Budsofstone @budsofstone@computerfairi.es

We're going to be constantly scolded that Biden was the "best" and "farthest left" president in decades who "helped workers" and "did everything the left asked for," but the left "refused to give him any credit" and he and Democrats still lost to Trump, forcing them to "move back to the middle." In reality, Biden did very little, especially for poor, working, and marginalized people, and the party was already realigning itself with Republicans before the election on, e.g., immigration.

See also: the time cops in Buffalo, New York casually smashed an old white guy’s head into the pavement in 2020 because he was in the vicinity of a protest critical of police violence.

I realize that “mask off” gets bandied about a lot but there’s always a substantive and observable shift in the way the state responds to critics of the status quo when elites feel genuinely threatened.

stop trying to categorize enbys as amab or afab.
that is just gender binary with extra steps.

Welp, Biden said nothing would fundamentally change, and it didn’t. I would say he was a disappointment but this was pretty much exactly what I expected to happen.

Elvis sent us this video from the grapes in Kern County. Workers share: This is the grapes that we are picking right now. The box has to weigh 21 & 1/2 lbs. This box has 8 bags in it. Look at the nice packaging my coworker did. #WeFeedYou

11 yrs ago I found this funny: 'How many Microsoft designers does it take to change a lightbulb? None. They just define darkness as “industry standard”

But now I can't unsee this:
'How many huge companies does it take to fix the climate? None. They just define global warming as “industry standard”

#repression #acab #racisme

Microsoft has used various tactics to delay Linux and even try to destroy it. While it may have supported SCO's lawsuits via proxy method, its current strategy involves buying influence within the Linux Foundation. This demos how corporations like Microsoft, SCO, IBM, and others, driven by greed and control freak natures, have attempted to control Linux. However, the GPL 2.x licenses protecting the Linux kernel have blocked these efforts so far ;)

No cops can ever stand against la chancla. #1312Day #ACABday

I don't know if Luigi was resigned to being caught, or just wiling to take the risk rather than laying low. It doesn't feel like he knew how to talk to police. I wish he had disappeared, not only for his own good, not only to encourage more action by others, but also because the reveal ruined the mythmaking.

The few days where he was anonymous felt like watching a legend. Calmly clearing the gun for the second and third shots was like a Homeric scene. The getaway on the bicycle, the inscribed shell casings, the Monopoly money, the unremarkableness of his appearance; no other words for it, it was the story of a hero. The "CEO shooter" was being stanned by everyone, by MAGA fascists and communists, by anarchists and centrists, even liberals were going like "I don't condone murder but...". The scarcity of details, necessary for a myth, let everyone project their hopes onto the masked figure. The assassination itself was a masterpiece, no notes.

But now we have just another 4chan shooter ig. All the epic fanart and memes suddenly became silly when we all know his name, politics, motive, profession, childhood school, mother's maiden name and preferred genre of hentai. I haven't looked deeply into the all-too-human actual reality, but from what I can see he doesn't look like a hardcore MAGA white supremacist or anything, just your average Elon Musk fan, edgy "apolitical" tech dude. (A comrade pointed out he could have left a doge or pepe in the backpack rather than Monopoly money and this would have made him a legend with that crowd). It seems that his only radicalisation was Kaczinsky, which he admired not for environmentalism or anti-civ feelings but for the "mathematical" nature of Kaczinsky's arguments in favour of violence (which, to be fair, are fully correct).

Now, instead of a shadowy Robin Hood+Punisher figure who would pop up on stickers and street art, the fallback of this in my circles will probably be a resurgence of Kaczinsky discourse, and I'll have to argue all over again that while Ted's commitment to direct action is commendable he's actually an asshole who sucks, and I expect I'll also have to do the same about Luigi, and we'll have to deal with boring things like the complexity of human beings and ethical nuance and how people who have bad beliefs and do harmful things can also be capable of brave and moral actions like shooting a CEO.

And of course that prison is wrong for everybody no matter if they're a transphobic misogynist joe rogan anti-woke etc. So, sigh, free Luigi Mangione.

Just checking my Mastodon timeline.

#NewSpecies!
New parasitoid wasp from #canada just flew in:

Perilampus neodiprioni

Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/51043FC0-89D1-519D-B170-B91312C22CFA
Publication: http://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.97.133255
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