@chiraag@mastodon.online2026-01-07 18:00:34
@chiraag@mastodon.online2026-01-07 18:00:34
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-05 22:55:18
Wealth Taxes Will Barely Slow Inequality.
So Why Do the Super-Rich Resist Them?
A 2 percent wealth tax is like shaving off a fraction of a spire from a large cathedral,
says economist Nancy Folbre
https://truthout.org/articles/wealth-t
@chiraag@mastodon.online2026-01-08 18:06:34
@chiraag@mastodon.online2026-01-08 18:05:49
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-11-07 19:30:14
This is also a good way to make the protests actually valuable. The #NoKingsDay protests let people see how big the resistance was. It informed a section of the elite that their best bet was to resist rather than comply. The shutdown is already hurting the economy. The an economic blackout could be enough to break it... and we're all still waiting for the AI bubble to pop. It's gonna get really hot, really fast.
The great thing about the economic blackout as a strategy is that they don't have a mechanism to compel people to buy stuff. So it turns out that "make the economy scream" is a two player game. Go fucking figure.
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu2026-01-07 18:56:50
Who needs 32GB of system memory anyway? 🧐
I couldn't resist installing #CachyOS back on my main PC, on a separate SSD, alongside Windows. AMD is a first-class experience in Linux. I just downloaded The Alters, and FSR 4 simply works with my poor RX 7800 XT - without Optiscaler or any kind of manual DLL swaps.
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizza2026-01-08 04:13:22
“RISE UP, TAKE A STAND” Thousands upon thousands of protesters are standing in solidarity at the 34th and Portland vigil tonight (01/07/26 - Minneapolis, MN)
#politics #resistance #resist
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-03 14:21:23
Sources: multiple Microsoft divisions lowered how much salespeople are supposed to grow sales of certain AI products after missing growth targets, a rare move (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/mi
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-12-04 16:20:05
But if AI is so userful and everyone wants it, why does Microsoft have to cut its AI sales targets in half?
(Original title: Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/mic<…
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social2025-11-05 15:47:04
I'm sure the Felon-in-Chief, Lord Donald the Convicted, is hard at work on his continuing series of conspiracy fantasy short stories after last night's election results.
#resist #authoritarianism #fascism
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2025-12-04 10:04:09
Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas - @…
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/microsoft-slashes-ai-sales-growth-targets-as-customers-resist-unproven-agents/
There we go ...
/2
(Via @… & @… )
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-12-07 03:17:49
@jby@ecoevo.social2025-10-31 14:15:15
Experimentally co-evolved E. coli and yeast achieve stable coexistence — and the coevolved E. coli, but not the yeast, is able to resist invasion by other bacterial strains
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-025-02618-w
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-12-07 03:17:19
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-01-03 22:16:01
Treating the US like a rogue state would be a seismic shift in international relations — a shift that slow-moving world will resist. But the US •is• a rogue state at this point, and other nations need to start treating it as such. Like…yesterday.
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-03 22:15:58
‘How Can I Resist Y’all?’: Cops Charge Black Man In Wheelchair with Battering Officer Despite Video Showing Him Being Dragged from Chair to Ground
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/12/03/cops-charge-black-man-in-wheelchair-with-battering-officer/
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-10-26 20:59:01
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-01-05 11:44:42
If you are an anti-fascist, you are against petroleum. Petroleum funds fascism globally. It is at the heart of the military industrial complex driving global imperialism, from both the US and Russia. Motonormitivity is fascist, both in it's elitist roots and in it's ties to historical fascism (Hitler hated bikes, just on principle). Oil is militarism.
Oil is the dominant resource which drives war, both in terms of it being the primary spoil wars are fought over and in terms of fueling the military vehicles and weapons that carry out those wars. Practically every war since (and including) WWII has been over oil. Genocides are carried out to secure oil. Gaza is over oil, in more ways than one.
Oil is the absolute enemy, and AI is simply an extension of that: an attempt to atomize us so we can't resist the oil-centric global order, one last grasp at the control over our lives oil has given to those whose power is now threatened by a solar punk future.
"I haven't written for a few weeks now. As I write the closing chapter and begin rewriting previous sections, everything feels both more distant and more immediate. The working title [Kairos] has only continued to feel more and more resonant, both during the writing and during my pause."
Now is the time to resist by making something different, by creating a world fundamentally opposed to these systems of oppression.
