seachanger

seachanger, 2 months ago to random

my biggest complaint about AI is we didn’t ask for it. zero popular movements took to the streets to demand AI. no one sat around kitchen tables lamenting how hard life is without AI.

what people want is health care, housing, climate change solutions, etc We sit around kitchen tables wondering how to pay for college, get loved ones the psych and addiction support they need, or help the people on our streets who need homes

seachanger, 9 months ago to random

ok I was just doing errands on my bike and ended up behind this truck with a stuffed mastodon mounted on top. obviously I chased the driver down to ask for a pic. turns out she’d just found it on the side of the road and liked the way it looked strapped to her truck

seachanger, 7 months ago to random

never forget: we didn’t ask for robot cars. when polled US majorities have always wanted action on climate, good public transit & safe streets. but our leaders act without our consent.

last year, 78% polled wanted increased investment in US passenger rail, a number that went to 80% among women and 82% in cities and 91% among Black people. this year, 76% polled in the US said they are afraid of self-driving cars & just 9% say they trust them and that number is declining year to year

seachanger, 8 months ago to random

I know mastodon has issues, I know the fediverse is basically a prototype of what it could be. I know it’s annoying when people are snobby about masto despite its faults.

But for real, if we want this shit to succeed, we’ve got to also love what is good here and be growing it. That doesn’t mean yelling about how all other social media sites suck. It means focusing on what we’re getting right here, listening carefully to complaints, and putting a little energy into solving problems

seachanger, 8 months ago to random

the woman who was killed for flying a rainbow flag was named Laura Ann Carleton. I just want to remember her name

seachanger, 8 months ago to random

if any of you are looking for permission to slow down, say no, stay home, cancel important things, not go, go home early, stay on the couch, rest with no agenda, take a bath instead of a shower, close the laptop, take a nap, try to take a nap, rest for no reason, accomplish less, stop hustling, end the grind, collapse, or sleep, than here it is: permission to stop everything is ✨granted✨

seachanger, 10 months ago to threads

This from @pluralistic - on #Threads: why we need to abolish mark zuckerberg

https://doctorow.medium.com/let-the-platforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980

seachanger, 3 months ago to random

reminder that it would be cheaper for the US govt to pay for your medical care than it is for them to pay insurance corporations to deny your medical care

seachanger, 10 months ago to random

I literally get more texts from random democrats across the country asking for money than I do texts from my own elected democrats asking me to help organize my neighborhood, that’s a problem

seachanger, 6 months ago to random

Jewish Voices for Peace have occupied the Statue of Liberty, singing “cease fire now” as helicopters circle

There is nothing Jewish about apartheid or genocide

seachanger, 10 months ago to random

first real evidence of how Facebook is attempting to body snatch mastodon right now

this is how capital works, by picking folks off one by one, forcing each person to reckon with their private morals and egos and ambition over personal e-mail

https://fosstodon.org/@kev/110592625692688836

seachanger, 9 months ago to random

instances should be called neighborhoods

seachanger, 9 months ago to random

I think mastodon and the fediverse could benefit from a more universal system of clearly classifying server communities by moderation activity and fediblock level. it’s ok for servers to have different priorities, but part of helping people pick the right one has to be helping people easily understand their differences at sign up. I know others have called for this, just add my name to the petition

seachanger, 5 months ago to random

“you can get a lot done if you don’t need to take credit for it”

probably the most salient community organizing quote there is

seachanger, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

the only argument we should be making for mastodon at this point is that you can post as much ass and vag as you want and as long as you mark it and use the CW feature no one cares because a)we own it ourselves and make our own rules and b) no one is trying to make this a safe space for Brands™

seachanger, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

are you starting to find friends & community here?

seachanger, 7 months ago to random

After absentee ballots were counted, my friend who lost their city assembly seat to a MAGA type by five votes ended up winning by one vote! Glad I voted lol

seachanger, 6 months ago to random

I actually do think about this maybe once a day

“Researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst found the training process for a single AI model can emit more than 626,000 pounds of carbon dioxide. That's about the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as 62.6 gasoline-powered passenger vehicles driven for a year.” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/artificial-intelligence-carbon-footprint-climate-change/

seachanger, 10 months ago to random

a really wild thing right now is that Bluesky has no clear moderation policy in practice, is under no pressure to make one, and does not have a reliable mechanism for users to report things to admins.

even wilder is that a great deal of bluesky's power users are so biased against fedi that they will plug their ears and start yelling if you try to mention that millions of us enjoy functional moderation over here

its such a lesson to me in the need to always be challenging our own assumptions

seachanger, 7 months ago to random

I think we’ve reached the limits of consoling with “I’m so sorry you got Covid, hope your case is mild and quick”

a lot of cases will not be mild or quick 🤷🏻‍♀️

The sympathy I want to hear is “I’m so sorry you got Covid, I’m going to wear a mask more often in public spaces and try to talk to my work/school about improving indoor air quality, the more people who advocate for system shift, the sooner we decrease how many folks are risking injury and death from this preventable disease”

#covid

seachanger, 4 months ago to random

largest dam removal in the history of the world just dropped 🥳

#UnDamTheKlamath #BringTheSalmonHome

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/12/1224494403/klamath-river-begins-to-flow-again-with-dam-removal-project

seachanger, 8 months ago to random

we spill a lot of pixels on fedi worrying about twitter. i think facebook is a larger threat. remember 3.5 billion use meta, 455 million use twitter.

meta has infiltrated and unified spheres of participatory society that formerly were distributed across a diversity of organizational structures, including small businesses, public institutions, private communications, nonprofits, etc

imo this is essentially the most consequential and pervasive privatization of social life in planetary history.

seachanger, 2 months ago to random

woke up thinking it’s time to get Hollywood making big immersive iMax movies about life after a real green new deal. show us Scarlett Johansson boarding a gorgeous train in Seattle and stepping off in LA hours later! give us steamy intersectional rom coms in lush, electrified cities! I want Pedro pascal & his kid traversing an eco-utopian continent via e-bike on rails to trail corridors through vibrant towns, wild forests, and regenerative farms!

seachanger, 23 days ago to random

A transcript of #NaomiKlein's speech at the Seder in the Streets in front of Senator Schumer's house in New York City. 👇

This thread is the whole speech because, well, it's that important -- Klein went out in public and claimed a path for US Jewish futures that is in coalition with those harmed by Zionism, but that is also deeply nested within Judaism as a multi-millennial tradition. We're lucky to live and breathe at the same time as Naomi Klein...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/24/zionism-seder-protest-new-york-gaza-israel