@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-01-23 15:05:14
Fediverse Punk Month — We can grow something better!
We invest too much of our culture in centralized, for-profit, corporate social media platforms. These platforms enrich billionaires, expand surveillance, and fund the cult of capitalist war, all while trapping us with addictive algorithms that feed us mindless content. […]
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@scott@carfree.city2025-10-24 04:43:35
Suing a guy who called me a litigious asshole. As I claim in the filing, this is libelous because I'm only a regular asshole.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-12-23 14:48:43
Making this a subtoot so I don't come across as smug or condescending...
My decision to stop using github when they started providing services to ICE back in ~2016 felt awkward at times but has been feeling really good in hindsight right now.
I see a bunch of people now saying "why boycott X company over some "minor" transgression or political capitulation (or over a "neutral" stance on LLM code). The answer is: it shows what their values are, which predicts their future behavior, especially under the tilted playing field of capitalism. I'm by no means perfect at this and I don't think shouting at people to boycott is a good idea for several reasons. People should boycott what they want to, for their own reasons. But I am posting this to try to help others be aware of the upsides of taking action when confronted with "subtle" evidence of corporate unvalues.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-20 00:01:43
Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras plans to file for a US IPO as soon as next week, targeting a Q2 2026 listing, after withdrawing its prior IPO filing in October (Echo Wang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/ai-chip-firm-cerebras…
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-11-21 10:08:16
It's Interesting today that the popularization of @…'s concept of "enshittification" is leading us to really think hard about how various methods of vendor lock-in enable corporations to abuse users. We see how first there's lock-in then quickly abuse follows, and recognize that the only way out of this trap is to build systems where users can leave at will.
But it's interesting that in this time of rising fascism no one is making the connection to fascism, as both increased lock in and enshittification of government. And no one is making the connection between the need to make systems optional to avoid enshittification, and libertarian socialist arguments against the systemic lock-in (and following abuse) of capitalism and the state.
@scott@carfree.city2026-01-16 01:21:28
Tributes to the ficus marked for felling at Steiner and Waller 💚
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-05 18:45:26
CPB board votes to dissolve the 58-year-old organization following the rescission of all federal funding by Congress at the behest of President Trump (Cameron Coats/Radio Ink)
https://radioink.com/2026/01/05/corporation-for-public-broadcasting…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-16 18:43:55
Federal data belatedly released Tuesday shows that the
US unemployment rate
rose to the highest level in four years last month
as Donald Trump’s administration continues its assault on the government’s workforce
and American corporations lay off workers at a level not seen in decades.
The unemployment rate rose to 4.6% in November,
up from 4.4% in September,
according to the Labor Department report, whose release was delayed due to the recent governme…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-16 19:36:10
Filing: President Trump acquired corporate bonds issued by Netflix and WBD, valued as high as $1M each, in the days after Netflix announced its deal to buy WBD (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-25 22:01:24
The Swiss Broadcasting Corporation plans to gradually cut 900 jobs to help it save $334M by 2029 as it faces a lower license fee and falling commercial revenues (SWI swissinfo.ch)
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/swiss-broadcasting-corpo…
