wakingrufus @wakingrufus@mastodon.social

y’all tread water for years with this “reach across the aisle” idea and wonder why everybody’s mad as hell

Joined another #coop today

Neoliberal elites: Woe is me! Everyone is so isolated in this day and age! So disconnected from their fellow man! We live and work and die in solitude, as strangers surrounded by strangers! What could be causing this? What forces could have possibly conspired to make us so unhappy?
Me: capitalism
Neoliberal elites: maybe it's phones.

#capitalism

#fascism #civility

Okay it's getting to be that time of year again, so I'm gonna save some time and say the thing I inevitably wind up saying every year anyway:

Fuck christmas shoes. It is the WORST Christmas song, and I hate it SO fucking much.

It somehow manages to both be extremely annoying, and also capable of making me cry, and for these reasons I fucking hate it, and I will not tolerate it being played anywhere over the next few months.

i'm so pissed at msnbc portraying all these losses as moral victories. wow great beto came close in texas that doesn't mean shit he LOST. papering shit over as a moral victory only dampens political enthusiasm and makes the public (and libs particularly) complacent and ready to wait another 2 years for an opportunity. like BRUH. in 2 years we'll have TEN years left before complete ecological collapse. fuck off and fuck you

it's cool that facebook puts me one mouse click away from threatening my immigration status

Well, damn. The Free Music Archive is going down. They will be up for at least a few more days, and are archiving with the Internet Archive. http://freemusicarchive.org/

#CreativeCommons #music #archiving #CulturalLoss

Facebook still sells advertisers the possibility to target the "white genocide" hoax, a primary point of belief of the Pittsburgh synagogue terrorist.
Fecesbook says it is OK for Facebook to profit off this deadly hoax because it had been approved by their own people.
https://theintercept.com/2018/11/02/facebook-ads-white-supremacy-pittsburgh-shooting/

#DropFacebook #BoycotFacebook #FecesbookIsShit

Chapter 7, As Long As Grass Grows or Water Runs

"The Indian, not needed--indeed an obstacle--could be dealt with by sheer force, except that sometimes the language of paternalism preceded the burning of villages."

I finished this chapter recently, and its a hard one to read.

Research of almost 1m Android apps reveals how data from smartphones are harvested and shared, with nearly 90 per cent of apps set up to transfer information back to Google. Best get all your apps from @fdroidorg - guaranteed no data sharing with Google! 😀
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.03603.pdf

Happy cyberpunk Halloween, fuckers.

Subvert and destroy surveillance capitalism before it destroys us all.

Hey, I'm talking to you, yes you, the one who's letting a corporation build your playlists.

Back in the days (and I still do it) we built our playlists how we liked them, and we could skip how many times we wanted, and we were the only ones to blame for choosing that awkward song, no one else.

Oh I almost forgot: order matters!

"Why don't people wanna work?"

Many people now realize their personal data is used for ad targeting, but that's only the shallow end of a deep pool of nefarious data uses.

Here is a list of 10 instances when data can be used against you, like the gig economy, politics, & social media.

https://privacyinternational.org/feature/1064/invisible-manipulation-10-ways-our-data-being-used-against-us