JWcph, Radicalized By Decency

End capitalism 👊

He/Him, Northbridge Boi #WeAreNorrebro

Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player.

Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that #politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best.

Politically outspoken, overanalyzing #PopCulture, building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t #maker #3Dprinting #nobots

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2026-04-22 08:41:51 UTC

OK, I have this fairly large 3D print running on our Prusa XL & suddenly it keeps stopping with a "filament stuck" error - I can't see anything physically wrong & it resumes fine when I do the reload thing (although at least once it immediately stopped again), any ideas as to how I may resolve this without having to either start the entire print over, or clear the error 1000 more times...?
Tips much appreciated 🙏😊
#3Dprinting @npub1d4n…dptf #prusa

2026-04-18 20:47:03 UTC

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I was told off once for calling right-wing extremists pigs, along the lines of "Do you think callling people pigs will change their minds?" - I had to explain (with some exasperation, I might add) that if someone earns the "pig" label they're beyond changing & I'm not addressing them at all; I'm letting everyone else know that if the thought "Those people are pigs" occurs to them, they're neither wrong nor alone.
Also, this Patton Oswalt bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkKo1_RP_0c

2026-04-16 20:12:24 UTC

RE: https://social.data.coop/@jpkolsen/116414302822142467
"If you think we need to build "international digital public goods" to head off the future risk of a colonizing, remorseless, malevolent artificial lifeform, then let us agree that the prototype for that project is the "international digital public goods" we need right now to usher in the post-American internet and save ourselves from the colonizing, remorseless, malevolent artificial lifeforms that have already got their blood-funnels jammed down our throats..." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
#note1l6p…m09y

2026-04-11 14:07:00 UTC

This is seriously awesome 🤯🤩 I made a Feathers McGraw 3D model & shared it on Makerworld & another user - a by all accounts lovely dude named Mike - made a huge version of it & then brought it with him to a meet & greet with Merlin Crosshingham from Aardman & got it signed!! 🥰
#movies #Aardman #3Dprinting #modeling #maker
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2026-04-09 05:01:38 UTC

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2026-04-08 09:22:35 UTC

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The single most important thing men have to do is become uncomfortable for other men to be around. I'm perfectly serious - you have to be the guy the other guys don't want to risk pissing off with their gender views. It's going to suck; you'll fall out with some friends & others will keep trying to get misogynist "jokes" past you without pushback & you'll probably be the only one for a long time - but some guys will get it & this is the only way you'll know who they are.

2026-04-02 21:10:05 UTC

RE: https://sfba.social/@ildiavolorosso/116336883208272310
Also, on top of the extreme, profound stupidity & infeasibility of this, it will only apply inside US borders, meaning the US will immediately become a 3D printing desert.
Most of the world's most popular 3D printers are made in China or Europe & there will be absolutely no incentive to bear the cost & liability of conforming to laws this ridiculously moronic, even if the super-corrupt US justice system somehow manages to become un-fucked within foreseeable future.
#3Dprinting @npub1d4n…dptf
#note1v5s…tmcg

2026-03-30 10:33:47 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.social/@junesim63/116312617557803825
"Awarding people a lower rate just because they may hypothetically recover later turns the constant struggle with unpredictable conditions into an additional cruel penalty"...
You don't need help less today, just because you might heal tomorrow. There is no logic to this, no justification, no reasonable idea. It really is nothing but abject cruelty - the deliberate devaluation of human beings deemed unworthy of basic respect & care.
#ukpol
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2026-03-25 19:09:38 UTC

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Oops, you did a stupid - that should read "despite losing child abuse lawsuits Meta faces no consequences, as the fines represent a miniscule fraction of the company's massive profits from the self-same activities & no member of management or ownership is held responsible"...

2026-03-23 12:11:03 UTC

RE: https://xoxo.zone/@ilovecomputers/116275772384259836
No, seriously - I can't possibly overstate the value in my life that has come from the internet or how it has enriched me.
Like Ed Zitron & @npub1fdr…lvhs have both written about at various times, I'm not mad at technology - I'm fucking furious at the fuckfaces who deliberately ruined it, just so they could squat their ignoble asses upon a mountain of riches like the shittiest, saddest little saggy dragons imaginable.
#tech #business #enshittification #TechnoFeudalism
#note1g54…3dfa

2026-03-22 07:46:14 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116271471337770496
As people have been saying, Americans, you need to get over that "This is not who we are" bullshit right fucking now - because this is so much who you are; you were so ready for it, that the world's stupidest person could dictator you 5-10 times faster than any other despot & while not missing a single golf break.
Don't like it? Do something about it.
#uspol #fascism
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2026-03-15 20:02:00 UTC

