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Yeah, this is the best solution at the end of the day for most would be text wizards, emacs is beautiful, vim keybindings are beautiful.
Nah dawg, this is exactly the kind of attitude that loses to fascism.
What you do is mercilessly make fun of Chuck Shumer until the end of time, you make his name synonomous with a fake performative opposition to terrifying evil. You make his name synonomous with being a phony coward.
No, why the hell would we let this slide? These are the moments that we must make sure are marked and understood for history both in history books and in the collective conscious of everyday people. Chuck Shumer threw away the last bit of resistance, snipped the last brakes on the fascism train and he did so with incredible smugness.
Nope, lol, we don’t move on from this, I mean we do, but we move on with our new found love of making fun of Chuck Shumer for being the worst kind of dangerous idiot.
I think you underestimate how important this moment was and how thunderously pathetic chuck shumer was in his meeting of that moment.
There are plenty of fascist republicans like jd vance, trump, bannon steve miller, that are obviously hated because they caused this, but the truth is, and even I can admit this as a leftist, chuck shumer is even more pathetic than they are.
I am not bothsides-ing things here, fascist republicans are the clear threat and cause of this, but by far and away I despise chuck shumer more, he wanted immense responsibility and power but apparently is utterly incapable and unwilling to use it to stop a literal coup.
It is like the rich kid demanding the lead role in a play that other more talented and driven kids wanted and then proceeding to utterly half ass the role so it ruins the play even though everyone else on stage is pouring their hearts into it.
Chuck shumer spit in the face of everyone who is still fighting that is why he will go down in US history as one of the most made fun of US political figures by people across the political spectrum.
and that will be precisely the moment historians mark as the point of no return for democracy in the US, fuck you Chuck Shumer
Chuck Shumer is a worthless piece of shit and will likely go down in US history for being one of the most widely despised and made fun of politicians in U.S. history.
Is this a quote from an indigenous leader about puritans coming to North America?
Especially not after the AUMF
11·7 days agoWhere is your evidence of this?
Everywhere? Every decade humankind becomes more uniform worldwide, but especially last few decades.
What? Do you not listen to music? Or enjoy art? Do you not watch theater or tv? Do you not enjoy going to local craft shows and seeing local artists? No matter what happens in the 2000s, the 1900s will be remembered as one of the most artistically prolific, free and diverse periods of human expression and art. Yeah there is censorship, yes western culture is very conservative in ways it doesn’t want to admit sometimes, but in general the shear volume and variety of art created in the 1900s is immense.
The silver lining to this descent into fascism is how pathetic it is, make sure to keep laughing, it is an acid that eats away at a forced serious tone of fascism.
Another issue, is that publicity and interconnectedness of all discourses we have nowadays, increases a homogenuity of thinking patterns, in other words it hurts the diversity of the ways of thinking, that is also something that can be improved by more people going private and having closed interest groups in chats invisible to public web.
Where is your evidence of this?
It is a mistake to think pushing everybody to talk only in private will increase the diversity and quality of discourse. It will NOT, it will collapse conversations into simpler more reductive narratives.
Well let me state this explicitly then, I don’t consider AI to be some kind of existential threat in terms of becoming sentient, or stealing all of our information and hoarding it away.
LLMs are powerful and have lots of use cases, but right now we are going through a really tiresome scifi novel delusion where tons of smart people are mistaking the current wave of LLM innovations as being somehow able to transport us to the singularity or whatever boring tech bros are calling it these days… instead of being a boring, lame regression into fuedalism.
yawn
longish response, no pressure to read
What scares me is the massive energy use of AI, it also doesn’t make money.
If some AI scrapes all my stuff on the fediverse, ok that sucks but honestly that LLM they train off my posts is going to be constantly complaining about corporations, going on off-topic rants about AI bullshit hype and centralization of corporate power… yeah you can sanitize the data, they can profile me… yeah I know.
I feel like that is already a threat enough and there is a tsunami like power that comes from reaching a public consensus through discussing things in public forums and putting our beliefs out there as a form of vulnerability. The more of us that do this, the more that people who disagree or agree can learn, the more we can establish conensus of shared values, the more we can build trust.
