QuadDamage

u/QuadDamage@kbin.earth
0 posts · 34 comments

Recent posts

No posts.

Recent comments

on AI as a Fascist Artifact · c/technology · 7 pts · 112d

Good post. There is also the cult factor with the current AI/LLM euphoria in where Silicon Valley is selling their ML tech as an omnipresent god and everyone must bow to its superintelligence.

The second level is about attacking the idea of solidarity and connection: Because “AI” will not replace you (again, “AI” cannot replace the absolute majority of workers!) “but someone using AI will”. This sets up kind of a Thunderdome in which we all have to fight against each other for scraps/jobs. This framing implies that you should not unionize and connect with your fellow workers but that you should see them as your enemies, as the people who will take your job and your ability to provide for your family. We know this dynamic, it’s exactly how the right presents migration as “attack”. It also normalizes violence again turning all of existence into an endless fight against one another (unless you are one of the few people in power of course).

This is the latest attempt at socially engineering a cattle pen, atomize everyone into only trusting chatbots and you have a very malleable population.

Maybe MTG actually has some moral convictions that are leading to her breaking from the traditionalists on these issues

Other way around, she's breaking up with the NRX/dark enlightenment faction (the technologists) as the traditionalists don't want a surveillance state.

The goal seems to be oust Trump and replace him with JD Vance. I'll cheer this administration eating itself alive, but I will also call out this "maybe they're not so bad" complete horseshit narrative every time I see it.

This is absolutely what is happening, Trump is basically a figurehead who's beholden to a bunch of people unlike in 2016.

LXQT is also good for people who want a Qt based enviroment but don't like kwin.

*BSD is looking better and better.

Agreed in the long term, linux is becoming a mess imo.

Honestly not surprised, GNOME has been tying itself to systemD for years and this was inevtiable. Won't be surprised if Void and other non-systemD distros take the same path.

Few reasons why it became unpopular on a political level

  • WEF types trying to shoehorn in their agendas and corrupting good ideas (walkable cities and sustainable food got turned into surveillance zones and eating the bugs)
  • Oil industry propaganda (obvious)
  • Boomers
  • Megacorps using it as an excuse to snuff out smaller competitors.

If you want to save the planet you will have to start at the local level and practice regenerative agriculture.

Polls show that voters don’t actually prioritize decarbonization and, crucially, aren’t willing to pay much to bring it about.

Axe fossil fuel subsidies and replace them with green technologies like algae fuel grown with wastewater. So much of climate activism got pigeonholed into "just use an electric car bro" and trying to sustain pointless consumerism and terrible agriculture practices.