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Maybe I'm raging
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On Tuesday i woke up on the wrong side of the bed. I had a level of rage and anger in my body that was nearly unbearable. I tried a walk in the beautiful autumn light, sashaying through the little forest across the street. I meditated. I did several stress reduction exercises i learned from a mindfulness expert. Nothing helped.
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On Wednesday I woke up a little calmer. The anger, though, was still there. Is it because incompetent morons continue to thrive while the care and kindness I know is out there has no place in our media? Given what the academics have to say about our information landscapes and mental health, I ask you – why are they doing this to us? Given the fact that we all ostensibly feel, I ask you – how can it be that those in power are so indifferent?
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Maybe I'm technical
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the Twittering Machine by Paul Klee, 1922
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Anyone who works in the world of Internet has been witnessing another moment of zeitgeist in the past weeks as people started joining the fediverse (mostly Mastodon) in droves. Elon Musk fired Twitter employees in cruel and unhinged mass, skirting legal requirements for providing notice. Then he tried to hire loads of them back when he realised that Twitter is, like, complex. His takeover of Twitter and general antics have made lots of people just...tired. Capitalism shakes.
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"As much as I wish that...commercial social media were an aberration or a mass delusion or some kind of trick that we’ll all eventually see through, too much time and money have been spent on building [human desire] up, shaping it and promoting it and experiencing it in the accreting forms that platforms have supplied it with. Those forms are not just about happy sharing and friendship or some fundamental and universal principles of human social connection; they are particular to the platforms that nurtured them and can’t yet be easily separated from them." Rob Horning in this piece
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Climate tech is going to be worth a bunch of money soon, which is obviously the most important thing. At least in my small corner of the internet people are actively trying to make their communities and organisations better. The question is will we, those amongst us who have been working for a better world, manage to get through all this in one piece?
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Maybe I need help?
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The rich can do whatever they want, including making awful art that people are probably paying actual money for. But the fact remains, we outnumber them and if we work as a collective, we can bust their shit up.
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