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As if healthcare wasn’t expensive enough
I feel that.
Three years ago I moved to fedora and RHEL based distros like Rocky for my devices and servers because I’ve gotten suck of Canonical’s shit. Don’t regret it.
I skimmed the article and I see your concern, but my skepticism remains because of the inherent assumption that instagram is trustworthy and not already tinkering with their own algorithms. Just because the company is American owned doesn’t make it any more or less trustworthy in my opinion. I think the framing is flawed, but that doesn’t discount the concerns with things that are pro-taiwan having such a small presence
I do think a big reason why tiktok is now being held to the flame is the fact there is so much dissent on it. Younger Americans are becoming increasingly anti-israel and more critical of the US’s stance on foreign policy.
Instead of reacting hastily and banning tiktok I think a better action would be placing the same criticisms on domestic companies. Instead, I think we should make companies much more transparent in how they use their algorithms and filter content. Instead of getting upset that one company is censoring, and making them sell to a US company, we should instead prevent censorship more broadly.
edit: made point a bit more clear
I love how a guy with ChatGPT in their experience used a LLM for a job app…
I’m not surprised I don’t see any birds here, considering the only thing I do see is men made of straw.
Give buskers the acoustic guitar with a link to the grid and every time they play they’ll generate a ton of electricity (in relative terms…)
Electro-Acoustic guitars use piezos to pick up the audio if you didn’t know
If you see someone shoplifting, no you didn’t
Well, if there was a valid reason for people to be upset at most the books that have been challenged/banned, then you could list the books that have been challenged/banned and the objections to them.
But the reason is bigotry and as such there is no list of valid reasons to be upset.
I also want to point out that if you read the fucking article it would have had the reasoning behind the challenges/bans in the article.
While I didn’t provide a site or some shit that had a list of books bigots found offensive, I answered your question. If you need a site to tell you that the queerphobes find books with queer topics offensive, I’m sorry that my three short paragraphs answering your question was at a third grade reading level and therefore too complex. To make it simpler, I’ll summarize it in one sentence:
bigots don’t like queer topics
With the exception of Genderqueer, there isn’t much “pornographic” material. Genderqueer has a scene where there is a blowjob, and I can’t speak to it’s nature since I haven’t read it. This Book is Gay also gets some flak because it is essentially a manual on some gay topics, such as sex, grindr, dating, etc. But I wouldn’t consider that porn, you watch porn to masturbate, not learn how to safely date and have sex. Both books are meant for older teens, and both are important, especially This Book is Gay.
There is an effort to conflate porn with queerness. Most books that are “pornographic” are merely just about queer topics, or have a queer cast. This is similar to older efforts to call LGBTQ+ folk “groomers” or “seducers,” such as around the time of gay marriage being legalized, or during gay power movements after stonewall, or when states were legalizing gay marriage, and so on.
This new phase of calling books “pornographic” is just bigots trying to prevent queer representation, and while some books are explicit, they are a smokescreen for a broader queer erasure.
While I don’t want there to be a Mexican standoff future, the ability for a minority to protect themselves is insanely valuable. If you look back in American history, being armed was sometimes the reason why minorities were able to continue living.
This is because political power does come from the intent and capabilities of violence. While it’s disgusting to see paramilitary groups like the Klan trying to enforce white supremacy, people are often blind to the state’s use of violence for its own political power. And if the state is enforcing a hierarchical structure that places a minority on the bottom (much less the inherent hierarchy of the state), it’s probably a good idea to arm yourself if you are a minority.
That doesn’t mean we need we need to derive political power from the intent and capability to carry out violence, but as long as there are hierarchies, there will be violence to maintain them. And as long as that violence is aimed at you, being armed is not a bad idea.
I agree, I think the culture war bullshit is somehow effective at radicalization. It probably helps that anyone who is far enough right seems to get funding for their media projects, allowing their shit to spew on every form of media at all hours of the day.
I see the same thing happen, with pushing against far right talking points and having people see the flaws, such as CRT and having explained it is a often a graduate level legal course and then hearing them spew the same talking points with DEI in place of CRT. I’ve given up on deradicalizing my christofascist family, I don’t have the energy to deal with it :(
Well, people are trying to build the opposition to the conservative propagandized movements. Unfortunately, it’s hard thankless work that tends to get a lot of state repression. I think the movement to defend welaunee forest could have blossomed into something beautiful if the activists weren’t labeled terrorists and given RICO domestic terror charges :(
While I know it is pretty obviously fake, others don’t. While I can’t say for sure why that is, I do think it’s reactionaries recoiling to the new unfamiliar waters of the left’s attempt to rejoin mainstream politics after the fall of the Soviet Union, the crushing of left wing movements, and the rise of neoliberalism. Combine that with the crushing weight of late stage capitalism, mediocre leaders, and great propaganda and you’ve got the storm that I think is causing people to buy into the insane thinktank bullshit
Coming from my anarchistic perspective, I think forming movements based on solidarity and mutual aid is the best way forward. These movements are the most important when the state fails to address the needs of people (See cooperation jackson, or the mutual aid organizations that popped up after the state failed to address hurricane Katrina). If these movements are formed properly, it can be some of the most critical prefigurations for building a better society.
Unfortunately I don’t know how to counteract the radicalization of the members of the far right, but I do think what I outlined will help those who suffer because of it, and it will weaken the legitimacy of the conservative state that is beginning to seem inevitable.
I’m a huge panopticon fan. I got one of their CDs from a local radical book shop the other day.
I’ve not heard of the other three, I’ll check em out!
Edit: I’ve listened to a song by all three, and I really dig Cauldron and Warmoon Lord. I can definitely see cauldron go in my catalogue for when I need to mix things up, they’re outside my normal go-to genres.
To throw two more back at you, check out Dawn Ray’d, an excellent melodic black metal/RABM band with some great lyrics, themes, and some solid songwriting. The band’s politics are similar to Panopticon, or Woe.
Others by No One, a prog metal concept album I can’t exactly describe. To me, it feels like the only band that has carried Native Construct’s torch, which is one of the best compliments I can give. It’s an enthralling listen.
Blind Guardian and Opeth are sick!
I want to meet this person, someone with such strong opinions on food is either the most amusing person to talk to, or an insufferable zealot and I really want to know which this person is.