The solution to massive social networks that can be taken over, ran by massive cunts, become unfathomably capitalist hellscapes, breeding grounds for fascism blah blah blah, isn't "I'll built my own, and you'll love it because I am right, now I just need 30 million" or whatever, it's "we can work towards creating an ungovernable number of alternatives and seize the means of production"
joined rednote to watch all the hubbub and learn something and all the comment sections are just
Americans: Do you hate us 🥺
Chinese: No, we feel sorry for you, please come visit, most of us speak English but here’s all the Mandarin tutorials you could ever need.
Americans: I love you 😭
Chinese: Please start a revolution though.
And pabst blue ribbon really tastes like it.
@ultraviolet https://monads.online/@ultraviolet/113844384621795601
"among the 19 million people who voted for President Joe Biden in 2020 but did not vote in 2024, nearly a third named Israel's U.S.-backed war on Gaza as a top reason for staying home."
29% of 19 million is 5.5 million
The popular vote margin was 2.3 million
Less than 300,000 votes across certain swing states could've changed the outcome
Always remember:
1. This ban happened because successive US Presidents Trump and Biden disliked the speech that was taking place on TikTok. No other reason.
2. Maybe you don't use TikTok. If the US Government can do this to TikTok, it can *and will* do it to whatever thing it is you like. This is true *even if the TikTok ban never goes into effect*. The U.S. now has a loaded, functioning weapon against free speech, and the next person who gets to use it is Donald Trump
https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/us-supreme-court-upholds-law-banning-tiktok/
Disability, Doctors
What changed you know? I'm the palest I've maybe ever been, but my PCP is also brown. But the rest are white. Maybe after almost 10 years of hormones i look less intersex. The gaslighting is some of the worst as far as disability goes cause it comes from everywhere, docs, friends, partners, family, strangers. And its gotten so much worse since the start of the pandemic. People glare when I have to use I cane, purposefully cutting me off. Like sorry you don't believe in canes?
Disability, Doctors
Doctors suck, I have been gas lit into almost thinking I was a hypochondriac. After years and years of doctors not doing their job cause my stuff is a little unusual. And they are lazy? Or just bigots. Out of no where recently I've gotten dx'd and medicated where I've been told previously that nothing was wrong. Its been very weird. Like I've been telling doctors for years I have immune issues and now out of nowhere they believe me and do the tests and of course I do have it.
@woe2you @dalias @altruios @tante Disclaimer: I say that working for an AI company. I get to see firsthand how utterly useless LLMs are at their job, whether it's commercially available ones or ones that we train on our own hardware. They can't even produce buggy code correctly. The only useful AI stuff we sell is bespoke tools designed and trained specifically for and with our clients' data. None of it is LLM based.
Last August, Lynch (who had emphysema) said he might never direct again because of the "let it rip" covid unmitigation strategies adopted by governments everywhere.
Wondering how many mourners would willingly, and without prompting, wear a mask around people suffering from Long Covid, respiratory illnesses, or other immune dysfunction, out of respect for their struggle, instead of placing the entire burden on vulnerable disabled people.
Biologist
Love old tech and anti-authoritarian praxis
RISC and singlecore CPUs
#runbsd
Lots of body no worky Just a puppy