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/116234781809482198
Oh, 3D printing, definitely. It's like "Welcome to the rabbithole". 😂
#maker #3dprinting @npub1d4n…dptf
#note15ly…dxey

2026-03-09 17:43:53 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116200392773231841
"Billionaires are a danger to themselves and (especially) to the rest of us. They are wronger than the median person, and the consequences of their wrongness are exponentially worse than the consequences of the median person's mistake." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
#note1uym…r243

2026-03-09 09:34:47 UTC

Speaking of leaving Microsoft: Yes, we have an entire team of professional IT supporters at work, trained for MS products - so that's great, right? The system works! Take that, open software!
- except about half the times I'm up there, they can't help me & I just have to live with whatever problem I have, which at present is about a dozen mission-critical flaws I have to navigate solo.
But do tell me more about how MS is the stable, reliable professional choice...
#ux #tech #Microsoft

2026-03-04 17:54:01 UTC

RE: https://wandering.shop/@Catvalente/116161396574387167
"It’s wrong. Everyone knows it’s wrong, even the people doing it. But they’re going to keep doing it, not because there is a goal to be achieved, but because they want to, and they like it, and, at a very distant third, they might think it will give them more power and allow them to keep what they have..." - @npub1ez8…l0zl
#note1kru…0wnc

2026-03-04 12:22:16 UTC

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It's called enshittification...

2026-03-03 13:48:44 UTC

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116164957710188853
I spent the day giving feedback to a class of business development students & while there were a few apps & a single mention of AI,most of their projects were specifically human-to-human.
The kids know, even the ones who are not explicitly aware of it.
#note1xsj…ekwd

2026-02-27 05:54:52 UTC

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Of course some of us already knew this, which is why I made the Dolly mug - for myself, obvi, but you can have one, too, if you want: https://www.etsy.com/dk-en/listing/1891486206/dolly-enamel-mug
#BeLikeDolly
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2026-02-27 05:51:16 UTC

Science has spoken: Dolly is the best 💛💛💛
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpAXDIOti8g
#DollyParton #literacy #reading #books

2026-02-26 17:52:57 UTC

RE: https://freeradical.zone/@missiggeek/116138046356392704
What is, in fact, nefarious about this is how these tools are being marketed by AI companies & deployed by management. What @npub1jn5…8vqg is talking about here is the human in the loop being used as an "accountability sink" & "moral crumble zone", per @npub1fdr…lvhs.
In simple terms, nobody with the power to fix the issue of bias has the slightest interest in doing so, because accuracy or fairness isn't on the list of reasons for deployment.
#AI #tech #business
#note1sdm…wk2e

2026-02-26 14:04:16 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rashunda/116137132428676193
"The fear of harsh retaliation for any country that dares to be a Disenshittification Nation is based on the premise that Trump is motivated by a commitment to fairness. He's not: Trump is motivated by a desire to dominate. Anything that threatens the dominance of the companies that take his orders is fair game, and he will retaliate in any way he can." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
#enshittification #AdversarialInteroperability #tech #business #DMCA
#note1ryr…px50

2026-02-26 12:58:49 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/116136859474399798
Pretty sure every asshole ousted from an influential position for Epstein reasons is already packing his bag to go to the US, where being in the files is apparently considered a qualification...
#epstein
#note100a…chv7

2026-02-25 09:22:13 UTC

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RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/116122024069598014
@npub1hr7…jxyc - as I was saying just the other day...
#note1akh…c378

2026-02-23 21:17:50 UTC

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Also, don't use it for "summarize" because it literally can't do that.
https://ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/when-chatgpt-summarises-it-actually-does-nothing-of-the-kind/

2026-02-23 05:59:11 UTC

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I use thegood.cloud & after a little over a year I'm pretty happy with that choice 👍 I started with a free account & just recently upgraded, which is how I have space for all those videos 😁

2026-02-22 21:43:07 UTC

Welp, I just uploaded about a shy dozen video clips totalling about 10 gigs to my NextCloud in one go - something our ostensibly professional-grade Microsoft OneDrive at work is utterly incapable of; it can handle two, maybe three videos at a time, if they're really short.
- but please tell me again what great products Microsoft charges those explosively increasing license fees for...
#tech #BigTech #Microsoft #NextCloud @npub1rk6…hv4q