This is the last in my Kairos series. From here on out I'll be editing to try and make it more of a book than a series of posts. Thanks to everyone who has helped so far. All editing is welcome (typos, spell checks, questions and challenges). Between ADHD and dyslexia, it's always hard for my brain to notice mistakes in my own text so I always appreciate the support of those who can.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/kairos
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social2025-12-05 11:43:48
Economic boycott and sit-in protests at Home Depots are working
#resist
@chiraag@mastodon.online2026-01-05 17:37:25
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-20 19:05:42
Speaker Johnson continues to resist swearing in Democratic Rep.-elect Grijalva (John Parkinson/Reuters)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/speaker-johnson-continues-resist-swearing-democratic-rep-elect/story?id=126680953
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p88#a251020p88
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-12-02 13:36:54
It's good that this alliance, against the #POX of fascism and xenophobia has come together..But if all they are doing is planning a demo, in London, in March, it will be wasted effort.
New Together Alliance can help resist the growing forces of division and racism | Morning Star
@chiraag@mastodon.online2026-01-05 17:36:00
@hippyjo@c.im2025-12-29 19:07:07
If you're looking for ways to help correct course against Trump and his fuckery, check out the Resistance Directory: #resist
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-03 21:35:42
Microsoft says "aggregate sales quotas for AI products have not been lowered", following a report that some units lowered sales growth targets for AI products (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsof…
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2025-10-13 20:49:00
Resist Frog Resists
@chiraag@mastodon.online2026-01-05 03:18:56
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org2025-12-23 18:14:32
Horse Bots ! -- but not what you think-- but I couldn't resist.
Thank you, Department of Ag leaflets, this one from 1973.
https://archive.org/details/horsebotshowtoco450unit_2/page/n1/mode/2up
(lots of leaflets:
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-12-23 22:27:51
Running pre-Christmas errands, a relative who likes cannabis wanted to stop at the dispo. I strolled in too, and at the checkout counter I noticed a sign about Tuesdays. Couldn’t resist, told the relative to consider this part of their Christmas present and pulled out my credit card.
Just so I could say I got the Senior Citizens discount on a bag of weed.
Best of the season to everyone.
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-10-28 04:14:40
Sick of Fat Putin's lies & corruption?
Represent with this phenomenal collection of democratic expressions.
#Resist
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizza2025-11-30 06:18:23
Trying to daily drive Epiphany (Gnome Web) as my browser for a while. It's handling all of the sites that I need it to, including everything school-related, but for whatever reason I can't create or edit any bookmarks.
I'm trying to resist the temptation to start something WebkitGTK based. Epiphany's interface is, well, ok. But I'd really love something more flexible. In particular, I'm missing the vertical tabs from recent Firefox releases - it's a real sp…
@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.org2025-10-22 21:15:12
The best thing is the big Volvo machine. Trump is not even able to do the (de)construction with US-build machinery? What a loser
https://mstdn.social/@jstatepost/115419867564846000
@chiraag@mastodon.online2026-01-04 02:52:37
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-10-22 04:21:34
minimizing the literal nazi talk from a potential key Trump person… again.
I don't think the American media will ever learn. The day they 'resist' as they are taken off the air by the fully authoritarian regime they'll probably say something like:
"today, in a controversial act, the administration declared that this news channel broadcast license has been changed. The new license will only allow reruns of the Presidents past speeches to play 24/7. After an immediate stay was requested by this station, the Supreme Court has ruled the change to be lawful. Goodnight America.”
#trump #TheAmericanFascist
https://flipboard.com/@npr/politics-v8m4p3ukz/-/a-L0fqOCw2R9S7wUBllP74TQ:a:3195441-/0
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-11-01 00:39:51
@kctipton@mas.to2025-12-17 20:34:46
Protesters arrested after chaining selves to S.F. immigration court #resist…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-02 07:08:42
Sources: Apple doesn't plan to comply with India's mandate to preload a state-owned cyber safety app on iPhones and will raise its concerns with New Delhi (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@chiraag@mastodon.online2026-01-04 02:52:06
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-10-25 16:13:16
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-10-25 16:13:16
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza2025-10-25 15:31:56
Hopefully work won't install this. Reason is that those whose job it is to install and monitor on the work machines won't have the security clearance to view some of what we do. Doesn't matter if they even have high security clearance, they don't get access to even know what some of what our work is unless they have been authorized for access to that specific project.
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2025-10-17 13:00:58
This applies to all of us #Researchers - why do we keep flying all around the world just to give (or watch) some talks that could have been given or watched online???
Yes, in-person conferences are slightly better for "networking"... but is this really worth destroying the planet?!
Quoting @…
@pre@boing.world2025-11-22 15:23:38
Content warning: re: bitcoin conference report
Bit root is explaining why there will only be 21 million bitcoin.
Block rewards every ten minutes halving every for years is an infinite sum tending to that 21m supply. In fact a few sats less due to rounding errors.
She explains why bit shift in the code is the same as halving due to the way binary number representation works.
The code stops shifting at 64 halvings , despite the fact the reward will be zero after 32. This is since c leaves 64 bits shifted off a 64 bit number as undefined.
But could the code just be changed? No. The source code maintainers could try, but node runners would refuse the update, it being against their financial interests to do so. Even if some nodes did do, you on your own node can resist.
