Notices by Sally Strange (sallystrange@eldritch.cafe)

@josh We sell quilts at discount price

@aureliuspublius @jonah Yes the good cop is now the bad cop and vice versa. You are very smart

@dbattistella @aral help me @OCRbot my eyes are so bad

This amounts to a declaration of intent to facilitate genocide against queer people. It's not like Mark Zuckerberg doesn't know how to facilitate a genocide.

https://ohai.social/@pictor/113810237547249498

@Looping @hellomiakoda I gather you find it hard to talk about?

Since apparently it needs repeating:

Yes, capitalism is boiling the planet. Yes, it's capitalism and not some special, uniquely corrupted system that's somehow distinct from Real Pure Equitable Regulatable Non-Toxic Capitalism(TM). Yes, capitalism may have changed and gotten worse lately, but that doesn't mean its earlier iterations were at all redeemable. They all contributed to getting us to this planet-boiling point.

Stop defending the system that's killing millions and incubating multiple infectious diseases rather than disturb business as usual. Stop letting your friends defend it. Capitalism is biocide. Capitalism is death. Abbey was right: capitalism is the ideology of a cancer cell.

#capitalism #economics #politics #EverythingIsPolitical #degrowth

What's UPstate New York?? Now that my bad pun* got your attention, please boost this post to help these adorable pitbull/American bulldog puppies find a home. If you're not too far from Delaware County and you want to give one of these babies a home, they're free! They're 8 weeks old right now and healthy. DM me if you're interested and I'll put you in touch.

#TIL: Failed Korean coup-er & former president Yoon Suk-Yeol was radicalized by right wing youtube videos

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/inside-south-koreas-right-wing-youtube-world-openly-embraced-by-yoon-2024-12-16/

Reading about bitcoin and blockchain. Much of the interest and/or hype around blockchain involves what its advocates call "trustless" systems. Here's how "Ukezi Ebenezer" (sounds like a nom de plume, but who knows) explained it:

"A trustless system is a system that does not rely on actors to behave in a certain way for the intended result to occur. The system executes the action without relying on humans to do so. There is no intermediary party, like a bank or broker, moderating the event. You don’t have to worry if the person you’re interacting with can be trusted. The system creates trust for you."

Honestly this sounds like a recipe for disaster to me. No intermediary, no humans involved, means nobody who can explain it, nobody who can fix it, nobody to whom people can appeal when things go wrong.

And they're not actually talking about eliminating trust. They're talking about distributing trust. Making it so that, instead of trusting one or two bankers, you're trusting in thousands, maybe millions of other people to use the system rationally and spot errors when they occur.

The techbro obsession with eliminating humans is not good. You can't actually eliminate humans. Someone still has to service and maintain the system. It's foolishness for humans to try to eliminate humans from any system that's built for humans to use.

No wonder they have weird fantasies about uploading themselves to the mainframe.

https://medium.com/@Ukeziebenezer/unlocking-societal-benefits-the-shift-from-trust-to-trustless-in-finance-505e3309d524

@safonas @healyn We don't need to allow every technology to prove itself useful. That would be an immense waste of resources. We can and should use discernment.

It's clear that blockchain technology has useful applications. My specific critique here is that the term "trustless" is false and negatively misleads people into thinking lack of trust is possible or desirable.

@WhyNotZoidberg well you are morally superior to said puritans

“You’re all horrible people. I’m glad y’all got this job to fuck with the homeless and not help society.”

--A homeless woman, in labor, being cited by Lt. Caleb Stewart for illegal camping in Louisville KY

“So I don’t for a second believe that this woman is going into labor."

--Lt. Caleb Stewart

The woman gave birth to a son (in the hospital) several hours later.

SCOTUS approved y'all! #USpol #Homeless #Misogyny

https://www.lpm.org/news/2024-12-19/pregnant-kentucky-woman-cited-for-street-camping-while-in-labor

Typical conversation between a capitalism critic and a capitalism justifier

I'm so tired

https://mastodon.social/@ScienceScholar/113642601745171878

Another one! (I usually don't have to scroll for more than 2 - 3 minutes before I see a fundraiser, you?) Anyway, poverty is scary and being trans is expensive, so give @briellebouquet a boost and some money! Or just a boost. Thanks!

https://queer.party/@briellebouquet/113632014030717889

Unfortunately I've been very occupied today so I haven't been able to see many fundraising posts... But here is one for @nat and @nullagent a whole-ass fediverse family! They're caring for a newborn, boost and donate to help them out!

https://partyon.xyz/@nat/113631275206759072

Please give @AnthonyJK a boost and/or some money! One of my favorite fedi folks, he's so passionate and, how you say, straight-ahead. No bullshit.

#MutualAid #BoostLikeABoss

https://mastodon.redgarterclub.com/@AnthonyJK/113627661236636491

Boost please! @Testoceratops has been targeted by anti-queer bigots lately, please help

https://disabled.social/@Testoceratops/113624989140537151

Hey everyone, it's my actual birthday. I don't need boosts, although I don't mind them. What I really WANT is for all of my lovely mufos to boost a few extra fundraisers today and maybe even donate to one, if you can. I do look at these things as mutual aid because that was me not so long ago. I'm so glad it's not anymore but that's why I set aside $25 or so every month to give to an online pal. I survived that way for several years and now I'm paying it forward. Thanks!! :autumnleaves2: :blob_fox_bongo: :blobhaj_pride_heart: :possum: :neocat_floof_cute:

I'm going to put mutual aid requests in replies here as I come across them today. Reply with yours if you want an extra boost!