2026-02-22 21:10:08 UTC

Semi-regularly re-posting this...
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2026-02-22 08:34:13 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@drikanis/116107120926277506
I'd like to comment on the common "AI is just a tool" thing: I'm a woodworker by training & that means a lot of machines - but almost every craftsperson knows how to do their job with hand tools, or "lesser" machines.
Similarly, a writer can write without a text editor - just as well, only slower.
If loss of a tool = loss of your skill & knowledge, then that tool isn't an asset, it's a liability. You're signing over your ability to do business to whoever sells & maintains that tool.
#AI
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2026-02-17 13:00:44 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116085742947462240
The idea of only paying an employee when they're "creating value", i.e. serving a customer, is nonsense & we need to take it out behind the tool shed & put it down. The employee creates value all day long, by keeping the doors open - if they don't there's no customers, because there's no place for them to go.
The employee pays for this with their time, which they can't use for anything else or get back.
Only a complete asshole thinks they don't deserve to be compensated for that.
#business
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2026-02-16 09:03:54 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116079347423631248
This is at least partially related to the search dilemma: If it's easy to find anything, it's almost impossible to be found. That's also why recommendation engines have a right size of data set in which they provide valuable recommendations that you like & otherwise would have been unlikely to find - past a certain scale, results are shaved down by statistics from "surprisingly useful" to "self-sorting pile of the most generic & unsurprising content"...
#note1ywm…8y6d

2026-02-14 09:43:59 UTC

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Let me spare everyone the read: Superhuman AI is a fantasy at or above the level of teleporters & faster-than-light travel. As in, an ostensible technology which is indistinguishable from magic, since no currently known science has any conceivable path to making it real.
I'm pretty sure any time spent on it is not only a waste, but a dangerous distraction from the harm done with actual, existing technology right now - much of it by Yudkowsky's & Soares' TESCREAL friends.

2026-02-13 09:16:21 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116062509846666680
"- the progressive anti-monopoly movement [...] were able to best their coalitional rivals because they did the hard work of winning support for the idea of shattering corporate power itself – not just arguing that corporate power was bad when it was used against them.
This was a slower, harder road than dividing up the world into good monopolies and bad ones, but it paid off. Today [...] their ideas have spread far and wide..."
There are no good bad guys.
#business #politics @npub1fdr…lvhs
#note12lh…qamd

2026-02-12 09:08:25 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116056780900371801
This is what I mean when I say that politicians are supposed to be lobbyists for the people: Not only should they not be so easily swayed by corporate marketing blitzes - it's literally their job to stand firm on the public's interests in face of such efforts.
Corporate lobbyists are - again, quite literally - their adversaries & we have to start yeeting every pol who doesnt't treat them as such.
#politics #lobbyism #tech #business @npub1fdr…lvhs
#note1jqz…ftdh

2026-02-12 08:10:51 UTC

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Hey @npub1fdr…lvhs, since you're in the neighborhood, how about a stop-off in Copenhagen? I'll buy you several of our wildly expensive cups of coffee & also a ticket to whatever thing you appear at 😁

2026-02-11 08:00:07 UTC

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Also, the other main demographic I see appealing for mutual aid are trans and/or neurodivergent and/or cronically ill people who are either actively marginalized where they live & therefore cut off from "regular" aid sources, or have fallen through some sort of crack, also cutting them off from other, more readily available forms of support.
In many such cases, just asking for aid requires more courage than you or I will ever know.
Like Aral says, context matters.

2026-02-10 13:21:14 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116046410916823849
No, seriously, why is nobody doing this? I'm actually pretty sure that some version of it could be established outside the US, too - there's SO MUCH CRIME! on front-row display here & a lot of it crosses borders and/or international law...
Fucking how did the world become this uninterested in bringing (a certain kind of) criminals to justice?
#corruption #fascism #law #justice @npub1fdr…lvhs
#note1s6x…f0r6

2026-02-09 11:46:41 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116040136897752985
I've said this before: Those dickhead business types in "Resident Evil", who destroy the world through greed & negligence & then just keep having board meetings in their bunkers & discuss their next insane projects?
Yeah, real-life billionaires are exactly like that, except way stupider. You can't even shame them by pointing it out - they think it's cool & wish they were sunglasses-inside-guy at the head of the table.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDnJ81pffUc
#capitalism @npub1fdr…lvhs
#note1nts…mmph

2026-02-07 07:03:48 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116018345665883141
"It's so easy to slip into the habit of thinking that nothing will change, that our politicians will never fear us more than they love the money and power they get from catering to the Epstein class. I'm not denying that this is how they view the world today, but there was a time in living memory when it wasn't true. If it changed before, it can change again." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
#change #hope #resist
#note12rk…2kv8

2026-02-06 19:46:25 UTC

RE: https://shakedown.social/@AAronL1968/116025065206994899
They're not working to bring automation to everyday life - they're working to normalize Reverse Centaurs*.
They want you to applaud exploitation & slavery; robotization is the facade they slap on it to give you plausible deniability, not least to yourself.
They are monsters & they want YOU to be a monster, too.
*ask @npub1fdr…lvhs
#tech #business #technofeudalism
#note137e…q6rq

2026-02-06 18:35:05 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116022803319662931
"This was terrible a couple years ago, when the immigration system still had human operators you could reach by sitting on hold for several hours. Today, thanks to a single billionaire's gleeful cruelty, the system is literally unnavigable, "staffed" by a chatbot that can't answer basic questions. A timely reminder that the only jobs AI can do are the jobs that no one gives a shit about." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
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2026-02-04 06:02:42 UTC

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I treat movies & books etc. like music - you don't listen to a song or album just once, or listen to it again to be surprised. You do it because it moves you in some way.
I do try to find new stuff because that's how we get future old stuff we know we like - but I also try not to feel guilty about re-experiencing pop culture, because why should I?

