Notices by v (valkyrie@wandering.shop)

hearing rfk jr talk about how girls are entering puberty at ever younger ages while simultaneously stating that teenage boys have half the testosterone and sperm count of a 65 year old man might sound like public health concerns about what is disrupting our ideal ages for reproduction if you're a dumbass or a man

but as a woman who has experienced adult men's attention since the age of 10 (every woman tbh), here's what he's really saying:

old men should be allowed to get little girls pregnant

the only good technology is free technology

"AI" doesn't have to be bad, but they can only be good when they're free and run sustainably

it's like any other tool really. useless in the hands of an unskilled person. mediocre in the hands of a skilled person. and, like 100% of any other technologies, bad in the hands of a corporation or governments

oh you grew up watching tiktok? i grew up searching for aliens

every once in a while i get consulted about solarpunk themed intentional communities and each time i say that the land and space has to be in a trust so that everyone who lives there owns it, i get pushback that it can't be that way or that a singular person will own it but benevolently. IMO this will always fail. whether good intentioned or not, a singular point of power is an authoritarian model.

sámi activism critiqued by the american mindset, where you're told indigenous people cannot be white, is truly something to behold 💀

seeking whelm not overwhelm

#whelmseeking

there's a reason i've always been unapologetically anti-religion and constantly give dire warnings about it.

so when i see people like Doug Wilson out in the world, out of the shadows, it's like someone opened up the gates so the demons could finally escape.

these kinds of people are what i grew up around, and it's what i left behind. i never thought that people would be stupid enough to let them get so far as to being imminent and influential directly on the govt itself.

truly demonic ppl

"women are the type of person that people come out of" is a wild ass statement.

"i submit to my husband" is a wild ass statement.

between men like these guys and delusional mythological doctrines, it's no wonder progress in the world has been stalled for over two millennia

as always, a true measure of how civilized a person or group of people are, is how they treat women.

never trade your autonomy for convenience

oh you grew up watching tiktok? i grew up searching for aliens

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/lesbian-mothers-win-legal-status-italy-ivf-ruling-rcna208623

another aside:

i do think people are entirely focused too much on tech these days. the main and arguably only thing one needs to know about the state of the world in its relationship to tech now is that things like the global rise in fascism is not the sentiment of normal people. it's being orchestrated by these tech giants and their algorithmic systems. if you want to end fascism of our current era, end big tech.

if that doesn't change your way of life and thinking idk what will.

as an aside to all this:

the LLM ("AI") problem is contextual. if it had zero negative ecological impact, if it was free and open and owned by all, if it didn't make anyone or any entity a profit, then it'd be a different story. it'd be a tool. maybe not a great one, but it'd be a tool. one might be able to actually refer to it as consulting our "collective consciousness" then. but until that day comes, it's nothing more than yet another destructive force in this world.

i realize everything will inevitably get co-opted by someone. even "mutual aid" is being used by surveillance capitalism corpos for their bootlicking tech now. there's nothing mutual aid about cops showing up in your community. there's nothing ecologically positive about AI generated images. there's nothing punk about a single person trying to be the face or custodian of something.

tbh nowadays i feel like i should be distancing myself from the label because of how people are behaving.

there are no manifestos. there is no right way to punk. y'all go on about decentralization and how it's the future yet try to centralize an idea? a feeling? a society? what are you even doing?

movements like this aren't just art. they aren't just survivalist grit. they aren't just a quick grab for a solution to any of the world's problems. they're a feeling, and a deeply rooted passion. you're either in it and understand it, or you're flailing on the surface with vibes and aesthetics.

ah, i see the "solarpunks" are beating each other's asses again on social media over who's right and wrong about a dynamic, flexible, and nebulous movement while creating boring, unimaginative green-washed AI images for all their posts

i've always had a reluctance to attach labels to myself due to all the baggage that comes with a label. one thing that's necessary is for narcissistic individuals to stop trying to be the leaders or visionaries for something as nebulous as solarpunk. no individual will ever have the right nor the capability to define the meaning of something like this. each group will have their own consensus, and that's it. browbeating people about what it is and isn't, while being wrong yourself is a bad look.

movements die by people attacking and eating each other inside said movement