Notices by J$ (js@mastodon.nl)

@janneke @fbakker @bmk @caringfarmers Geen enkele boer is er bij gebaat - in een onleefbare omgeving heeft niemand een toekomst.

Toch is de term gepast. Want die is nou eenmaal gekaapt, en daarmee is het de term.

@breadandcircuses … and in, say, 10 years they’ll be the COLDEST years of the last 20 years.

So it goes.

@glynmoody The brownskirts are on the march.

Musk worshipper, Wilders superfan and AfD sympathizer commits an extreme-right act of terror, one day after Musk’s call to action. A, sadly, all too comon example of stochastic nazi terrorism.

Journos: “HE’S A SAUDI!!!!”

Do. Better.

@phaedral Certainly. Ortega y Gasset, Gramsci, Trotski, Bakunin, Marx, Hegel, Locke, Rousseau - insights aren’t all that rare.

Orwell’s “boot stomping on a human face, forever” imagery is outstanding in its clarity, though.

@randahl Yes.

Seems almost inevitable for totalitarians to run into this particular one-way street — where internal pressure/collapse necessitates creation of a permanent state of emergency in order to stay in power, and war being the most obvious tool to get that job done.

Goes for Netanyahy, goes for Putin; but Eisenhower (of all people) already called it out.

@dalias @Daojoan I’m really not saying devices should be replaced. I actually think we need to stop manufacturing them. In a big way.

@dalias @Daojoan It’s not a “cost” thing. It’s an actual resource scarcity thing. Including, by the way, energy. Storage is rare earth metals, minerals, and energy.

You’re right, “this won’t go on forever”. It didn’t; we’re now burning up 1.7 of earth’s yearly resources every year. This year, Earth Overshoot Day? August, 1.

And no, it’s not just “storage”. It’s unbridled growth (the idea of—) anyywhere. And that’s why #degrowth is a necessity. Everywhere.

@dalias @Daojoan I think you’re missing the #degrowth point. You don't need to store all that stuff. And if you actually can’t, that limit is a bit clearer.

The bad thing here is that you actually *can* buy devices that keep up the pretence of infinite, boundless growth. Like I said: one world, and that’s it. We’ve already used it up. Now what? Use it up even more?

@dalias @Daojoan That’s why we need to fix the tech. And actually, limiting the maximum storage would be a GREAT way to put a limit to a lot of resource-wasteful practices.

People actually WOULD need to stop and think twice about using up resources if these resources would (to them) be as precious and scarce as they, well, actually really are (given that we have but one world to burn).

@dalias @Daojoan The solution for that is easy. Things need to #degrowth the shit out of themselves all the way.

Which means, we need to stop pixing every shit we take. And if we do, a crappy-rezzed still is all we need. And the crappyrez should further disincentivize us away from the currently fashionable ultratechnonarcissism (that’s killing us).

@Daojoan #degrowth dictates otherwise. We really need to start doing way less with even way more less.

My fave pet remark: we flew to the moon with less than 4K, and remember the root DNS servers of yore? Well, we’ve been doing way less with much more resource spillage. Let’s reverse that trend, and try to break out of this death spiral.