Moving away from the platforms that have sucked us in and exploited us, at a scale big enough to send a clear, revolutionary message to capital, is going to take principles, not convenience; it's going to take us collectively deciding that no matter the convenience of corporate walled garden platforms, we need to stick to communications mediums that reflect the freedom we want that we do not have under capital.
Many options exist, but they are withering away, and inertia is hell to fight.
If you think about it, the Catholic Church were among the first engineers in the West:
* They mastered "embrace and extend" over every pantheon they encountered.
* They moved fast (for the day) and broke things.
* Their exorcisms require a senior admin and an intern.
* Their documentation hasn't been updated since v0.1a.
ATTENTION MILLENNIALS
Please schedule the kickoff of the Class War for mid-August, while all the boomers are off at this thing:
http://time.com/5489733/woodstock-50th-anniversary-festival/
@noelle This happens a *lot* actually, and I mean a LOT.
Some Comanche want to be called Numunuu because Comanche comes from the Ute name for them (kimanci) meaning "enemy" or more literally "people who attack me all the time." The same thing happened with the word "apache."
In fact, here's a big-ass list. http://www.native-languages.org/original.htm
(Do note that sometimes the tribe themselves have adopted the new for themselves, as is the case with the Cherokees)
#undertale headcanon:
violence damages the people it hurts
violence damages the people who inflict it
people can survive enacting violence on others, but the world is always a better place if violence isn't the way things go down
de-escalation is better
peace is better
whenever it is possible, it is better
and if we explore power fantasies in our games, in our media, in our dreams, we can explore one where no-one has to die
FOSS, EU-funded bug bounties, +
"The European Union will foot the bill for bug bounty programs for 14 open source projects, EU Member of Parliament Julia Reda announced this week.
The 14 projects are, in alphabetical order, 7-zip, Apache Kafka, Apache Tomcat, Digital Signature Services (DSS), Drupal, Filezilla, FLUX TL, the GNU C Library (glibc), KeePass, midPoint, Notepad++, PuTTY, the Symfony PHP framework, VLC Media Player, and WSO2."
[1.Ch.] PR
's bad, from PR News, signed PR.
Perfection. If you've dreamed of a definitive electric guitar cover of Toccata & Fugue in D Minor for most of your life, as I have, know now that the number of electric guitars it takes to nail it turns out to be fifteen. https://youtu.be/wqgQ7IYhvRg
Gosh its Gaymas
I wish everyone I love, or casually crush on, a blissful moment of frozen time when the moonlight filters through the ice crystals on the window, a warm heat source keeps you lazily half-dressed, and a half-eaten box of cookies lies on the floor. And in that moment, between heartbeats, you feel sure-footed - your time mired at crossroads is passed, for now. You peer into yourself - an unfathomable well of gayness - and realize you could empty yourself into this world and never run dry. We are the very strata of the planet, you and I, but then the wind blusters or the phone beeps, and the moment is lost.
What I wish, more than anything, is that you do not forget this time, or at least, keep enough of that moment to tell someone you love, "I'm so fucking gay for you and I don't think I'll ever stop."
fantasy transposting
"Now that I've captured the Chosen Hero I can exact my evil plan! First, I'll transform his body to be like my demon minions-"
"I consent."
"...What?"
"Honestly the only reason I'm out here is because my family kept telling me to man up and the like, so one day I bought a cheap sword and pretended I found it in a forest. Basically ran away with their blessing."
"uhh"
"Can I be one of those succubi? With the hips? I dream of that a lot."
"...Sure."
callout culture
it's pretty bad and harmful in general.
be extremely critical of everything you read. check your fucking sources. and before you spread shit, like, be sure you're not playing directly into the hands of people who just want a basically innocent target to perish for malicious reasons. that's all i have to say about that
My Mom got a new phone 6 months ago and only shared her new # with me and 3 others. Months later she bought a new laptop and registered Microsoft Word (which apparently requires her phone # now?). A day or two later she started getting a stream of telemarketing calls. #privacy
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