related, if you haven't checked if your credentials were in a dump for the past few months you might want to check again now. there's been some ... interesting developments lately
and why is "third space" now synonymous with "off the internet in person" instead of a particular community space you frequent more than anything other than home or work?
as much as I'm for unplugging and getting off the internet into the community more, a lot of the current "third space" discourse I'm seeing is a sort of rose colored lens view of the "good old days" before cell phones and social media.
yeah, cell phones and social media have a lot of bad aspects, but rebuilding community requires actually meeting with people regularly and taking up space. that might require cell phones and social media these days. Just touching grass alone and declaring it a "third space" isn't enough.
I've been running into this phenomenon, in my union but also just in general, where I seem to be living in a different universe from other people.
I don't ever want to endorse politicians. I do often want to criticize them including using political mechanisms to hold them accountable.
I hear a lot of people conflate all of that into one action. Some even say something along the lines of "if you don't endorse politicians then you can't complain when you disagree." Why would I lose basic rights and privileges if I don't enthusiastically sign off at the start?
holy shit. they actually called it "reply guy". seeing the Torment Nexus and copying it for profit is one thing, but seeing a reply guy and being like "I can monetize that" is a whole new type of evil.
This game is great. It's a peaceful and cozy game. You run around as Snufkin abolishing rules to fight cops, save the forest, be inspired to make music, and find your friends. All while Sigur Ros tunes accompany the setting of Moominvalley.
@poorpossum oooh, that Rockbox theme looks good. I'm waiting for one of those quad SD card HD replacements to show up before I put Rockbox on it. So, I just threw one album on here for now to do a function test.
a year ago I said that using an ad blocker was one of the most important and first steps a person can do to protect themselves on technology these days.
I then got a people telling me that was ridiculous and it was bad that I dared to suggest such a thing.
since then, CISA and the NSA have suggested that people use ad blockers to protect themselves online.
who are these people still defending using the internet without basic security that blocks entities trying to gather your PII and trick you into clicking malware links?
sometimes, I do actually know what I'm talking about.
wow, wweek was never super left leaning, but I didn't expect them to take such a hard right turn in the past few years.
Today they have an article that argues #Portland should abolish the bottle deposit bill because it's a way for poor people and those suffering from drug addiction to get money. The article is very concerned that a drug addict may be able to get $5 a day by recycling.
@enobacon They should raise the deposit to like $1. It would cost people more to waste them like that and actually make the effort of recycling them appropriately more common.
This is very particular to the US, and might not make sense in a global framing.
I've been organizing with my union for about a few years, and an official capacity for about six months. For all the things that hold more mainstream labor union back I do definitely see radicalization potential that I don't see in a lot of other organizing. For example, I don't think organizing within the Democratic party (a la the DSA) or even umbrella "left" coalition groups. A small group of radicals in a mainstream labor union could shift power and stances at at least a state level if not nationally.
I'm not the type that believes in a state compromised of labor syndicates, but with how lines are drawn in US politics, I think labor organizing might make a lot more sense for many. Which is more likely to happen: your local DSA member gains political power sufficient to make lasting change, the rainbow coalition usurps power, or the decision makers in labor power are switched such that they are primed for things like general strikes?
Or which is more likely: you convince your GOP voting cousin to vote Dem to protect the right to choose, or you convince your GOP voting cousin to join their union to support workers and that union works to protect the right to choose?
Between the IWW and moving trade unions more anti-state the potential for power shifts seem very interesting.
I do hope to see the continued shift to more radical nature in labor organizing. I also think those of us already of a more radical persuasion could organize to accelerate that shift quite a bit.
in a country where individual action is heavily repressed, and super PACs dominate speech I want to find the mechanisms we can use today to cause the most economic damage to power structures. Otherwise, we never end up actually challenging power as it relentlessly marches and encloses more and more of our lives.
woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep. decided to checkout some of the gameplay footage of Starfield.
I went from mildly interested in the game to pretty much zero interest. The elements I care about RPG, story, and exploration seem all to take a backseat to the aspects I despise in games: first person shooting combat.