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  Part of why I struggle to post on the Fediverse is because I was posting against TESCREAL many years ago, and got atttacked for it, but now, those same people are anti-TESCREAL, and getting cheered for their wisdom. Like, I know it will sound incredible to folk here today, but this place used to be very supportive of "effective altruism," and I recall bad arguments with folk who argued that effective altruism, not decolonization, was the tool for solving our shared future. Weirdly th...

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  RE: https://kolektiva.social/@emsenn/117270078528646051 I saw someone respond to my cousin that sights like this are becoming common and that's why they moved from the American west to someplace else. And it's really hard to explain how just, infuriating it is to hear a settler listen to an Indigenous person despair over what's happening to their land, and go, "That's why *I* settled new territory," without a whiff of self-awareness. Especially because it was said *i...

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  This photograph my cousin sent from Bear Butte, where they're doing ceremony, is breaking my heart. The hill is meant to be green, and what you're looking at in the foreground is meant to be a *lake*. My family have swum in that lake for so long. Like, for at 8,000 to 12,000 years, and that's just how long white folk will agree we've lived here, and they tend to refuse anyone lived anywhere for more than a couple centuries, y'know? And now instead folk are just, dry, dust...

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  If I don't, no one else is ever gonna brag on younger me getting suspended from school for rolling the piano into the cafeteria to play this song at the military recruitment officer that was trying to get my friends killed in iraq https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvZvBE0EMac&t=2194s

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  credit to whoever photographs for the billings gazette newspaper, but this is my fave photo from the greasy grass anniversary event.

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  Starting yesterday, federal agents have begun raiding folk around Minnesota. Friend reports there's a raid happening on their block in Minneapolis, right now, from the FBI. I won't get confirmation on it obviously but I got told that I"m likely to be investigated, because I 3d printed and distributed about 10,000 whistles during Operation Metro Surge, and anyone who knew either of the people killed is getting investigated. That'd obviously be not great for me, considering my l...

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  Recent reporting says Operation Metro Surge cost Minneapolis, residents, and businesses about $700 million. The human cost is worse than any number: people killed, people detained, families terrorized, neighborhoods forced to move differently because ICE was in the city. But the number matters because it punctures the “public safety” story. If your safety operation leaves workers without wages, businesses without customers, and the city paying overtime to manage the damage, it did not make the...

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  RE: https://kolektiva.social/@emsenn/116541107074192480 Sorry to keep bringing this up but I really want anyone who has the time to try and sit with it. The Western way has literally nothing to offer. It threatens to kill us all, and when its constituent body is asked "what would it take for you to stop?" they literally have no clue. They cannot imagine stopping. I keep asking folk: where are your technical solutions? Where are your social solutions? Where is *ANY* solution...

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  RE: https://kolektiva.social/@emsenn/116536958917760498 I want to highlight something rather philosophical, which is all of the answers to this question were about creating the conditions under which answering the question would be possible. That is to say, there were no real, actionable solutions to preventing a datacenter, that did not rely on some configuration of change in things between now and preventing the datacenter. Which is interesting to me because, being physical things made of s...

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  RE: https://kolektiva.social/@emsenn/116536958917760498 Okay, uh. Allow me to be blunt, please. If your solution to someone being victimized is that the victims should learn how to prevent themsevles from being victimized, or that the perpetrators of harm may wait to cease harm until you convince them of its wrongness, you are an apologist for harm. Right now, this data center is threatening to *fuck shit up*. No metaphor: they are going to rape the fucking land in order to get what they want...

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  Happy Mother's Day (stop reproducing a global concentration camp) https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/serafinski-blessed-is-the-flame

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  Hey, tech nerds. I have a question for you. Please boost this so it gets seen around. Right now, my city is struggling with a very serious problem, and a very real issue: Google wants to build a datacenter. That's the problem. The issue is: Google controls the means by which most people access information. What are realistic solutions to this problem? "Use DuckDuckGo" is *not* a reasonable solution, because that misunderstands what I'm saying when I say Go...

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  “Why don't the folk who live in the United States do something about their government?” You mean like when Little Turtle led Native confederated forces in the Northwest Indian War to resist U.S. territorial expansion? Or during the Great Sioux War of 1876, when Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho nations fought to defend the Black Hills? Or the long resistance of the Geronimo and the Chiricahua Apache against forced removal? Or the Red River War, the Nez Perce War, the occupation at Wounde...

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  That y'all cannot understand that America has Indigenous prisoners of war that have lived *generations* inside prison camps is a big reason why your politics are, in a very real way, meaningless: they only have meaning in a world that doesn't have the things our world has in it. And I bet almost all of you are gonna read this and go "wtf prison camps?!?!?!" And then figure out what I'm talking about and go "oh those aren't prison camps...

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  Folk here really hate Substack, and I think the way they hate it is some of the most American shit ever, which is funny because a lot of the people doing it live in Europe. But you have to understand: from my perspective, as an Indigenous person, the Fediverse looks less like “the good internet” and more like a settler-colony established by the Empire. The move is familiar. The old place is corrupt. The old place is captured by capital. The old place is full of bad people and bad relations. S...

