Refugee from left Twitter, fb, etc. Father, husband, 30ish year net/sysadmin, atheist, vegan, humanist, Marxist.
WEAR YOUR MASKS! It isn't "just" the vulnerable who are sick and dying en masse.
This is a warning about Meta and Threads.
Please boost this here and outside of Mastodon so that pregnant people in the United States are informed that using Meta/Threads is dangerous.
I'm unlikely to get pregnant but I have ZERO presence on Meta/Facebook/Instagram/Threads as a matter of principle.
Boss: we are all in the same boat
But the boat is a slave ship where one is whipped by the boss/masters.
The US should be broken up. Break it into smaller groups of independent states. Enough of this bullshit where we pretend these are united states or people, or that fascist white supremacists and their capitalist oligarchs can *ever* be united with everyone else. It doesn't work. Fascist bootlickers and capitalist oligarchs are connected and inseperable, commander and those being commanded, and you can see this not only inside the US.
Fascist white supremacist grifters like Marjorie Taylor Green are the tools of the wealthy late-stage oligarchy, which is why someone *so* grotesque, ignorant, and incompetent has been elevated to the federal government and given security clearance, lol. This is intentional - the senior leaders and corporate investors know the effect someone like her has on the public, seeing a trailer trash goblin walking the halls of high government is disruptive, terrifying, and paralyzing for many voters.
Remember what Greta Thunberg has said?
"I don't want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act."
The opinion piece below from Bloomberg/WaPo seems to agree with her...
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"Global Heat Records Are Falling. A Little Panic Might Be in Order."
The planet could easily set a record-high average temperature in 2023, especially with an El Niño weather pattern kicking in later this year. We have already suffered through the hottest early June on record, with global land temperatures briefly touching 1.5C above the pre-industrial average. Ocean temperatures this spring have been the hottest ever at this time of year, in records going back 174 years.
Many people, including myself, have warned against panicking about such stunning new highs, given the temporary nature of El Niño’s boost. Even if we temporarily hit 1.5C of warming this year, it will still be theoretically possible to avoid long-term warming beyond that level and all the catastrophic consequences that would come with it.
But first we must kick our fossil-fuel addiction and stop spewing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. And judging by how little the world’s policymakers seem to be interested in taking such steps, perhaps just a smidgen of panic might be helpful.
Scientists agree the world must zero out its emissions by 2050 in order to keep warming to 1.5C, a target set at the Paris climate accords in 2015. And so far 95 countries have made "net-zero" pledges.
That’s the good news. The bad news is that the vast majority of those pledges aren’t credible. Current policies and practices have the world on pace to hit nearly 3C of warming by the end of the century. Even the most dependable net-zero pledges would still lead to close to 2.5C of warming, a recent study found.
One big problem is that significant numbers of "net-zero" countries have zero plans to stop burning oil, gas, and coal, according to a new study from the Stockholm Environment Institute. Of the 95 pledging countries, 45 talk about "continuing or expanding fossil-fuel production" right there in their net-zero pledges, according to the study. Only 5 of the 95 countries, in contrast, discuss transitioning out of fossil-fuel production as part of their net-zero pledges.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://archive.is/uz5Nr#selection-341.0-341.66
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction #CO2 #Emissions #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
When an (ex-)enemy tells you how to defeat the enemy, listen.
An ex-Nazi speaking to AFA (antifa) in southern Sweden had this important information to share:
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AFA: How do you think that one should respond an organization like the Nordic Resistance Movement?
Ex-Nazi: The best way to work against an organization is through being in solidarity in the work against them, to always prosecute them even for trifles, to make life so difficult for them that they eventually turn on each other. To continue exposing them not only online but on large posters around town, simply make it difficult for the Nazis to be Nazis.
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From my translation https://b9ace.noblogs.org/post/2017/10/14/afa-antifa-helsingborg-martin-karlsson-tells-about-its-defection-from-nmr/ in 2017. Translation accuracy approved by interviewee.
This is entirely in line with what I have been told by other ex-Nazis that have gone on to become active antifascists.
Some will claim only [one specific method] works, but it takes a multitude of methods, a diversity of tactics, as all humans and situations are different wherefore which method is the most efficient varies.
So, to "make it difficult for the Nazis to be Nazis" combined with defection program(s), prevention, &c are all essential for any complete toolkit to be used as appropriate.
Anyone claiming any of those must be removed thereby acts to hamstring antifascism.
I cant help but deeply analyze stuff like this.
One objectively bad thing about facebook (long ago), twitter, and then reddit going down the tubes and creating mass exodus out of them is that a high % of the people who were willing to actually leave and move to mastodon or.... nothing... are leftists.
The undeniable fact about this migration is that, right now anyway, the left has an even smaller platform and/or a platform where leftists more commonly bump up against and cause friction with standard laissez-faire neoliberals, etc.
Those large, honestly shitty sites were, sadly, where a big chunk of our fight was. If we lose that and find ourselves... inside lots of federated instances that are more compatible with us, the level of friction goes down between laissez-faire capitalists and leftists. I cant see it any other way? Where else do we have the chance to mingle in that way, for better or worse?
As the US aims for a NON DEFENSIVE world war against russia and china -- a war 100% about economic dominance and shutting out competition -- it is DESPERATLY important that antiwar, pro diplomacy voices rise and attempt to counter the deluge of WAR WAR WAR nonsense, but how is that going to happen when reddit, twitter, and now facebook are echo chambers with millions of captivated centrist/pop culture accounts repeating mainstream points of view?
I deeply fear what may happen to our social media landscape... and indeed our world. These are objectively negative events and can prime the social media landscape to be even MORE sterile and non reactive when the US and its allies do their usual bit.
I remain dedicated to the idea of #GeneralAction and I believe this to be the best way forward for americans, if we can figure out how to create just a bit more unity....
What a bummer. I didnt realize Diablo4 was also going to be mis-priced at $69, $89, $99 like a couple others have done recently. Looks like I'll be skipping D4, or waiting until it is $30 or less. And this is a line I've drawn in the sand, and that line was drawn the very first time some investor-driven game company decided to do this.
All sale games for me from now on, or games that charge reasonable amounts on release day. This is not "inflation", this is price gouging and economic failure and I wont participate in it.
Welp, time to try out Bitwig. Been doing cubase for 20+ years and I'm sick to death of steinberg's excuses and typical method of managing their brand, so even though I am great at cubase and see it as my learned "instrument", it's time to learn another instrument and broaden my skillset.
So far a lot to like about Bitwig, and it's instantly clear to me that this DAW will offer work flow and features that are good for me.
So far I've got most of my midi controllers and synths working without any problem, but NI's Maschine + my MK3 controller are giving me some trouble inside Bitwig. I just can't seem to get Maschine to record live midi notes into the arranger or clip in Bitwig, though I can program notes directly and hear those notes played back. It just won't record live midi, and I've spent hours watching videos, reading documents and posts, and even thinking about 3rd party scripts such as Driven By Moss scripts.
I'm right on the edge of Bitwig being a 100% replacement for cubase, and once I get that confidence I will be willing to pay Bitwig the money for a full license. I'm doing the trial license right now and have 3 weeks remaining. Maschine integration is something I've got to get working, because this is one of my main performance instruments and will be a show stopper if I can't get midi routed.
If anyone out there is a Bitwig user and reads this, perhaps you might have some Maschine <--->Bitwig integration tips?? I've tried every routing method I know to get this working, but Bitwig just refuses to see the incoming midi, even with the midi filter / transformer thing on Bitwig set to push those notes to the right place. It's just not working. 😕
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