2026-02-03 11:52:08 UTC

It REALLY needs to become common knowledge all the billionaire broligarchs are fucking idiots. People keep assuming there's some secret brilliance behind everything they do, usually because they also believe their fake origin stories.
No, Thiel didn't invent anything & neither did Musk or Ellison or Zuckerberg. They bought in & were lucky, that's all. No, they didn't know what they had, any more than any other entrepreneur & their own ideas are stupid & unworkable.
Dixi.
#broligarchy

2026-02-02 16:09:17 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116001748863545707
"America is not great. It has been gutted by the Epstein class, who robbed us blind, raped our kids, and are now selling us shitcoins and chatbots and the spectacle of protesters being shot in the streets. But it's not enough to know that the system is rigged. Everybody knows the system is rigged. To build a movement and save our future, we have to know how it is rigged and who rigged it" - @npub1fdr…lvhs
Also, this kind dressed-up theft is by no means a US phenom. It's everywhere.
#note1p49…6nc5

2026-01-28 09:46:44 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@Martin_Pigeon/115971074479362251
"After generations of Davos-style oligarch worship, there are damned few politicians who dare to unfurl a sail and aim the tiller for a world that works for working people.
But every time some politician does, that sail bellies out with the wind with an audible snap [...] Any ship rigged for a better future is propelled by a wind that is a fiercer gale than any we've seen for generations." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
#politics #uspol #intpol
#note1jck…t0tk

2026-01-23 13:41:58 UTC

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I would like to respond in the form of a quote: "An app is just a website wrapped in enough DRM to make it a felony to tamper with it"...
Remind me again, what is it that Apple makes money on?
(apologies to the source I can't remember, pretty sure I got it from @npub1fdr…lvhs)

2026-01-19 09:11:05 UTC

Here's the thing about the fash: They think collaboration is something you only (pretend to) do if you're not strong enough to dominate. They don't think they need anyone.
That's why they can't be trusted, ever - but it's also why, like in @npub1fdr…lvhs's "Masque of the Red Death", they eventually starve / shit themselves to death locked inside their sad little basement clutching a rifle, while everyone else work together to build better lives.
https://craphound.com/podcast/2020/03/13/the-masque-of-the-red-death/
#fascism

2026-01-17 15:43:20 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115911110992978751
"Once everyone in your country is buying and using jailbreaking tools from abroad, there'll be no point in keeping these laws on your own books. But the first country to get there stands a chance of establishing a durable first-mover advantage – of reaping hundreds of billions selling disenshittifying products around the world. That country could be to enshittification-resistant technology what Finland was to mobile phones during the Nokia decade..." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
#tech #business
#note1pfw…q3yc

2026-01-16 13:48:41 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/115904617539822735
This is actually kinda important.
You see, some of us called this back in ye earlie '10s, that there was no viable business case for VR to justify Meta's investment - we were of course poo-poo'ed, because if a company the size of Meta wants something to happen, they'll make it happen.
Turns out no, they will not, because even with billions upon billions to burn, even Meta can't make something out of nothing.
We, The Market™️, rejected this. We have more power than we think.
#ai #tech
#note1rgl…wvvy

2026-01-16 12:37:13 UTC

Pargin is right - this should be illegal. In fact it ABSOLUTELY would be, except for the @npub1fdr…lvhs rule: "It's not a crime if we're using an app".
They're literally breaking & into your house & destroying your stuff. No amount of obfuscating legalese would let you or me get away with doing that.
It's fucking insane.
https://www.techspot.com/news/110848-onedrive-backup-feature-making-users-local-files-seemingly.html
#onedrive #microsoft #tech #business #capitalism #ux

2026-01-15 20:44:28 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115901022866433993
"Nothing happens automatically. Fuck pessimism, and fuck optimism, too. Things happen because people do stuff [...] The door is open a crack. Now isn't the time to complain that it isn't open wider – now's the time to throw your shoulder against it." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
#resist #capitalism
#note170g…vwwn

