It really is remarkable how much every tech company is now just PURE FUCKING EVIL and intent on inserting themselves in between every human interaction so they can monetize it, monopolize it, control it... ...and now they want to insert themselves between you & THE ACTUAL ART. It's deeply inhuman.
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This is not a separate project from defeating fascism. This is not a separate project from getting rid of AI pushed by tech billionaires and beloved by fascists. This is not a separate project from fighting the fossil fuel forces behind climate change who love data centers running AI. View quoted note β†’
FUN FACTS ABOUT COPYRIGHT note: I am not a lawyer I'm a self-pub author in the Anthropic Class 1β€”it's possible to register *anytime* 2β€”WITHIN 3 MONTHS of publication: you ideally want to register within 3 months of publication to protect the most rights 3β€”WITHIN 5 YEARS of publication... 1/n
"there's nothing you can do, might as well not resist" = every evil overlord's first lazy-ass approach see it for what it is the bad guy: "how about if you just give up & let me do what I want?" Standard Human Response should always be: "how about you go fuck yourself?" This is about AI.
"independent bookstores (have) dramatically increased by 70% since 2020. Self-published zines and zine fairs continue to be popular" "disenchanted with how our everyday lives have been colonized by billionaire tech bros” I'm not imagining it! Great article.
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In a digital world, Pittsburgh is an analog paradise
At places like Galaxie Electronics and Bernie's Photo Center, young people are relearning the joys of vinyl, film, and slowing down.
I don't like that this is reality. I've been writing it into my fiction since my first Mindjack series because it's so obviously THERE but ignored. If you say "pollution is everywhere poisoning people" you'll get the same response as "COVID is still here" and "the climate is rapidly warming" and "PFAS and microplastics are in everything from placentas to the Arctic"... it's undeniably true but you sound crazy because we've decided to have a mass delusion instead. View quoted note β†’