Lykso

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They/them online pseudonym. Anti-capitalist, anti-religious, anti-spiritual, anti-AI, anti-fascist. I was apparently raised in one of the more relaxed branches of a cult.

I don't have a fleshed-out political theory yet. I'm not sure I can attain to one, but I belong somewhere among the anarchists and socialists.

I make music, pottery, food, repairs, software, and hardware. I boost much more than I post, but I don't boost images without alt-text.

Fascists fuck off.

#nobridge #nobot

Digital Gardenhttp://lyk.so
Bandcamphttps://mumbleandsigh.bandcamp.com
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Codeberghttps://codeberg.org/lykso
Lykso1h ago
🌸 lumi-nhac    ðŸŒ±1h ago
the resistance movement against genai, especially in software projects, is still in its infancy, we are still pretty divided, so we're not seeing the full effects of our actions against genai yet

this is why we need to find one-another and form communities, so we can band together. together we can push for bans against genai and we can educate people on the harms

we can keep expanding the movement. we can find one-another. we can keep pushing against genai!

you're all doing great ​​
Lykso1h ago
Show threadAnarchoNinaWrites3h ago

Remember, this entire cult has sorta grown out of the "effective aultruism" movement which was by and large just a way of saying "it's okay to kill a lotta people now for my own profit if I posit that this will benefit MORE people in the future."

So the religion itself, and I think it is fair to call TESCREAL a religion or cult, pretty much spawned out of a desire to morally justify capitalism and extreme inequality under climate catastrophe; they just came up with flashier excuses over time

Lykso1h ago
AnarchoNinaWrites1h ago

I dunno mate; how can you look at a world on fire, run by billionaire nazi cultist child rapists, where the bad guys always win and the kindest people get fucked on the regular, where the literal fucking species is on the brink because "someone must profit" and say "there's no way we, collectively, the people, can do better than this."

Whatever your fears of change might be, surely we can collectively beat "wiping out the species in an inferno" without trying too hard.

Show threadLykso1h ago
I've said in the past that coming to the right conclusions for the wrong reasons is no credit to a person. The first time I said it, I got pushback and was surprised. I'm not surprised anymore.
Lykso1h ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116428330599900610

This phenomenon isn't new, and is one of the things Wendell Berry calls out in his writing. Our culture has become obsessed with speed and "efficiency" (defined narrowly and in capitalism's terms); it has become exceedingly un-self-reflective and superficial. LLMs are a particularly striking version of a certain kind of technology that encourages carelessness.

Lykso1h ago
David Gerard5h ago
everyone knows "but if we ban LLMs the AI bros will just lie about them, so we should let them through" is a bad faith bad excuse and the person saying it knows that every time, right?
Show threadLykso1h ago
It took me about three years to really settle the question of God in my head and a bit more than twice that to really get all the accumulated woo out of my system. Political theory is an even more complicated beast, IMO, hence my difficulties here.
Show threadLykso1h ago

What appeals to me about Wendell Berry's writing, I think, is how central care and *really* grasping and struggling with a thing are to him. This is not a practice that can be done entirely within one's own head, and it is not a practice that can be contained within the course of a single conversation or media artifact.

So I probably can't ever come to a complete theory and should stop imagining such a thing is possible. But I do, at the very least, need to find a way to narrow my range a bit.

Show threadLykso1h ago
This is related to the narrow band of nonbelief that I respect. Often when I tell people I left the religion I was raised in, they'll respond with either bad arguments I long ago examined and discarded about why they think God is real or they'll say something like "yeah, it always seemed ridiculous to me," and relate one of the "look how silly religion is" memes of the "new atheism." Both positions reveal a lack of investment in or struggle with the question.
Show threadLykso1h ago
If I could have certainty about what might work, then I could at least put my head down and just do the work. This is certainly at least part of the appeal of religion and "complete" political theories. Certainly something I miss from my cult member days, even if I'd never go back to it and have learned to see this kind of certainty and assurance as a red flag.