2026-01-14 21:03:25 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115894410440299999
"- this is not normal. The end of ownership represents an overturn of a foundation of modern civilization. The fact that the only "people" who can truly own something are the transhuman, immortal colony organisms we call "Limited Liability Corporations" is an absolutely surreal reversal of the normal order of things..." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
Make no mistake: They WILL make you pay to breathe, as soon as they can figure out how to sell you a gadget that can remotely choke you to death.
#capitalism
#note1mhk…g5hg

2026-01-13 21:40:41 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115888970296152807
"I know it's out of step with the times, but all I have is ideas that make money, make us safer, make us richer, and make our technology better..." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
Fun fact: This doesn't just apply to Canada. There's a huge pile of money on the table - seems stupid to just leave it there.
#AdversarialInteroperability #tech #business
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2026-01-10 16:53:49 UTC

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Basically people need to understand that not opposing fascism is every single bit as dangerous as opposing it - the only difference is how shitty your conscience will/should be before they shoot you, beat you do death, poison you, starve you, explode you or push you into the maw of some easily curable disease.

2026-01-10 15:31:53 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115871427381296594
"Tax is redistributive and getting money back from American companies after they steal it from [everyone] is much harder than simply arranging the system so it's much harder for American companies to steal from [everyone] in the first place..." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
(sidebar: I for one am glad you enabled quote-tooting, Cory 😁)
#resist #BigTech #predistribution #tech #business #intpol
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2026-01-10 10:22:01 UTC

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No, it's not - it's Apple's business working exactly as intended, i.e. enshittified. They sell users' eyeballs to their channel customers & this is how they justify it, because even though the display is worthless when the user has opted out, it still turns up in the data, so they're ruining your newsfeed in order to trick their paying customers into paying for worthless views.

2026-01-04 13:49:23 UTC

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TFG also absolutely thinks oil just comes out of the ground looking like motor oil & all you have to do is load it in barrels & slap a price tag on it. It cannot be overstated how simplistic & childlike his idea of the world is or how little he knows about anything.

2026-01-04 10:03:14 UTC

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@ianbetteridge/115833246133934434
No. There's no ambiguity in the text & yet this headline.
It's like going "Did a group of dudes breaking into the Louvre & making off with various works of art act legally?", which no news outlet would ever do, because it would be both stupid & a dereliction of journalistic duty to state fact clearly so people can know what the fuck is going on.
The role of the press getting us into this mess cannot be overstated.
#press #news #media #politics #intpol #venezuela
#note1xnp…0x2p

2026-01-03 11:05:41 UTC

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Also, let me get this straight: If (!) Ukraine enacts military action against the commander-in-chief of the nation which is waging undeclared, illegal war against them, it's "assassination", but when (!) MAGA-run US enacts military action to kidnap the head of a sovereign state, illegally by both international & American law, it's basically just a bit of policing...?

2026-01-02 10:35:51 UTC

RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/115825057740970211
Also, the problem with techno-feudal platforms isn't what their algorithms do - as @npub1fdr…lvhs says, the problem is who it does it to & who it does it for.
Amazon's algorithm could help buyers & sellers find each other, but that doesn't maximize Bezos' profits. What does is sucking ever more value out of the transaction until there's nothing left for either of them.
#tech #business
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2026-01-02 10:35:24 UTC

It's a good talk & Varoufakis is an important voice - even then, though, they both make that same old mistake of conflating #capitalism with commerce.
No. Commerce is the garb capitalism clothes itself with to hide that it literally only represents the intent money would have if it had any, to gather itself into one big pile.
That's why capitalism also eats capitalists eventually; it doesn't need them. Money can own itself & that's where it will end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41diQcq3Lq8
#EndCapitalism

2025-12-25 22:28:41 UTC

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Pretty funny, but the real brilliant bit is obviously the random groove thing 🤩 I'm not even sure you could emulate that with a regular digital track, like on a streaming service, but with vinyl it's fairly straight-forward & there were quite a few artists, comedy & otherwise, who played with having multiple different grooves on the same side of a disc - AFAIR Monty Python did one without telling anyone, just to take the piss 😂

2025-12-24 08:42:48 UTC

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I'm sure - but even though the likes of Zebralette, Podolski & TyrellN6 are simpler than their big brothers or other synths, like Tunefish & Surge XT, I'm still a long way from being able to deliberately shape a sound, even on them, let alone understanding how all those great presets are even created with the available controls 😝

2025-12-23 21:30:48 UTC

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Not exactly for me, mostly because as a complete synth novice & also primarily a guitar player, I'm nowhere near figuring out how to use it properly 😂 it's on my fav list, though 😁

