It recently struck me recently that a number of users mostly scroll the All feed. This came up in a conversation where people were discussing how their main usage of lemmy was to scroll All and then rely entirely on blocking to refine their feed....
think disallowing votes (down or both) from non-subscribers would defeat the point of the all feed, which to me is to display the most active/interesting posts on the Fediverse right now. You can’t have that if it is only community subscribers that vote.
isn’t this what ‘scaled’ sorting is / could be for?
Assuming you're an anarchist or otherwise leftist radical, what radicalized your position?
For me it was a combination of seeing the rampart corruption of the Greek state and the sloth and hypocrisy of the KKE in my own family. Then afterwards it was the alienation of my own wage-slavery.
being trans and having auDHD with a childhood passion for natural philosophy inoculated me against heteronormative brainworms and their cousins: capitalist, workist, Protestant-work-ethic bullshit.
being mobbed, assaulted and abused because of this — by parents, siblings, peers, teachers and strangers — is what taught me to hate.
losing friends to war, suicide, and honour killings is what taught me hopelessness.
watching my parents work 90 hour weeks and still struggle to pay the bills showed me the contradictions.
being abandoned and homeless as a teenager when i started fighting back is what radicalised me.
Bakunin, Kropotkin, Goldman, Luxemburg, Beer, Stallman, Graeber, Swartz and Serafinski taught me why i’m angry, and taught me how to imagine again.
the fight against triple oppression is what keeps me going.
providing a few predefined options for you […] instead of you having to find the words to explain how uncomfortable you are and what you want the solution to be.
i’m speaking from my experience with script change. it’s a low-friction, consistent way for anyone at the table to communicate both how they’re feeling and an explicit, specific resolution/action that is known to all players with the agreement that no one needs to get into details or explain themself. if something shockingly uncomfortable happens, it’s much easier to reflexively lift/tap a card, or type 2 – 3 characters in the chat, than it is to abrasively yell ‘stop!’ and then try to discuss it over.
i’ve seen cases where someone yelling to stop was interpreted to be IC. or that they were just ‘caught up in the moment’. (this is the reason for safewords; the cards are known to be meta/OOC.) or they didn’t completely know where a scene was going, but they had a suspicion, but they didn’t want to disappoint the group, and player safety wasn’t a part of the pregame discussion so they didn’t know how to express their discomfort and froze. the misunderstanding always only lasted some seconds, but it always lasted a few seconds too long for the person in discomfort. if it needs a discussion: ‘pause’ and take five to talk with the GM or another player privately.
in every group where player safety is discussed and safety tools are used: i’ve never seen a scene get far enough to make someone uncomfortable, and it rarely impacts the flow of the game.
it should be normal, but it’s not common outside (northern) europe.
as someone who grew up poor in shithole places (both in and outside the Core): i can tell you everything went into general landfill. there was neither the time nor the infrastructure to do it any other way, and composting was either too heavily regulated — and/or required too much space (read: land) — to bother. hell, i’ve been in some northern european countries, too, where most of the compost and meticulously sorted recycling are just burnt as fuel, and the excess gets exported to SEA countries.
i was once in the usonian rust belt, where there was a better way. it was privately operated and required a car and a two-hour drive to the dropoff point or facility, and it wasn’t advertised (usually a B2B service). and you had to rent recycling containers. they wouldn’t accept your shit unless it was ‘correctly’ presorted into their proprietary containers. if some technician decided at a glance that it didn’t seem ‘correctly’ sorted according to their 16-page PDF guide: landfill. at least electronics could be dropped off at any office supply store…
Very much inspired by the recent post about what anti work actually means. If you were free from the “work or starve” paradigm, what would you do with your time? No wrong answers....
after paying off the debt to mine and my partner’s physical and psychological health?
i’d take back up community organising. and music. i’d like to curate a library (of books and things) and run it as a community centre. i’d facilitate book clubs and popular education, give lectures, join research groups, and take up writing again. i’d design and run tabletop games and games clubs.
