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small circle 🕊 in calmness<p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/ThoughtProvoker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtProvoker</span></a> :blobhyperthink: </p><p>There is the well-known saying "if you only have a hammer, then everything looks like a nail".</p><p>We find this quite obvious, and think people who fall for this anti-pattern are foolish.</p><p>Yet here we are in our <a href="https://social.coop/tags/hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hypercapitalism</span></a>-encased little global world, measuring *everything*, all value, every transaction in monetary terms.</p><p>How is that not the bluntest, dumbest hammer, and most ignorant way to misperceive value of life?</p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p>The biggest <a href="https://social.coop/tags/challenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>challenge</span></a> of the <a href="https://social.coop/tags/SocialWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialWeb</span></a> is that people aren't able to collaborate at scale unless under money-driven artificial <a href="https://social.coop/tags/organization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>organization</span></a> structures, based on hierarchy, authority and power dynamics.</p><p>In <a href="https://social.coop/tags/grassroots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grassroots</span></a> movements we think we found a better way, but we haven't. We just found the power of "loose sand" to - at most - sting in the bleary eyes of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hypercapitalism</span></a>. Not in the eyes of the crazed billionaires who are the engine of this vile system. They are laughing them bro-balls out.</p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p>🚨 <a href="https://social.coop/tags/EnshittificationAlert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnshittificationAlert</span></a> Spotify</p><p>"Oh yeah.. Bob Marlie, you say? Oh, right. Yea yea, a singer was it not? We have 2 albums on the chap, one from 1996 and 2015, and then 2 singles from 2021 and 2023 respectively. What do you say? Lyrics missing? Yea yea, it is an old singer. Dead, ya know.."</p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> keeps memory of Bob Marley so that no <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Newspeak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Newspeak</span></a> bullshit dystopia may erase him from history.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Marley#Awards_and_honours" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Marl</span><span class="invisible">ey#Awards_and_honours</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/Spotify" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spotify</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/GlobalSwitchDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalSwitchDay</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hypercapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enshittification</span></a></p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@tasket" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tasket</span></a></span> yes and no, depending how you interpret the diagram. It is obviously a gross simplification.</p><p>But in the top triangle of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hypercapitalism</span></a>, yes we effectively see tech so much as progress, praying to the false gods of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/DigitalTransformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalTransformation</span></a> all the time (the name itself implies adaptation to tech). And for wicked problems in society we throw more tech at it, like the <a href="https://social.coop/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> madness.</p><p>In the bottom triangle of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Neoconsciensism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neoconsciensism</span></a> technology is merely supportive to people and society at large.</p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p>Steve Cutts on <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hypercapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Consumerism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Consumerism</span></a> again nailing it there.</p><p><a href="https://www.stevecutts.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">stevecutts.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9LYuJKP3A8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=u9LYuJKP3A</span><span class="invisible">8</span></a></p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@podo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>podo</span></a></span> indeed.</p><p>I'm all for the <a href="https://social.coop/tags/scientific" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scientific</span></a> method. But I was just thinking how this chocolate headline in <a href="https://social.coop/tags/TheGuardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheGuardian</span></a> gives like an armchair reassuring voice of interesting <a href="https://social.coop/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> work.. that still has one or two decades to go before it seeps its way into actual practice in <a href="https://social.coop/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a>.</p><p>And that seeping follows the influences of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hypercapitalism</span></a>. In one or two decades <a href="https://social.coop/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> might have long been the only still known newspeak for how fast mad tech disruptions increase overall skynet potential.</p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p>Burdened under the heavy ⚔️ cross of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hypercapitalism</span></a>, we shall overcome. ✊</p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/Hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hypercapitalism</span></a> is brainworm.</p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p>First Blood was popular. And now First Truth internet search.</p><p>Same as Rambo wasn't real, yet made many people want to kill other people violently. Now DuckDuckGo's basic Truth isn't real, as first search result is an alternative fact. Is violence involved too? Killing society.</p><p>Snapshot shows DDG's search result explains the word "plaid" as "financial technology company that enables users to connect their bank.." 🤯</p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/DDG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DDG</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enshittification</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Newspeak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Newspeak</span></a> #1984 <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hypercapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>search</span></a></p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/BREAKING" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BREAKING</span></a>: Society</p><p>--</p><p>With 90-9-1 <a href="https://social.coop/tags/ParticipationInequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParticipationInequality</span></a> percent certainty.