2025-12-21 16:46:49 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115741140127447609
This is why, as I ranted about the other day, the Danish national news will gleefully & uncritically report on the "failure" & "slaughter" of Novo Nordisk, on account of losing a lot of stock value - nevermind that the company rakes in billions in profit from its business of actually selling medical products; the gamblers don't like it so the CEO & thousands of workers have to be fired...
It's utter, untenable insanity.
#capitalism #finance #business @npub1fdr…lvhs
#note1u2l…fclj

2025-12-21 11:51:12 UTC

Perfect example of the thing that @npub1fdr…lvhs keeps saying, that we've created a system with monster-shaped slots in it & until we change that, monsters will keep popping themselves into those slots, from whence they will make everything worse for everyone, up to & including driving children to suicide...
@npub1tln…7e9l is right; we have to fight these monsters with as much force as it takes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJi6N_6RmtU
#capitalism #enshittocene #gambling #business #tech #regulation #skepchick

2025-12-18 09:25:33 UTC

RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/115739576290094754
Uh, OK... turns out there's something wrong with the file - it doesn't shove off a loose layer, it actually shifts the printing position 🤔
"Fucking how!?" is obviously my first question, but also, it looks fine in the Prusa gcode viewer & how is THAT possible...? 🤯
#3Dprinting @npub1d4n…dptf
https://cdn.masto.host/helvedenet/media_attachments/files/115/739/848/158/172/482/original/92c2280b5881bf6f.mp4
#note1nzs…fm8t

2025-12-18 08:16:20 UTC

RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/115739419938175178
Also, this is not great 😬 dunno if it's related - we've moved it over to a sturdier table to see if it helps... 🤞
#3Dprinting @npub1d4n…dptf #maker
https://cdn.masto.host/helvedenet/media_attachments/files/115/739/574/077/541/174/original/adda8ecbb39a0da7.jpeg
#note1d4j…58wv

2025-12-18 07:36:35 UTC

I'm amazed how fast this printer is, but also a little concerned about the wild shaking - like, it looks like it might shake itself right off the table 😱😂
#3Dprinting #maker
https://cdn.masto.host/helvedenet/media_attachments/files/115/739/419/608/271/313/original/1a6fd77c514250c6.mp4

2025-12-16 06:04:01 UTC

Insane transforming chess set 🤯
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiYsN2kjjWc
#maker #chess #games #AdamSavage #WorksByDesign #RileyKolbow #Tested #design #engineering #3Dprinting @npub1d4n…dptf

2025-12-15 09:26:18 UTC

"AI is changing everything" - bullshit.
WE are changing everything, in the exact way AI peddlers want us to, so they make the most money.
There's literally no reason to change anything, except that They™️ told us to. There's no evidence that it even does what they say, let alone that it's helpful or valuable.
#business #tech #AI #capitalism

2025-12-14 11:02:34 UTC

RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/115711254445947926
Oh, it's not (just) on me - turns out that even when expressly told not to, it still fetches the file & then starts nagging me to complete the installation...
I'm conclusion, fuck you, Apple.
We need all of these Big Tech corps to go away so we can get something better.
#tech #enshittification #business
https://cdn.masto.host/helvedenet/media_attachments/files/115/717/580/559/968/438/original/a4ddfa21161a593e.png
#note1rvx…5xu0

2025-12-14 07:10:07 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@iiradned/115715575032977887
"I'm not trying to say that new technologies never raise gnarly new legal questions, but what I am saying is that a lot of the time, the "new legal challenges" raised by technology are somewhere between 95-100% bullshit" - @npub1fdr…lvhs
I keep saying: Strip away the digital layers & nobody in their right mind would accept any of this. But breaking the law with an app is somehow different - you can steal, lie, hurt, spy, exploit, anything you want, regardless of legality.
#tech #fraud #crime
#note1wnw…pvwx

2025-12-13 08:13:43 UTC

OK, this is on me - of fucking course installing iOS 26 included auto-updating to be re-enabled, even though I had disabled it before. Of course that should have been the first thing I checked.
God, I hate these intrusive, disrespectful tech assholes so much, sometimes I can literally taste the bile in my mouth.
#tech #Apple #ux #enshittification

2025-12-09 20:39:19 UTC

RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/115691053206482745
Pro'lly hard to really see the difference in photos but this is much better 😊 I gave it some thickness with a bit of infill & it does exactly what I hoped, namely spread some diffused, ambient light in the nook 👍
#3Dprinting #maker @npub1d4n…dptf
https://cdn.masto.host/helvedenet/media_attachments/files/115/691/536/773/410/955/original/50f445291d9a1089.jpeg
https://cdn.masto.host/helvedenet/media_attachments/files/115/691/536/772/985/023/original/635bdb76c1a807d8.jpeg
#note1z29…66p6

