Yeah... at this point so many lines have been crossed, so aggressively, openly, and blatantly, that if someone is not opposing it now, I find it... hard to believe they ever actually will, or that they had any 'red lines' for this shit to cross in the first place.

Programmer -ey types (regardless of skill level/job/hobby ...

2026-05-16T18:37:02+02:00

Programmer -ey types (regardless of skill level/job/hobby status/etc; I am including anyone who at least sometimes writes some amount of code in this);
If you had to estimate, while writing code (by hand, not bots) - approximately how much time do you spend actually typing code, vs time spent thinking about what to type, checking documentation, etc.?

Yeah, I put more blame on the companies - a lot of the people ...

2026-05-15T04:44:40+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…zpcd
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Yeah, I put more blame on the companies - a lot of the people being exploited are victims of propaganda; I do think the sotware industry *needs* to stop fucking around and start unionizing, striking, and actually acting like the working-class people they are and have been, though. Nothing is going to get better if programmers cling to the delusional classist notion that they're somehow not part of the working class.

(This is part of why I will not donate to software project funded ...

2026-05-15T02:41:20+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…8vvj
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(This is part of why I will not donate to software project funded by any of those companies - a "Donation" from google is not a donation, it's a purchase. Best not to invite the wolves into your pasture, no matter what they promise you.)

and various combinations can work to various degrees; but, if you ...

2026-05-15T02:40:07+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…dy7j
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and various combinations can work to various degrees;
but, if you just release something under an MIT license and don't make solid, sustained efforts to keep your community hostile to google, meta, amazon, whoever, no matter how much money they offer you to buy your conscience, then you will be captured & exploited as soon as some corp decides it is worth doing so.

resist capture, and does not design resistance to it into the ...

2026-05-15T02:37:33+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…3htc
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*resist* capture, and does not design resistance to it into the software at a fundamental level, it tends to be the default state or anything that a capitalist would find worth taking.

being designed in such a way that they are mostly useless to ...

2026-05-15T02:36:15+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…v029
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being designed in such a way that they are mostly useless to capitalist interests; in a lot of cases - like compilers and libraries - can work because usually they aren't worth capturing bc the maintenence and expertise in making them is expensive, while the corps can just use them as they are without issue, and without contributing anything back.
A lot of projects that avoid capture are those with clear policies & community focus - if the community does not>

There's a few others that work; a lot of corproations avoid ...

2026-05-15T02:30:57+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…sg30
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There's a few others that work; a lot of corproations avoid AGPL/GPL3+ licensed software like it has rabies, though many others decide to just violate the license instead.
Open standards work; but I think the 'how' and 'why' matters - something like XMPP or IRC works because it is undamentally uncapturable - I could run an XMPP server on my laptop from 2004, and it would work just fine - and interoperably - with corpo servers.
Others are uncapturable just by>

it was always a very narrow ethical position about a specific ...

2026-05-14T22:57:54+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…vh39
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it was always a very narrow ethical position about a specific subject; which is useful in some cases, but, also means that outside that specific vein, the ethical side was never that well-aligned elsewhere.

A lot of the movement side has been co-opted by corporate ...

2026-05-14T22:56:40+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…597a
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A lot of the movement side has been co-opted by corporate interests for decades,
it's part of why I still make a point to distinguish 'free/libre' from 'open source'; a lot of 'foss' is open source - about a model of productivity, a workflow, an approach to project management, even the terminology is designed to be more welcoming to the capitalist class.
The ethical side of it has been obuscated, deprecated. Not that the original ethical stance was all that strong to start with;

Point to your policies all you want. The correct choice here is ...

2026-04-28T19:08:22+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…mp02
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Point to your policies all you want.
The correct choice here is to not accept the money, and to tell Anthropic & their ilk to go away. Take a meaningful stance against the companies that are actively hurting and stealing from the artists that depend on tools like blender.
Welcoming them, accepting their money, is a clear signal that you care more about the money than the people they harm - including many of your own users - to get it.

I did. Accepting money from a plagiarism-as-a-service company is ...

