Notices by Fifi Lamoura (fifilamoura@eldritch.cafe)

@evan Does muesli and rolled oats count?

@davetroy "decentralized foundation" hmmmm, it's not foundational if it's not actually part of the reality yet and integral to the implementation. It's still entirely conceptual and likely well out of the economic and technical reach of most people in practical terms.

@davetroy Is that really why Dorsey left? But, yeah, this new round of funding makes it all seem even more dubious.

@glynmoody The Onion also beat out a bigger offer from a right wing buyer because The Onion had support of the parents that sued Alex Jones. The sale is about bankruptcy and paying off creditors. Plus I'm sure Musk hates the Onion for making fun of him.

An excellent post about mistakes, real apologies, abuse and social manipulation tactics used by abusers.

https://www.the-reframe.com/rules-of-engagement/

@Wraithe Yeah, just as a counterpoint, women are exposed constantly to male hate on both personal and systemic levels. Women are allowed a bit of trauma response when men routinely rape and murder us. Maybe not you personally but you still end up benefiting from our oppression. It's like being perceived as White in our society, we benefit from the oppression of non-White people wether we intend to or not. Or living in the West, we benefit from the exploitation of Africa and the global south even if it's not intentional on our part.

@tas50 @tob @mekkaokereke @wendinoakland

Starting to think about what my communication plans with my family in Australia and my friends in Montreal are if the internet goes down because so much of my communication relies upon internet based services. Between age, lack of money, a lot of my friends being busy parents or hesitantly social, and Covid my casual social contacts in the physical have greatly diminished over the past few years. I need to invest more effort into this, I used to be a highly networked and social person. Maybe I need to start hosting a weekly dinner or something...

@tas50 Do it right and your kids will be calling you out on your unconscious racism 😆 Hopefully we are all helping each other deconstruct our harmful beliefs whatever our age. @tob @mekkaokereke @wendinoakland

@tas50 @tob How we reach kids whose parents are bigots or who don't care to pay attention is a different issue. Some of those kids simply educate themselves once they get out into the world and meet a more diverse range of people. White supremacists hate multiculturalism because it erodes White supremacy. Sexists hate feminism because it erodes sexism. In some ways it really is that simple. @mekkaokereke @wendinoakland

@tas50 I'm not saying social media doesn't push it on kids, it's about how we innoculate kids so they recognize bigoty when exposed to it and don't get sucked in. If you have female and non-White friends as a man and model healthy masculinity then you're actively modeling embracing equality, being antiracist and being feminist.
And I don't have kids, though I talk to kids I love about these things, so I'm not here to lecture you. Obviously you're an engaged parent and you've countered what they're mimicking that they see online. Deconstructing and explaining why those dog whistles are racist/sexist/homophobic is part of educating your kid if they haven't already learned that and it's also teaching them to think critically and to be anti-racist and feminist. Feminism is also for boys because it's essentially just humanism at its core. @tob @mekkaokereke @wendinoakland

@tob If the kids were brought up to be anti-racist they'd think racism is stupid. If they'd been brought up to treat girls as equals they'd treat girls as equals and think sexism is stupid. These are values that are learned at home. @mekkaokereke @wendinoakland

@glynmoody The Regime was excellent satire because it echoes reality. I'm now going to assume banana fear lady is an insane authoritarian in the making. You have to be a special type of mean and crazy to have underlings scuttling around doing something this ridiculous.

@glynmoody Good grief, it's a real life version of The Regime!
https://www.hbo.com/the-regime

@lzg Breath of Fire?

@lzg What a gorgeous and relevant work, thanks for sharing it. I love how the black tiles resemble burned wood and how well the whole piece captures a world on fire.

@lzg 😆 about appreciate hot girlfriend's pottery. A lot of this is about being able to think critically. In a former life I was a professional art critic when it was slightly more possible to at least partially survive as one, we all have our personal tastes and affinities but being able to think beyond that is what critical analysis is about. Though my favorite part has always been talking to people about their work and meaning. I really miss doing that, maybe I need to find a way to start doing that again for fun and also a way to talk to people about deeper issues.

@mekkaokereke He's also modeling good behaviour for his own daughter and teaching her where boundaries need to be placed. I'm impressed!

@kissane During the AIDS crisis most of what we were doing was tending and befriending. People on the outside saw the activism and there was lots of organizing among ourselves and with allies but the tend and befriend network of queer and straight people was the foundational layer. This isn't like organizing a corporate event or advertising campaign, you need to focus on care for those who need it first. There'll be plenty of work for the people who want to campaign too (as there was during the AIDS crisis) but any real movement comes out of taking emotional and physical care of each other.

Fascism in the US is just going to be more of the same but on steroids. The police will just have even more impunity and wider scope. There'll be even more deregulation. There'll be even more money poured into prisons and police, even more use of prisoners by corporations as workers. More vulnerable people will die of neglect or abuse. It's not going to be some huge rupture, just a slow capitulation and no legal recourse at all for the oppressed. The relatively privileged will get used to this, not much will change, they may even get richer and they'll be even more compliant to fit in. This is why people on the lower social rungs see the two parties as being the same. It's going to be more terrible for the poor and for minorities. Fascism usually isn't a rupture of the normal, it's a slow process of normalization that requires complicity and submission.

@ekis Generally speaking, we don't really "vote with our dollar" and tech (and other) corporations often aren't beholden to consumers at all. That's a lie capitalism told people to divert us rubes from political activism and it's entirely related to the idea that corporate PACs are "free speech" for corporations. Capitalism will not liberate us from capitalism.