When people created forks with more supply, the market sent it's price to zero.
#bitfest #bitcoin
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social2025-12-29 12:27:59
Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
#resist #NarcissistInChief
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-12-21 19:16:37
Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
KOMMISSAR: Really? I've heard of people who resist. I've never seen one before. This could be interesting. Let us begin.
ASSISTANT KOMMISSAR: Sir. [They walk toward rack room. Kommissar stops and turns to Ro]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/265 …
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social2025-12-20 03:59:10
i found these two gems at the record store up the street and, at twelve bucks each, couldn't resist. i listened to these LPs (and dream weaver and forest flower) a ton in high school.
#jazz #vinyl #vinylrecords
@fortune@social.linux.pizza2025-10-17 20:00:02
I opened the drawer of my little desk and a single letter fell out, a
letter from my mother, written in pencil, one of her last, with unfinished
words and an implicit sense of her departure. It's so curious: one can
resist tears and "behave" very well in the hardest hours of grief. But
then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window... or one notices
that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed... or
a letter slips f…
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-11-03 10:16:54
Adding another post. This one is a bit less polished, but I want to get it out. As things get harder for everyone, I'm seeing a greater tendency to want to grasp onto revolutionary fiction such as #Andor. I think there's value in that, but it has to come with an informed critique.
> We are so thirsty for hope that we will drink it up, even when that hope comes from a fiction and the truth behind the hope is poison. In Andor, we see the worst elements sacrifice themselves for some of the best. The revolution goes through a process of purification, the complicated elements weeding themselves out to make room for the simplified good, as the rebellion unifies. In reality, this tends to be the opposite how things actually work.
> [...]
> [The Urban Guerilla movement of the 60's through the 80's] centered militant revolution. In doing so, they omitted or cut themselves off from the logistic support needed to sustain such revolutionary activity. The trauma of carrying out violence further isolated and radicalized them. Lacking infrastructure for trauma healing, their decay escalated and became unrecoverable. Ultimately, their revolutionary movements both emulated and reinforced the status quo they were trying to resist.
> There emerges a strange historical parallel that is difficult to see from within the dominant paradigm. The competitive politics of electoralism derives from heroic competition, where people (typically men) compete (often violently) for control over a territory or people. Thus the insurrectionary enters into the very same competition as a challenger, not against the system of domination but for control over it. The success of the revolution, then, does not abolish the system of violent domination but changes rather replaces its management.
> Many modern anarchists will be quick to point out the disconnect between ends and means. While authoritarian projects often assert that "the ends justify the means," and Andor implies the same, anti-authoritarian projects assert the ends and the means are not only united but are, in fact, the same.
This is still very much something I'm actively editing, but I'd still love feedback to help me refine it to it's final form. Typo catches and clarifying questions welcome.
#USPol
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-11-12 13:57:08
ICE Is Functioning Like an Occupying Army. I Know Because I Served in One.
https://truthout.org/articles/ice-is-functioning-like-an-occupying-army-i-know-because-i-served-in-one/?utm_campaign=davidaugust.co…
@annsev@troet.cafe2025-11-22 09:54:21
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-10-16 15:00:40
"Growing cocktail of medicines in world’s waterways could be fuelling antibiotic resistance"
#Water #Pollution #Environment
@chiraag@mastodon.online2026-01-02 04:19:06
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-26 17:40:34
Trump's redistricting push hits roadblocks in Indiana and Kansas as Republican lawmakers resist (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/redistricting-indiana-kansas-trump-pressure-2026-election-506c874ec90c7f68167e0683b207dc41
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p32#a251026p32
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-30 11:05:30
Researchers unveil PropensityBench, a benchmark showing how stressors like shorter deadlines increase misbehavior in agentic AI models during task completion (Matthew Hutson/IEEE Spectrum)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-agents-safety
@chiraag@mastodon.online2026-01-02 04:18:17
@Jaredt@social.linux.pizza2025-10-24 13:19:40
Doug Ford (Premier of Ontario) is making moves to end rent control, fuck with tenants’ rights, and their ability to resist landlord corruption. Fuck Doug Ford. Here’s a thing:
https://acorncanada.org/take_action/urgent-message-to-doug-ford-dont-end-ren…
@castarco@hachyderm.io2025-12-16 19:27:00
Content warning: Brief rant on AI & capitalism
We are cooked.
We were always a problem for the ones above: we had the opportunity to enjoy high levels of education, access to relatively free & unpolluted knowledge, and welfare systems that worked relatively well for at least half of our lifes.
That was unacceptable, and "AI" is here to fix that.
Big Tech and their fascist friends have convinced many among our younger generations about the idea that "AI" (in its current form) is cool, amazing, necessary, and unstoppable.
