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15 hours agoAnd you think that makes you cool? You think you’re a tough guy because you don’t care if you’re hurting someone else?
Nobody can force you to care about other people. I hope that some day you decide to for yourself.
dil [he/him, comrade/them]
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The etymology is not relevant.
When I called someone a pussy, I did not mean cat. I did not mean pusillanimous. I meant vagina.
My usage of “pussy” as an insult came from misogyny, so I don’t use it as an insult anymore.
I could have easily said that I actually meant something else, but I choose to own my mistakes and try to be better.
2·2 days agoHappy freaky fly day to those that celebrate
4·3 days agoRight!? You can’t pour from an empty cup, and capitalism is systemically emptying everyone’s cups.
I think the short answer is “join a local leftist org,” typically DSA and PSL are mentioned.
I think the type of projects those orgs should prioritize are ones that give folks incrementally more freedom from capitalism.
I think the best example is forming a union & demanding higher pay, but at a community level you could also look into:
- Community gardens
- Tool libraries
- Getting folks together to buy in bulk
6·6 days ago“Humanity could be a biological bootloader for earth plus plastic”
4·7 days agoLooks like he's focusing mostly on the financial impact to the folks who's work gets used as training data
The judge repeatedly appeared to be sympathetic to authors, suggesting that Meta’s AI training may be a “highly unusual case” where even though “the copying is for a highly transformative purpose, the copying has the high likelihood of leading to the flooding of the markets for the copyrighted works.”
And when Shanmugam argued that copyright law doesn’t shield authors from “protection from competition in the marketplace of ideas,” Chhabria resisted the framing that authors weren’t potentially being robbed, Reuters reported.
“But if I’m going to steal things from the marketplace of ideas in order to develop my own ideas, that’s copyright infringement, right?” Chhabria responded.
Wired noted that he asked Meta’s lawyers, “What about the next Taylor Swift?” If AI made it easy to knock off a young singer’s sound, how could she ever compete if AI produced “a billion pop songs” in her style?
110 hours in a week is just under 16 hours per day. Get to work at 8 am, leave at midnight. Every day.
And as others pointed out, it’s not even like they’re doing anything important. This is cosplay of having a meaningful job.
4·8 days agoI just watched a video talking about how much our media is braindead slop!
1·8 days agoHELL YEAH!!! This is so inspiring, thank you for sharing!
About how long were y’all on strike before getting the goods?
Agreed! My org had folks go out and poll people about what they’re most concerned about, which was a great icebreaker for moving to what they’re doing about it.
I also found that having a scripted opener was helpful in making the approach less awkward (something like “Hi! I’m trying to get a sense of the main concerns folks have. What brings you out here today?”). It also helped my nerves to frame it as just collecting data, so each interaction wasn’t make-or-break.
14·8 days agoControl through guilt.
Nobody wants an event to be ruined, and the narcissist knows this and uses it as a weapon to get what they want.
HEY!! Don’t be mean to my comrade
We are each molded by our environment to a larger degree than we like to think.
The mark of a good person is NOT “did their environment happen to mold them into a good person.”
The mark of a good person is deciding what they value, and then striving to align themselves with those values.
A necessary (but often painful) step is taking inventory of where they’re at today and seeing where they don’t align with their values. Each person will find themselves in varying degrees of misalignment with their values. Nobody starts out perfect, but nobody is irredeemable, either.
I’m proud of you for taking that step, and I’d be willing to bet that the parts of you that you don’t like are the direct results of your environment. I encourage you to look into the Internal Family Systems Model - it was extremely helpful framing for me.
One of the greatest injustices in life is that we each have to try to deal with the ways our environment fucked us up. I’ve heard folks say “it’s not your fault… but it is your responsibility.”
I say all that because I don’t want you to be too hard on yourself. It’s awesome that you want to be better! You’re not gonna just flip a switch and fix everything, and you’ll have setbacks, and that’s ok too!
