UKGOV: We are going to ban kids from social media.
PUBLIC: And what if they get around it? Will you punish them?
UKGOV: Nah.
PUBLIC: So its meaningless posturing then.
UKGOV:
PUBLIC: Why, instead of picking on kids, don;t you tackle the ADULTS who run companies that traffic in harmful content?
UKGOV:
PUBLIC: Weak, cowardly bastards the lot of them.
REALISATION
It is a strange feeling when you finally realise that the stuff of the world, generally speaking, "belongs" to a company or billionaire no more or less than it does to you or I.
What is today called "ownership" or "property" is little more than theft or acquisition with menaces that either can or cannot be backed up with violence.
No one actually owns anything and property is a totally made up concept.
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
No one connected with data centres wants you to know either what resources they require or what pollution footprint they have because the answer to the first is massive and the answer to the second is also massive.
Data centres are literally death factories that exist only to make a few human individuals rich whilst impoverishing everything else.
#ai #datacenters #technology #Politics #capitalism #Environment
POLITICS
“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
(Maya Angelou)
HEADS UP
You can immediately spot all the Mastodon scams because they are all based on centralised thinking that does not apply here. The only person here who will ever contact you about your account (possibly) is your instance admin. If you don;t know who that is, find out. If anyone or anything else contacts you about your account its a scam.
PS there is no Mastodon overlord. Thats the whole point of Mastodon.
"Don't wanna_______ ?
QUEER NIHILISM
I have written a new essay (an hour of your time) which discusses "queer nihilism" or an anti-politics (that is, something against the politics of this world) of wild desire.
It is from a work in progress which is focusing on "the wild" as an alternative to our civilisations of death and oppression, a theorisation of anarchy.
It will interest those who have an interest in an alternative politics - and an alternative to politics - queer theory, nihilism, anarchism and all anti-civilisationalists.
https://archive.org/details/qn_20260331/mode/2up
#queer #nihilism #queertheory #anarchism #anarchy #wild #desire #feral #politics #theory #essay #thought #discussion
The world is a crazy place full of inscrutable questions like:
How long did it take Mr T to put on all those chains in a morning?
No no no.
Its not "age verification software."
Its "building a global digital panopticon owned by tech billionaires and administrated by their paid political stooges."
AN OBSERVATION
Ring cameras.
Teslas with always on cameras uploading footage to Musk HQ.
Facial recognition cameras in the streets.
Global age verification requirements.
Requirements for digital IDs.
If you ask me, someone wants to build and make use of a digital global panopticon.
Do you think it will make you safer... or more controlled?
#politics #surveillance #tech #technology #ageverification #capitalism
Sooner or later you are are going to have to get used to the idea that obeying the law, doing as you are told and bowing the knee to authority IS NOT IN ANYONE'S BEST INTEREST.
Want to keep governments honest? Let them know obedience is not automatic and active resistance is to be expected.
QUESTION
Do you think obeying a bully or an authoritarian makes then change their ways or encourages them in their ways?
Act accordingly.
Insurance exists because without it capitalism would fail almost immediately.
Think about it.
CAPITALISM IN A NUTSHELL
Capitalism is an economic way of organising human relations such that everything you need to live is owned by someone else and they use that leverage in order to force you to make them more wealthy on pain of death.
Oh, you work in IT do you?
HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT SABOTAGING THE FUCKING MACHINES?
POWER
"Power is still intact not because people haven’t told it often enough how bad it is but because we haven’t overthrown it yet. We should never expect it to reform. Its only interest is its continuance, its only strategy the achieval of that... you don’t talk to power. You get rid of it. You make it as impossible as you can. You dissipate it. You decentralise human relations."