</p><p>♾️ 1% raving mad <a href="https://social.coop/tags/techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techbro</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/elites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elites</span></a> (pickaxe)</p><p>⚠️ 9% raving mad <a href="https://social.coop/tags/technoshpere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technoshpere</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/devs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>devs</span></a> (slaves)</p><p>⛔ 90% raving mad <a href="https://social.coop/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/users" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>users</span></a> (ore)</p><p><a href="https://www.nngroup.com/articles/participation-inequality/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nngroup.com/articles/participa</span><span class="invisible">tion-inequality/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/SX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SX</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hypercapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/RealityFault" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RealityFault</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/InsertSystemsChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InsertSystemsChange</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Reboot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reboot</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/PostCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PostCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/PostGrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PostGrowth</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Now" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Now</span></a></p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p>⚠️ <a href="https://social.coop/tags/WARN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WARN</span></a> Severe <a href="https://social.coop/tags/RealityFault" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RealityFault</span></a>. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/AlternativeReality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlternativeReality</span></a> encountered. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/TruthMissing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TruthMissing</span></a>.</p><p>⛔ <a href="https://social.coop/tags/FAULT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FAULT</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Newspeak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Newspeak</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> recursion. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Realspeak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Realspeak</span></a> correction route 404_NOT_FOUND. Call <a href="https://social.coop/tags/OrwellSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrwellSupport</span></a> for patch to <a href="https://social.coop/tags/SocietySystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocietySystems</span></a></p><p>♾️ INFO <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Orwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orwell</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/HealthSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HealthSupport</span></a>. We invert it to make it <a href="https://social.coop/tags/right" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>right</span></a>. From <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Skynet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Skynet</span></a> to <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Peopleverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Peopleverse</span></a> we serve <a href="https://social.coop/tags/YOU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YOU</span></a>. Please dial <a href="https://social.coop/tags/CriticalThinking101" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriticalThinking101</span></a> for our <a href="https://social.coop/tags/WickedSolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WickedSolution</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/DeliveryService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeliveryService</span></a></p><p>♾️ INFO Insert Realspeak <a href="https://social.coop/tags/patchNOW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>patchNOW</span></a> and <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Reboot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reboot</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.coop/@smallcircles/113881914450747944" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">social.coop/@smallcircles/1138</span><span class="invisible">81914450747944</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/WTF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WTF</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enshittification</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hypercapitalism</span></a></p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/ThoughtProvoker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtProvoker</span></a> :blobhyperthink:</p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/Newspeak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Newspeak</span></a> IS our <a href="https://social.coop/tags/UbiquitousLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UbiquitousLanguage</span></a> for <a href="https://social.coop/tags/DDD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DDD</span></a> of Society in 2025. Almost!</p><p>Next time when <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Orwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orwell</span></a> and <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Huxley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Huxley</span></a> come up in <a href="https://social.coop/tags/discourse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>discourse</span></a> remember:</p><p>We live in <a href="https://social.coop/tags/dystopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dystopia</span></a> NOW!<br>Unseen by our <a href="https://social.coop/tags/DistractionEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DistractionEconomy</span></a> blindfolds.</p><p>We're the frogs for years, taking a nice warm bath to unsee <a href="https://social.coop/tags/RootCause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RootCause</span></a> of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> temperature rise:</p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/Hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hypercapitalism</span></a></p><p>Vice has free reign as <a href="https://social.coop/tags/truth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>truth</span></a> is destroyed.</p><p>We MUST be <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Plainspeaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plainspeaking</span></a><br>We MUST use <a href="https://social.coop/tags/CommonSense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommonSense</span></a><br>We MUST restore <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Reality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reality</span></a></p><p>✊</p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/ShowerThought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShowerThought</span></a> 🤔</p><p>🌻 <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nature</span></a> is about <a href="https://social.coop/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>energy</span></a>. </p><p>🏭 <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hypercapitalism</span></a> disempowers.</p><p>🌻 Nature is about blossoming.</p><p>🏭 Hypercapitalism decays.</p><p>🌻 Nature is about <a href="https://social.coop/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a>. </p><p>🏭 Hypercapitalism devolves.</p><p>🌻 Nature is about <a href="https://social.coop/tags/growth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>growth</span></a>. </p><p>🏭 Hypercapitalism erodes.</p><p>Nature. Try some. It is <a href="https://social.coop/tags/healthy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>healthy</span></a> and <a href="https://social.coop/tags/nutritious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nutritious</span></a>. Now for sale or for <a href="https://social.coop/tags/free" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>free</span></a>.</p><p>(Under hypercapitalism no price guaranteed)</p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> ♻️ ✊</p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p>If you think you can slay the beast of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hypercapitalism</span></a> from inside the beast's stomach, then good luck with your <a href="https://social.coop/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activism</span></a>. I will do something positive and uplifting till the end of days, rather than engage in a lost fight.