2026-04-28T18:49:04+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…wvzz
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I did. Accepting money from a plagiarism-as-a-service company is still overwhelmingly disrespectful to artists. Your policies do not make this okay, Anthropic has no place in any community that even pretends to care about artists and creatives. Whoever approved this should still be fired.

To be honest, I mostly care about the impact in the Free/Libre ...

2026-03-06T08:37:16+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…mses
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To be honest, I mostly care about the impact in the Free/Libre software ecosystem. I try to avoid most of the big company's software either way.
The major tech companies can choke on their own incompetence and shortsightedness, that's honestly probably preferable.
(cc Eva Mikkonen (npub136e…tuy7) who's reply was in a similar vein)

What is the maintenance plan, for code no one wrote, that no one ...

2026-03-05T21:25:37+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…azks
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What is the maintenance plan, for code no one wrote, that no one designed, and that no one can explain?
We already have an overwhelming number of projects struggling because there is only one person who understands the code - at least they can try to train a successor, teach them how the code works, why it is as it is, can explain themselves.
What is the plan for code where 0 people actually understand it, and every bug fix requires a reverse engineering effort?

I think part of the problem with the LLM code infestation that ...

2026-03-05T20:12:33+01:00

I think part of the problem with the LLM code infestation that gets glossed over a lot is that it behaves in a similar way to, like, education cuts.
If you cut corners *now*, the immediate visible effect is an increase in productivity/performance.
But you're undermining the longer-term sustainability - over a few months, a year or two, things look great.
But in 4-8 years, when those kids graduate, or those code projects need critical maintenance, you end up with a much larger bill.

I really hate the "this corporate platform we knew would ...

2026-02-18T06:26:27+01:00

I really hate the "this corporate platform we knew would betray us betrayed us, and now we need to run to a NEW corporate platform that will inevitably betray us!" cycle

There doesn't need to be a new corporate platform.
Multiple 20+-year-old open protocols that are completely immune to corporate fuckery are still around and doing fine. A bunch of newer free/open options exist too. In various states of usability.

Can we - collectively - stop putting our hand in the same fire every few years?

an important part of what is happening (and contribute to the ...

2026-02-17T21:32:43+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…gre2
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an important part of what is happening (and contribute to the political & economic pressure), but, I don't think I know anyone who seriously wants things fixed/improved who is saying that protests are the only thing that should be done.

Fair, and I don't think just protesting in the designated ...

2026-02-17T21:30:13+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…72hd
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Fair, and I don't think *just* protesting in the designated free speech quarentine zones is going to be enough to change much, but it does help, including by giving a rallying point so people can get into community efforts; but there's more than just protests happening already - filming, monitoring, and documenting interferes with regime attempts to control the narrative, warning community members, food deliveries to folks trapped at home, etc., + political & economic pressures, protests >

Organizing and executing a coup, unnoticed, in a surveillance ...

2026-02-17T20:03:15+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…4jlq
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Organizing and executing a coup, unnoticed, in a surveillance state, without also having protests and general civil resistance/disobedience happening, with activists who have consistently kept a low-enough profile to not risk being recognized, is ... probably not going to happen.
And a shift into open revolution would be an escalation of, and build on top of the mobilization and rallying of, protesting and civil disobedience, in a similar manner to how the 'arab spring' developed.

The PR is valuable in it's own right, going to protests is ...

2026-02-17T18:46:01+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…xvz8
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The PR is valuable in it's own right, going to protests is one of the primary paths into becoming an 'activist', people who go to them often continue to from there on and often get more involved in organizational efforts, they put public pressure on institutions, if the numbers are significant enough it carries an implicit threat, protests are a major entry point for people to start getting involved in other organization and efforts, protests help build coalitions and alliances, a lot of >

So, it's not as reliable as like, a military coup, but - ...

2026-02-17T16:22:49+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…d5g9
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So, it's not as reliable as like, a military coup, but - protests do work sometimes.
For a closer-to-home example, the civil rights movement was reasonably successful, not perfect by any means, did not achieve everything it wanted to, but there was still a lot of progress in a relatively short period of time as a result, even with the government repression, assassination of leaders, etc.

