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davel , 4 months ago

Socialist devs now

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/d8b8228f-5fc8-4dae-b288-976166aa83ff.jpeg

davel , 4 months ago

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/7584b9f4-881b-4d72-8f66-2621577fd9cc.jpeg

davel , 4 months ago

That is mean, and we’ve all thought it.

davel , 4 months ago

Gen-x erasure as usual.

davel , 4 months ago

The greatest trick gen-x ever pulled was convincing the world it didn’t exist.

davel , 4 months ago

Wall full of tetanus.

davel , 4 months ago

First of all history began in 2022 not 2014, and second of all those children are Untermensch and don’t count.

davel , 4 months ago

America and the Amazing TechniColor Revolution

davel , 4 months ago

Reference for the kids: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

davel , 4 months ago

I should learn not to assume that all English speakers do.

davel , 4 months ago

“Choosing” is doing some heavy lifting here when gen-z ain’t got no money.

davel , 4 months ago

This article is a great summary. Thanks!

davel , 4 months ago

Move fast and break things.

davel , 4 months ago

Apropos of nothing: posting LIB memes to !memes is risky business,
because meow-tankie might choose to engage with the meme in earnest.

davel , 4 months ago

Won't somebody please think of the porky-scared-flipped

davel , 4 months ago

This is one of the most destructive things we’ve done as a society: making our homes into investment vehicles. It is the root cause of people no longer being able to afford housing.

davel , 4 months ago

On the one hand the super straights don’t wash their asses because that’s gay, but on the other hand the super straights are bootlickers for following orders.

davel , 4 months ago

I’m sorry but only pre-approved, whitewashed, milquetoast quotes from radicals our government assassinated are allowed.

During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.

— Lenin

davel OP , 4 months ago

I think that is engineer’s disease thinking.

Running instances costs money & labor, and I predict that many instance admins will be happy to accept various forms of assistance, and the CIA/FBI/etc-backed organizations will be happy to help. The assistance might be just money, which comes with strings attached such as simply having the ear of the admins. The assistance might be “moderation tools,” to save labor efforts.

I think the instances that choose to federate with corporate social media (which are already captured by feds) will probably be the easiest to gain control of. If you’ve been following the corpo federation discourse, you might have noticed that the instances with the largest user bases tend to be the most interested in federating with the corpo social media.

davel OP , 4 months ago

Your rebuttal to engineer’s disease is to quote Ken Thompson chefs-kiss

From Michael Parenti’s Dirty Truths:

Those who suffer from conspiracy phobia are fond of saying: “Do you actually think there’s a group of people sitting around in a room plotting things?” For some reason that image is assumed to be so patently absurd as to invite only disclaimers. But where else would people of power get together – on park benches or carousels? Indeed, they meet in rooms: corporate boardrooms, Pentagon command rooms, at the Bohemian Grove, in the choice dining rooms at the best restaurants, resorts, hotels, and estates, in the many conference rooms at the White House, the NSA, the CIA, or wherever. And, yes, they consciously plot – though they call it “planning” and “strategizing” – and they do so in great secrecy, often resisting all efforts at public disclosure. No one confabulates and plans more than political and corporate elites and their hired specialists. To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.

As for email, you say that as if Edward Snowden revealed nothing, or that the US doesn’t have a history of injecting backdoors into encryption standards.

davel OP , 4 months ago

The ones that don’t choose to may eventually find themselves defederated from the ones that do. We’ll get walled off from the large instances that “play ball”.

davel OP , 4 months ago

RemindMe! 4 years "federation is going great"

davel OP , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Because it’s corporate & tech oligarch “philanthropic” money and military industrial complex money.

davel , 4 months ago

Why pay Duolingo when I can catfish on Tinder for free second language conversation labor?

davel , 4 months ago

The purpose of the embargo is now and has always been to crush the threat of a good example.

davel , 4 months ago

Progressive liberals like Bernie Sanders aren’t much different and only marginally better, critiquing “crony capitalism” / “neoliberal capitalism” / “uber-capitalism”, without directly challenging capitalism itself.

davel , 4 months ago

Reformism keeps not working, as evidenced by the last 45 years of ever-worsening neoliberalism, but liberals will keep trying anyway.

Marxists are not idealists; they are materialists, specifically, dialectical materialists.

It is the liberals who are the idealists.

davel , 4 months ago

No socialist State has ever been won at the ballot box, though electoralism has its tactical uses in the interim. It’s mostly done through helping the working class develop class consciousness, through labor organizing and militant labor action, through developing dual power, and then ultimately replacing the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie with the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Few people remember that Communists and other socialists helped us win the weekend and the eight hour workday, and these weren’t won through elections but through labor militancy. They don’t remember because we were purged and memory-holed by two red scares and a cold war.

davel , 5 months ago

DropBox has been dead to me since 2014 when they put former US Sec. of State Condoleezza Rice on their board of directors.

davel , 5 months ago

you should join our Instance if you feel your values align with ours.

Nobody knows what your values are, and I very much doubt even you have a coherent manifesto of what they are.

• We don’t have a desire to be, we’ll, tyrants. People disagree, and we get that. Not everyone thinks the same or believes the same things.
• We’re just regular people like anybody else and want a place where we can actually be ourselves and not walk on eggshells.

This will devolve into a complete shit show. Please learn about the paradox of tolerance.

davel , 5 months ago

Apple will now require a court order or search warrant to give push notification data to law enforcement in a shift from the previous practice of accepting a subpoena to hand over data.

A subpeana is a court order so that’s clear as mud.

davel OP , 7 months ago

• First they came for the lemmygrads, and I did not speak out, because I was not a marxist-lenninist.
• Then they came for the hexbears, and I did not speak out, because I was not a leftist.
• Then they came for the lemmy.mls, and I did not speak out, because I was not a privacy enthusiast.
• Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.