the problem isn’t the existance of ip law. the problem is the double standard created by a system that says when we take from them that’s not allowed, but when they take from us that’s fine. someday i want us to get to where shared ownership of the commons works, but to get there we have to remove the vampires who have stolen the commons from us

a movie about spider web is gonna be huge someday

i’m so excited

some of each i suspect

feature of fascism: the enemy is both nearly eradicated and everywhere

it feels unhelpful, but at this point that’s all i have left. basically saying “now do you know who to listen to?”

and here again i find myself unsure of what to say in the face of something i’ve been warning against for years

the reasoning would have been sound with an enemy other than russia and a timeframe of a month or so. 3 fucking years was an act of cruelty that acted as a preview for the indifference to the horrors in Gaza

The balance between spending time with your elderly to keep them from going bad and going full non contact with them because they’re dragging you down is crazy making

it’s not perfect, but i’ve just been gathering interesting links into my org roam notebook

yup. if you are on the brink of death, and hamas can maybe keep you alive a few more hours, suddenly your moral compunctions with their methods wash away. and so we’re clear, hamas sucks. but when faced with death you take what you can get, and bibi is forcing hands

I don’t even trust non-unlockable bootloaders. There’s so much planned obsolescence everywhere

from the perspective of what’s to be done about it, it’s distinction without difference. if MS is tethered to act in accordance to our fascist dictatorship, and the point of the ICC is to do something about all these fascist dictatorships doing fascism all over the place, then the ICC must divest itself of Microsoft. it won’t be an instantaneous process, but the ICC must immediately begin the process of evaluating and selecting products from outside the united states.

still haven’t figured out we’re all whores in a capitalist society

the pogroms are already happening. it’s all around us

thank you

was this… not how it worked before?

antisemite: jews can’t live in this society. they need to go away

zionist: jews can’t live in this society. they need to go away

may your soups always be tasty and your songs always be sung

Their propaganda methods are also meant to make everyone feel alone. For the conservatives, it makes them feel powerful, like this is all working, like they’re the self reliant culture warriors they always dreamed of being. For the empathetic, it makes us feel like we don’t have enough power to band together and resist them. That’s why right now songs and soup are everything. They make you feel like you’re connected to whoever taught you the song, sings the song with you, or that you teach the song to. The soup fills your belly and gives you the energy to power forward, and the soup you make is also one of the few true choices you have in desperate times. You’re surrounded by the illusion of choice, but soup, soup is something we the underclasses own. You can put anything in your soup as long as you like the resulting soup, and when you feed it to someone else they receive the results of your choices, and they gain an understanding of you.

Conservatives fear empathy, and they’ve announced it in broad daylight. They fear it because its what erodes their movement. It’s what gives us the power to act against them. I don’t know where you’re located @Grumpyleb@lemmus.org, but I advise that everyone on earth is more connected to the resistance and danger of fascism even if they think they’re away from it. Learn some songs, make some soup. These are the most powerful pieces of propaganda in the face of the horrors of our lived reality. A family in Kyiv taught me in 2012 while they were hosting my boss that a war is fought with bullets and bombs, but it’s won with boycotts and boots. For 13 years I’ve carried this wisdom with me and now I’m sharing it with you and anyone else who finds this comment