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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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  That this is happening at the same time multiple corporations put out their own versions of constitutions, like how Palantir is doing, should have many more of you questioning: "Wait... is the federal government effectively dead? What am I *doing* with my time?!" You're concerned about elections being stolen when the people who would do so are behaving as though elections have stopped happening. Get with it.

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  shoutout to the folk who, when they saw that billionaires could defund "public" radio, realized that means "public" is meaningless vibes-slop that they had believed like an LLM consuming training data, and realized that to have public radio, they, the public, would have to have radios, and so went out and bought radios.

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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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  @Huntn00@mastodon.world I saw it years ago so I'm sure the problem is only much much worse, but I saw someone - y'know, it might've been someone from The Atlantic - who compared what you'd have to spend in a year to gain access to one newspaper, versus the same amount of editorial voices via Substack. And it was, yeah, like $30 for NYT or whatever, but then, literally like $7k for the equivalent feed on Substack.

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  @Huntn00@mastodon.world Oooh that's cool you're finding both at about the same time! I find they both tend to talk about the same general topics, at the same time, but in TOTALLY different framings, and it can be really useful. Like here is often very focused on what just happened and next steps, and that's great. Substack often has content on what just happened, and how that looks in the lens of older theories, or how that might change things over multiple steps through time. But!...

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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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  "truly incredible how we've gone from extracting oil from energy to using solar!" well, yes, unless you consider that the amount of energy we have to expend to extract oil has SKYROCKETED over the last 50 years, and so while solar tech has been getting better, it's having to compete against an increasingly failing industry, so of COURSE looks better and better. But if we actually measure the total energy cost of most renewable programs, they take more energy than they output,...

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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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  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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  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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  I'm seeing climate collapse denialism go around Fediverse today, in the form of about "last year the US used more renewable energy than oil for the first time!" Here's some key facts: 1) Growing corn with petrol fertilizer? doesn't count as using oil for energy in these stats 2) Turning that corn into diesel? Counts as using renewables for energy 3) Our oil production and use dropped *due to destruction of facilitaties due to environmental disaster and...

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  What's your favorite rock? No really try and take some time to think about it. You don't even have to tell me or anyone, just, indulge yourself in some thinking about rocks, and your personal preference. Enjoy.

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  Hey so if /pol/ was created by Epstein et al to seed political discourse that advantaged the upper-class, and commercial social media was managed by Maxwell et al to disseminate that discourse across commercial social media, and Mastodon was set up to provide an alternative forum for that discourse... ...doesn't that mean Mastodon is a growth of the seed of Epstein's distraction? Like, I'm not shitposting. Think about it. Pretty much everything here is responsive to hab...