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  It's weird that a couple years ago I was living someplace where folk would infer which length of the road you lived on and who your neighbors were because of your phone number. Like that was really common when I was growing up because of land-lines, but these days, no one's phone number really *means* anything. Thinking about it because people legit text my phone presuming I'm the neighbor of this person, and I'm not. But. I do know their number, and the number...

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  Folder foo/ has both of the following files in them. Which do you assume is the source of truth? (This poll is to break the tie from the last poll, please boost for larger sampling.)

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  The cool thing about the impossible is that no one is trying to prevent you from doing it.

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  never ask a blank their blank or anyone affiliated with the renewable energies industries what the energy-returned-on-energy-invested of their industry is (this is a subtoot against the person who's dayjob is propagandizing energy consumption as a human right but y'all are EATING IT UP because it is personal, affective, and makes it sound like we have gotten wise through our errors, rather than better at covering up our fuckups from ourselves.)

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  I just remember it wasn't that long ago when "nerds are going to turn mushrooms into thinking computers and we'll have solar panels that store energy by crystalizing salt" was like, kind of normal to expect to come out of tech, in the near future. Like folk had this idea that someone in some garage was gonna turn out some tech that would solve some real problem. Now folk simultaneously don't believe such a thing can happen, feel smug for that wisdom, *...

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  I see white Fediverse is having a "wait, my whiteness isn't irrelevant to my existence, even on the Internet?" moment. And I see a lot of really good advice going around. Not much bad advice. Some advice I haven't seen? Figure out how to change your life so that not being actively antagonstic to your internalized white supremacy costs you something. Because right now, a lot of y'all have a FUCKED up relationship with white supremacy: you feel bad abo...

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  One thing that I've experienced recently that felt very white on the Fediverse is how, when I was raising money to 3d print whistles for marginalized rural communities being threatened by the federal government, I had folk expressing concern about the plastic waste that I was causing. Then when I asked later about 3d printing fidget toys that I might sell, I got nothing but positive replies! I know it might not seem like a bias, but there is a *weird* bias here toward encouraging every...

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  I have a very specific crafting question: Those of you who work with computers and spend time waiting on things like compilers and build scripts and such: do you have a craft that sits perfectly between your wrists, so that you can seamlessly transition between the craft and the computer? Okay now: those of you with your hands up: Does your craft also allow you to let you *look* at the screen? Because I do beadwork and can do both at the same time but unless I set myself a like "aft...

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  After using it for a couple weeks, after dodging learning it for its whole existence, I have to say that while I love absolutely everything about Rust, I still find it absolutely loathsome to use and as soon as I have the time am going to study how Fennel turned Lua into Lisp and make Rust do the same because this is just... just awful. And like, I 'm write C in vi old, so I feel like I know awful? But again, I do truly love everything about Rust. Paradoxical feelings.

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  The U.S. government questioning Native Americans' birthright citizenship isn’t just a bureaucratic issue—it’s a fundamental attack on Indigenous sovereignty. Native people are dual citizens: members of our sovereign nations first and foremost, with U.S. citizenship imposed on us in 1924 to erode that sovereignty. Now, the state is threatening to claw back even this imposed recognition, undermining treaty obligations and the legal frameworks that acknowledge our nations’ existence. This...

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  I keep noticing settlers reaching for Indigenous knowledge as if we have already lived through an apocalypse and can therefore provide a reusable survival template for the one that’s coming. The story underneath is that colonialism was a kind of world-ending event, Indigenous people survived it, and therefore climate breakdown is just another rhyme in the same historical pattern. That framing quietly turns Indigenous survival into proof that “humanity survives” and even that things eventually c...

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  Solar. Cyber. Folk. Pop. Long ago, the four punks lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed with the Pop Punks attacked. Only a e s t h e t i c, master of all four punks, could stop them. But when the world needed it most, it vanished.

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  I get why folk who depend on it to maintain their sense of stability under a death cult are glad for it, but personally I'm horrified to hear that we're saving "national public radio" not through anything ostensibly public like taxes, but through the philanthropy of capitalists. Your kids are going to grow up in a world were "private" is when corporations exploit them and when "public" is when corporations help them. That&am...

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  A weird thing that Baruch Spinoza (one of the people who sparked the Enlightenment), Gilles Deleuze (one of the people who sparked Postmodernism) share, despite living three centuries apart, is that both of them became significantly more politically active after being infected by tuberculous, a respiratory illness that rarely killed quickly, instead disabling them in increments as bacterial infection got retriggered over and over. Weirdly, this is something both men share with Arthur Morgan,...

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  Wooooow the way some of y'all are posting about feng shui is hella orientalizing and white supremacist, which is funny because you're making the posts to dunk on "atheists"! (what is this, 2009?) feng shui is def not just "move objects where they aren't in your way" lolol it's deeply tied to a metaphysics of qi and shen and other forces that are potentially analogous to forces in western science, but to claim they're th...