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2026-02-17T16:01:50+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…8wh4
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https://academic.oup.com/jpr/article/56/5/650/8365350?login=false
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/01/can-nonviolent-struggle-defeat-a-dictator-this-database-emphatically-says-yes/
Nonviolent protests are useful for dealing with authoritarians - it's been studied, it does work *sometimes*, sometimes they are pushed to be more violent, etc.

https://ash.harvard.edu/articles/countering-autocratization-lessons-from-the-2025-harvard-nonviolent-action-lab-summit/
It is not without problems, as a strategic option, though,

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/698924/pdf
and if the military gets involved it's often a coin-flip.

"It's too dangerous" really misunderstands how this ...

2026-02-17T08:00:32+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…w9nv
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"It's too dangerous" really misunderstands how this whole descent into fascism thing works...

Yes, the protests are dangerous - but also, if they don't work, existing withing striking range (Currently - basically the entire planet, but particularly anywhere in the Americas) becomes dangerous.
(Not that there aren't valid reasons to not go to them, but, if the only reason is danger, I feel like that assessment is still founded on a 'it can't happen here' base assumption)

given the protests popping up at high schools, and the general ...

2026-02-14T20:00:28+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…u59y
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given the protests popping up at high schools, and the general trend of kidnapping and assaulting people - including children - it's too late to hide the gestapo from the kids anyway.
A lot of them have seen classmates, a classmate's parents, etc. disappeared, or heard their classmates talk about getting teargassed, or hit by cars.
You can't put the cat back in the bag; the kids already know.

(Note: These social programs and economic improvements are ...

2026-02-05T22:44:35+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…fj7c
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(Note: These social programs and economic improvements are usually temporary, and often illusory - if hitler didn't start going to war and looting other countries, the german economy would have imploded, common russians today aren't doing great, etc. - they aren't good to/for their people in a sustained way, but they're good enough, long enough, to solidify power)

This regime is trying to do the suppression and undermining ...

2026-02-05T22:40:45+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…ls50
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This regime is trying to do the suppression and undermining democratic processes part - but not the welfare, public works, and economic policies that tangibly improve the lives of whatever group they consider properly human.

I think a lot o it comes down to the key factor they're ...

2026-02-05T22:39:44+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…29e7
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I think a lot o it comes down to the key factor they're missing from the standard fascist playbook, tbh - from Mussolini to Hitler, even Putin - they *started* with strong social/welfare programs, and economic policies that very quickly (and temporarily) improved the lives of the common people, alongside the violent repression and undermining democratic processes they're more known for. Often dramatically boosting support beyond the initial fascist-party base.

From that first one: "This review reveals emerging patterns ...

2026-01-22T21:57:38+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…0nkx
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From that first one:
"This review reveals emerging patterns of psychological dependency, crisis incidents, and vulnerability exploitation that signal the emergence of technology-related psychological disorders (...) While current evidence remains preliminary, the documented convergence of attachment formation, delusional thinking, and harmful outcomes, (...) represents a significant public health concern warranting immediate attention."

The research on it isn't great yet, but... What is around on ...

2026-01-22T21:55:08+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…afrr
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The research on it isn't great yet, but... What is around on the subject is not, generally, looking great for the AI-mental health link.

Metaanalysis of some studies: https://www.mentalhealthjournal.org/articles/minds-in-crisis-how-the-ai-revolution-is-impacting-mental-health.html

Article on the concerning anecdotes: https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.pn.2025.10.10.5

Study about AI use in mental health care: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18412

So, research is ongoing, but, early signs are not super optimistic

Maybe the US's move towards 'Nazi Gerontocracy' as a ...

2026-01-20T20:31:32+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…79gk
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Maybe the US's move towards 'Nazi Gerontocracy' as a form of government wasn't a good idea afterall.
Who could have guessed.

This conflict shows up a lot in media coverage when a protest ...

2026-01-17T04:25:25+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…ezc8
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This conflict shows up a lot in media coverage when a protest turns to a "Riot" and windows start breaking, stores start getting "Looted".
The blue-team libs start crying about people 'destroying (their own) neighborhoods', seem incapable of understanding that the people in these neighborhoods usually don't own fucking anything so, not really their neighborhood, and the damage is usually done to the methods of extracting wealth from the folks living there.

