(There is a clear parallel to the Luddites here, who were skilled technicians and clothmakers who weren’t worried about technology surpassing them, but the way factory owners used it to make cheaper, lower-quality goods that drove down prices.)

I think we need to start putting this on billboards.

Seems like a good fit for processing maybe?

https://processing.org/examples/arm.html

3dp.rocks

I feel betrayed as a geologist by this bait and switch.

Wait the teacher got to the point they have a 3d file right?

If so this seems like a job for Blender.

https://daler.github.io/blender-for-3d-printing/printing/export-stl.html

There is zero evidence this is a leftwing person who killed Charlie Kirk.

Let me repeat for all of us.

There is zero evidence this is a leftwing person who killed Charlie Kirk.

If it turns out the shooter was a leftwing person, we can have a discussion but until then the framing is problematically pre-emptive.

Israel and by extension the US are rogue states begging to be reined in before they self destruct and take everyone else along with them to WW3.

I would recommend syncthing and plain text files organized in a simple clear folder structure.

I would alternatively recommend Logseq, Obsidian or Joplin but the issue is file syncing/file share.

Actually Cryptpad!

https://cryptpad.fr/

I recommend using a general tool in a simple way rather than look for a specific niche tool in this case but that is just me.

It is existential that the powers that enabled Israel to be insulated sever such a relationship with Israel or be ousted from power by internal unrest. That pattern is developing all over the world, people in general don’t want genocide to happen it turns out.

Is that a threat? …because Israel is in no position to be making threats.

Luck Be A Landlord, Lumencraft and Halls Of Torment are awesome!

Lol I love how people assume they won’t load the AI up with even more ads than the traditional search results.

Unfortunately not understanding or being sufficiently motivated by the threat of corporate social media is still prevalent among a good amount of lefties I know, but I find even when they are uninterested in leaving corporate social media they can at least understand the logic behind it in a way a lot of techy type people start to just get combatitive when you try to explain.

Most often when I have a conversation about this with someone who is very technically well versed with computers and the types of systems that are relevant to federated social media their response is to answer every one of my broader ethical questions by changing the topic to a conversation about technical details and they either utterly miss the point or outright refuse to have a discussion about it because they think I am being too cynical.

Ultimately these people only have one real argument which is to just repeat the mantra “stop being so negative, lets just wait and see before we jump to conclusions” endlessly about the same cycle of bullshit repeating over and over again.

Intelligence and expertise is worth pursuing for the benefit that comes from learning for the sake of learning, but it is true that there is a danger to knowing more and more about a very narrow subject in that it becomes more and more seductive to believe that the thing you are an expert in is a key to understanding everything else and that this gives you a righteous vantage to look down upon the genius of others and judge from afar.

Some of the smartest people there has ever been or likely will ever be throughout history have time and time again completely undermined their potential by falling prey to this delusional drug of a belief.

Greta Thunberg is a certified badass, if I ever come in to possession of a large bulldozer I am going to name it after her in honor of the fact she gives zero fucks about obstacles in her way trying to hold a better future back, she plows the bullshit out of the way and keeps going.

I have no doubt that the muslims would do the exact same thing, if they had the chance.

This belief is a prerequisite to turning a blind eye to the Palestinian Genocide or perhaps it is simply the last defense people have for turning a blind eye. Is that you? Is that why you are behaving like a child on such a serious topic?

Shame on you for responding to a genocide only with laughably speculative handwaving about how in a wildly different situation Muslims who are victims of a genocide would commit genocide.

This is what you choose to focus on right now?

Shame on you for lobotimizing your empathy.

Because silicon valley thinks it can define reality however it wants and keep telling us not to believe our lying eyes.

Weirdly this seems to work better on techy people who don’t like thinking about politics but understand the technical details of this extremely well than it does on normie progressives because progressives just see the obvious predatory reality and don’t get distracted in minutiae connected to very obviously empty promises.

The tech press does not ever talk to progressives though…

According to who? I have seen zero evidence in my life capitalism requires a legal framework, it simply requires the threat of violence.

Except that piracy has always been explicitly endorsed by the beneficiaries of the system, they simply change the name, structure the conditions such that their piracy is considered part of the system even if it isn’t and then proceed to be pirates.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privateer

Things get even more muddled when you consider that selfish agents may believe they are structuring a system for selfish gain when they are in fact destroying the system for everybody including themselves.

Folks, you can use GIMP to arbitrarily edit pdfs (it will load multipage pdfs as multiple layers) you don’t need to mess around with sketchy tools.

https://docs.gimp.org/3.0/en/import-file-formats.html

I mean, you can do something illegal and still be a hero.

This man’s name is Brad Smith, he is directly complicit in profiting off of the Genocide Of Palestinians.

Brad Smith is a mass murderer but more pathetic than the typical one because he just wants to profit off the genocide without having to witness the actual violence of it firsthand.

I propose a toast to Brad Smith living a long and painful end of life with a debilitating disease that destroys his quality of life or some other form of small justice befalling him!

I raise my glass

During a press conference on Wednesday, Smith said Microsoft has launched a formal investigation into Israel’s reported use of Azure. “We are committed to ensuring that our human rights principles and our contractual terms of service are upheld in the Middle East,” he said.

BULLSHIT

If we continue to let men like this rule society with no meaningful consequences for them we will be utterly subsumed into violence, it is only a matter of time.