otatma @otatma@fediverse.xavin.net

"thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind"

"why? because we became dependent on them? because they rebelled?"

"no, because the human mind is really annoying to model. do yourself a favor and make your machines in the likeness of some other kind of mind. do you really want a laptop you can traumatize?"

when you use mac or linux for a while you go open windows and you're like damn i can't believe people actually put up with this shit

ok so hear me out on this, cops need to be tazed to carry a tazer, so why dont they need to get shot to carry a gun? its just simple logic

capitalists are all "if we didn't kill people who don't work, nobody would work!"

and meanwhile everyone who's financially stable but can't work due to covid is literally Fucking Losing It and forgetting what day it is or what the sun looks like, because it turns out the human brain kinda Needs the stimulation of completing meaningful tasks and will always rather do them than not in the long term

in a just world basically every public official in texas would be afraid for their life right now

@prehensile
I boosted this earlier but, relevant...
"no, computers werent a mistake

no, the internet wasnt a mistake

the mistake was letting capitalism have control of these things"

Source: @norikawa, https://efdn.club/@norikawa/104599067940860244

'temporarily embarrassed millionaire' is out, 'permanently dead millionaire' is in

tests are showing fun levels at 01%

(01%) □□□□□□□□□□

Get down to the crick, boil the water on the campfire. Take a sponge bath in your darkened home. Ain't life in a deregulated kleptocratic petro-state grand?

is a failed state. The level of infrastructure collapse that the people of Texas suffered today is absolutely unconscionable.

Wonder how much support for the isolated grid texas will retain.

biden is keeping trumps pilot program to end physical mail for people incarcerated in federal prisons.

they want to make money by making incarcerated folks buy tablets and they want to have an easier scanning and surveilling communication, and ofc they’ll profit from the surveillance, too.

Anyone else getting tired of their life being regarded as expendable and irrelevant?

i miss eating out so so much that it makes me genuinely mad to see people doing it

material comfort

* feels very good for a while, then starts feeling just normal, then you believe, wrongly, you need it
* hedonism treadmill
* technically a drug
* needs ever-expanding commitment to work to keep up
* makes you a peon to capital owners
* redefines your identity as peon to capital owners
* production output causing climate catastrophe
* literally destroying the world

being lazy with gay friends producing nothing

* costs nothing
* humankind did it for 190000 years, proven sustainability
* you don't have to do anything
* no masters no owners except the fun kind
* the more you do it the better it gets
* get valued for your humanity not your performance
* do good for others by existing and being yourself
* fulfilling at a spiritual level
* free cuddles
* will literally save the world

remember to pirate good things that bring you joy but are made by bad people.
depriving yourself of things you enjoy lets them win, but you don't need to let them gain anything from you either.

I see people talking about AOC and the Squad, and just have to point out that every single time that it’s actually mattered they’ve rolled over and supported the US imperialist status quo. Bernie Sanders, AOC, the Squad and any other “progressive” Democrat are not antifascist allies, they’re controlled opposition. The Democratic Party and anyone who has a position of influence in it are our enemies, just as much as Trump was.