Notices by Jay Baker (they/he) (mediaactivist@kolektiva.social), page 5

How the UK’s arms trade funnels public cash into private pockets https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dsei-arms-fair-london-excel-common-wealth-weapons-bae-boeing-qinetiq/

"Of course the sad reality is that people will buy the hype, build communities under the everloving watchful eye of Jack “Musk is the singular solution I trust, likes are superficial if not paid for” Dorsey. And then do a surprised picachu face when inevitably, sooner or later, some surveillance capitalist robber baron enshittifies it to a point of complete unusefulness. It fascinates me how quickly people forget lessons from the whole Twitter kerfuffle, and just fall for another Silicon Valley silly con. Without even skipping a beat."

"[Bluesky] is the brainchild of Jack Dorsey, which is no surprise to anyone who’s been paying any attention to BS. Jack Dorsey is of course the former CEO of Twitter, who famously said: 'Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.' This aged roughly as well as fresh milk out in the midday July sun in Portugal. Jack also heavily promoted cryptocurrencies, scammed people using NFTs, and donated a bunch of BTC to Nostr, a 'censorship-resistant' social media platform, because of course. And finally, there’s this comment of his (posted on Nostr; BlueSky not good enough for Jack, it seems). Crucial bit: 'Likes are superficial and exist only to inform an algorithm. Relevance algorithms have their place, but they are best informed by a truly costly action.' No, you stockholder-value-optimizing-robot, likes exist to inform the author that you liked their post."

@riotmuffin I agree; you've hit the nail on the head about the invite codes being the kool-aid! And I literally just mentioned in my local IWW branch this past week that the comeback is always that tired (and doomed) old anarchist mantra as an excuse: "go where people are." I always say: What people? As if stopping by McDonalds on the way out of the local veganarchist cafe run as a workers cooperative is what we need to do, and where we need to be, to build the new world in the shell of the old. I could understand if there was no alternative, but there literally are alternatives, and overtly anarchist alternatives at that. There are places and spaces where anarchism can be built up and built stronger, all while de-legitimising and undermining centralised big business.

With the mysteriously sudden and inexplicable recent resurgence of Bluesky chatter and supposedly precious invites to this billionaire-backed Twitter 2.0, a reminder of this piece about "BlueSky cosplaying decentralization": https://rys.io/en/167.html

@skuppr That's cool! And thanks for making me aware of the racism shit - I had no idea!

Disgraced ex-Tory MP Andrew Bridgen claims expenses to promote Covid conspiracies on Twitter | The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/andrew-bridgen-reclaim-anti-vax-b2411611.html #CovidDenialism #fascism #LateCapitalism #capitalism #eugenics #ableism

Ex-Twitter employees pull Musk back to money table over missing severance https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/09/14/x_twitter_severance_suit/ #ElonMusk #Twitter

@Air_Quotes_Comedian The bulletin? That bulletin I referenced was by email, I should have clarified, sorry!

@scott Yes! Because I wish too!

@jindra Thanks for this!

And now just got a bulletin from Crimethinc proudly declaring "We're on Mastodon, Bluesky, and Telegram" haha fucking hell are we doomed or what?

Fellow #ComicBook enthusiasts! As if their monopoly wasn't bad enough, I'm growing increasingly tired of the poor service and increasing postage from Forbidden Planet. Does anyone have any recommendations for UK-based online shops for #ComicBooks by any chance? I know there was Place in Space and stuff. I'm sure there are several I'm totally unaware of! #comics #AskFedi

@scott Also, amazing header image. Was there ever actually a They Live video game?!

Revealed: ‘Mass suicide attempt’ at immigration centre after detainee death https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/frank-ospina-harmondsworth-immigration-centre-heathrow-suicide-protest/ #NoBorders #RefugeesWelcome

@scott Thanks, I tried it and love it!

@sidereal Thank you for that! I was beginning to wonder if they were sent to test my reality or something!

In the last 72 hours I've had two fellow Wobblies respond to my suggestion that our IWW branch have a Mastodon account by announcing that they have Bluesky invites. The Fediverse is as close to anarchism as you can get; Bluesky, meanwhile, is the next Twitter. So what the fuck is going on? Is this a cult or something? "Mastodon? No! Come and drink the Cool-Aid! We can get you in!" Thanks but I'd rather use a forum, on dial-up, than sign up for and use that shit. #IWW #anarchism #Fediverse

@NorCal_Lynne Same here!

@noondlyt @Runyan50 Me? Nah, I don't tend to follow ignorant ableist pricks. Especially if they annoy Lauren! That's another rule haha!