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   Arnold Boer (arnoldboer@ieji.de)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 07:47:56 JST Arnold Boer

   We, IT users, should form a #union. Together we could stop big tech and AI within a month. Just cancel all subscriptions (and switch to #opensource). They would lose their income faster then they use water in their data centers. Stock markets would respond quickly. Goals accomplished!

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     Tim W (admin (and human)) (tim@union.place)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 07:54:08 JST Tim W (admin (and human))

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     @arnoldboer I love the ambition, but I think you're going to find that "IT users" is just too large of a class to actually activate en masse. Especially since the "uninformed masses" are a large majority of the users of the big tech in question, and real alternatives are hard to come by.

     I'd start a little smaller - think about how you can make a better alternative to one of those pieces of big tech, get together some folks to make it happen, and drive change one piece at a time.

     #solidarity

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     Sam Whited (sam@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 08:10:38 JST Sam Whited

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     • Tim W (admin (and human))

     @tim @arnoldboer somewhere in the depths of my feed I have a post where I was thinking something similar. How this would be organized is an interesting question; would it be a union of anybody against AI? A union of users of a specific service? A union of users who agree to use some version of open source and pressure companies to open source stuff or pay for the open source they use by getting employee unions to coordinate with them?