2025-12-09 18:36:17 UTC

Music nook is a bit on the dark side, especially since I removed the small lamp hanging in the corner to make room for the new guitar storage - went looking & found literally ONE option that wasn't some Temu bullshit & while cheap it's still basically too good 😝 the light is too bright & it doesn't dim, think I might 3D print some sort of filter...
#maker #BedroomProducer
https://cdn.masto.host/helvedenet/media_attachments/files/115/691/053/070/333/554/original/1baa6ca587d37b7f.jpeg

2025-12-04 13:52:56 UTC

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I know you're doing the good works 🙌 for one thing I would dig out some salient examples of generally beneficial things people can recognize, which would have been worse or non-existent but for science relying on a functional space program - the NASA page alone pro'lly has some: https://www.nasa.gov/technology-transfer-and-spinoffs-news/
Also, the Kessler effect, described in a way even a child would understand. People need an "Oh, shit!" epiphany for this, like many have had for e.g. microplastics.

2025-12-04 08:28:44 UTC

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I fear the real problem is that people can easily be convinced that this is all just a problem for stargazing nerds & nobody else, if they don't believe that already. We need a clear & graspable idea that this will cause everyone significant harm, or the consensus will be to just let the tech bros bro.

2025-12-02 07:11:37 UTC

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As a mostly-former designer, like Mike Monteiro I believe that we have a responsibility 👉 https://youtu.be/qIcM21l61TE?si=csMSQo6zcLWmK4Wa

2025-11-16 07:15:43 UTC

RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@bicmay/115556993028865540
Men will turn the US into a literal manosphere rather than go to therapy.
Seriously, MAGA US is the ultimate endgame of fucking REFUSING! to deal with male insecurity.
#uspol
#note18uw…3dw3

2025-11-07 18:19:38 UTC

BTW dunno if anyone said it: Once murder becomes the solution for anything, it's just a matter of time before it's the solution for everything.
The MAGA regime is using the fishing boat murders to set the scene.
#fascism #uspol

2025-10-27 13:52:34 UTC

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Yeah, I think snow & trees are super-annoying, too... Oh, you mean the other way 🥁🥁🥁

2025-10-23 05:25:27 UTC

@npub1fdr…lvhs is exactly right - the opposite of fascism is solidarity. There's an incredibly important detail here, which you might spot if I say that the expression of solidarity is community, or even that the market alternative to capitalism is commerce.
These answers to the two-pronged problem of fascism/capitalism are not -isms.
Things like solidarity, community & commerce aren't belief systems, they're something we DO, WITH each other, not TO each other.
https://mastodon.social/@grheavyroller/115421519835143454

2025-10-18 09:37:21 UTC

I keep getting pushback on this but I'm gonna to keep saying it: We're NEVER going to free people from the clutches of Big Tech until we realize & respect that most computer users by far aren't actually computer users.
They don't give a shit about computers. They don't want to see a single line of code, ever.
They don't care about customization, "distros" or versions. They don't care about GUIs or desktop environments.
They just want to get to what they're doing; work or play.
#UX #tech

2025-10-11 09:32:46 UTC

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Also, another instance of how "We strive to accommodate everyone inside our big tent!" always, ALWAYS means right-wing fascists & racists, never marginalized groups...

2025-10-09 15:03:44 UTC

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- and once you explicitly embrace being a shitty person, going back means having a conscience about that decision & nobody who makes such a choice wants to do that...
https://cdn.masto.host/helvedenet/media_attachments/files/115/344/816/357/294/227/original/829e978bef9f2cd5.jpg

2025-10-06 13:44:50 UTC

I said this the other day: We need to do away with the idea of Money = Merit.
This is pretty urgent, if "urgent" meant "several generations overdue" - because it's literally the thing that brought Americans MAGA & the UK Boris Johnson & as we speak, worthless idiots have way too much influence everywhere in the world simply because they're rich.
It's fucking embarrassing, it's wildly destructive & it needs to stop.
https://beige.party/@RickiTarr/115327220954816640
#politics #wealth #inequality #PopCulture

2025-09-28 13:32:02 UTC

It should be noted that while, as @npub1fdr…lvhs points out, the #AI bubble does this worse than ever, they didn't invent these bullshit accounting tricks.
Particularly since the 80's, financial sector regulation has been almost entirely absent, leading it to create deals & instruments amounting to nothing more than "this equals billions of $$$ because we say so", repeatedly derailing the world economy with rickety cobwebs of nonsense...
https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/115281823684157450
#finance #regulation #business

2025-09-27 07:26:44 UTC

You know what, I'm starting to think we should bring slow bureaucracy back.
Considering that data is basically being turned into a massively harmful substance we should do what we do with such things: Avoid amassing it as much as possible & when we do have to for some important reason, keep it sequestered, guarded & under strict safety measures.
The inconvenience of un-connected offices & entities, each with their own systems, is one of those measures.
https://mstdn.social/@junesim63/115267110404960120
#AI #tech

