Notices by JWcph, Radicalized By Decency (jwcph@helvede.net)

BTW dunno if anyone said it: Once murder becomes the solution for anything, it's just a matter of time before it's the solution for everything.

The MAGA regime is using the fishing boat murders to set the scene.

#fascism #uspol

@GreenSkyOverMe Well, I haven't found any of those, but this wasn't for the distribution - I had a Yabridge problem. Seem to have solved it now, thanks to a deep search of the Discord support channel 😁

Now I just wish I had a place to put it so other users with the same problem could find it... 😝

Remember how I've said several times that GitHub is awful?

Well, as a testament that I am, in fact, making an effort, I just tried to create an account there, because it seems to be the only place to look for help for some of my #SwitchToLinux issues.

Yeah, that failed. Just can't create an account.

Because GitHub fucking sucks.

You computer toucher types are making it SO HARD! for the rest of us to not hate you.

#Linux #tech

Adam relays the story of a kid he met in a hardware store near Putney once, and... well, I don't usually recommend doing this on Youtube, but just this once: You should scroll down & check out the comments 💛

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHuTG2Og2SA

#maker #AdamSavage #Tested

I keep getting pushback on this but I'm gonna to keep saying it: We're NEVER going to free people from the clutches of Big Tech until we realize & respect that most computer users by far aren't actually computer users.

They don't give a shit about computers. They don't want to see a single line of code, ever.

They don't care about customization, "distros" or versions. They don't care about GUIs or desktop environments.

They just want to get to what they're doing; work or play.

#UX #tech

I've mentioned before how weird it is that fascists are always beating their chests about how powerful they are while simultaneously whining about being completely powerless.

Case in point: MAGA controls every level of the US government, including the parts they shouldn't be - but Chuck Shumer is apparently still able to singlehandedly shut government down on them.

I can't stress enough how that's their own story that they're sticking to.

https://chattrbx.com/@SpiritualAnnie/115362204034651476

#fascists #MAGA #uspol

Pretty sure this is the most important winner of the Nobel Peace Price for as long as I've been alive 💛 the message the committee chose to send with the choice of María Corina Machado, in the current environment of international politics, cannot be ignored.

Peace, they're saying, not only is not what the least deserving person ever to cast himself as a candidate thinks it is - peace is mobilizing communities to fight people like him 🙌

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lafbr3dznxdyvgup2umwssht/post/3m2tfwzegas2d

#NobelPrize #MariaCorinaMachado

@AudioTinker @benroyce - and once you explicitly embrace being a shitty person, going back means having a conscience about that decision & nobody who makes such a choice wants to do that...

"If Elon Musk OD'ed on ketamine tomorrow, there'd be ten Big Balls who'd tear each others' throats out in the ensuing succession fight, and the next guy would be just as stupid, racist, and authoritarian. Musk, Cook, Zuck, Pichai, Nadella, Larry Ellison – they're just filling the monster-shaped holes that policy-makers installed in our society..." - @pluralistic

https://hachyderm.io/@mitch/115244539742914547

#enshittification #tech #business #politics

@evan Depends on the sammie. 😁

- and yet with *gestures at everything*, for some reason Americans apparently still haven't had enough. One wonders when or if that will ever happen.

One could of course ignore that since one lives on the opposite side of the planet, but apart from the fact that the effects are clearly felt here, too, one also wonders just how different one's own fellow citizens would react to fascism. Especially since many of them don't seem to think the US sitch is all that bad, either.

#resist

@StillIRise1963 So very much this. Assholes have always existed - the development of a reasonably civilized society can largely be tracked along the trajectory of "People banding together to minimize the collective impact of individual assholes".

Apparently we have now decided it's time to go the other way on this & maximize the impact of any individual asshole on everybody else.

That was probably a bad idea.

I don't know how to tell you this, but... in this, the year of our Lord 2025, there's still no way of acquiring an overview of all the pictures on your hard drive.

No, really.

I know.

It's fucking bonkers.

#ux #tech

"Trump is the head of a cult that has figured out how to turn fear, precarity and pain into the top of a sales funnel that destroys anyone who gets caught in it..." - @pluralistic

If you have the impression that conservatism is just one big grift, that's because it is.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114898200163028873

#politics

@lauren (I know you, personally know these things but a lot of people don't & they need to be told)

@lauren Well, that's true, but also not. Switching email, for example, is about as easy as getting a Gmail account in the first place - several services have "import from Gmail" as a default offering.

It just *feels* like it's a huge deal - like you're going to mess something up. You almost certainly won't but *you don't have to delete your Gmail to switch*! Leave it on for a bit while using your new email, until the dread feeling goes away.

People need to be told this, again & again.

@lauren Why would you ever trust them to honor any of your settings though? As you said they already overrode them to get to this & also their #AI is stealing content everywhere else.

The only option is to get the everloving fuck out of the #Google ecosystem & then just hope they can't get to you in other ways, which they probably can but don't obey in advance. #Resistance is its own reward & also might actually work eventually. Not resisting definitely won't.

@thomasfuchs I'd say you're half-right, namely the "we're all paying the price". About the Deus thing, well... I actually don't think any of these bros truly really care if their shit will ever work at all, let alone do what they promise.

They're past that & into literal reality domination. That's why Trump appeals to them so much; he's shown them that reality itself can be bullied.

Zuck doesn't care what's inside a building the size of Manhattan - he cares that his name is on the outside.

@black_intellect Is it though...? It's important to understand that what the MAGA admin is doing now is very different from how they got elected. The driver for the latter was racism, of course (yay USA...?) - but they don't intend to give voters a choice ever again so this isn't for popularity anymore.

The purpose now is to tell the population "This is how we treat undesirables, so make sure you don't become one of them".

It's about oppression of *everybody*, not just them dirty foreigners.

I don't know how to explain to young people today that we watched this concert LIVE, ON TV, for an entire day 🤯

Well, for some of us it was more like tried to; I was about 14 at the time & my parents weren't exactly cool so I kinda had to fight to keep the TV on & tuned to this broadcast for as much of the day as possible...

https://toot.community/@openculture/114846853637848915 #music #Queen #LiveAid1985