Notices by clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)

@annika you're a hero for doing all this work to make this server a nice place to be

@typeswitch couldn't agree more this morning

how the hell am I supposed to replace my torment nexus with a new one every two years with all these tariffs??? this will be a disaster.

@typeswitch 🤔

subduction zone!

@apophis bummer. not surprised that three mining companies in a trenchcoat would draw this conclusion.

@jplebreton Yeah… if the liberals somehow pull out of this mess and regain power it'll be a complete stranglehold on possibilities, I think. And then fascism wins again, presumably. Bleak.

@jplebreton honestly I am still reeling over the fact that I have been hearing conservative talking heads in and out of the white house saying lines that could in isolation come entirely out of a Degrowth playbook. "Don't look at the GDP", "It's okay for stock prices to go down". It feels like a genuine blow against capitalism (favor of the dark enlightenment's fascist techno-feudalism) and it's so surreal.

@jplebreton yeah for _sure_. Though also idk like, I think about how quickly conservative pundits are pivoting to "own the libs and be a real man by having less treats". I think people are actually hungry for a real answer to the guilt they feel over their treats, one that's not consumer choice oriented but a real and straightforward political plan.

the tariffs really are the perfect political opportunity to push forward some radical moves in local politics. legislation supporting new & existing local worker-coops and energy & food cooperatives wouldn't just be an abstract climate issue but an immediate and sane response to national economic policy

not saying that any of this tariff shit is a good thing but it's really funny to see people saying things like "um actually, it's GOOD that the costs of our products is highly subsidized through the extraction of the life, dignity, resources, and stability from places where I don't have to look at it"

degrowth communism will necessitate drastically lowering our rate of consumption and shifting towards local-first, worker-owned, and sustainable production. maybe a good excuse to start now?

@matthewbischoff hell yeah gj

@firebreathingduck yeah absolutely. This is why it's such a good feeling to buy locally-sourced-and-made things. They're an order of magnitude more expensive, sure, but you get what you pay for.

@45c3IF85N oh, yeah, I mean, I'm already doing that and it's great

@firebreathingduck sure, but I might recyonsider what car I'm driving because the owner of the business is instating a coup.

I think the reason we think of tools as "neutral" is that mass production and commodification intentionally alienates us from their origins and positioning within the world and lets them arrive to us as blank slates, wiped clean of meaning. Software just hasn't been sufficiently captured enough to inflict this sort of "neutrality." It seems like AI may "help" with that.

@bamboombibbitybop it's about most system language communities

@gildilinie … no, actually, I hadn't

@clarfonthey noooooooo

if I get one more "why not just C" response I'm gonna delete this post. I promise that I have heard of the C programming language.

@roadriverrail cool is there a "C coders" discord I can hang out in, or