The metaphor for our current late stage capitalist society on the afterburners of surveillance capitalism/mass dragnet surveillane and censorhsip is clearly the panopitcon
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
If you suspect you are in a panopticon, or in an environment that is threatening to collapse into an authoritarian panopticon type situation, than the best defense, because lets be honest if you are in this position you don’t have much power realistically do you? is to publically have conversations, share opinions, discuss honestly with people in a way that floods whatever commons that are left, whatever equivalent of yelling chants out of the prison bars to other prisoners… however you want to map the metaphor here…
That is how we defend ourselves.
The relevant question is whether you are in a situation where you can safely do that, if you can’t than take care of yourself, hide. Adopt good digital hygeine and help others out in an unjudgemental way how to do so themselves.
If you feel at all that you can safely speak out, or honestly, if you feel like realistically you don’t have much to lose (because at the end of the day that is the position we are all existentially in, it is just a matter of who will suffer first and thus who has the right to want to delay that suffering the most) then the best defense here is to make as much as you can public through art, through any kind of discussion, because no matter how sophisticated and supercharged the methods of the oppressors are and no matter how overbearing the mazes of false-consensus become…
…they still can’t ever really win in a moment to moment interaction with any half decent artist, any half decent person who knows their worth, any person willing to be vulnerable and say it how it is, and indeed really anyone that is willing to extend solidarity to strangers not because of some emotional need or ideological sense of superiority, but because it is something they try to do out of principle (and of course are imperfect at, so what, society shouldn’t be reliant on people being ethically perfect in the same way safety regulations in society shouldn’t assume people aren’t going to behave like idiots, as frustrating as that is ).
The nice thing is, we are talking about snowball effects here. One of the best drugs in life is doing a small good thing that ripples into a slightly bigger good thing all by itself, that takes a little life of its own. I don’t claim to be any kind of altruist, or someone who constantly does selfless acts but that isn’t the point. Most people feel a basic pleasure when it is easy to help, to help so long as it is simple and direct how to do so. Some don’t, so what.
The power of computers, of software and of social media is that it allows us to help, share, educate, illimunate and reinforce one another in small, tiny ways with barely any effort, barely any energy usage, and we can reach across basically ever barrier humans can be thrust behind by the cruelty of chance to reach them and bring them into the conversation.
Hell yes, keep yelling out of those bars, keep telling it the way it is, keep being you if you can
Anyway, the more general tendency of moving away from public spaces is a right and natural thing.
Let me emphatically say that NO it isn’t.
If you need to anonymize or disguise your identity because you feel threatened, I never want to make you feel like you shouldn’t take whatever steps of protecting your privacy that you feel you need to.
That being said, no, I fundamentally consider societal progress to be roughly equatable to how open the systems are in a society both in the material and ideological realm. Public forums/the fediverse are progress because they allow anybody with an internet connection to read through conversations, learn and eventually participate and add to a general collective benefit and community. This is the power of the internet.
quit whining tho?
5·8 days agoThe story here is how pathetic it is that as a country we are making university applicants nervous to talk about working for an emergency aid relief organization for vulnerable people when applying to go to their dream university/college.
Fuck my country.
Yeah, I don’t post private shit on forums, I discuss things publically so I can collectively have a conversation with countless other people.
If you want to have a private personal conversation sure use a private chat room, but I need that public space to discuss and learn, active publically accessible forums / lemmy / other equivalent communities are goldmines of information that benefits all.
No, it isn’t.
Make no mistake a primary monetization vector for Discord is to scrape the shit out of everything said on its chats.
By suggesting Discord for privacy you are effectively only giving corporations the benefit of a commons while denying that to people.
Discord is NOT private, it is a corporation and your data is valuable.
Discord may offer to sell chat histories in certain communities (after “anonymizing” the data, yeah right like they will do that effectively) directly to AI companies.
Discord is only private in the sense that you are advocating for only a private for-profit corporation being able to enjoy the benefit of scraping and collecting our conversations.
This is not healing, this is the vision of the internet as a truly open shared space that benefits all… dying because people like gamers were too foolish to see the coming catastrophe from putting EVERY community under the control of a single company struggling to make a profit.
The laws written down are merely the highwater mark of how democratic a society is in theory, or they are the lowwater mark of what the ruling class has been allowed to get away with in public in terms of brutally oppressing the lower classes, but they never represent a true accountability of the rich, merely a record of the struggle between the ruling class and the rest of society, a reading of the balance of scales at any given moment that the rich no matter what can still bat away ildly like an annoying fly in their face unless we take the fundamental issues with capitalism and wealth inequality seriously.