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... I'm hardly a good debater in the first place, but it is an area of discussion I find uniquely frustrating, and I still don't know how to introduce the more useful ways of thinking about the issue in a way people take seriously. I really appreciate the idea of focusing on what parts of modern society we want to keep and which we don't, however....
... or in making the personal choice not to travel by plane.
There was no acknowledgement of the fundamental link to capitalism, hell, not even of the fact that so much change is held back by eg oil companies. And it can be a difficult thing to explain to people who don't already believe capitalism is something that needs to be done away with; a lot of people take it as a neglect of "personal responsibility" if you argue that consumer behavior is not how we counter-act climate change. ...
I'm a design student and at my particular school, a lot of the problems they ask us to "solve" or at least address through design have been based on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Being a communist in that equation, especially with the course focused firmly on climate change, has been an incredibly frustrating and alienating experience, because many people really do seem to believe that "saving the planet" lies in designers using different materials or in raising people's motivation ...
Here's a comment on that vids comment section that spoke to me, by KnightOfPaint:
Oliver did a video on white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, I meant climate change...well sorta the same thing:
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I was interviewed for Marketplace today about running your own social network site! You can catch me on NPR stations today or just listen/read here:
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/diy-build-your-own-social-media-site-guide/
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If you consider yourself a rational person, and people are telling you you're hurting them, someone else, or the community, then please. Interrogate your motivations.
It is so amazingly easy to draw a chain of implications that ends with something like "they deserve it" or "they're weird" or "they hurt me first." But you not only need to ask why, but you need to ask why in the many different ways. Don't just ask "why do they deserve it?" that's a loaded question. Ask "why should I punish them if they do?"
the community reaction reflects this, look at this reddit post about the video: https://redd.it/ct5by5
"He's not knowledgeable enough, he's not enough privacy minded & he's not using the right software" are common responses on the thread.
I feel like this video perfectly encapsulates the privacy community's idea of "lowercase p privacy". That users are individually responsable for their privacy & the only way to do something about privacy is to choose the right product or software.
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IBM Open Sourced their Power CPU architecture!!!!!!!!
https://hn.svelte.dev/item/20748711
Awsome video: Liberal Mom Forces Son to be Transgender? - A Response to Eazy Ali
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvjHn6QEgh4
@kiwix hey, I just found out about kiwix and it sounds super cool.
I'm giving it a try on the f-droid store, but it looks like it's not showing any content.
Help :p
Although #trunk has been a godsend to find cool people:
I'm new to this whole mastodon thing, so far it's super fun - although I must admit it feels somewhat lonely in here.
@alex_esc_blog_posts Works for good, yaaay!
On his newest vid he went on and on with the reactionary "games don't cause violence" meme, when in fact pewdipie is missing the whole point.
A medium in itself doesn't create violence, but a medium gained and tailored by alt right extremists do. It's people like him that perpetuate violence, racism, homophobia etc, not the games; its the people playing the game of normalization.
I haven't watched #pewdiepie since the Christchurch mosque shootings, the shitpost had gone way to far. I refused to give my attention to a creator who wouldn't try to make things right.
Now that I watched his latest video w/ Dr phill I can't see why I ever watched pewds videos.
They aren't funny.
Leaving @write_as behind, not because I think their service is bad, but because I'm in too deep into GitHub Pages.
I'm moving my federated feed to @alex_esc_blog_posts
Meaning freedom is not a noun, but a verb. Freedom is something we do, we do it everyday with #Foss and #libresoftware.
If you want to be a slave, then consume away, but if you want to be free then make, remix, share and build together - only as a team we can create our liberty.
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