I am an indigenous PwD originally from Canada, interested in food, cooking, and universal design and accessibility, zero waste, and how to bring all those things together. Refuse, reduce, re-use, recycle. #nobot Sign up for epicure.social here: https://epicure.social/invite/xEzP3D8S
One other note until April 2023 my posts will likely be mostly about COVID/disinformation. Mute me until then if the plague isn't as present of a threat for you, as it still is for me and mine. Thanks.
| Cooking | Privacy |
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| Decolonization |
I would just like to point out we have been living off the largesse of @simonjwoolf for many years now; as he has said, it is €250-€300 annually and an hour of his time per month, to maintain the server that connects the 120 of us with the wider Mastodon community around the world.
For the price of €2.50 per annum each, every user on this server can keep it going. I ask you to think of what the last thing you bought for €2.50 was.
Not a single computer in sight and none required. Long overdue to turn off the world-heating Internet.
I mean, the anti-science plague rats want to go back to PRE-medieval times; in medieval times, they built skyscrapers and pasteurized their milk, so let's go back that far, eh?
"It's essentially the end of a labour-intensive process which stands in stark contrast to modern industrial techniques. Collette's tools last not for decades, but for centuries or even longer."
Replies already being astroturfed by the Chinese trolls continuing to spread anti-vaccination disinformation, with little to no pushback. Quelle surprise. /s 😞
https://bsky.app/profile/godpod.bsky.social/post/3lbrq6xgr2c2g
#China: "We can't brainwash everyone via the Internet anymore, so we'll just turn off our victims' Internet instead."
https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.7394525
China is wrong, and it's a classic abuser's tactic ("If I can't have you, no one can.") but this is actually a positive step forward for the world. Keep cutting those cables, China! The sooner the Internet goes down, the sooner the foreign state trolls end up cutting off their own noses to spite their faces.
They've already killed 35M people, tho...
Meanwhile, over on the #HarmReduction addictive #antisocial website dujour, #Bluesky, the dopamine fiends are yowling "#Auspol is wrong! They shouldn't ban antisocial websites for minors! It's a universal digital ID enforcement slippery slope!! Screaming outrage!"
IMO #Australia didn't go far enough, and neither did the rest of the #Commonwealth; ALL antisocial websites need to be #geoblocked outside of the #USA and #China. Now. NOW.
The #TikTok "ban" was a farce.
TURN. THE. INTERNET. OFF.
Speaking of #China's state troĺls....
"#Chinese state media is reportedly troubled by the latest exodus of [Xitter] users flocking to #bluesky. State outlets, which put considerable resources into amassing millions of followers on Elon Musk’s social media platform — including by buying ads, deploying bots, and hiring influencers — have recently seen their growth plateau."
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/25/2024/bluesky-boom-worries-chinese-media
23M users at last count:
https://bcounter.nat.vg/
The honeymoon won't last...it never does....
"But it represents the way many Canadians would approve of seeing themselves projected into the world. As reasonable people who see something unreasonable happening and rather than phone 911, inject themselves violently into the mix."
Yeah, like me, trying to fight the tsunami of hundreds of thousands of Russian/Chinese/Iranian state trolls on the Internet, who killed 35M people from 2020 through 2023!
Disinformation campaigns on antisocial websites map exactly onto the SIR (susceptible-infected-recovered) model of epidemiology. (Water, also, is very wet.)
What the article misses: The plague rats still haven't recovered (1/3rd of Americans are still unvaccinated against Covid-19 - Our World in Data) and the infodemic that got us to this place was a Russian/Chinese/Iranian bioweapon, fashioned, and deployed, after the USA targeted China first: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/
Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge and David Robert Grimes, Trinity College Dublin explain how mathematical modelling has been used to show that misinformation spreads across the intern…
Meanwhile, in #Canada, the #oligarchs who control the #food supply with an iron fist, have decided to Make #Scurvy Great Again....27 cases in a cohort of 51 people!
Another pinned post with a current update:
I am happily 3+ years in to a heavy #degrowth lifestyle and proselytizing more than ever that the Internet needs to be shut down. It is the major cause of collapse and has effectively destroyed global human civilisation.
I refuse to buy non-essentials, I reduce the essentials I do purchase, by buying hyper-locally, or heavily discounted, whenever I can. I try to re-use what I already have and recycle what I cannot.
I have also hardened my privacy.
