Notices by Omega (omegaprobe@paquita.masto.host)

@CorioPsicologia Lo de "votar con nuestras carteras" es un motto capitalista que no funciona realmente. Recomiendo los ensayos de @doctorow al respecto.

Por ejemplo: 𝘝𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦. 𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳, 𝘯𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘺 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘴, 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵y 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘬-𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘵. (1/2)

@CorioPsicologia ¿Cuál ese el propósito de abandonar servicios o productos producidos en EEUU (aparte de torturarnos a nosotros mismos)?

Voy a ser la voz discordante aquí (por dar entretenimiento a las masas): you can't consume your way out of fascism (no sé cómo traducirlo).

Si la idea es que tus datos no estén guardados en servidores en EEUU por motivos de privacidad y seguridad, la pregunta es otra 🙂

(PD: Mis datos están todos en servidores de la EU y Suiza).

@pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/21/blockheads-r-us/

"Making art is not an "economically rational" activity." [..] you have copyright maximalists who say [..] "If you don't pay for art, no one will make art [..]" corporations [..] know that they are in possession of a workforce that has to make art [..] paycheck or not [..] because it matters to them, and this trait makes workers terribly exploitable"

As someone who chose making money over art, this particular truth cuts deep into my unfulfilled artist soul😢

Through @pluralistic , Richard Seymour making sense of the zeitgeist, just brilliant:

"Confronted with the helplessness of a real disaster that can only be solved through the collective action you've been told is both impossible and a Communist plot, you retreat to an individualistic disaster fantasy that you can play an outsized role in."

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/24/mall-ninja-prophecy/#mano-a-mano

@luke @goatsarah When poor people do it, it's corruption. When wealthy people do it, it's politics.

@alex_leathard @goatsarah But that's a distinction without a difference.

The point made by OP was that we all pay for that corruption with our taxes, which is exactly true. How many steps you want to put between the expenditure and the tax collection that has to cover it, doesn't matter at all.

Ultimately, we all pay the abuses of the corrupt with our tax money. The specific mechanism only adds interest to the mix.

@pluralistic I have very fond memories of late 90s internet. Going around geocities discovering people's websites was a great source of joy. Sharing the weirdest, funniest, ugliests, most peculiar, and, some times, most interesting, with friends, was a regular "thing to do in the internet". That's all gone. There's no exploring the web, peeking into the creative minds of your peers. It went from unpredictable non-euclidean nD-space to a flat, gray, uniform mush.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/20/ransom-note-force-field/#antilibraries