Prof Lutza fed up entrepreneur, Canadian EV trucks, "enshittification" mentionned, Rockies, nice editing... Electric guitar riff in intro, What's not to like?
Bonus point: he finally says the word. Capitalism.
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DavidAnother channel where I'd love to see you appear, if you can, is Louis Rossmann's. Louis is a very active advocate for #RightToRepair and #RightToOwn, a likewise active opponent of #surveillanceCapitalism and #enshittification, and a strangely effective herder of tech-culture cats. He founded the Consumer Rights Wiki [1], and lobbies and organizes political campaigns which get gamers and PC builders out to city halls and state legislatures. His YouTube channel has 2.47 million subscribers, similarly active to the GamersNexus viewers, and the Consumer Right's Wiki editors may soon give the venerable @molly0xfff a run for her (figurative) Wikipedian money.
He's also covered the Bloomberg #DMCA abuse against GN [2], and volunteers to fund legal battles against such corporate #censorship. There's likely a large part of the combined audiences of GamersNexus and of Rossmann's channel which do not overlap demographically (or, for a significant portion, politically) with typical audiences of the venues where I've seen or heard of you (@pluralistic) presenting the book so far, yet those audiences are certain to be amenable to your message, so talking with those audiences could help both the sales and the mission of the book.
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[1] https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RJvrTC6oTI
Feike 🇪🇺🇳🇱 🚫👑@doorbraak ja, maar graag behouden we wél het #rechtopeigendom alsjeblieft.
#eigendom #righttoown
The difference between #socialism and #communism is that in socialism one has the right to own stuff, which is inherently #capitalist but, inherently needed for a #democracy to keep on existing, because, if the #gouvernement owns everything, like in a #marxist #leninist State, how are you going to afford your #Opposition argaist that State, to keep its power in check?
NikhotmskSomebody out there have bought devices that are now bricked by their manufacturer remotely.
Lets unbrick them.
1. Reverse engineer a device and make a patch.
2. Do NOT publish it anywhere else (if you are US citizen you go to jail for that)
3. Send your path to FULU foundation.
4. When sufficient amount of patches are collected, we will try to question the law that forbid repair, thus making more freedom.
5. Also there is a bounty.
@leftylabourtech @wbftw @renatarocha @pluralistic The only political candidate in anglo Canada I’ve heard raise a related issue (#RightToRepair) is Bonnie Critchley. Although the Battle River–Crowfoot outcome was a foregone conclusion, because Pierre re-ran in the most singlemindedly partisan-tribalistic federal riding in the country—so he wouldn’t have to take “no” for an answer—Bonnie’s R2R message resonated with the portion of voters there who think enough before voting that they wouldn’t elect a rock of it were painted blue. There are a lot of orange/blue ridings in rural Canada, and a lot of gamers, technicians, mechanics, farmers, and so on who could be led to the orange side with a pragmatic, informed, and authentic message.
For example, if you want to make headway with the voters who follow the likes of “penguinz0” (on YouTube), #AviLewis (and why hasn’t your team created an account for you here yet, btw), start by watching the GamersNexus GPU smuggling documentary and the follow-up videos about the Bloomberg DMCA abuse. Share those. Then watch a bunch of Louis Rossmann advocacy videos, contribute to the Consumer Rights Wiki, and join the Consumer Rights Discord: but do NOT make like Jagmeet, when he was riding AOC’s coattails, cargo culting her Among Us fundraiser (for Texas freeze victims) without bothering to learn the game before showing up on a livestream with her and pro gaming streamers to an audience of millions who’d already raised > $100,000/h. Don’t present with a “How do you do, fellow kids” like that, but rather, respect your audience by knowing before you speak or act, or by watching, asking questions, listening, and reflecting when your host knows better.
Play your cards right, Avi, and you might be able to appear with Cory or Lina on GN or on Louis’ show, talking about R2R, #RightToOwn, monopolies and oligopolies, and the power they wield against us due to their abuse of market dominance. Defy all PR training about talking points, but be sure to give good faith answers to every question asked of you. Don’t bother mentioning the party unless asked—the Canadian viewers will figure it out—but shows like Steve’s (GN), and similar high-integrity journalism about other topics such as cars, medical devices, tools, and so on, can be your version of Mark Carney appearing on American comedy talk shows. A lot of Canadians watch those, and they’re currently not entirely enamoured with the entitled-snobbish Liberals or DARVO-whinging Conservatives.
Btw, Cory, you could probably get some favourable coverage of your latest book on Steve’s and Louis’ shows. It’s right up both audiences’ allies.
Raglan Niall 
Reverse-Engineering Milwaukee Battery Data. This is my idea of a good night in front of the TV :)
Full M18 diagnostics revealed
𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙖 🥼🧫We have the Right to own. You should be the owner of the things you paid for. No one has the right to decide what you will do with it.
#righttoown #righttorepair
#righttoown #righttorepair
My interviewer wishlist for @pluralistic about his #enshittification book (and, in the case of Steve from GN), on the #DMCA abuse by Bloomberg to censor the #GamersNexus documentary about GPU smuggling:
• Steve of GamersNexus, of course;
• @louisrossmann, the Katharine Hayhoe of #RightToRepair and #RightToOwn; and
• Jordan Harbinger, who has a very large and loyal audience spanning a wide political spectrum, listening to long-form intellectual interviews of experts about their books and research.
(Paging @anneapplebaum.bsky.social: You've spoken to Jordan recently. Maybe mention the book and author to him?)
It will taker a wider audience to effectively build a base for campaigns to restore #competition: the restoration of #antitrust and the repealing of pro-monopoly laws.
https://youtu.be/chPzslZKBhI?si=MonopolyBreaking
@pluralistic I'm certain you know of Louis Rossman but did you know he's now going after the DMCA?
#RightToOwn #RightToRepair
@pluralistic I'm certain you know of Louis Rossman but did you know he's now going after the DMCA?
#RightToOwn #RightToRepair
I started an organization to dismantle the DMCA - here's why
@NMBA Start with community networking (see the link below for a how-to series). That's the most effective way for those without extreme wealth or pre-existing political capital to build political influence and power. Here's a how-to. It can be adapted for any pro-social purpose which matters to most of your local community, so long as you and fellow organizers always put effectiveness over ideology. (That means setting aside purity tests and other performative nonsense in favour of evidence, reason, and legislative and budgetary results.)
In Alberta, you probably have plenty opportunity to organize around #RightToRepair and #RightToOwn, which can logically lead through self-sufficiency into digital sovereignty. A lot of inroads with traditionally conservative rural folks such as farmers can be achieved through R2R (as a means to affordability), and inroads with the disaffected urban gamer crowd through R2O (as a means to stop being ripped off). Meanwhile, the Alberta leftist minority can be reached through R2R as a means to reduce ewaste and R2O as a means to reduce socioeconomic inequity. You'll need to use that common ground to bridge the left-right divide in order to develop critical mass to swing city counsels, the AB legislature, and then the federal parliament.
I'll have to take a slightly different angle in my part of BC, probably starting with providing people an exit from Meta platforms, which are gradually choking off community connection while getting ever more flooded with slop and fraud, and continuing with people who are really ticked off about Windows 11 turning perfectly adequate computers into ewaste (which is a waste of scarce money and violates a lot of BC tree-hugging sensibilities). But I can branch from there toward digital sovereignty though a similar tangential link.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKG4P0uu-XSf9VIIFNO9rykocH2qfrHah
