Ildsaye [they/them]

I suspect the closure of Craigslist Personals had nothing to do with “stopping human trafficking” and a lot more to do with increasing the marketshare of the online-dating-as-a-data-harvest format.

Craiglist’s sin is that it demonstrates how simple and good the internet could be.

Dedicated mp3 player with wired headphones still winning

The truth gets all the more muddied when a fool’s left occupies the left space, leaving anti-imperial positions on the table for the crank right to claim and twist at their leasure.

Really? Wasn’t the first True Promise in response to the occupation’s aggression against Gaza?

Of course we’ll put handguns on your cake champ, you’re 12

Once again the thoughts about the children are Epstein’s thoughts

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Surveillance gives terrorists like the US and its Zionist appendage a huge advantage, and the working class should not be surrendering its data to them without a fight.

None of our individual strategies are “the answer”. The situation won’t be turned around by individuals making personal choices, but by organized efforts. A world in which Terms and Conditions don’t supersede your rights is possible.

Another factor is the tendency of the rate of profit to fall. Late capitalism has to keep finding more and more shameless ways to squeeze regular people as the easy money recedes. Lobbyists are pushing harder to lock people into a few big services and subscriptions so they are forced to yield more personal data and spending money.

I rung in the new year by making the switch

Deserters have the right to defend themselves (by fragging officers)

Attention, fame, encouragement, and engagement are also currency, and aiding fascists is fascism. We all deserve to live in a world where fascists don’t feel safe openly declaring themselves.

Going along with Trump’s most recent lies is how you show you are loyal/part of the cult. The lies also flush out people who are impelled to correct the historical record, marking them as enemies.

Desensitizing people to having no privacy from their own state and ‘local’ corporations will do that

Gilded Age and Great Depression barons funded the building of libraries and public swimming pools hoping to create the impression they have a role in society beyond predation, these bozos ain’t even trying