We can resist all we want, except it's not our resistance that matters, but the resistance of the younger ones who haven't finished their formal studies yet.
Mozilla's CEO knows it... so he'll happily contribute to dumb us down as much as possible (before anyone has time to react) to ensure that we don't bother ever again the fragile sensibilites of his friends, our capitalist overlords.
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social2025-12-16 22:06:58
You don’t have to do it alone’: how US cities are helping each other resist ICE
#resist
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-17 15:48:22
Whistles have become a popular raid alert tool in cities across the country
– New Yorkers wear them around their necks to warn neighbors,
the people of New Orleans blast them outside ICE facilities
and Charlotte residents used them to ward off Customs and Border Protection officials.
While strongly associated with Chicago, the tactic is actually one that city organizers learned in part from groups in Los Angeles.
Its spread is illustrative of the many ways cit…
@brichapman@mastodon.social2025-12-18 01:30:20
Your Nervous System is Not a Machine — https://www.brichapman.com/p/your-nervous-system-is-not-a-machine?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social
@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-14 09:14:28
OBsmith: Testing JavaScript Obfuscator using LLM-powered sketching
Shan Jiang, Chenguang Zhu, Sarfraz Khurshid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10066 https://arx…
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-12-29 02:51:01
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-10-09 16:14:04
That’s almost certainly the better strategy for them, even if the cynical view is true and they really are an investment org and not an educational institution at heart. We know that caving to bullies just marks you as a target. We know that, as @… said, those who resist grow in stature, and those who capitulate emerge as shadows of themselves (https://www.theindex.media/p/donald-trump-can-t-make-cowards-of-us-all). If Harvard is a brand, well….
But investment is a fear-driven world, and there’s a lot of fear circulating.
5/
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-12-27 01:20:17
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-17 15:18:41
Trump corrupts the minds of Americans
Normalizes bigotry, misogyny,
graft and greed
From: @apron.rupar@threads.net
https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/DP1koWjiWp9
@Jaredt@social.linux.pizza2025-10-24 13:19:40
Doug Ford (Premier of Ontario) is making moves to end rent control, fuck with tenants’ rights, and their ability to resist landlord corruption. Fuck Doug Ford. Here’s a thing:
https://acorncanada.org/take_action/urgent-message-to-doug-ford-dont-end-ren…
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social2025-11-18 20:45:11
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-17 01:50:48
'You don't have to do it alone': how US cities are helping each other resist ICE (Whitney Bauck/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/16/ice-immigration-raids-cities
http://www.memeorandum.com/251216/p147#a251216p147
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-12-24 14:49:15
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizza2025-10-24 17:50:56
NYPD Cop is sick and tired of the fascist paramilitary invaders racial profiling and harassing him.
Source: #politics
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-12-24 14:49:03
@brichapman@mastodon.social2025-11-15 19:28:00
The community in Sololo, Papua New Guinea, is safeguarding their rainforest by partnering with Cool Earth to resist logging and oil palm expansion, ensuring a sustainable future and preserving vital ecosystems. https://www.coolearth.org/news/best-rainforest-protectio…
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social2025-10-17 13:54:23
Harvard University Nonviolent Action Lab (Ash Center)
#resist
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-12-25 08:11:55
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-12-22 02:55:55
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social2025-10-15 11:03:54
Robert DeNiro says... Come out for No Kings Day 2, October 18, 2025. Step up. Stand up.
#resist
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizza2025-10-12 02:02:44
Chicago - PROOF PEOPLE ARE GETTING ARRESTED FOR IMPEDING. Woman gets yanked out of the car.
#politics #resistance #resist
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-12-18 05:06:28
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-12-17 04:58:51
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-12-17 04:51:58
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizza2025-10-10 15:10:08
"The Following is REAL Footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer Discretion is Advised." (Daily Show Social Media)
#politics #resistance #resist
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-12-17 04:51:34
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-12-16 04:07:34
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-12-16 04:05:45
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-12-16 04:04:53
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social2025-10-17 13:48:58
Protest numbers data from Harvard's Crowd Counting Consortium (Ash Center) -- part of the Nonviolent Action Lab
#resist
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-12-13 04:03:47
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-12-13 04:03:11
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-12-11 04:00:24
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-12-11 03:50:05
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-12-11 03:49:14
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social2025-12-13 14:00:55
A 55-year-old American citizen was arrested early Tuesday after confronting ICE officers over the arrests of three of her neighbors in north Minneapolis.
#resist
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-12-11 03:48:15
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-12-11 03:47:30
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-12-11 03:46:42
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-12-11 03:45:32
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-12-10 03:30:25
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social2025-11-09 16:11:40
Trump’s assault on voting intensifies as midterms loom:‘a wholesale attack on free and fair elections’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/09/trump-midterm-elections-voting-system
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-11-11 03:57:32
