@hex@kolektiva.social2025-12-16 17:09:35
One of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2025-12-15 21:32:37
As 2025 nears its end I wonder...
1. In 2050 will Israel still be a country or a smoking (and possibly radioactive) ruin? (I fully support the peaceful, safe existence of Israel. However, the genocidal acts of its government [as distinct from the citizens of Israel] are inviting a very strong, possibly nation-ending, response from others. I also fully support the peaceful, safe existence of a sovereign state for those in Gaza and the West Bank.)
2. Will the United States still …
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-10-16 12:49:28
Cowboys, 49ers suggested as possible trade partners for 81-sack edge rusher https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-49ers-suggested-possible-trade-partners-trey-hendrickson/b7d…
@usul@piaille.fr2025-10-17 04:59:37
Un projet d’assassinat visant un opposant russe Š Vladimir Poutine déjoué en France - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/un-possible-projet-dassassinat-visant-un-o…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-11-16 23:01:36
Joe Burrow injury updates: Bengals QB has possible return game, but there's no 'definitive return date'
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/joe-bur
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-09-17 15:28:31
“We’re constantly told, you know, we need to see peaceful protests. Well, here’s a peaceful protest … We projected a piece of journalism on to a wall and now people have been arrested for malicious communications. I think that, frankly, says a lot more about the policing of Trump’s visit than it does about what we did.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/17/four-arrested-after-image-of-trump-and-epstein-projected-onto-windsor-castle-ahead-of-presidents-visit
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-16 17:36:25
The effort to create authoritarianism is more likely to lead to a breakup of the state than to a total regime change.
This end of the United States is possible, in part,
because our president and vice-president think that it is impossible.
Because they are inside a grift bubble, they push for authoritarianism in their own interest,
without reckoning with the possibility that their actions can wreck the country.
For them, America is a limitless passive resource…
@carloshr@lile.cl2025-11-16 20:32:28
Los lunes posibles de la elección.
Columna de Cristišn Valdivieso.
https://wallabag.altgr.xyz/share/691a3468dd5242.81358801
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@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-10-15 22:02:35
George Pickens discusses long-term Dallas Cowboys future, possible contract extension https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/george-pickens-discusses-long-term-dallas-cowboys-future-possible-contract-extension
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-09-17 16:19:45
Chiefs, Cowboys named possible trade partners for Browns running back https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/kansas-city-chiefs/news/chiefs-cowboys-possible-trade-partners-browns-running-back/24df5c4ae76cf…