Notices by Donnie Hyxos (macbraughton@infosec.exchange)

@inthehands not recommending, just informing, there is an $TSLA “inverse etf” $TSLZ that is around $6 a share right now that goes up when $TSLA goes down. I couldn’t tell you the mechanics of how it works exactly, other than that it is designed to be used within a single day of trading (they are not meant to be held more than a day). So if you happen to feel like jumping on the rollercoaster on a day where it looks good it’s a pretty cheap ticket.

@evacide whenever I see an old globe the first thing I do is look to see which countries no longer exist

slogged our way through Dune Prophecy. I guess it’s okay? Not great, acceptable on a certain level. I don’t really like the pacing, had high hopes for the writing. Some decent action in the last episode. Overall Meh. Will probably watch the next season when it comes out but overall it’s a bit flat.

I’ve started to post something and deleted it at least a dozen times over the last week. I’ve read so many articles outlining people’s takes, opinions, and post-mortems, but the gnawing feeling in my gut just hasn’t gone away.

@pluralistic has been beating the drum about enshitification for a while now, and Zitton does a really good job here pointing the finger exactly where it should be pointed.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/lost-in-the-future/

This is it, the social contract is broken, #enshitification was THE decisive factor in the outcome of this election.

Used to be a time when the bottom line of a company was connected to providing value for its customers and its not just its shareholders. Now they take our money, give us garbage in return, and use the money we gave them to elect the fasch who will help them keep doing it.

My hope is that they don’t realize that their arrogance is radicalizing people… that they are completely suprised when one day they wake up and everyone has stopped believing in them and stopped using/buying their products, people no longer covet getting a job at their companies.

There are two words in my mind that keep coming up:

1) Divesture

When you have the opportunity for discretion, use it by refusing to invest in these companies with your time and money. Find alternatives if you can, or accept a sacrifice if you can afford to do it and there are no other options (also understand I don’t want or expect you throw yourself under the bus in the process).

2) Solidarity

This is a word I’ve heard many times in my life but I didn’t really understand what it meant until quite recently. That is by design. Solidarity is the thing that these asshats fear the most. It’s a word that can’t be appreciated fully without the context of class struggle, without the realization that we are born into a conflict between labor and capital that began long before us.

It comes down to standing with your peers, not your oppressors. Stop believing in the lie that you can “become like them”. Recognize that hoarding wealth and status is actually evil, that by pursuing that path you are reinforcing and compounding those evils (and becoming evil yourself).

If that’s what you really want then there is nothing I can say to change your mind and this post isn’t meant for you. Go ahead and be evil. For the rest of you, JOIN A UNION if you can. And don’t just join, get involved so that the leadership that is supposed to represent you does their job of representing instead of colluding with management.

I’ll sign off by saying that I am in Toronto and I would really like to connect with more like minded people on a more personal level than mastodon allows. If you think we are on the same frequency please message me on signal (contact is in my profile).

In Solidarity!

@inthehands maybe that is exactly why it sounds better, because the way our brains percieve the sound is “smoothed out” by the audible noise in a way that is missing with the digital? i don’t know, obviously something is going on here on the perception level of our senses that isn’t easily explainable from a reductive viewpoint regarding fidelity.

many people describe the difference is “something missing” in the digital version, sounds a lot of wha it’s missing is the noise to me

@inthehands @conniptions @mekkaokereke could this mean that the physical production process itself introduces error that sounds better to the human ear because the randomness it introduces is more “natural” than the randomness that arises though purely digital processing?