@jdp23 The other option is that he's not in fact clueless, knows people's problems with Jack and operating a social network for profit, and is simply lying.
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Sometimes, I find myself feeling burnt out about the #Fediverse.@jdp23 Sure, but I wasn't denying that people say negative things about BlueSky or Nostr, which is the thing you defended. I said their criticisms weren't due to "not invented here" which would be obvious to anyone not living in a techbro bubble as Sean clearly does.
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Sometimes, I find myself feeling burnt out about the #Fediverse.@jdp23 Pretty clear from your response that you didn't bother to actually read what I said.
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Have you thought about how the widespread use of vscode lets Microsoft insert itself into arbitrarily developer interactions with anyone else's products, including open source?Have you thought about how the widespread use of vscode lets Microsoft insert itself into arbitrarily developer interactions with anyone else's products, including open source?
I just had vscode tell me it noticed I have Docker installed and ask if I wanted to install *Microsoft*'s Docker extension for vscode. Not that I know that Docker or anyone else has their own, but that's not the point. Just because you can publish an extension for vscode doesn't mean you have any control over which extensions vscode prompts people to install.
(I use vscode only for work. For personal projects I use Emacs.)
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Sometimes, I find myself feeling burnt out about the #Fediverse.@deadsuperhero Honestly, I'm embarrassed I hooked you up with Jamie King for that interview as a representative of the Fediverse. You just have no idea what the Fediverse is about.
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Sometimes, I find myself feeling burnt out about the #Fediverse.@deadsuperhero If you think this is about them not being built by us and not about them being built by the likes of Jack Dorsey, you are completely clueless.
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Mozilla should be a co-op or worker owned.@thegibson I'm not sure owned by techbros is necessarily going to be an improvement. Users need to be a stakeholder as well.
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This is why billionaires must be ended. They are terrified of everyone else and will do anything to control us.@onepict @williampietri This is David Brin's thinking with his "transparent society". Yet I never see any mention of *how* we will make things work that way. We gave the cops bodycams. They turn them off when they want to do something bad, and then they suffer no consequences for it. If we can't make that happen, how are we going to force far more powerful people to allow themselves to be subjected to surveillance.
IMO the whole idea of "the transparent society" is a Trojan Horse. Police bodycams are certainly used to surveil everyone else. The people they don't effectively surveil are the ones they were supposedly intended to surveil. Isn't that how all of this kind of legislation ultimately ends up getting twisted?
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This is why billionaires must be ended. They are terrified of everyone else and will do anything to control us.@ArneBab I think Cory Doctorow's novella "Masque of the Red Death" does a good job of laying out what would actually happen if billionaires retreated to fortresses like that.
That scenario really doesn't concern me right now. The one that concerns me is the one that's happening in front of our eyes as we speak. We are well into the first stages of ecofascism, and in the Anglosphere and most of Europe even the supposed "left" parties are fully on board with it.
It's not going to be about preserving the planet for "humanity", or through "degrowth". We're going to preserve the planet for "us" (i.e. people like those who have the power) through eugenics. And I don't mean any kind of obvious population control or anything like that; simply the act of letting people live or die based on the circumstances of their birth, in the name of borders, "sovereignty", "security".
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This is why billionaires must be ended. They are terrified of everyone else and will do anything to control us.@ArneBab There is plenty of that sort of siege mentality among the wealthy, imagining that we'll all gang up against them. IMO believing in that actually causes us to underestimate the threat, because it causes us to accept the premise that we'll all just storm the bunkers of the wealthy.
But it's not realistic, because it presumes that the availability of food will decline about the same everywhere at once, and that the remaining food will be about evenly distributed. But that basically can't happen. What will happen is just an extension of what's already happening. Global food production will decrease, possibly by quite a bit, but remaining food production will be extremely unevenly distributed.
People are already extremely concerned about "immigration". We have European governments murdering people in the Mediterranean and everyone else just looking the other way. And that's TODAY while there's still enough food to feed everyone. And despite plenty of food, talk of "food security" is steadily increasing, and we've had multiple panics, usually around rice, in times when there has been plenty of rice in the world.
So the rich aren't going to be hiding out in self-sufficient fortresses in Hawaii and New Zealand. They will have fortress *cities* in fortress *countries*. And the people of those countries will help them because they'll see people starving on their own streets, or dead or in prison or in camps, to say nothing of those dying at the borders, and they won't want to become like them.
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This is why billionaires must be ended. They are terrified of everyone else and will do anything to control us.@ArneBab Hey, so you replied on my thread, so you can act like it or get blocked. I may block your entire instance just to be sure if this is how people there typically act.
Anyway, I'll try one more time, because I'm feeling generous. I was describing the condition that exists *today*. The middle class defends the status quo because they see that they are far better off than the lower class. That is WAY cheaper than direct armed control, because they contribute *voluntarily* both out of fear of ending up in the lower class, and out of the delusion that someday they will become part of the upper class.
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This is why billionaires must be ended. They are terrified of everyone else and will do anything to control us.@ArneBab Thanks for your opinion, complete stranger.
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This is why billionaires must be ended. They are terrified of everyone else and will do anything to control us.@williampietri @onepict I'm not sure how we could get into a position where we could do such a thing and then do that instead of just taking the billionaires' stuff so there aren't any more billionaires. And getting rid of the cops while we're at it.
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This is why billionaires must be ended. They are terrified of everyone else and will do anything to control us.@ArneBab Those armed guards are what we call "the middle class".
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This is why billionaires must be ended. They are terrified of everyone else and will do anything to control us.Note what Ellison said carefully. People will be on their "best behavior". He expects to rely on self-censorship, the "chilling effect" produced by mass surveillance. Because it's too expensive to control people's behavior through direct violence.
Make it expensive.
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This is why billionaires must be ended. They are terrified of everyone else and will do anything to control us.Americans fleeing to China because they'd rather be enslaved by the CCP than by American billionaires.
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This is why billionaires must be ended. They are terrified of everyone else and will do anything to control us.This is also why Bezos bought Ring, of course.
We worried about alien invasion, but we created our own aliens. First corporations, then billionaires, now AI.
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This is why billionaires must be ended. They are terrified of everyone else and will do anything to control us.In Atlas Shrugged, the contemporary equivalent of billionaires make themselves untouchable by hiding out in Galt's Gulch. Elon Musk thinks he's going to build Galt's Gulch on mars. Thiel is the first person I realized was tryjng to turn all of Earth into Galt's Gulch, but it took me until now to realize that their method is the enslavement of the human race. I figured it was just "defense". But you can't stay a billionaire (soon there will be trillionaires) just by defending yourself.
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This is why billionaires must be ended. They are terrified of everyone else and will do anything to control us.In fact, this is why those folks are interested in AI at all. The data are already being collected; they just need a way to process it and spit out actionable predictions. This is why Peter Thiel founded Palantir. It's why Page and Brin founded Google. They're just better at not saying the quiet part out loud.
THIS is the existential threat of AI: not that it will do something its owner doesn't want, but that it will do EXACTLY what its owner wants.
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This is why billionaires must be ended. They are terrified of everyone else and will do anything to control us.When people say "AI just needs more data", THIS is what they are talking about. Give it all the surveillance feeds.
I prefer human extinction to a species that's enslaved to people like Ellison.