When I was a kid I imagined poverty as "not having nice things", probably my image of it was that of the family in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

They didn't have nice things but could somehow manage, somehow get by. Things were bad but stable.

Now I realise that real poverty is marked by instability. There's turnover. You can and will die.

You can't actually live off cabbage soup forever? What happens if you get injured? What happens if you get sick?

Poverty isn't a stable existence where you just have to make do without nice things, but an unstable existence, one where you can't take for granted you can keep carrying on.

I want to turn forbidden knowledge into common knowledge.

When any kind of nationalism seeps into the messaging (eg; on european soil) be suspicious.

Be more angry about how bad things are. Be more angry about things that are completely normalised, like having to go to work.

The work we do for the most part has nothing to do with fulfilling our needs but simply doing what the wealthy and powerful want us to do.

It's as if this society itself was a scam.

I want to be the right level of paranoid and that seems hard.

I'm so pissed at the fact that they've seemingly successfully manufactured consent to force everyone to spend most of their lives working for them under threat of homelessnes, starvation and death.

The world doesn't need to be this way.

People jump straight from "there is no problem" to "the problem is unsolvable".

These are magnetic viewpoints, both are compatible with not doing anything, not changing one's behaviours, not fighting.

I want to live in a world where no one has to compete with anyone else in order to live.

A world where it is obvious to everyone that everyone can and should be housed clothed and fed.

Beyond explicit anti-LLM policies, I want to see more explicit anti-fascist policies.

Is there a nice list of actively anti-fascist, anti-AI software projects somewhere?

@grimalkina I was wondering, do you have plans to have your book translated into other languages?

RE: https://newsie.social/@TheNeedling/117290024708643957

The AI gets superhuman intelligence by making everyone dumber and thus lowering the bar for what superhuman intelligence even means.

I think we can and should make this world into a utopia. The way things are now is ridiculous. There's so much suffering for stupid reasons. This has to be stopped.

Has anyone used this crate https://crates.io/crates/rusty_ffmpeg or something similar that interfaces with ffmpeg from rust?

How are they?

Is there anything obviously better than just invoking the commands from Rust?

I want to take screenshots and audio clips from mkv files.

#rustlang #tech #techsupport

(hashtags here so it's easier to mute posts about these things for those uninterested)

Libraries should have 3D printers.

Work-life balance is a way of saying "balancing the things that you are forced to do under the implicit threat of homelessness and starvation, with the things that you would like to do".

I want to buy a TRRS cable with right-angle connectors like this, ideally about 2 metres in length and high quality (lasts a long time).

It's to connect both sides of my split keyboard together.

Anyone have anx ideas where I can get this?

On the sites I have searched, I have too much criteria.

Right-angle connectorson both ends isn't a common option, it seems.

What do you think about vegans?

They make the things we need (food, shelter, medical care, education) scarce, so that they can make the thing they want (exploitable labour) abundant.

Software updates used to excite me, now they scare me. What new terrors will they unleash this time?