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   Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Sep-2022 14:18:18 JST Alexandre Oliva

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   spreading awareness of the need to fight back;
   speaking about software freedom and taking back control over our digital lives tomorrow;
   voting bolsonaro and his gang out on Sunday;
   looking into publishing shortly, maybe even this week, an article about my legal struggles against banks' attempts to impose the use of tracking devices
   
   it's not much, I know, but it's what I'm managing to do. how about you?
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     :pine: the ☀️ & the ? (t54r4n1@mspsocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Sep-2022 14:18:23 JST :pine: the ☀️ & the ?

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     @lxo what are you doing about that this week?

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Sep-2022 14:18:24 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     • :pine: the ☀️ & the ?
     people make decisions, yes
     but these people are selected by power structures to make decisions that favor the shareholder's return on investment over anything else
     if these people privilege interests that conflict with shareholders', they get replaced
     factor in that stock trading is currently controlled by algorithms, and that the humans in charge of them make decisions about them under similar constraints, and you should quickly realize why the dominant species in the planet is the corporation, an early form of artificial intelligence that we now serve, and that doesn't care at all about our future, even if it still depends on us to carry out its actions
     that's the reason why we seem so doomed
     we must take control back from them very soon if we're to stand a chance of surviving
     https://www.fsfla.org/~lxoliva/#singular
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     :pine: the ☀️ & the ? (t54r4n1@mspsocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Sep-2022 14:18:25 JST :pine: the ☀️ & the ?

     don't be the someone who sees "corporations create 71% of all carbon emissions" and forgets that a corporation is made up of people, who make decisions. that's doomer shit

     like, the decision to run your facility on coal power, or the decision to leave the lights on overnight, or the decision to drive your merch to stores in a fossil-powered vehicle,

     people make these decisions on the clock

     you might even be one of them