My mom, who is in her 70s, and not particularly tech savvy, just explained that she hates Google now, because the first results are always AI, which just pulls from other sources and is usually inaccurate.

So let’s stop assuming that non-techies, older people, and mothers and grandmothers are too naive to see through the hype. Mostly it’s the tech bros and finance douches who are too stupid to actually understand what they’re boosting.

All of us right now

#wetlands #biodiversity

Our necessary solutions are simple.

This system sells us complex lies.

slanderous reports from the press indicate falsely that im coyot

Hot take: social media is better and more fun when theres no monetization from the company that runs it

In its mad passion for power, the communist state even sought to strengthen and deepen the very ideas and conceptions which the Revolution had come to destroy.
-- Emma Goldman

#anarchism #quote #bot

The U.S. still has indentured servitude and slavery, it's just located in the immigration and prison systems of this country

#h1b #uspol #prisonabolition #prison

Why are people from Norway so good at editing files in Linux?

Their ancestors are vi-kings.

Saw a thing on tiktok where someone said:

"The single-sex bathroom argument is as antifeminist as it gets. It's a total surrender to patriarchy, because it assumes that men not only cannot control themselves around women, they shouldn't even bother to try."

And holy shit that's fire.

I am but a strange mushroom on the mycelial network that is the internet

I intentionally say "Move slow and fix things" as the rejection of "Move fast and break things", as opposed to the more popular "Move deliberately and fix things".

Because I want, very specifically, for *slow* to be seen as a virtue. Slow gives time for people whose entire life focus isn't what we're working on to react to changes, provide feedback that change is breaking things for them, participate in consensus process moving forward.