more materially, whatever oddjobs need done, and whatever my neighbours need help with. i have a lot of varied experience with ‘disability’; having experience in social work, having multiple disabilities myself, and taking care of people with them. i’d use my techn(olog)ical and mechanical experience to fix stuff, and to design, install, maintain and programme community infrastructure. i’d like to join a rewilding initiative and help to keep the local environment clean.
and i’d lean in hard on whatever hyperfixations strike me that month. (and maybe really have something to show for it.)
so, if people don’t have the conditions of life held hostage by labour-buyers, the world would end? …why would the water be poisoned? what did i say about conflating ‘work’ with ‘labour’ or ‘doing literally anything [at all]’?
there would still be people who want to operate public utilities[0]. there would still be electricians. and plumbers. and what about microgrids?
this also wouldn’t happen overnight, which you make it sound like it would. or is this like when someone suggests phasing out fossil fuels? and some lemmy.world username says ‘if we suddenly abruptly instantly instantaneously directly rapidly CTRL+A-CTRL+X’d all oil in the world right now it’d be just like in the Mad Max!’
less than 27% of paid labour is serving real needs[1]. there is a lot of shit that we don’t need, that provides no social value, and that we could do without[2]. the individualist ratrace separates us from our communities, which are perfectly capable of taking care of us, even and especially in a crisis[3],[4],[5]. a managerial class is not necessary to operate public utilities[6].
if people want electricity, or running water, they will arrange for it. if absolutely nobody in the community knows how, they find someone who does and they make a deal.
most ‘work’ would probably be automated. automation is really more viable in a postcapitalist setting because there is no profit incentive getting in the way of the time for innovation to make reliable, longevous systems that aren’t intentionally cheap and intended to break within 2 – 5 years.
so, i don’t really see how ‘EVERYTHING would grind to a halt’ unless ‘EVERYTHING’ is ‘precisely the way things are now in whatever the present moment is’.
the same ‘literally nothing’ that currently stops us from ending starvation, poverty, homelessness, war…
people and ideology create the institutions which (re)produce and enforce a status quo. this is not inherently bad, and it would not be significantly different under any other ‘system’. we are all the state so long as we do nothing different.
syndicalism is a tendency of libertarian socialism. it was anarchists engaging in — typically violent — direct action that bred the popular labour movement, women’s suffrage, the abolition of racial segregation, and others.
How did a philosophy of minimized government involvement contribute to the regulations and enforcement mechanisms around our labor laws?
… because we live in a society? the State needs labour, but if all the labourers refuse to sell themselves until labour-buyers stop X, then the State may decide very graciously to abolish the practise of X. so the theory of syndicalism goes: rinse and repeat till you have eroded all the power of labour-buyers, and you can seize the workplace and cut out the State.
There is a strong tendency to speak of the machine as solving problems, when, in fact, really, it is the program which describes to the machine what the machines do. This is overlooked. I think a great deal of confusion arises from this.
It is not that we do not have adequate machines to solve our problems many times, but rather we lack adequate descriptions of how to solve the problem. And this is a very important point to understand.
My formerly amazing company just sent us this in an internal email. Unfortunately, too long to post here so I pastebin` it. Hopefully this is allowed....
i guess from experience that this was neither ‘all hands’ nor a ‘dicussion’. it was 'whoever[‘s logged in before office hours| doesn’t want to enjoy their lunch] gets to look at boomer memes and dull graphs for 2 hours while listening to the latest round of edicts graciously handed down by the Board.’
if you missed it, and you’re lucky, they recorded it. if you’re very lucky: you get an email with the slide deck and talking points for what could’ve just been an email to begin with.
the difference between supply and demand is really so low that any dip in ‘productivity’ would harm anything more than an executive’s RoI.
that the threat of this financial ‘harm’ necessitates more work.
with the increase in ‘productivity’ over the last century, if we reduced our expectations, and stopped letting monopoly money run our entire society, and stopped burning surplus resources because it’s ‘unsold’ or would drive down prices: we wouldn’t need to work even 20% what is expected of us now.
what a harmful, elitist, high technocratic, economistic, no-true-scotsman take: someone who doesn’t view the world in pure quantitative terms and understand precisely a dialect of jargon has no valuable insight?
you’re right that this character wouldn’t be part of a ‘solution’, under current conditions, because it would be formulated by a well-funded political thinktank, specialising in number-go-big policy, tacked to the end of a dredged report with absolutely no involvement from measly imperial subjects.
