LCII
“Once I know that I can remember
whenever I like, I forget.”
—Umberto Eco
LCII
“Once I know that I can remember whenever I like, I forget.”
—Umberto Eco
TImothy Snyder, “How to Stop Fascism”
Voting matters.
Coalitions are necessary.
Conservatives should be conservative.
Big business should support democracy.
Citizens should not obey in advance.
Adrienne Buller and Matt Lawrence, “We Can Reimagine Our Systems of Ownership and Control”
To challenge the primacy of property, we must democratize production, decommodify life’s essentials, and defend the commons.
Democratize the economy, decommodify the foundations of life, defend the commons.
We have the resources and capabilities today to guarantee material security and the fundamentals of a good life for everyone on earth. There is no need to wait for some imagined technological liberation nor justification for doing so.
What if finding out that your job could be automated was a thrill? What if it meant that a worker could be paid while the robot did the work? How about this: once the job that you train for is automated, you get an automation pension and get to relax for the rest of your life. Everyone will be praying their job is next on the list to go.
The Problem With AI is the Problem with Capitalism
Aaron Carr, Everything You Think You Know About Homelessness is Wrong
It is not incumbent upon you to finish the task, but neither are you free to absolve yourself from it.
(Ethics of Our Fathers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirkei_Avot) 2:21
Jason Koebler, “Right to Repair for Your Body: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine”
Kyle Wagner, “The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate”
Co-opting the language and posture of grievance is how members of a privileged class express their belief that the way they live shouldn't have to change, that their opponents are hypocrites and perhaps even the real oppressors.
They see themselves as the ones holding true to the ideals in which their opponents only profess to believe.
All culture wars are at bottom about the same thing: the desperate efforts of the privileged, in an ever-pluralizing America, to cling by their nails to the perquisites of what they'd thought was once their exclusive domain.
A society whose synapses have been replaced by neural networks will generally tend to a heightened version of the status quo.
Dan McQuillan, “Rethinking AI through the politics of 1968
D2 PLayground
A scripting language that turns text to diagrams.
PewPew Tactical, “How-To Use the Baofeng UV-5R for Squad Comms
CFPB, “New Ways to Combat Harmful Debt Collection Practices”
Laura Elizabeth Richards, “Eletelephony”
Once there was an elephant, Who tried to use the telephant— No! No! I mean an elephone Who tried to use the telephone— (Dear me! I am not certain quite That even now I’ve got it right.) Howe’er it was, he got his trunk Entangled in the telephunk; The more he tried to get it free, The louder buzzed the telephee— (I fear I’d better drop the song Of elephop and telephong!)