They're gonna need to be very desperate, before they'll ...

2026-01-17T04:08:48+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…dx6v
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They're gonna need to be *very* desperate, before they'll be willing to even stomach the thought of, say, a general strike bringing the economy to a halt, or property damage against businesses that support or encourage nazi bullshit, etc.

So, any push by the blue-team ruling class for people to fight ...

2026-01-17T04:05:13+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…6t0h
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So, any push by the blue-team ruling class for people to fight back meaningfully, effectively, against the red-team ruling class, also invites harm to themselves, and to the ones funding them.

There's also the issue of not being able to effectively fight ...

2026-01-17T04:03:30+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…ka5q
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There's also the issue of not being able to effectively fight back against/hurt the current administration, without the dems and dem-aligned parts of the capitalist class also getting hurt by it.
A general strike hurts the upper class. Shutting down a city hurts the upper class. Reappropriating billionaire's blood-stained & stolen wealth hurts the upper class.
Not just the red team, not just some of the upper class - their fates are bound with each other.

If anything, I expect Walz's version of events to be the most ...

2026-01-15T07:48:54+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…jlwp
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If anything, I expect Walz's version of events to be the most polite diluted midwestern neoliberal version possible.
So, if he's going with "campaign of organized brutality", I'm honestly parsing it as "They're doing warcrimes to people in my city"

(for reference; the other setting for that option is ...

2025-12-21T01:43:32+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…cltn
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(for reference; the other setting for that option is 'smart' which just uses the default behaviour for whatever you have
org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences focus-mode
set to ('click', 'sloppy', or 'mouse')

in case you want to set it back to how it was without rummaging through documentation about it.)

Ah, sorry, no idea how to restrict it to just dialogues, ...

2025-12-21T01:37:01+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…p4wz
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Ah, sorry, no idea how to restrict it to just dialogues, unfortunately.

Haven't used gnome in a couple years, but as of last I used ...

2025-12-21T01:17:40+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…ut99
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Haven't used gnome in a couple years, but as of last I used it:
setting org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences focus-new-windows to 'strict'

(with gsetting or dconf-editor)

should lock focus to what window you're on, though I don't think it stops things from being opened above the current window.

If <14% efficiency is the "most efficient manner" they ...

2025-12-18T23:27:51+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…ke04
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If <14% efficiency is the "most efficient manner" they can come up with, economics really needs to be treated more like astrology than a serious academic pursuit.

"... the real economy generates $105 trillion/year, the ...

2025-12-18T20:06:20+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…k8f8
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"... the real economy generates $105 trillion/year, the financial derivatives market adds up to $667 trillion/year."
So, a bit under 14% of global economic activity is actually meaningful?
That's horrific, in a sense, but on the plus side, it implies that with a reasonable response to a global economic crisis, ~86% of it can collapse without a meaningful loss in quality of life, no?
Not that it would, the poor always get stuck with the fallout, but hypothetically at least.

Those cases would still be covered by contracts to extend rights ...

2025-12-18T17:48:46+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…erwv
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Those cases would still be covered by contracts to extend rights to others, no?
"Retract those rights" was not the best way to phrase what I mean; I don't mean you can arbitrarily pull out of rights agreements, but that authors can't be locked out of their own creative works and have some authority to prevent things like their work going into some vault unused and unusable for 60 years.

Honestly I really just want copyright to be bound to the humans ...

2025-12-18T05:22:51+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…fzfs
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Honestly I really just want copyright to be bound to the humans who actually created a work, and ownership to be non-transferable.
So if you write a book, you own it, and can extend permissions for use to others as you see fit, but they can never "own" it, you retain the capacity to retract those rights, extend them to others, etc. for the duration it's protected. (With death of the author(s) as a hard-limit on duration.)

I've mentioned it a few times to friends from the EU, but, I ...

2025-12-16T19:55:19+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…u884
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I've mentioned it a few times to friends from the EU, but, I think trump has given them a near-ideal situation to leverage to claw out from the US's shadow *and* deal with their tax haven (Ireland) problem, and still come out looking like the heroes/good guys for it on the global stage.