“Hungary’s willingness to enter security arrangements with Xi Jinping and do the bidding of Vladimir Putin while, simultaneously, maintain membership in NATO and the EU is deeply troubling and presents an existential crisis for those alliances,” writes Elaine Dezenski, senior director and head of the Center on Economic and...
FDD was founded shortly after the September 11 attacks in 2001. In the initial documents filed for tax-exempt status with the Internal Revenue Service, FDD’s stated mission was to “provide education to enhance Israel’s image in North America and the public’s understanding of issues affecting Israeli-Arab relations”. Later documents described its mission as “to conduct research and provide education on international terrorism and related issues”.
‘the Center on Economic and Financial Power’ sounds like a ministry from Nineteen Eighty-Four.
i also find this quote amusing:
“Despite the problems for host countries and the large portfolio of failing loans for China, Beijing has still been successful at building influence across authoritarian-leaning regimes, who are eager to follow the Chinese model of single-party state control and high-tech domestic repression,” Dezenski says
the pot calling the kettle black. let me reword this:
“Despite the problems for host countries and the large portfolio of failing loans for the [United States|IMF], [Washington|Davos] has still been successful at building influence across authoritarian-leaning regimes, who are eager to follow the [American|Western|liberal] model of corporate state control and high-tech domestic repression,” someone says
no, it’s called information literacy and recognising insincerity. what you’re doing is called deflection and splitting.
believe it or not: one does not have to pick which colour empire they like best, because one does not have to like an empire at all. no one is forcing you to consume hypocritical fearbait.
People who bear a middle class culture need to unlearn it, as it manifests in a politics of comfort: building informal social power, flattening contradictions, and avoiding conflict. Currently, its crusade is to destroy practices of transformative justice—and the difficult experiences those practices come from—in favor of the kind of attitudes (simultaneously fragile and vicious) that flourish on social media.
what are some examples of what the author might mean here?
Community Boundaries and the All feed
It recently struck me recently that a number of users mostly scroll the All feed. This came up in a conversation where people were discussing how their main usage of lemmy was to scroll All and then rely entirely on blocking to refine their feed....
Traffic Lights Are Communication Tools (lumpley.games)
Who fixes toilets under communism? (hexbear.net)
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"Who will do the dishes after the revolution?"
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/2488210...
Discussion: what would you do in a post-work society?
Very much inspired by the recent post about what anti work actually means. If you were free from the “work or starve” paradigm, what would you do with your time? No wrong answers....
We want the zero hour work week! (slrpnk.net)
Oh no, Anarchists! (slrpnk.net)
How the CIA Destroyed the Socialist Internet: Cybersyn, Part 1 (yewtu.be)
Alternative Youtube Link
Forced treatments, sectionings, deaths, assisted suicides: the reality of ME/CFS in the UK in just three months of 2024 (www.thecanary.co)
cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/anarchism@lemmy.ml/t/955050...
My companies RTO FAQ (pastebin.com)
My formerly amazing company just sent us this in an internal email. Unfortunately, too long to post here so I pastebin` it. Hopefully this is allowed....
this hard (lemmy.ml)
Europe faces ‘competitiveness crisis’ as US widens productivity gap [ft.com] (archive.ph)
Original link ft.com/…/22089f01-8468-4905-8e36-fd35d2b2293e
China's Belt and Road Initiative is bringing new risks to Europe, researcher says (www.euronews.com)
“Hungary’s willingness to enter security arrangements with Xi Jinping and do the bidding of Vladimir Putin while, simultaneously, maintain membership in NATO and the EU is deeply troubling and presents an existential crisis for those alliances,” writes Elaine Dezenski, senior director and head of the Center on Economic and...
How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (openrss.org)
Requests for couples euthanasia rise in the Netherlands (english.elpais.com)
Geopolitics for 2024 (petergelderloos.substack.com)
LET ME SPEAK TO YOUR MANAGER (lemmy.world)