https://mastodon.social/@curtosis/113826676935017682

Posted Tuesday 14th of January, 2025 at 4:20:53 AM by @curtosis

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@interfluidity I think it’s still underappreciated the degree to which billionaires are rejecting the entirety of the social contract. The problem for them becomes, at some point, that that social contract includes the bits about the people not dragging them from their homes and guillotining them in the public square.

Which is, of course, why controlling the media is existential for them.

Historically, that bet has not paid off in the long run. Ask the Romanovs and Ceaușescus, for example.

https://corteximplant.com/@cobweb/113798824759228469

Posted Thursday 9th of January, 2025 at 6:17:42 AM by @cobweb

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I’d like to send a special “fuck you buddy” to all the boomers that told me “oh you’ll get more conservative as you get older, once you get some money”

I don’t know what world those people live in, but every day since probably 1989 everything I have seen in the world has only convinced me more and more that capitalism is a disease that is destroying lives and the planet.

Escaping Big Brother (or Your Ex) – counter surveillance for women’s shelters

Posted Sunday 29th of December, 2024 at 5:51:59 PM by @mattgrayyes

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This talk by @erlern describes the huge challenges people face trying to escape abusers, and how easily they can be tracked with default features of modern tech.

Not a fun watch but shows how the “move fast and break things” release model can impact people and their privacy.

(This is a live stream excerpt and the talk starts 16m into the video)
CW: descriptions of domestic violence
media.ccc.de/v/38c3-escaping-b
#38c3

https://chaos.social/@jonty/113724773034801587

Posted Friday 27th of December, 2024 at 4:25:22 AM by @jonty

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Family members keep saying "I need lessons" or "I'm too old for this technology" over Christmas.

When I look at what they're struggling with it's reliably a buggy UX nightmare, and often wasn't cheap so they persist in using it.

I don't know how we fix this. Consumer electronics is totally broken.