2025-09-23 20:28:29 UTC

"These rent-seeking chokepoint obsessives have one move: corner a market and squeeze. They've been ratfucking renewables for decades because it competed with their existing racket.
But they aren't emotionally committed to setting fire to old dead things – they're just nature's most compulsive toll-booth operators, and they're sure as shit going to be looking for ways to stick toll-booths in our renewables future." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115254037095248107
#energy #sustainability #politics

2025-09-22 17:58:48 UTC

"If Elon Musk OD'ed on ketamine tomorrow, there'd be ten Big Balls who'd tear each others' throats out in the ensuing succession fight, and the next guy would be just as stupid, racist, and authoritarian. Musk, Cook, Zuck, Pichai, Nadella, Larry Ellison – they're just filling the monster-shaped holes that policy-makers installed in our society..." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://hachyderm.io/@mitch/115244539742914547
#enshittification #tech #business #politics

2025-09-22 08:32:47 UTC

"- while a member of a gang stalking forum might have a delusion that is just different enough from yours that they seem foolish, or they accuse you of being paranoid, the chatbot's conception of gang stalking delusion is being informed, tuned and shaped by you. It's an improv partner, "yes-and"ing you into a life of paranoid terror." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://mastodon.social/@courtcan/115246325654985208
#AI #tech #AIpsychosis #LLM

2025-09-17 13:27:24 UTC

"Whether you're buying a glass bottle, sending something by sea-freight, taking vitamin C, getting an IV drip, watching pro wrestling, lacing up your athletic shoes, shopping for a mattress, seeing a movie, using social media, listening to music, reading a book, getting fitted for eyeglasses, or choosing a browser, you are trapped in a market totally dominated by five or fewer corporations – often just one corporation..." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://mastodon.social/@celeduc/115219647984161603
#resist #capitalism #business

2025-09-14 15:45:22 UTC

#SilentSunday
https://cdn.masto.host/helvedenet/media_attachments/files/115/203/422/336/440/559/original/523d81c0cbcd4458.jpeg

2025-09-12 15:33:40 UTC

Reminder: You don't need a new phone.
ou may need a *replacement* phone but there are more refurbished used phones on the market than we can possibly use, precisely because of all the new phones people didn't need but bought anyway.
It isn't cool to have the latest phone anymore. It just shows you're a dupe with too much money on your hands that you can't wait to stuff into the pockets of people who already have way too much of it.
#PSA #consumerism #tech #business

2025-09-11 16:13:35 UTC

"The fact that the only way that AI investors can recoup their investment is by turning us all into reverse-centaurs is not our problem. We are under no obligation to arrange our affairs to ensure their solvency. In 1980, Margaret Thatcher told us, “There is no alternative.” In 1982, Bill Gibson refuted her thus: “The street finds its own uses for things.”
I know which prophet I’m gonna follow." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115186335896408611
#AI #tech #business

2025-09-08 19:11:39 UTC

"- while "IP" can be bought and sold by the capital classes, process knowledge is inseparably vested in the minds and muscle-memory of their workers. People who own the instructions are constitutionally prone to assuming that making the recipe is the important part, while following the recipe is donkey-work you can assign to any freestanding oaf who can take instruction." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
Unsurprisingly, #AI hype is just another form of thinkism.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115169971416913967

2025-09-07 08:28:32 UTC

Well, it's the trick question part that can trip you up, dunno if that has anything to do with being a genius 😝 I'm pretty stupid, but I actually got the physics right in my guess & still guessed wrong - because I'm also easy to trick 😂
- and because I'm such a good host I will let my readers guess for themselves & put my guess & the trick in the comments 😁
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUq_tM3yGTM
#TheActionLab #physics #science

2025-09-05 20:02:45 UTC

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It's a goddamn fucking disgrace. A criminal corporation with almost infinite money was just allowed to pay their way out of breaking the law & pay cheaply by their standards & the criminals don't even care because it's not their money. If any of those authors think 3K makes this is fair I will hate their guts forever; they had a chance of putting a foot down for justice & instead took a pittance & were like "Fuck everyone else!", which is exactly what the billionaire class wants.

2025-09-03 09:36:34 UTC

Interesting: At the startup day I'm attending, about half the startups presented so far have "We don't use #AI" in their pitch...
#tech

2025-09-01 11:11:41 UTC

"After we defeat these fucking fascists, after the next installment of the Nuremburg trials, after these eichmenn and eichwomenn get their turns in the dock, we're going to have to figure out how to keep them firmly stuck to the scrapheap of history..." - @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/26/sole-and-despotic-dominion/#then-they-came-for-me
#resist #enshittification #WilhoitsLaw #politics
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