Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱Apr 1

such a good point

I've always loathed April Fools pranks because I'm a trusting person and those pranks preyed on the trusting -- and now, in the light of AI and all the disinformation and the DISTRUST that AI, fascism, and all the tech forces trying to tear us apart are trying to manifest... now that trust is more important than ever... I think we can dispense with the pranks that prey on trust.

Show threadPoligofsky 🇨🇦 .. 🚫🤖Apr 1
@susankayequinn Civil society is being replaced by punk pranks (fraud), and most people are onboard with it, or resigned to it, or too distracted to notice. Every day is Fools Day.
Show threadSue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱Apr 1
@8r3n7 IDK about "most people" but some are
Show threadPoligofsky 🇨🇦 .. 🚫🤖
@susankayequinn It is a difficult thing to measure. Similarly, it is hard to measure responsibility for the state of society, in hard numbers. But we all have a share of that responsibility, and exercise it (or refrain) every day.
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Show threadSue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱Apr 1
@8r3n7 exactly, so I model that, knowing I'm doing my part and influencing others as well. And I try hard not to make assumptions about "most people" because not only is it hard to measure, it is not static. "Most people" will follow where the leadership is, or where their peer group is, or what their family insists upon, or a hundred other societal forces. Even the culture of the country has vast influence. What I know is people are *capable* of choosing to create civil society.