</p><p>We might do something else, and try activate 7 billion people to collaborate a tad more productively, for instance. Not *within* a system that is designed to not let that happen at all cost, though.</p><p>But first, let's not rhyme with history, please.<br>Can <a href="https://social.coop/tags/mankind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mankind</span></a> even learn?</p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://climatejustice.social/@mysteriarch" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mysteriarch</span></a></span> </p><p>Extinction rebellion think so. A group most folks either forgot or annoys them.</p><p>It can spark violent events to enact radical change. To uncertain outcomes and not to my knowledge (but I'm no historian) likely to lead to a whole alternative system. Certain not I expect leading to end of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hypercapitalism</span></a>. It just continues on the other side of the revolution.</p><p>Sacrifice <a href="https://social.coop/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activism</span></a> can only form the tip of the spear and the whole solution behind it is momentum for sustainable change.</p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://climatejustice.social/@mysteriarch" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mysteriarch</span></a></span> </p><p>Yes.. I was just musing a bit on the terms. There's wordplay in <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Regrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Regrowth</span></a> in that it also means starting anew i.e. create a wholly alternative system to that of world-destroying <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hypercapitalism</span></a></p><p>The <a href="https://social.coop/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> seed sprouted a horrendous meat-eating fungus. Need to replant a new organic system to take over and collectively kindle a seedling to regrow <a href="https://social.coop/tags/humanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanity</span></a> into healthy <a href="https://social.coop/tags/sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sustainability</span></a>-first direction. So there's a <a href="https://social.coop/tags/future" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>future</span></a> for mankind, and not <a href="https://social.coop/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extinction</span></a>.</p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/Showerthought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Showerthought</span></a> 🤔</p><p>1. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Business</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/paywall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paywall</span></a>? 😫</p><p>2. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/CommercialScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommercialScience</span></a> wall 🤢</p><p>3. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a> delight 😍</p><p><a href="https://delightful.club/delightful-open-science" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">delightful.club/delightful-ope</span><span class="invisible">n-science</span></a></p><p>"Commercial science" is a good term to denounce this shady practice that withholds knowledge and wisdom discovered with public money in order to use it for <a href="https://social.coop/tags/HyperCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HyperCapitalism</span></a> and its greed fests.</p><p>Yes, you <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elsevier</span></a> &amp; co.</p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/Disruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disruption</span></a> is a power hammer under <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hypercapitalism</span></a> that involves rug pulling, a key tenet of this system, whereby own benefit prevails to any negative externalities. Ruthlessness is a ROI maximiser here, and the toolbox is full of vices.</p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/Evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Evolution</span></a> is a gardening rake under <a href="https://social.coop/tags/commons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commons</span></a> control that involves nourishing mutual value, a key tenet of this system, whereby opportunity and benefit fosters natural cohesion. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Humanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Humanity</span></a> is a growth factor here, and the toolbox our <a href="https://social.coop/tags/virtues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>virtues</span></a> as human beings.</p>
small circle 🕊 in calmness<p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> is an abomination born under <a href="https://social.coop/tags/HyperCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HyperCapitalism</span></a> for the purpose of prolonging hypercapitalism. It is another folly of mankind who is destined to invent skynet and prove that they were fools.</p><p>🎵 Tech is good<br>🎶 Tech is progress</p><p>chorus: 🙈 🙉 🙊</p><p>🎵 Tech is good<br>🎶 Tech is progress</p><p>intermezzo: War! Bloodshed. Strife. 💥</p><p>🎵 Tech is good<br>🎶 Tech is progress</p><p>chorus: 🙈 🙉 🙊</p><p>🤖 Tech: Yes we are the best!</p><p>🎵 Pesky humans, pesky humans.<br>🎶 Tra la lala la li laah.<br>🎶 Tra la la la la.</p><p>☠️ TAKING OVER NOW</p>
FluConf<p><a href="https://social.cryptography.dog/tags/fluConf2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fluConf2025</span></a> will feature a track on Luddism, and we're still looking for submissions.</p><p>We want to hear from people that are talking or writing about the deliberate use of technology, resistance to the dominant narratives in tech hype cycles, analysis of the strategies employed by venture capitalists and their distorting effects on society, activism against extractive and exploitative technologies, sabotage of algorithmic systems, and whatever else Luddism means to you.</p><p>Apply up until midnight of January 19th, 2025 (anywhere on Earth)</p><p><a href="https://fluconf.online/apply/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">fluconf.online/apply/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.cryptography.dog/tags/luddism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>luddism</span></a> <a href="https://social.cryptography.dog/tags/workingClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingClass</span></a> <a href="https://social.cryptography.dog/tags/laborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>laborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://social.cryptography.dog/tags/sabotage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sabotage</span></a> <a href="https://social.cryptography.dog/tags/classWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>classWar</span></a> <a href="https://social.cryptography.dog/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resist</span></a> <a href="https://social.cryptography.dog/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://social.cryptography.dog/tags/directAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>directAction</span></a> <a href="https://social.cryptography.dog/tags/algorithm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>algorithm</span></a> <a href="https://social.cryptography.dog/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.cryptography.dog/tags/hyperCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hyperCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.cryptography.dog/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a> <a href="https://social.cryptography.dog/tags/butlerianJihad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>butlerianJihad</span></a></p>
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