Having a parasocial relationship with Taylor Swift means you can stream her songs on Spotify if you don’t want to buy the album, but you don’t get to demand that she put time into making more music. People who like her music seem to understand this, and are more than happy to buy merch or vinyl or concert tickets and make her a billionaire.

How does this apply to FOSS? Go read this by @daedalus

https://pivotnine.com/blog/open-source-has-too-many-parasocial-relationships/

Fascism is not meant to be "slowed". It needs to be crushed and uprooted as soon as it appears.

Voters, if your favourite political party can't even promise that (which would probably be a lie anyway) then you're wasting your time, energy and hope. You should try something else.

America just started treating the rest of the world the way it’s treated Black and indigenous people for 500 years…. and NOW everyone is angry, scared, ready to boycott and finally able to see what America really is and always has been.

Something very weird about this.

For the second year in a row the BBC has caught the host nation of the big annual climate change conference using it to sell fossil fuels

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmzvdn9e18o

Nothing scares me more than the fact, that European politicians have sleepwalked into the largest security problem in European history.

The entire European security architecture is based on the premise, that the US is lead by someone trustworthy.

The internet monitoring is run by the NSA. All operating systems are American. Most military equipment, the F-35's — even the EU nukes are made in the USA.

And now this entire security foundation is ultimately controlled by the gangster president.

"The Heritage Foundation, author of Project 2025, calls for the government to go after anti-Zionists in the name of combating anti-Semitism. The report claims Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in #Palestine form a “Hamas Support Network..."

https://itsgoingdown.org/watermelon-scare-repression-palestine-activists/