I don’t think it’s that complicated

:3

“The purpose of our direct action program is to create a situation so crisis packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.”

• Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail

This is pretty straightforwardly an accelerationist tactic. It might not have been called that at the time, but strategically pushing crises over the tipping point, in order to take advantage of their fallout, wasn’t invented by the boogaloo boys in 2017.

Mao and Stalin (though to a noticably lesser extent) actually had insightful things to say though. Mao’s essays on epistemology are genuinely really fantastic. And that can be true alongside all of the show trials and sparrow murder which was genuinely really fucking bad.

Pol Pot meanwhile admitted to never having really ever read Marx, and his faction of the Communist Party of Cambodia was more concerned about Khmer ultranationalism and anti-Vietmamese sentiment that had been brewing over the course of French colonialism, then with anything to do with building socialism.

So, I guess what I’m saying is that we ought to take a nuanced, grounded view of historic socialisms that accounts for their success and failures, and doesn’t fall into either mindless exoneration of awful shit, nor reflexively screeching “TANKIE TANKIE!!!” Every time anything vaguely socialist oriented comes up in discussion.

They do that because of Firefox goes, Google is open to being trust busted. Killing Firefox would be literal suicide for Google

KRUSTY KRAB IS UNFAIR!

MR. KRABS IS IN THERE!

STANDING AT THE CONCESSION!

PLOTTING HIS OPPRESSION!

Relevant Tumblr post

Obligatory Dead Kennedys post

Tumblr has at least managed to carve out an interesting little niche for itself at this point.

My understanding is that people on kbin can interact with Lemmy instances. Not sure if that goes the other way though

As is tradition

In the last hours the list of participating subreddits grew from 3500 to 6000

Holy shit that’s a big spike!

Watching major social media websites actively kill themselves has been nothing if not an experience

Meta is trying to diversify away from Facebook though… Hence the name change.

There’s Bob Ross reruns on twitch?

Only that time nobody decided to leave.

Well, they did, but it was the r/FatPeopleHate folks who left. But they jumped ship to voat, which doesn’t even exist anymore.

That was a specific comment

Yeah, a slow trickle of subreddits have already gone dark in response to the announcement of all the 3rd party apps shutting down at the end of the month. And I imagine today’s AMA fiasco has only accelerated that

Leonard Nimoy “Quoting” Sputnik when you unlock satellite technology has lived rent free in my head for over a decade now

Physical media is superior. Don’t get me wrong, I love the convince of being able to stream any song I want, whenever, from my phone. But you don’t actually own that music, not even the digital music you bought.

So having that physical backup is good. But also, it’s just a fundamentally different experience, to have to put a record on a turntable, or a tape in a cassette deck, and listen to an album from back to front.