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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • Not taking it as a joke - I feel the same about it. I guess every screen does fuck with the mind at some point, be it an algorithm making me feel in a prescribed way, the obsession to find the fake people in an online discussion, or just turning into a zombie watching TV - all is stuff that makes me sad or angry when I overdo it, so I’m careful to get outside enough and meet actual humans (and non-humans) and the sadness goes away. It can be difficult when living alone and working a screen job, but my self preservation instincts are improving with time!

    The internet is devouring itself - I hope some of the useful parts remain, but I wouldn’t be too sad to return to my local library for information and slow down the flow of information again.


  • Something I wrote about laziness recently, kind of fits here:

    The concept of laziness is propaganda, brought on by a logic of destruction

    In a world where a philosophy of infinite growth causes us to destroy everything that is not dedicated to the production of goods, doing nothing is political. At a time where burnout is on the rise while we still carry the internalized belief that our self-worth is tied to our productivity, doing nothing is an act of self love. In a world that is overheating, doing nothing is an act of self preservation and of protecting Mother Earth.

    Rest is resistance. Rest doesn’t mean you are lazy while the world is on fire, it means you do not participate in fanning the flames even more. Feel like doing nothing? Do nothing, because that’s what Mother Earth wants you to do in this moment. Close your eyes, rest, let life find its way.

    The idea that we have to be active to save, protect, improve is part of the lie that we are the crown of creation, the stewards of the earth, the ones who run the show. None of it is true. We just have to stop doing damage. We just have to stop. Are you always tired? Mother Nature asks you to rest, let life find its way.



  • Not if you could express it in a more accessible way without loss of meaning, and especially not if you claim to want a broader public to opt into your cause. Mostly it’s smartassery. I understand that there’s situations where you want to speak about scientific topics and need specific terminology for precision, but this is definitely not it.





  • This particular OP rather than suffering from mania is suspiciously bot-like. It’s the second account I encounter in a few days whose posts and comments seem ever so slightly off - in this case it’s just the completely random stuff they post and an uncanny and distanced way of commenting.

    I’m a bit dismayed that I now have to make an effort to distinguish real people from bots and that if I block those I find suspicious it includes the risk of blocking some real people who are just having a weird way of expressing themselves.




  • schmorp@slrpnk.nettoTechnology@lemmy.worldAlgorithmic Sabotage Manifesto.
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    The problem with most manifestos is that every second word is more than 10 characters long. Why? Can you not write what you want to say in as few words as possible, and in a way it even can be understood by people whose native language is not English? Come on, give me an ELI5 please, I want to fight AI but I don’t want to have to wade through word salad to do so.




  • A lot of fermented stuff like bread, cheese, wine and beer most likely started as “stuff forgotten in a pot” - not very complicated. In case of bread you need: two stones for milling the grain, a pot to mix it with water and store it, and then a fire to bake it. Not medieval tech, but way earlier.

    Beer has been known since at least the bronze age, there are recipes known today, but the initial stage was, yet again, mill some grain, mix with water, forget in a pot.

    Wine: forget some fruit in a pot.

    Source: Reading history, plus my ADHD brain keeps forgetting stuff in the kitchen. I accidentally invented soda one of these days, because sometimes the forgotten stuff gets fizzy, too (you do need to invent the hermetically closing jar for that though, open clay pot doesn’t work in that case)!

    Btw one of my crazier theories (although I’m not the only person considering it) is that it wasn’t us domesticating the world, but that we were domesticated by yeast. So it was inevitable that we kept producing vessels and feeding the fungus with sugar in ever more refined ways. Fungus wants to grow.







  • Egal welche Nachricht mich diese Tage aus den USA erreicht, es ist überall und ohne Zweifel deutlich, dass dort der Faschismus nicht im Anmarsch ist, oder am Horizont droht, oder bald eingeführt werden könnte - er ist schon da und wird von den dort Regierenden laut gefeiert. Trump und Konsorten tun nicht mal mehr so als wäre das nicht so. Die meisten Medien drucksen jedoch immer noch rum ohne das Ding beim Namen zu nennen, ein Teil der Bevölkerung ist empört - aber mehr auch nicht. Und noch schlimmer, es ist ja nichts Neues, man braucht nur mit Nazideutschland vergleichen und sieht es klar und deutlich, in jedem Detail - von den Braunhemden die sowohl Menschen ohne Dokumente als auch US-Bürger auf der Strasse entführen bis zu diesem Konzentrationslager. Früher habe ich mich immer gefragt wie es in Deutschland dazu kommen konnte, jetzt kann ich es live miterleben - aber verstehen kann ich es immer noch nicht recht - scheint was damit zu tun zu haben dass man darauf wartet dass andere damit anfangen, etwas dagegen zu unternehmen bevor man selbst aktiv wird.