Notices by Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ (richpuchalsky@mastodon.social)

Oh JFC. This article mixes true things like "The first, best thing we can do is stop burning the fossil fuels that are heating the planet" and "Policymakers need to decide when to let the rising seas or expanding deserts take over" with strange understatements like "home insurance [is] increasingly obsolete."

It's called "becoming uninsurable" and no one can stop it.

#climate #fire #LA

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-01-08/california-wildfires-expose-a-458-billion-hole-in-home-insurance

A thread about #Bluesky. What gives people a sense of unease about Bluesky? It's not the crypto / VC backers, the protocol design, or the moderation policy. People generally either care a lot about that or not much at all.

It's that Bluesky is pitched towards self-promoters.

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How is pitched towards self-promoters? Basically through every design decision they're ever made. Starting as invite-only: attracting people who want to feel like they made it past a gold rope into the VIP section. Universal search, counts easily displayed. Starter packs for self-promotion of the person making them and whoever else gets in early.

I want to set out something clearly at the beginning of the new year: we live under the most stupid world regime ever to exist.

(I apologize to those who dislike the word "stupid" as a disability word: I can't find a good replacement in English.) I don't mean innate intelligence, but rather willed disuse of intelligence, failure when success is quite possible. "Success" is here quite broadly defined even as the success of a ruling class, not even that of a people.

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@hakan_geijer

I feel like in the US there is a group of people who sometimes write for C4SS who are the only anarchists or anarchist adjacents who can bear to keep up with what's going on in the American "libertarian" scene. I sometimes joke with @KevinCarson1 that his denunciations of articles in it make him the last person who actually reads _Reason_.

@waitworry @neonsnake

@hakan_geijer

My browser history says it was this:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/

I picked it because I thought it would say something about opposition to deplatforming. The top is tl/dr "it's not a big deal to virtue signal toleration of people who you already tolerate." Please don't ask me to read more.

@waitworry @neonsnake

@hakan_geijer

I tried to figure out what "grey tribe" meant after William Gillis mentioned it, began reading an unrelated but self-recommended article on Slate Star Codex, and I have never been so bored in my life. Read, scroll, read, scroll, scroll, leave the page not through conscious decision but by some kind of lizard brain reflex.

@waitworry @neonsnake

@breadandcircuses

So many problems can be solved by simply being lazy

@MediaActivist

Sorry things have been bad, hope they get better.

@inthehands

This doesn't really close the loop. Most of what people call a "nihilist desire for destruction" is caused by neoliberal policies that actually make life horrible for people and naturally lead to disaffection from the entire social order. When people widely feel that the status quo is not worth saving, it's because the status quo is bad, not because nihilism suddenly made a big comeback.

Israel lets in some food aid, immediately shells aid distribution point and aid trucks as soon as it arrives

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-army-torches-school-gazas-north-after-entry-aid-trucks

@hp

The other side is against genocide. The other side comprises all of the people who didn't insist that everyone vote for one of the two large parties.

@hp

They fought for genocide and lost. As for "absolving me of this result": I don't know why you think that this result was up to me rather than a consequence of how the Democratic Party ran its campaign.

Where are all of the people who said that we could vote one day "and do something else the other 364 days of the year"? Seems suspiciously quiet.

Oh, voting puts you into a cycle where you focus energies on a (fooliish) goal, the active people burn out, and then people are either happy and inactive because of that or sad and inactive because of that?

Wow, as an anarchist I never knew this. /s

@davetroy

Anarchists do not consider "anarcho-capitaiists" to be anarchists. All anarchists oppose capitalism, and all anarchism is against all forms of hierarchical control, not just the state's.

You've created a long thread of people telling you the same thing over and over, none of which was necessary to what you wanted to write. This kind of "anarchists want to destroy the state, and so do warlords, therefore warlords are anarchists" just isn't going to fly on Mastodon.

@Moss

#anarchist #mutualaid

I'm going through my mutual aid money for the year: can anyone recommend people/groups to send it to that are:

1) anarchist
2) confirmed to actually exist
3) not secret / no security concerns
4) if not individual, then things like jail support?

Thanks

Periodic self-repetition: the people making fun of "economic anxiety" as a reason for people going right in the US should consider that people really are much more anxious in the US, one of very few developed countries with no state provided medicine and no universal social support of various other kinds.

It's also true that European countries with these programs are also turning to the right, so this can't be the whole story.

@ironchamber

"she was waylaid by consultants" she is an adult, with developed political beliefs and understanding (she's the Vice President) and she made her own decision. That decision was in keeping with everything else that we know about her and her past history.

@mhoye @owillis1977

Stop creating conferences in the high risk states. No one should have to go to these states for professional reasons.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/final-pre-election-2024-anti-trans

America is, politically, the oldest society on the planet -- every other country has changed political systems more recently. Thus it is like a very old person who still foolishly thinks of themselves as a young rebel.

If I had to characterize America as a single person it would be an 80 year old in a cowboy hat, touchy and armed but not with a gun (he can't see well enough to hit anything), with a grenade launcher. Whenever he gets angry or scared, he fires grenades at groups of people.