Interesting blog post on how capitulation doesn’t work against fascism. And especially not against Trump in particular. Resisting against Trump will make you (and all of us) stronger in the end.

“So, why does this dovetail with opposition to the tech industry so well? Simply put, the tech industry is built on and heavily shot through with repressed desires. This is a straightforward Freudian analysis: the industry as a whole focuses on fulfilling desires that our societies consider to be dirty, shameful, unacceptable or to be repressed.”

Reuters.

But governments from Italy to Poland have pushed back this year on ambitious emissions-cutting goals, citing concerns over the costs for industries.

Yes, that’s the point! Internalize the externalities and take responsibility for poisoning the world, or better yet, stop doing it!

“The problems you suffer from are too big for you to solve.

The steps you can take to push back against these problems are too small and ineffective to actually solve them. You’ll suffer terribly even for trying to push back.

Do it anyway.”

Daylight Computer sending reps to far-right podcasts now?

As a hippie I am so fed up with the hippie→︎fash pipeline.
It’s more rule than exception by now.

New Socialist

A good RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and oppressive regime.

Tidal ägs av Square som inte donerade. Här kan ni se hela listan.

Why 1984 will be even more like 1984.

(Apple to let British gov’t snoop on customers.)

Why 1984 will be exactly like 1984.

😭

Great but sad anecdote on the online world.

I’m not sure the answer is unplugging; maybe the kids have a better understanding of “the global village” than I do. But I agree with the poster what the problem is.

As much as I hate Signal, I hate X more.

The wrongest Jon Stewart has ever been.

If climate protests are illegal there won’t be a climate problem is as wrong-headed of a thought as “If bandaids are illegal there won’t be any wounds”.

I wish the moral arc of history could sober up soon and start bending towards some fairness and responsibility because this is getting a li’l ridiculous.

You’ll hear no apology, no disavowal, no expression of regret for what he did. And certainly no promise that this will never happen again