Lol talkin shit about based welsh people while being aussie. Ok meight.

Relevant for me; i nearly changed careers out of tech entirely – being fed up with the state of the industry – but found some great folks in worker cooperative spaces. Here’s what’s kept me optimistic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UmU1dSe3n0

Plucked a vid off this channel and let it be known the idea of the channel name is to “reject isms/be your own ism”

Solarpunk has replaced, for me, the plasteel+glass greenhouse skyscraper skylines. Afrofuturism offers a much better preconfiguration than anything of capitalist and anglo origins. Importantly, the dismantling of unjust heirarchies.

I never lost the optimism, i just recognized that the root cause of our pain is not going to be addressed by technnlology (new invention) without an equal-or-greater effort into decolonizing and unlearning on the part of those building, using and promoting a given technology.

Lmao get out you weird bigot

https://resonate.coop/ is a spotify alternative which has been goin on for several years now. Support for small artists goes far, solidarity for all workers, Co-Ops represent a neccesary stepping stone towards a sustainable society so Subvert is nice to learn about :)

For whoever’s interested in long form vid essays about likely root cause

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2R8q8GDwZ0

Looks like they have at least one more about Ireland but ive yet to watch that one.

As a tech professional, fuck AI, fuck Neoliberalism, and we need unions:

https://www.techradar.com/computing/i-watched-nvidias-computex-2024-keynote-and-it-made-my-blood-run-cold

^^^^ this

https://genius.com/Cheap-perfume-its-okay-to-punch-nazis-lyrics

When we got complacent
In defending our rights
The Nazis changed their name
Now they’re called the alt-right

Lol took us > 2 weeks but we got to the bottom of it

My initial comment in this thread was in response to someone (maskenox?) conflating the two. (Neither of which i am fond of, to be abundantly clear)

Edit: also, yes? When i went and folded all the comments…ig your initial reply was also to the same comment? Even though the voyager app shows them as diff colors…yellow and orange…doesnt make it as obvious and it isnt clear when it indents and when not… 💀

https://feddit.uk/post/12865710

[The execs and above are] Well compensated for pouring jet fuel on climate disaster.

Delete Nvidia

Not bro. Nbd.

Who remembers Macromedia Fireworks?

There’s a big inky black spot in my screen where i dropped it and i cant afford a new one and mobile keyboards are ass, so typos in the first idk 50 chars are common. 🪦

Fck Nzis

🐧

Really hoping to see a surge in demand for “Anti-AI” software/services/community.

Fuck the Hype and the bubble cant pop fast enough

“Hey fucker, your right to swing your fist ends where it collides with someone else’s face”

^ Dont make me tap the sign

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/zone-of-interest-oscars-banal-dreams-nazi-settler-colonialism

On what morality is: This was a quick read about what enables dehumanization and mass atrocity, as relevant to both history and ongoing fascistic settler colonial imperialism.

Way back in limewire era this was credited to NiN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW_4mRJCatg – to this day i havent got to the bottom of it. I should watch the movie

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/6039327

" if you’re under retirement age and quit your job tomorrow, do you have enough assets to comfortably live out the rest of your life"

This gets to it. Basically bourgeoisie is the owning class and proletariat is the class that can only survive via labor, but as the post says it’s a bit more complicated these days. You could have a business owner or landlord who gets the same amount of paycheck as say a high-paid tech person, or actor, or doctor, or something. And the former is petty bourgeois and the latter is not, because the former owns assets and the latter, if they lose their job, will before long need to find another one in order to survive.

Now you could have someone getting a wage that’s been high enough for a long enough time that they have been able to acquire assets that could bring in income, which changes things somewhat. But the main thing to analyze is the relationship to resources, land, and means of production.

I didnt bring stalin up. The comment i was replying to misattributed (or “sounds like”'d, if you prefer) a quote from Zuckerberg to Stalin. That read to me as right-wing rhetoric, pushing red scare, equating Communism, the society which is classes, moneyless, stateless, and flattening that concept into “been-tried-already-Stalin’s-Tyranny”

Which is pretty gross considering the big picture; the extensive harm which not only Zuck/ FB has done, not only by technocratic bro billionaires and corpo-owner social media as a trend, but the overall economic system and specifically imperial-colonial project which it is an extension of (colonizing of minds and thought, of our attention, to advertise to, for quarterly profit and power coupons) – all the while doing their best to promote apathy.

To prefigure a betted society, we must be able to dream. The only thing doomerism does is give the owning class that apathy while they bulldoze over Sudan, Palestine, Rojava

Or at least thats how I see. All of the power and pleasure to all of the people. Hope that clears things up.