If you’re taking intentional steps towards being better, you already are a good person.
1·7 days agoThere are plenty of people that think that each of those things are morally wrong, and some who would say that they’re much worse than a bomb threat.
Those people are writing the laws.
Legality and morality are two completely different things. It’s a comfortable lie to think they’re the same.
Having an email provider that will not comply with law enforcement is important because any of us could be next on the target list.
I’m not saying “yay, it’s morally good to send bomb threats.”
Folks who care about privacy don’t want their email provider engaging with local authorities.
when tyranny becomes law rebellion becomes duty
“Illegal” is NOT immoral, and when laws are increasingly being passed by right-wing nutjobs, folks doing the right thing will be doing illegal things.
- women getting access to an abortion
- undocumented folks avoiding being sent to El Salvador
- trans folks getting healthcare
Any platform has three options:
- Always comply with law enforcement, and give up vulnerable populations that are targeted by the government
- Never comply with law enforcement, and make law enforcement track down bomb threats some other way
- Sometimes comply with law enforcement, based on… what criteria? where’s the line?
3 is obviously the thing we’d like, but no company is going to open itself up to legal threats by doing it.
This article shows that Proton Mail is falling into category 2. I think that category should exist to protect vulnerable populations.
101·10 days agoI could see it being a “softer” way of a community enforcing good behavior, especially for things that don’t rise to the level of mod action.
I’m not on an instance with (visible?) downvotes though, and I do think that makes me more comfortable voicing opinions.
The hexbear mods/admins will probably have gotten community feedback and done a poll, so might be worth checking with them?
I’ve been thinking about this a lot, especially when we’re seeing these huge protests and rallies. These are people who agree that what’s happening is bad, and (importantly) are actually doing something about it. How do we reach those people, and start getting them involved in effective resistance?
My hypothesis is that it will take many small ideological steps, and that it will not happen in one conversation. It’s why I’m optimistic about Bernie’s rallies and think that we need to start small, by addressing people’s immediate needs.
I don’t think we build a mass movement by expecting people to hop from their current beliefs directly to ours. I think we need to get people taking small actions in the right (left?) direction to start developing and exercising collective power. That might start as small as a community garden, but that group of people is organizing and working together for their collective good, and I think that’s the muscle that the left needs to build.
Being embedded in those communities also allows you to provide answers to the questions that they’re having, and to steer them towards useful solutions.
11·10 days agoJesus Christ this is fucked.
The MAXIMUM estimates at the number of folks in the US illegally is below 20 million. So this bill is proposing that we spend over $4,000 per person and only to cover the next 4 years.
I’m curious about section 287(g) is of the immigration and nationalities act is - the fact that it’s not named is a bit concerning.
$20 million to “check minors for gang tattoos” is fucking gross… oh, wait it’s actually $40 million bc we have two departments doing it.
its employees had received emails containing obscene and vulgar content sent via Proton Mail.
the email service reportedly refused to share details about the sender of the allegedly offensive emails, despite a police complaint.
Last year, the police department of the southern state of Tamil Nadu had sought to block Proton Mail after the email service was found to have been used for sending hoax bomb threats to local schools.
Honestly, pretty glowing review of Proton Mail
If you care about being a straight talker, then call someone a coward. You are not getting your point across well by using “pussy” and meaning “cat, because cats are cowardly”.
Language is an imperfect way of communicating thoughts, and works by mutual understanding on which words are used for which thoughts. The usage is subtle and constantly changing.
Misogynists use “pussy” in a hurtful way, and so there’s a mutual understanding that someone who says “pussy” might be a misogynist.
Most people don’t want to be confused for being a misogynist, so someone might assume that you’re unaware and tell you that you sound misogynistic. If you “laugh in their face and call them something much worse,” that’s fucked up.
You’re still free to use it, sure, but don’t pretend that it’s effective communication. You’re making a conscious choice that you care more about using a specific word than about communicating your thoughts.